Chapter 130: Illusion Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Chapter 130 – Illusionary Realm Making People’s Hearts
Zhao Er shivered and subconsciously tried to resist.
But after thinking about the other party’s unfathomable strength, he still gave in.
Feeling the icy cold sight roaming over his body, Zhao Er cried out and said, “Alright, senior!”
Then he pinched a spell.
The rock pillar rumbled up from the bottom of the sea, and Zhao Er hung his head, “Senior, please!”
With that, he followed the stairs in the center of the rock pillar and walked in.
Li Fan’s divine sense swept around.
After studying the jade slip for more than a year, he was no longer clueless about formations now.
There were only a few simple water control and dust purification spell formations within this rock pillar, and there were no traces of attack-type spell formations.
However, Li Fan didn’t lower his guard and still activated a body protection talisman before walking in after him.
Obviously, it was Li Fan who was overly concerned.
Inside this rock pillar could be said to be very simple.
Most of it was a storage room used to place collectibles.
Zhao Er led Li Fan to a fairly spacious room.
A large table in the center with what appeared to be a miniature model of Cong Yunhai was placed on it.
“Senior, sit.”
Zhao Er mumbled and said with difficulty.
Li Fan leisurely sat down and looked at the earth-colored Zhao Er, saying, “Should I ask them one by one, or should you honestly explain yourself?”
Zhao Er opened his mouth and tried to say something, but only revealed a smile that was worse than crying, “Senior, I don’t know what to explain ah?”
Li Fan snorted coldly, and the Binding Insect Avatar was re-activated.
Zhao Er was immediately restrained again.
Controlling the Blue Flame Illusion Spirit, a cold air visible to the naked eye spread over from the ground as if it was an icy blue poisonous snake, slowly crawling onto Zhao Er’s body.
In an instant, Zhao Er’s lower limbs had been frozen by blue ice crystals.
“I wonder, with your cultivation, whether you can still recover after your body shatters into ice slag.” Li Fan said with some curiosity.
A trace of fear passed through Zhao Er’s eyes, but soon, it was forcefully suppressed by him.
Not a single sign of begging for mercy could be seen, quite a bit like he would rather die than submit.
Li Fan could also see that this Zhao Er did not seem to be pretending either.
“Interesting.” Li Fan laughed, catching Zhao Er, and together they came to the storage room next door.
Zhao Er’s eyes suddenly became frightened.
“Oops, the things here, seem to be really good. You must have wasted a lot of effort collecting them.” Li Fan’s hand gently traced over these objects that looked like they had some years on them.
“Bang!”
But when he touched a porcelain bowl, he threw it on the ground.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk, so sorry. Without paying attention, I broke it.” Li Fan said rather regretfully.
“Bang!”
Another piece of porcelain shattered.
A monstrous rage flared up in Zhao Er’s eyes as he stared dead at Li Fan.
It seemed to want him to die by a thousand cuts.
However, as the fragile antiquities in the room were destroyed one after another.
Zhao Er’s eyes also gradually changed from ferocity to heartache, and from heartache to panic.
And then from panic to begging for mercy. Li Fan, however, had no intention of stopping at all.
Taking him all over the rooms within this rock pillar, in front of Zhao Er, he destroyed all of his collection from a number of years in a matter of moments.
Looking at the debris all over the ground, Zhao Er’s eyes were filled with despair.
As soon as his body loosened up and regained control of his body, Zhao Er pounced forward and howled.
The cries shook the heavens, and that heartbroken look was truly unbearable to look at.
As Zhao Er cried, he suddenly realized that the fragment in his hand was gone.
He himself was still still being controlled, in the original room.
It turned out that everything that had just happened was heck of an illusion!
With the extreme reversal of emotions, great joy and great sorrow, Zhao Er almost didn’t lift his breath.
The body’s restraints disappeared, and Zhao Er fell to the ground.
He only felt weak, but he struggled and darted inside the storage room next door, and saw that those beloved collectibles were still intact.
He couldn’t help but cry with joy, but he cried even more.
In Zhao Er’s eyes, the hallucination he had just experienced was ten thousand times more terrifying than his worst nightmare.
He never wanted to experience it again!
“Do you want to know what to explain now?” The nightmarish voice rang beside his ears, and Zhao Er trembled, only feeling that the other party’s trick of manipulating people’s hearts was too terrifying!
“Say, I’ll say everything!” He shivered and said in a loud voice.
He was afraid that Li Fan would really destroy all of his collection.
The two returned one after the other, with Li Fan sitting and Zhao Er standing obediently at the side.
Zhao Er opened his mouth, wanting to speak.
After half a day, Zhao Er then opened his mouth with trepidation, “Late generation Zhao Erbao, Cong Yunhai local cultivator. Sixty-eight years old this year ……”
Li Fan’s face went black and hurriedly cut him off, “Who wants you to explain this? I am asking you, what is the use of these things that you have collected into things.”
“That place you mentioned, where is it again?”
“Why don’t you use the storage ring to transit it, but have to use the flying boat to personally move it up and down?”
With every word, Zhao Erbao’s body shook with it.
After Li Fan asked, Zhao Erbao grimaced bitterly and said, “Senior is truly divine, nothing can be hidden from you.”
He paused as if he was organizing his words.
After a few moments, Fang stammered, “The reason why my junior spent his entire life collecting these ancient objects. It is because of a secret that I discovered back when I was still just a mortal.”
“Secret?” Li Fan looked at Zhao Erbao with interest, waiting for his next words.
Zhao Erbao nodded, “For generations, my family has been in the antique business. Under the influence of my childhood, I also grew up with an interest in these antiques salvaged from the deep sea.”
“Perhaps because of my talent, I can always easily distinguish which are genuine antiques and which are imitations.”
“So, my family gradually let me take over all the identification work. I was also able to come into contact with a large number of antiquities on a daily basis.”
“And that’s why I vaguely discovered this secret hidden in the dust of history.”
“Cong Yunhai, it seems that a lost civilization once existed.”
Zhao Erbao’s expression became serious and his eyes narrowed slightly as if he was recalling something.
“The style of the antiquities belonging to this civilization was extremely special, differing from the other eras of the Cong Yun Sea, with obvious boundaries.”
“These antiquities stored in this base of the late generation all belong to this civilization.”
Li Fan slowly nodded, “This civilization, what is so special about it? I see that although these things are somewhat old, they all seem to be just mortal objects. It shouldn’t be of much use to you, a Qi Refining Cultivator.”
“These things themselves, are indeed of little value. What’s truly valuable is what’s attached to them, on their bodies.” Zhao Erbao said.
“Does senior know that the bottom of the Cong Yun Sea is filled with ruins of buildings?”
Zhao Erbao’s words changed, but he suddenly asked.
(End of chapter)