"The power to manipulate emotions—or the power to manipulate the seven emotions and six desires."
Xia Ping seemed to have entered a state of enlightenment. He felt as though his understanding of illusion arts had risen to another level. If he wanted his illusions to become more real, he had to stir the emotions of living beings across myriad worlds.
In truth, memories alone, the five senses alone, history alone, and environments alone were far from enough to create an illusory world.
Every living being had its own emotions—joy, rage, sorrow, jealousy, inferiority, and more. Every living being was unique.
Without mastering the power of emotions, how could one bring illusion arts to a higher level?
At this moment, he also understood how his illusion power ought to advance. To go further, he had to devour the emotional power of countless living beings.
Only by integrating emotional power into his illusion arts could he elevate his illusory divine abilities to another level and reach a realm never attained by any before him.
"Wait, this is emotional power—or the energy of the seven emotions and six desires?"
Vaguely, Xia Ping's sea of consciousness trembled. He circulated the True Explanation of Illusion Arts, and countless illusion runes emerged deep within his pupils. Through this power, he seemed to sense all kinds of intense emotional power—the power of desires—pervading the depths of the void.
These powers had originally been intangible. Ordinary Saints could neither sense nor devour them, yet they existed everywhere and were immensely vast. Where there were sentient beings, there was the power of desires.
Vaguely, colorful threads of emotion filled the depths of the void, omnipresent and all-pervasive.
If his illusion power was to advance further, he had to take the desires of all beings as its foundation and feed