Chapter 119: Illusionary Realm Refining the Heart, Bloodline as a Lamp
The team could only move forward slowly in the gray fog.
From time to time, a soldier would let out a muffled groan or his body would suddenly stiffen, obviously struggling with the illusions in his mind.
"Brother Xiongxiong..." Jiu looked at the uncles around him who had tense expressions and sweat on their foreheads, and whispered to Xiao Yu, "Are you...are you okay?"
Xiao Yu's face was also a little pale.
"I'm fine." He said in a deep voice.
But only he knew that, just then, countless images flashed before his eyes. There were tragically dead comrades, flames rising to the sky, and corpses piled like mountains on the northern icy plains... Those bloody memories he had long buried deep in his heart were now being drawn out bit by bit by the gray fog, trying to completely devour his sanity.
He could only rely on his iron will to fight back.
"Xuan Yi," Xiao Yu looked at Chu Xuan Yi, "This is not a solution. Our people can't hold out for much longer. We must get out of this hellhole as soon as possible!"
"I want to, too." Chu Xuanyi laughed bitterly, "But this soul-bewitching miasma is itself a huge formation. We've already lost our way. If we keep going like this, we'll just keep going in circles until everyone has a mental breakdown."
"What should we do then?!"
"Sir...Brother Xiongxiong..."
At this moment, Ajiu, who had been silent all the time, suddenly spoke.
Her little finger pointed to an inconspicuous direction in front of the left, where there was also thick, impenetrable gray fog.
"Go that way."
"There's a road over there..."
Chu Xuanyi and Xiao Yu looked at her at the same time.
"Ajiu, are you sure?"
"Yeah!" Ah Jiu nodded vigorously. "Those... talking evil fogs are telling us to go to the right. But... I smell the scent of the old locust tree at home, and it's coming from the left."
Xiao Yu looked at Ajiu's clear and persistent eyes without any hesitation.
"Listen to Ah Jiu!" He made a prompt decision and gave the order, "Everyone, turn around and head to the left front!"
"Keep the formation! Follow closely!"
The team began to move slowly in the direction pointed by Jiu.
And the moment they stepped into the thicker fog, the temperature around them suddenly dropped to freezing point!
"Ah... so cold..."
"My head... hurts..."
Several Black Armor Guards with weaker wills groaned in pain, their faces turning pale at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the yang energy in their bodies was quickly drained away by the gray fog.
"Hold on!" Chu Xuanyi's voice rang out again. He held Ah Jiu in one hand and quickly formed a spell with the other. "All those who are about to fight will be lined up in front of you! Command!"
Buzz——!
An invisible golden ripple instantly spread out from him, enveloping the entire team. The chill that was corroding their minds was instantly weakened by three points.
"General! My mother... I saw my mother! She is calling me over there!" A young soldier suddenly reined in his horse and pointed to a rolling fog in front of him, his face full of tears and ecstasy.
"Li Si! Look carefully! There's nothing there!" the veteran beside him roared.
"No! It's true! My mother...she brought me my favorite hot noodle soup...she also said that she was so lonely at home..." The soldier named Li Si actually turned over and dismounted, staggering towards the thick fog.
"Bastard! That was an illusion! Wake up!" Xiao Yu shouted angrily, and with a swing of the whip, he accurately wrapped it around Li Si's waist and dragged him back.
"Let me go! General! Please! Let me see my mother for the last time!" Li Si cried and struggled desperately.
On the other side, another soldier suddenly burst into crazy laughter.
"Hahahaha! I'm rich! I'm rich! Gold! So much gold!"
He knelt on the ground, frantically digging the soil covered with rotten leaves with his hands, his eyes flashing with greed and obsession.
Fear, longing, greed...
"Sir..." Ah Jiu's little face was pressed against Chu Xuanyi's chest, and her voice was filled with tears. "What happened to them?"
"They are sick." Chu Xuanyi said in a deep voice, beads of sweat already oozing out of his forehead. Maintaining the mind-clearing mantra that enveloped the entire team was also a huge drain on him.
"Bang!"
A dull crash sounded!
The two Black Armor Guards who were originally standing back to back to guard against each other suddenly started fighting with each other without any warning!
"You bastard! How dare you take the credit for my work!"
"Bullshit! It was you who attacked me! You're trying to escape!"
“That’s enough!”
Xiao Yu finally couldn't stand it anymore!
A violent and murderous light flashed in his eyes. He jumped off his horse and slashed the back of the two men's necks with the back of his knife!
Boom! Boom!
There were two muffled sounds, and the two black-armored guards fainted with their eyes rolled back.
"Tie them both, and that Li Si, to the horses!" Xiao Yu's voice was icy cold and emotionless. "Whoever dares to go crazy again will end up like this!"
The iron-blooded approach temporarily suppressed the riots.
But everyone knows that this is only a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution.
Because even Xiao Yu himself began to see illusions.
He saw the battlefield in the north, piled high with corpses, and countless familiar yet blurry faces. The comrades who had died in his arms stretched out their cold hands, silently questioning him: "General... why... why did we die..."
"roll!"
Xiao Yu bit his tongue hard, and a bloody taste of rust exploded in his mouth. The intense pain made him wake up instantly.
His back was soaked with cold sweat.
He looked at Chu Xuanyi and found that the other person's face was equally pale.
"Xuan Yi," Xiao Yu's voice cracked. "We won't be able to hold on for much longer at this rate! Is there ever an end to this damn place?!"
"have."
The one who answered him was not Chu Xuanyi, but Ajiu in his arms.
The little girl raised her head and looked ahead firmly.
"Daddy's scent... is right in front... very close..."
Chu Xuanyi lowered his head and looked at Ajiu.
What he saw was a different scene.
In this gray fog that can swallow all light, only the golden light above Ajiu's head, which represents the Lin family's national destiny, has not been weakened. Instead, it seems to be activated and becomes brighter and warmer!
It is like a lighthouse that never goes out in the storm!
A thought flashed through Chu Xuanyi's mind in an instant!
"Everyone!" He shouted with all his might, "Give up resisting the illusion! Focus your minds on the golden light above Miss Jiu's head! Concentrate all your thoughts on that light!"
Upon hearing this, everyone perked up and looked towards the little girl in the middle of the team.
A miracle happened.
When their eyes and minds were all focused on the warm and pure golden light, the illusions that were growing wildly in their minds began to melt and recede rapidly, just like ice and snow encountering the scorching sun!
“It works! It really works!”
"Great...those ghosts...are gone..."
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