Chapter 272: Horses of Intent also Hurt People
Chapter 270 – Intentional Horses Also Hurt People
“Poof! Poof!”
Li Fan’s heart beat uncontrollably and violently for a split second.
It was as if he had seen with his own eyes the sight of his own tragic death shortly afterward.
Subconsciously, Li Fan was about to silently recite [Return to Truth] in his mind to return to the anchoring moment.
However, in a flash of lightning, he vaguely felt that something was wrong and forced himself to stop.
The Xuan Huang Refining Heart Mantra slowly churned the fear that kept coming up in his heart and turned it into mental sustenance while at the same time, it also bought Li Fan a precious sliver of opportunity to think calmly.
“Can’t it be that Zhang Zhiliang has discovered something and intends to harm me through this method?”
“No. …… He should have already been promoted to Transformation Spirit now, and there is no need to be superfluous when dealing with me, a small Foundation Establishment Cultivator.”
“Just do it directly.”
“Then, the reason for this bizarre situation right now is the effect of the [Yima] itself?”
As he was thinking this, Li Fan suddenly felt a trance.
The hairs of sweat on his back stood up as if someone was staring at him.
Li Fan was creeped out and immediately turned back.
Only to see Zhang Zhiliang staring at himself slyly, revealing an unspeakable smile.
Li Fan’s instinctive figure retreated violently, his body’s spiritual energy surged, and the Cong Yun Sword was about to chop out.
However, in the blink of an eye, Zhang Zhiliang’s figure disappeared again.
Li Fan froze for a moment before reacting to the fact that he was in the Tian Xuan Mirror.
Even an existence such as the Heavenly Doctor who wanted to force his way in would have to stir up quite a commotion.
How could Zhang Zhiliang just break in silently like this.
“Illusion?”
Li Fan turned his head to look at the corpse of Yima on the ground again and immediately noticed the abnormality and frowned.
This Italian horse corpse, unexpectedly, had changed its posture without realizing it.
“Is it dead or alive?”
Li Fan could not help but think so.
Fear struck again, echoing in his heart for a long time.
The body was slightly chilled.
“This [Yima] is a bit weird.”
“However, I have [Returning Truth], no matter how menacing it is, it can’t hurt my life ……”
Thinking about this, Li Fan’s heart was slightly at ease.
Strangely enough, when he thought so, the inexplicable fear in his heart also suddenly receded temporarily like a tidal wave.
“It’s a bit interesting ……”
Li Fan’s gaze moved slightly.
However, he himself was still in the state of personal horse face, and it was obvious that things were not over yet.
Seizing this gap, Li Fan’s thoughts raced, considering countermeasures.
However, before Li Fan could think of anything, the field changed once again.
The sound of arrows breaking through the air suddenly came.
This was followed by the muffled sound of piercing into flesh and blood.
Li Fan followed the sound and saw a flying arrow that came from nowhere.
It was hitting the left arm of the corpse of the Italian horse.
Just as Li Fan wanted to pull out the arrow to see if it was real or not, a sharp pain suddenly hit him.
Coincidentally, the pain also came from his own left arm.
Li Fan’s divine sense was swept and his face immediately sank.
The same location, the same wound!
Even when Li Fan invoked his spiritual energy, he could not make the wound heal.
After purchasing a trauma elixir in the Tian Xuan Mirror and taking his mouth, it still had no effect either.
The wound was still there.
“This ……”
“Is it true or not?”
Li Fan intended to feel the fire-like tingling sensation on his arm, everything was so real.
“So, everything that happened on [Yima] will be mapped onto me?”
“If ……”
The random thoughts did not proceed to unfold, Li Fan forcefully operated the Heart Refining Mantra to remove the distracting thoughts. Regardless of the injuries on his body, he continued to think about countermeasures.
“Theoretically speaking, Zhang Zhiliang has no reason to tease me. This [Yima] is indeed a treasure that can enhance the divine soul.”
“Then isn’t it possible to deduce that the reason why the bizarre scene that just happened was so real is because it bypassed my senses and acted directly on my divine soul.”
“Beyond the concept of ordinary hallucinations, it directly hits the divine soul ……”
Just as Li Fan was thinking, a sharp sword suddenly appeared.
Cold light shot out in all directions, slicing off the index finger of Yima’s right hand, root by root.
The sharp pain made Li Fan suck in a cold breath.
Looking to his right hand, sure enough, the index finger had disappeared.
It was just bleeding continuously.
Li Fan placed his mutilated right hand in front of his eyes and scrutinized it.
“It’s real ……”
“Is it fake?”
Reason told Li Fan that everything that had happened to his body was just the effect of Yima on his divine soul. It was all false.
But the burning pain that continued to come from his body had to make Li Fan, again, doubt his judgment.
“If this is all a false illusion, then it doesn’t matter.”
“But what if I’m wrong in my judgment, and these wounds, are all real?”
“If I sit back and watch the changes continue to happen, wouldn’t that mean that I’m waiting to die?”
A thought bubbled up uncontrollably.
“If you want to judge whether it’s true or not, why don’t you ask a bystander to identify it?”
With this thought, Li Fan left the Heavenly Xuan Mirror.
And after he wore a horse face and wandered around in front of other cultivators for a few times, none of them attracted any strange gazes.
Li Fan was finally convinced that this was really an illusory experience brought about by the intended horse.
But ……
“Hiss!”
Li Fan touched his chest, where another deep wound appeared.
Just in the time it took him to stroll around outside to verify, a total of eight wounds had already appeared on Li Fan’s body.
“The rate of appearance is getting faster and faster, and the wounds are getting bigger and bigger.”
“Even if one knows that these are all illusions, to this extent ……”
“It doesn’t matter if it’s real or fake anymore.”
“Then, if it continues like this, I might actually die as well?”
Before Li Fan crossed over, he had heard of a kind of punishment.
Blindfolding the prisoner and slashing his arms with a knife.
The sound of blood dripping was then imitated with drops of water, and the blood loss was constantly and quietly told.
Although the wound on the arm had long since congealed, there would be no blood loss at all.
But surprisingly, there will be some prisoners who, under the constant psychological suggestion of others and themselves, really think that they have lost too much blood and then slowly die.
When one thinks that one is dead, then one is really dead.
The [Intentional Horse] works in the same way that Li Fan guessed it would.
Because the illusion had reached a point where it was almost indistinguishable from the real thing, if one didn’t do anything and just waited quietly for things to continue to develop.
When the corpse of the Intentional Horse suffered a fatal injury such as its head blowing up.
It was also very likely that Li Fan would be affected by the synchronized injuries and truly believe that he too had been so severely injured.
And then inexplicably die.
This is the exact effect of one’s own perception on the body.
And trying to circumvent that.
Unless ……
Li Fan opened the [Return to Truth] panel.
Staring closely at the recharge progress.
“As long as the [Returning Truth]’s automatic body protection isn’t triggered, then there is no danger to one’s life, no matter how real one’s feelings are.”
Thinking so, Li Fan couldn’t help but feel much more solid in his heart.
The trepidation in his heart also gradually disappeared.
(End of chapter)