My Heaven-Defying Spirit

Chapter 200 Lost in the Illusion

Ming Huaishang stretched out his hand, covered the sky with his other hand, and held the dragon boat in one hand above.

Seeing Ming Huaishang, Luo Hong stood up immediately.

"Yes, I want to become stronger. I want to go back for Luocheng."

Niang Qiang stood up, and Luo Hong hid under Long Xingzhou and smiled foolishly.

"If it doesn't work, crush the talisman and get out."

Suddenly Ming Huaishang said.

Hearing this, Luo Hong said nothing, just nodded, and the monkey fainted.

The chilly wind, the rustling rain, the red maple leaves in the forest, suddenly everything changed. Everyone's vision changed, and the narrow passage in front of Ming Huaishang and the other two suddenly turned into a scene of autumn harvest.

"Is it an illusion?"

Luo Hong said exhaustedly.

Walking forward slowly, the view suddenly opened up. It was no longer narrow and dark like before. It seemed like they were in a deep and secluded passage. It was as if they were in another world and the three of them were in a paradise.

"It's not a hallucination."

Ming Huaishang pondered.

Hallucination, in terms of consciousness, is something that changes your perception in the brain area, but whether it is the consciousness in the spirit or the perception of the body, Ming Huaishang feels that it is real.

However, this sentence did make Luo Hong instantly energetic, and he stared at the distance in disbelief.

"It is dark and bright again, with mountains and water in the distance, and the sky is foggy, just like a piece of heaven on earth. This is a real world, with sky, water, and people!"

Not far away, Ming Huaishang and Luo Hong saw the house located here, and bursts of smoke were rising from it, which meant that someone was making a fire here.

He stretched out his hand and grabbed the heaven and earth, and his spiritual energy was absorbed. Only then did Ming Huaishang feel relieved.

"Let's go and have a look. There are people living there. Maybe we can stay there for a while."

Ming Huaishang to Luo Hongdao.

Luo Hong was still hesitating. Everything here made him feel that something was wrong and his body shuddered. However, before he could think of a reply, Ming Huaishang had already walked towards a house at the foot of the mountain not far away.

Crows flew over the autumn landscape, and the dusk was like a curtain, reflected in the stream and in the mountains one after another. It was so unreal here that Luo Hong was frightened.

"Fuck it, just go, who's afraid of who!"

Luo Hong plucked up his courage and followed Ming Huaishang, carrying the monkey on his back. However, he suddenly felt that the monkey seemed a little heavy. After thinking about it, he thought that it might be because he fell into the water before and got his body wet, so he didn't think much about it.

However, what he didn't know was that when he first came, the narrow, dark and secluded passage had slowly disappeared...

"Hey, Luo Hong, Luo Hong, wake up!"

Torrential rain poured down. Ming Huaishang held Long Xingzhou with one hand and called out to Luo Hong, who was lying on his back in the water, with the other hand. The monkey was pinned under him and staggered to his feet as he climbed out from the bottom of the water.

"Ahem, what's going on?"

The monkey vomited several mouthfuls of water, and finally looked at Ming Huaishang with dilated pupils, and then looked at Luo Hong.

"Hey, what happened to Brother Hong?"

Ming Huaishang's face turned pale and he said in a deep voice.

"He's been under an illusion."

"Illusion?"

The monkey was startled, and then his eyes quickly looked around. Illusions can be sensed through the five senses of touch, hearing, smell, taste, and vision, but in the current situation, there are too many factors that can make them fall into hallucinations, and they can't be on guard at all.

“It’s divine perception.”

Ming Huaishang said in a deep voice.

"Divine perception? What is that?"

The monkey was a little puzzled.

Rumor has it that, in addition to the five senses, the illusionist can use spiritual attacks, that is, mental attacks, to make people within a certain range fall into a spiritual illusion. This illusion cannot be resisted, and one must be mentally firm to escape.

The monkey muttered in disbelief.

"Then why didn't the two of us suffer from hallucinations?"

Ming Huaishang was thinking. Just now he felt something unusual happening in his consciousness. The black and white seeds were surging in his consciousness, and finally emitted a light of alternating black and white. Perhaps this was the reason why he was able to resist the illusion.

As for why the monkey was not attacked by the hallucination, maybe it was because he was unconscious before? But even if he was unconscious, his body was still functioning and his consciousness would not dissipate. So he would continue to be unconscious. How could the monkey be fine?

This made Ming Huaishang very puzzled, but now was not the time to be suspicious. The most urgent task was how to wake Luo Hong up.

"Luo Hong, Luo Hong, wake up!"

Ming Huaishang shouted as hard as he could, but there was still no response.

"It seems that he can only rely on himself."

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In the illusion, Luo Hong carried the monkey on his back and followed Ming Huaishang to this strange village.

The village was sparsely populated, with only about seven or eight households. The gatehouse was open, smoke was rising, and the sky was dark, approaching dusk, so everyone should be making a fire and cooking at home.

Sure enough, after a while, a woman came out and came to the stone table outside the house, holding a ceramic bowl with hot white flour porridge in her hand.

Ming Huaishang and others walked up to her and asked the woman with kind smiles.

"My lady is well."

The woman was stunned at first, then she looked at the three people with a calm expression, and suddenly smiled and said.

"What can I do for you three?"

Ming Huaishang replied.

"We are lost travelers. We don't have much money and we encountered wild beasts along the way. Madam, can we three stay here for a few days?"

The woman was thinking, and at this time Luo Hong walked forward and said.

"Madam, my brother was attacked by a wild beast and passed out. Please... "

Luo Hong turned the monkey over and let the woman see it. As expected, when the woman saw the wounded, she immediately softened her heart. She first invited the three people into the house to rest, and then brought the freshly cooked white flour porridge for the three people to drink.

It was late at night and the cicadas were chirping. Luo Hong was lying in a thatched hut in a side hall. Beside him lay Ming Huaishang who was soundly asleep and Monkey who was still unconscious. He always felt that something was wrong but he couldn't tell what it was. However, it was late at night and it was better to go to bed early.

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On the morning of the second day, the three of them were still staying here. Luo Hong asked Ming Huaishang, and Ming Huaishang said that they should at least wait until the monkey woke up before leaving. Luo Hong did not doubt it, so he agreed, and then the long days began.

He had free time in the morning, and could help the woman and her family with farm work at noon. He would practice at night, but ten days passed in this peaceful way, and the monkey on the bed still showed no signs of waking up.

It was not until more than ten days later that Luo Hong could no longer bear it and went to check on the monkey's condition. However, as soon as he opened the door and saw the monkey, he saw his pale body. He hurried to check, only to find that the monkey had already died.

So Luo Hong hurriedly told Ming Huaishang the news. It was noon, and Ming Huaishang was helping the woman's family collect medicinal herbs in the forest in the back mountain. After Luo Hong told him the news that the monkey had died of suffocation, Ming Huaishang's expression did not change at all. Instead, he told Luo Hong that he must have seen it wrong and told him not to worry, as the monkey would wake up in a few days and then the three of them could leave.