The woman retells the story, the plot is the same as before, except that this time, she fills in some missing details in the story, such as the Qin family master has a purpose to recruit a husband with the martial arts competition, big sister does not want to marry, but is forced to marry, and big sister is jealous of her safety, so she drags her here, ties her up, and tortures her repeatedly.
Everyone listens quietly, Mu Zhen asks: "You are not hiding anything this time, right?"
After telling the whole story, the woman's spirit is also extremely tense. Fear makes her unable to answer Mu Zhen. She trembles and only cries softly.
Mu Zhen sighs, retracts his gaze, turns to Su Yu and others and says: "Look, I still have to find Master Qin and ask about this matter clearly." The key point may be the 'purpose' that Master Qin wants to achieve. Only by knowing what he does can they understand what the eldest lady has experienced. If they understand these two key points, the truth of the matter can be almost revealed.
"No need." Su Yu suddenly said.
Mu Zhen was confused: "No need? Why?"
"If we keep an eye on this second lady, maybe the person who created the illusion will appear." Su Yu explained, "Just because of jealousy, she trapped her sister in an illusion and tortured her repeatedly. Is this extreme behavior really possible ma?"
"Do you think this second lady didn't tell the truth?" Mu Zhen asked.
The woman's crying just began to slow down, and she heard what Mu Zhen said. She explained in a panic: "Immortal, I didn't." After that, she sobbed again, as if she was afraid of being disliked. She also raised her hand to cover her lips and changed to crying silently.
"The matter between the eldest lady and her may not be as simple as she said, so the eldest lady can't let her get free." Su Yu was indifferent to the woman's crying and still said in a calm voice.
Mu Zhen thought about what he had just said, and recalled his road to immortal cultivation. He had experienced the dark things of human nature, he had also seen this kind of love and hate without reason, so Mu Zhen wanted to say... It's really possible.
"To put it another way, if this eldest lady is really narrow-minded, vicious and cruel. After she found out that her little sister was rescued, would she sit back and do nothing, let her little sister be rescued ma?" Su Yu continued.
Right o, if you think about it this way, no matter what, the eldest lady will not let the second lady go. She will notice the abnormality here and will definitely investigate the situation. They just needs to stay here and be patient.
The thoughts in Su Yu's words are straightforward. Mu Zhen can understand it, and the woman on the ground can also understand it. She raised her head suddenly, a look of tension and fear filled her face. Her beautiful features were distorted because of this, her voice was sharp: "She will still come back? Shouldn't she...have been eliminated by you ma? Otherwise...otherwise, how can I recover?"
A female voice as gentle as water sounded: "You are still here, I will naturally come back."
"Ahhhh--!!!" The woman covered her ears and crawled back frantically until she could no longer retreat. She finally stopped moving and huddled in a corner, hugging her body with both hands, trembling silently. This shows how afraid she is of the enemy.
Su Yu and others looked up at the source of the sound. It was a woman with ordinary appearance but very special temperament. Just like her voice, she was as gentle as water, soft and soothing. She was wearing a light blue gauze skirt. It was unknown what material it was made of. When she walked, it was shining with a faint pearlescent color.
"You are a..." Mu Zhen frowned and thought: "Mirage?" There was uncertainty in his tone, because in the current world of cultivation, mirage spirits have become legendary creatures and have already been extinct for a long time.
The woman stopped at a distance of ten steps[1] away and bowed: "This little spirit's name is Qin Rou. As the immortal said, the prototype is a deep-sea mirage spirit. Have been sleeping until now and just woke up. Hope Immortals will forgive me."
"How can you, a mirage spirit, be related to humans? Could it be..." Mu Zhen's tone became increasingly weird. Seeing that the topic was getting off track and someone was about to say some nonsense again, Lance smiled and interrupted: "Let's get to the point quickly ba, dispel this illusion. After all, the secret realm is open for a limited time."
Oh, right! Mu Zhen didn't waste any words and asked directly: "What do you want to do to get rid of this illusion?" Qin Rou is a mirage spirits, this kind of mirage spirits' most expert at is illusion. When they practice to a certain level, they can even make a false thing real. Therefore, this illusion undoubtedly originated from Qin Rou.
"I also want to send Immortals away from here, but..." Qin Rou paused, then said a fact helplessly: "This illusion is out of my control. Although I can still respond to it, I already can no longer control it."
How can there be an illusion that a mirage spirit created cannot be controled? Under Mu Zhen's suspicious gaze, Qin Rou smiled bitterly: "Are Immortals interested in listening to my story ma?"
The story is simple, even a little tacky, telling the story of two young girls being adopted by a wealthy businessman at the same time. One of the girls is not human, and gradually shows inhuman characteristics. After the other girl finds out, she secretly tells the businessman, who is tempted by greed and uses the girl's abilities to make a lot of money. Until one day, the businessman is completely overwhelmed by greed and, under the instigation of a fake Taoist priest, wants to sacrifice the girl and marry her to a 'god' in exchange for eternal wealth and fortune.
"Before he sacrificed me, he dug out my mirage pearl... and this illusion was transformed by my mirage pearl." Qin Rou said: "Because I was full of hatred before I died, the mirage pearl also became like this."
Mu Zhen's eyes swept across a curled up figure, and he suddenly asked: "How did your little sister offend you?"
"The fake Taoist priest who was full of nonsense was hired by her." Qin Rou said, as if she thought of something funny, and suddenly laughed: "It's just because I am more favored in front of father, this favor is still due to interests... Immortals, do you think it's ridiculous?"
Mu Zhen couldn't answer this question, he didn't know what to say.
Su Yu was more cold-hearted. This story was indeed sad and pitiful, but the focus of concern now should not be this. He stepped forward and asked directly: "How can this illusion be resolved?" The person who tied the bell should be the one to untie it. Even if the illusion cannot be controlled, there should always be a way to break it.
Qin Rou was silent, a struggle flashed in her eyes. After a moment, goodness still had the upper hand: "The mirage pearl is in the center of the illusion, which is also the center of the entire city. As long as it is destroyed, the illusion will be solved by itself."
After getting the exact location and solution, Su Yu and others set off to leave.
Qin Rou watched them go away until she could no longer see them. She retracted her gaze and turned to look at the other person in the room besides her. She sighed and said, "This time, it's time to completely resolve the grudge between us. When the illusion is broken, there will be no chance again."
In the crazy rejection of the woman, Qin Rou gradually approached.
On the other side, Su Yu and other rushed to the center of the city. Coincidentally, this location was exactly the location of the restaurant that Su Yu they chose when they arrived at the city. It was also here that they met Mu Zhen who was waiting for them.
"The Mirage Pearl is here? Really ma?" Mu Zhen was shocked. He stayed in the restaurant for a long time to wait for Su Yu and others, but he never felt anything strange around him, let alone the existence of the Mirage Pearl.
Each of them released their spirits and explored the surroundings carefully.
This time, he did feel a very slight fluctuation, almost non-existent. If he had not observed carefully, he would have ignored it. No wonder no one noticed it at first.
After exploring for a while, they still found nothing. They was in an awkward stage where they could feel the fluctuation but could not find the source of the fluctuation.
"This Mirage Pearl is not exposed outside, so it is possible to be hidden underground ba." Mu Zhen said.
This sentence reminded Northfield, half squatted down, put his palm on the ground, and his spirit spread out, deep into the ground. After a moment, Northfield stopped, stood up, and gave an accurate answer: "The mirage pearl is indeed underground, in a very deep position."
Mu Zhen was speechless for a moment, then he was excited: "Stay away, I'll solve it."
"This bead contains very powerful energy." Northfield added: "When it is destroyed, the energy inside it will also be detonated, it is very likely to involve the entire secret realm."
Mu Zhen paused. What Northfield said became a difficult problem. If the mirage bead is destroyed, it will explode and involve the secret realm. If the mirage bead is not destroyed, he will be trapped in the illusion until the end of the game... Even if he is unlucky, the illusion affects the accuracy of the game transmitter, and he is not teleported out, he will have wait the next opening of the secret realm, which is even more miserable.
"I will go to the owner of the mirage bead, ask her if there is any way?" Mu Zhen asked.
Su Yu half-crouched down, with his palms pressed against the ground, in the same posture as Northfield just now. Hearing Mu Zhen's words, he raised his head and said, "Let me try."
"?" Mu Zhen was confused. If this sentence was said by Northfield, or even by Lance, he could understand it, but... Su Yu... did not mean to look down on, but he really felt that Su Yu could not do it.
His eyes swept over Northfield and Lance, but these two people had no intention of stopping, but looked at Su Yu indulgently. Ok ba, the minority obeys the majority, what can he say ne? Anyway... it shouldn't be a problem. With Su Yu's ability, he is not at the point of destroying the mirage pearl.
Su Yu drew out the short knife from his waist, grasped the sharp blade with one hand, then slashed it.
Blood gushed out instantly, flowing along the palm to the ground.
"Why are you...!" Northfield's expression changed, and he stepped forward eagerly. However, he couldn't finish his words because he was shocked by the energy fluctuations he received. Lance, who was not far away, had the same expression, and looked at Su Yu with shock in his eyes.
The iron blood vine wrapped around the wound on Su Yu's palm. Under Su Yu's command, it wrapped around again, causing more blood to flow out of the wound that had not yet healed. Then, the iron-blood vine wrapped around the blood and drilled straight into the ground.
Su Yu clenched his palm to cover the wound that was healing quickly.
[1] 1 step = 0.74 meters
10 steps = 7.4 meters (roughly) = 25 foot