Techniques and Dao

Chapter 165 Luo Yu Breaks Through His Mind
991248!

Hearing this set of numbers, Mieying was quite puzzled. These numbers were Huasheng's identification number during the Tianmu Trial.

Hua Sheng quickly added, "Not only that, it's also the formation of the array talismans that Lan Caihe gave to Brother Xu's two younger sisters before I came to Shengping Ning!"

"This is outrageous! Why does it sound like these numbers are always revolving around you?"

"When I pierced through the veil of uncertainty surrounding the future, I hallucinated that I was in a hospital. My medical record number when I was trapped in the hospital was also this number!"

Mieying replied, "But this forest is a magical maze, so it's not surprising that numbers you know appear here. The hospital you mentioned after destroying the Starry Night Veil... that must also be your illusion? I think it's some kind of punishment from the Starry Night Veil for trapping the destroyers, so there's no need to take it seriously."

She clutched her shoulder and said, "You're being so superstitious, you've made my wound hurt again. How annoying!"

Seeing the pain on Mieying's face, Jianbian turned to him and said, "Let me see this! I'll heal you with white magic."

Mieying involuntarily shrank back: "No! No! Your white magic monsters are scary."

Jane comforted him, "White magic is a healing spell. Professor Bivis seemed to be manipulated by someone just now. But magic itself is a skill, neither good nor bad."

Only then did Mie Ying release his hand from covering the wound.

Jane gently placed her hand on Mieying's shoulder, chanting a spell that Huasheng and the others couldn't understand, and then some pale yellow light appeared in her palm.

Jane held that position for a while before letting go.

"Take a look at the wound."

After removing the gauze from her shoulder, Mieying exclaimed in surprise, "The wound has actually healed! This young lady suffered a celestial injury, which I couldn't heal myself in a short time. Your white magic is quite powerful! No wonder I heard that Western medicine works quickly!"

Jane smiled and said, "How is it?"

Mie Ying hesitated again: "But... I'm afraid your Western medicine only treats the symptoms, not the root cause!"

Jane smiled and said, "Whether it's a cure or not, you'll know once you move around a bit."

Then she turned around, took Hua Sheng's hand in hers, and began chanting a magic spell. Hua Sheng was only human, and in just a second or two, the wound from the dagger on his hand healed.

Jane then treated the injury on Hana's thigh and said, "The numbers you mentioned might be some fictional memories that your magic circle in the wooden house brought into reality. The magic circles we learn originally contained many unknown powers, which even we, the casters, may not be able to fully understand."

Mieying asked, "You can even cast magic, how could you not understand it?"

"It's like the effect of drugs. Some potential benefits may not appear until ten or twenty years after the drug is produced, and even the researchers may not be able to fully explore them."

After listening, Hua Sheng said, "I... can't be completely sure either. But perhaps, as you said, some illusory things in my mind have been brought into reality."

"Dreams are projections of memories, but the brain processes the information in dreams arbitrarily, so what is presented may not be the complete memory. And the magic circle transforms these things into something visible, forming the objects you mentioned. For example, that cabinet may not have originally existed in the cabin."

"You mean the hallucination has materialized?"

Jane nodded, as if she had suddenly thought of something.

"Speaking of illusions, Shadowbreaker, what exactly was that sister of yours called 'Illusion' just now?"

The topic returned to what happened a moment earlier, an inexplicable scene in the forest cabin.

It was past midnight. Traffic on the highway was sparse; in some sections, there wasn't a single car in sight. "Eighth Sister, she calls herself Illusion."

Inside a sports car speeding along the highway, Mieying began to recount the story of her mysterious sister.

“She almost never shows herself. Since I can remember, my sisters and I have rarely seen her. Even when she does appear, it's only for a short time, which is two minutes and twenty-four seconds. That's the maximum duration of her appearance.”

Jane asked, "You said she had appeared before, what was the reason for her appearance each time?"

"She only appears when we face a real threat to our lives."

"She sounds like the guardian angel behind you guys, the kind of protector? But if that's the case, she should be protecting you from harm, so how did you get hurt?"

“No, it’s not that simple,” Mieying replied. “If we sisters have a protector who shares our bodies, it should be our eldest sister and fourth sister.”

The eldest sister is the Pure and Wondrous Immortal Master, while the fourth sister is a white-haired woman who wields the Purple Flame Serpent Spear and Fire-Tipped Spear, and is called the strongest by Xiao Qi.

She said, "Eighth Sister isn't protecting us from harm. She's more like, for this... no, I should say for some kind of power that allows Shadow Extinction to continue."

Jane didn't quite understand: "What does 'continue to exist' mean?"

“I can’t explain it. Sometimes we don’t understand what Eighth Sister says. But many years ago, when I was very young, Eighth Sister appeared and said that we are connected to some kind of complex and ever-changing scene. This scene has characters, plot, dialogue, and a beginning, development, climax, and resolution. Those things are closely related to us. Like blood, once we die, it will cause the whole scene to collapse and crumble.”

Mieying Xiaoqi's words left Jian and Huasheng looking at each other in bewilderment.

Jane pressed on, "Scene? Your Eighth Sister is talking about a scene like a stage play?"

Mieying shook his head: "I can't be sure."

"But this sounds like something exists around us, and that you, Shadowbreaker, are nourishing it? If you die, that thing seems to die too?"

"I was young then, and I don't remember exactly what was said."

Hua Sheng asked, "If, as you say, your departure causes the scene to collapse, what will be the consequences? Will many people die?"

Mieying didn't seem entirely certain, only saying, "I don't know exactly what it is. But Ba Mei calls it 'the inevitable end'."

An inevitable end. Hanamori found this phrase difficult to understand. Literally, it does suggest that everything has an end. But why would that mysterious "Illusion" say that the "end" occurs when the Shadow of Destruction is threatened?

If this end is inevitable, then what is the reason for Illusion protecting Shadow Destroyer? If it cannot be stopped, is it merely a matter of delaying the end?

Hua Sheng asked, "When your eighth sister said it was inevitable, did she mean something like destiny or fate?"

The image disappeared without knowing the reason, and just shook its head in confusion.

"Was everything that just happened in the room part of Eighth Sister's magic?"

“No, quite the opposite. It’s hard to describe, not magic.” Mieying said. “You two saw her earlier, so you should have been able to sense her power.”

Hua Sheng recalled the scene and replied, "It's hard to describe at the time. It was as if the whole world stopped turning, but time still flowed. Not only that, but immortal arts and magic seemed to have stopped working. I couldn't even lift the Golden Cudgel. No, the Golden Cudgel disappeared later."

Mieying took a deep breath and slowly said:
"Yes, that's it. The Fire Wheel Heavenly King once told my father and mother about it. This power is called breaking through thoughts."

(End of this chapter)