Chapter 37: Breaking Illusions - Mantra of Purification

  "What to do, can I just let these bronze corpses slaughter here?" I asked myself. Touching the travel bag beside me, it seemed that the travel bag was placed on the altar, and in my hand there was only a golden knife without any other magical tools.

  "It looks like this place is going to become hell tonight." I sighed.

  At this time, a copper corpse had already jumped in front of Wang Changlao, an iron hand stabbed deeply and was inserted into Wang Changlao's body. With the momentum, he lifted it up and tore Wang Changlao into pieces alive. A section of shiny intestines still hung on the copper corpse's arm stretched forward. I, who often deal with dead people, was also made to cover my stomach by this touching scene and couldn't help but "wow" and vomit.

  "It's all over, the new king is dead. Let's escape first and leave the green hills behind, we won't have to worry about running out of firewood. The ancients always taught us that there's no need to make unnecessary sacrifices." Just as he was thinking of pulling his second brother away, he suddenly remembered that his fifth brother was still in the back. He turned around to look and saw that his fifth brother, who seemed oblivious to everything happening before him, was still sitting there meditating, as if he hadn't heard anything.

  Worrying about the safety of Lao Wu, a copper corpse appeared. The fifth brother, who was sitting on the ground, shouted and stretched out his hands, jumping up and flying towards the fifth brother.

  "Don't, Fifth Brother! Run quickly!" I shouted loudly.

  But then the copper corpse suddenly turned into a yin-yang master, and upon closer inspection, it was surprisingly Mu Yunfeng. He stood beside his fifth brother and laughed 'heh heh', saying: "Ghost Dao person, you're also afraid? So you're also afraid!"

  "Is it you? Haven't you died yet? You were clearly beheaded by me just now." I said.

  "Hmph - everything before was just an illusion I used. Did you really think you could defeat me? Look, the Snake Spirit Pearl is still in my hands." He said with a self-satisfied smile as he pulled out the Snake Spirit Pearl from his pocket.

  "It turns out I was under your illusion all along, it seems I underestimated you, Muyun Feng." I said, just as I was about to raise the golden sword to strike at Muyun Feng, but found that the heavy golden sword couldn't be lifted.

  "It's strange, if I was under an illusion before, how can I be so weak now? Could it be...?" Suddenly, something seemed to click in his mind. And at this moment, Mu Yunfeng transformed back into a copper corpse and stretched out his hand towards the fifth brother.

  "It's strange, if I was under an illusion before, how can I be so weak now? Suddenly, it seemed like he understood something in his heart. At this time, Mu Yunfeng actually transformed back into a copper corpse and stretched out his hand to attack Wu Di again."

  Just as I was about to remind my fifth brother, I saw the old fifth who had been in a state of concentration for a long time suddenly open his eyes and take out a wooden fish, knocking it 'ding ding ding' like crazy, while continuously reciting something under his breath.

  Closing my eyes, I already understood that everyone was under an illusion. Listening to the sound like from the sky, my heart quickly calmed down. The wailing sounds coming from around me gradually stopped after my heart calmed down.

  After the surroundings quieted down, I opened my eyes to see that all the warriors on the scene had collapsed to the ground, some covering their stomachs and others with their mouths agape, looking extremely painful. Those copper corpses were still lying on the ground and did not engage in the fierce slaughter as seen in the illusion just now.

  At this time, the second brother also woke up from the illusion. Others, due to lack of cultivation, could not calm down for a while and were still trapped in the illusion, suffering mental torture.

  It seems that in just a few minutes, everyone has been severely injured. At this time, Wu Di's wooden fish is beating more and more urgently, loudly reciting the Great Compassion Mantra to awaken others from the illusion.

  "Big brother, look quickly." Following the direction of Er Ge's pointing hand, I saw that from the crowd on the other side came out a few people carrying long knives with a sly smile at the corner of their mouths, walking towards us. It's estimated that they want to take advantage of our people being under the illusion and come over to chop us like watermelons.

  "What should we do? Big brother." The second brother also knew their purpose.

  I patted Golden Blade lightly and whispered to him: "The other side should still think we're all in the illusion. Wait for now, act according to circumstances and protect Elder Wang and Fifth Brother."

  At this time, the second brother pretended to still be under the illusion, but secretly opened his eyes and looked at those people. The bright knife flashed with a cold light as it slowly approached with the incoming person.

  The first half of the night was spent fighting against Mu Yun Feng's corpse, which consumed too much of my physical strength. Adding to that, I was just hit by an illusion technique earlier, so now I don't have much energy left. If it were normal times, I wouldn't need to pretend to be in such a sorry state - I would have already charged forward and sliced them up. So for now, I can only pretend to be on the defensive and then launch a counter-ambush against them.

  The sound of heavy and steady footsteps was clearly transmitted to the ears, and upon hearing it, one could tell that it was an expert from outside. Unexpectedly, it wasn't rushing towards me, but instead directly walked to the side of my fifth brother. It seems they knew what my fifth brother was doing and wanted to take him out first, so as to prevent us from waking up from the illusion and then deal with us one by one.

  "What a vicious tactic." I sighed inwardly "But if I were in their shoes, I'd probably do the same thing too."

  He saw that man slowly raise the long knife in his hand, preparing to chop towards Seventh Brother. It seemed that as soon as the knife fell, Fifth Brother would have to accompany King Yan.

  Just as I was about to pounce forward with my last breath, two gunshots suddenly came from outside the field. The man's knife hadn't even been raised above his head when he fell heavily to the ground. Several more shots rang out and several of the offenders also fell to the ground.

  "Ah - it's Fourth Brother." I said happily in my heart.

  The fourth brother is unknown hiding in a dark corner, presumably out of the range that can be affected by the illusion.

  My heart was greatly delighted. Since the fourth brother didn't fall for the illusion, we are now safe. However, he fired his gun at this time, which is a bit too hasty. What if he wasted a bullet? Old Five would be in trouble then.

  The gunshot from the scene caused a considerable stir on the other side. That Yin-Yang master probably thought his illusion was about to end. After a few minutes, with Lao Wu's help, everyone who had been under the illusion woke up.

  Wang Zhanglao dragged his tired body to look at the corpse on the ground and walked over to ask me what had happened. I roughly told him about the whole process of everyone being affected by the illusion. He was shocked and sat on the ground for a long time, not recovering from the shock.

  The other side, knowing that we had set up an ambush, used a human wall to surround the yin-yang master in the crowd. It seems that the position where the yin-yang master was located was already out of Fourth Brother's shooting range, otherwise he wouldn't have let him live until now. But earlier, I don't know why Fourth Brother didn't use his gun to finish off Mu Yunfeng, that old scoundrel. Perhaps it was because he had full confidence in me, this big brother, and wanted to appear again at the crucial moment. Now that the target has been exposed, it won't be so easy to launch a sneak attack again.