With such a grisly example before them, the remaining demons and ghosts instantly froze on the spot.
However, punishing without teaching was clearly not the style of the "Deceit Peach."
At the sa ti.
In their hearts, there gradually erged the various "tireless teachings" that Wang Yuan had input into the "Deceit Peach."
But it only made their faces look even uglier.
By the ti they had read through these rules from start to finish, each of them had a face ashen as if ice could be scraped off it.
A hotheaded demon, nearly exploding with anger from this thing, subconsciously growled:
"Not only can’t we eat humans, but we also have to be civilized? Show manners? Establish new customs? To hell with the ru... Uh..."
Thud!
Even the most cunning and powerful of the Yellow Seal Mages dared not speak or move any longer.
Fearing they might be swept away by these inexplicably deadly rules.
The extent of Wang Yuan’s short-term achievents also stopped there, as these wicked and misguided fools could definitely not cultivate Daoist skills.
In fact, every Yellow Seal Mage had only consud a single Middle Grade "Deceit Peach," and so even just a few less effective Low Grade ones.
Relying on the resistance of their Daoist skill levels, the "Heart-Eating Worm" was unlikely to kill them.
Rather, they would be repeatedly trained in their own ways, striving to beco a noble, kind, socially useful person soon!
If there was one even more inexplicably motivated than them in the midst, it was Su Guyun.
Even with her ruthless and decisive nature, seeing those demons and ghosts falling on their own, she couldn’t help but pause slightly.
There was a bizarre sense that they had fallen before she had even exerted any effort.
Completely unaware.
This was actually the "girl" whom she had pre-selected as a Concubine, cultivating the "Divine Skills · One Breath Manifests the Three True," watering and weeding inside her.
However, she soon beca too preoccupied to pay attention to this anomaly.
Just slightly held up for a short while, the inherent defense chanisms of the "Taoyuan Mysterious Realm" also finally responded.
A large group disguised as humans, resembling a hybrid of black goats and tree stumps, the "Yaochi Golden Boys."
Under the lead of a hybrid of half-dragon, half-bull, half-tree "Dragon Descendant," they swiftly advanced to attack here.
Wherever they passed, the boundary between reality and falsehood instantly divided.
Misled by "Deceitful Heart," the trapped commoners in the false world, could only see the "Immortals and Buddhas" falling one by one.
But they couldn’t see these clawing and gnashing deceitful monsters passing by right beside them.
The "Dragon Descendant," shouting at the top of their lungs with the hideous human heads strung on ropes in their hands:
"You can see it! You can see it!..."
"You can eat! You can eat!..."
The bone-chilling murderous intent nearly froze Su Guyun’s soul.
There was no need for the demon mages to take action; the henchn created by the overflowing power of a "Green Seal Strange Immortal" could easily take down any disruptor.
But!
This ti, the disruptor’s ability was evidently different from before, and Su Guyun, fully prepared when she saw them, was not only unfazed but her eyes even lit up.
"Good timing! Just the cue I needed!"
Just as those Strange Immortal’s henchn reached the Divine Palace Gate, about to pounce together on her, the exposed "Awakener."
In a side hall, Su Guyun’s actual body leaped into action, quickly restraining the others inside.
Her lotus feet, clad in exquisite embroidered shoes, gently tapped the ground, and a Dharma Altar rose on its own.
The White Lotus Holy Daughter ford a mantra with her hands, stepped the steps of Yu, and chanted rapidly:
"Qian exudes a radiant spirit, Kun flows with internal glory. Dual essences harmonize, beneficial fidelity for all...
Shock departs, pleasure resigns, Aid praises the morning sun. Qiankun, Gen and Xun, tiger steps and dragon vigor. Heavenly Gate, Earth Gate, human gate, Ghost Road. Who shall protect ?..."
With the rise of this spell.
In the outer crowd, those Moluo People who had already been deployed trembled instantly, collapsing as if their skeletal supports had been removed.
But their bodies were imdiately propped back up by an invisible force and didn’t fall to the ground.
At the sa ti, one of the two Talisman Seals on their spines suddenly lit up.
All looked up to the sky, 3000 golden beams of light soared from their mouths into the high air, occupying all directions, forming the Eight Diagrams.
Qian (☰), Kan (☵), Gen (☶), Zhen (☳), Xun (☴), Li (☲), Kun (☷), Dui (☱).
Under Su Guyun’s feet, the steps of Yu got faster, each movent accompanied by thunder, her spell changing its course:
"..mand the ghostly rebels, non-conformists to the Dao, submit to Kui Gang. Hurry as a decree!
Invert the Yin Yang formation! Rise!!!"
As the last true word resounded throughout Taoyuan.
The mountain in the center of Taoyuan where she stood suddenly quaked.
Zizz, zizz...
Subsequently, centered on the group of deceit monsters in "reality," an inexplicable rasping noise echoed near everyone’s ear.
And this noise grew louder and louder, causing intense pain in countless brains.
"What’s happening?"
"Bless us, Your Majesty!"
"..."
Hearts pounding violently as if calamity was upon them, everyone was alard, crying and praying, imploring gods and Buddha for help.
As they looked around, the vista before their eyes also began flashing erratically.
One mont it was a beautifully serene and boundless Paradise, the next, a desolate, fear-inducing place unknown to all.
The scope of these real and illusionary changes was not just limited to the area beneath the Big Peach Wood trees but spanned the whole of "Taoyuan" centered on this location!
Subjected to the repeated stimuli of truth and falsehood, more and more people broke free from the deception of "Deceitful Heart."
The "True Spirit Unobscured" within them, in turn, tore the flaws of the Deceit Realm even wider.
In just a dozen or so breaths’ ti, an irreversible trend had gradually ford and then crashed down with an unstoppable montum.
The group of [Dragon Descendants] who had been fiercely advancing towards Su Guyun, faced with so many targets, suddenly found themselves in disarray, unsure where to turn.
And this ti, seeing a re ant transform into a ferocious beast, these demons and ghosts finally changed their expressions completely.
"How is this possible? What should we do now?
If the king awakens, how are we to explain this to him?!"
But before they could co up with any further response,
the "Su Guyun" standing above the palace gate stretched out his arms as if embracing the entire world and revealed a strange smile:
"Everyone! Welco to... reality!"
Crack—!
Accompanied by a harsh sound of breaking glass.
The "Paradise" in front of everyone finally completely collapsed and disappeared, revealing the original appearance of the Deceit Realm below.
"This is...."
All around, the view was filled with a scene of desolation and ruin.
The once flourishing markets and city walls had all turned into low adobe houses;
The endless mountain ranges had turned into re dozens of hills, barely taller than hillocks, exposing the boundaries of the entire world at a glance;
The sky, once dotted with fluffy white clouds, had turned into a gray-white stone ceiling, making them realize for the first ti that what hung over their heads was just a rock do...
An even greater change had occurred in the bodies of the residents of Taoyuan themselves.
Most had lost their originally carefree and prosperous appearance.
Their skin was gray and lifeless, their hair yellowed, bodies skeletal, clothes tattered, all made of the roughest, lowest quality hemp, far worse off than even the beggars of the outside world.
One can imagine what the lives of the natives who lived only on peaches were like, regardless of how "Deceitful Heart" had deceived them; the false was ultimately false.
In the end, this was not a world completely of idealism.
In the entire Taoyuan Deceit Realm, only one thing remained unchanged, and that was the huge peach wood above everyone’s heads, and the countless peach forests spreading across the hills.
But their unchanging was more frightening than change itself.
Because the locals were horrified to discover that beneath the roots of each peach tree lay nurous ghastly white human bones.
Empty skulls were piled layer upon layer, with those at the bottom already turned to ash and bone dust, while those at the top still had strands of dried blood.
Clearly, not long ago, that was a living person!
Nourished by these corpses, the peach trees all around grew exceptionally robust, and the clusters of peach blossoms appeared even more enticing and lush.
Witnessing this scene, many people could no longer hold back and started retching continuously, vomiting only acidic bile.
It was obvious that the "food chain" in Paradise started with those peaches disguised as roast chicken, pork knuckles, and fatty beef... essentially all originating from the sa source.
The seemingly top-of-the-food-chain living people in "Paradise" ate peaches during their lives.
After death, they were consud by the strangeness and the peach trees to supply a higher level of the ecosystem.
"Ah—!"
"This isn’t real!"
When mories were no longer obscured, and cold, extre "reality" was witnessed firsthand, nurous people’s worldviews completely capsized and crumbled.
So cried and wept; so went mad on the spot; so were dumbstruck...
When a person’s senses: shape, sound, sll, taste, touch... and other ans of perceiving the outside world, were all overtaken by "Deceitful Heart,"
it constituted various self-enclosed "Information Cocoon Rooms."
Everything you thought you knew was just what others wanted you to think.
Apart from the pitiable bit of [True Spirit], there was nothing else truly your own.
And outside the "Information Cocoon Room," the biggest reality was:
——what they saw as "Paradise" was actually just a giant tomb underground!
When the cognition and worldview of at least tens of thousands of people collapsed along with the Deceit Realm.
Whoosh—!
An invisible wind swept through the pitch-dark tomb.
The intense emotions of that mont were instantly infused into the bodies of the three "Su Guyun" through the ritual.
Promotion Ceremony:
To seriously manage three or more different identities, the more the better, the more different the better.
These vastly different identities must not only make all family, friends, and subordinates around them truly deeply believe,
but also commit at least one event in full view of the public that could influence the lives of tens of thousands of people.
Only then could they complete the promotion amidst everyone’s intense emotions of the mont.
The next mont.
The other two [True Spirits] besides the body, burst out from the bodies they inhabited.
Amidst a fiercely intense [Three True Dharma Lights], they transford into one blue and one red scorching suns.
Subsequently, a body as gentle as water, and another as vigorous as fire, respectively stepped on blue and red Lotus Platforms erging from the suns.
The [Three True Dharma Body], unachievable by anyone in the current era of No-Life Dao, was finally condensed by Su Guyun!
Even though Su Guyun’s ntal fortitude surpassed that of ordinary people, she could not help but let out a joyfully elated laugh at this mont.
"Hahaha..."
Wang Yuan, who had been following behind her, also lit up, laughing even more joyously than her:
"Your Divine Skill is not bad, but it is mine now!"
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