CHAPTER 997: CHAPTER 993: AN ILLUSION MORE REAL THAN REALITY

"Junior Brother, why were you lost in thought just now?" Wu Ding asked.

Ye Fan glanced at Wu Yingzi and said, "I was thinking about something."

"You weren’t thinking about something, you were contemplating my abilities..." At this moment, Wu Yingzi seemed to be able to pierce into Ye Fan’s inner mind, and in almost an instant, Wu Ding was still speaking, but Wu Ding’s voice was extremely slow, each word seemed to last a very long time. Ye Fan knew he had once again entered the twisted space-time crafted by Wu Yingzi.

Ye Fan said, "What exactly do you want to do?"

"I don’t want to do anything. You’ve only passed through two illusions; there are still two more. Hehe... This time, you’re likely not going to remain so calm." Wu Yingzi’s face bore a smug smile.

Ye Fan didn’t quite understand; if Wu Yingzi had prepared four illusions for him, why let him return to reality once? Thinking carefully, he roughly understood that Wu Yingzi wanted him to return to reality once, to appreciate having everything precious, and then lead him into a more terrifying illusion.

"Then I’ll face your challenge." Ye Fan knew his cultivation level was far inferior to Wu Yingzi’s, a cultivator with creator abilities, likely above the Transcendence Tribulation Stage, possibly even an immortal. How an immortal can break through defenses to enter Pan Gu’s secret realm, Ye Fan was unsure.

Ye Fan felt the surrounding scenery hadn’t drastically changed; after an instant of blurring, it was still the same people, though each seemed different in some way.

"Ye Fan, kill him!"

Suddenly Ye Fan felt he became Wu Yingzi, while Wu Yingzi disappeared and he stood where Wu Yingzi had been. He saw another himself, Li Zhaojun and others wielding their swords at him, seemingly trying to fight desperately.

"Haha, what? Feeling strange?" Wu Yingzi’s voice came, but Ye Fan couldn’t grasp Wu Yingzi’s position, "The greatest cruelty of the creator is to make sentient beings kill each other."

"I’m not afraid," Ye Fan said.

"You will be, because what you see is equally real." Wu Yingzi finished speaking, and his voice completely disappeared.

Opposite him "Ye Fan," Li Zhaojun and others had already launched an attack against him.

Ye Fan reminded himself in his heart, this is just an illusion!

Although he was sure it wasn’t real, when "Ye Fan" opposite launched an attack, he felt unprecedented pressure because it was Pure Yang Spiritual Energy, familiar cultivation technique, and what Li Zhaojun and Min Shang emitted was also their original spiritual energy, which made Ye Fan feel incredible.

"How can this be?" That spiritual energy surged towards Ye Fan, and Ye Fan knew if he didn’t act, he would be buried under the crossing of those spiritual energy streams.

"Bang!" Ye Fan used his original spiritual energy to block, yet he still couldn’t resist the intersection of three streams of spiritual energy, he was shaken back dozens of steps, and when he stopped, he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Opposite him, Li Zhaojun was already asking, "How can this villain also emit Pure Yang Spiritual Energy? Could he have the ability to replicate our cultivation?"

Wu Ding said, "Junior Brother, seems like Senior Sister has to take action too, kill him, get the Light Refining Pill’s formula, then the woman you love can all attain immortality!"

Several of them unexpectedly attacked Ye Fan simultaneously.

Ye Fan suddenly felt his spiritual energy seemed much stronger, at least able to protect himself under the combined attacks of Wu Ding and the others.

Yet Ye Fan’s heart was always hesitant because he didn’t know whether this was just an illusion, or Wu Yingzi truly turned him into "Wu Yingzi," provoking Li Zhaojun and others to kill.

"You must kill them!" Wu Yingzi’s voice came again, "Otherwise you’ll die, and I can’t help you. Didn’t you say you could calmly face it? Then you must break the illusion! How come..."

Wu Yingzi sounded surprised as if something went beyond his control.

It was the Copper Mirror inside Ye Fan.

The Copper Mirror previously could find flaws in the Illusion City created by Wu Yingzi, and now it could find flaws in the illusion before him, precisely in these "characters."

The light was strong, seemingly reminding Ye Fan that as long as he killed those people before him, he could walk out from the illusion, which was exactly the same as Wu Yingzi’s hint.

"How can I bring myself to do it?" Ye Fan could watch Li Zhaojun suffer in the illusion, but it was like watching a movie, knowing it was fake, so even though he felt somewhat peculiar, he wouldn’t feel too sad. But now he had to battle Li Zhaojun’s Pure Yin Spiritual Energy, which he was unwilling to do.

"Either they die, or you die!" Wu Yingzi was almost gritting his teeth saying.

All the attacks came towards Ye Fan alone; Ye Fan kept his mind clear, he waved the Fire Dragon Sword, slashing at the few people rushing at him so decisively and resolutely.

Ye Fan was thoroughly incited into frenzy, his eyes emitted a crimson light, and when he slashed down, the entire world changed colors.

Thunder resounded in the sky, Ye Fan felt as if he had already ascended, causing a power that even the world marveled at.

"Whoosh..." A wind blew, the "Ye Fan" and Li Zhaojun and others before him become pulverized in the air.

He walked out from the illusion again, but when he woke this time, he spat out a mouthful of blood, and his eyes were filled with crimson.

...

...

The scorched land remained, Wu Yingzi stood not far ahead, while Ye Fan was already injured.

"Junior Brother!"

"Ye Fan!"

"Fan!"

Wu Ding, Li Zhaojun, and Tantai Wanrong respectively supported Ye Fan, yet Ye Fan was incited into frenzy while killing those loose cultivators earlier, then experienced a kind of "betrayal" and slaughter, rendering him unable to suppress his internal frenzy.

"Not good, Ye Fan’s spiritual energy inside is nearly uncontrollable." Wu Ding looked at the distance, "Seems like we have to find ordinary human women... to help him resolve it!"

Li Zhaojun nervously said, "How could Ye Fan suddenly get injured?"

"It must be Wu Ying’s trickery." Wu Ding glared at the smiling Wu Yingzi.

Li Zhaojun shook her head, "But Senior Wu Yingzi didn’t do anything!"

"Who knows what happened?" Wu Ding was puzzled too, if Wu Yingzi attacked Ye Fan directly, with her cultivation it would be impossible not to detect, yet she didn’t know either, only saw Ye Fan suddenly lost in thought, spitting blood and got injured.

Ye Fan looked at Wu Yingzi and said, "Is this your goal?"

As soon as Ye Fan spoke, he entered a space-time where he was alone with Wu Yingzi, completely disconnected from the outside world.

"What? Thinking that after passing through three illusions you can surely transcend?" Wu Yingzi laughed, "There’s still the final test, which is a challenge you psychologically can’t overcome. Because... that’s exactly what you need now."

With Wu Yingzi’s words, Ye Fan felt he was transported to a familiar place, his bedroom in Hua Hai City’s villa, and before him were several charming beauties, Li Zhaojun, Tantai Wanrong, Wu Ding, and Min Shang. They were all wearing clothes that couldn’t cover them, looking at him affectionately, like concubines waiting for the emperor’s favor.