The same thing happened to all three of them at once.
However, all three reacted quickly.
They immediately began considering countermeasures and trying to break the illusion.
Soul Power surged through Ye Luochen's body without reservation as his three soul rings flashed continuously.
The Dark Iron Blade instantly condensed in his hand, and he began slashing repeatedly.
But after a few fruitless strikes, Ye Luochen put it away again.
For someone to make him fall into an illusion without his noticing, the caster's cultivation had to be extraordinary.
In this situation, trying to break a mental illusion with his mere Level 40 Soul Power was nothing but a waste of effort.
He might as well conserve his Soul Power for whatever might happen next.
Although the mastermind was highly likely a stronger Evil Eye summoned by that fleeing ten-thousand-year Evil Eye, Ye Luochen was not overly panicked after figuring out the situation.
After all, if the other party could create such an illusion and wanted to kill him, it would probably take no more than a thought.
Why would it leave him alive until now?
As for why things had turned out this way, Ye Luochen had a rough guess.
It was most likely because of the soul crystals from those Evil Eyes earlier.
Coming here for revenge meant this Evil Eye had a close relationship with the previous three Evil Eyes.
In that case, it would most likely try to find the other two crystals.
After all, finding the crystals meant the Evil Eye race still had hope of resurrection.
Naturally, Ye Luochen knew where those two crystals were. They were on Meng Hongchen.
And who was Meng Hongchen?
She was the biological granddaughter of Jing Hongchen, master of Mingde Hall, a genius with Soul King-level cultivation at the age of fifteen.
Ye Luochen absolutely did not believe that someone like her carried no protective treasures left behind by Jing Hongchen.
In other words, until Meng Hongchen revealed where she had hidden the crystals, he was most likely still safe. And because of her special identity, that process would certainly take a long time.
All things considered, his life should not be in danger for the time being.
After roughly analyzing the situation, Ye Luochen took a deep breath and slowly let it out.
He had to seize this precious time and work harder to find a way out.
After adjusting his breathing, Ye Luochen focused his spiritual power to its utmost.
Since it was an illusion, there had to be a flaw somewhere.
But ideals were plump, while reality was skinny.
Ye Luochen carefully inspected the area around him more than ten times. Even when his spiritual power was utterly exhausted and waves of stabbing pain filled his head, he found nothing unusual.
"Looks like the gap in spiritual power is still too great..."
Leaning wearily against a tree, Ye Luochen spoke as he recovered.
"I can't just sit here and wait for death. If I can't find it in ten tries, then I'll do twenty, a hundred!"
"I, Ye Luochen, still have so many things left undone. How can I fall here?"
After recovering a little, Ye Luochen immediately began an even more meticulous inspection.
Meanwhile, elsewhere within the illusion.
Meng Hongchen looked completely different from usual.
Her originally wine-red hair had turned snow-white.
Not only that, all exposed skin, including her face and palms, had become snowy white, fair as jade and crystal-clear.
Only her eyes remained blood-red, as if they were about to drip with blood.
Her entire aura was indescribably cold and sinister.
Before her floated a silvery-white disc, continuously releasing dazzling light.
It steadily blocked the silver beams shooting at her from all around.
She had directly confronted the hidden Evil Eye Tyrant's attacks!
"Heh, you want the two crystals on me?"
Like Ye Luochen, Meng Hongchen had naturally guessed the Evil Eye Tyrant's intentions.
A faint icy mist continuously spread outward from her body.
"Then let's see if you have what it takes!"
The disc before her was a Level 9 Soul Tool personally crafted by Jing Hongchen.
With her current strength, she could not fully activate it and could only barely protect herself.
But Meng Hongchen was different from the others of the Sun Moon Empire.
First and foremost, she was a powerful soul master.
Moreover, she was a powerful poison-attribute soul master.
What was more, she was not the only one carrying a Level 9 Soul Tool.
"Damn it!"
"If anything happens to Meng, I, Xiao Hongchen, will flatten your Evil Demon Forest sooner or later!"
In the third part of the illusion, Xiao Hongchen's expression became savage and terrifying.
His body was strangely supported by three legs, his back slightly hunched, while his entire body radiated a gentle golden glow.
Countless Soul Guidance Cannons continuously formed in the air around him, unleashing terrifying firepower in every direction.
And beyond that, before him stood an enormous metal cannon barrel a full meter wide, condensing a streak of terrifying black light that seemed capable of devouring everything.
A Level 9 Heavy Soul Guidance Cannon!
This was what Jing Hongchen had left him. Ordinarily, with Xiao Hongchen's cultivation, he was nowhere near capable of activating such a terrifying heavy weapon.
But like Ye Luochen, he had guessed in a very short time what the Evil Eye Tyrant that had created this illusion wanted.
After realizing that Meng Hongchen would very likely face the Evil Eye Tyrant head-on, Xiao Hongchen unleashed a power he had never used before, turning the impossible into possible and forcibly activating this heavy weapon.
He would never allow anyone in this world to hurt his sister!
"Die!"
The next moment, the terrifying black light erupted!
After another fruitless meticulous inspection, Ye Luochen's expression gradually darkened.
"Is it really impossible..."
The moment his words fell.
Boom!
A deafening explosion suddenly rang out!
The entire world began shaking violently.
Ye Luochen's eyes immediately lit up.
Because amid that tremor, he finally caught something!
Without the slightest hesitation, Ye Luochen forcibly activated the little spiritual power he had left, then gathered his Soul Power along the Dark Iron Blade's edge.
With a step forward, he viciously stabbed at an unremarkable tree not far away.
The sensation he had expected did not come.
That full-force strike, containing the eruption of both his spiritual power and Soul Power, felt as though it had pierced some kind of flesh.
The next moment, the entire tree was uprooted from the ground.
With a faint, almost imperceptible roar, it transformed into a massive dancing tentacle.
Yet on that tentacle was a wound that was continuously spraying blood.
"Found the flaw!"
Having discovered the key, Ye Luochen did not pause in the slightest. After carefully sensing his surroundings, he stabbed his blade heavily into another tree not far away.
Another tentacle was exposed.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Xiao Hongchen's expression turned extremely ugly.
Because he had ultimately failed.
The shot he had barely managed to fire had not unleashed much of the Level 9 Heavy Soul Guidance Cannon's power.
Although it made the entire space tremble for a long time.
It still failed to break it.
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