Watching the Myriad Realms from the Mountain, Calamity Hidden Behind the No-Battle Formation

Those two gazes swept through the cave like lightning, passing over the many figures within.

Then all those people turned into wisps of blue smoke, ethereal and traceless. In the end, only a shifting, unpredictable radiance remained, trembling without cease.

"You used such a scene to bewilder me. Once you suffer the backlash, the damage to yourself will be impossible to calculate. At least half your consciousness must have been left behind."

With that thought, Qiu Yan stepped forward and casually grasped the radiance in his hand. Focusing his mind, he examined it closely, savoring it as several sighs arose within him.

"So that was it. This woman was actually the reincarnation of a demon from Northern Julu Continent. She had been born clutching jade to her breast, but upon growing up, she knew not how many memories from her past lives. Until not long ago, when the Heavenly Stars and Earthly Fiends Bandits attacked her home, slaughtered her fiancé, massacred her entire household, then forcibly bound her with the method of dual cultivation, seized her Divine Sense, and controlled her like a puppet..."

With only that touch, Qiu Yan had captured the information he needed from the radiance.

That radiance was, in truth, the remnant of a person's will. Whether the two youths from before, the four women afterward, the old crone, or the many small figures who appeared last, all had originated from this single will.

"A bewildering technique that blends illusion and reality, seeming true yet false—this is indeed the hardest kind to guard against."

From the moment Qiu Yan and Qiu An encountered those two youths, they had already entered a carefully woven journey of deception. Many of their experiences along the way had been true or false, illusory or real, and amid that deception came