Returning to the practice area, Lin Fan clicked the "Illusion Sea" icon.
The scene before his eyes warped slightly, and Lin Fan was transported into a strange trial space.
He looked up at a boundless expanse of dark sea.
The black seawater seemed to be made of pure ink, churning into monstrous waves beneath the raging winds.
An enormous island stood silently nearby in the black sea.
Beyond that first island, the outlines of more islands stretched into the black waters, barely visible.
Lin Fan stirred, transforming into a streak of light before landing steadily on the first island's pitch-black rocky shore.
Immediately afterward, an invisible, peculiar fluctuation aimed specifically at the soul and consciousness engulfed Lin Fan like a rising tide.
The fluctuation carried all manner of seductive and destructive emotions.
There was the despair and terror of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, as well as the insatiable greed of wielding power over the world.
They became venomous snakes that could slip through any opening, following Lin Fan's perception and burrowing madly toward the depths of his mind, seeking to drag his consciousness into an abyss of illusions from which there would be no escape.
Yet just as that illusory fluctuation was about to touch Lin Fan's soul...
[Ding! The host's soul is being eroded. Block this consciousness? Yes/No]
Hearing the system notification, Lin Fan could not keep a smile from spreading across his lips.
"Heh, looks like it really has no effect on me."
Lin Fan immediately gave a silent command.
Block it.
Buzz!!
The True Self Hall within Lin Fan's consciousness shuddered, and the once-menacing mental fluctuation instantly dissolved.
Lin Fan blinked, looking at the empty black rocks around him.
Normally, he should have fallen into an incredibly realistic hallucination by now, forced