Techniques and Dao

Chapter 166 The Supreme Illusion
Mieying stared blankly at the road ahead, as if talking to himself:

"It should be said that Huan is some kind of... individual existence that transcends the rest of us eight sisters. When we sisters were still children, the eighth sister was extremely unstable and would suddenly appear randomly."

She asked Hanamori, "Do you know why our godfather noticed us sisters when he passed over our house?"

Hua Sheng replied, "I heard that it was Nezha, the Fire Wheel Heavenly King, who saw the shadow of the infant Nezha on the lawn of the garden?"

"This is not the whole story."

Mie Ying's lips curled up slightly as he said, "Actually, on the first day my godfather came to my house, he only happened to pass by the sky above my backyard. You should know that when you look down from thousands of meters in the air, there are crowds of people below. The houses you see are only the size of a sesame seed. Even a god would have a hard time noticing a baby."

"How did Nezha discover you?"

“Only we know that our godfather actually concealed a detail from that day that would have been embarrassing for him,” Mieying said. “That day, when our godfather was flying over our house, he suddenly lost control and crashed.”

"Huh?? How could the Heavenly King, with his magical powers, fall from mid-air?" Hua Sheng asked in surprise. "Could it be due to turbulent air currents during flight?"

"Of course not! It's because his magic power disappeared."

Hua Sheng gasped, "You mean Nezha? He's become a guardian deity and turned back into a mortal? But in my memory, Nezha was never supposed to be an ordinary mortal from the moment he was born!"

“That’s right. But in that instant, my godfather lost all his magic! He became just like you humans.”

"But he also has those magical artifacts."

"All power has been driven away by this power called 'Breaking Mind'!"

Mieying added, "However, Po Nian only stole his magic power for a moment. So he recovered immediately after falling a certain distance. Because Eighth Sister only appeared for a moment before disappearing."

The word "retreat" felt particularly apt to Hua Sheng.

Mieying continued, "Even so, my godfather still fell from thousands of meters in the sky down to a hundred meters above the ground. This kind of shock was something he had never experienced before. Perhaps this is an important reason why he later took us in as his goddaughters."

Hua Sheng continued, "What if your Eighth Sister hadn't retreated and had remained there?"

“The godfather will fall from mid-air until he hits the ground.”

What would happen if you fell to the ground?

"Just like any other person, I fell into a puddle of mud."

"what……"

Hua Sheng was about to burst into laughter when he realized that there wasn't a hint of a smile in Mie Ying's words, nor was there a smile on Mie Ying's face.

He couldn't help but ask, "Are you kidding me?"

“It’s not a joke,” Mieying replied expressionlessly.

Hua Sheng felt a chill run through her body.

This ability called "breaking the mind" was something I had never heard of before, and I had never even imagined it.

"Your Eighth Sister's mind-breaking ability is too amazing. Does that mean that no matter how powerful a deity is, they would all become a helpless mortal in front of her?"

"correct."

Hua Sheng suddenly became interested in getting to the bottom of things and pressed on, asking, "What about the Buddha? What about Lao Tzu?"

"I haven't tried it. Eighth Sister doesn't appear often, but she has never failed so far. Not only her godfather, but even higher-level immortals find it difficult to escape this power."

Hanamori suddenly understood this power. He thought of another power that was equally inexplicable.

To the end.

These powers come from an unknown source; Wei Yu once told him that Tianjizi's power comes from "Heaven".

He had never thought about this question carefully, because in his mind, "heaven" was similar in meaning to the celestial court and immortals.

However, in reality, Tianjizi's exceptional talent within the Daoist Academy clearly surpassed that of the descendants of immortals. In other words, this power may not have been bestowed by any deity.

The power possessed by the Eighth Sister who just appeared was enough to instantly turn Nezha into a mortal!
While the Heavenly Court could strip a deity of their power and "send them down to the mortal realm," it would require a complex and elaborate punishment process. This punishment for deities who violated the Heavenly Rules was akin to "demotion" in officialdom.

However, "breaking free from attachment" is clearly not a legal punishment, but rather a kind of enlightenment or awakening that transcends a higher level. It is the disregard and destruction of the world's rules after seeing through them.

Therefore, it can transcend immortality and law itself, becoming an absolute existence that is difficult to understand.

Hua Sheng didn't know why he thought that way, but it was clear that the "heaven" that Wei Yu mentioned at the time was not referring to some kind of divine power or heavenly court.

Unfortunately, there was no chance to hear Wei Yu explain the answer.

Having understood the concept of breaking free from illusion, Hua Sheng was forced to seriously confront the issue of "illusion."

He asked, "If every appearance of an illusion would bring all the magic in the world to a standstill, wouldn't that have caused chaos long ago?"

“Not the whole world. Illusion can control the scope of her power. For example, she can make broken thoughts only occur in a certain room, or in a certain city or country.”

"What about the maximum range? Is the distance infinite?"

"No, no power is truly without boundaries. But according to Huan herself, the farthest range that Breaking Thought can reach is 108 trillion light-years."

Hua Sheng exclaimed, "That's so far! It sounds like it's wider than the whole world!"

"But she only stays for a short time each time. And she disappears for a long time after she leaves. I haven't heard of Eighth Sister appearing for more than five years."

"How can you tell she's your sister?" Hua Sheng asked. "I mean, apart from her girlish voice, she's just a strange figure, not at all like a human or a fairy. How can you tell she's your eighth sister?"

“She said it herself. Because she told her older sister that her body was the eighth to die.”

Mieying's words reminded Huasheng of her past.

Eight of the sisters were stillborn. And these souls all reside in the ninth sister's body. It seems that the order of the first eight sisters' ages was determined by the order in which their respective fetuses died.

At this moment, Jane stood to the side with her arms crossed over her chest, her eyes wide open, as if she were listening to a ghost story.

"Isn't it weird enough that all of you sisters live in the same body? And now there's a sister who seems to come from another dimension!"

Hua Sheng didn't respond to Jian's words, pondering the strange Eighth Sister in his heart.

Although the appearance of "illusion" was brief, it left a deep impression on him.

Hua Sheng remembers that when "Illusion" faced him, it was like a person outside a fish tank facing a small shrimp inside.

But one thing caught his attention: Huan was still bound to the chair. If she were powerful, she would have broken free long ago. In fact, during that entire period of time, she never left the chair, so no matter what her abilities were, she was still bound by Mieying's body.

Is it possible that this is the case?

Compared to those deeply involved, "Illusion" is actually an observer.

(End of this chapter)