339. Chapter 335 New Chapter 0309 Illusionary Qizong and Jianzong
Although the mental power of illusionists is one of the best among all strange professions, they are not known for the intensity of their mental power. What they are really best at is the subtle manipulation of mental power.
If the mental attacks of other Qimen professions are compared to an extremely sharp sword, then the mental attacks of the illusionist are like a silent tide, pervasive and long-lasting, and will eventually drown the opponent alive. In the boundless sea of consciousness.
Just like the dispute between the Qi Zong and the Sword Sect of the Huashan School in the martial arts novel "Swordsman", illusionists have been divided into two branches in history: "breaking illusion" and "psychedelic".
The Po Huan branch emphasizes using force to overcome skill, and has the kind of persistence of a warrior: "You can come at me with a thousand moves, but I can only kill with one."
Illusionists of this branch often only practice one or a few specific illusions. They rely on their own huge mental power to carry out saturation attacks on the opponent's mental barriers in a short period of time, forcing the opponent to enter the illusion. Coupled with the strength of a warrior who is not inferior to ordinary warriors, His physical skills are completely like a magic warrior.
The psychedelic branch focuses on replacing reality with fiction and destroying reality with fiction, mixing illusion attacks with physical attacks, making it difficult for opponents to distinguish, and gradually increasing the proportion of illusion attacks, eventually making it impossible to distinguish between reality and reality. The illusory opponent is dragged directly into the dreamland for abuse.
Compared with breaking the illusion, the illusionists of the psychedelic branch are actually not good at fighting. Although the unique skill "Dream Entering Technique" can be called an indiscriminate killing skill, the activation conditions are too harsh and it is easy for the opponent to seize the opportunity to kill instantly.
In terms of inheritance, Li Mengnan’s illusionist inheritance belongs to the psychedelic branch.
Qimen practitioners practiced in isolation before the Lingxi realm. Although in this modern society with a rapidly expanding population, it is difficult to be a true hermit like in ancient times, but just like the remote village where Li Mengnan lived, the whole village was nothing more than a hermit. With a population of one hundred and ten, even the town where I studied later only had a few thousand people. Compared to a city with a population of one million, it was almost as desolate as a no-man's land.
With such a small population base, even if you want to meet a passing warrior, let alone a Qi Sect practitioner, the chances are like winning the lottery.
Therefore, before Li Mengnan came to Sanshan City, the provocations and dangers he encountered were basically from ordinary people, and with his physical skills and mental strength, there was no one among them who could truly be called an "opponent."
But since arriving in Sanshan City, strange sects and warriors that had not been seen for more than ten years have sprung up one after another. The seemingly peaceful city is full of dangers that may appear at any time.
Moreover, the battle with Wu Mingyang made Li Mengnan deeply realize his shortcomings in sudden encounters.
This time, I was lucky enough to temporarily force Wu Mingyang back, but if I don't have any other trump cards, I'm afraid it won't be so easy to deal with Wu Mingyang next time.
If you want to improve your own strength without a breakthrough increase in mental strength, the best way is to practice the illusion technique of the "Illusion Breaking" branch.
Of course, as the saying goes, there are separate lines like mountains. Although breaking illusions and psychedelics both belong to the lineage of illusionists, it is not so easy to modify or practice both.
The focus of breaking illusions is the intensity of mental power, relying on the huge mental power of the illusionist to bombard the opponent indiscriminately. No matter what moves you show, I will just swing it with three axes and ask you if you are afraid;
The focus of psychedelics is on the micro-operation of mental power. Even if it is as small as a toothpick, the illusion must be extremely realistic. In the end, the opponent's mental barrier will collapse on its own with an extremely real illusion. This requires strong mental strength.
On the contrary, it is not high.
Therefore, once the practice direction of breaking illusions and psychedelics is chosen, it is almost the same as starting from scratch if you want to change it.
However, in comparison, it is easier to practice psychedelics and break psychedelics than to break psychedelics and practice psychedelics at the same time. In fact, it is like doing physical work in technical work. It is definitely easier and faster to get started than technical work in manual work.
And the most important thing is that the reason why Li Mengnan made such a decision that is almost child's play for an illusionist is because at this moment he has an advantage that other illusionists cannot match.
Thunder-tempered wood crystal and sea-mysterious sand.
In fact, Li Mengnan's previous method of using the phantom force field of thunder-tempered wood crystals to enhance his own illusion effects was the most low-level application of this top-level illusion material. It was like using a Nokia to smash walnuts to block bullets. It was a complete waste of natural resources.
The real purpose of this top-level illusion material is to make the "Illusion-Breaking Magic Weapon".
The so-called "Illusion-Breaking Divine Weapon" sounds like some kind of weapon, but in fact it is more like the jade talisman used by the Fulu lineage. It is just more advanced than the jade talisman and has no limit on the number of times it can be used.
The requirements for materials for making the Illusion-Breaking Divine Weapon are extremely stringent. It must be made from pure natural materials that can generate illusion force fields on their own. Because of this, the number of Illusion-Breaking Divine Weapons in existence is very small, and it is almost not used for it.
Qimen practitioners other than illusionists know this.
Compared with the scarcity of illusion materials, the production of the Illusion-breaking Magic Weapon is not complicated. The principle of this thing is actually like a flashlight. As long as the illusion materials used as batteries are powerful, the circuits and light bulbs are not high-tech.
It's just that making the Illusion-Breaking Divine Weapon requires some common materials and basic tools, which are definitely impossible to obtain now. We can only ask Wu Ansu to make a separate trip tomorrow morning when she comes to deliver breakfast.
After completing the daily compulsory meditation, Li Mengnan's spirit began to rise from the subconscious to the conscious. In the process, he accidentally saw the square "phantom prison", and after thinking for a while, he sneaked his spirit into it.
There is still a gorgeous sea of flowers in the independent space of the phantom prison. The sun is warm on the body and does not feel burning. Smelling the light fragrance of flowers in the breeze, Li Mengnan is tired of seeing monotonous snow scenes in the real world.
I feel extremely comfortable.
Not far away, in a shrine shrouded in cherry blossoms, Suzuhikohime in white clothes wearing a geisha mask was still dancing gracefully tirelessly. Li Mengnan stood there and watched for a while, and his body instantly flashed to where the mysterious person was being held.
Beside the iron cage of the big demon spirit.
What Li Mengnan didn't expect was that the long-haired girl in the cage was actually weaving a garland at the moment. When he arrived, the long-haired girl had just put the last wild flower on the garland, then stood up and held the garland high.
He seems quite satisfied with his craftsmanship.
"If you weren't locked up here, I really wouldn't have known that you were a demon at all."
No matter how intelligent a demon spirit is, it is still not a human being. Li Mengnan has never seen a demon spirit that can do such a humane thing as the long-haired girl in front of him.
After all, he is the master of the "Illusion Prison" space. In fact, the long-haired girl had already noticed it when Li Mengnan entered this space.
"Maybe I've been pretending to be a human for too long...so long that even I thought I was a human." The long-haired girl stood up and walked over to Li Mengnan, looking at him across the railing.
"How long? How many years have you lived?" Li Mengnan didn't expect that such an unintentional remark would yield such important information.
The long-haired girl raised her lips noncommittally, and did not answer Li Mengnan's question. She just put the wreath in her hand on her head, turned around in the cage like a little girl who loves to show off, and asked Li Mengnan: "Does it look good?"
Li Mengnan saw that the other party obviously didn't want to say anything, so he didn't force it. He nodded and said: "The garland is very beautiful, and it matches you very well... but the clothes don't look like they match well."
When the long-haired girl heard this, she lowered her head to look at the white robe that had no style on her body. Then she looked up at Li Mengnan. After a long time, she sighed softly and said: "I am the only one here. No matter how beautiful I am, who can I give it to?"
Look..."
"You demon spirits have always only cared about strength. When did you start to care about beauty and ugliness like humans?" In Li Mengnan's view, the mysterious demon spirit in front of him was obviously using tricks to seduce him.
"Maybe it's because I'm different from other demon spirits?"
The girl used her slender fingers to gently comb her long black hair that was draped over one shoulder. Her tone was somewhat resentful, but more self-deprecating.
Li Mengnan smiled casually and said nothing more.
The long-haired girl in front of him seemed to have the power to confuse people's hearts. When the two chatted, he would always temporarily forget the fact that the other person was not a human but a demon. He was also afraid that if he talked to her for too long, he would be unable to help but open the cage.
, release this big demon spirit of unknown origin.
Just when Li Mengnan was about to leave the illusion prison space, the long-haired girl suddenly asked: "Are you injured?"
Li Mengnan stopped subconsciously, turned around and asked curiously: "How do you know?"
The long-haired girl shrugged and said indifferently: "Although this space is an independent space isolated from the outside world, it is maintained by your mental power after all. There was a slight turmoil in this space not long ago. It is obvious that there is a problem with the mental power supply.
, so I guess you may be injured."
After all, Li Mengnan couldn't lock himself into the phantom prison. He really didn't know that being injured would cause the structure of the phantom prison to shake. He couldn't help but remind himself secretly in his heart to try not to overexert his mental energy in the future - it didn't matter if the phantom prison collapsed.
If the big demon spirit escapes, there will be big trouble.
"I had a conflict with a warrior, and my sternum was cracked by him, but it was nothing serious." Li Mengnan didn't know why he said these things to a demon spirit.
"What level of warrior is he?" The long-haired girl seemed curious.
"Judging from the attack power of his punch, it should be Mingjin Dzogchen."
"Is there only Ming Jin Dzogchen?" The long-haired girl actually looked a little surprised, her red lips slightly parted and her expression looked a bit cute like a little girl's.
Li Mengnan couldn't understand why the long-haired girl had such an expression, and shrugged: "I am only at the early stage of the Lingxi realm, and I am still an illusionist who is least good at close combat. Is it normal for me to be injured by the warriors of Mingjin Dzogchen?
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"Early stage of Lingxi Realm?" The long-haired girl repeated these words and said with a complex expression: "It turns out that your realm has fallen to this point..."
"What?" Li Mengnan once again learned an unexpected piece of information from the long-haired girl, "You mean, my previous state was actually much higher than it is now?"
How is this possible? Li Mengnan clearly remembers that his illusion realm was cultivated step by step. If he had reached a higher realm before, it would not have been so laborious when he broke through the Lingxi realm?
Damn it! How many things are hidden in my lost memories?
"Can you tell me what I was like in the past?" Although Li Mengnan didn't think this long-haired girl would tell him, he couldn't help but hold on to a glimmer of hope.
As expected, after Li Mengnan asked this question, the long-haired girl was silent for a long time, turned her head slightly, covered her beautiful face with her long black hair, and said in an indifferent tone: "There are some things, just forget them.
, in fact, for you now, it would be best if you don’t know anything..."
"What kind of memory is that?" Li Mengnan asked unwillingly.
This time the long-haired girl remained silent for a longer time. If it weren't for the special passage of time in the phantom prison space, Li Mengnan would have even felt that the two of them had stood relatively silently like this for several hours.
"It's cruel to you, but to me... it's very happy."
Li Mengnan pondered for a moment and shook his head in confusion: "Why do I feel that what you said means that your happiness was based on my pain?"
"There's obviously something wrong with your way of understanding." The long-haired girl smiled, suddenly looked up at the blue sky above her head and said, "I feel the fluctuation frequency of thunder-tempered wood crystals and confused sea sand. It seems that you have been lucky recently.
good."
"Can you feel the outside world?" Li Mengnan asked in surprise.
"Of course I can't do it... It's just that thunder-tempered wood crystals and sea-mysterious sand are top-notch illusion materials, and since you are carrying them close to your body, their fluctuation frequencies will come through to some extent."
"That's it." Li Mengnan said with relief.
He thought it was impossible. If this long-haired girl could penetrate the isolation of the phantom prison and sense external information, then her perception would be so incredible that even the legendary S-class demon spirit could not do it.
At this point...
"If I guess correctly, you are going to use Thunder Tempered Wood Crystal and Mysterious Sea Sand to make the Illusion-Breaking Divine Weapon?"
The long-haired girl was as smart as any human being. Combined with the information about Li Mengnan's injury, she immediately guessed Li Mengnan's next plan.
"Yes." Li Mengnan nodded, "But instead of making two, we make one. The fluctuation frequencies of illusion materials with different attributes are so different that it is difficult to reconcile them without a special formation disk to prevent them from affecting each other."
The long-haired girl was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously said: "Reconcile? Why do you want to reconcile them? Have you forgotten that I once..."
Suddenly, the long-haired girl realized that she had made a mistake, and immediately stopped correcting herself and said: "Illusion materials with different properties do not actually need to be reconciled. Forcing them to change the frequency of fluctuations to adapt to each other will allow them to coexist, but it will also weaken the strength of their illusion force fields.
Two to three floors, the gains outweigh the losses.”
Although Li Mengnan was very curious about what the long-haired girl said before, he also knew that it would be impossible to ask, so he simply pretended not to hear and only asked the following question: "If you don't reconcile, how can you let them coexist?"
The long-haired girl waved to Li Mengnan, motioning for him to come closer. Then she squatted on the ground, flicked out five crystal-clear claws from her fingertips, and used them as a pen to draw directly on the ground.
"Your body is the spirit body of some kind of monster that gave up its physical body and transformed?"
Although only a small part of the body was seen, the shape of the sharp claws can still show traces of some kind of carnivorous beast.
Li Mengnan couldn't help but secretly smacked his tongue. Fortunately, he didn't have the nerve to release this seemingly delicate long-haired girl. The demon spirit that evolved from the carnivorous beast was completely synonymous with ferocity, cruelty, and bloodthirsty, almost without exception.
"Don't you think it's embarrassing for you to say such words at this moment?"
The long-haired girl calmly raised her eyes and glanced at Li Mengnan's face. Although she was close enough, she did not make any aggressive moves and calmly finished drawing the graphics on the ground in a very normal posture.
"What's this?"
Li Mengnan can guarantee with his head that he has never seen this figure on the ground. It looks like a certain formation, but the formation is more neat than the common formations, and even has a unique rule for geometric figures.
beautiful.
"This is called the Five Elements Formation. It is a special formation that I specially created in order to make the Illusion-Breaking Divine Weapon. Because it is combined with the energy circuit method of Western magic formations, it looks very different from the common formations in the Chinese Qimen.
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When the long-haired girl answered Li Mengnan's question, a smile appeared on her lips. It could be seen that this formation must have been her proud work.
"This formation can allow illusion materials with different attributes to coexist at the same time without affecting each other?"
Li Mengnan was a little skeptical. After all, formations with similar functions, even among the Qimen practitioners who specialize in formations, are still secrets that only a few people can master. How can they be easily revealed to others if they are used for eating?
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"In your eyes, is this all I have?"
The long-haired girl suddenly showed a kind of arrogance that she had never seen before, but the abnormal expression only flashed on her face, as if it was just an illusion.
"This formation not only allows illusion materials with different attributes to coexist stably, but also increases the strength of the created illusion-breaking magic weapon based on the principle of the five elements' mutual generation.
There are five formation eyes on the formation diagram, which correspond to the five attributes of materials: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. For each additional material with adjacent attributes, the strength of the Illusion-Breaking Divine Weapon engraved inside can be increased by 20%. If all five attributes are added,
With all the materials together, the power of the Illusion-Breaking Divine Weapon can reach double the power of ordinary magic weapons.
Of course, this formation also has its shortcomings. After all, the extra power cannot appear out of thin air. When you use this enhanced illusion-breaking weapon, your mental power will also be consumed in proportion to the increase.
You should pay attention to this."
Li Mengnan was speechless for a while - can this be called a shortcoming? This is obviously a normal situation, okay? Can the fuel consumption of the same car running 40 miles and 80 miles be the same? This formation is already outrageous, you still
What if you plan to develop a black technology?
"You... why do you want to help me?" Li Mengnan stared at the long-haired girl's unruffled face in confusion, "You should know that it is absolutely impossible for me to let you out."
Surprisingly, the long-haired girl did not feel angry or disappointed because of Li Mengnan's suspicion.
"You are right to think so. Many wise demon spirits can deceive people, especially me. I used to be the most deceptive among them." The long-haired girl sighed softly and lowered her eyes to stare at her.
The sharp claws that have not yet been retracted, said in a faint tone: "But I don't want to lie to you - I don't want you to die. To be precise, I don't want you to die in the hands of anyone except me."