Chapter 1798: Boundary and Upside-Down
The nasolabial folds on this guy's face were not shallow.
"Forty, no, forty-three years ago!"
The crowd didn't answer, but in their hearts, they said in unison: You saw it wrong.
A boy that small, looking similar is purely a coincidence, which is very normal.
But this cultivator still stared at the boy: "He drowned in Kidney Lake when he was six, just this big! See the butterfly-shaped red scar on his left temple? He fell on a hoe when he was a child; he didn't die, but he was left with such a mark."
The boy's face really had an old scar, which looked like it was left by an external injury that didn't heal well.
This cultivator's face was even uglier: "What is the name of this village?"
The boy wasn't afraid of people and replied generously: "Yu Xian."
The cultivator's face was even uglier: "What is this village?"
"Yu Village," the boy smiled. "The 'Yu' of 'Yu Xian'!"
The Illusion Sect disciples all had good hearing and looked at each other when they heard the name "Yu Village."
What is the connection between the present world and the illusion realm? The cultivator asked again: "What about your family?"
At this time, the wooden door creaked open, and a farmer walked out, standing beside the boy, looking at the cultivator vigilantly.
"This is my father," Yu Xian looked up and said. "I lost my mother very early."
And his father asked the cultivator: "Are you the guard of Rilun City? You came here; what happened?"
The cultivator shook his head and didn't answer, walking away woodenly, muttering: "He really is called Yu Xian!"
His playmate who drowned in his childhood appeared in a village in the real world; could this be a coincidence?
Forty-three years had passed; why was this boy named Yu Xian still six or seven years old?
The cultivator couldn't help but look back, seeing that pair of father and son still standing in place looking at him.
"In the illusion realm, I remember Yu Xian lived with his mother, and his father died very early!"
But here, Yu Xian stood beside his father, and his mother died early.
Exactly the opposite of the illusion realm.
"How did she die?"
"Lung, lung consumption."
Dong Rui glanced at Elder Liu, knowing he wouldn't get an answer from him, so he whispered to He Lingchuan: "What's going on?"
He Lingchuan didn't answer, but asked the cultivator: "In the illusion realm, is Yu Xian's mother still alive?"
"Alive, at least until last night," the cultivator replied. "I saw her go to the market half a month ago."
He Lingchuan looked at Dong Rui and only said three words: "Upside-Down Sea."
Didn't the name of this cave dwelling hint to everyone from the beginning that the focus was on the word "upside-down"?
"I thought the word 'upside-down' referred to the formation... I didn't expect it to be life and death," Dong Rui's voice grew smaller. "Forget it, forget it. You mean, people who died in the illusion realm actually came here?"
He also noticed that it wasn't just drowning in Kidney Lake that could bring one here, because Yu Xian's father clearly didn't drown.
Mother Zhu added: "These dead people don't even know they are already dead."
The villagers lived as usual, farming and raising children, not delaying anything.
Seeing this point, the pastoral song in front of them was full of ghostly aura.
Dong Rui remembered the Great Array of Reversing Heaven and Earth; the positive array and the reverse array were actually symmetrical and complementary, and no array could exist independently.
So, does the life and death of the Upside-Down Sea repeat in the present world and the illusion array?
Stop, stop, this thought is wrong. He reminded himself that Qian Huan shouldn't have this ability.
"What is life, what is death?" He Lingchuan suddenly said. "Do you think they are alive in the illusion realm and dead in the present world? What if the facts are exactly the opposite?"
He kicked a stone on the ground: "Don't forget, Elder Liu said this is the present world."
"Hey, hey, speak human language!" Dong Rui's head buzzed and started to ache again. "Don't learn from Qian Huan and be mysterious!"
Earlier in Wenhui Pavilion, Qian Huan and He Lingchuan played word games, talking about boundaries and rules; he listened and felt it was plausible.
What is plausible? It means it sounds like he understands two parts at first glance, but if he thinks deeper and more carefully, no, he actually doesn't understand.
He Lingchuan smiled: "You come to the present world, and Yu Xian talks about the grief of losing his mother; you go to the illusion realm, and Yu Xian's mother tells you about the grief of losing her husband and son. Which one do you believe? Or rather, which one do you think is real?"
"Uh..." Dong Rui scratched his head, really hard to answer.
Wan Shi Liang behind suddenly said: "Both are real."
He Lingchuan asked him: "Why?"
"Their emotions are real to themselves."
He Lingchuan said oh: "So the boundary between the truth and falsehood of such emotions lies in the narrator himself?"
The leader asked such a question, so Wan Shi Liang was a bit confused, hesitated, and nodded cautiously.
Wang Fubao laughed: "Dummy, you fell for the boss's trick! If the person telling you the story might not be real himself, do you think their emotions can be real?"
This time, it was Wan Shi Liang's turn to scratch his head.
He Lingchuan smiled: "The person himself might be real, but the memory might not be. Yu Xian believes his mother died of lung consumption, but she is clearly alive in the illusion realm. How do you think this memory about the cause of death came about?"
If the memory as a carrier is wrong, can the emotion still be real?
The Black Armor Army finished listening, their brains completely confused.
He Lingchuan ignored them and suddenly walked to Elder Liu's side, asking a completely unrelated question:
"Why does the Silver Pearl Fruit only grow in the illusion realm? People who take the Silver Pearl Fruit from the illusion realm to the real world cannot go back if they don't return within a quarter of an hour."
The shore of the Upside-Down Lake in the real world doesn't grow those glowing Silver Pearl Fruit trees, only ordinary pear trees. This was confessed by True Person Jieshui, whom Elder Liu and He Lingchuan captured. Earlier on the lighthouse by the lake, he heard a few demons who had entered Kidney Lake report to Bai Ziqi.
So, this was Qian Huan's intentional design, just giving people from the illusion realm a one-way ticket? He didn't want people from the real world to go to the illusion realm?
Elder Liu shook his head: "Only the Immortal Venerable knows the answer to this."
So, this was Qian Huan's intentional design, just giving people from the illusion realm a one-way ticket? He didn't want people from the real world to go to the illusion realm?
He Lingchuan nodded and didn't ask any more.
The Illusion Sect team continued to move forward, but found that there were many villages and towns encountered along the way, the number was at least four to five times that of the illusion realm, and even passed two small towns, where all kinds of businesses were done, lively, and a single small town could have thirty to fifty thousand people.
Two cities with one hundred thousand people, this number had already exceeded the sum of the living residents of Silver Pearl Island before the Heavenly Demon invasion.
When they climbed to the hillside and overlooked the big city in the center of the island, everyone was even more surprised, because the scale of this city looked at least several times larger than Silver Pearl City. ===== CHAPTER 1799 =====
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