parentshiftbook Chapter 2093 Breaking Through the Realm
Chapter 2093 Breaking Through the Realm
Chapter 2093 Breaking Through the Realm
It was an extremely bizarre mixture of colors, with a majestic and sacred pale gold on one side and a deep, sinister, chaotic, and resentful pitch black on the other.
Two completely opposite forces, which should be irreconcilable, are now intertwined, eroding and devouring each other, and have achieved a strange balance.
All of this happened within the absolutely independent space of the spatial grid. In other words, this is the true nature of that piece of "Heavenly Azure Wood".
"My feeling before was right, this place is indeed an illusion..." Chen Fei's gaze flickered slightly as he looked at the strange golden-black energy in the spatial compartment.
Why did the stolen rare treasures reappear? Why did he return to the starting point alone? Why couldn't his soul sense anything unusual, yet the logic was strange at every turn?
Because everything here is fake!
Chen Fei himself couldn't sense it, but when that seemingly real "Tianlan Wood" was taken into this absolutely independent space, the illusionary power that supported its existence could no longer maintain its appearance, revealing its most fundamental form.
Back when Chen Fei was in the Xuan Yu Realm's Illusion Sect, he practiced illusion techniques.
Although the level of the Illusion Gate is vastly different from the illusion of this ancient ruin before us, some basic principles and concepts of illusion are the same.
At that time, the highest level of illusion magic was to make the opponent know that everything in front of them was fake, but they still couldn't break through it, and eventually the fake became real.
It's not just about deceiving your opponent's senses, but about constructing a logically rigorous world.
In this world, everything conforms to its internal rules, and even those trapped within it who try to verify them through various means will obtain the true results. The trapped person's perception will be completely distorted, making it impossible for them to escape.
This concept still applies to the Primordial Continent today; the illusion that cannot be seen through is the reality.
This is why his soul couldn't sense anything unusual. It wasn't that his senses weren't strong enough, but rather that the illusion was at a very high level, high enough to have constructed a complete set of "real rules".
Under these rules, everything in front of you is real, so you can't perceive any flaws.
Now, thanks to the spatial grid, Chen Fei has seen through a corner of this illusion.
Seeing through illusions is the first and most crucial step in breaking through barriers. Just like a perfect dream, once the dreamer realizes they are dreaming, the dream is no longer so unbreakable.
But simply being aware of it is not enough.
We need to find an opportunity to transform this "seeing through" into practical action, thereby tearing apart the entire illusion.
“I’ll attach a wisp of my divine sense to the golden-black primordial energy within the spatial grid…” Chen Fei’s mind stirred, and an idea surfaced in his head.
Since this ball of golden-black primordial energy is the essence of that piece of "Tianlan Wood", what would happen if this ball of golden-black primordial energy, which bears the mark of one's own divine sense, were put back into the illusion?
Use an illusionary creation whose nature has been "seen through" as an anchor or beacon to interfere with and probe the operation of the entire illusionary realm.
Chen Fei acted immediately. He first merged a wisp of his divine sense with the golden-black primordial energy, and then moved it out of the spatial grid.
The moment that ball of golden-black primordial energy broke free of the spatial grid and came into contact with the outside world again, it was as if it had been reshaped by an invisible hand, instantly transforming back into the seemingly real and tangible Tianlan Wood.
Everything looked exactly the same as before.
However, because of that wisp of divine thought, even though this ball of primordial energy transformed back into Tianlan Wood under the influence of the illusion, Chen Fei could clearly perceive that the core of this seemingly flawless piece of Tianlan Wood was still that strange ball of gold and black primordial energy.
It's like secretly adding a single ink dot to a perfectly realistic painting, visible only to the viewer. To others, the painting remains flawless.
But for the person who applies the ink, this ink dot is the key to breaking the illusion of perfection.
Without the spatial grid, Chen Fei would not be able to intertwine his divine sense with the Heavenly Azure Wood, because if he couldn't see through it, he couldn't do it.
Because in his perception, it was a real piece of Tianlan Wood. When his divine sense attached itself to it, it was only attached to a real piece of spiritual material, not to its illusory essence.
At this moment, Chen Fei's divine sense resides within the Heavenly Azure Wood, which resonates perfectly with its surroundings, becoming part of the illusion...
Chen Fei closed his eyes, focusing all his attention on sensing the information transmitted by that divine thought.
Through this divine sense, Chen Fei began to clearly perceive that there was an extremely subtle and close connection between the piece of Tianlan Wood in front of him and the surrounding environment.
It was as if countless invisible threads connected it to the ground beneath its feet, the surrounding air, the distant buildings, and even the entire world, making it an inseparable part of this illusory world.
It was precisely this close connection and resonance that created an unprecedented and extremely eerie feeling in Chen Fei's perception.
At this moment, in Chen Fei's perception, the entire surrounding environment felt fragmented.
On the one hand, his five senses and his soul told him that everything before him was real.
On the other hand, through the divine sense attached to the essence of the golden and black primordial energy, he could clearly see that the seemingly real world around him was also filled with the same illusory power fluctuations of intertwined gold and black.
This extreme sense of contradiction and disconnect constantly assaulted Chen Fei's consciousness, and this sense of disconnect was exactly what Chen Fei needed.
When a person views the same thing from two different, or even contradictory, perspectives, that thing is no longer monolithic; contradictions and inconsistencies will inevitably emerge.
This contradiction and inconsistency is the flaw in the illusion, and also what Chen Fei can exploit.
Chen Fei took a deep breath, casting all distracting thoughts aside, and his mind sank into an unprecedented state of clarity.
The Immortal True Light Mirror is an extremely profound method of cultivating and utilizing the divine soul within the Dan Chen Sect.
It can not only temper the soul, making it more refined and powerful, but more importantly, it can greatly enhance a cultivator's perception, insight, and ability to distinguish between reality and illusion under certain conditions, just like an inextinguishable lamp that illuminates the falsehood.
As the cultivation technique circulated, Chen Fei's spiritual perception became incredibly sharp.
He could clearly see countless extremely fine, spider-web-like energy lines extending from that piece of Tianlan wood, closely connected with the surrounding void, earth, buildings... and even the flowing air and light.
These energy lines form an invisible net covering the entire illusion, and that piece of Tianlan Wood is a node in this net.
Chen Fei's soul quietly spread along these energy lines, carefully sensing the patterns, strengths, and potential instabilities of the energy flow, before cutting into the gaps from this point of resonance.
Time passed slowly, and with the powerful insight of the Immortal True Light Mirror, Chen Fei finally caught a very faint and fleeting abnormal fluctuation.
It was at a very hidden node where all the energy lines intersected, at the moment when the golden and black energies were flowing and alternating, that a slight, almost imperceptible sluggishness and disharmony arose because of their completely opposite attributes.
Just like in a precision-operated machine, at a certain angle, two meshing gears will have a tiny, negligible gap.
But for Chen Fei, who had been waiting for so long, this gap was the fulcrum that could pry open the entire illusion.
Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Fei activated the Undying True Light Mirror to its current maximum potential.
"Buzz!"
A deep and profound tremor seemed to emanate from the depths of Chen Fei's soul, or perhaps from the surrounding void.
With this tremor, a pure and condensed invisible spiritual light burst forth from Chen Fei's ancestral aperture between his eyebrows.
This ray of light was not dazzling, nor did it have any powerful energy fluctuations, but the profound meaning it contained—the ability to see through illusion and illuminate the true nature of reality—made the surrounding space momentarily freeze.
This spiritual light, like an invisible sword, pierced through the tiny energy gap perceived by Chen Fei's soul with indescribable precision and speed.
The previously stable environment suddenly began to shake.
It was like a boulder thrown into a calm lake, or like a smooth mirror suddenly cracked.
The peaceful, beautiful, and stable celestial scene before my eyes began to distort and fluctuate violently.
The images of pavilions and towers became blurry, as if their reflections in the water had been disturbed. The babbling of the water became intermittent, mixed with jarring noise. The dense spiritual energy in the air also began to churn irritably, losing its previous gentleness and regularity.
At the crevic struck by the Immortal True Light Mirror, visible ripples, like waves of water, suddenly spread outwards.
Wherever the ripples passed, the surrounding scenery became more illusory and unstable, like an oil painting soaked in water, where the colors began to melt and confuse.
Faced with this drastic change, Chen Fei not only did not back down, but his eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he seized the opportunity to take a step forward without hesitation.
His figure moved like a wisp of smoke, voluntarily entering the center of that violently fluctuating, seemingly dangerous spatial ripple.
The next instant, Chen Fei vanished from his spot.
The scene before my eyes gradually became clear and stable after the intense spatial distortion and chaotic light and shadow.
The first thing that catches the eye is a slightly dim but more realistic light, no longer the overly rich and deliberate purity of the previous illusion, but with a hint of antiquity and vicissitude.
Chen Fei steadied his somewhat dazed mind and looked around.
A large number of Tai Cang Realm cultivators were around, and it was no longer the desolate emptiness it had been before.
“Cao Feiyu and Wei Zhongqian are here too…” Chen Fei’s gaze quickly locked onto the location of the group from Cuiping Peak.
Wei Zhongqian stood not far ahead, his figure upright, his expression solemn as he gazed at the increasingly secluded palace area. Cao Feiyu stood slightly behind him, her expression equally solemn, occasionally glancing around out of the corner of her eye.
"Everything just now was like an illusion." A thought involuntarily surfaced in Chen Fei's mind.
That celestial garden, the abundance of rare and precious materials, and his experience of sifting through the illusion and searching for the gaps all by himself... everything felt so real.
Just as Chen Fei's doubts were still unresolved, and he even began to wonder if he was still in some deeper illusion.
"Pfft!"
"boom!"
A series of dull, heavy thuds as objects fell to the ground suddenly shattered the tranquility of the place, echoing from all directions.