94: Chapter 94 Now see clearly, who exactly are you attacking!

"Curtain of Delusion."

The four words fell. Above the East Sea, the sound of rain paused for an instant.

It wasn't that the rain had actually stopped. Rather, everyone's perception had been pinned down at this moment by something of a higher order.

It was as if an invisible hand had reached down from beyond the sky, gently gripping the five senses of all of Linhai.

The wind. The rain. The sound of the tsunami. The cries. Even the silent resentment spreading when the shadows of the dead in the Mirage of the Sea Kingdom opened their mouths were forcibly dragged behind a layer of absurd and tranquil curtain at this moment.

The inverted city of the Mirage of the Sea Kingdom remained pressed against the surface of the sea.

Skyscrapers stood in forests. Streets intersected. Black seawater backflowed beneath the illusory overpasses.

Countless shadows of the dead pressed against the back of the glass, opening their soundless mouths.

They were like departed souls trapped in the city. Or perhaps, they were scales on the body of this half-King-level Anomaly that could fall off and reform at any time.

The next second. Su Yun's tentacles slammed into it.

Boom! A hundred-story skyscraper was shattered on the spot.

Glass, steel bars, walls, and the shadows of the dead were all swept into the mouthparts like garbage crushed into a blender.

The screeching sound of chewing spread along the sea surface.

It wasn't just the sound of tearing apart buildings. It sounded more like some kind of rule being bitten in two.

However, as soon as the shattered building disappeared, the block on the other side flickered like a reflection on the water.

Immediately after, an identical hundred-story skyscraper grew back out from the boundary where the illusory and the real intersected.

The glass was intact. The lights turned on. The shadows of the dead pressed against the windows again.

Even those few rotting faces that had just been chewed up by Su Yun appeared behind the window, exactly the same.

The laughter of the Sea Kingdom emanated from the entire city.

"Futile effort." "Newborn King, in my Domain, you are only attacking projections." "Buildings will be rebuilt." "Shadows will be reborn." "No matter how much you devour, I can replenish just as much." "This is not your stomach." "This is my Sea Kingdom."

Before the voice faded. A dozen psionic fluctuations erupted from the streets of the Mirage.

Psionic Users wearing the uniforms of the Investigation Bureau. Arbiters draped in Saint Domain robes. And an S-level Anomaly with a twisted form, half its body already rotted into seaweed.

They rushed out from the street corners, rooftops, subway entrances, and abandoned piers of the illusory city, charging toward Su Yun.

Every aura was, surprisingly, S-level.

And they were not just the flimsy shells of ordinary projections.

The fluctuation of rules on them was brief but real.

It was as if the psionic energy from the last second before a powerhouse died had been fished out from the seabed by the Sea Kingdom and stuffed back into a fake body.

Saintess Lin Xinglan's expression changed. "It is replicating powerhouses who died in the sea."

Queen Elizabeth gripped her scepter, silver-white psionic energy flowing in her palms. She stared at the illusory city, her voice low.

"It is not replicating the corpses. It is replicating the power they possessed in the final moment before death. The fear before death is often the closest to the Origin."

Princess Evelyn stood behind her, watching the indescribable shadow beneath the sea, her throat moving.

"Mother. This monster... is it still holding the upper hand while being besieged by dozens of S-level projections?"

The Queen did not answer. Because the answer was already right before their eyes.

Su Yun's tentacles tore through the psionic storm.

An Arbiter projection had just raised its longsword, and before the blazing Holy Light could fall, it was pressed into the sea by a dark purple tentacle.

The flesh membrane on the surface of that tentacle writhed, as if countless tiny mouths had opened.

In the blink of an eye, the Arbiter projection, along with its sword, was swallowed clean.

Another S-level Anomaly had just opened its Domain, intending to use rotting sea fog to erode Su Yun's perception, but half its body had already been bitten off by a sweeping tentacle.

Its Domain had just formed when it burst like a soap bubble.

Su Yun did not dodge. Nor did he need to.

All attacks landing on him only exploded large patches of dark purple flesh membrane.

Some attacks even briefly tore open his flesh, revealing the dense, constantly opening scarlet eyeballs inside.

But the next second. Flesh writhed. Wounds closed. Those eyeballs sank back deep into the dark purple flesh membrane.

It was as if the barrage that would have been enough to severely injure an S-level powerhouse had only scraped off a layer of unimportant skin from him.

Bai Cang's eyelids twitched as he watched. "This recovery ability... is truly unreasonable."

Su Jianguo cursed in a low voice: "If this thing went to work as a gigolo, he'd corner the entire market."

Bai Cang glanced at him. At a time like this, his underling still had the mood to make snide remarks. As expected of the person he had his eye on. His psychological resilience was truly tough. It's just that mouth—sometimes it was so stubborn it made one want to sew it shut.

In the distance. Six S-level individuals from Neon knelt in the rain, their expressions more twisted than the last.

The King had appeared. The King was strong. The King was beating up the Sea Kingdom. The problem was—they had invited the Sea Kingdom here earlier to offer a gift to the King.

As it turned out, the King was now holding the gift and gnawing on it in the sea.

It was as if they had worked hard to prepare a feast, only to find when they served it that the King not only didn't praise them for being sensible, but also complained that they had blown up his kitchen.

Yomi Boy's lips moved. "Lord Tsukuyomi... who should we help?"

Tsukuyomi did not speak. Water from the rain still clung to his forehead, but his Black Moon Eye was fixed intently on the East Sea.

For the first time, an absurd thought arose in his heart. My King... is he really protecting the pasture? Why does he look so much like a person from Great Xia?

Once this thought appeared, he was startled himself. Impossible. The King had no nationality. The King had no family affection. The King only knew how to devour.

But that look the monster had just thrown toward the direction of Linhai—why did it look so much like he was cursing? And the curse was—who dares touch my home?

Tsukuyomi's faith cracked slightly. Then he immediately forcibly patched that crack back up.

No. My King is not a person from Great Xia. My King just has a strong possessiveness. Yes. It must be that.

The Sea Kingdom's attacks became increasingly dense. The entire illusory city began to rotate. Streets shifted. Skyscrapers flipped. Great bridges hung down from the sky like twisted white bone spines.

Dozens of Psionic User projections formed a formation simultaneously, and Anomaly projections crawled out from the formation to launch a siege on Su Yun.

The Sea Kingdom's voice grew deeper. "You cannot kill them all. You cannot find me. Reality flows in my hands. Illusion is my shell. Newborn King, your power is very strong. But being strong does not mean you can win."

Su Yun shattered three projections with one tentacle, his tone still lazy. "Whether or not I can find it. You will know in a moment."

He did not rush to devour. At least, not like he did with the World-Swallowing Prison Wolf earlier, grabbing and stuffing it into his mouth.

He was watching. After the Curtain of Delusion spread out, the entire Sea Kingdom became two layers in his eyes.

One layer was what the Sea Kingdom wanted him to see. One layer was what the Sea Kingdom didn't want anything to see. Real. Illusory. Real. Illusory. The two constantly alternated.

Like a piece of paper being flipped over and over. Or like a city shattered by countless mirrors.

The Sea Kingdom was indeed clever. It never fixed its core in one place. One second it was in the center of the city. The next second it was in the foundation on the seabed. The next, it hid in the eyes of some shadow of the dead.

Sometimes, it would even dismantle the core into countless fake fragments, letting every building, every window, and every shadow of the dead emit an aura similar to the Origin.

If an ordinary powerhouse broke in, they would only be worn to death by this city. You think you hit the core. Actually, you only broke a mirror. You think you killed the main body. The next second, the main body would smile at you from the standing water in another street.

But it had a problem. No matter how fake the city was, it needed a real anchor point. Otherwise, it could not press the tsunami into reality. It could not make a non-existent city possess the weight sufficient to crush Linhai. It could not turn illusion into disaster.

What Su Yun was looking for was that anchor.

Crack. The hands of the Holy Source phantom in the sky split open completely.

That Holy Light projection, vast enough to be nearly god-like, finally reached its limit.

Saintess Lin Xinglan let out a muffled groan, the golden light in her palms fading rapidly. The lines of blood from her seven orifices were washed away by the rain, her face pale to the point of being almost transparent.

The tsunami pressed forward again. Screams came from the Linhai urban area in waves. The airport's psionic shield emitted a screeching mournful sound. Several buildings on the edge of the harbor developed cracks under the terrifying water pressure.

Linhai No. 2 High School. Senior Year Class 2. All the students were leaning against the windows, watching that wall of sea pressing down again in the distance.

The little bit of hope that had just risen because of the appearance of the Holy Source and the tentacles was once again suppressed by the shadow of death.

Chu Youwei gripped Su Yun's empty desk tightly, her knuckles turning white.

Li Hao muttered: "Brother Yun... where on earth did you go?"

Outside the window, Su Qing hovered in the rain, her shadow wings swaying violently in the gale. She looked at that sea, looked at that black line that was almost about to swallow the city, her teeth clenched until they ached.

Inside the Investigation Bureau hall. Su Yao stared fixedly at the screen. She saw the Holy Source shatter. She saw the tsunami advance. She also saw the dense scarlet eyeballs beneath that sea.

Her fingers hovered above the communicator, almost pressing the application for a nuclear fusion strike again. But she did not press it. Because she saw it. That monster had not retreated yet. It was still in the sea.

It was still staring at that Mirage of the Sea Kingdom.

Su Yao's lips trembled slightly.

It was not fear.

It was a kind of absurd expectation that even she herself could not accept.

She was actually waiting for that monster, which would destroy the world in the future, to save the city.

This was too ridiculous.

And too pathetic.

The freight station.

Lin Wanqing looked up, the golden threads in her sleeves pulled tight.

But she could not stop it.

The time for the Holy Source had arrived.

Bai Cang was also reaching his limit.

Half of his body had already turned into water mist, and even the outline of his shoulders was starting to become transparent.

Su Yun frowned.

"Troublesome."

The next second.

Beneath the sea, a streak of black light tore through the air.

It was a black longsword.

The blade made no sound.

Yet it sliced the space along its path into two.

When the black light swept through the curtain of rain, all the raindrops seemed to be slashed right down the middle, the edges so smooth it made one's scalp tingle.

Lin Wanqing raised her hand and caught it.

As soon as her palm touched the hilt, her pupils constricted.

"A Forbidden Item?"

No.

It was not an ordinary Forbidden Item.

The spatial rules within this blade were terrifyingly complete.

Even more bizarrely, after falling into her hands, it did not have the slightest backlash.

There was even a sense of extreme reluctance, yet forced obedience.

It was as if the master it truly submitted to had just given it an order to be temporarily lent out.

Bai Cang turned his head abruptly.

He looked at the blade, his gaze freezing on the spot.

black day!

The black day he had planned for three months, sacrificed ten A-level Anomalies for, and which was ultimately snatched away by this monster on the spot!

Bai Cang suddenly felt a tightness in his chest.

Su Yun's voice came from beneath the sea.

"Do you know how to use it?"

Lin Wanqing paused for only half a second.

"It is not difficult."

Su Yun said: "Severing Boundary, protect the city."

Lin Wanqing did not ask why.

Nor did she ask where this blade came from.

She simply gripped the hilt, turned, and slashed the longsword horizontally.

Hum!

A pitch-black spatial rift spread out from the port, extending rapidly along the Linhai coastline.

It was as if someone had used a blade to draw an impassable boundary between the city and the sea.

The tsunami slammed into the Severing Boundary.

There was no explosion.

No loud noise.

Only the entire expanse of seawater was severed outside the city.

Above Linhai City, everyone saw a black line.

That black line was very thin.

As thin as a strand of hair.

Yet it lay between heaven and earth, more reliable than any city wall.

Outside the line was a semi-King-level tsunami.

Inside the line was a world that had not yet died.

On the streets, people looked up in a daze.

In the shopping mall, someone hugged their child and knelt on the ground.

In the classroom of Linhai No. 2 High School, the students watched that black line, and the crying suddenly stopped for a moment.

Li Hao opened his mouth, and it took him a long time to squeeze out a sentence.

"This... which big shot is working overtime again?"

Chu Youwei did not speak.

She just looked at the empty spot where Su Yun had been, her heart beating faster and faster.

Bai Cang looked at the black day and was silent for two seconds.

Then he whispered: "My blade... is quite obedient."

His mood was complicated.

It was just like being cuckolded.

Su Jianguo glanced at him.

"Big brother, why does your tone sound like an ex seeing their partner get married?"

Bai Cang: "..."

If you cannot speak properly, you can shut up.

Really.

The Mirage of the Sea Kingdom also saw the black day.

It sneered.

"Giving away your weapon?"

"You do not even want your own defense?"

"Newborn King, you are giving me a chance."

The next moment.

Countless projections rushed out from the Mirage, all attacks falling toward Su Yun's main body.

The voice of the Mirage of the Sea Kingdom carried glee.

"Your flesh and blood will hurt."

"Your rules will be exhausted."

"Your core will also be exposed."

"New King, you are too arrogant."

Su Yun did not answer.

He simply extended more tentacles.

Tearing apart.

Swallowing and biting.

Entangling.

Large swathes of illusory streets were crushed into fragments by him.

One death projection after another was dragged into his mouthparts.

But more projections were still crawling out from the Mirage of the Sea Kingdom.

It was as if the entire dead city was piling corpses onto him at any cost.

The Mirage of the Sea Kingdom suddenly paused.

It felt something was wrong.

Its attacks did indeed hit Su Yun.

Every hit could tear open the opponent's flesh membrane.

Every bombardment could make that dark purple shadow tremble.

But at the same time.

Its own core also felt a tearing sensation.

It was not pain.

But a chilling sensation of its structure being peeled open and its rules being flipped through.

It was like a hand had grabbed the anchor it had hidden the deepest.

And even brushed the dust off it in passing.

The voice of the Mirage of the Sea Kingdom changed tone for the first time.

"What did you do?"

Su Yun finally laughed.

"Helped you organize your abilities."

"You manipulate reality and illusion."

"But you must retain a portion of reality as an anchor point."

"This anchor point is constantly moving."

"So you think no one can find it."

"Unfortunately."

"You love showing off your skills too much."

"Streets flipping, skyscrapers rearranging, the dead resurrecting, the core drifting."

"It looks very flashy."

"But every time you show off, you are telling me one thing."

The Mirage of the Sea Kingdom's voice was gloomy: "What thing?"

Su Yun said indifferently: "You are afraid of being seen through."

The Mirage of the Sea Kingdom roared.

"Shut up!"

The entire Mirage began to shake violently.

The projections in the streets rushed out like madmen.

Psionic Users.

Strange Tales.

Drowned people.

Ancient sea corpses.

Those things that had been buried on the seabed for who knows how many years all crawled out from beneath the city.

They rushed toward Su Yun like a rotting tide.

At the same time, in another layer of the Mirage of the Sea Kingdom's perspective, it saw Su Yun's core exposed.

It was a ball of dark purple light.

Right beneath the sea surface.

Pulsing.

Writhing.

Exuding an aura that made Anomalies instinctively crave and instinctively fear.

As long as it shattered it.

It could win!

As long as it swallowed it.

It could cross that chasm between the half-step and the King-level!

The Mirage of the Sea Kingdom laughed loudly.

"No!"

"I am going to win!"

"Newborn King, you are too green after all!"

All projections turned simultaneously and launched an attack toward that dark purple light.

Boom boom boom!

Dozens of S-level powers exploded on the seabed.

Seawater was lifted into the sky.

Black rain spiraled backward.

The illusory city shook violently.

Everyone at the freight station was stunned.

Because in their eyes.

The Mirage of the Sea Kingdom was manipulating its own projections, crazily attacking the center of its own city.

There, a blue-black core was constantly cracking.

Every time a bombardment landed, a crack would appear on the surface of that core.

Every time a crack appeared, the entire Mirage of the Sea Kingdom would tremble along with it.

Yomi Boy muttered: "Lord Mirage of the Sea Kingdom... is hitting itself?"

The smile on the Faceless Lady's mask froze.

The copper coin fragments in the eyes of the Elder of the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade stopped rotating.

The Headless Samurai held his own head, his head and body freezing at the same time.

Tsukuyomi's faith cracked once more.

This ability of my King...

Is it not a bit too dirty?

No.

Cannot think like that.

This is divine art.

This is royal power.

This is the supreme art of deception of the abyss.

But why does it look so much like a Daxia swindler?

The Mirage of the Sea Kingdom was still roaring.

"Die!"

"Die for me!"

"I have already touched your core!"

"I have already seen you!"

Su Yun said indifferently: "Then is there a possibility."

"That this is all fake."

The voice of the Mirage of the Sea Kingdom suddenly choked.

"Impossible!"

Su Yun's tentacles reached in from the very bottom of the illusory city.

That tentacle did not attack the skyscrapers.

Did not swallow the projections.

Did not tear apart the streets.

It was like a finger reaching out from the abyss, passing through layers of illusion, avoiding countless fake cores, and precisely reaching into the place the Mirage of the Sea Kingdom least wanted to be touched.

Then.

It grabbed that true anchor point.

It was a blue-black eyeball hidden at the deepest part of the Mirage of the Sea Kingdom's foundation.

Within the eyeball, the entire Linhai was reflected.

And the tsunami that had been pressed into reality was also reflected.

Su Yun's voice had no fluctuations.

"I can guess your abilities."

"But you do not know my abilities."

"This is the reason why you lost."

The entire city of the Mirage of the Sea Kingdom began to crack.

It finally saw clearly.

What it had just attacked was not Su Yun's core at all.

But its own real anchor point.

Those attacks it thought were aimed at Su Yun had all been distorted in perception by the Curtain of Delusion.

It had personally mobilized the death projections.

Personally released the rule bombardment.

Personally struck crack after crack into the core it had hidden for countless years.

It did not lose to power.

It lost to cognition.

It lost because it thought it controlled reality and illusion, but was tricked into being a fool on the spot by another monster that was better at deceiving the senses.

The Mirage of the Sea Kingdom let out a nearly out-of-control shriek for the first time.

"No!"

"You tricked me!"

Su Yun laughed.

"Nonsense."

"My skill name is literally Curtain of Delusion."

"You did not really think I would fight you head-on, did you?"

The shriek of the Mirage of the Sea Kingdom stopped abruptly.

At this moment.

Even Tsukuyomi was silent.

My King makes so much sense.

But why does it sound even dirtier?

Su Yun's voice rang out over the East Sea.

Low.

Lazy.

And carrying a bit of condescending mockery.

"Now look clearly."

"Do you see who you were attacking?"