"Emperor Jade!"
Lin Fan was startled and glanced around, his face turning extrely ugly!
The bodies of Zhuge Yang, Heng Xiu, She Fengyu, Yuan Yao, Hao Qingyu, Sima Xuan and others lay on the ground, their blood flowing freely, a sight of grueso horror.
"What happened... How... how did I kill them all? What exactly did I do just now?"
Lin Fan’s body stiffened.
"Just as I thought! You’ve fallen into an Illusion Realm; none of these people are real, Zhuge Yang, Heng Xiu, She Fengyu, Yuan Yao, Hao Qingyu, they are all illusions! I can’t believe I didn’t realize it, this is terrifying! Even with my Divine Sense, I failed to notice you were trapped in an Illusion Realm! Quickly use your Emperor’s Eyes!"
The voice of Emperor Jade rang out sharply in Lin Fan’s mind.
At last, Lin Fan’s mind began to clear.
Then.
From within Lin Fan’s eyes burst forth a purple glow!
"Buzz!"
The scenery all around suddenly changed, transforming back to the world of the flower sea at the outskirts of the God Demon Cetery they first encountered.
The only difference was.
In the center of this flower sea world, stood an enormous tree reaching a thousand ters tall.
On this giant tree, hung one thousand eight hundred and eight black fruits!
Each fruit emitted a strange glow!
Luminescent like the halo of light, in combination with the fragrance of the flowers around, it was intoxicating.
"Close your sense of sll quickly, stop inhaling it, if you keep slling it, you’ll fall into the Illusion Realm again!"
The voice of Emperor Jade continued, exploding in Lin Fan’s mind like a deep bell.
"What’s going on?"
Lin Fan shuddered, nearly losing control of his spiritual platform in that instant!
"There’s sothing wrong with these flowers! From the very beginning, when you saw the sea of flowers, it was problematic, it was from that mont you fell into the Illusion Realm. The Demon Fruit is indeed terrifying, it even deceived . Turn back and look!" Emperor Jade spoke gravely.
Lin Fan looked back and was completely stunned!
Behind him, stood hundreds of people, walking towards the giant tree slowly like zombies.
Each person’s faces wore a bizarre smile.
With hollow eyes and an unresponsive expression, as if their souls had been lost!
The Zhuge Yang, Heng Xiu, She Fengyu, Yuan Yao, Hao Qingyu, Sima Xuan whom he had just killed, and Qin Feiyu who had been killed with a snap of his fingers, were all amongst them!
Had these people co back to life?
Or perhaps, had they never actually died?
Even more so, Lin Fan noticed that so faces were very familiar—everyone who had entered the A-rank secret realm from the outside world!
Had they all converged here?
"What’s happening? Weren’t they just... didn’t I just kill them?"
Lin Fan looked surprised.
"Everything just now was an illusion! Didn’t you notice? After you found those one hundred and eight caves, your temper beca extrely volatile!" said Emperor Jade in a cold voice, "And, given your nature, after discovering the God Demon Cetery, would you let others explore it first?"
"Of course not. If it had been , I would have gone in directly, how could I have let others scout ahead." Lin Fan furrowed his brow.
Even if these people were Lin Fan’s enemies, based on Lin Fan’s personality, he might have killed them outright!
But he would never send his enemies to scout ahead!
By doing so, how was Lin Fan any different from Zhuge Yang and the others?
But.
Just now, Lin Fan actually spoke, asking Zhuge Yang, Heng Xiu, She Fengyu, Yuan Yao, Hao Qingyu, and the others to scout the path for him?
The next second!
"Hiss!"
Lin Fan took a sharp breath, his voice filled with horror, "Are you saying... these Demon Fruits are influencing my ntality, causing to gradually beco more malevolent?"
"Yes!
Emperor Jade, taking the form of a young maiden, nodded in Lin Fan’s mind: "This is the nature of the Demon Fruit. You’ve rely caught a whiff of its scent and it has already entirely exposed and imnsely amplified the darkest aspects of your heart!"
"Didn’t you notice? After Zhuge Yang, Heng Xiu, She Fengyu, Yuan Yao, and Hao Qingyu finished searching the one hundred and eight caves, your temper suddenly beca very volatile and in a fit of rage, you killed them all!"
"Even the innocent Sima Xuan wasn’t spared! And these one hundred and eight caves correspond to the one hundred and eight Demon Fruits—it was they that affected your state of mind!" Emperor Jade said.
Lin Fan’s eyebrows knitted together as he spoke gravely, "It’s indeed so... At that mont just now, I was suddenly filled with intense anger, thinking that all these people were useless, unable to even find the entrance to the God Demon Cetery, so... I acted and killed them..."
Looking up, the one hundred and eight black Demon Fruits were still hanging high on the treetops.
Extrely eerie!
But, Lin Fan also felt the imnsely terrifying power contained within these Demon Fruits.
"What should we do now? It seems like only I have left the Illusion Realm, while the others are still trapped inside!" Lin Fan maintained his ntal clarity and asked with a frown.
"Since these Demon Fruits cause delusions, that ans they are protecting themselves and they require nourishnt! Otherwise, there’s no way these Demon Fruits could have grown this large and to a number of one hundred and eight!" Emperor Jade explained.
At the sa mont.
A most bizarre scene occurred!
Soone had already reached the root of the Demon Fruit Tree and took out a knife from their storage ring, harshly cutting across their wrist!
Following that.
Blood gushed from their wrists, seeping into the trunk of the Demon Fruit Tree, traveling up its veins and into the Demon Fruits!
Suddenly, Emperor Jade spoke up, "The trunks of these trees are the blood vessels of the Demon Fruits. I realize now why they’ve drawn you in—they induce hallucinations in you then have you sacrifice yourselves! Lin Fan, cut down this Demon Fruit Tree!"
As Emperor Jade spoke, Lin Fan discovered.
Those who cut their wrists were rapidly withering, their bodies shrinking as if deflating balloons, leaving behind nothing but skin in an instant!
"Swoosh!"
Lin Fan raised his hand and the Xuanyuan Sword appeared in his grip. Without a mont’s hesitation, he plunged the Sword ferociously into the trunk of the Demon Fruit Tree!
The Demon Fruit Tree, while appearing frightful, was actually extrely fragile!
"Pfft!"
Like slicing through tofu, a great spurt of dark purple blood gushed from the tree.
Imdiately after.
"Ahhhhhhh!"
A series of grievous screams emitted from the tree trunk as the one hundred and eight Demon Fruits seed to co alive, howling ghostly and wolfish cries, intensely terrifying!
"Boom!"
The Demon Fruit Tree was severed by Lin Fan’s sword strike, the kiloter-tall trunk crashing to the ground with a thunderous roar!
"What’s going on?"
"Why am I here?"
"What happened? Wasn’t I opening a treasure? How did I suddenly end up here?"
...
The hundreds of people present all ca to their senses, talking over each other, all wearing faces of confusion.
At the sa ti.
Within the crowd, Fen Xiao’s gaze sharpened as he spotted Lin Fan at the very front and his expression darkened as he called out, "Lin Fan, why are you here too?"
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