Chapter 1290: Chapter 1288: Reality or Illusion?
Listening to Jiang Liu’s words, it seems it’s not about continuing to spar with himself, the Dream Demon let out a long sigh of relief.
Just now, Jiang Liu’s word “wait” almost scared him into a faint like a startled bird.
“Merit Buddha, what do you mean?” At the same time as he breathed a sigh of relief, the Dream Demon’s eyes were filled with confusion as he looked at Jiang Liu.
Suddenly, without any reason, he asked if there were any quasi-saint experts in the Demon Realm whose cultivation level was similar to his. The Dream Demon had a guess in his mind.
“It is rare for this poor monk to visit the Demon Realm. I heard that many experts are hidden here, thus I want to find a few who are comparable to your cultivation level to spar a bit!” Jiang Liu did not hide his intentions, and this response confirmed what was in the Dream Demon’s heart.
“Indeed…” Hearing Jiang Liu’s words, the Dream Demon’s speculation was confirmed, making him secretly lively.
Actually, regarding the Dream Demon’s quasi-saint initial level power, those who have grievances with him in this Demon Realm have a similar cultivation level.
Like Wutian Buddha and Zhu Jiuyin, who are too powerful, the Dream Demon naturally doesn’t dare to provoke them.
“To my knowledge, during the Ancient Dragon Phoenix Tribulation, the Dragon Clan, Phoenix Clan, and Qilin Clan each have elder-level figures surviving to this day, and they all now have quasi-saint cultivation levels!”
After a moment of silent pondering, the Dream Demon immediately responded.
Well, in this kind of situation where you can’t survive or die, I can’t be the only one to bear it, right?
Provided it could happen, having others who have some grievances with him endure it together, the Dream Demon would be quite happy to see it.
“Oh? Really? Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans each have experts, and they all have reached quasi-saint cultivation levels?” Hearing this, Jiang Liu’s eyes glowed, and he couldn’t help but stick out his tongue and lightly lick the corner of his mouth.
A single Dream Demon already granted him over 5 billion experience points; if three more with cultivation levels similar to the Dream Demon’s appear, wouldn’t he get around 20 billion experience points in one go?
Just thinking about it made him very excited!
“Point out where the three experts are located for me!” Feeling stirred, Jiang Liu naturally asked carefully about the locations of these clan experts.
“Merit Buddha, their locations are at these places! So, may I leave now?” Enthusiastically cooperating and pointing out the places of these three quasi-saint experts to Jiang Liu, the Dream Demon then continued to ask.
“Alright, that’s all, you can leave!” Memorizing these three places silently, Jiang Liu waved his hand and said.
Getting Jiang Liu’s response, the Dream Demon let out a long sigh of relief again and turned to leave.
“Hey, wait…” Just then, Jiang Liu suddenly spoke.
The Dream Demon was on the verge of tears, turning around, his face looking like he was about to cry.
“I have one more thing to ask you; I promise this is the last one!” Seeing the Dream Demon almost at tears, Jiang Liu said awkwardly and embarrassedly.
As long as it’s not about continuing to spar with him, that’s enough.
Therefore, hearing Jiang Liu’s words, the Dream Demon’s heart relaxed a bit and asked, “Merit Buddha, is there anything else you want to ask? Please ask everything in one go, whatever I know, I promise not to hold back!”
“It’s like this, this poor monk comes today to seek the Mirage Demon in the Sea of Myriad Demons, could you know the whereabouts of that Mirage Demon?” Jiang Liu asked.
My main purpose this time is to find the Mirage Demon. While it’s certainly important to go and challenge the three quasi-saint level experts, I’ll wait to subdue the Mirage Demon first.
“Mirage Demon?” Hearing Jiang Liu’s inquiry, the tone of the Dream Demon’s voice changed slightly.
“How? Do you know something?” Seeing a somewhat unusual tone in the Dream Demon, Jiang Liu asked.
“The Mirage Demon is blessed by nature, possessing the strongest illusion technique in the world, hidden in the Sea of Myriad Demons. Even the illusion so real that quasi-saint level experts find it difficult to see through…” After pausing briefly, the Dream Demon answered.
With these words, pausing slightly, the Dream Demon continued: “I am a demon born from dreams with inherently sharp perception to spiritual and illusion techniques. Therefore, decades ago, when passing through the Sea of Myriad Demons, I sensed something unusual, but did not probe deeply!”
“Presumably, that should be where the Mirage Demon is hiding!”
“Oh? Where exactly is that place?” Hearing the Dream Demon’s words, sure enough, a clue emerged, Jiang Liu asked, eyes glowing.
“Fly approximately sixty-three thousand miles in this direction, and you will arrive!” The Dream Demon pointed a direction to Jiang Liu.
“Okay, this clue has been a great help to me, thank you, thank you!” Chopping through in the Dream Demon’s direction, Jiang Liu nodded in thanks.
“If you truly thank me, just don’t ever meet me again this lifetime!” Though hearing Jiang Liu’s words of gratitude, the Dream Demon secretly grumbled.
Of course, such secret grumbling wasn’t spoken out loud by the Dream Demon.
“Hey? Why aren’t you leaving yet?” Having spoken everything, understanding what needed to be understood, Jiang Liu seeing the Dream Demon not leaving, staring instead, asked with some curiosity.
“Eh, Merit Buddha, is there nothing else you want to ask?” The Dream Demon reminded.
“No, I’ve asked everything I wanted to know!” Jiang Liu shook his head.
“Are you sure? If that’s really the case, then I’ll leave?” Although Jiang Liu said this, having been stopped by him several times, the Dream Demon was still a bit uneasy and continued to ask.
“I told you, you can leave now, hurry up and go!” Jiang Liu’s face was a bit dark, and he seemed somewhat helpless.
“Alright, then I’m really leaving…” Seeing Jiang Liu’s appearance, which indeed did not look like he was joking, the Dream Demon finally turned around to leave.
However, as he was leaving, he kept looking back every few steps, seemingly afraid that Jiang Liu would call out, “Wait!”
But after he had gone quite far, he realized that Jiang Liu did not speak again and even turned to fly in the direction he pointed. Only then did the Dream Demon feel a big stone in his heart was thoroughly relieved.
“Phew, it seems it’s really safe now, he truly doesn’t have any intention to kill me…” After confirming that Jiang Liu had indeed left, the Dream Demon quickly fled into the distance, silently murmuring to himself.
To be honest, having encountered Jiang Liu this time, and with him using the excuse of sparring to make it a desperate struggle, the Dream Demon originally thought maybe he wanted to thoroughly torture him before killing.
But unexpectedly, he actually let him leave!
“Forget it, no need to overthink, having encountered the Merit Buddha and still kept a life is already a great fortune!”
“I really would like to see what the scene would be like if Long Ba, Feng San, and Qilin King were sought out by the Merit Buddha!”
Shaking his head with a sense of the fortune of surviving a disaster, the Dream Demon then had a mischievous thought, anticipating seeing them also being beaten into a desperate state.
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Setting aside the thoughts of the Dream Demon for a moment, on the other side, Jiang Liu followed the direction pointed out by the Dream Demon.
In no time, he flew across the journey of tens of thousands of miles.
Then, in this Sea of Myriad Demons, Jiang Liu saw a massive island.
Looking at the appearance of this island, it seemed to sit in the Sea of Myriad Demons like a giant mountain.
After spreading his Divine Sense, he found that within a thousand-mile radius of the sea, this appeared to be the only isolated island.
“Could the Mirage Demon be on this island?” After examining it for a moment, the island indeed seemed quite large, and Jiang Liu pondered before landing.
He remembered that the Dream Demon previously mentioned that even many Quasi-Saints could not see through the illusion techniques of the Mirage Demon, and he noticed some anomalies while passing by here.
So, could it be that this island itself was transformed by the illusion techniques of the Mirage Demon?
Upon landing on this isolated island, Jiang Liu carefully felt the real sensation of his feet on the ground, and this feeling was very real, not the slightest bit artificial!
“Could it be that I was mistaken? That this isn’t an illusion but reality? Or could it be that the Mirage Demon’s illusion has reached such a degree of reality?” Jiang Liu looked around, secretly doubting everything in his heart.
He walked forward, and the atmosphere of this island and the Demon Realm seemed somewhat out of place.
Enormous ancient trees and many small animals constantly appeared and disappeared in the dense forest, presenting a very primitive state.
Rustle!
Just as Jiang Liu was walking on this island, suddenly, a wild boar appeared as if frightened, and quickly ran into the distance.
Watching this wild boar running away, Jiang Liu’s heart moved slightly, and he raised his hand to point at it.
A beam of light pierced through the wild boar’s head, causing it to fall to the ground.
Prompt: Gained 48 Experience Points, obtained 5 units of money.
After Jiang Liu killed the wild boar, a system prompt sounded in his mind.
Then, Jiang Liu retrieved the wild boar’s carcass, skinned it, and took the meat, bringing out his cooking tools to make himself a fragrant bowl of braised pork.
He picked up a piece of pork, took a bite, and the taste was incredibly real.
Moreover, after having killed the wild boar, there were also Experience Points obtained, all of which seemed to indicate that everything on this island was real, not illusionary.
After finishing a bowl of pork, Jiang Liu stood up to continue exploring the island.
As he walked along, it looked like a world filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers; the serene natural landscape could make one forget that they were in the Demon Realm.
“Hmm? What’s that?” However, just as Jiang Liu had walked for about an hour, suddenly, several plumes of smoke rose, drawing Jiang Liu’s attention.
Quickening his pace a bit, Jiang Liu soon arrived at a cliff on the small island, looking down toward the place where the smoke was rising.
Immediately, Jiang Liu stood still as if struck by an Immobilization Technique.
The scene before him felt shocking to him…