Chapter One Hundred: The Mirage Beast Descends

  "Sword energy condenses into a mountain!"

  A burst of fragmented stone pillars, dust and leaves swirling in the air, a cold glint flashing, a semicircular sword energy slashed towards the middle-aged man at the forefront.

  Pfft!

  The middle-aged man unexpectedly didn't dodge or evade the attack. After a sword pierced through the stone pillar, it continued to strike him without any reaction, and the sword energy cut into his body.

  The fog churned, and the first middle-aged man's body changed rapidly, transforming from a person into a lizard-like monster. Four flesh-colored tumors grew on its head, dark red and extremely nauseating. It opened its huge mouth, and everything in the great hall turned to fog, swallowed into its belly.

  Ye Dun looked around and saw that this was not a luxurious hall, but a dirty stone cave. The six middle-aged men who did not speak or smile were actually skeletons sitting there, their bones black in color. In addition to this, the ground was piled with a large number of white bones, stretching all the way to the first seat, which was the red carpet he had seen earlier.

  Looking further back, the side chamber is also a stone cave, several meters in size. Below it is a huge pit, filled with gray **, and sticky bubbles are rising from it. When the bubbles burst, the airflow stored inside collides with the wall of the cave, corroding out a large patch of dark scars.

  Although he knew that everything before was an illusion, Ye Chen still couldn't help but take a cold breath. If he hadn't detected it in advance, he might have stepped into the gray and lost his life. What's even more frightening is that if his guess was correct, this lizard-like monster should be the extremely rare Mirage Beast of the True Spirit Continent. It likes to suck people's brains, turning their memories into its own, then refines a kind of mirage energy from the memories in their mind, setting up an incredibly realistic illusion that makes it impossible for people to distinguish between reality and fantasy.

  The Qiong beast is an evolving demon beast, and its strength level can be distinguished by the number of fleshy tumors on its head. One tumor is a first-level demon beast, two are second-level, and four are fourth-level. However, Ye Chen was not afraid of it. Among demon beasts of the same level, Qiong beasts were almost the weakest, and there was no need to be intimidated.

  "What about that girl?" Ye Chen gazed at the Mirage Beast.

  The Qilin let out a low growl, its small eyes filled with malice.

  Ye Chen furrowed his brow, only then remembering that the Qilin was unable to speak. It was only in illusions that people thought it could talk; in reality, the other party had never spoken from start to finish, and everything was just based on atmosphere, imagined by himself.

  "In that case, there's no need to keep you around." The previous sword had already wounded the Mirage Beast, causing it to lose control of its mirage. Yedu didn't fear it would use its mirage again, and with a stomp of his foot, he released a hidden energy, immediately sending three sword energies flying out in a "pin" shape.

  Boom!

  The Qilin soared high into the air under the force of the explosion, stubbornly enduring three sword auras.

  The beast slammed heavily into the wall of the cave, and suddenly opened its mouth to spit out a wisp of mist. The mist transformed into a ball of flames in mid-air, shooting towards Ye Chen.

  "Watch me dispel your illusions!"

  Ye Chen didn't dare to face the flames head-on, fearing there was a trick involved. Cloud Concealment Sword shifted to his left hand, and with a loud crash, he unleashed the first move of the Overbearing Fist technique - Overbearing Path Horizontal Strike, instantly merging the flames into it and sending them back towards the Qiong Beast.

  A terrifying scream rang out

  A blood hole was blasted in the chest and abdomen of the Qilin, with a pitch-black edge around the blood hole, and a nauseating smell of char spread out, making people feel sick.

  "It's really a trick!" The tyrant fist itself has no attributes, but it can be incorporated into the opponent's attack. At this time, the mirage beast is clearly self-inflicted.

  Yè Chén didn't know that the mirage beast's mirage energy contained the five elements' original energy, and fire was one of them. The flame he spat out earlier was the essence of fire within its body. With each mouthful, it would be reduced by a little, making it difficult to condense again. Earlier, fearing that one strike wouldn't kill Yè Chén, it used its mirage energy to conceal the existence of the flame and then withdrew the mirage energy midway, easily creating an illusion that made people think it was fake.

  As long as Ye Chen is slightly careless, there is a great possibility of capsizing in the gutter.

  This monster's intelligence is no less than that of humans; in terms of cunning and ruthlessness, most humans are its match.

  Ye Chen's pupils shrank into a point, and a ruthless thought arose in his heart. This beast must not be left alive, otherwise it would bring endless disaster.

  "Die!"

  A low growl escaped his lips as Ye Chen simultaneously launched a punch and a sword strike.

  Ka cha, bang!

  Like a broken sack, the Qilin lay limp on the ground, motionless. But Ye Chen was afraid that wasn't enough and launched several more attacks in succession until his opponent was no longer in beast form before stopping.

  As he walked up to the corpse of the Qilin, Ye Chen stretched out his hand and sucked in a breath. A fist-sized inner dan was drawn out, its surface covered with a white mist that seemed to seep out an aura that could easily induce hallucinations, extremely eerie.

  Yedu took out a slightly larger jade box from the storage ring and put the inner dan of the Qiong beast inside.

  Put away the jade box, Ye Chen let out a sigh of relief, raised his eyes and looked around, hoping to find some clues.

  In the previous illusion, the other party mentioned the characteristics of the old man's granddaughter. She should have seen her before and didn't know if she had encountered any danger. If she did encounter danger, he couldn't do anything about it either, after all, time was dragging on for too long. The Mirage Beast wasn't a vegetarian monster, specializing in sucking human brains, its evilness ranking top among monsters.

  No, Ye Chen suddenly shook his head.

  The mirage beast can't speak, and everything that happens in the illusion doesn't count. But how did it know the characteristics of the old man's granddaughter? Is it my own memory, and the other side made me hallucinate, saying the answers I wanted to know? In other words, no matter who it is, as long as they fall into the illusion, there won't be any loopholes in their speech, because what they want to ask has already been answered by themselves.

  With a wry smile, Ye Chen had to admit defeat to the Mirage Beast. If not for his own doubts and exceptionally strong soul force, he might have really fallen into its trap.

  After a careful search, finding no clues, Ye Chen immediately walked out of the stone cave.

  Outside the stone cave, the flat ground is a wasteland full of wild grass. The stone bridge is just a fallen giant rock. As for the ditch, it's real, and below is lake water.

  Following the road back, Ye Chen swept down the mountain.

  A moment later.

  A wrecked ship appeared before their eyes, where a dozen people stood, including a girl in a yellow dress. The girl was beautiful and had a clean temperament.

  As expected, the girl was indeed the old man's granddaughter, Qu Xinying.

  "Ye Shaoxia, my granddaughter has been found." The old man's face was filled with joy.

  Ye Chen rubbed his nose, "This is for the best."

  "Nothing happened on your side, did it?" Qu Ming asked.

  "No, nothing." Ye Chen didn't plan on making things more complicated than they needed to be. After all, the other person's goal was just to find Qu Xingying, so why mention the mirage beast?

  "It's better without it, let's go back! The sky is getting late." The old man nodded.

  The lost ship was abandoned on the spot, and everyone boarded the ironwood boat, sailing along the route back and forth.

  On the way back, the number of monsters did not decrease, but instead became more dangerous due to the approaching evening. Fortunately, Ye Chen and Qu Ming protected Tie Mu's ship, preventing it from deviating from its route.

  When the last ray of sunlight on the horizon disappeared, everyone had returned to Panshan Island.

  No words for one night!

  On the second day at dawn, Ye Chen bid farewell to everyone.

  As for Qu Ming, it's hard to come back once in a while, and he plans to stay for more days. After all, the curse of Pan Shan Island usually occurs between the second and third months, and there is no danger in the first and second months. Qu Ming has only been back for one day.

  On the ancient lake, the waves were sparkling, and a person was treading on the trunk of a tree, advancing rapidly.

  "June is the inner door disciple ranking match, I don't know what powerful characters are among the top ten inner door disciples." The white moon-colored robe fluttered in the wind, Ye Chen gazed at the lake scenery while thinking to himself.

  PS: I spent yesterday and today afternoon writing the ending of my old book, wrote 8,000 words, finally completed it! From now on, I'll focus on writing new books!