Chapter 1691: Chapter 1691 Disguising a Foreign Race
The basics of the Thousand Illusion was quite simple to grasp.
It worked by using a martial practitioner’s genuine energy to alter the shape and color of muscles and skin to change one’s appearance. It could also modify one’s aura and realm.
However, these were just superficial transformations, not fundamental changes.
For Ye Liuyun, the step of changing his body size was particularly challenging.
The foreign race had a larger stature, typically two or three times the size of humans. As such, it required Ye Liuyun to consume a lot of advance energy to transform, and the duration he could sustain it was not long.
The true form of Qiong Qi, on the other hand, was inherently large. He had to shrink his body to control his appearance. Hence, it was tough for the two of them to maintain their transformed state for an extended period of time.
They brought in the Yin-soul of the foreign race to practice mimicking their image every day and even found a few foreign races who were experts in the Thousand Illusion to guide them.
Ye Liuyun specifically inquired about the origin of this secret technique. If it had been passed down from the foreign race, they would have faced a big problem.
Fortunately, this secret technique had been discovered by the foreign race within a cave in the mountain, hidden inside the skeleton of a creature.
Ye Liuyun breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the foreign race didn’t possess this disguising secret technique, it would be fine.
During this period, Ye Liuyun managed to stabilize his realm. The spiritual stones that he had traded for the virtuoso of Corpse Demons had been fully consumed by him, and the advance energy inside his Storage Stone had been filled by him and his clone.
Qiong Qi also managed to find some time to heal Onyx and handed it to Ye Liuyun for backup use.
"That should be enough! It would be sufficient if we can transform during critical times!" Qiong Qi said to Ye Liuyun.
He did not want to waste any more time continually cultivating this secret technique.
Cultivating this technique was easy to start but required consistent practice to master. If they desired to fully master it, it would take too much time.
Qiong Qi planned to practice in his free time but wouldn’t take it as a main cultivation method.
Ye Liuyun agreed with Qiong Qi’s suggestion and established the world’s channel so they could enter anytime. If they encountered danger, they could retreat first and figure out a solution later.
They then bid goodbye to Zhuge Feiyu and Asura and passed through the gate to the Burial World occupied by the foreign race.
After exiting the Burial World, they could feel the world was full of evil aura. Everywhere was barren and dark.
The whole world was in deathly silence, with the occasional roar of Corpse Demons coming from a distance.
When they released their Divine Sense to evaluate the environment, they could see skeletal remains scattered everywhere.
"Corpse Demons are devouring each other. It appears that it would be hard to find any human alive in this world!" Qiong Qi witnessed the fights among the Corpse Demons.
Soon afterwards, Ye Liuyun also noticed the devouring situation of the Corpse Demons.
Corpse Demons couldn’t find any humans and the foreign race wasn’t managing the world, so they instinctively grew stronger by devouring each other.
They observed for quite a while but saw no signs of any living creature.
Ye Liuyun sighed and told Qiong Qi, "You should set up an exit. I’ll wander around and see."
"Don’t rush! Let’s find any hidden martial practitioners. We might be lucky." Qiong Qi said.
"With the world in such catastrophe, would there be any survivors?" Ye Liuyun didn’t hold out any hope.
"Without martial practitioners, how did those foreign races die? Was there infighting? The Corpse Demons wouldn’t dare to kill the foreign race, right?" Qiong Qi reminded Ye Liuyun.
"Exactly!" Ye Liuyun suddenly realized, "That means, there are humans resisting the foreign race in this world!"
Qiong Qi informed Ye Liuyun, "The remaining martial practitioners are likely guarding around the Power of Origin of this world, doing the final battle with the foreign race!"
Ye Liuyun nodded and immediately pulled out his divination compass used for finding energy and followed the direction indicated by the compass together with Qiong Qi.
On the way, they encountered many wandering Corpse Demons.
They killed all of them one by one. Occasionally, they’d even impersonate the appearance of Corpse Demons to test the effectiveness of the Thousand Illusion.
The Thousand Illusion’s ability to change one’s aura was truly commendable, even Corpse Demons, who were highly sensitive to human aura, didn’t notice anything odd about Ye Liuyun even when he was standing right in front of them.
Even the Corpse Demons of the lower realm would follow the instructions of Ye Liuyun and his group.
When Ye Liuyun and Qiong Qi disguised as foreign race, those Corpse Demons of any realm were even more obedient, completely following orders.
However, when Ye Liuyun and Qiong Qi were conveying orders, they could only communicate through Divine Sense and could not directly control the minds of the Corpse Demons like how the foreign race did.
They also couldn’t communicate with the foreign race since they didn’t understand their language.
After all, although this Thousand Illusion was powerful, it could only change some external appearances. It was impossible to change the Divine Soul.
As for those lower realm Corpse Demons, Ye Liuyun also directly used spells. He was too lazy to take action. Spells could directly annihilate those lower realm Corpse Demons, turning them into ash. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm
"Why didn’t you use this ability before?" Qiong Qi asked curiously.
"Spells are only useful against Corpse Demons and Yin-souls. Regardless of how well I practice them, their use is limited. It’s better to directly fight and increase my realm and physical strength.
After the previous battle, not only did my advance energy congeal but my physical body also became stronger! Isn’t that better?" Ye Liuyun answered with a laugh.
"That’s good! But, If you practice your spells to a high level, won’t it be more convenient when you go to the God Realm to deal with the foreign race?" Qiong Qi asked.
Ye Liuyun also nodded and said, "That’s why I cultivated this curse technique! Isn’t this what practice is about?" freēwēbnovel.com
"What realm of Corpse Demons or foreign race can your curse technique handle?" Qiong Qi asked.
"Those about the same level as me, I guess. It should work for anything below the Immortal Realm!" Ye Liuyun estimated.
Last time when he wiped out the Burial God, he also incidentally absorbed some of the Buddha’s halo power from that Vajra, so his existing curse technique should be stronger as well.
"Why don’t you practice more here!" Qiong Qi suggested.
Ye Liuyun also shared the curse technique with Qiong Qi. However, upon realizing he would have to learn another language, Qiong Qi lost interest immediately.
"You practice on your own! It’s too much of a hassle!" He found this curse technique nowhere near as interesting as the Thousand Illusion, and could not generate the enthusiasm to learn it.
Ye Liuyun then let his clone out and let him practice the curse technique as well.
"How about you go back to the Spatial World and help me craft two more sets of armor?" Ye Liuyun asked Qiong Qi.
"Sounds good. You broke too many armors! This time, I’ll make a few extra sets for you." After Qiong Qi finished speaking, he went back into the Xuankong Stone to help Ye Liuyun craft armor.
Ye Liuyun practiced the Thousand Illusion and the curse technique simultaneously, eliminating Corpse Demons along the way.
This world had entirely become the domain of Corpse Demons. Occasionally, Ye Liuyun would pass a city only to encounter a large contingent of Corpse Demons.