High Martial World: I Gain Passive Skills Daily-Chapter 139 - 105: Grand Dream and Changing Illusions—Imprisoning the Demon Sword with Divinity (5-in-1, Ten-Thousand-Word - ) (Part 5)
After giving a few more instructions, they reluctantly left.
Once the others had left, Chen Kuang said, "The battle before may have injured my Divine Sense. I don’t remember things too clearly. Can you tell me in detail?"
Qing Cuo obediently asked, "Where should I start?"
Chen Kuang pondered for a moment and tentatively said, "Start from... when I became the host of the Demon Sword."
Qing Cuo nodded, and began to narrate methodically.
In her recounting, after Chen Kuang replaced the Little Princess as the host of the Demon Sword, he was in a coma for a period, and they could only hide anxiously in the wilderness for a while.
But after two days, Chen Kuang surprisingly awakened on his own!
Upon hearing this, Chen Kuang roughly understood that this was the time when his "dual focus" was passively triggered.
Thus, he escaped from the illusion and was no longer trapped by the Demon Sword, instead becoming its master.
What followed was largely the same, but since the Little Princess was not in a coma, there was no need to stay at the Chen Mansion.
The main target of the Martial Saint Pavilion was also Chen Kuang, so to draw them away, Chen Kuang confronted them at Dongting Lake.
As a result, the Chen Mansion was not destroyed, but the water level of Dongting Lake dropped by a foot!
Everything else proceeded until the assault on the Governor’s Mansion, where offerings of heads were made to the heavens, and his senior brother made an appearance, all with little deviation.
And after this battle, Chen Kuang, due to "severe injuries", fell into a coma for a night and only just woke up.
"You offered the three heads of the governors as a sacrifice to the Dragon King, ensuring clear skies for a night and saving nearly ten thousand people in Jishao County."
Qing Cuo added, "Representatives of those family powers are seeking information everywhere. They want to build a shrine in your honor, but I have instructed the Chen Family to keep it a secret and not to speak of it."
Chen Kuang, however, enjoyed the "savior" treatment and listened with a pounding heart, palms cold, and a numb sensation at the nape of his neck.
What was replaced was not just the memories previously mentioned... but an entire timeline!
The intact Chen Mansion, the resurrection of surrounding townspeople, the dropping water level of Dongting Lake, were all real-world changes.
It proved that illusions could not only affect people’s memories but could directly replace reality!
Qi Sibai, who could see fate and had investigated the Demon Sword for three years, had not noticed this point... No, Chen Kuang shook his head internally.
Qi Sibai could not be blamed, for when reality was replaced, Qi Sibai’s memories were altered as well.
If this had truly happened, then it was indeed fate... completely unsolvable!
Only those who broke free from the illusion could retain real memories.
But this also meant they would see a real world that was entirely different from their knowledge, where the false became true.
If they remained conscious at this moment... it would be the greatest cruelty.
Chen Kuang suddenly had an absurd thought.
Perhaps those who were affected by the illusion and committed suicide... were not because they couldn’t distinguish reality from illusion.
But precisely because... they could tell it apart.
However, when they returned from the illusion, thinking they could return to reality, they found that the world they knew, the people they were familiar with, had all been replaced by fakes.
This was the real reason they went insane!
Chen Kuang silently gazed at the quietly suspended Demon Sword in front of him.
In the infinite darkness, only the crimson Treasure Pearl embedded in the center of the Demon Sword glowed with an eerie light, seemingly silently watching everything before it. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮
What exactly is this "In-Between"?
Why can it alter reality?
The strength of this Divine Power, it even surpasses the Saint Realm.
How on earth did Jie Kun forge such an evil artifact?
Chen Kuang now felt as if he might be carrying a ticking time bomb again.
"But, speaking of Qi Sibai, wasn’t his fate to pursue the Demon Sword? Have I... ended his fate?"
"Oh no, if his fate’s gone, won’t he just ’let it go’?"
Chen Kuang felt unease and quickly asked Qing Cuo, "Where is Brother Qi?"
Chen Kuang returned to the house, put on his coat, and incidentally placed the Dragon Gum Zither into his storage bag—now that he finally had a means of storage, he no longer had to carry the zither around and draw attention.
He tied the Fog Flower Forging and strode out.
Qing Cuo replied, "He and the other two have returned to Xianyu Nunnery together. They said there was an urgent matter, so they had to leave today. They said that if you woke up, you could go to Xianyu Nunnery to see him one last time."
"Also, your senior brother left a message for me to tell you that if you ever want to leave, he will come and send you off."
...
Tai Mountain, Martial Saint Pavilion.
A statue of a towering and sturdy elder stood majestically before the pavilion, with elegant long whiskers, holding a long knife, his eyes containing divine light, commanding respect without anger.
This was the Martial Saint—Mu Zhao.
In front of the statue was a massive incense burner, filled with incense sticks standing straight, with smoke gently rising, swirling around the statue, making it look like a true Immortal amidst the clouds.
And, if carefully observed, the smoke could be seen being "breathed" by the statue.
The smoke was inhaled through the statue’s nostrils and then exhaled as a wisp of breath near its lips. Each cycle of this process made the statue’s gaze more vivid, its aura even more deep and gentle, commanding awe and devotion.
Beside the statue and the incense burner was a wordless stele.
This stele, by comparison, appeared much smaller, but faintly flashed with dense text that vanished in an instant, adding to its mystique.
