A Glimpse of the Root of Divine Powers; For a Moment, the Affairs of the World Were Beyond Human Control

The scholarly illusion realm formed by the aura looked similar at first glance to an illusion realm of divine powers. But Literary Dao scholarship itself rejected the Divine Path. This scholarly illusion was naturally not truly manifested in the real world, nor did it distort common sense or Order; it existed solely on the level of consciousness.

Precisely because it was formed of consciousness, as the two pondered and refined its details, this world gained limitless potential for extension. Outside the Imperial Academy, there were not merely streets and thronging pedestrians taking shape. As the students had moved forward earlier, the neighborhoods along their route had gradually been constructed as well.

In this world, everything was illusory, formed from consciousness, from a single thought. Only the Imperial Academy students were projections formed from a trace of Fortune belonging to real people.

Within this illusion, they were carefully protected. Everything they saw and heard had been deliberately presented by the thoughts of others. Even the background, history, and progression of the entire world had become illusory memories, rooted in their hearts.

That was why Han Bian's words could stir their indignation. Even if he had been spouting nonsense, once it had been embellished by the world of consciousness, these "students" would believe it without question and treat it as the ideal they themselves sought. Their pure, childlike hearts would also cause that faint sense of mission to guide all living beings to erupt from within them, making them disregard everything else.

At that moment, the Heaven-Piercing Drum in the center of the Imperial City suddenly sounded. This drum was no ordinary thing. It was a kind of Remonstrance Drum, but it reached directly to the emperor's ears. Once it was struck, the emperor had to intervene.

Ordinarily, this heaven-reaching drum was