The two returned to the village. Compared to before, the villagers no longer showed that same curiosity toward Fang Xuan and Lingxi.
Nothing had changed in the slightest, yet everything seemed to reveal an eerie strangeness.
The moment they stepped into the village, the sight before them left both of them dazed. Those smiling faces made their hearts turn cold.
"You two are back? The Village Guardian is waiting for you!" The burly gatekeeper grinned broadly.
Villagers around them also kept coming forward to greet them.
Lingxi asked in confusion, "Fang Xuan, why are these people acting so strangely? Did we come to the wrong place?"
Fang Xuan also felt that something was off about these villagers, but for the moment, he could not put his finger on it.
Suddenly, his heart tightened.
It was the language!
Since when had these villagers been able to speak such fluent Nine Provinces Official Speech?
Fang Xuan suddenly stopped. In his field of vision, every villager before him bizarrely shattered like sheets of paper.
"Lingxi!"
Even Lingxi beside him slowly vanished.
At that moment, Fang Xuan abruptly raised his head and said coldly, "If you want to pry into my heart, you'll die a miserable death!"
The next moment, everything around them slowly dissipated.
Before Fang Xuan still stood the Village Guardian's Thatched Hut, while Lingxi had already collapsed on the ground.
Facing Fang Xuan's hostile gaze, the giant man said mildly, "Your Divine Soul is very unusual. This Soul-Seizing Array could only construct some nonexistent stories within your consciousness. As for him..."
The giant man glanced at Lingxi on the ground. "Perhaps he still thinks he has obtained what he wanted!"
"When we entered the village, you had already begun pulling us into an illusion." Fang Xuan's tone was icy.
The feeling