439: A fantastical world! A trap set by an experimental madman!

[Exploration Hint: You are currently under the deception of unknown rules. Only by waking up can you save yourself!]

Su Lie looked at the Hint before him, a hint of confusion appearing in his eyes: "What is this thing? Why would there be a Hint like this?"

While thinking.

He turned his head to look at his companion beside him: "Qiqi! Did you see anything?"

"What are you talking about? The sky, the green grass, or... the wooden stakes?"

Qiqi was startled, then shook her head.

She stood up from the edge of the stone dam by the river and turned to run towards an open-air martial arts training ground not far away: "Little fool! Stop having strange thoughts! Hurry up and practice martial arts! Father will be here soon! He is very strict!"

"Coming!"

When Su Lie heard the word 'Father,' he trembled all over in fright and quickly ran after Qiqi.

Although the current Su Lie had entered the Immortal Clan relic guided by the Exploration Hint.

He had also lost his memory because of it.

It was as if he had truly become an infant and experienced the process of growing up from childhood.

At this moment, Su Lie's clothes had changed into a swordsman's attire.

His companions around him were all 18-year-old youths roughly the same age as him.

"Little Junior Brother is here!"

"Kid, next time you want to slack off, don't choose the morning. Master usually comes around this time, don't get us punished!"

"Don't be afraid, Little Junior Brother, Senior Brother will take the blame for you if anything happens! Don't listen to your Third Senior Brother!"

... As soon as Su Lie returned to the group, he forgot his previous discovery amidst the continuous chatter.

Soon.

Su Lie's "father" arrived at the martial arts training ground.

This was a handsome and charming middle-aged scholar wearing a Confucian robe.

His name was Liu Ming.

Liu Ming first checked whether the disciples had been slacking off.

Immediately after, he began to answer his disciples' questions.

When it was Qiqi's turn to step forward and ask a question, she whispered to the middle-aged scholar: "Dad! Illusions appeared in Brother's vision again just now!"

Su Lie's Spirit trembled upon hearing this, and he quickly denied it: "I never said they were illusions!"

Liu Ming patted Qiqi's head, then looked at Su Lie. He waved at Su Lie: "Little Xiu! You have that delusion disorder again!"

"No! Seriously, no!"

Su Lie replied as he walked over.

He subconsciously concealed what he had seen.

Hearing this, the many senior and junior brothers and sisters around him couldn't help but laugh.

This made Su Lie even more embarrassed: "Seriously, I didn't, Father!"

"Come! Take this pill that your father specially refined for you, and you can rest easy!"

Liu Ming took out a bottle from his waist pocket and poured out a pill that emitted a strong, bitter smell.

Su Lie stepped back in fright, his face twisting in bitterness, feeling like his whole body was bitter: "Can I not eat it? This medicine is too bitter!"

"Hmm? Liu Xiu! Be good! Or your father will get angry!"

The scholar shook his head and said seriously.

This made Su Lie shiver all over, recalling the memory of being tied up and severely beaten by the scholar with a large iron rod.

He did not want to endure such suffering from the rod again, so he quickly snatched the pill and swallowed it.

As the medicine went down.

Su Lie cried tears because of the bitterness: "Bitter! Bitter! Bitter!"

His appearance made Liu Ming laugh.

Qiqi and the other disciples also followed suit and laughed.

Afterward.

Only then did Liu Ming stand up, pat Su Lie's head, and say to him: "Come to my study tonight! I will teach you a secret martial path!"

"Uh... Yes!"

Su Lie subconsciously shivered again. He instinctively wanted to refuse, but fearing Liu Ming's martial prowess, he quickly agreed.

This so-called secret martial path was not martial arts, but a special method of receiving beatings.

Not only did he have to suffer the agony of slow slicing, but also the pain inflicted by various venomous insects and poisons.

What terrified him the most was.

His father had chopped off his limbs more than once, only to heal them back again.

Then he had been cut open, and his internal organs were taken out, weighed one by one, and treated with medicine.

He did not know why this was happening.

But from Liu Ming's explanation, he knew it was for martial cultivation!

This was also a unique cultivation method of the Immortal Clan.

But Su Lie always felt there was something wrong.

There was a faint voice in his heart: "My name is not Liu Xiu!"

Soon.

Liu Ming left the area holding an information record book.

"If my name isn't Liu Xiu, what is it?"

Su Lie was confused.

He quickly ignored the voice inside him amidst the calls and chatter of his senior and junior brothers.

Before long.

Su Lie went to the outhouse not far away.

As he closed the door, he blew a pill out of his nostril.

This was exactly the pill the middle-aged scholar had told him to eat.

He hated how bitter it was, and since he couldn't escape the fate of taking medicine, he had developed this little trick.

Therefore.

He had been using this method to deceive the middle-aged man for a month straight.

After he threw the pill into the latrine pit.

Only then did Su Lie leave the toilet.

Just then.

Another Hint appeared in his line of sight.

[Exploration Hint: There is a secret compartment on the sixth shelf of the bookshelf in your father's study! After opening it, you can obtain the antidote!]

"What is this now?"

Su Lie thought about it, puzzled.

Just like that.

He quickly forgot this Hint again amidst the chatter of his senior and junior brothers.

When night arrived.

When Su Lie went to Liu Ming's study as agreed.

He saw Liu Ming walk out with a solemn expression. Upon seeing Su Lie, he smiled slightly: "Little Xiu! I still have things to deal with today, come find me tomorrow night!"

After giving the instructions.

Liu Ming hurried toward the cave in the backyard.

That was where Liu Ming cultivated in seclusion, and no one was ever allowed to set foot there.

Su Lie was the most obedient, having never gone there even once.

Just as Su Lie turned to go back to his room.

A set of Exploration Hints appeared before his eyes again.

[Exploration Hint: There is a secret compartment on the sixth shelf of the bookshelf in the study! After opening it, you can obtain the antidote!]

[Exploration Hint: There is a library in the underground secret room of the study! After opening it, you can obtain the secret of this relic!]

[Exploration Hint: Behind the statue in the underground secret room of the study, there is a mechanism. Activating it will grant you a treasure that allows you to escape your imprisonment here!]

Su Lie looked at the Hints before him, feeling slightly confused.

When he saw the word "imprisonment."

His heart pounded fiercely, and an impatient thought leaped into his mind: "What this says is correct, this place is truly the prison confining me!"

"Since I was three years old, I have never seen my mother again!"

"Father only said she died!"

"But I don't believe him!"

"If what he said was true, why would he never let me go back to my grandmother's house? Why have I never seen my mother's grave!"

"Why does he make me stay here all the time, yet never let me go outside!"

"I want to go see the vast world outside!"

... It was precisely under this impatient ambition.

Su Lie boldly opened the study door.

At this moment, Hints appeared again in his line of sight, one after another.

These Hints were methods for avoiding the study's traps and testing the strength required.

Following these methods, he first took out a bottle of antidote from the secret compartment in the bookshelf.

He saw that the antidote bottle was named: "Memory Pill!"

"What kind of damn antidote is this!"

Su Lie hesitated for a moment, but still boldly took out a pill.

To his surprise.

This pill actually emitted a sweet scent.

"Huh? Sweet! This must be a candy bean!"

Su Lie ate one pill, and immediately wanted to eat another.

He had never eaten such sweet candy pills, which awakened his craving.

Just as he was about to swallow the second pill.

Su Lie's body suddenly trembled.

His eyes, which had seemed covered by a layer of mist, suddenly brightened.

Immediately after.

Su Lie's own memories returned to his mind.

"Hmm? Is this a relic?"

After Su Lie woke up, he turned his head to look at the familiar yet strange surroundings.

He still retained the memories of what happened after entering this place.

This inexplicably terrified Su Lie: "Holy crap! Did I reincarnate? Was that Immortal Clan aura the power of reincarnation? Where is this place? The world of the Immortal Clan? Or..."

Su Lie tried to summon his personal attribute panel.

Only a Hint leaped into his sight.

[Attention: You are currently inside the Great Dream Illusion Heaven. This is a dream world constructed by a powerful existence. You cannot summon your personal panel in the dream. Only when you wake up and regain control of your body can you summon the personal panel and reclaim your own power!]

"Huh! Holy crap! I'm in a dream? That's not right! I have All-System Immunity, how could I possibly be controlled?"

Su Lie couldn't help but feel confused.

At this moment.

Another Exploration Hint appeared.

This Hint was exactly the same as the previous one.

Su Lie ignored his confusion and quickly activated the mechanism leading from the study to the underground secret room.

After entering this place.

Su Lie involuntarily trembled.

Memories of being chopped, slowly sliced, force-fed medicine, and tortured all surfaced one by one.

This made Su Lie unable to resist cursing under his breath: "F***! That old scholar isn't a sadist, is he? What a pervert!"

Muttering.

He arrived and opened the library inside the secret room.

Although he had never been to this room, he vaguely remembered seeing the middle-aged man activate the mechanism and enter here.

Therefore.

Su Lie knew the location of the mechanism.

After coming in.

Su Lie only felt his Spirit clear up, and he looked up.

He saw scrolls hanging on the bookshelves.

These scrolls were all diagrams of Su Lie's body structure.

They also detailed Su Lie's physical structure, bloodline analysis, endurance, recovery speed, and so on.

Furthermore, on these shelves, there were a large number of research-related books.

Inside, there was information not only about Su Lie but also about various monsters and humans.

When Su Lie saw the general outline of these books, he was shocked, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back: "There really are lunatics like this in the world!"

He saw.

"Qingqiu, March 8th. The Great Thousand World collided with the Heavenly Origin World, leading to the imbalance of order in the endless void, dimensional disintegration, unrestrained expansion of dimensions, and the annihilation of countless beings... ultimately causing the Heavenly Dao of my Great Luo Immortal Realm to collapse..."

"In the 19,022nd year of the Dark Era, I, imprisoned in the Great Dream Illusion Heaven, encountered the first life that accidentally intruded. The opponent was a Son of the rules. I successfully used the unique dream rules of the Great Dream Illusion Heaven to trap him in the dream I wove for him!"

"In the 19,588th year, after hundreds of years of research, I discovered that this life, which calls itself a Mist Monster, possesses..."

"In the 20,111th year, I encountered another Son of the rules. By reading his memory, I learned that the outside world is actually called the Mist World, and they are currently engaged in a Gu-raising style game!"

"Through experimentation, I found that I can actually use the power of the Great Dream Illusion Heaven to lure Sons of the rules here to explore, and even blind their Talents and Skills!"

"After testing, I found that the reason I succeeded is that the rules of the Great Dream Illusion Heaven are relatively complete, and their rank is higher than the rule Talents of the Sons of the rules!"

... "Today, I lured another Son of the rules. This is... my 128,799,999,999th test subject! I found that this Son of the rules is stronger than the others, and I almost failed to control him!"

"So that's it. Through guidance, I learned that the opponent possesses the All-System Immunity Talent. This Talent can immunize against the mind control, illusion, and other control rules of the Great Dream Illusion Heaven!"

"What a pity! The opponent's vigilance was too strong, and I only obtained a small amount of useful information!"

"It seems the power of the mist rule has been strengthened again!"

"Damn it! My plan to control the mist rule is going to fail again! The research must continue!"

"After 10,000 experiments, I discovered that as long as I keep him in a state of extreme exhaustion, he will sleep, and as long as he sleeps, I can use the Great Dream Rule of the Great Dream Illusion Heaven to keep him permanently in the dream!"

"This is the only way I could think of to circumvent the All-System Immunity Talent! Therefore, I must construct a world of his imagination within his dream!"

"What I need to pay attention to is that he has many Talents, and I must use beneficial medicine to Suppression his special Talents!"

"This is damn unlucky! To study this Son of the rules, I am about to exhaust the resources I have cultivated for many years! Holy crap! I'm about to collapse!"

"If this doesn't work, I'll just seize his body!"

... Su Lie looked at the records in the ancient texts about himself, and the corner of his mouth twitched: "Damn it! I'm not some Son of the rules!"

Just as he was about to continue reading.

His ears twitched, and he suddenly heard the sound of a mechanism turning.

"Not good! That Liu Ming is coming down!"

Su Lie frowned upon seeing this. While thinking, he subconsciously pinched the item on his finger.

The next second, he vanished from the spot.

At this moment.

Liu Ming, pale-faced and in a hurry, walked into the study in the underground secret room. When he saw that the room was empty, he breathed a sigh of relief: "He's not here!"

Clack!

Just as he was about to leave.

Liu Ming suddenly froze. He stared intently at a nearby bookshelf: "Someone touched this place!"