The Lord of Void and Real

Chapter 342: Chapter 338: Illusion Chapter 342: Chapter 338: Illusion “Bai Xiaoyun heard this and his facial expression didn’t change noticeably. However, his eyebrows twitched slightly, and soon fixated a killing gaze on the demon wind, fully revealing his intent to kill.

Instantly, his right palm flashed with silver light, and shape-shifting silver rays lengthened into a silver-colored tin staff about one zhang (3.3m) long. The staff was adorned with twelve rings at its head; the Great Compassion Mantra in Sanskrit was engraved on it. A Jing Ming pearl of the size of a walnut was embedded in the tail-end of the staff, which emanated an overwhelmingly upright and positive Buddhist aura.

With a flick of his single hand, the Buddhist beads serving as his wristband fell off his wrist. Its thread broke apart by itself, and six golden beads hung beside his body, each shining with a flame-like, crimson light from the Buddhist mantra inscribed on them.

With a single tap of his foot on the ground, his figure shot out like an arrow. The silver-colored staff in his hand lunged straight like a long spear towards the demon wind’s heart. The six Buddhist beads followed his figure like a shadow, swiftly swooping across the demon wind.

Seeing this action, the demon wind unexpectedly dodged its sharp edge, swiftly raising its height by dozens of zhangs (hundreds of feet). With a sudden flutter of its wide sleeves, billowing black mist rolled out. Like two long black snakes, the black mist charged at Bai Xiaoyun.

Seeing the situation, Bai Xiaoyun did not dodge at all. He pierced the black mist with his staff and twisted his wrist to make the rings hanging on the top of the staff start jingling.

In an instant, layers of golden wavelets spread out from the staff like a tide and filled the surroundings.

The dense black mist dissolved immediately, like the melting of piled-up snow under the strong sun, when it encountered the golden wavelets. It did not obstruct Bai Xiaoyun in the least.

The staff was getting closer to the demon wind and had already reached its body. Suddenly, the demon wind’s right hand violently stirred, making a “rustle” sound as it wound its wide sleeve tightly around the staff. The sleeve produced an intermittent sizzling sound and emitted plumes of white smoke.

Immediately afterwards, the staff caught in the demon wind’s right hand was jerked back, pulling Bai Xiaoyun forwards. The demon wind quickly sidestepped the staff and lifted a palm to strike at Bai Xiaoyun’s body.

Bai Xiaoyun was already well-prepared for this move. His reaction speed was extremely fast. The staff in his hand swept to the side, hitting the demon wind.

The ‘Great Compassion Mantra’ inscribed on the staff shone with bright red light. It looked like a hot branding iron stamping on the demon wind’s cloak.

A soft sound ‘bang’ emerged on the spot.

Red light blossomed profusely from the rune on the demon wind’s cloak. It opened up like a fire lotus, emanating the merciful radiance of the Buddha’s true law, and released a powerful aura.

Under the intense flames, rolling black mists on the demon wind’s cloak began to evaporate. A massive void was shockingly revealed.

Shen Luo looked up and saw horizontal and vertical cracks all over its body that was exposed. These cracks glowed a faint red, like a porcelain bottle on the verge of shattering.

“Audacious monster, you dare to speak insolently even when severely injured!” Bai Xiaoyun shouted loudly after hearing this.

The place on the demon wind’s cloak that was covering its face could hardly discern any expression. However, its body was shaking continuously. Again, a wave of its sleeve produced rolling waves of demonic qi, which engulfed all the flaming lotuses and covered the void once more.

Shen Luo’s pupils shrank, and he understood. The monster wind wasn’t as relaxed as it had declared. The self-destruction of Bai Xiaotian had severely injured the monster, seemingly to the extent that it couldn’t even maintain its immortal form.

“How arrogant for a mere advanced master to insult a trapped tiger! After I use the Blood Meal, I will taste your flesh and blood well.” Said the demon wind, grinding its teeth.

Upon finishing whatever it was saying, it suddenly made a hand seal with both its hands. The palms of its hands were opposed to each other, while the fingers opened up like a blossoming flower, held in front of its chest. ”
Next, a blinding blood light emanated from the centre of his palm, its dazzling radiance like a rising bloody sun.

Shen Luo only took one glance, but after a moment of sharp pain in his eyes, he couldn’t look away.

Before his eyes turned abruptly red, the whole world seemed covered by a layer of dark red haze. An endless river of flowing bloody red met his eyes, with piles of Human Race corpses piled high like mountains, exuding an extremely intense, bloody scent.

“Aww…”

A loud roar of a wild beast suddenly came from the distance. Shen Luo looked over to see a ferocious Monster, its back full of sharp bone spines, vying with another Monster with curved horns to tear apart a young man.

Both creatures were tearing at him, ripping the young man in half. Blood rained down, the entire scene was incredibly brutal, and such purgatorial sights were found everywhere.

“What is going on, could it be an illusion?” Shen Luo was unsure.

He looked around, with no idea where he was. When he looked up into the sky, he could faintly see lightning flashing within the clouds, but the sound of thunder was absent.

Although Shen Luo felt a suppressed atmosphere around him and seemed to hear a noisy chatter ringing in his Sea of Knowledge, he quickly suppressed his inner panic. After some thought, he reached into his bosom.

Soon, he pulled out a green talisman and infused it with a trace of mana.

Only to see the runes on the talisman paper shine forth in a green light, which after a brief flash, quickly expanded to fill the entire talisman paper.

He raised his hand and threw it gently, and the talisman paper floated up by itself, hovering lazily in front of him. As the charm pattern resonated with a “whoosh” sound, a visible green whirlwind spun out, coiling around his sides.

Shen Luo’s gaze followed the green whirlwind, quickly discovering a scene that surprised him.

He clearly saw that where the clear wind swept, a faint red smoke instantly dissipated into the air, along with the feeling of red haze obscuring the void. Emerging from the surroundings of Shen Luo was none other than the scene within Jianmen Pass City Wall.

His gaze shifted to the distance, landing outside of the green whirlwind, where the void was still covered in red. The mountains of corpses and rivers of blood he had seen before still existed.

“It appears that the effectiveness of this Wind Barrier Breaking Talisman is limited, the scope it can break seems to be only within the range of a dozen meters in front of it. This differs from what is recorded in the books, could it be because this illusion is too powerful?” Shen Luo frowned, but had no time to think further. He reached into his bosom and quickly pulled out several more of the same talismans.

He turned around, flinging his hand out in each direction, unleashing one Wind Barrier Breaking Talisman after another.

Seven or eight Wind Barrier Breaking Talismans flew out in all directions, successively lighting up in the void, with whirlwinds of green flying out from them one after the other, coiling around a range of several dozens of meters, clearing a large area of the red haze.

Shen Luo then saw all the Jianye people and monks, all of them standing in place. Everyone’s eyes were tinged with a light red glow, their bodies swaying in place as if entrapped in a nightmare.

Those corpses turned from Jianmenguan residents, were all crowded around, motionless, and not continuing to chase after these people.