Light and darkness alternated before Gu Zheng stepped into the Smoke Cloud Illusory Star Array.
As its name suggested, the world in the formation space looked very fantastic. Gu Zheng was suspended in the void, with thick clouds under his feet and countless stars in the sky.
With a thought, Gu Zheng released Fairy Qixuan from the Primal Chaos Tower.
"Wow! The scene in this formation space should be the starry sky of a world outside the Circle, right? "
Qixuan Fairy exclaimed. The stars in the sky did not belong to the Untainted Land.
"Maybe it's an illusion, or maybe it's really the starry sky of a world outside the Circle."
Gu Zheng sighed. He remembered the scene when he saw the starry sky of a world outside the Circle for the first time.
"I really want to go to the world outside the Circle, but I don't even have the strength of a Sage-to-be. My imagination can only be imagination," Qixuan Fairy said dejectedly.
"It doesn't matter. I believe that after this Rotten Poison Swamp, you will definitely break through the Realm and become a Sage-to-be," Gu Zheng said.
"Let's go forward. This Illusory Formation is too big. The useful information of the formation is beyond the range of my detection!"
The Device Spirit's voice sounded in Gu Zheng's mind. As soon as they entered the Illusory Formation, she began to help Gu Zheng to detect.
"Let's go. Let's walk in the Illusory Formation."
Gu Zheng took Qixuan Fairy and flew in the Illusory Formation for two hours.
"Gosh! There is such a huge Illusory Formation. This is the first time I've seen such a thing! "The Device Spirit's voice sounded in shock.
"What's wrong? Haven't you found any useful information of the formation? "Gu Zheng frowned.
"No, but I think we can find it in one more hour. This formation is too strange. Some things can't be explained by the common sense of formations in the Untainted Land! "The Device Spirit said.
Without saying anything, Gu Zheng took Qixuan Fairy and flew forward again.
The clouds under their feet changed shape and color frequently, so the flying process was not particularly boring.
"Let's stop. I've finally found some useful information about formations. Let me take a look."
The artifact spirit's voice rang out once more. Gu Zheng let out a sigh of relief inside. He had already been in the formation for over two hours. If he still could not find any useful information, he would definitely be vexed no matter how steady his mind was.
A moment later, Fairy Qixuan asked, "Fellow Daoist Gu, have you found any useful information?"
Gu Zheng's state of mind was steady, but Fairy Qixuan's state of mind was obviously weaker. This was the fourth time she had asked Gu Zheng the same question since entering the array formation.
"I'm still looking," Gu Zheng said.
"Alright!"
Qixuan Fairy shrugged and smiled. She then looked up at the sky and said, "It's almost dawn!"
The scene in the immortal array was constantly changing with the passage of time. The moon in the sky had already disappeared, and there were not many stars left. The sky had become very dark, and the darkness before dawn was about to arrive.
"Yeah, be careful!"
Gu Zheng's voice was solemn. He had already noticed that his eyesight was deteriorating as the sky darkened.
"Fellow Daoist, do you think this is really an illusory formation? Or did Di You lie to his subordinates, and then we were indirectly deceived? I really suspect that when we first entered, we passed through a cross-plane teleportation immortal array and were then sent to a world outside the circle? "Fairy Qixuan said.
"This is definitely an illusory formation."
Although Gu Zheng had been rushing, his Spiritual Force had not been idle. He had once used his Spiritual Force to fly towards a star. However, when his Spiritual Force reached a certain distance, the distance between the star and his Spiritual Force suddenly increased. If this was really a world outside the circle, such a situation would not have happened.
"Previously, I used my Spiritual Force to fly towards a star. However, after flying for a while, the distance between the star and my Spiritual Force increased again. Logically speaking, from this point, we can deduce that this place is not a world outside the circle! "
Fairy Qixuan paused and then said solemnly, "However, we have always used the common sense of the Untainted Land to judge the world outside the circle. What if this is really a world outside the circle that is not in the common sense of the Untainted Land?"
Fairy Qixuan's words made Gu Zheng's heart skip a beat. Things outside of common sense could not be explained using common sense. He could not rule out the possibility that what Fairy Qixuan had said was true! However, if that was really the case, then things were a little scary. There was no common sense to speak of, and there was no way to know what would happen. Everything would become uncertain because of that.
Gu Zheng did not speak. He was still waiting for the Artifact Spirit's investigation results! Whether this was a world outside the circle or what kind of immortal array it was, all these could only be determined after the Artifact Spirit's investigation.
"Something's happening!"
Fairy Qixuan, who was originally sitting cross-legged, stood up and frowned as she looked into the distance.
Gu Zheng also stood up. Something had indeed happened. He felt that in the darkness that his eyesight could not reach, there seemed to be something there.
Although his eyesight could not reach, Gu Zheng still had his divine thoughts. He immediately let his divine thoughts fly toward the darkness in the distance.
As his divine thoughts approached, Gu Zheng's heart was filled with shock. The so-called darkness turned out to be insects!
They were as thick as a thumb, about three feet long, and completely black. They looked like caterpillars, and their numbers were incalculable. They intertwined together to form a darkness, and the surrounding places that one could not see were all these disgusting things.
"Die!"
Gu Zheng roared. His divine thoughts turned into a dazzling red-crowned crane and crashed into the light curtain formed by the insects. He wanted to use his powerful divine thoughts to purify these disgusting things.
"Oh!"
Gu Zheng groaned and felt a sharp pain in his head. After his divine thoughts came into contact with the insect wall, they were completely devoured in an instant!
"What's wrong?" Fairy Qixuan asked hurriedly.
Gu Zheng recounted what he had discovered with his Divine Sense, and then said, "This is really too strange. I clearly couldn't sense any fluctuations of strength, but they were able to devour my Divine Sense. This really isn't something that can be explained by common sense! Furthermore, they're still advancing towards us. If we run into them, it won't be a joke. "
"What do we do now?" Fairy Qixuan frowned.
"Ai, let's hide first!"
The artifact spirit sighed at the same time.
"Let's go!"
The insect wall was not without height. Gu Zheng led Fairy Qixuan to a higher place.
"What's wrong?"
Gu Zheng asked the artifact spirit. The artifact spirit's sigh clearly meant something bad.
"This is indeed an immortal array. Its existence is beyond common sense! I can't explain why there are these black insects, but I can tell you that all information about the immortal array will be devoured after the black insects pass by! "the artifact spirit said.
"What do you mean? I don't quite understand." Gu Zheng frowned.
"In other words, there is no information about the immortal array. If you want to know more about the immortal array, you have to find the information!" the artifact spirit said.
Gu Zheng took a deep breath and asked, "Do you think we can still find the information?"
"I think so! I have a feeling that the information about the immortal array has been erased. It's like the weakness of the Immortal Realm has been shifted. Therefore, we can definitely find it. However, there should be a fixed time for these black insects to appear. After all, it is the darkness before dawn. It is the most special time of the day. If these black insects disappear after dawn, then we have to hurry and find the information about the immortal array before dawn. Otherwise, these insects may appear again in the darkness before dawn! "the artifact spirit said.
"Are you still sure that this is an immortal array and not a real world?" Gu Zheng asked.
The artifact spirit was silent for a moment and then said, "There is information about the immortal array. This should be an immortal array. However, the things in the immortal array are beyond our common sense. Also, I can be sure that this is not an illusion array. It is too real! Everything can only be determined after I study the information about the immortal array. "
Gu Zheng did not say anything else. He wanted to wait until dawn to see if the black insects would disappear and if they could still find the information about the immortal array.
The surrounding black insects surrounded the place where Gu Zheng and the rest had stopped. Then, they gradually shrank into a black ball and from a black ball to a black dot. Finally, they merged into space and disappeared. At this moment, the sky also turned white.
With the disappearance of the black insects, the sky was about to brighten. Gu Zheng also started to look for information about the immortal array again.
At the same time.
In the core of the Star Extermination Mother-Child Formation, Di You and his avatar looked at the screen of light in the sky as a satisfied smile appeared on their faces.
The screen showed the scene in the Fantasy Star Formation. In this scene, ever since Gu Zheng had stepped into the Fantasy Star Formation, he had not moved at all.
Releasing Fairy Qixuan, communicating, looking for information about the immortal array, and the black insects. All of these were just illusions in Gu Zheng's mind.
The Fantasy Star Formation was very powerful. It was more advanced than the average illusion array in many ways. One of them was that illusions were born from the heart! It wasn't like ordinary illusory arrays, which could create endless illusions through the array itself. All of the illusions were created by the people trapped in the array through the miraculous effects of the illusory array, which was created by their own imagination.
"Hehe, you want to rely on helpers to get you out of the Fantasy Star Formation? That's wishful thinking!"
Di You's doppelganger gritted his teeth and laughed. They naturally knew that Gu Zheng had helpers. They also knew that these helpers were hidden in the immortal treasures that could hold people. However, the Fantasy Star Formation was very magical. Not only could it make people fall into an illusion, as long as they had seen something in the illusion, even if it was a spiritual body! Although Gu Zheng had the immortal treasure spirit, Jiao Jiao, Die Ling, Miao Miao, and Fairy Qixuan with him, they were all affected by the illusions.
"One day is one month. Awesome!" Di You's doppelganger laughed.
Once one entered the Fantasy Cloud Star Array, one's sense of time would be confused by the illusions. One day in the Fantasy Cloud Star Array was actually one month.
"I wonder how long the Fantasy Star Formation can last. If only it could last for another five months," Di You's doppelganger said.
At this time, there were only five months left before the Star Destruction Sub-Formation would complete its mission. In the Smoke Cloud Illusory Star Formation, it would only take five days! As long as Gu Zheng was confused for another five days, Di You's doppelganger would really laugh out loud.
"Can it really trap him for another five days? This is not optimistic! "Di You frowned.
The Fantasy Star Formation could be used against people and spiritual bodies. It was very, very powerful. However, the powerful Smoke Cloud Illusory Star Formation also had its drawbacks. It wasn't an illusory formation that could trap people for long periods of time!
Even though all of the illusions were 'illusions born from the heart', for someone at Gu Zheng's level of cultivation, it was unavoidable for him to retain the ability to think within the 'Smoke Cloud Illusory Star Formation'. When there were thoughts, there would be doubts. 'Illusions are born from the heart' would also explain these doubts. However, this was just like lying. Lies would always be exposed one day!
"Do you really want me to kill him?"
Di You's doppelganger licked his lips. However, he could not do what he said. The Fantasy Star Formation had another drawback that could not be ignored. It could not be affected by the outside world. As for those who fell into the illusion, although they were in the state of 'Illusion Stems From The Heart', they were still very sensitive to the real world. Once someone came close to them, they would immediately be freed from the state of 'Illusion Stems From The Heart', and the illusion would be broken.
"As long as he doesn't break out of the formation, I will definitely treat his corpse well!" Di You's real body made a promise.
The Fantasy Star Formation was very special. However, since it was an illusion formation, it had the characteristics of an illusion formation. It did not exist in reality. As long as one understood that they were in an illusion, the illusion formation would break on its own.
If it was an ordinary illusory array, then as long as Gu Zheng knew that it was an illusory array, then he would have met the conditions to break the illusory array.
However, the Fantasy Star Formation was different. As the Fantasy Star Formation was created by the mind, the trapped person had to go through the process of being confused before being seen through. As for the so-called 'seeing through', it had to be done in the 'Smoke Cloud Illusory Star Array'!
From the start, Gu Zheng knew that he was about to step into an illusion formation! Even in the illusion formation, where the Fantasy Star Formation misled him and made him think that this could be a real world, he did not give up on his guesses and doubts. However, regardless of whether it was the understanding at the start or the doubts he had now, this kind of 'seeing through' was not really seeing through. In order to truly see through, one had to grasp something suspicious and be shocked to be completely sure that it was an illusion.
After being shocked, one had to be very special. It was the key to getting rid of the Fantasy Star Formation. It was the complete opposite of Gu Zheng's Dao of Death! The 'Dao of Death' needed to cause one's heart to tremble. That was because the Power of the Dao needed to establish a mental connection with the person whose life was being taken away. As for seeing through the 'Illusory Cloud Star Array', that was because the Dao of Illusions was able to remove the connection of 'illusions from the heart'!
Gu Zheng, who was in the illusion, was very anxious because he was very lost. He still did not know whether the space he was in was an immortal formation or a world outside the circle.
On the other hand, the emperor ghosts were very tormented. The longer it dragged on, the more intense the torment. On one hand, they were getting closer and closer to hope. On the other hand, they were afraid that they would fail at the crucial moment.
Gu Zheng had already been in the illusion for four days. If he stayed for another day, the emperor ghosts would laugh out loud. However, he, who was still searching for information on the immortal formation, suddenly stopped.
The scene before him was no longer the starry sky. Gu Zheng had already landed on the ground in the past few days of searching. The scene here was just like the real world. Not only were there all kinds of landforms, there were also all kinds of strange life forms.
"What's wrong?" the immortal treasure spirit asked Gu Zheng.
"Is this really an immortal formation?" Gu Zheng asked.
"That's right. Haven't I been looking for information these few days? As long as I understand more, I have the confidence to break the formation! "the immortal treasure spirit said with certainty.
In these few days, the immortal treasure spirit could find information on breaking the formation every day. However, the information on breaking the formation would disappear for various reasons. As a result, the immortal treasure spirit wanted to achieve the desired understanding, which was a gradual process.
"I'm very puzzled!"
Gu Zheng spoke very solemnly. He was truly puzzled, and this puzzlement had always been there. The reason he spoke so solemnly now was because he was annoyed.
"If this is really an immortal formation, it's already so big that it's beyond imagination. I don't think that the emperor ghosts could set up such an immortal formation in the poisonous swamp! If there was such an immortal formation, it should have contributed greatly to the forces outside the circle during the first Chaos Tribulation. However, why haven't I heard Master mention it? "Gu Zheng looked at the immortal treasure spirit and asked.
"Things outside the circle cannot be measured by common sense. If all the immortal cultivators who entered this formation died, then even the Lord Gokusen would not know," the immortal treasure spirit said.
"This explanation is a little far-fetched. If there really was such an immortal formation, then the battle in the poisonous swamp would not have been won by the Eldritch Land." Gu Zheng shook his head.
"Do you really think that this is a world outside the circle?"
Gu Zheng asked Fairy Qixuan.
"It's definitely a world outside the circle!"
Fairy Qixuan smiled bitterly. In her open palm, there was a strange inner elixir that she had obtained from killing a demon outside the circle.
"No, this is not a world outside the circle. There's a problem that we've been ignoring. If this is a world outside the circle, then the emperor ghosts and his subordinates can easily leave the poisonous swamp! However, I clearly remember that Master once told me that the demons in the poisonous swamp can't go anywhere. They can only stay in the poisonous swamp! "Gu Zheng said.
"My Master also told me the same thing. However, what if there's something that they don't know? After all, they can't even enter the poisonous swamp! "Fairy Qixuan smiled bitterly.
Gu Zheng shook his head. "You don't understand the Holy Immortals. Are Holy Immortals so weak?"
"All this time, I've been passively receiving information from you. I don't think I've thought about it too seriously. Now, according to my understanding, if this is not an immortal formation, and it's not a world outside the circle, then what is it? It's called the Fantasy Cloud Star Formation. Naturally, it's an illusory formation! "
Gu Zheng paused and roared, "If this is an illusory formation, then what the hell are you?"
Following Gu Zheng's roar, the illusory world collapsed. Just as he was sure that this was an illusory formation, his heart shook violently. The state of "Illusions Come From The Heart" was thus removed.
The shattered illusory world turned into scattered spots of light. Without the interference of "Illusions Come From The Heart", the world returned to its original state.
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