On the Seven Towers

Yolanda was not born and raised by the sea, and she couldn't swim. The boundless ocean around her made her a little flustered. Although she immediately realized that this was a spiritual world, where she didn't need to breathe, it was a bad sign. She began to lose track of reality and illusion for a moment.

But the reality of the illusion itself surprised her secretly. Just like the universe with huge planets just now, this ocean illusion was also very real. The sea water here was very clear, and you could see far away at a glance. There was a white light flashing in the distance above her head, which might be the result of the skylight. Many strange and colorful coral reefs covered the seabed under her.

It seemed that there was an ocean current pushing her forward. She moved among the rocks and fish schools on the seabed. The swaying water plants were like curtains. Every time she pushed aside these water plants, it was like a stage composed of various marine creatures. They showed their figures one by one in front of her, from sharks and large octopuses to schools of small fish and jellyfish, all of which passed by her in a smooth and graceful manner.

Although Yolanda is a Saint-level expert, these scenes in the sea are still unheard of for her. When she saw groups of fish playing around her, she couldn't help but reach out to touch them. At this time, a huge luminous jellyfish rose from the bottom of the water. Its body was like a big net wrapped around Yolanda, and its tentacles were like chains to entangle her. She wanted to avoid it, but she couldn't control her actions. However, the jellyfish suddenly turned and passed by her. Then a great white shark swam over in front of her, and the shark opened its mouth and bit her with its bloody mouth.

Yolanda was shocked and hurriedly used her silver mental thread to interfere with the existence of this illusion, but Xiao Chen, the creator of the illusion, seemed to have expected this long ago. Before the two mental powers collided, he eliminated the illusion.

Then Xiao Chen and Luo Ling took Yolanda into one illusion after another. There was a world of ice and snow that froze everything, an underground world full of lava, a noisy modern city, ancient ruins from who knows how many years ago, and a metal house flying in the starry sky that Yolanda couldn't recognize at all. Yolanda seemed to be experiencing one short life after another, and saw countless things she had never thought of.

Yolanda began to worry in her heart for some reason. She found that the illusions she experienced were becoming more and more real, and the impact on her body was increasing.

At first, she only saw and heard things and sounds in the illusion. Later, she began to feel the coldness of ice and snow and the heat of lava, began to smell the aroma of food in the city, began to touch the walls and even people, and in the most recent illusion of an ancient battlefield, she was stabbed in the chest by a spear from a charging soldier.

For a moment, she felt that she was about to die. But then she realized that this was the enemy's ability to manipulate illusions that was constantly growing, and her senses affected by them were becoming more and more.

Her two enemies were growing at a very scary speed. At first, in the illusions of the universe and the ocean, those planets and fish would try to avoid touching her to avoid forming an unreal feeling. But later, the experience would be more comprehensive. Every time a new illusion started, she would fall into a trance. She even felt that she had been living in such an environment. It took a lot of perseverance to realize the falseness of this world.

Time and time again, she would spend more time in the illusion and couldn't tell her true identity. This was a very dangerous signal. Once she felt that it was natural to live in an illusion, she would fall completely into the control of the other party. At that time, she would be trapped in the identity arranged by the other party and could not extricate herself, and then be imprisoned in the illusion.

With her own ability, the illusion she created was nothing more than some distorted blocks of color and lines. She couldn't understand why the other party, who were obviously two mages with a lower realm than her, could depict such a realistic and terrifying scene.

What puzzled her even more was why the other party could resist her illusion for so long.

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Yolanda, who was trapped in the illusion, did not notice that in front of Xiao Chen and Luo Ling, there was a black and white crystal slowly rotating, and the Spirit Tower emitted a halo that enveloped Xiao Chen and the two. This was the power of the Spirit Tower to stabilize the soul. Although it could not eliminate the illusion caused by Yolanda, it could keep Xiao Chen and Luo Ling awake enough, allowing them to use most of their strength to compile illusions for Yolanda.

Xiao Chen and Luo Ling took turns to compile illusions for Yolanda. They both had experience in transforming meditation spaces, so although their realm was not as good as Yolanda's, they had much more experience in creating illusion details than the other party. They had all watched a lot of film and television materials, whether it was movies and TV series, or game scenes, which provided them with a huge amount of materials for depicting the environment.

The scene of the first universe was created by Luo Ling, which came from many documentaries and science fiction movies. The second ocean scene was created by Xiao Chen, who combined the ocean documentaries he had watched with his own real experience of diving at the seaside to depict a realistic world. For each subsequent scene, they had a basis of one kind or another, which made the fantasy they portrayed full of many real details and came alive in Yolanda's eyes.

It is very difficult to deceive a saint who is good at mental magic, not to mention that Yolanda is also good at various detection and exploration magic. Xiao Chen and Luo Ling are often sensed by each other's weaknesses in the illusion, causing the illusion to collapse. But the benefits Xiao Chen and Luo Ling have gained from it are also incomparable to other cultivation methods. His environment was seen through by Yolanda again and again, and then destroyed by the opponent's mental thread, but his indomitable attitude of getting more and more courageous with more setbacks made their experience increase rapidly and their realm continue to rise.

If you observe their mental threads again, you will find that these threads are getting thicker and thicker, and are approaching the thickness of those silver threads.

It is this close combat with a saint that forces them to immediately improve their strength.

The realm of the saint is like a visible ladder for Xiao Chen. He knows very well that he can go up, but he just needs to find a suitable opportunity, and today this opportunity has come.