Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 598 "Introduction"

“If you don’t believe me, there’s nothing I can do. I activated the Dead Treasure a long, long time ago, long before I met Li Miaosheng,” Fan Zhonghong explained.

Li Busi said without hesitation: "Lies. You met when you were seven years old, and you opened the Death Treasure long before you met Li Miaosheng. Are you saying that you died and came back to life before you were seven years old, crossing the Gate of Death? How absurd."

“Yes, it’s absurd. When I was born,” Fan Zhonghong lowered his eyes slightly, “I was supposed to be stillborn, but I was lucky enough to survive.”

"I told you to stop spouting nonsense!" Li Busi couldn't take it anymore and swung his sword in a fit of rage.

Fan Zhonghong dodged to the side, but the knife-wielding assassins behind him attacked again.

"Very well, death energy can't kill you, so let's use the most direct physical means." Li Busi said grimly, his long sword slashing rapidly.

Li Busi's swordsmanship was equally superb. At the same time, he moved swiftly and skillfully among his assassins. Under his command, the assassins displayed astonishing discipline, even forming a battle formation.

Even though Fan Zhonghong avoided instant death by activating the Death Treasure ability, he was still in a difficult situation when he was trapped in the formation.

The intensity of the sword fights increased exponentially over time, and the number of assassins continued to rise, with the deathly aura emanating from the door providing them with enhancement.

Li Busi didn't even intend to give Fan Zhonghong any more time to apply talismans and form hand seals.

Before long, Fan Zhonghong was covered in bloodstains. Li Busi also had some injuries because Fan Zhonghong had seized the opportunity to counterattack several times, but he was in slightly better condition than Fan Zhonghong.

The gray-black smoke and the figures of the assassins were almost blurred together, greatly increasing the possibility of visual misjudgment.

With just his Death Hideout skill, he was no match for Li Busi, who possessed the Death Gate!
Wow!

Li Busi was looking for an opportunity to kill Fan Zhonghong with one blow when he heard the chains rattle, but he did not use the longevity lock on his body...

Suddenly, a massive longevity lock swept through the smoke and rushed straight towards Li Busi, smashing through a large number of knife-wielding assassins along the way.

Li Busi quickly dodged, narrowly avoiding the attack, feeling the gust of wind brush past his cheek, and broke out in a cold sweat.

This is... the lock he sent to hunt down that long-lived lock assassin of Lin Yilin...

In the distance, Lin Yilin looked at the Long-Life Locked Assassin in front of her, who was now mostly missing his body, and finally breathed a sigh of relief. But she couldn't help but mutter to herself, "It wouldn't have taken much time to just smash him to pieces with my own body, why did it take me so long to run like this..."

"Who... are you? A hallucination? But your body doesn't look like a living person." Li Busi stared blankly at the black-suited man who had broken through his death gate smoke and smashed through the formation of assassins, and couldn't help but ask.

"Cheng Fei!"
The three little ones are already excitedly rushing over here; it's their fourth "little friend" whom they haven't seen in a long time!

Fan Zhonghong was also a little dumbfounded when he saw "Cheng Fei".

Dude, I heard you have a lot of girls you can possess, why did you choose this one?
Using Cheng Fei's body, Zheng Fan brandished the thick, long chain he had just taken from the big guy, while another longevity lock was swung around like a meteor hammer.

"'Dead Crown Prince,' is that what he's called?" A grayish-white light flickered in Cheng Fei's eyes, causing Li Busi's unease to swell to an unprecedented level.

Li Bu remained silent, only drawing his sword and regrouping his troops.

Cheng Fei's attention was focused on Li Busi's chest: "I originally wanted to ask you for some advice, but now it seems I can forget about it. How about I borrow that thing on your chest?"

"Huh? The meaning is unclear." Li Busi frowned, and at the same time, he was already asking Deville for help.

For a long time, Deville didn't reply. He seemed to vaguely hear a violin melody before finally managing to utter a muffled, strained sentence: "Very strong..."

"..."

My premonition came true; Deville isn't doing well. What happened? Where did Fan Zhonghong get so many talented people?

The moment the question arose, Li Busi already had the answer in his heart.

University of Sanzio.

Since Li Miaosheng went to the University of Sanzio, the family has basically stopped monitoring her at the university that she and Fan Zhonghong both attended, despite the fact that it was far away from their home.

San Zio University does not completely follow the joint instructions of Leonardo University and the Society. Under careful manipulation and concealment, there is almost no information about what Li Miaosheng and Fan Zhonghong did at the university.

Even if an investigation is conducted, it can only uncover some peripheral details, and the truly in-depth content becomes vague and unclear.

Did Li Miaosheng foresee this step back then?

The thought of his sister's gaze made him uncomfortable. It was precisely because she had that freedom that she had the time and opportunity to fight against her fate.

As for Li Busi himself, he had nothing since he was a child!
Boom!
The chains broke, and the longevity lock wrapped around Li Busi showed signs of cracking. At the same time, the chains snapped layer by layer, releasing the power coming from behind the door.

"Fine, an unknown illusion. If you want this door, come and see for yourself!" Li Busi roared in a low voice, and the smoke spread further and wider.

A large number of assassins appeared densely packed together.

"You said it." Cheng Fei simply smiled and said, flicking his hand. The chain, along with the longevity lock, swept past like mowing grass, wiping out a large number of assassins.

"Fan Zhonghong, this body of mine is a bit weak, can you cover for me?" "Cheng Fei" said. Zheng Fan wasn't joking. After entering this smoky area using Cheng Fei's body, the fatigue that would have accumulated using Cheng Fei's divine body increased even more rapidly. Even using singularities to alleviate it was useless; the time Cheng Fei's body could use within Li Busi's area was extremely limited.

In order to pave the way for the hardworking and dedicated Cheng Fei and give him a year-end bonus, Zheng Fan was serious.

Fan Zhonghong replied, "Okay!"

He took out a yellow talisman, wiped it on his body to remove some of the blood from his wound, and tossed it into the air. As his hand gestures changed, a large number of white talismans shot out from his body and formed an array around the yellow talisman.

"Blood Transformation - Lightning Summons"

The lightning talisman instantly transformed into a red and yellow dragon, roaring and swirling within the talisman array. With each rotation, its body grew larger, while lightning bolts began to strike downwards.

The assassins were wiped out in an instant, and "Cheng Fei" seized the opportunity to pass directly through the thunder and assassins.

Li Busi swung his sword down but missed, the blade only striking the chain. "Cheng Fei" somersaulted over his head, landing upside down behind him, grabbing both ends of the chain and tightening it sharply.

Li Busi ducked sharply to avoid the chains' strangulation, while "Cheng Fei" adjusted his position in mid-air and landed, simultaneously pulling him away.

Li Busi immediately noticed the expanding shadow beneath his feet, quickly shifted to the side, and the Longevity Lock crashed down heavily, raising billowing dust and cracking the earth.

“That chain and lock can’t be retrieved… How did it take them?” Li Busi’s expression was grim. As he was thinking, he glanced at “Cheng Fei”, who had been keeping a distance from him, and suddenly saw him close to him again.

So fast!

Ding-ding-ding-ding!

The blade and the chain clashed rapidly. After only a few rounds of fighting, Li Busi was sent flying by Cheng Fei's punch that slammed into his face while he was still bound by the chains.

but!

Cheng Fei's body suddenly felt weak.

"You've run into me!" Li Busi roared angrily.

Finally, he wasn't someone who could easily ignore death energy after activating the Death Concealment skill, and Li Busi seized the opportunity to launch an attack.

In the distance, a glint flashed in Fan Zhonghong's eyes. The red and yellow lightning dragon followed his finger and swept down. As it flew close to the ground, it vaporized all the surrounding assassins. Finally, the dragon's claw tore through the air and struck Li Busi with earth-shattering lightning.

As Li Busi launched his attack on "Cheng Fei," an empty hand suddenly made a grasping motion.

Boom!
A longevity lock, even larger than a garden rockery, suddenly appeared to suppress the thunder dragon.

Fan Zhonghong immediately spread his hands apart, and the suppressed thunder dragon decomposed into countless thunder snakes that burrowed towards Li Busi. Li Busi was still inevitably disturbed while clicking his tongue, but he still resisted the attack and wanted to take down that strange illusion.

But after surviving the lightning, the Longevity Lock suddenly flew over and hit him directly on the head.

Blood splattered everywhere, and Li Busi's vision went black, but in his dazed state, he managed to straighten his head and maintain his composure. The moment he sensed the aura, he slashed!

As he unleashed his slash, his vision returned.

They struck a black vortex, but it wasn't Cheng Fei.

Did he instantly break free from the possession and kick that body away?!
However, this means the illusion cannot quickly return after the possession ends, as long as he continues to destroy the body...

boom!
Cheng Fei punched Li Busi in the chest, the punch also penetrating the opening in his chest.

"What...what's going on!?" Li Busi's eyes widened, once again shocked by the illogical behavior.

This body was so weak that, even without the manipulation of that illusion, its vitality was indescribably low. It shouldn't even have consciousness; it should have been devoured by that illusion long ago!

At this moment, the illusion left the body, so who was manipulating this body...?

Looking at the bewildered and dazed eyes of "Cheng Fei" in front of him, Li Busi was also full of questions.

But what can be felt is that a consciousness does exist.

“A long, long time ago, I encountered a property-type illusion that used mental consciousness as currency. I absorbed its power and conducted related research whenever I had free time... Now I have made some progress.”

The vortex slowly writhed around Li Busi. Li Busi's death gate was invaded by an external object, and his body was now fixed in place as a gate, unable to move.

"Activating the Hidden Treasure is a comprehensive test of a life. Unfortunately, although I managed to exploit a loophole in this body, the lack of consciousness still makes it unqualified. So I can only... retake the test. And this time, I'll go through your proper channels, upright and aboveboard, so there shouldn't be any problems, right?"

Zheng Fan spoke in a relaxed tone, although to Li Busi, the words were all indistinct and difficult to decipher.

"From buying emotions, to buying spirit, and finally creating a consciousness. Although it's not a completely independent consciousness, it's still my subordinate avatar. With this, I should be able to get in."

"Let me see what the 'world of the dead' is all about."

(End of this chapter)