Mo Fan and Ai Jiangtu were too eager to save their friends, so they were too lazy to care about the thing. How did it even happen?
As Nan Jue had mentioned, they could simply explain the complicated situation away as an illusion. The only way to deal with the demon spirit was to enter its illusion.
Jiang Shaoxu followed Nan Jue's instructions and hypnotized Mo Fan and Ai Jiangtu. Meanwhile, Nan Jue used some unknown method to guide their souls into the vessel.
As a matter of fact, the wooden clapper contained the Curse Element. The Curse was able to suck a person's soul into the vessel, like a cage that locked the person's soul inside. It was the reason why the residents of the temple referred to it as Soul Reaping!
It was not an exaggeration to say that it was Soul Reaping. Among the Curse Elements, both the Sinister Spider Trap and the Demon Torture were able to inflict damage on a living being's soul. The Demon Torture was able to drag the soul out and torture it!
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Mo Fan felt his eyelids becoming extremely heavy while he was being hypnotized. He closed his eyes as soon as he sat beside the wooden clapper.
The strange thing was, after closing his eyes and opening them again, Mo Fan felt a lot more clear-headed.
He glanced at Ai Jiangtu beside him and saw the man had just opened his eyes. His situation was similar to his.
"F * * k me!" cursed Mo Fan all of a sudden.
Ai Jiangtu rose to his feet too. He scanned his surroundings and failed to find Jiang Shaoxu and Nan Jue!
"What's going on, where are they?" Ai Jiangtu was astounded. He looked around the dilapidated temple, but the two women were nowhere to be seen.
"The wooden clapper is gone too, how did it disappear in the blink of an eye …" said Mo Fan.
"Either way, let's go look for them first," said Ai Jiangtu.
Zhao Manyan and Mu Ningxue were already in trouble. If they were to go missing right under their noses, the situation would be even more complicated.
The two of them walked back along the road, but they soon found something wrong.
He remembered that when they came, the path was basically covered by the weeds and vines, and the surrounding stone lanterns were hidden in the dense grass.
But now, the entire road had become very spacious and clean. There wasn't even a speck of dust on the marble steps. It was so clean that it could print the two of them …
"What's going on?" Mofan asked.
Ai Jiangtu shook his head right away. Everything that had happened recently was simply too bizarre.
The two of them kept walking and followed the fresh and clean path back to the temple. In the end, they realized that the temple was more lively than they had imagined …
In the back kitchen of the temple, seven to eight monks were busy moving vegetables and fresh ingredients in large baskets. There was also a fat monk who was gesticulating.
"Hey, you two … oh, misters, how could you go to the back of the mountain without permission? It's not open to the pilgrims," said the fat monk in charge of the kitchen when he saw Mofan and Ai Jiangtu.
Ai Jiangtu and Mofan exchanged glances with one another, not knowing what to say. As a matter of fact, they had no idea what the monk was talking about, as he was speaking in Japanese.
The two of them went to the main hall of the temple and saw an endless stream of pilgrims. They could even see groups of people arriving at the entrance.
Mofan and Ai Jiangtu were dumbfounded. They quickly went to the side rooms to look for Nan Rongni, Mu Ningxue, and Zhao Manyan, but the rooms were already occupied. They were all Japanese who had come from other places to offer incense. There was no way they could find Nan Rongni and the others.
"Did we travel to another world?" Mofan stared at the temple in disbelief.
Ai Jiangtu did not speak. He fell into deep thought for a moment before glancing at the walls of the temple and saying to Mofan, "Mofan, I think we've entered the world of the vessel."
Mofan was startled, but he soon realized what Ai Jiangtu was trying to say.
"You're saying that the world inside the wooden clapper is actually this temple?" Mofan blurted out in astonishment.
"Mm, didn't Nan Jue already mention it? The world we've entered is actually an illusion created by the vessel. We're most likely asleep. Our consciousness is basically wandering in someone's dream, "said Ai Jiangtu.
Mofan calmed his thoughts and pondered carefully.
If Miyata was the vessel's demon spirit, the world inside the vessel was most likely created according to her memories, including the vivid monks, pilgrims, and civilians …
"It's so real, so real that we didn't even notice that we've entered the illusion," exclaimed Mofan.
"When the Curse Element and the Psychic Element are combined, they can create extremely realistic nightmares. Those who are under the Psychic Curse will be tortured to death in their dreams," said Ai Jiangtu.
Ai Jiangtu's Element was the Curse Element, so he was able to remain calm under the circumstances.
"If what we're seeing is just an illusion and a dream, doesn't that mean we can do whatever we want?" asked Mofan.
Ai Jiangtu immediately shook his head and said, "You better not think that way. The illusion is extremely realistic. I believe if we kill someone, the Enforcement Union will still show up and execute us. It's the same as our souls dying here. We won't be able to wake up again."
"It doesn't seem so realistic. At least, we don't have a sense of smell and taste," said Mofan helplessly as he chewed on a vegetable root he had just taken from the kitchen.
"We do have a sense of pain," emphasized Ai Jiangtu.
"Forget it, it's impossible for me to study this messy world. Let's find that goddamned demon spirit as soon as possible," said Mofan.
What was fake was fake, after all. As Mofan calmed down and analyzed the situation, he realized the place was quite different from the real world. How should he describe it? It felt like he was in a coma. His vision was still in the dream, but his sense of smell, hearing, and touch were still on the bed. It was quite strange!
Mofan was clearly chewing on the vegetable root. Not only did his mouth not taste anything, his nose also picked up a scent that did not match the smell …
The scent was most likely a faint rose scent, which made Mofan feel like Jiang Shaoxu was right beside him, and very close to him.
As a matter of fact, on the other side, Jiang Shaoxu was indeed right in front of Mofan. He was checking if the guy was really asleep, or if his mind was wandering!
Jiang Shaoxu did not expect the scent on him to remind Mofan in the illusion. The two of them had been staying in the Muyu Temple at the back of the mountain the whole time.
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