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After hearing the mission, Xiao Jizong turned and asked, "What do you all think? Should we do this mission or not?"
"Though we can't rule out the possibility that we're inside an illusionary dream..." Fan Zhongxing looked around and hesitated. "Still, when one falls under a profound Illusion Technique, there is always a feeling of 'being unable to control one's thoughts' and 'being separated from one's spiritual intelligence.' But I can still think about 'whether I'm inside an illusion,' which means my consciousness is still clear..."
Profound Illusion Techniques came in two kinds: those where one would "absolutely never notice it was an illusion," and those where one would "still fall for it even knowing it was fake." The latter was the key to attacking the heart. It demanded mastery over the human mind rather than deep spellcraft; only those skilled in schemes and calculations could wield it. The former, meanwhile, depended entirely on the spell itself, and even ordinary cultivators found it difficult to achieve. Suppressing the victim's spiritual intelligence and preventing them from considering how to break the technique was also a shortcut to perfecting an illusion's effects.
Therefore, checking whether one's thoughts had been obstructed was also one method of determining whether one had fallen under an Illusion Technique.
However, people caught in an illusion were basically already idiots. Their remaining intelligence was rarely enough to consider that point, while those who could consider it generally had not fallen under an illusion at all. Thus, this method was useless most of the time. Only after breaking free of an illusion did someone occasionally use it to test whether they had truly escaped their enemy.
"Could this really be reality?" Wu Qi still found it somewhat hard to believe.
Fan Zhongxing shook his