Chapter 252 I'm not late, no!
"Yes, what a coincidence, you are so lucky." Jiang Li picked up the tea with a smile and clinked his glass with Atong's.
Atong always felt that Jiang Li had something else in mind, but after thinking about it carefully, he didn't think there was anything wrong with it, so he smiled politely.
"Uncle Jiang..."
"Have you reached a conclusion?"
"Well, I have an idea."
The village celebrated for ten days. Atong stayed here for ten days, with a smile on his face all the time, accompanying the old village chief.
Ten days later, Atong said goodbye to the old village chief: "Grandpa, Kyushu is vast, and where we are is just a small corner. I want to go out for a walk."
The old village chief was reluctant to let Atong go, but he knew that Atong had grown up and the small Hantan Village would be a constraint for him, so he said goodbye with tears.
After Atong left, Li Nian'er felt dizzy, the scenery changed, the pendant on her chest flickered, and she was standing at the entrance of the village again.
"Would you two like to come in and sit down?" The old village chief came out of the village to greet the two.
"Village Chief, don't you recognize us?"
The old village chief looked at Li Nian'er and Jiang Li hesitantly: "I have a bad memory. I don't know where I have seen you two before?"
"Nothing." Li Nian'er shook her head and said nothing more.
Familiar scenes were played out. The old village chief told the story of the evil dragon, and several young people wanted to sacrifice their children to the evil dragon.
But this time, Li Nian'er did not choose to take action.
Perhaps the young man’s behavior aroused public anger and he was criticized and stopped by many people in the village.
They were just a few Qi training level nine people. Could it be that thousands of Qi training level three people couldn't beat a few Qi training level nine people? With the combined efforts of the villagers, the two children were still kept.
The evil dragon became angry and rushed out from the cold pond. It came to the entrance of the village and wanted to eat everyone, but was killed by Atong who fell from the sky.
The villagers celebrated and toasted each other, just as before.
"Senior Tong, how many times have you performed this illusion?" Li Nian'er couldn't help but ask at the banquet.
Things had developed to this point, how could Li Nian'er not see the problem.
This whole thing was an illusion from the beginning to the end, an illusion that kept repeating itself.
"Illusion? What illusion?" Atong was stunned and didn't understand what Li Nian'er was talking about.
"Senior Tong, the same thing happened twice. Even if I am stupid, I can tell that this is an illusion."
"Fellow Daoist, you have been trapped in your own illusion for five hundred years, and you are still unwilling to wake up?"
The illusion was shattered, and the real scene appeared before the two.
The whole village looked like it had been ravaged by a hurricane, with houses collapsed and in a mess.
After so many years, only skeletons remained of the villagers. These skeletons were in different postures and positions. Some fell on the roof, some were crushed to death by millstones, and some knelt on the ground holding their children...
The only thing these skeletons had in common was that they fled out of the village, but obviously, they all failed.
Li Nian'er could imagine how terrified these people were before they died.
The huge corpse of a dragon lay in the center of the village. A middle-aged man with a weathered face, A Tong, was holding the body of the old village chief, tears streaming down his face.
"Grandpa is still alive, uncles and aunts are still alive, everyone is still alive!"
"I'm not late, no!"
A monk in the fusion stage cried like a child in front of the two of them.
Perhaps in Atong's mind, he is just a child who lost his only relative and is unwilling to face the facts.
In fact, it was only shown to Li Nian'er. Jiang Li discovered the problem as soon as he arrived here. The area within a radius of more than ten miles was an illusion, an illusion created by a cultivator in the fusion stage. He had already used his spiritual sense to see what the real Hantan Village looked like.
Seeing the reality, Li Nian'er already had a rough guess.
What the old village chief said before should be correct. The evil dragon caused chaos and ate countless people. Atong sneaked away and got an opportunity in the secret realm. He learned the way of illusion and became a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage.
The villagers could not bear the threat from the evil dragon and tried to resist. The dragon became furious and twisted its huge body, rolling over like a hill, spreading poisonous gas. The whole village turned into a dead place and no one survived.
Atong arrived late and failed to save anyone. Perhaps he had to watch the old village chief being killed by the evil dragon and he would not have been able to take action in time.
Atong was furious and fought with the evil dragon and killed it.
But Atong couldn't accept the reality, so he created an illusion and told himself over and over again.
I am not late, I am not late, everyone is still alive.
As Ah Tongnian repeated the illusions year after year and day after day, his way of illusion improved, the illusions became more and more refined, and his own cultivation also continued to improve in this process, becoming a cultivator in the fusion stage.
It’s just an illusion, no matter how many times it’s repeated. It’s still an illusion.
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Atong cannot change the fact that he is the only survivor in Hantan Village.
Five hundred years have passed, and the old village chief may have been reincarnated several times.
Jiang Li did not expose Atong's illusion immediately because he was thinking whether to break his fantasy or let him live in this illusion for the rest of his life.
Jiang Li chose the former.
What Li Nian'er didn't know was that more than one person had mistakenly entered the illusion, but after experiencing the illusion once, those people would have their memories erased by Atong and be sent out of the village, so that in the past five hundred years, Atong's illusion had never been exposed.
Li Nian'er had a protective pendant given by her mother, which blocked Atong's methods and preserved her memory.
Jiang Li sighed secretly. If he had followed the system's timeline and killed the evil dragon and gained the opportunity, there would be no incident with Atong and it would be a happy situation for the whole family.
The "Hundred Poisons Sutra" awarded as a reward for this mission is probably meant to be used in conjunction with the Dragon Poison Pill.
The task also rewards dragon blood wood. Using dragon blood wood as firewood, boiling it in dragon blood, and soaking in it can maximize the effect of dragon blood in strengthening the body.
The third reward is the invisibility talisman. Jiang Li used his spiritual sense to see that there was a strange object in the cold pond, called the Extreme Cold Frost Mirror, which was the reason why the cold pond existed.
The Extremely Cold Frost Mirror will release coldness all the time. Carrying it with you can strengthen your body. However, the coldness is too obvious and can easily attract prying eyes from others. Therefore, an invisibility talisman that can conceal the coldness is used.
The system is very considerate, but unfortunately Jiang Li can’t use any of these rewards.
Moreover, the dragon had been dead for hundreds of years, so the mission would be impossible to complete.
Jiang Li didn't know whether the system had taken into account the avoidance of the tragedy in Hantan Village. If so, he would have to re-evaluate the origin and purpose of the system.
"Fellow Daoist, have you ever thought about what your grandfather, uncle, and aunt would look like when they see you in such a depressed state?"
Atong's body trembled, as if his grandfather was standing in front of him and he didn't dare to look him in the eye.
"Everyone will die one day, but they all hope that their loved ones will remember them and move forward with strength. Time will not stop because of someone's departure, but a person's growth may stagnate because of someone's departure."
"Do you want to live like this for the rest of your life, in a past that doesn't exist?"
Atong slowly stood up and thanked Jiang Li.
"Thank you for your enlightenment, I haven't asked your name yet."
"You should have heard of my name. My name is Jiang Li."
Atong was stunned for a moment before hesitatingly replying, "I hope Daoist Jiang Li can forgive me. This is the first time I've heard of this name."
Jiang Li was very calm and didn't show any embarrassment at all.
(End of this chapter)