"Though you were passive victims, you had still achieved something in Nature Cultivation, nearly reaching the level of Spirit Projection. You should be able to see through the truth of this village now."
As Qiu Yan spoke, he raised both hands and clapped them together. Clap!
Azure light spread outward like sound waves. The passersby walking nearby came into contact with the azure ripples and shattered like bubbles, vanishing into illusion.
It was not only the people. The city walls, roads, and fields also crumbled and faded beneath the radiating, undulating azure sound waves.
Before long, the village and its inhabitants had all disappeared. All that remained was a haze of shifting light and shadow, within which several women looked around in panic.
These women had regained their senses and had not yet been abducted by Heavenly Wind. They had originally lived peacefully in the village, but in the blink of an eye, heaven and earth had changed, their fellow villagers had vanished, and the town no longer existed. Anyone would have been frantic.
After about the time it took to drink a cup of tea, with the reassurance of the women who had previously spoken with Qiu Yan, the panicked women finally understood their circumstances. Many immediately burst into tears.
Qiu Yan said at the right moment, "You now understand the situation. Among you, some have not yet lost their connection to their physical bodies, and life still remains in those bodies. Others have become bodiless ghosts, able to linger in the Mortal Realm only because of this painting. But once you leave it, you will become lonely wandering ghosts. The moment sunlight shines upon you, your souls will scatter into the nether dark. For those whose life force has not yet been severed, I will set your souls