Cultivating Immortality from the Book of Life and Death

Chapter 495 Breaking the Illusion. (Second Update!)

Having confirmed the identity of the person who made the move, Zheng Que nodded slightly. The [Scorched Soul] of the [Iron Tree Prison] had now been dealt with.

He can now start revising his "rule" back to its original state!

At that time, the illusion will spontaneously disappear.

Liao Zhanbo, Yan Dong, and Song Jiaoyin will all wake up.

These three people don't pose any threat to me.

What we really need to pay attention to is the "strangeness" of that market town, and Yin Congyi's master.

Do not……

He didn't need to worry about the "strange" market.

The underworld will soon devour this "monster"!
He just needs to stay inside the "weird" and not go out.

Therefore, after the illusion was dispelled, the only real threat to him was Yin Congyi's master.

Thinking of this, Zheng Que turned back to the second page of the Book of Life and Death.

The patterns on this page are clearer now, and the texture of my fingertips is slightly uneven, like touching cold bronze rather than familiar paper.

Zheng Que wasted no time, looked at Xue Shuangzi's record, and immediately called out, "Xue..."

However, before he could finish pronouncing the name "Xue Shuangzi," the black energy flowing between his brows suddenly twisted and swayed, then broke off directly from the Book of Life and Death.

Zheng Que frowned immediately; he had encountered this situation once before.

When the last calamity struck, his soul was in the underworld, while his physical body in reality was possessed by Niannu, causing him to exit the underworld space prematurely.

However, he didn't bring Niannu with him this time!
"not good!"

"We haven't improved Xue Shuangzi's cultivation level yet!"

Before Zheng Que could finish his thought, the scene before him suddenly changed. The dilapidated palace trembled and disappeared like ripples on water, and the main hall of the Yuwen Mansion appeared before him.

He immediately saw Liao Zhanbo sitting in the main seat, his face turning red and blue, seemingly very angry and somewhat helpless; while in the first armchair to his left, Yan Dong sat upright, his face full of murderous intent.

Song Jiaoyin, sitting in the first armchair on the right, had her dress intact, but her once fair face was now flushed red, like a sunset burning the sky, almost dripping with color. Her breathing was also very unsteady, and her exhalations were particularly heavy.

Zheng Que looked at the armchair directly opposite him, only to find that it was empty. Neither Yin Congyi nor the unfamiliar young cultivator were in the chair.

The area around the chair was empty, and the graceful figure was nowhere to be seen.

He looked down and saw Xue Shuangzi lying in his arms, her eyes slightly closed, her expression constantly changing.

Sunlight streamed through the hole in the roof into the hall. Outside, the courtyard was in complete disarray, with collapsed walls, broken vegetation, and shattered rocks—all the result of the destruction caused by the ghostly hand that [Jiao Po] had reached in earlier.

The ghostly hand vanished without a trace, but the damaged area remained unrepaired.

As his gaze swept over everything, Zheng Que immediately realized that this was reality!

When he first entered the underworld, he broke free from the illusion. Now, as he emerged from the underworld, he returned directly to reality without immediately falling back into the illusion.

Just as he was thinking, Zheng Que suddenly realized that something was wrong with his body. He looked down and saw that everything else on his body was normal, but his left hand was very unfamiliar. The skin on it looked like it had aged a lot in an instant, clearly the appearance of a middle-aged person.

Moreover, at this moment, this left hand was no longer under his control. Zheng Que was slightly taken aback, then realized that this left hand belonged to the middle-aged cultivator with a sorrowful face who had been sitting in his armchair!
This is how "weirdness" erodes oneself!

The reason he suddenly left the underworld space was that his physical body had been assimilated by the "strange" force.

“The ‘weirdness’ has already been drawn into the illusion, so it shouldn’t actively assimilate me.”

"This must be my soul entering the underworld, leaving behind a physical body that has become an empty shell."

"Then this empty body happened to overlap with the figure of the middle-aged cultivator in the 'strange', which is why it was affected."

Just as Zheng Que was thinking this, he suddenly heard a fierce fighting sound.

He looked up and saw a beautiful pink mist, which fell like layers of gauze, soft and gentle.

On the armchair next to her, Song Jiaoyin bit her lip tightly, her ivory fan moving faster and faster, and the syllables she uttered becoming increasingly indistinct.

Xue Shuangzi sat in his lap, still trying to imitate Song Jiaoyin's movements.

I've been pulled into an illusion again!
Zheng Que frowned and took a deep breath.

He didn't have time to boost Xue Shuangzi's cultivation level just now; however, since she didn't reach the [Iron Tree Prison] level, she didn't reach the [Iron Tree Prison] level!
Let's break free from this illusion first!
Zheng Que immediately closed his eyes, and an old-fashioned bamboo stick immediately appeared in his mind.

At this moment, twelve characters are written on the bamboo stick in a flamboyant style, and these characters are constantly changing. These twelve characters correspond to the twelve fragments inside this "strange thing".

However, only five of these words are true. Of the other two words, half are true, and the rest are all illusions.

Zheng Que looked at the bamboo sticks without hesitation, and immediately moved all twelve characters off the bamboo sticks.

These twelve characters were constantly changing on the bamboo stick, making it impossible to discern their true form. However, after being removed from the bamboo stick, five characters immediately froze, showing no further change; two characters saw half of their changes stop, while the other half continued to rapidly transform; the other five characters remained completely unaffected, continuing to change rapidly.

Zheng Que immediately understood that the words that were still changing were all illusions.

Next, with another thought, the blank bamboo sticks suddenly separated into four identical bamboo sticks, each with a divination inscription on it.

These four bamboo sticks represent the four fragments of the "laws": "life," "path," "marriage," and "death."

Without Zheng Que expending much effort, the four fragments quickly returned to their original order: "Marriage," "Path," "Life and Death"...

The next moment, the four bamboo sticks filled with fortune slips merged back into one blank bamboo stick.

The moment the blank bamboo stick took shape, all the characters derived from the illusion among the twelve characters vanished.

At the same time, three red threads quietly appeared above the bamboo skewers, hovering in mid-air, winding upwards, and finally disappearing into the depths of the void.

This is the marriage line.

They are connected to Mu Xiangu, Yanluo Fairy, and Xue Shuangzi respectively.

These three marriage lines represent his three destined marriages.

At that moment, this "law" suddenly seemed to be pushed to its limit by some external force, and it unleashed an exceptionally terrifying power!

Above the bamboo skewer, a fourth and then a fifth thread of fate began to appear eerily...

(End of this chapter)