When Yi Shuyuan looked their way, Jiang Lang was the first to recover. What had just happened had given him an inexplicable sense of insignificance, and he was still somewhat shaken.
"Old Yi, what happened just now?"
Xia Linglan and her daughter Lu Yuwei had yet to steady even their breathing, and their hearts were still racing far faster than normal.
Yi Shuyuan frowned slightly in thought. Mind-Spirit Communion was not unique to his cultivation path, but it clearly went far beyond perception in the ordinary sense. Any explanation would have to be phrased in terms Jiang Lang and the others could understand.
Strictly speaking, when he had touched the Spirit Pearl and entered mind-spirit communion, a shifting vision had appeared within Yi Shuyuan's mind. He alone should have been able to see it, but perhaps the collision of the pearl's energies had affected the surroundings, creating a mind-spirit illusion that allowed the others to glimpse some of those scenes as well.
But all this was merely a moment's consideration in Yi Shuyuan's mind. He was not teaching disciples. Sometimes, when people sought an explanation, they only wanted an answer, not a blackboard covered in formulas.
"You could call it an illusion manifested by a collision of energies-a fleeting glimpse of the Spirit Pearl's origins!"
Jiang Lang could not help looking again at the pearl in Yi Shuyuan's hand. It emitted no radiance now, looking just like an ordinary precious pearl.
"That illusion was a little too real..."
Lu Yuwei nodded in complete agreement.
"It felt like the blink of an eye, but also like I'd spent so many, many years on a mountaintop... It felt so real."
Xia Linglan had also calmed herself by now, and spoke with a sigh of wonder.
"Because it truly happened in the past.