While I was chanting a curse, the system said I was Xiao Yan?

The moment the Mixu Cage unfolded, a fine, green cage-like structure woven from cursed power enveloped Tianyan's entire body, centered on his hands. The green cage was like intertwined vines, with each line pulsating slowly, carrying a kind of tranquil, almost perfect stability.

The moment the real people's palms touched the green cage wall, they were bounced back. The pale purple palm prints retracted sharply as if they had touched a red-hot iron, making a series of soft hissing sounds and leaving charred marks on the path.

The Mixu Gelong was intact.

The real person's smile froze on its face. As if confirming that its eyes were not mistaken, it waved its hand again, dozens of palms slapping down from different directions at the same time, hitting the cage wall, and then bouncing off, as if hitting a living bulletproof glass.

It stood in the center of the flower made up of countless pale arms, its expression changing from smug to bewildered.

Its spell perception clearly told it that the "sure hit" effect still existed, and those palms were precisely slapping towards the direction of the Heavenly Flame according to the domain rules, but they had no effect at all the moment they touched that green sphere!

The real creature frowned. It didn't understand. It had seen simple domains before, but this green cage-like structure was completely different. It wasn't just a defense; it was more like a declaration: your sure-hit rule is invalid here.

"What...what is this?"

Tianyan stood inside the green cage, his hands clasped in front of him, maintaining the hand seal posture, and calmly looked at the real person: "The Sumeru Cage, a small invention of an ancient sorcerer."

Tianyan was referring to Reggie Star, who is still imprisoned underground. Tianyan specifically sought him out to learn this move as a skill for combating the field.

It's important to know that the Simple Domain was developed based on the Sumeru Cage. As a skill developed later, it's not that the Simple Domain is not good enough, but the Simple Domain focuses on counterattacks. When encountering situations like the Real Person's Domain, where you can't hit anything, the Sumeru Cage, which focuses entirely on one ability, namely neutralization and guaranteed hits, is actually more effective.

The real person's lips twitched, then the smile vanished.

Instead, there was a kind of enraged, hysterical madness.

"You think you can stop me like this?!"

Its hands suddenly rose, fingers spread wide, and the palms that reached out from the path accelerated at the same moment, surging towards the green cage from all directions, from above, below, left, and right, from every possible angle, like a tide.

Dozens, hundreds, thousands.

All the palms in the gray-white space pressed down on Tianyan at the same time, forming a giant wave made up of countless arms. They slammed against the green cage wall, making a dense sound like a rainstorm hitting a tin roof!

"Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap!"

The sound echoed in the empty space, so piercing that it made one's scalp tingle. The real person's body trembled, and the power of the spell was being unleashed wildly. The slapping of those hands became faster, heavier, and more violent.

But the green cage walls remained completely still.

Not a single crack, let alone shattering. The hands were gently pushed away the moment they touched the cage wall, like waves crashing against rocks, splashing everywhere, yet the rocks remained intact.

The real person's expression began to contort.

"Impossible...impossible, impossible, impossible!"

Its voice rose, becoming almost uncontrollably shrill: "This is my domain! This is my domain! My sure-hit is absolute! How could you possibly stop me!"

Tianyan did not answer. He simply took a step forward in the green cage. The Mixu Ge cage moved with him, like a green ball of light being pushed along, slowly advancing among the dense paths and palms.

The real person's expression changed from confusion to horror. The hands frantically slapped and intercepted, trying to stop Tianyan from advancing, but they were bounced away the moment they touched the green cage wall, unable to even deflect Tianyan's steps.

"Stop! Stop!"

The real person's voice rose a notch, and its body began to retreat, shrinking back from the center of the flower formed by those palms. It tried to create distance, but although Tianyan's speed was not fast, it never stopped, like a heavy chariot that crushed all obstacles, each step firmly stepping on those intersecting roads.

Tianyan is getting closer and closer to becoming a real person.

The real person's expression had completely changed. Those eyes that were originally filled with mockery and cruelty were now filled with naked panic. It formed hand seals, trying to readjust the structure of the domain and try to find the flaw in the Mixu Ge Cage, but no matter how it adjusted it, the green cage wall remained unmoved.

"No...it shouldn't be like this..."

Tianyan broke through the palm's blockade and rushed in front of Zhenren. He swung his right leg horizontally, his whole body like a fully drawn bow, bursting out with all his power in that instant. Purple-gold spell power condensed on the surface of his foot, drawing a dazzling arc and accurately kicking Zhenren's left rib.

Black Flash!

The impact exploded the instant of contact, and black lightning burst from the point of contact between the instep and ribs, drawing a twisted, ominous black arc in the gray-white space.

The real man's body suddenly arched, like a boiled shrimp, and purplish-black blood gushed from his mouth, drawing an arc in the air before landing on the paths, making a hissing, corrosive sound.

Its body tumbled in mid-air like a kicked pebble, its limbs hanging limply, like a discarded rag doll. The flower, composed of countless pale arms, trembled violently the instant the real person left its body, its petals beginning to curl, shrink, and disintegrate.

"Snap!"

A crisp sound, like shattering glass, followed by cracks appearing in the space from the edges, spreading from the outer perimeter towards the center, from sparse to dense, like a broken mirror.

The cracks multiplied, grew denser, and deeper; the paths crumbled, and the hands vanished.

"Click, click, click!"

The cracking sounds were as dense as firecrackers, echoing in the empty space, and then...

"Splash!"

The space was like a shattered mirror, collapsing from the outer edge, with fragments scattering in the air and turning into countless tiny specks of magical energy that shimmered faintly in the afternoon sunlight.

The commercial street reappeared in Tianyan's view, with rubble, broken signs, overturned trucks, and shattered walls—everything was there.

The real person fell onto the asphalt road, his body curled up in a ball, like a snail whose shell had been crushed. Dark purple blood seeped from dozens of cracks in his body, slowly spreading on the gravel ground.

It raised its head and looked at Tianyan's expressionless face. Those once arrogant eyes were now filled with pure fear, and purplish-black blood kept gushing from the corners of its mouth and nostrils.

"I..." It opened its mouth as if to say something, but only more blood and foam gushed from its throat, silencing its words.

Tianyan stood before the True Man. The Mi Xu Ge Long had dissipated. He raised his right fist, his bone armor covering the surface, and purple-gold spell power flowed between the lines on the fist.

The True Man's soul flame was on its last legs after being severely damaged by four black flashes and the backlash from the shattered domain.

Tianyan could sense that the once enormous soul fire was now reduced to a faint, flickering flame, like a candle in the wind, which could be extinguished with a gentle breath.

"it's over."

Without hesitation, Tianyan brought down his right fist!

boom!

The ground exploded.

A pillar of orange-red fire erupted from the ground, precisely blocking the real person's path. It was not an ordinary flame, but a more intense and concentrated fire pillar, as if it were formed from magma deep underground. The temperature was so high that even the air was distorted, and even the surface of Tianyan's bone armor felt a scorching wave of heat.

Tianyan withdrew his fist and retreated, his bone wings unfolding behind him. He launched himself backward and landed on the wreckage of a building. He looked down at his right fist, where there was a thin layer of scorch marks on the surface of his bone armor, as if it had been baked by high temperatures.

The pillar of fire slowly dissipated.

A small figure emerged from the dust and smoke.

It was about 1.5 meters tall, with short, thick limbs, like a compressed adult. Its head was the most striking feature, resembling a miniature volcano with a charred, grooved rock shell at the top. Orange-red light flowed from the cracks in the shell, like magma slowly surging beneath the surface. It had only one eye on its face, which was now staring intently at Tianyan.

With each step it takes, it leaves a shallow scorch mark on the ground beneath its feet, where gravel and asphalt melt, cool, and solidify again.

The name "Water Clock" came to Tianyan's mind as he sensed the aura of the cursed spirit and its unique shape.

Louhu walked up to the real person, glanced down at the figure slumped on the ground, a complex light flashed in his single eye, and then he raised his head to look at Tianyan.

"That's enough, humans!"

"Our wish as cursed spirits is to create a future where only cursed spirits exist, and to accomplish this, we need real people."

Its single eye was fixed on Tianyan, and orange-red light slowly flowed in its eye socket.

"It can't die here."

"And you, human, will die here today!"

Tianyan's gaze shifted from the water clock to the real person, who was supporting himself on the ground as he slowly backed away with his deformed feet, entering the narrow alleyway to the side.

The real person is running away!

Tianyan moved, his bone wings flapped suddenly, and his body sprang up from the ruins of the building, drawing an arc in the air, attempting to bypass the location of the water clock and directly pursue the real person.

The water clock didn't turn around; it simply raised its right hand, its five fingers spread wide, the short, thick fingertips pointing towards the ground.

A small volcano has sprung up on the ground.

A massive, orange-red pillar of fire erupted from within, like a wall forged from flames, blocking the path between Tianyan and Zhenren. The pillar was as tall as a ten-story building and its width covered the entire street. Flames surged and roared in the air, scorching the surrounding ground black.

Tianyan abruptly stopped in mid-air, his bone wings folded, and his body fell back to the ground. He glanced at the wall of fire, then at the real person who was staggering into the alley on the other side of the wall of fire. His bone wings unfolded again, and he climbed upward.

He flew very fast, so fast that he left only a purple-gold afterimage in the air, but when he reached a height of about 100 meters, he encountered an obstacle.

"Bang!"

With a muffled thud, it felt as if his head had hit an invisible wall. He was bounced back, flipped halfway through the air, and landed back on the ground, his shoes leaving two deep dents in the gravel.

Tianyan raised his head.

There was nothing in the sky, but his senses told him that the wall existed; it wasn't a point, but a complete, enormous hemispherical barrier covering the area, extending from the ground to the sky, trapping him and the water clock inside.

The water clock stood in front of the wall of fire, its single eye glowing with an orange-red light. Its voice came from behind the wall of fire, deep and filled with a long-suppressed anger.

"This barrier was set up intentionally."

"I've been watching you from a distance ever since you first appeared here."

Its body passed through the wall of fire, flames flowing over it like a cloak woven from lava. Its steps were steady, each step leaving a shallow scorch mark on the ground, until it stopped about ten meters away from Tianyan.

"I just didn't expect you to actually push a real person to that point. Its technique is crucial to the plan."

"If you succeed, our plans will be delayed for a long time."

The water clock raised its head, its huge single eye staring at Tianyan, as if reassessing the human before it.

"You are indeed very strong."

It raised its right hand, and the fine cracks on its short, thick arm began to glow with an orange-red light. Hot magma gushed from its fingertips, dripping onto the gravel ground at its feet with a hissing sound.

"But your journey ends here."

"Only one of us can get out of here!"

The water clock's single eye narrowed, and an orange-red light gathered deep within its pupil, like a volcano about to erupt.

"And that person isn't you!"

The pillars of fire exploded on the ground, one, two, three, countless pillars of fire spreading in all directions from the foot of the water clock, forming a sea of ​​fire that enveloped the entire area in high temperature and scorching heat.

Tianyan stood in the very center of the sea of ​​fire, his purple-gold bone wings slightly folded behind him, and a faint purple light emanating from the surface of his bone armor—the traces of his cursed power resisting the high temperature.

His gaze shifted from the water clock to the alleyway. The real person's figure had completely vanished, and in his soul perception, the fluctuation of that spark of soul fire was also fading away, disappearing completely after a certain distance.

This means that the real person has left the barrier.

Tianyan withdrew his gaze and looked back at the water clock. He placed it on his storage ring, and the Xuanzhong Ruler appeared in his hand.

"OK."

"Since you insist on blocking my way..."

"Then you go down and keep those two cursed spirits company."