Who let him join the Sword Sect?!-Chapter 500 - 305: The Invincible and Awesome Ancient Characters_2

Chapter 500: Chapter 305: The Invincible and Awesome Ancient Characters_2

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Over at the Jade Book Tower.

Many people had gathered around the Fiftieth-Layer side, mostly in a configuration of an elder bringing a young one. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

The elders were there to solve problems, and the young ones were there for the spectacle.

"What does that character in the sky mean?"

Mo Jingchun held back his daughter, who was about to leap into the pool, and looked towards the Jade Book Tower to ask.

"An ancient character passed down from the Eastern Qi Royal Family, its specific meaning is unknown.

"But it should mean something like blessing or auspiciousness, it represents His Majesty’s affirmation and expectation for the future pillars of the Empire."

The Jade Book Tower responded to Mo Jingchun’s question while investigating itself.

The spell he just released was meant to congratulate the new top scholar.

For some reason, it was triggered directly when the Illusion Realm gate on the Hundredth-Layer was opened, probably the handiwork of the Last Emperor.

"Indeed, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen this character," the giant turtle Zhu Luo interjected.

Old Mr. Li wasn’t present, Li Yueqi had come along with the giant turtle Zhu Luo.

She was curious about this place, and seeing no one paying her any mind, the Female Hero Li took advantage of Chen Qin’s commotion to gently step to the right, directly stepping into the pool.

The Illusion Realm gate appeared, but it was on the Fifty-Eighth-Layer.

Lily, holding Li, was riding on Maomao. Boldened by this scene, she tapped Maomao on the head and charged in after them.

However, after just a few breaths, Lily and Li Yueqi were ejected from the water.

Although time in the Illusion Realm is not synchronized with the outside world, they hadn’t been in there for very long.

Before long, Li and Maomao were also ejected.

"What happened?" Tang asked.

Lily shivered, said nothing, and ran to the side to vomit.

Li Yueqi sighed, "As soon as I went in, I was buried alive, my body turned back to a mortal, waited for quite a while before I died, pretty troublesome."

Seeing this, Tang also stepped into the pool, this time, the Illusion Realm gate appeared on the Sixty-Fifth-Layer.

The Taoist, compared to Li Yueqi and Lily, was much stronger, and he stayed inside for a full quarter of an hour.

"Taoist, what did you see in there?" Mo Jingchun asked.

"I opened my eyes and found myself on a battlefield, engaged in a siege. The Taoist was invincible, the first to scale the city walls."

"And then?" Li asked.

"Then a Golden Core suddenly flew over from behind the mountain, and that bastard obliterated me with one slap," Tang said, stroking his beard.

Upon hearing this, Chen Qin had no intention of going in to die. She pondered for a while and said, "Speaking of which, why could that Little Earth Immortal directly open the Hundredth-Layer Illusion Realm gate, was it a coincidence?"

Lily, who had vomited enough, wiped her mouth and came back supporting Maomao, "I have a hypothesis."

"Go ahead."

People had quite a bit of faith in Lily’s mind.

"I think there’s no such thing as a Hundred-Layer Illusion Realm at all," Lily said, rummaging through her pocket and taking out a small notebook.

It recorded the times and places of every Illusion Realm experience since the first entry.

"Before the Fiftieth-Layer, there were only seven Illusion Realms with clearly defined times after the founding of Eastern Qi.

"However, none of the locations were in Eastern Qi’s Imperial Capital or other major cities, the Illusion Realm locations were all in mountain valleys or remote small towns.

"After the Fiftieth-Layer, as per Bai Tao’s tests, the occurrence of Eastern Qi era Illusion Realms was minimal, only about ten times."

"Contrarily, there was one era where occurrences were the most frequent.

"That was during the late Ten Kingdoms Chaos, the years when the founding Emperor of Eastern Qi and the Ancestral Master of Dragon Tiger Mountain rebelled."

Tang recalled his previous experiences in the Jade Book Illusion Realm and suddenly understood.

"Girl, you mean to say, this Illusion Realm has just one layer all along?"

"Pretty much, I only got this hypothesis after being buried alive," Lily said, stroking her chin as if choosing her words carefully.

"You guys know my brain isn’t normal, right," Lily acknowledged with self-awareness.

"So I can’t explain the reason to you, but when I was buried alive, I sensed the boundary of that Illusion Realm, it was only pit-sized.

"In other words, no matter what Sister Qi and I did at the time, we would eventually be ejected from the Illusion Realm.

"Even if we climbed out of the pit, we might end up like the Taoist, getting wiped out by a Golden Core from who knows where.

"Like a badly ending serialized novel, no matter how hard everyone tries, in the end, a star falls down, and everyone dies.

"The Illusion Realm actually has only one layer, and the Emperor merely partitioned it and created the illusion of spanning thousands of years by replacing the characters’ timelines.

"The so-called climbing a Hundred-Layer upwards was nonsense. You just have to meet a certain condition to get to the Hundredth-Layer and see what the Emperor truly wants you to see.

"As for why that Little Earth Immortal fulfilled the condition, who knows."

After Lily finished speaking, everyone started pondering.

What Lily said made quite a bit of sense.

And after a long silence, Lily suddenly remembered something, "Oh, right, there’s one more thing."

"What is it now?" Chen Qin asked.

"I also have a hypothesis about the principle of the Illusion Realm, do you want to hear it?"

Lily teased them briefly, and without waiting for a response, she said directly.

"It’s a dream."

"A dream?"

"That’s right."

The Illusion Realm Technique is a secret technique of the Eastern Qi Royal Family.