"A person's senses can be controlled. Regardless of whether it's sight, hearing, smell, or touch, to put it bluntly, it's the result of bioelectricity and nerve information stimulating the brain."
Meng Chao narrowed his eyes and sized up the abyss where the undercurrents and wind howled. "As long as the spirit energy magnetic field is complicated enough and the tremors of the spirit energy ripples are ingenious enough, they can interfere with a human's brain waves and create any illusion. They can make people sink into unbelievable worlds or nightmares."
Ice Storm calmed herself down.
Her mother was a witch.
It was different from magic and divine arts that came from the holy light.
Witchcraft came from a person's heart, and they tried to activate the power in the deepest parts of the brain.
Hence, wizards and witches had a deeper understanding of the human brain than normal people.
Once Meng Chao reminded her, she immediately registered what was going on.
But she was still curious as to how Meng Chao managed to react faster than her.
Could it be that he was also a wizard?
A wizard with black hair and black eyes was really interesting.
"How did you know?" Ice Storm asked with an intense gaze.
Meng Chao shrugged.
There were a lot of traps in the two ancient ruins in Monster Mountain Range, and they worked by creating illusions.
Quite a number of Supernatural Entities created by the mastermind were also skilled in mind control and illusion attacks.
After he returned from the apocalypse, his soul had been tempered in the flames of the apocalypse, and his brain had been greatly developed. He was also immune to most mind attacks, and while he fought against the monster civilization, he gradually mastered the ability to see through illusions.
Meng Chao removed his helmet and knelt down on one knee. He plucked out a lock of hair from his head and blew at it gently.
The lock of hair immediately flew into the abyss.
It was sent flying up and down by the wind.
Then, it was sucked into the bottomless darkness and disappeared.
At first glance, regardless of whether it was the trajectory of the flying hair, the wind that came at his face, or the pain that made him feel as if he was being stabbed by needles, they were all real.
But Meng Chao noticed that when he sent his hair out, he sensed incredibly weak spirit energy fluctuations in the depths of his eyes and ears.
Two barely noticeable waves of spirit energy invaded his visual and auditory nervous systems. They interfered with his senses and formed vivid illusions in front of him!
'That's right. This is an illusion,' Meng Chao confirmed.
"Even if this abyss is really an illusion, how are we going to get there?" Ice Storm asked.
"Maybe —"
Meng Chao thought about it. "I'll just pretend that the abyss doesn't exist and walk over it."
"It can't be?"
The Ice Storm frowned deeply. "Just like before, he just walked over casually. There won't be any surprises this time, will there?"
"I don't think so."
Meng Chao thought about it and said, "You should know better than me the meaning behind the temple the Turan civilization built. First, it's to offer sacrifices to the ancestral spirits, and second, it's to train Blood Descendants.
"The numerous traps in the temple are not only to guard against intruders, but also to test whether the new generation of Turan warriors are qualified to inherit the power of their ancestors.
"Since it's a test, there must be a correct answer.
"It must be noted that in the entire Turanze, the two of us are not too weak. If we cannot pass the test even after we rack our brains and try our best, how many people can pass it?"
"That's true."
The Ice Storm nodded in agreement. "After all, the Blood Skull Temple isn't big, and its level isn't high either. It's not as grand, huge, or profound as the main temple of the Blood Hoof Clan or the main temple of the entire Blood Hoof Clan outside Black Horn City.
"As long as they receive Casava's blood, many of the gladiators who are far weaker than me can enter this place to offer sacrifices to the warriors of past generations.
"There's no reason why we'll be trapped in this abyss that doesn't exist."
"Indeed."
Meng Chao used his experience from exploring the ancient ruins as a reference. "Based on what I know, such traps don't require astonishing fighting power or amazing skills to pass. Most of the time, they test basic abilities and things like 'fate' and 'potential', which are things that can't be explained clearly.
"There are normal people who can clear the traps even though they don't have the strength to even truss a chicken and obtain unparalleled power.
"There are some people who can kill tigers and dragons, cut down mountains, ride the wind, and even control lightning, but they will still disappear in the depths of the traps. If they're alive, we won't see them, and if they're dead, we won't even find their corpses.
"Considering that the level of this temple isn't high, we shouldn't complicate a simple problem. We should put ourselves in the shoes of the lowest-ranking clan warriors and think about just what aspect of our potential this abyss is testing."
"How is it possible to guess?" the Ice Storm blurted out.
"I'm not guessing. I'm thinking."
Meng Chao's mind raced, and he seemed to have grasped something.
He asked the Ice Storm, "Just now, when you first saw this abyss, what kind of emotion did you feel?"
"That's …"
The Ice Storm thought about it and said with certainty, "Fear. Of course it was fear. This has nothing to do with strength. I believe that when anyone first sees such a large abyss, the first emotion that will appear in their hearts will definitely be fear."
"That's right. It was fear."
Meng Chao snapped his fingers. "I think that this trap is testing our ability to overcome fear, which is also our courage."
The Ice Storm's eyes lit up.
High-grade orcs had always been the race that worshipped bravery the most in the Other World.
Besides, they believed that courage had nothing to do with strength. It was something they were born with.
'There's no need for great fighting power. We only need astonishing courage, which means …' The Ice Storm thought quickly.
But Meng Chao was one step ahead of her. He stepped off the cliff.
The Ice Storm widened her eyes.
It was just like how she had watched Meng Chao rush into the first trap. She did not even have the time to cry out in surprise.
When Meng Chao stepped into the air, the wind howled at him from all directions.
But it did not disturb his vitality magnetic field or blow him into the depths of the darkness. Instead, it gathered under his feet to form a stepping stone that was as thin as a cicada's wing but as sturdy as steel!
The black stepping stone was not much bigger than Meng Chao's feet, and it did not reflect any light. At first glance, it was no different from the darkness around him.
But Meng Chao stood on it steadily and took his second step forward.
Just as he expected, the howling wind gathered in front of him to form a second stepping stone.
Just like that, Meng Chao took seven steps forward in one breath.
The wind continued gathering under his feet to form a stepping stone. Gradually, a small path that was as thin as a strand of hair appeared above the abyss.
Meng Chao stood still as if he was standing in the air. He turned his head around to look at the Ice Storm.
The Ice Storm made up her mind and followed Meng Chao's footsteps to walk above the abyss.
Their gazes were level with each other. In one breath, they took more than one hundred steps and arrived at the center of the abyss.
They were surrounded by boundless darkness that was like a raging wave that continuously squeezed out their souls. It made them feel incredibly insignificant and that they would be devoured by the darkness at any moment.
The Ice Storm felt as if the world was spinning.
In the end, she could not help but cast a glance at the abyss under her feet.
Even if she was rational, she knew very well that such a terrifying abyss did not exist under the Blood Skull Coliseum.
Her senses and instincts of fear were still screaming hysterically in the depths of her mind.
She gulped and mumbled, "If … If all of this is an illusion, then what is really under our feet?"
"I don't know. Perhaps it's solid ground," Meng Chao said.
"So, does this mean that we won't fall into the abyss?"
The Ice Storm asked. "Then, how will this trap punish the people who are terrified and can't pass the test?"
"By controlling a person's senses, the illusion might be able to kill them," Meng Chao said.
"Perhaps the people who slip and fall into the abyss in the illusion will still die a horrible death. Of course, their bones won't shatter from the fall, but they'll be crushed by their muscles that are so tense that they'll be crushed while they're still alive.
"On the other hand, as long as they realize this and believe that they're walking on the right and solid path, they won't need to be afraid that their deaths will happen.
"Look, we're at the end."
The Ice Storm was slightly stunned. When she looked up, she saw a cliff that was similar to the starting point. It was a cliff that looked like a fang.
"That fast?"
The Ice Storm remembered that she had only walked through half of the abyss. When she looked up just now, she did not see anything floating in front of her.
The cliff seemed to have appeared out of thin air. It was incredibly strange.
"Since the abyss doesn't exist, as long as our beliefs are firm enough, the end will naturally appear at any moment," Meng Chao said.
Meng Chao said. "Perhaps the second trap is only dozens of steps long, and we've been going in circles under the guidance of our illusions."
Now, they were only three steps away from the end.
Three black stepping stones appeared quietly in front of them.
There was an arm's length between each stepping stone.
This was a distance that even an untrained rat man could easily cross.
But Meng Chao stood still in front of the three stepping stones.
He stared at the end that was right in front of him and thought about it for a long time.
Then, he took a step forward.
Without hesitation, he stepped on the two empty spaces between the three stepping stones.
The Ice Storm widened her eyes.
She thought that Meng Chao had miscalculated the distance.
But that was impossible. Even though the black stepping stones seemed to have become one with the dark space and were hard to distinguish, the faint light on the cliff in front of him had already formed the shape of the stepping stones.
Even when he walked to the center of the abyss and could not see any light, Meng Chao did not step on the wrong stepping stones.
Even when he walked to the center of the abyss and could not see any light, Meng Chao did not step on the wrong stepping stones.
How could he make such a low-level mistake?
Then, something that Ice Storm could not believe happened.
Meng Chao had clearly stepped into the air.
He was about to fall into an abyss that did not exist. Based on what he said, his brain was controlled by the illusion, and his brain was controlling his flesh and blood to crush his bones.
But he stood steadily in the air without stepping stones!
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