Breaking the Illusion (Two-in-One)

The autumn forests lack the incessant chirping of cicadas and the lush greenery of summer, but they are more beautiful in the quiet beauty of falling leaves.

Suddenly,

A slender figure descended from the treetops, her bare, pink feet walking towards the man in the woods.

Xu Yuan, who was sitting cross-legged on an open space, slowly raised his eyes:

"Is Shen Weixiu resolved?"

"Hmm, where's Tianrui?"

Her voice was clear and crisp as she spoke, her golden eyes scanning her surroundings.

Xu Yuan's answer was brief:

"Dead."

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Tianyan subconsciously stopped in her tracks, her beautiful eyes filled with surprise:

"You killed him?"

Xu Yuan's eye twitched:

"If it wasn't me, could it be you?"

Tianyan smiled, gave a soft hum, walked to Xu Yuan, half-squatted down, leaned forward and patted his shoulder:

"That's progress. You didn't even get injured. Not bad, not bad."

Watching the girl's actions, Xu Yuan remained silent for two seconds, then suddenly chuckled softly.

A terrible imitation.

He looked up at her and casually said:

"I was familiar with his Yantian Art, but he wasn't familiar with my sword technique, and he was distracted during the battle, so he died."

Tianyan gathered her skirt and sat down beside him, her voice clear and melodious:

"Was your distraction during the battle due to Shen Weixiu's telepathic communication?"

The sweet fragrance of a young girl wafted to his nose, and Xu Yuan nodded. "More or less."

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Upon hearing this, Tianyan leaned back slightly, supporting himself with his two small hands behind him, looked up at the sky through the treetops, and said with a smile:

"Then you should thank me. I'm the one who leaked the moves of the Yantian Art to you, and I also created the opportunity for your sneak attack."

Xu Yuan's eyes looked strange:

"Tianyan, when did you become so shameless?"

"I learned this from you~" Tianyan glanced at him, a slight smile playing on his lips, "Where's Tianrui's storage ring?"

Xu Yuan immediately became alert and glanced at her. "Didn't find it."

"Hmm~"

Tianyan narrowed his eyes, his voice unhurried. "As a form of repayment, I think you could consider handing over Tianrui's storage ring to me."

Xu Yuan glanced at Tianyan, his eyes filled with scrutiny.

Tianyan's beautiful eyes curved into two glistening crescent moons, her voice remaining unchanged:

"I can trade you Shen Weixiu storage ring."

Xu Yuan grinned.

As the Heavenly Oversight Pavilion Holy Son, Tianrui's storage ring contained not only a large amount of precious cultivation resources, but also a great deal of information and secrets about the Heavenly Oversight Pavilion.

Compared to the former, which cannot be brought out of the illusion, the latter's value is self-evident.

However, due to time constraints, Xu Yuan only got a general idea of this information.

As the Heavenly Oversight Pavilion Holy Maiden, Tianyan would not allow this information to be leaked.

Adults are all about self-interest; where do all these people with romantic fantasies come from?

Xu Yuan shook his head and refused.

What if I say no?

Tianyan glanced at him and chuckled softly:

"You taught me what to do in this situation before."

"You want to make a move?" Xu Yuan smiled.

"If you don't give it to me," Tianyan laughed.

Xu Yuan smiled and shook his head:

"Neither of us is seriously injured right now, but if we fight, one of us might get hurt."

Tianyan stared at Xu Yuan:

"It doesn't matter, we've already got the Charm God Cherry Tree."

"You found out from Shen Weixiu?"

"Hmm, his Dao essence is very suitable for escaping. Killing him took some effort, but we did manage to extract some information. The Charm God Cherry Tree should be with you."

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Xu Yuan stared at Tianyan for a few breaths, then took out the Enchanting Charm God Cherry Tree from his Sumeru Ring and said straightforwardly:

"This is the Charm God Cherry Tree. You can take a look before deciding whether you want to fight me."

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Tianyan's beautiful eyes showed confusion, and she sensed something slightly.

The next moment,

The smile vanished from her face, and her voice rose slightly.

"This... this is the Charm God Cherry Tree?"

Meeting her gaze, Xu Yuan nodded very seriously:

"I'm absolutely certain that it is the Charm God Cherry Tree."

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As the sun set, the gradually setting sunlight filtered through the tree canopy, painting everything in the forest red, including the girl's golden eyes.

She stared intently at the sapling that was barely ten feet tall:

"Why... why is there no fluctuation of soul intent?"

Xu Yuan smiled and said in a low voice:

"Yes, there is. If you sense it carefully, it's just that the fluctuations are very small, hehe."

Upon hearing this, Tianyan immediately turned around and glared at him.

"How could such a fluctuation of soul intent be the source? You still have the mind to joke around?"

"I'm used to it."

Xu Yuan smiled and waved his hand, "Life goes on, and so many unexpected things happen in this illusion."

Tianyan panted heavily for a moment, then suddenly turned his head to the side:

"Xu Changtian, it can't be you."

"I'm warning you, don't be unreasonable," Xu Yuan said, glancing at her indifferently.

Tianyan raised his slender index finger and gently bit it between his teeth, his eyes somewhat confused:

"That's true. You probably wouldn't have had time to hide this, but if the source isn't the Charm God Cherry Tree, then what could it be? That's impossible. Any illusion must have a source."

Speaking of this,

Tianyan's pupils suddenly contracted:

"Xu Changtian, I sensed it when you killed Tianrui."

"I sensed it."

Xu Yuan interrupted Tianyan directly.

Talking to smart people is really effortless.

A moment of silence,

Tianyan hesitated, "Are you sure you sensed it too?"

Xu Yuan sighed, then leaned back and slumped onto the fallen leaves and withered branches.

"Yes, the illusion created by this Charm God Cherry Tree is indeed strange."

"Ha, they actually managed to distribute the source to each character in the illusion. No wonder these illusion characters can respond to our actions."

Speaking of this,

Xu Yuan, lying on the ground, glanced at Tianyan:

"So, my suggestion is that we put aside our internal strife for now and resolve the current issue first. What do you think?"

"What problems exist?" Tianyan.

Xu Yuan suddenly sat up, speaking slowly and deliberately:

"Tianyan, we must escape from the Qionghua Realm."

Tianyan silent.

After a while,

She looked up and said:

"Although we killed Tianrui and Shen Weixiu, they were the ones who launched this attack."

Xu Yuan sighed, looking through the treetops at the gradually darkening sky, and spoke briefly:

"It's no use."

Tianyan frowned, looking at the man lying on the ground:

"Are you so certain that the Qionghua Sect will hand us over?"

Xu Yuan shook his head and said in a low voice:

"That's unlikely. Qionghua Sect is a major sect, after all. They are unlikely to do anything that would humiliate or betray the country, at least not openly."

The two of them killed the chief of the Dao Palace and the Heavenly Oversight Pavilion Holy Son almost without taking any damage. Such combat strength and talent would be a treasure in any sect. Moreover, the two of them stood up to kill Shen Weixiu recklessly. They can be considered "heroes" of the Qionghua Sect.

But speaking of this,

Xu Yuan paused for a moment, then grinned and said:

"With your intelligence, it shouldn't be hard for you to guess that there's an inside man among the higher-ups at Qionghua, right?"

"Hmm." Tianyan nodded, his eyes showing some confusion, and asked hesitantly, "What do you want to say?"

"Looks like you're still not smart enough," Xu Yuan said, pursing his lips.

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Tianyan's pure and lovely face twitched, and he clenched his fists.

They looked at each other for two seconds.

Xu Yuan clicked his tongue. "Tsk, you're really not cute at all."

"If you want to die, just say so." Tianyan kicked him.

Xu Yuan sighed and waved two fingers in front of Tianyan:

"Actually, what I want to say is very simple. There are only two situations when there is a traitor in the upper echelons. Either the ship is about to sink and if they don't jump ship now, they will drown with the ship. Or the benefits they gain outweigh what they betray, at least from the perspective of the traitor, the benefits outweigh the losses. Tianyan, which situation do you think Qionghua Sect is in?"

Judging from the actual effects in later generations

The Charm God Cherry Tree is to the Qionghua Sect what nuclear fusion technology was to a nation in the previous life.

It's one thing for high-ranking officials to sell assets, but selling something of this magnitude is a bit outrageous.

Although Xu Yuan thought the group of Qionghua executives who were fighting amongst themselves were stupid, they couldn't possibly be that stupid.

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Tianyan's eyes showed contemplation, as a series of pieces of information swirled in his mind.

After a while,

She said softly:

"Are you saying that the higher-ups at Qionghua don't know that the Charm God Cherry Tree requires Yuchu's physique to unlock?"

"Yes." Xu Yuan smiled and nodded.

It's highly likely that there's a "lock" on the "nuclear fusion" technology of the Charm God Cherry Tree, and the Qionghua Sect's higher-ups, acting as inside agents, discovered this. However, they didn't know that this "lock" required Yuchu's physique to unlock it. Rather than doing that, they decided to use this thing to exchange for some substantial benefits.

As he spoke,

Xu Yuan slowly stood up from the ground:

"The higher-ups at Qionghua will take action against us very soon."

The established fact that ten thousand years later, one person will become a cherry blossom and the other a leech, the attack by Tianrui and Shen Weixiu, the ugly faces of the two factions within the Qionghua Sect's upper echelons, not to mention the high-ranking mole lurking in the shadows.

A compilation of various information

Although the current illusion has changed a lot due to the butterfly effect brought about by the two, it is still not difficult to guess what happened ten thousand years ago.

Jing He and Yuchu survived the attack and preserved the Charm God Cherry Tree. However, the attack was launched by two geniuses from the Dao Palace and Heavenly Oversight Pavilion, and the higher-ups of Qionghua were also aware of Yuchu's special physique.

Because of this matter,

Despite pressure from the Heavenly Oversight Pavilion and the Taiqing Dao Palace, the sect managed to protect the two.

Because of this matter,

Yuchu became the Holy Maiden, while Jing He became the True Disciple.

Then,

Sometime in the future, for the sake of the sect's prosperity, the two were sacrificed together to the Charm God Cherry Tree.

In the silence, the setting sun gradually dimmed, and the mountains and forests became pitch black.

Tianyan looked at Xu Yuan and asked in a low voice:

How long do you think it will take before they make their move?

Xu Yuan thought for a moment and said:

"It could be on the very day you are consecrated as a saint, or it could be years later, or even decades later."

Tianyan took a deep breath after hearing his words, which were essentially meaningless:

"Do you have a way to escape this Qionghua Realm?"

"Tianrui has a way out. The mole in Qionghua's upper echelons has provided him with the location of a Random Teleportation Array, which we can use."

This is probably the secret teleportation point that the Saint's Remnant Soul asked him about before. He didn't find it in Cangyuan in his previous life, but he found it in this illusion in this way.

"Let's go," Tianyan decided immediately.

Xu Yuan suddenly looked at her and smiled:

"What? You're not going to steal Tianrui's Sumeru Ring anymore?"

Tianyan raised his foot to kick, but Xu Yuan dodged it.

Withdrawing her delicate, fair feet, Tianyan tossed her hair behind her ear:

"No need, you can have it. With Tianrui's cultivation level, he won't be able to access anything important."

"A fickle woman."

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Xu Yuan ignored her gaze, glanced in the direction of his own residence, and asked:

"Hey, are you going home to get something?"

Tianyan also stood up and glared at him:

"At a time like this, what are you still going to use?"

Xu Yuan Tianyan at Tian Yan's charred, battle-damaged armor:

Are you sure?

"It seems... needed."

"Heh, let's go, we won't be short of a couple of quarters of an hour."

The two went home, packed their belongings for their escape, and sped all the way to the entrance of the Dome Palace, only to find it in complete chaos.

Before the imposing white jade palace gates, cultivators came and went, their Source Qi surging.

Among these people, Xu Yuan even spotted a powerful elder who First-Grade Mortal Shedding.

Upon witnessing this scene, both Xu Yuan and Tianyan felt a chill run down their spines.

Fortunately, the chaos was not due to the deaths of Tianrui and Shen Weixiu, but rather to an old acquaintance whom Xu Yuan had just met that day.

Xiao Jianqing.

He ran away.

After receiving the supplies promised by the Second Elder, they immediately ran away.

Leveraging the positive interpersonal relationships he had cultivated through his past humility, he poisoned a third-rank elder, two core disciples, and several inner disciple guarding the teleportation gate without them noticing, and then escaped to the outside world directly through the teleportation array at the gate of the Dome Palace.

By the time others discovered the change at the main gate of the Dome Palace, Xiao Jianqing had already escaped for nearly half an hour.

Well, even when you're on the run, you can run into fellow criminals.

However, Xu Yuan was not surprised at all when he heard the news.

The majority of resources are given to their own direct descendants, while others are forced to participate in life-or-death battles. Who wouldn't run away in that situation?

However, Xu Yuan was somewhat surprised that Xiao Jianqing was able to escape.

This person is quite capable.

However, thanks to Xiao Jianqing's "precedent," most of the Qionghua Sect's attention shifted to the teleportation array at the exit of the secret realm, and his and Tianyan's plan to flee for their lives went much more smoothly.

After dealing with some acquaintances in the palace, Xu Yuan and Tianyan arrived at their destination without incident.

The back mountain of the Zhenhua Hall.

Holding the token from the Tianrui Sumeru Ring, Xu Yuan sensed it briefly and then waved his hand.

Buzz--

A hidden array instantly appeared around the two of them, and was activated by the infusion of Source Qi.

soon,

A dark portal appeared before the two of them.

Standing for a moment,

The surroundings were completely silent, with the wind rustling through the trees and brushing against her waist-length hair.

He reached out his hand to her:

"Come on, let's go."

She glanced at his hand, then silently offered it to him.

Xu Yuan, holding Tianyan's hand, took a step to walk inside.

At this time,

The girl behind him suddenly said:

"Hello"

"What?"

"You should know what you're doing right now, shouldn't you?" she asked.

If they escape now, the Qionghua Sect will no longer help them withstand the pressure from the Heavenly Oversight Pavilion and the Taiqing Dao Palace.

On the contrary, the Qionghua Sect will send people to hunt them down.

and,

Whether it's because of the Charm God Cherry Tree or because of Tianrui and Shen Weixiu, the two behemoths, Heavenly Oversight Pavilion and Taiqing Dao Palace, will send people to hunt them down.

A slight silence followed.

Xu Yuan smiled, his eyes crinkling, and pulled her close, saying:

"Rest assured,

"This world is big enough for us to hide in."

"Idiot."

"Tsk"

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The Transmission Hall was completely silent, with rays of sunlight streaming in through the holes in the dome.

Suddenly,

Xu Yuan opened his tightly closed eyes.

2-in-1

It seems like it's positive.