Having the genes of a demon king, I never intended to be a kept man.

Princess Emilia remained standing there, looking dazed.

What happened just now?

Isn't that an illusion?

Muramasa looked at Yoru and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Is the Nanmi River cut off from its water supply?

Such superb swordsmanship...

What is the relationship between Jiang Xiaoming and Mu Jiannan, the human sword saint?

"woo woo woo woo......"

With a series of eerie and sorrowful cries.

Many more "minor monsters" have appeared.

A dozen or so Qin soldiers wielding spears and halberds, along with thirty-odd Qin civilians with suffering faces like zombies, surrounded Ye Ge and his companions, muttering incessantly.

Emilia was horrified when she saw these little monsters.

These aren't all the things she just saw...

So what she just saw wasn't an illusion?

Ye Ge showed no surprise and tossed the straight sword back to Nangong Ru.

Muramasa did not move. The black lion behind him bared its teeth, giving a fierce warning look to the Qin soldiers who surrounded him.

The middle-aged samurai drew his katana, and Knight Airon also drew his sword.

The Wind Clan's Holy Maiden, the Celestial Clan's Venerable Zhao, and the Blood Clan all assumed battle stances...

......

With everyone's combined efforts, these dozens of monsters were quickly wiped out.

The sky, covered in blood, looked particularly eerie and bloody, creating a terrifying atmosphere.

"What's going on with these monsters?" the vampire asked, panting. "How did they suddenly appear?"

Night Song: "They are beings of imagination."

Nangong Ru was taken aback: "Imaginary creatures?"

"This level is actually a large-scale illusion."

Ye Ge looked up at the extremely dark moon in the night sky and the black azure dragon weaving through the blood-red clouds.

"However, this illusion is a bit special. Conventional illusions are scenes created by the caster that they want the recipient to see."

"But this illusion is a scene created in the mind of the person being treated."

"Everyone who enters this level will be affected by the spiritual power of the Extreme Yin Azure Dragon."

"Your SAN value will continue to decrease, while your mental strength, imagination, brain activity, and divergent thinking will be forced to increase. However, the stronger your imagination, the stronger the enemy you will face in this level."

Knight Airon understood: "So you mean that everything in this place is pieced together from our imagination?"

“That’s right,” Ye Ge said. “Human imagination is divergent. For example, a leaf might make me imagine a big tree, a big tree might make me imagine a forest, and a forest might make me imagine that all the trees in the forest are terrifying man-eating tree demons, and then…”

The words have not yet fallen.

"Crackling and snapping..."

"Sh ...

Hundreds of bizarrely shaped, terrifying tree demons burst forth from the ground. Each tree demon's trunk was carved with a human face, its features deep and gloomy. Its outstretched branches resembled countless long, slender fingers. Even more incongruous was that these tree demons were all dressed in heavy armor from the Qin Kingdom, resembling a group of tree-man soldiers.

At this moment, all the tree-men bared their fangs and claws, surrounding Ye Ge and his companions once again.

Everyone: "..."

Night Song: "Uh... that's it."

"As long as you can't help but imagine, the Extreme Yin Azure Dragon will use the energy generated in your mind to continuously materialize these imaginations, creating such imaginary creatures, and even changing the environment of the entire illusion."

Nightshade's expression darkened, and he cursed under his breath. Wings appeared on his back, revealing his true form, Nightshade.

At this moment, more than a hundred terrifying tree demons swarmed forward.

The battle is about to break out again.

The Holy Maiden of the Wind Clan and Venerable Zhao of the Heavenly Clan leaped up and landed on a dilapidated rooftop.

The Wind Clan's Holy Maiden swiftly formed hand seals, summoning over a dozen wind blades. These wind blades spun and swept outwards, creating a series of swift, cutting-like flashes of light that instantly sliced ​​several enormous tree demons into countless pieces.

The Celestial Venerable pointed his hands to the Heavenly Eye on his forehead, and a beam of golden light shot out, sweeping through the tree demon horde and sending countless fragments of bark flying.

The middle-aged samurai drew his katana and unleashed a lightning-fast slash, instantly cleaving the four terrifying tree demons in two.

'These tree spirits shouldn't be able to survive being cut in half, right...?'

The middle-aged samurai only had this thought for a fleeting moment.

In just a moment, the terrifying tree demons that had been cut in half stood up, and their cut-off bodies grew back with a face and countless branches, effectively creating another clone!

"Damn it!"

The middle-aged samurai gritted his teeth and cursed under his breath.

It's actually true that things are decided by the heart?!

There’s more to it than that.

The terrifying tree demons evolved and mutated at a rate far exceeding the speed at which they could kill them.

'Luckily, these tree spirits don't have weapons. If every single one of their branches were as sharp as a razor...'

'Tree spirits probably can't attack from a distance, right? What if they can unleash a Leaf Storm...'

'I shouldn't get poisoned if I'm attacked by these tree spirits, right?...'

Thus, through the piecing together of everyone's imaginations, the power of these terrifying tree demons grew stronger and stronger.

In less than two minutes, the tree spirits that were originally a few meters tall had all grown to thirty or forty meters! Their trunks had even evolved muscles similar to those of humans, and highly poisonous parasitic seeds could be sprayed from the tree holes. The tree spirits, originally of the wood element, could now even breathe fire, unleash lightning, and throw wind blades...

Under the influence of the Azure Dragon's spiritual power, even though everyone knew the rules of this level, they couldn't control their imaginations at all.

Moreover, as time goes by, their imaginative attributes continue to rise...

[Hint: Imagination +18, Brain Activity +12, Divergent Thinking +19, Unconventional Thinking +10, Dangerous Delusions +26, Excitement +15, Mental Strength +1500, SAN Value -1000...]

"...What the hell is the point of fighting?!" Lei Xuan, a member of the Lei Xuan clan, cursed.

At this rate, their monster-killing speed can't even keep up with the rate at which these tree demons multiply and evolve!

Night Song dodged an attack from a poisonous vine whip.

He calmly looked around.

This entire desolate battlefield has been completely transformed into a terrifying Dark Treant Forest!

Hundreds of tree spirits, each over a hundred meters tall, surrounded them. Their towering canopies blocked out the sky and the moon, and the ghostly branches swayed and shook, making it almost impossible to see the sky!