Thousand Ponds Secret Realm.
Pei Ji had just broken through the blockade of the tentacle monster. As soon as he came out, he saw Xue Huan entangled by a tentacle. He was immediately terrified and disappeared from the spot. When he reappeared, he had already cut the tentacle into seventeen or eighteen pieces with a sword.
Snap!
The broken tentacles fell to the ground in pieces, and Xue Huan fell to the ground without support.
Pei Ji caught her in time, reached out and stroked her face to make sure she was okay. When he turned to look at the tentacle monster, the tenderness in his eyes suddenly faded and became endlessly cold.
However, at this moment, the "Xue Huan" he rescued disappeared, replaced by a tentacle.
It turned out that he had not saved anyone just now, and everything he saw was just an illusion created by the tentacle monster.
He should have seen through it, but he was too concerned. When he saw Xue Huan being entangled by the tentacle monster, his heart was in turmoil.
Unfortunately, it was too late for him to realize this now.
The tentacle monster thought it had caught another prey, but unfortunately, it soon regretted it.
It pulled Pei Ji's soul into the illusion it had carefully woven, just like it did with other prey. However, the moment he opened his eyes, his overly powerful soul instantly caused the entire illusion to collapse and shatter.
The soul usually stays in Pei Ji's body and is in a dormant state. The only thing that is awake is a wisp of his divine consciousness. This wisp of divine consciousness is less than one thousandth of his original body, but it is enough to make Pei Ji's body behave like an ordinary person.
Strictly speaking, Pei Ji can only be regarded as a clone of the original body.
Shenhun closed his eyes slightly, reviewed Pei Ji's memory, and then he understood the current situation.
The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and he smiled, as if he found the current situation quite interesting.
The tentacle monster felt the terrifying pressure coming from him, and trembled with fear, wanting to "spit" his soul out. Unfortunately, it was easier to invite a god than to send him away. It tried several times but still couldn't send him out.
The soul smiled sadly. Now that it was awake, it would be okay to play with it for a while.
After all, a life of constant sleep and recuperation is too boring.
This thing came to him to entertain him, how could he refuse?
The tentacle monster wanted to run away, but before it had this thought, its spirit reached out to the void and grabbed its soul. It could still survive without its body, but if its soul was scattered, then it would really have no future.
Not a trace will remain.
He played with the soul at his fingertips like plasticine for a while, but when he saw it didn't resist at all, he felt bored and threw it back, "Continue."
The boss spoke, how could the tentacle monster dare not listen? It continued to torment everyone with its illusions.
However, its mentality has undergone a huge change. It was excited before, but now it is trembling with fear, fearing that it will not meet the boss's expectations and its soul will be grabbed and crushed again.
The soul disappeared in the already pitch-black illusion and came to another illusion as if visiting.
In this illusion, the protagonist is suffering from the torture of lingchi.
In the next scene, the protagonist discovered that his beloved woman had betrayed him and married someone else.
In the next match, the protagonist's dantian was destroyed by his opponent on the competition stage, and he fell from a genius to a loser overnight.
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Every illusion is a disaster.
After a circle of souls, it found that the people trapped in the illusion were experiencing all kinds of suffering, and the more sad, desperate and painful these people were, the stronger the breath of the tentacle monster would be.
He once again grabbed the tentacle monster's soul, stared at it for two seconds, and suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed, and an incomplete mirror floated out of its soul.
The mirror was missing a small piece, and the word "Xu Mi" was engraved on the handle in ancient runes.
Xumi Mirror, an ancient artifact, has three major functions. One is to reflect the true form of demons and monsters, two is to reflect all magical attacks (of course, this attack cannot exceed the upper limit of the artifact's tolerance, otherwise the artifact will only be broken, how can it reflect?); three is to weave a dreamlike life.
The soul couldn't help but wonder how the tentacle monster got a divine artifact like the Xumi Mirror. Even if it was a broken artifact, it was not something it could covet.
He searched its memory.
So that's what's happening.
Decades ago, the Xumi Mirror suddenly fell from some world for some reason, crashed into the secret realm, and shattered into many pieces. At that time, the tentacle monster was just an uncivilized grass, and a piece of the fragment fell and pierced into its roots, and was confusedly integrated into it.
The grass that had integrated the artifact fragments had gained intelligence and began to practice consciously.
Later, someone strayed into the secret realm and wanted to pick the grass.
It was called a small grass, but in fact it had already become a spiritual grass at that time. It was surrounded by spiritual energy and looked extraordinary. People who accidentally entered thought it was some kind of treasure from heaven and earth, so they wanted to pick it and sell it for money.
The tentacle monster was not yet fully developed at this time and could not move. In desperation, it accidentally activated the skill "Dream Like Floating Life". Although it was a low-end version, it was enough to make the man unconscious. The unconscious person's consciousness floated in the illusion, but his body was exposed and was finally eaten by a passing beast.
In this way, it resolved the crisis.
After this incident, the tentacle monster learned the self-protection skills without any instruction.
Later, more people entered the secret realm. Whenever someone approached, it would activate the skill of Floating Life Like a Dream. Although this skill could not kill people directly, it could make people addicted to the illusion and unable to extricate themselves. When the consciousness fell into the illusion, the body had no defense at all and was easily in danger.
At the beginning, it did not master this skill very well. After it was activated, the illusions experienced by those people were actually more of their own fantasies. For example, people with low cultivation who dreamed of being able to practice and call the wind and rain all day long would have their dreams come true in the dreamlike life and live the life they have always dreamed of.
Therefore, few people can break free from the illusion and are willing to indulge in it.
When these people were living in a dream, the tentacle monster could also see what they were going through. Over time, it was infected by all kinds of human desires and also understood the seven emotions and six desires.
After understanding the seven emotions and six desires, it also had desires. It wanted to fuse all the remaining fragments of the artifact.
So it used its well-developed roots to search for the whereabouts of the artifact fragments in the secret realm. Once it found them, it would dig into its roots, trying to fuse them together like it did the first time.
Unfortunately, the first fusion was purely a coincidence and a stroke of luck, but it would be impossible to do it again the second time.
But it did not give up easily, even though the artifact fragments brought it great pain and made it struggle on the brink of death every moment.
Later, it accidentally discovered that when people living in a dreamlike life have negative emotions in their hearts, the divine power on the artifact fragments will be eroded. After several times, the divine power on the fragment it dragged back was almost eroded, and at this time, it actually succeeded in fusing it!
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