Chapter 1301: Searching
Chapter 1301: Searching
Yi Tianyun refrained from striking back immediately, even though his opponent kept attacking fiercely. Every move felt so familiar. Despite wielding a whip instead of a ribbon, the fighting style was almost identical.
By observing closely, he inferred that the attacker likely was using a ribbon technique. Also, this blue-furred fox demon looked elegant, its coat pale blue in color. Wasn’t Demon Lord Liuli aligned with the water attribute? Of course she might display a bluish hue, and the fox’s features resembled her usual style.
Most importantly, Yi Tianyun’s Evil Spirit Roulette still pointed straight at this fox. That indicated, beyond doubt, that it was Demon Lord Liuli! The Evil Spirit Roulette wouldn’t lie, proving that the fox in front of him was indeed her.
“This illusion is terrifying. It’s obviously meant to make us kill each other. If you’re from a different group, that’s one thing, but if you’re actually allies, it forces you to fight your own partner!”
Yi Tianyun was inwardly alarmed. This illusion was so strong even he couldn’t dispel it. Demon Lord Liuli was already trapped. It was laid by an Upper Heavenly Venerable, so how could it possibly be undone with ease?
That meant he couldn’t let her see his true form. To Demon Lord Liuli’s perception, he was likewise some kind of monster she had to destroy.
From her perspective, she saw a demon beast darting around, evading every blow, and it made her anxious. She had not expected that upon arriving here, her first battle would be against a monster this elusive. Its speed prevented her from landing any hits.
As she prepared another fierce onslaught, the “beast” suddenly drew a spear and began carving something into the ground.
She glanced over, noticing written characters:
“Stop attacking! I’m Yi Tianyun! You must be Sister Liuli, right? It’s all an illusion designed to make us kill each other!”
He carved these words at lightning speed, producing a long message in the blink of an eye. For cultivators at their level, carving writing was effortless and swift.
Perhaps illusions could alter one’s weapon or appearance, but the words etched into the ground would remain unaffected. Even the strongest illusions here only changed surface visuals like one’s form or gear.
Reading what it said, Demon Lord Liuli froze and halted her assault.
“Illusion? All of this is an illusion?”
She replied by carving a line of her own:
“Then tell me where we come from and what’s happened recently.”
She wouldn’t believe right away; a few verification questions were necessary. As for speaking aloud, it would sound to the other as if an animal were roaring.
Yi Tianyun quickly inscribed what had occurred these past days:
“We’re from the Heavenly Spring God Domain. Not long ago, you scolded me for cultivating lightning arts in a way you disliked and told me to stop.”
Upon seeing these words, Demon Lord Liuli immediately believed him, everything really was an illusion!
“It looks like in addition to searching for the bead, we have to be wary of attacks from our own allies, or from anyone else, for that matter,” Demon Lord Liuli wrote.
Yi Tianyun nodded and carved:
“Exactly. The moment you see a ‘monster,’ you just try to kill it, there’s no room to talk. If I weren’t fast enough, I really might’ve died at your hands.”
Feeling awkward, Demon Lord Liuli realized she had no idea how Yi Tianyun had figured it out. But indeed, on first sight of a strange beast, who wouldn’t attack? This stage of the trial was truly insidious.
If Yi Tianyun hadn’t been able to evade, he would have been slain by his own teammate. That would be the saddest thing of all, finally realizing, only too late, that it had been a tragic misunderstanding.
“Now that we know, let’s hurry and look for the beads. That is what really matters!” she wrote, eager to leave. As they couldn’t break the illusion, they could only pass this stage to lift it.
Yi Tianyun agreed, and the two headed for one of the spots where a piece of the Ten Lives Heavenly Bead had fallen. They clearly recalled approximately where each piece had landed.
Originally, Demon Lord Liuli had been heading for one of those very places. Soon, they arrived and saw a small crater in the ground with a miniature bead lying there.
Yi Tianyun sped down, scooped it up, and discovered that claiming the bead didn’t revert them to normal forms. Everything remained as it was.
Having obtained the first bead, they didn’t linger. They set out immediately to grab the second. Along the way, Yi Tianyun couldn’t help reflecting on how vicious this stage was. If all ten participants came in, it’d be absolute carnage.
No wonder so many had failed; this single trial alone could stop hordes of cultivators. If the entire group was originally allies, that would be even worse, friendly fire could be devastating.
After collecting that second bead without incident (no one else had gotten there yet, and there weren’t many people to begin with), they pressed on to the next location. Here, flight was impossible, some invisible force prevented it, so they had to run everywhere.
Otherwise, it would have been far simpler.
Boom, boom, boom…
Suddenly, the sounds of fierce combat echoed up ahead, along with repeated bursts of energy. Yi Tianyun instantly knew other contenders had crossed paths, sparking a fight.
They lacked something like his Evil Spirit Roulette to distinguish true identities. At first glance, they would just attack. Unless they all fled and refused to fight, battles like this were inevitable.
“That area is where another bead landed. They’re probably fighting over it. Let’s look elsewhere,” Yi Tianyun wrote in the dirt.
Demon Lord Liuli nodded. With ten beads total, it was best to retrieve others first. If two half-step Heavenly Venerables were locked in battle, that left only one more searching for beads.
Which gave them better odds at finding the rest before anyone else did.
“Keep fighting, you two, don’t stop any time soon.”
Yi Tianyun smirked, then led Demon Lord Liuli toward the next bead’s location. It looked like the greatest threat in this round was cultivators vs. cultivators vying for the beads, rather than anything else.
Even so, that was deadly enough, these mutual struggles would be brutal. Not that Yi Tianyun minded a brawl himself; after all, half-step Heavenly Venerables yielded quite a lot of experience…
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