"I can't get in?" Wang Baole's body trembled. His breathing stopped, and a thought popped into his mind.
"Xie Haiyang couldn't have run away with the money, could he?!" Wang Baole immediately panicked. He took out his voice transmission ring to contact Xie Haiyang again, but to no avail. Frustrated, Wang Baole sat there cross-legged, thinking about the matter.
"Xie Haiyang shouldn't be the kind of person to cheat …" Wang Baole thought about it, then sighed. He opened the Federation's local area network on his voice transmission ring and saw that the cultivators of the Federation were discussing the matter of the battleship. After a while, he shook his head and put the matter of Xie Haiyang to the back of his mind. He closed his eyes and meditated.
However, not long after, Wang Baole, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly opened his eyes. There was a strange glow in his eyes, and he seemed to be deep in thought. Even though he had put the matter of Xie Haiyang behind him, there seemed to be a voice deep in his heart telling him that everything … was very wrong!
"Kim Do-myung's sudden visit, Xie Haiyang's uncontactable, and I can't get into the game …" Wang Baole murmured. He felt that these three matters seemed to be connected, but he couldn't figure out where the clues came from. At the moment, he wasn't in the mood to cultivate. Wang Baole had a feeling that if he didn't figure out this matter … he would be extremely uneasy.
Therefore, while he was muttering to himself, Wang Baole recalled the scenes of his interactions with Kim Do-myung and Xie Haiyang. After a while, Wang Baole's eyes suddenly widened, and his breathing quickened. He remembered Xie Haiyang's answer when he asked if the game would crash!
"Unless you're dreaming, the game can't crash!"
That sentence was like a bolt of lightning, exploding in Wang Baole's mind word by word. It caused his body to tremble, and waves of emotions surged in his heart.
Wang Baole's eyes flashed with a terrifying light. After a while, he didn't say a word. He reached his right hand into his clothes and searched for the mask that Little Missy had taken possession of.
Looking at the completely transparent mask in his hand, Wang Baole's expression turned extremely ugly. Vaguely, he seemed to have caught a whiff of a floral fragrance.
"This floral scent again …" Wang Baole narrowed his eyes. He remembered that the first time he smelled it was when he was teleported out of the battleship.
Amidst the silence, the transmission jade slip in Wang Baole's bag of holding suddenly vibrated. He looked down at it, then narrowed his eyes and took it out. As he poured his spiritual power into it, Feng Qiuran's tired voice sounded in his ears.
"Baole, come to the cave abode for a moment. I have something very important to tell you."
Wang Baole's face was expressionless as he closed his eyes. After a long time, when he opened his eyes, there was no longer any abnormality in his expression. He got up and walked out of the main hall, heading straight for Feng Qiuran's cave abode. Along the way, he looked around and saw too many Dao Palace disciples and Federation cultivators. Whether it was Lord Xu, the Big Tree, or the others, everything was normal. There was nothing out of the ordinary.
"There's no flaw …"
All of this made Wang Baole somewhat absent-minded. When he arrived outside Feng Qiuran's cave abode and stood there, looking at the entrance, Wang Baole stopped in his tracks.
"Baole, come in." Almost at the same moment Wang Baole arrived, the entrance to the cave abode slowly opened. Feng Qiuran's obviously hoarse voice sounded from within. She seemed to be physically and mentally exhausted, and even her voice sounded weak and melancholic, as if she had lost all hope.
"There's still no flaw …" Hearing Feng Qiuran's voice and sensing Feng Qiuran's dispirited figure in the cave abode, Wang Baole muttered to himself. He didn't enter the cave abode immediately. Instead, he stood there and lowered his head to take out the mask again. Looking at the invisible mask in his hand, Wang Baole took a deep breath. He knew very well that during the Ethereal Dao College assessment, he had relied on this mask to confirm that he was in an illusion. The mask was transparent because it couldn't be transformed.
"Am I in an illusion now …?" Wang Baole tilted his head and looked at his surroundings. He looked back at the world around him and looked at everything. The unbelievably realistic feeling made him fall silent again. However, the transparent mask now proved that everything was fake.
Following this train of thought, Wang Baole also deduced the reason for Kim Do-myung's visit and Xie Haiyang's disappearance.
"If it's really an illusion, then perhaps because of Xie Haiyang's mysteriousness, this illusion can't transform him. Therefore, Kim Do-myung's visit seemed to be an exchange of shares, but in reality, it was to tell me that Xie Haiyang was missing. Once I believed it, it would make up for this last flaw." Wang Baole sighed. One incident could be explained as a coincidence, but there was something wrong with Kim Do-myung, Xie Haiyang's disappearance, the game couldn't be accessed, and the mask became transparent.
All of these made Wang Baole's eyes slowly reveal a look of determination.
"Whether it's a dream or an illusion, I'll just break it open!" As he muttered to himself, Wang Baole raised his head and looked at the cave abode. The moment Feng Qiuran's puzzled voice sounded from within the cave abode, Wang Baole suddenly raised his right hand and threw a punch at the cave abode in front of him. His cultivation erupted and his Thearch Armor materialized.
This punch was the result of the Flame Snatch Thearch Armor and the fusion of Wang Baole's will. It contained the determination to break through all barriers. Instantly, it formed a thunderous storm that swept across the cave abode. Feng Qiuran's cave abode trembled and began to crumble. At the same time, Feng Qiuran's figure rushed out of the cave abode. She stumbled as if she had not recovered from her injuries. Her expression was one of shock and anger. The moment she appeared, she roared at Wang Baole.
"Wang Baole, what are you doing? Could it be that you've been bewitched by the Never-Ending Clan like Annihilator?!"
"Bewitched?" Wang Baole's expression darkened. He took the initiative to approach her and clenched his right fist again. This time, the Daoist arm that had fused with the Flame Snatch Thearch Armor's right hand suddenly exuded the aura of a divine weapon. A wave of energy that frightened even Wang Baole rose from the arm and transformed into a huge illusory skeletal hand in front of him. It carried the will of death, as if it wanted to shatter the void. It grabbed at Feng Qiuran!
Alarm flashed across Feng Qiuran's face. Anger and confusion flashed in her eyes. She raised her right hand, and her Soul Conduit realm cultivation surged into the air. It transformed into a crushing force that seemed to replace the entire world as it crashed down on Wang Baole. Her strength, both her aura and her senses, far surpassed Wang Baole's. However, she seemed to be severely injured. She wouldn't be able to maintain her aura for long. She didn't seem to want to kill Wang Baole, though.
"Wang Baole, don't be bewitched by the Never-Ending Clan. Wake up!!!"
Feeling Feng Qiuran's aura and hearing her words, Wang Baole's entire body trembled. His hair and clothes fluttered in the wind. Even his body felt piercing pain. All of this was too real. His confidence was shaken. However, the illusory mask and Kim Do-myung's and Xie Haiyang's abnormalities caused Wang Baole's eyes to turn cold again. With a roar, the Flame Snatch Thearch Armor's right hand formed an illusory skeletal hand and came crashing down on Feng Qiuran!
Amidst the explosion, Feng Qiuran laughed bitterly. She couldn't maintain her aura because of her severe injuries. As her aura dissipated, her injuries seemed to have worsened because of the attack just now. Her cultivation level dropped, and under the attack of Wang Baole's divine weapon, she was like a piece of paper. Her body shook violently, and blood spurted out of her mouth. When she fell to the ground, she looked bitterly at Wang Baole and murmured in a weak and muffled voice.
"Annihilator was bewitched. You were bewitched too … Wang Baole, please wake up. Everything here is real. It's not the illusion you think it is!!"
"Bewitched …" Wang Baole fell silent as he looked at Feng Qiuran. He could tell that Feng Qiuran was so weak because she was severely injured. Coupled with the way she had called for him to wake up, the logic behind it was very real.
Feng Qiuran's words had also expressed the reason for her injuries. That was … Annihilator had been bewitched by the Never-Ending Clan. Like him, she suspected that everything here was fake.
"This is the Never-Ending Clan's bewitchment. Did you smell the strange fragrance of the flowers? That's a sign that we were bewitched before we were teleported back!" Feng Qiuran's breathing was erratic, and her eyes were filled with anxiety. She seemed to want to convince Wang Baole that this wasn't fake.
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