Chapter 158 Mind-Reading Beast
"No, I am the real Yunxi, this one is fake!" Yunxi kept reminding herself, but then she became doubtful again. Logically speaking, she had the scales given to her by the Hydra, which had the effect of breaking through barriers. Logically speaking, she shouldn't be so easily deceived by illusions.
Either the illusion is too sophisticated, or what's in front of me isn't an illusion at all. I just don't know what's going on. The other party can imitate my every move perfectly, and their appearance is exactly the same.
Yunxi stopped, and the "Yunxi" opposite her also stood still.
Suddenly, Yunxi felt a movement in her dantian. Then, Xiaoli, who had been asleep for quite some time, popped out. Moreover, she was much larger than before she fell asleep, and had expanded to the size of a watermelon.
As soon as Xiao Li came out, she saw "Yun Xi" standing opposite her. Although it was just a ball of fire, Yun Xi could still see the confusion on its face. Because of her bond with Xiao Li, she could sense Xiao Li's emotions and they could communicate with each other through their thoughts.
“Master, the one opposite is a mind-reading beast. It should be a relatively high-level one, which is why it can imitate you, a Nascent Soul cultivator, so perfectly. Try taking a Face-Changing Pill, and it will transform into your appearance. This way, it will be easier for you to attack someone who doesn't look like you.”
Upon hearing this, Yunxi's eyes lit up. "That makes sense!"
Moreover, she can apply what she's learned to other situations. She can choose attack methods that don't exist in the Yunlan Continent, so that the opponent can only imitate the form but not the essence.
Yunxi immediately took a Face-Changing Pill. This pill was random, and she couldn't control what she would become.
But not long after, the changes on the other side made her realize the effects of the face-changing pill; she became all muscle, like a burly man who had become a physical cultivator.
Immediately afterwards, Yunxi took out a stun gun from her storage ring. This was traded from Ningxuan. Han Dongling was in high demand for stun guns for a while, so Lin Yuhan managed to get a lot of them. Ningxuan not only kept a few for herself, but also gave a few to Yunxi and Wang Erya in case they needed them.
Ningxuan also explained the usage instructions to them.
Sure enough, as soon as Yunxi took out the stun gun, a black stick appeared on the other side as well, made of the same black metal.
Yunxi wasn't really sure if the stick opposite her was the same as the one in her hand, but she decided to take a gamble. So she quickly turned on the switch and swung the stun gun directly at the other person, who did the same.
Yunxi felt that the force of the blows was quite strong, but as a Nascent Soul cultivator, she could withstand it. She continued to keep the electric baton firmly in place on the other person's arm.
The man opposite her also held his stick still, but at the same time, he began to tremble. The muscular man began to convulse, and then he began to change. Sometimes he became Yunxi's original appearance, and sometimes he became a bewitching female cultivator, a cold male cultivator, tall and short, fat and thin, male and female, young and old, as if he had a thousand faces.
Yunxi pressed down on him for several minutes. Even as the other person trembled and changed appearance, he followed Yunxi's movements and pressed down on her with the stick. After a few minutes, the other person finally collapsed, and a monster that looked like a fox but was not a fox appeared on the spot.
"So this is what a mind-reading beast looks like. It really looks like a fox." Yunxi murmured, while taking out her sword and delivering a few more blows to the mind-reading beast, which fell unconscious and stopped breathing.
When Xiao Li saw that Yun Xi had successfully killed the mind-reading beast, the round dumpling that had been huddled in the corner flew to Yun Xi's side again, looking very happy.
It told Yunxi, "The appearance of mind-reading beasts is not fixed. What they will look like depends entirely on what their mothers imagined when they laid the eggs. This mind-reading beast's mother probably liked the appearance of a fox, but perhaps for the sake of the balance of the heavens, after the mind-reading beast's eggs hatch, they will only be 90% like the appearance their mothers imagined. The more powerful ones may be 95% like the appearance their mothers imagined, but no more than that."
Yunxi understood; so that's how it is. But 90% is still quite a lot.
Xiao Li then told Yun Xi, "Mind-reading beasts become stronger when faced with stronger opponents, but the stronger their own abilities, the closer their imitations will be to the object being imitated. Fortunately, mind-reading beasts are not easy to breed, and there are very few mind-reading beasts in this world. I didn't expect to find one here."
The mind-reading beast died, but the scene didn't change immediately like before, and no new monsters or anything else appeared.
However, Yunxi felt that the uncomfortable sense of danger had disappeared, so she asked Xiaoli, "Did you successfully advance?"
"Yes, my energy is much weaker than it was at its peak, which is why it took me so long to digest such a small amount of spiritual energy. However, I have advanced a bit now, and as long as I don't absorb too much of the five elements' energy at once, I won't fall into a deep sleep so easily."
Yunxi was delighted to hear this, "That's great, you've been sleeping for quite a while."
As they were talking, the place where Yunxi was standing suddenly sank down. She tried to fly up, but then she realized there was a restriction here. She could only rise less than three feet into the air before she felt something blocking her and bouncing her down.
Moreover, the invisible barrier pressed down, and in the end, Yunxi could only fall down with the ground.
The fall lasted a very long time; Yunxi felt like she was floating in the air the whole time.
Xiao Li had already flown back to her dantian. All around her were various broken clods of earth and stones, floating in mid-air and falling downwards.
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Ning Xuan was on the train back to Xiangyang Commune. In the past two days in the provincial capital, she had learned about the situation of the previous group of Dieters, who had all been secretly dealt with.
Most of the children who were switched have been reunited with their biological parents. A very small number of them were too young when they were switched and did not survive for various reasons.
Li Tong was taken back by the He family. Because of her special circumstances, the work of going to the countryside had to continue. At that time, she was given the green light to go to the countryside in a brigade near Beijing.
The He family is currently under observation, and Li Tong arranged for them to be closer to the family for easier observation.
He Qiaofang's biological parents live far away, and it is necessary to investigate whether her biological parents have any connection with Dieter. Therefore, He Qiaofang will remain in Beijing for the time being to continue the investigation.
So now there are only two girls in the educated youth settlement, Liang Qingqing and Zhao Yulian. Neither of them likes to live alone, so they still squeeze together, leaving one room empty in the girls' dormitory.
However, when Ning Xuan returned to the Red Star Brigade, she received a very unexpected message.
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