Tushita Palace
"All the images a person sees in a hallucination originate from their own perception!"
Holding the mirage pearl, Zhang Xuezhou felt lucid for a moment, and then felt that everything he had experienced was an illusion.
Humans cannot imagine things beyond their perception. For example, Zhang Xuezhou has seen many contestants participating in the event and can see each contestant individually, but Zhang Xuezhou has never seen the Jade Emperor and does not know what the Jade Emperor looks like.
Not seeing the Jade Emperor in the Lingxiao Palace, Zhang Xuezhou began to wonder if he was hallucinating.
"For example, if I want to obtain a Fire Date, the Illusionary Treasure becomes a Fire Date in my hands, but in the eyes of the Wu Chao, it's just a stone!"
Perhaps because the magical Law Power of the cultivator still lingered on the illusory treasure that had transformed into a fire date, Zhang Xuezhou had not yet put it into his Lesser Heaven and Earth Bag.
He rummaged through the magical treasures in the pouch at his waist, then kept comparing them to everything around him.
Zhang Xuezhou was ultimately disappointed.
The Jade Emperor did not come to find him as he had imagined, and Zhang Xuezhou's personal search for him also yielded no results.
He genuinely couldn't distinguish between what was real and what was fake in his experience.
"We can only wait for this Immortal Court gathering to end, and then someone will pull us out!"
After all his efforts came to nothing, Zhang Xuezhou could only wait for the grand event to end.
He clutched the mirage bead in his hand and wandered around for a while longer.
"Earth Spirit Fruit, Drunken Peach, tsk tsk tsk, even the Chain Reaction Yang has appeared!"
Perhaps having heard the rules and knowing that a banquet was being held in the Lingxiao Palace, Zhang Xuezhou, after taking a stroll around the palace, discovered a table of rare heavenly materials and earthly treasures beneath the throne.
Just as he had anticipated, what Zhang Xuezhou saw were all the spiritual fruits and great medicines he had seen before.
He grabbed the Earth Spirit Fruit and took a few bites, not knowing if he was biting into a stone or something else, but he didn't taste anything.
"Pooh!"
After biting around haphazardly, Zhang Xuezhou nibbled on Drunken Peach, then spat it out, feeling no particular sensation in his body.
After eating casually for a while, Zhang Xuezhou wandered around aimlessly, trying to find other areas and information that was missing from his knowledge, so as to judge everything he saw.
The Lingxiao Palace has twenty-four Tongtian, and every two Tongtian correspond to the direction of an exit.
Zhang Xuezhou was also wandering around aimlessly.
Most of the Tongtian were locked at the end, with two magic swords hanging on them, as well as a pillar of lightning.
"Is this my understanding of the Jade Pool Palace?"
The magic sword carried a dangerous aura, while the lightning pillar could conduct electric current.
Zhang Xuezhou never imagined that while he was hallucinating, he would also be struck by lightning and slashed by a sword. He decisively abandoned the impassable direction.
"What was this again?"
After traversing the Tongtian eight times, Zhang Xuezhou finally found a section where he could pass through without obstruction.
As Zhang Xuezhou traveled in this direction, he felt that the place he had observed from afar before had reappeared.
"Tushita Palace?"
After thinking about what was shown in the Yin-Yang Sacred Land, Zhang Xuezhou felt that it was all an illusion, presenting the Immortal Court scene he had once seen.
If Zhang Xuezhou were to leave the Lingxiao area within his hallucinations, he felt he might even see the secret Eastern Heavenly Gate that he knew.
A fox with golden horns and a fox with silver horns lay asleep at the entrance of the Tushita Palace, their mouths drooling.
This was somewhat unusual for Zhang Xuezhou. He picked up both fox demons and examined them for a while before throwing them down, only after the fox's pungent odor assaulted his nostrils.
"I'll let you go!"
Remembering Li Jing's mention of the Great Heavenly Evolution Boundless Formation being guarded by Demon Beast and fraught with danger, Zhang Xuezhou kicked the two foxes further away.
Ascending the steps from where the children were sleeping leads to the main hall of the Tushita Palace, whose doors have already been opened.
Inside the main hall stood a ten-foot-tall Pill Furnace, constantly emitting a delicate fragrance, still undergoing the process of refining elixirs over a gentle flame.
Zhang Xuezhou glanced at it twice and felt that the Pill Furnace was somewhat similar to Qin Ding No. 8.
"Fake, fake, it's all fake!"
If it weren't for the need to carry the Mirage Pearl to move within the great formation, and the desire to gamble on a chance of a personal meeting with the Jade Emperor, Zhang Xuezhou felt he should have kept the pearl.
Of course, if he was in a hallucinatory state, the outcome would be the same whether Zhang Xuezhou accepted the beads or not.
After some nitpicking, Zhang Xuezhou also rummaged around in the Tushita Palace.
The main hall of the Tushita Palace is the Alchemy Chamber. There's nothing of value to be found there, just a large Pill Furnace and some medicinal herbs that Zhang Xuezhou commonly uses.
He didn't find anything after searching, but when he turned a corner in the Alchemy Chamber, Zhang Xuezhou's expression became much more satisfied.
Just like the design of the Alchemy Chamber in Shanglin Garden, there is one place for refining elixirs, another place for storing medicinal herbs, and yet another place for storing the elixirs.
Pushing open the small door, the room in the Tushita Palace where elixirs were stored came into view.
"These are the longevity pills I saw in the secret place of the Eastern Heavenly Gate. There are over a hundred of them casually placed in a place like this, so they don't seem that special!"
Zhang Xuezhou chewed a longevity pill but didn't feel any effect.
Of course, after entering the formation, he ate a lot of random things, but none of them had any effect.
"If this is fake, I'll just be taking it for nothing; if this is real, then I'll be taking it for real!"
Thinking about the embarrassing situation of grabbing things after being trapped in an illusion, and then considering the other 30% probability, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but reach out and try casting a spell.
Unlike the magical treasure that transformed into a fire date, these pills did not have Law Power guiding them. Zhang Xuezhou to store the objects was quite successful, but Zhang Xuezhou did not rule out the possibility that this was a successful fantasy born from his own thoughts.
"Isn't this the Life-Creating Pill?"
After collecting over a hundred longevity pills, Zhang Xuezhou found twelve life-creating pills while searching again.
After chewing one, Zhang Xuezhou repeated the trick, stuffing as many as he could into his mouth.
"What kind of pill is this golden bean? Ah, if it's not something I'm familiar with, the illusion won't give me a result!"
Like a schizophrenic, Zhang Xuezhou sometimes believed he was hallucinating, and other times he was gambling on the truth.
He ate a golden bean, and ultimately chose to pack it up.
After searching the back rooms of the Tushita Palace, Zhang Xuezhou found nothing of interest.
He touched the Pill Cauldron and even tried it out himself; the realistic feel of it made him extremely satisfied.
"This is a process of 'gentling fire to nurture the elixir,' with continuous addition of base ingredients, in an effort to elevate it to the level of a superior-grade elixir!"
The Pill Furnace differs slightly from Zhang Xuezhou's Qin Furnace No. 8, but is quite similar to Pill Furnace like the Nine Dragon Cauldron. Its alchemy methods are also extremely sophisticated, aiming to cultivate mid-grade elixirs into high-grade elixirs.
Zhang Xuezhou lifted the lid of the pill, and saw a wisp of white steam rising, with the fragrance of medicine filling the air.
The fragrance was extremely pleasant, but Zhang Xuezhou didn't perceive any medicinal effect.
He glanced at the twenty-four white pills in the Pill Furnace and then scooped them out as well.
After he finished tidying up, he leisurely left the Tushita Palace and began searching for places that differed from his understanding.