Three months later, in a secluded chamber within a courtyard of the Heavenly Heart Sect on Heavenheart Island.
The vast chamber, once empty and plain, had become a flourishing landscape of splendid mountains and rivers, beautiful scenery, a peaceful atmosphere, and sprawling buildings, like a condensed holographic map of Nine-Dragon Island.
These scenes seemed both real and false, dreamlike and illusory. Whether seen, felt, sensed, or touched, everything was lifelike, almost indistinguishable from reality. Yet their scale was so small that anyone with their reason intact would know this was an artificial scene-or an illusion-not reality!
Suddenly, the flourishing scene vanished, restoring the vast chamber to its empty, plain state. Xiao Ying sat cross-legged at its center with his eyes closed.
Putting away the Great Huan Heaven-Earth, Xiao Ying turned his hand over, and a mass of chaotic mist several feet across appeared. Within it, blue skies and earth, mountains and rivers, magnificent buildings, peaceful crowds, and dense throngs of demonic beasts were clearly visible, closely resembling Nine-Dragon Island.
At first glance, it looked as though Xiao Ying held all of Nine-Dragon Island in his palm, with the majesty of an emperor bearing heaven and earth.
Xiao Ying gazed in satisfaction at the Great Huan Heaven-Earth in his hand, which had taken countless supreme treasures and nearly half a year to forge. On the surface, this world resembled a consciousness heaven-earth created through the Heavenly Heart Sect's specialty, the Heavens-Building Mystical Art. Yet it had been refined from countless rare treasures, making it half real and half illusory, half art and half treasure. This world and everything within it had been forged from tangible treasures, not illusions!
He pushed forward with the palm supporting the Great Huan Heaven-Earth, sending it shooting out, seemingly slowly but actually swiftly...
Boom...
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