"Don't believe it?"
Lord Li smiled faintly and sighed at Qin Shaofeng. "Though it is hard to believe, it really is the truth."
"That's impossible!"
Qin Shaofeng shook his head slightly. "If it were fake, then with my cultivation, I should have been able to sense it more or less. Yet I haven't sensed the slightest trace of falsehood."
"Heh!"
Lord Li laughed, and that laughter made Qin Shaofeng's heart tremble with unease.
"You seem to have misunderstood me. When I said fake, I meant that the Illusory Realm itself is fake. Everything in the Illusory Realm is fake," Lord Li said.
This...
Qin Shaofeng's expression changed. He suddenly noticed the tone in Lord Li's voice.
Everything in the Illusory Realm was fake.
Could all of this be...
After a slight pause, Qin Shaofeng asked dryly, "Lord Li, do you mean that everything in this Illusory Realm includes every living being within it?"
"Heh, what do you think?"
Lord Li chuckled. "I'll tell you directly, then. The Illusory Realm encompasses the Primordial Source Realm and everything beyond it. And the entire Illusory Realm, including you and me, even space itself—everything, absolutely everything—is fake."
"Th-this... can't be!"
Qin Shaofeng found it hard to believe, but the expression on Lord Li's face did not seem false.
"I know you can't accept it, but this is the truth."
Lord Li shook his head, his tone filled with endless wistfulness.
"Truly, everything I have said is true. The entire Illusory Realm is fake. Otherwise, why do you think this place is called the Illusory Realm? Because it is ethereal and false; it does not exist."
"But I truly exist!"
Qin Shaofeng was utterly baffled. He still did not believe it.
"Yes, you truly exist, but you are not real," Lord Li said.
Yet those