"Lu Shiqing! It's all your fault! You're the one who put us in this predicament! We're trapped in this illusionary space now, and we can't escape even if we wanted to!"
Luo Chu fled for his life, but the strangulation formation behind him relentlessly pursued him.
He tried to break the strangulation formation, but the latter's level was far superior to his. Under such circumstances, he had no way to break it and could only try to delay the strangulation time.
"It's all my fault? Weren't you there when you were manipulating the illusion? I don't remember I tied your hands and feet, did I? Now you're pushing all the blame onto me?" Lu Shiqing retorted.
No matter how the two tried to shirk responsibility, they now realized they had brought this upon themselves.
On the other side, after leaving the illusion, Shen Sanruo began to search for the location of the others.
Their situation should be the same as hers just now. If they come out of the illusion, their landing point should also be in this vicinity.
She could then deduce their location by working backwards from their landing point and try to pull them out.
Shen Sanruo may not understand illusion magic, but she can use her spiritual power to investigate and perhaps sense the subtle fluctuations at the point of impact.
Her spiritual power continued to radiate, exploring a wide area within the palace.
The palace seemed to possess some kind of protective mechanism, with another force contending against her divine soul power.
Even with her powerful spirit, she began to feel strained after a quarter of an hour.
She didn't slow down her output of divine soul power in the slightest, and her gaze followed the divine soul power as she searched the palace.
He murmured to himself, "If someone in the illusion can sense my presence, perhaps we can find their location more quickly."
As soon as he finished speaking, a strange fluctuation seemed to emanate from somewhere in the palace.
Someone in the illusion received the information from her spiritual power and was responding to her!
It was not far from where she landed.
A light shone in Shen Sanruo's eyes as she concentrated all her divine soul power in one place.
If she guessed correctly, the person who echoed her should be Lin Qianyin.
Lin Qianyin was skilled in illusion magic and was the most likely person in the group to break the illusion. After being trapped in the illusion, she was probably also looking for a way to leave.
With Lin Qianyin's understanding of illusions, she will surely be able to rescue the others quickly.
Therefore, she decisively concentrated her spiritual power to help Lin Qianyin tear open the illusion.
Within the illusion, Lin Qianyin held the guzheng, simultaneously dealing with the strangulation of the formations and searching for a flaw in the illusion.
The continuously emitted sound waves finally detected a weak point in the illusion.
When she tried her best to break through the illusion, she discovered that there seemed to be a force outside the illusion that was responding to her.
"It's Sang Ruo!" Lin Qianyin recognized the owner of that power without even thinking.
Her face lit up with joy, and her previously flustered heart calmed down, as if Shen Sangri was her calming pill.
The movements of his hands on the zither were methodical and coordinated, echoing the power of Shen Sangruo's soul.
With the two working together from the inside and outside, they successfully broke the illusion!
Lin Qianyin appeared out of thin air and landed in front of her.
"It really is you, Sang Ruo! Did anyone else leave the illusion?"
The two began exchanging information immediately upon meeting.
"I am alone and I am using my spiritual power to search for others. I sensed your response and decided to cooperate with you first to help you leave the illusion."
"What's going on in the illusion?" Shen Sangruo asked.
The illusion she experienced was so strange that she had some doubts and needed to confirm it with Lin Qianyin again.
Upon hearing this, Lin Qianyin's expression immediately became tense.
"I don't know if other people have experienced the same hallucinations as me. If they have, we must find them immediately and rescue them."
Lin Qianyin's guzheng hovered in front of her, her fingers already plucking the strings, attempting to dispel the illusion.
"Okay, how do you need me to cooperate?" Shen Sanruo nodded and got into the zone.
"Just like before, if I find the location of other people's illusions, you will use your divine soul power to help me tear the illusions apart." Lin Qianyin's expression was extremely serious as she played the guzheng.
"OK."
The two immediately began searching for the others, and Lin Qianyin then recounted everything that had happened in the illusion.
"That illusion was unlike any other illusion; it was extremely bizarre and completely defied the logic of a normal illusion."
“Generally speaking, illusions are designed to make people lose their minds as much as possible, but the illusion I was in only allowed me to make one choice.”
"The voice from the illusion said that none of us can leave this palace, and that we should choose between you and us to live."
"The illusions in this palace are already top-tier in the cultivation world. If it's just to protect the formation, there's no need for us to make any choices. We can simply get all of us lost in the illusion," Lin Qianyin said while playing the zither.
"So you think there's something wrong with this illusion?" Shen Sanruo asked thoughtfully.
“Yes.” Lin Qianyin nodded firmly. “This illusion has a very clear purpose, but it’s not for protecting the formation. There must be something wrong with it.”
"Sang Ruo, is the illusion you encountered the same as mine?"
“It’s different. The illusion I had took me back to when I was still in the Flying Cloud Sect. The illusion tried to attack my soul, but I caught it red-handed, and I immediately sensed something was wrong.”
Her gaze fell on the surging divine soul power in her hand. "However, just as I was about to leave the illusion, the illusion also gave me two options."
"It's strange that I have to choose between Ninghua Sect and Feiyun Sect to live, isn't it?" She raised her eyes and met Lin Qianyin's gaze; the meaning in their eyes was self-evident.
“Everyone in the cultivation world knows which one you will choose between these two. Such a choice is meaningless. Only some stubborn people cannot see this and place these two on the same level.” Lin Qianyin said meaningfully.
Shen Sanruo's gaze suddenly turned cold, chilling to the bone. She said coldly, "They dared to attack their own people when they were asked to help break the formation."
"Since they're not thinking straight, I'll personally help them clear their heads once we're out."
Lin Qianyin continued, "I chose you. If others were faced with the same illusion and had to make the same choice, they would definitely choose you as well."
"Then the strangulation formation in the illusion was activated. There was nowhere to escape from the illusion, so the others are in a very dangerous situation now."
"And I also discovered something else." Lin Qianyin's expression was somewhat solemn. "After I left the illusion, the strangulation formation seemed to be trying to tear the illusion apart and hunt me down."
"Perhaps this is what the voice in the illusion meant when it said that the entire palace was under its control."
"In short, we must rescue the others from the illusion as soon as possible and then resolve the strangulation formation."
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