Chapter 349: Deep in the Mirage, Liu Yu Huan Zhi
Seeing that all the students had entered the Mirage Muyuan, Qin Yueran and Mu Long were not in a hurry to leave.
After standing in front of the post station and enjoying the breeze for a while, two figures walked towards me from behind.
"Brother Long." A chubby security guard came and stood next to Mu Long, "Are they this year's Combat Club?"
A smile appeared on Mu Long's face: "Yes...what, Mr. Dan, please give me some comments?"
"Brother Long, stop teasing me. I'm just here to watch the fun." Bao Zeyu waved his hand, then looked at Qin Yueran who was standing beside him. "Qin She, it's been a long time since we last met. You're still as charming as ever."
"Alas, I'm getting old..." Qin Yueran frowned and looked into the distance, slurping the wolfberry water in his thermos. "I've been so busy lately that I can't keep up... I'm already counting the days until retirement."
"Qin She's aura is always on point." Bao Zeyu gave a thumbs-up. "He's an absolutely abstinent, pure retired veteran cadre."
"...I'm really impressed you were able to put those words together." Zhang Shuting yawned and came over to Bao Zeyu, clicking her tongue. "Qin She, I heard you haven't paid off your Soul Card loan yet? Can you retire peacefully?"
Hearing this, Qin Yueran's expression froze obviously.
"Ahem." He coughed twice and tightened the lid of the thermos. "Let's not talk about this. We can still be friends... Ahem, now I envy you more and more. Once you join the Public Security Bureau, your soul card is guaranteed, and you don't have to pay for it yourself."
"It's not that simple—you need merit points to replace new cards in the bureau. If you want to build a deck like Qinshe's current one, you probably won't have time to slack off for a single day."
Qin Yueran: “…”
Look, what kind of words are these.
However, what they said did make sense. Although his deck only had one Legendary-level field card, Dragon King Blood Rain, it was a powerful and handsome Dragon deck! The price was several times higher than that of ordinary decks.
The price of the Dragon King Blood Rain card alone is almost tens of millions, and the other epic soul cards in the deck are also not cheap. Each one of them costs at least 300,000, and the Burning Beard Ancient Dragon has a maximum value of 400,000. The total cost is firmly over 20 million.
This is still in Yan Country. If it were sold abroad, the price would be even more outrageous - the Dragon Clan card deck is full of the smell of money.
The Yanguo Soul Card Master Association has set restrictions on the price of soul cards. Below the legendary level, each quality of soul card has a set price range, which cannot be more or less. The epic level is between 100,000 and 400,000.
At the beginning, Yu Cang sold an Undead Warrior for 100,000, which was the lowest price - but this was normal. After all, the effect of the Undead Warrior determined that it was a card specifically used in battles with soul card masters below level five, so the price would not be too high.
Of course, if you meet someone you really like, you will definitely buy it even if it means paying 400,000 yuan. However, Yu Cang's shop is located near the Ancient Capital University, and most of the people who come and go are students, so he generally won't raise the price.
Of course, the association only limits the price below the heirloom level. Once it reaches the heirloom level...how much it can be sold for depends on each person's ability. It is possible for a card to sell for tens of millions or even hundreds of millions.
After all, the price of the Heirloom Soul Card cannot be restricted. Forcible restrictions will only cause high-level card makers to flow abroad.
This policy of the Yan State Association is obviously to take care of those civilian players. It is also thanks to this policy that Yan State now ranks first in the number of national defense players.
Tiandao, which is second only to Yan Country, has only a little over a hundred national soul card makers, almost as many as Yan Country’s national soul card makers.
In Tiandao, it is normal for an epic album to be sold for millions. Although those capitals can support many talents, there are also more who are buried and suppressed.
"Okay, stop teasing me." Qin Yueran waved his hand. "Aren't you going in?"
"We'll have to wait a little longer." Bao Zeyu smiled, then narrowed his eyes. "Bain is still testing the waters—this guy has some anti-tracking skills, but not much."
"Don't wait until you lose him, that would be embarrassing." Mu Long shook his head.
Zhang Shuting also shook her head: "Don't worry, the probability of losing someone in Mirage Muyuan is lower than the probability of you cultivating a genius like Yu Cang in Team Dragon."
Mu Long: "Hiss... No, Shu Ting, can you change the tone of your voice?"
Zhang Shuting blinked, seemingly innocent: "Do my words hurt you?"
Qin Yueran showed an uncontrollable smile at the corner of his mouth: "No, I like listening to it."
"Exactly. Look at Qin She. Even though he's always slacking off and thinking about retirement, if it weren't for him, Yu Cang might have joined the Combat Society six months earlier."
The smile on Qin Yueran's face suddenly disappeared: "...I take back what I said just now."
The smile then shifted to Mu Long's face.
Like Qin Yueran, Mu Long graduated as the president of a combat club at Mudu University before becoming the instructor of the combat club.
Bao Zeyu and Zhang Shuting were two of his team members. They were responsible for the doubles duel project and were arguably the most tacitly matched pair in the club. After graduation, they went straight to the Public Security Bureau.
"Oh? Almost there." Bao Zeyu, who had been paying attention to the instrument in his hand, suddenly had his eyes light up. "Bain has entered the Mirage Realm, taking a small path. Haha, he's being cautious."
No matter how cautious you are, it's no use. Over the years, the association has never stopped protecting and exploring the Mirage Pasture. This place has become the association's back garden. At least Bain certainly doesn't have the ability to get rid of them.
"Then you guys go quickly." Mu Long flexed his wrist, "We have to leave quickly too."
"Okay, let's talk about it another day."
"Ah...boring." Zhang Shuting yawned again. "I heard that Du Yanran from Yujiang has been transferred here... Tsk, when I think about how many masters are hiding in the dark, this mission becomes boring."
"Okay, let's go."
"Tsk... Mr. Dan, why haven't I seen you be so diligent when you're losing weight on weekdays?"
"You're kidding." Bao Zeyu glared, "I'm from Bamboo Pole!"
…
Mirage Muyuan, somewhere
This is a strange space with countless mirror-like space barriers suspended in the air. Unlike other illusionary spaces, the sky cannot be seen here. Looking around, one can only see rainbow-like light enveloping the surroundings.
In fact, what you are stepping on is not the earth, but a flowing mirror.
A man in military uniform stood here with a calm look.
In front of him, a giant dragon, shining brightly and seemingly real, was sleeping there. Dreamy rainbow light surrounded its body, which looked like transparent jade. It was obvious that it was not an ordinary creature.
This real dragon has a very huge body. Behind the dragon head, the body is immersed in the flowing mirror. Under the cover of the illusion space, it looks endless.
Du Yanran raised his head and looked at the corpse of the mirage dragon.
"...It's really spectacular." A barely perceptible smile appeared at the corner of Du Yanran's mouth, and then disappeared.
It was indeed the first time he saw this dragon corpse.
The location of this illusion space is underground in the mirage Muyuan, but basically no one has ever come here, because for the entire mirage covering Muyuan, this place is at the deepest point. To reach here, one needs to break through almost endless illusions.
This is the burial place that Mirage Dragon chose for himself.
Even the association took a long time to study this secret realm before discovering the deepest illusion space, and finally truly gained control of this secret realm.
Mirage Dragon had undoubtedly become a desolate beast. Knowing he couldn't resist the desolate's infection, he exiled his consciousness into a fantasy world, hoping to escape a future in which he would completely transform into a desolate beast.
Because Huang's infection is aimed at wisdom, and in the illusion that Shenlong specially built for his own consciousness, his wisdom will experience endless cycles of illusion, thus remaining in a state similar to a time loop.
So even today, thousands of years later, the wisdom of the mirage dragon is still in a state of being infected but not completely infected.
But without consciousness, the Mirage Dragon's body had long been dead. Although the remaining illusion energy ensured that its body would not decay, it had already become Huang's body. Even if the Mirage Dragon woke up from the illusion, it would no longer be able to be used.
Simply put, the body of the Mirage Dragon has completely turned into Huang, but its consciousness has been stagnant in the illusion and has not yet completed the last step.
This state is no different from being dead. Until hundreds of years ago, the Association came here, met the Mirage Dragon, and made a deal with it.
If one day the association finds a way to cure Huang, it will restore the Mirage Dragon, and the Mirage Dragon will provide the association with control over the Mirage Realm Muyuan.
Although the solution to cure Huang is far away and it is like a pie in the sky that can never be touched, Shenlong has no choice but to agree.
Du Yanran cast his gaze towards the center of the mirage dragon's eyebrows.
The body of the mirage dragon seemed like a translucent jade, so some shallow structures could be seen with the naked eye. Now, at the center of its eyebrows, a point of extremely rich rainbow light lit up there, constant and unchanging, never extinguished.
Du Yanran knew that that was the location of the Mirage Dragon's "Wild Crystal".
However, before the consciousness of the mirage dragon completely dissipates, the wild crystal cannot be truly formed, so now, there is only a ball of light there - the consciousness of the mirage dragon exists there.
After admiring the magnificent body of the mirage dragon, Du Yanran withdrew his gaze, found a place nearby and sat down.
The consciousness of the mirage dragon was exiled in the illusion, and any communication with the outside world would instantly aggravate his infection, so there was definitely no way to chat with him.
Du Yanran was playing with a soul card in his hand. When he looked forward again, the rainbow light diffused around him automatically gathered together, and Yu Cang's figure faintly appeared in it.
Well... now, the space where the Mirage Dragon is located has become a "main console". As long as you sit here with a special soul card, you can easily see the situation in all illusions and teleport to the illusion you want to go to at any time.
However, because the Mirage Dragon is in deep sleep, this transmission requires a certain amount of preparation time... about one minute.
…
Cough...
A sound like ice breaking spread in his ears, and Bane came to a new illusion space.
He closed his eyes and sensed it carefully, then frowned slightly.
This mirage Muyuan is so weird.
This omnipresent power of illusion can actually interfere with one's perception of the familiar?
Fortunately, the interference is not serious... Although it is intermittent, the general direction can still be known.
Opening his eyes, Bane looked around and confirmed his location.
It must be done as soon as possible... There must be a Yan Country security guard keeping an eye on me. The feeling of being spied on has not stopped since just now.
His target was a soul card with an ambiguous judgment. It could be said to be a banned card, or it could be said not to be. However, judging from Yan Country's attitude towards banned cards, as long as he was found, he would definitely be caught, and there would be no way out.
So, be quick!
However, he wasn't in a hurry. He had been racking his brains over how to get into Mudu University and get closer to his goal, but those people had actually come out on their own... God was really helping him.
He was also very good at dealing with illusions. It seemed easy to catch a student in an illusion.
Thinking of this, he suddenly stopped.
In front of us, a suspended mirror structure appeared and disappeared, and a mysterious wild beast walked out from among the layers of mirrors.
…
"This is 'Liu Yu Huan Zhi'?" Gu Jieshuang raised her eyebrows, "How beautiful."
"It's really beautiful." Yu Cang nodded.
What appeared before my eyes was a giant bird about one and a half meters tall.
Rainbow-like light flows between the bird's wings and extends backward, forming longer and wider wings, but it has no ability to fly. Its claws dig into the soil, its wings spread out and lying on the ground, and even claw-like structures appear at the joints.
Yu Cang knew that the rainbow light flowing on the wings was the power of illusion.
Back then, the Mirage Dragon had injected its magical power into the wings of the Sea Diamond Swift, rendering it unable to flap. After being infected by Huang, this magical power became a part of the race, permanently etched into its genes.
They still can't fly, but they can already use some simple illusions and even use the power of the entire illusion space.
"cry!!"
After discovering the three people, Liu Yu Huanzhi immediately raised his upper body, opened his mouth, and let out a shrill cry. Rainbow light shone on his wings, and his imposing aura instantly rose!
It's time to enter the battle!
"Boss, let me go first." Gu Jieshuang let go of Yu Cang's hand.
"Be careful—don't kill yet."
"good."
Gu Jieshuang raised his hand, and a dusty holy sword appeared in his hand. He activated [Leave a Trace to the Saint], and a sword intent covered his back.
Gu Jieshuang's eyes flashed, and immediately invisible sword intent spread out. The affected area was not large, but it was about the size of a small courtyard.
That Liuyu Huanzhi is naturally also within the affected range!
After the sword intent was unleashed, Liu Yu Huan Zhi had already completed the process of howling before the battle, and then his wings fell to the ground with a bang. Just as he was about to open his mouth to fight Gu Jie Shuang, it was suddenly stuck.
“Ha… cough ha… ha…”
Intermittent breathing sounds continued to emerge from his throat, but the energy attack that had been condensed could not be ejected.
This made the wild beast extremely anxious. His face turned red and his throat was almost smoking. He couldn't launch the attack that he could use easily in his daily life.
Seeing this funny look, Gu Jieshuang couldn't help but smile.
This wild beast looked quite pretty before it opened its mouth to make any sound.
How come such a wild beast has a mouth?
The method he is using now is naturally sword intent and etiquette.
After [Rites of Honor] is activated, any target within the range of Gu Jieshuang's sword will be attached with an invisible [Matrice]. As long as this [Matrice] cannot be broken, it will never be possible to launch an attack.
This soul card was only passed down from generation to generation. After a winter vacation, her understanding of this soul card had reached the fifth level, which was the limit of her current level and she could use it normally.
When she activated this soul card now, she naturally couldn't do what Zhong Qiu did, where the sword intent spread out and covered the entire sky. But even if it was just within the scope of a small courtyard, it was already powerful enough.
The Liu Yu Huan Zhi in front of him was only at level five or six in terms of strength. Although it was not weak, it was still quite difficult for him to break through the [rules] with a casual attack.
Taking advantage of this time, Yu Cang also started to operate. After some simple resource allocation, he successfully summoned the Sword Saint of Dragon's Eye, but he was just a support and did not rush to take action.
He was now also within the range of Sword Intent and Etiquette, and was also subject to the [Moment].
Yu Cang can break through the [rules], and he is not the holder of the sword intent and etiquette. Even if he breaks the rules, the sword intent will not be put into cooling directly... However, it will make Gu Jieshuang's [rules] suppress the power continuously reduced.
Gu Jieshuang was a ritual enforcer, and she would react to anyone who broke the rules within her sphere of influence. If she ignored Yu Cang's breaking of the rules, the force of the rules would gradually diminish. This could be considered a hidden effect, something Gu Jieshuang had discovered during winter break.
"What a beautiful bird." Qi'er hid behind Yu Cang and stuck half of his head out. "Why isn't it moving?"
"Boss?" Gu Jieshuang turned around, sword in hand, "What should we do now?"
"You control it well, I'll try to sense it first." Yu Cang came in front of Liu Yu Huanzhi, sat down directly, closed his eyes, and entered the starry sky vision.
He seemed to trust Gu Jieshuang quite a bit.
"Ha! Ha!" Liu Yuhuanzhi became anxious.
This man, is he looking down on it a little too much?
It's a wild beast! It eats people!
Why did you sit down right in front of it? Wild beasts don't care about face!
It tried its best to spit out a breath of energy to attack, or at least move its claws to give the guy who was so close to it a hard blow.
But it was useless. As soon as it wanted to launch an attack, an iron-clad force would directly act on it, leaving it helpless and furious.
What on earth happened!
Is this an illusion... Damn it, when?
Suddenly, it realized something, raised its head, and saw the woman looking at it.
A gentle smile.
"Don't—move."
…
Another fantasy space
Lu Zihe and Xing Su stared at each other.
"Why are we a team?"
"I'm not going." Xing Su scratched his head.
Thanks to Weihuohu nv for the reward!
(End of this chapter)
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