Illusion, illusion.
This kind of spell is not uncommon in the Ku Mu Realm. Whether it is humans, demons or monsters, there are cultivators who practice this kind of Taoism, and it is generally very exquisite.
Based on the illusion truth that "when truth is false, falsehood is also true".
Low-level illusionists indulge in confusing the senses.
However, a skilled illusionist can connect the senses and the soul in the blink of an eye, creating a non-existent city while ensuring that the people in the city can live in peace and contentment.
If a mortal were to mistakenly enter it, he would never notice anything strange.
But fake is fake.
Unless Lao Jiang unfortunately breaks into the "fantasy world" created by an old monster in the realm of seeking the Tao or a higher realm, otherwise as long as he is firm in his original intention and does not take the initiative to die.
Those false things could not harm his true self before breaking down his mental defenses.
As for why Lao Jiang, a young cultivator who has just started practicing, knows so much about illusions, the reason is actually very simple.
Jiang Xia's master, Shi Yan, a great cultivator in the divine realm, specialized in the Great Dream Technique, which was an extremely high-end illusion technique. Although Shi Yan never taught Jiang Xia for a single day after he entered the sect,
But Jiang Xia has Shi Rui, a senior brother who is much favored by Shi Yan, so he can also hear many secrets related to illusion.
"This Red Moon Dream is really something."
In the dreamlike Fengshan Street, under the moonlight, Jiang Xia, dressed comfortably, sat on a stone, lit a cigarette, and blew out a beautiful smoke ring.
He looked around and said in a strange tone:
“I have never heard of any illusion that can bring out the inner demons of a cultivator. Even an illusionist as powerful as Shi Yan can’t do it.
Hey, you were concretized by this dream of the red moon.
Do you know some inside information?"
Jiang Xia flicked the ash off his cigarette and kicked Jiang Feiwu, who was curled up in a ball at his feet. The latter's body trembled and he buried his bruised face deeper into his arms.
His whole body was shaking.
After being shot seventeen times by Lao Jiang and beaten six times with his fists, the poor guy was now almost losing consciousness from the torture.
Well.
Perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it "it".
Jiang Ziheng is dead.
He did not die in Ku Mu Realm, a spiritual world where people have a chance of turning into ghosts after death, but died in the wasteland desert.
That world has no spiritual energy at all, so it is naturally impossible for a dead person to become a ghost.
The person in front of me has the same face as Jiang Xia, and also has the poor and stubborn temperament of Jiang Shusheng.
But it's not Jiang Ziheng.
It is just a difficult to describe existence that was materialized by the strange power and the darkness in Jiang Xia's heart in this strange dream of the red moon, in this strange place where reality and illusion are intertwined.
Lao Jiang called it "the inner demon".
This is a term in spiritual practice, representing a terrible disaster for monks.
"Why don't you speak?"
Old Jiang looked down at the guy who was curled up and crying. He blew out a smoke ring, frowned, and said:
"Old Sarn said that the illusion of the Red Moon Dream was born out of the darkness of the soul. You were also born because of this. You represent a part of my soul...
But since you are a part of me, how can you be so cowardly!
Stop crying!
Stand up!
Otherwise I’ll beat you up!”
The inner demon under Lao Jiang's feet shuddered suddenly, and it jumped up from the ground as if it was equipped with a spring, and stood obediently in front of Jiang Xia, with its head lowered and its hands clasped.
The body, covered in smoke, was still shaking.
"Tell me, how were you shaped?"
Lao Jiang crossed his legs, looked at it, and asked:
"What's going on with this Red Moon Dream?"
"I……"
The inner demon raised its head, secretly looked at Lao Jiang with its bruised left eye, then suddenly lowered its head. It was born with malice, and its mission was to use the darkness manifested by itself to completely destroy Lao Jiang's mental defenses.
But it was obvious that its malicious intent was nothing in front of Boss Jiang.
It tried its best but failed to cause Lao Jiang any pain. Instead, it itself was killed twenty-two times in a row. It had been defeated by Lao Jiang.
I have no temper at all.
I can only whisper honestly:
"I have no idea."
"Um?"
This answer obviously did not satisfy Lao Jiang. He glanced and said coldly:
"Do you think I will believe it?"
"I really don't know!"
The inner demon's body trembled again.
It said in a supplicant tone:
"I was also just born. After you were pulled into this illusion, it sensed the darkness in your heart, and I was born.
I am you!
How can I know the answer to a question that you don't even know the answer to? Boss, please stop torturing me. I know you have a way to escape from this dream.
You should leave quickly.
As long as you leave the range of this illusion, I will disappear."
"it?"
Jiang Xia keenly caught a key word from the coward's mouth. He raised his head, looked at the inner demon, and asked in a cold voice:
"Who is it? Who is the being that shaped you?"
"Red Moon."
There is no greater sorrow than the devil in one's heart who is dead in the heart. He pulled his mouth and pointed his finger at the sky.
It had completely discarded Jiang Shusheng's poor temperament and answered Jiang Xia in a very straightforward and honest tone:
“It is the source of the monsters in this world. All disasters in this world originate from it. It is also the source of the magic power in this world. The dark magic power that covers the entire Red Moon Realm is emitted by it.
It is now trapped between dreams and reality like a group of ants.
Even having lost the command of the monsters, it could only use the Red Moon Dream, using the moon as a carrier to spread its evil power to the entire world.
All the monsters and supernatural beings in this world were created by it.
I naturally came from it.”
At this point, the inner demon hesitated for a moment, glanced at Lao Jiang again, and whispered:
“But it only provides me with a concrete possibility. The reason why I appear in this form is because there is indeed darkness in your heart, Boss.
So in other words, you created me.
you……
Although you never mentioned it, and although you didn't feel guilty about occupying Jiang Ziheng's body but failing to save that loser, you are a person who abides by the principle of fair trade.
Therefore, you actually feel a little indebted..."
"You understand it very well. You are worthy of being called the inner demon."
Jiang Xia replied in a dim voice. This kind of mind spying made him very unhappy, so he punched the inner demon in front of him in the abdomen.
I used my left hand.
The steel prosthesis exerted force, blue-purple arcs surged, and the punch was thrown out like a battering ram, directly smashing the inner demon in front of him into pieces.
A few breaths later, under Lao Jiang's cold gaze, the inner demon once again appeared in the form of smoke.
This time it was clean and crisp.
The moment he appeared, he lay on the ground with all four limbs like a tiger falling to the ground, and knelt down to Lao Jiang with great momentum.
"Please stop torturing me, Boss!"
The inner demon put his hands together, placed them on his head and shook them continuously, pleading in a miserable tone:
"I am here not because I wanted to. I am just an insignificant person who appeared in front of you by accident. I don't want to make you angry.
You are a magnanimous person, so just treat me like a fart."
Lao Jiang did not answer.
But he didn't beat the poor guy again.
He just sat back on the stone, crossed his legs and smoked. The atmosphere became silent and dead for a while. The inner demon did not dare to speak. It was born from Jiang Xia's heart and shared all of Jiang Xia's past and memories.
It could also sense the waves in Jiang Xia's heart, so it didn't dare to speak, for fear of angering Old Jiang and getting beaten up again.
After a dozen breaths, Jiang Xia threw the cigarette butt in his hand to the ground with an expressionless face.
He said to the inner demon in front of him:
"Since you are an inner demon, why are you so weak? This shouldn't happen, and it doesn't fit the stories I've heard of powerful old ghosts being tortured by their inner demons and wanting to die.
Either Wang Liufu lied to me.
Or something must have gone wrong.
Explain it to me.”
Faced with Jiang Xia's question, the inner demon blinked.
It showed an indescribable bitter smile and stammered to Jiang Xia:
"Boss, that... I just said that I am a part of you, I am you, that... you don't understand the problem, I am a newbie who was born less than an hour ago...
How could I possibly know?
Besides, I wasn’t born in the Bitter Wood Realm. Perhaps, it’s because the power limit of the Red Moon Realm is very weak?”
"no."
Jiang Xia shook his head and said seriously:
"Old Sarn once told me that the most powerful witch hunters in this world all suffered setbacks in the Red Moon Dream, which shows that the inner demons created by this illusion can be very powerful.
You are so weak, it's definitely not because of the world limit."
"Ah! I see!"
After hearing what Jiang Xia said, the inner demon hesitated for a moment, and then as if he suddenly realized something, he clapped his hands, raised his head, and said to Jiang Xia:
"It's because you, Boss, have too little darkness in your heart. No, that's not quite accurate. It should be because you, Boss, have a clear conscience and act decisively, without being bewildered by doubts in your heart.
Naturally, I can cut through the thorns along the way ..."
"You are connected to me, so you should know that you are flattering me on purpose. I can hear it, and your flattery is so poor, let alone compared with the fourth brother.
Your horsemanship level is not even as good as Huck's."
Lao Jiang lit up another cigarette.
Without even looking at the embarrassed coward, he spun the Colt in his hand and said:
"You are obviously hiding something. You are very dishonest. I will give you one more chance. Tell me why you are so weak. If you explain clearly, I will let you go."
The cowardly demon's face, which looked exactly like Lao Jiang's, suddenly showed a look of helplessness.
The original body in front of him was really shrewd and difficult to deal with, but at this point, it had given up hope of assassinating Jiang Xia, and wanted to quickly end this unprovoked disaster.
Then he quickly said with a dull expression:
"Okay, I won't pretend anymore. I'll confess. The reason why I'm so weak is simple: it's because you're too weak."
"Um?"
Jiang Xia nasally uttered, meaning to ask the inner demon to explain what he meant by being too weak.
The inner demon sighed and said:
“You are just a small cultivator, so you naturally don’t understand the true nature of our inner demons. We were born together with the cultivators’ spirits and souls. The stronger you are, the greater our destructive power will be when we materialize.
As for the cultivation rules of Ku Mu Realm, you cannot come into contact with people like us when you are in the first three realms of cultivation.
At the beginning of the Dao-seeking stage, the inner demons begin to truly take shape and grow.
To step into the sea of ​​suffering means to fight against the demons in our hearts all the way. Only by using the power of self-realization to cut off the demonic thoughts in our hearts and gain great freedom and liberation, can we reach the other shore.
In this practice, the first half is about cultivating the body and soul, while the second half is about cultivating the mind.
From this we can see how terrifying the inner demon calamity of our generation is.
But you are just a small cultivator in the Qi training stage. You only have the seven emotions and six desires that mortals have not yet gotten rid of. You have not yet experienced the state of retaining the truth and eliminating delusion, let alone cultivating a primordial spirit.
It is impossible to condense such high-level evil thoughts as the inner demons of our generation. "
"etc."
Lao Jiang stretched out his hand to interrupt the coward's inner demon. He rubbed his forehead and said:
"You were born less than an hour ago, how do you know all this?"
"Because we are really your inner demons."
The inner demon shrugged helplessly, pointed at his head, and said to Jiang Xia:
“When I was born, I already knew the meaning of my birth, which was to use every possible means to destroy your practice and drag you into the hell of inner demons, so that you will never be able to escape.
We are the result of the darkness in your heart. Before we release our malice towards others, we must first defeat you.
This is the mission of the birth of our inner demons, and it is also the third test that the Heaven and Earth Dao gives to cultivators like you, besides the thunder tribulations of Heaven and Earth and the pursuit of the Dao.
Wherever there is spiritual practice, there are us.
Some cultivators call us "outside demons". In fact, this is not wrong. We are indeed the eternal power that has existed since the moment the universe was born.
Light and darkness coexist, and where there is light there must be shadow.
You can understand this principle, right?
As long as you continue to practice, we will not stop."
"Okay, I understand."
Jiang Xia nodded, rubbing his forehead and said:
"But I heard that any cultivator who defeats his inner demons will receive feedback from the heaven and earth, and his cultivation will greatly increase. I have defeated you twenty-two times, so why hasn't my cultivation improved at all?"
"You wish."
The inner demon no longer pretended to be a coward.
It folded its arms like Lao Jiang, with the attitude of an old senior scolding his disciple, and snorted coldly.
explain:
"This process is really hard to explain, and I am too lazy to explain it to you. In words that you can understand, I am like an advanced computer virus.
It can .
As a beginner who just started using the XP system, how could you possibly come into contact with a virus that is specific to the Apple system?
The hardware doesn't match.
At this time, using the Red Moon Dream's 'virtual machine' to forcibly run my virus, the result is what it is now.
I am really tortured by you.
But you can't get any benefit by defeating us because your hardware is not up to standard, do you understand?
If you understand, then let us go.
I am too lazy to say anything more to you."
The inner demon, who completely shared memories with Jiang Xia, used the knowledge in Jiang Xia's mind to make a very vivid metaphor.
He yawned again and said to Jiang Xia:
"You don't have to worry about us doing anything bad. As long as you get out of the Red Moon Dream, we will disappear.
You now cannot support the reality of our generation in this world.
But when you step into the realm of seeking the Tao, you and I will meet again. At that time, Jiang Xia, you will see the true power of our generation.
Hopefully you're prepared and don't pee your pants."
The inner demon sneered:
"What you did to us tonight, when that day comes, we will repay you tenfold or a hundredfold, we will... bang"
Before the inner demon could finish his cruel words, he was shot in the head by Lao Jiang.
When it materialized again, Jiang Xia was seen moving his shoulders, with a dangerous smile on his face and a gun in his hand, striding towards it.
"Mr. Heart Demon, you don't look very smart, you don't know how to say harsh words, and you don't know how to threaten others.
So let me teach you."
Lao Jiang bent down, stretched out his hand to grab the collar of the Heart Demon who had no power to resist, and pulled him in front of him. He looked into the Heart Demon's frightened eyes and whispered:
"I don't know how long it will take me to reach the Dao-seeking realm, but I really don't want to delay our farewell until then. I want to get closer to my inner demon baby from now on.
Thanks to the red moon, we can be close to each other for one night every three months.
Oh, that's not right!
Using the time in Ku Mu Realm as the calculation, we can meet each other one night every month. Guess how many times I can kill you before I reach Xun Dao Realm and materialize the powerful you?
The night is still long tonight.
baby.
Also, from now on, don't call yourself "our generation" anymore, your name is Jiang Ziheng, remember?"
"Bang"