"What... happened...?" The cultivators in the city woke up. Looking around, they found that everyone else was the same as them, as though they had just awakened from a dream, their eyes still heavy with sleep.
"What's wrong with me? It feels like I had such a long dream. In that dream, I had already become an immortal..." a cultivator murmured.
"I had a dream too. In it, I returned to the cultivation world and ruled the entire world!"
"I dreamed that my cultivation had reached the Tribulation Transcendence stage and that I was about to ascend!"
More and more people awoke. At first, only a few were muttering to themselves, but it soon became clear that they were not the only ones who had dreamed. Everyone had fallen into dreams, and they had not all shared the same dream.
Within their respective dreams, they had all achieved their wishes. Some wanted to become immortals, some wanted to dominate the world, while others merely wished for their beloved to return... In short, no matter what their wish was, it had basically come true in that dream. And while they were in it, they had noticed nothing unusual at all, never realizing it was a dream.
"Could it be... that we've been caught in an illusion technique?" one cultivator asked in terror.
Everyone had fallen into dreams at the same time. That could not possibly be explained by coincidence. Only an incredibly terrifying illusion technique could produce such an effect. But what level of illusion technique could control everyone in an entire city simultaneously?
"News just came in—not only did the people in our city fall into an illusion, but everyone in all of Longevity Heaven did as well!"
Suddenly, a cultivator's voice rang out from the center of the