Chapter 1823

"Not a clam." "Oh!" He just said, it shouldn't be.

However, the scene before them really looked like the opening of a shell. It's just that this model is a bit... big.

"Much bigger than a clam."

"..."

He Lingchuan asked the Cave Spider Queen: "Mother Zhu, what does this look like to you?"

Zhu Xiuer pondered before saying: "A giant clam? The inner wall of a giant clam is also this colorful, very magnificent."

"But Thousand Illusions has horns." Concubine Mei once used Thousand Illusions' horns to change her appearance and sneak into the territory of the Xiaoyao Sect.

"Perhaps it was the outer skin of the axe-foot it shed, making people mistake it for horns."

The axe-foot is a large piece of muscle that shellfish use to dig sand; its shape is laterally flattened like an axe, and the tip is also very sharp.

Dong Rui muttered: "If this giant shell is Thousand Illusions, then it makes sense that no one could get out while it was in seclusion."

Once the clam mouth closes, who can get out?

"However, how did we get in?"

Zhu Xiuer kindly explained to him: "It might be from the filter-feeding gills of the shellfish..."

So there is entry but no exit.

"Alright, alright." Dong Rui said with a bitter face, "I don't want to know."

It turns out they walked through the food channel and were sucked in.

He had sucked so many clams in the past; is this retribution?

"Now we only know it has a shell; it's not necessarily a clam or a giant clam. There are plenty of monsters with shells." He Lingchuan patted his shoulder and continued, "If we have been inside its true body all along, no wonder Miao Zhantian couldn't find Thousand Illusions no matter what before."

Couldn't find Thousand Illusions anywhere because they were all in Thousand Illusions' stomach! "No matter how many Illusion Sect elders and disciples Miao Zhantian killed, or how much of a storm it stirred up in the Inverted Sea, Thousand Illusions sat firmly on the fishing platform, waiting for it to exhaust itself." He Lingchuan exhaled, "To Thousand Illusions, those losses were insignificant, just as to immortals like Elder Liang, the mortals on Silver Pearl Island are also insignificant."

The Illusion Sect had always treated the mortals on Silver Pearl Island at will; if they thought there were too many people, they would release Yakshas to reduce the population; they would move mountains and stir the sea at will, completely disregarding how many mortals would be accidentally injured by such a big commotion.

And how much love did Thousand Illusions have for its own disciples? Sixty percent of the Illusion Sect elders died in battle for it, yet it still refused to come out and face Miao Zhantian personally.

Looking at Miao Zhantian on the opposite side, from casting divine arts on the sea, building lighthouses on land, to supporting the lotus lamp barrier in this world, it was casting divine power and protecting the Tiangong's team the whole time.

Thousand Illusions' approach cannot be considered wrong, and can even be called wise, but the ruthlessness of the High Immortal is revealed without doubt.

At this point, Dong Rui was no longer afraid to speak out: "This Illusion Sect is truly consistent from top to bottom."

Anyway, Thousand Illusions was busy dealing with Miao Zhantian; how would it have the time to care about their loose tongues? He Lingchuan looked at the mirror, his face showing deep thought, "Miao Zhantian is Miao Zhantian after all; once it sees through it, Thousand Illusions is in big trouble now."

Miao Zhantian couldn't find Thousand Illusions' true body, so it had no way to deal with it. Without even a main body, without even a direction, where could it exert its divine power? But now that Miao Zhantian had discovered the truth, it would naturally aim at the target.

As if to confirm He Lingchuan's words, the beam of the Eye of Truth turned again, suddenly shining vertically toward the center of the zenith! The clouds and mist at the zenith seemed to be the thickest; it pushed through layer after layer, taking a dozen breaths to pierce through.

Then, the beam of the Eye of Truth suddenly expanded, changing from a beam shape to a huge fan shape, facing the entire firmament overhead! To He Lingchuan, it looked like the light circle projected by a slide projector, reflected on the curtain of the sky.

The dark and thick clouds were dispersed, and even the sun didn't know where it had gone. At this time, no one cared, because the scene above the sky shocked everyone once again!

"Oh my god!" Wan Qiliang and the others were dumbfounded.

They had just recovered from the shock of the clam wall they had witnessed, and hadn't finished digesting that scene, originally thinking they had seen enough of the world and wouldn't be surprised anymore, but the picture in the mirror proved that they were still too young.

Because the Eye of Truth pushed aside the clouds and mist, the sky directly above the zenith was as clear as washed, clean like a piece of glaze.

And on the other side of the glaze, there was actually another expanse of blue waves! That was the sea surface emitting a shimmering green light, which seemed to have encountered a gale at this time, because the waves were angry, rolling up a thousand piles of snow-white waves.

Those white waves were exceptionally conspicuous in the sky.

A sea beyond the sky? And there were archipelagos on the sea, and there were mountain ranges and slopes and valleys on the islands, and the shapes looked damn familiar! "Illusion Realm!" Dong Rui blurted out.

Wan Qifeng couldn't help but say: "We just came from there before!"

That clear and inverted world beyond the sky was the Illusion Realm they were in before sunrise!

"It truly is the Inverted Sea." Zhu Xiuer looked at the mirror surface, "These two worlds are indeed inverted to each other, looking at each other but not connected. The only, or rather the two, connections are probably the two lakes."

Waist Lake for human passage, and Inverted Lake for Yaksha passage.

He Lingchuan slapped his right palm with his left fist: "I understand. More than 150 years ago, Thousand Illusions came here, wrapped the Inverted Sea and Silver Pearl Island into a clam shell, and later created a second Illusion Realm based on the real Silver Pearl Island, which is the world under our feet."

"These two worlds are built on two clam shells inside a giant clam, so they are inverted to each other." He continued to analyze, "After Thousand Illusions got the Great Expansion Heavenly Pearl, perhaps it used these two worlds to do fusion experiments, wanting to knead them together, which is truth within illusion, illusion within truth, difficult to distinguish."

Dong Rui doubted: "Can this really be done?"

"Do you know how shellfish produce pearls?" He Lingchuan gave an example at will, "The base is usually sand grains from the outside, continuously wrapped by the nacre secreted by the clam shell, which forms a pearl. At this time, the sand grains have long been wrapped in the center to become the core, indistinguishable from the substances produced by the clam shell itself. This ability to self-process foreign objects, Thousand Illusions probably has it innately, right?"

If it really is a giant sea clam.

"Since both worlds are a fusion of virtual and real, truth and illusion are difficult to distinguish, then it has strong control over these two worlds." He Lingchuan said sternly, "Just as Thousand Illusions said itself, only by mastering the boundary between truth and illusion is one qualified to define the Inverted Sea. If you look at the two inverted worlds as a whole, this so-called 'boundary between truth and illusion' is actually True Person Thousand Illusions itself!"

He pointed into the mirror: "That is, this giant clam shell."

Inside the clam shell is the Inverted Sea Cave Heaven, where Thousand Illusions has the final say; if it says it's true, it's true; if it says it's illusion, it's illusion. The boundary is exceptionally blurred, so even Miao Zhantian's Eye of Truth has repeatedly suffered setbacks.

Zhu Xiuer moved its claws: "Since Miao Zhantian has discovered the truth, it may have countermeasures."

"Miao Zhantian is probably not lightly angry either." Thousand Illusions is really an old schemer, tricking everyone in and locking them up without a sound, and this was while it was in an unconscious state, "It just depends on how Miao Zhantian breaks the situation."

Zhu Xiuer suddenly switched to sound transmission: "Why do I feel like you seemed to know some inside information beforehand?"

He Lingchuan looked at it and smiled without saying a word.

If he didn't have some reliance, didn't have some intelligence, how would he dare to enter the Inverted Sea?

Wan Qiliang suddenly reached out and pointed at the mirror and shouted: "Action, Miao Zhantian is taking action!"

The Eye of Truth illuminated the firmament and also saw another world.

People on the land looked up at the sky, whether it was the Tiangong or the Illusion Sect, all were shocked by the scene of another world.

It turns out they had been looking at the world they came from across the air all along.

"No wonder." The gray parrot sneered, "No wonder whether it was opening a space-time rift in the Illusion Realm or releasing divine fire meteorites here, there was no way to blast Thousand Illusions out. It turns out we were looking in the wrong direction all along!"

"Direction?" This time, Bai Ziqi really didn't understand.

"I originally wanted to shake the Inverted Sea and blast Thousand Illusions out of the 'Heaven and Man as One' state, but I failed repeatedly." The great divine power it originally unleashed couldn't even wake Thousand Illusions during its seclusion, and it wasted a lot of divine power in vain.

Miao Zhantian had always felt something was wrong with this matter. Now that the Eye of Truth had revealed the truth, it finally understood:

"In the Inverted Sea, the boundary between truth and illusion is not under our feet, but overhead!"

Bai Ziqi couldn't help but look up at the sky.

Overhead? Could it be?

"The upper world and the lower world are actually attached to two clam shells! The ground under our feet relies on the hardest part of this old clam shell. No wonder no matter how we bombard it, the effect is limited." That is, the two large clam shells, "If you want to cause real and effective damage to Thousand Illusions' true body, you must attack its weakest part, which is the node of virtual-real conversion!"

"The node of virtual-real conversion?" Bai Ziqi recalled slightly, his face changing slightly, "Do you mean, Waist Lake?"

"Not just that, there's also the Inverted Lake!" The gray parrot flapped its wings, "Remember our image in the eyes of the local ghost people?"

"Yaksha?" Bai Ziqi was so sharp; Miao Zhantian only gave a hint, and he understood, "When the false is taken as true, the true also becomes false! That's it! The ghost people see us as Yakshas, so to this world, we can be Yakshas! The channel for Yakshas to go to the other world is the Inverted Lake, not Waist Lake."

It seems the sign in the Inverted Lake was set up for them; perhaps only they could see it: No return!

"However, bombarding these two lakes directly is useless; you have to follow the rules." Miao Zhantian had never despised its opponents in strategy, "In Thousand Illusions' world, you have to acknowledge its rules. We have to find a way to open the channel."

Bai Ziqi pointed to the inverted world on the zenith: "We came from there. If we call that world the upper world and the world we are in now the lower world. As you said, the connection channel between the two worlds is likely the two lakes, so after the living people in the upper world die, their souls must also pass through the lakes to reach the lower world and become the residents here—but this process doesn't need Silver Pearl Fruit."

The gray parrot affirmed: "Correct, this is one of the underlying rules of the Inverted Sea; it doesn't need to use Silver Pearl Fruit as an exception."