236: Chapter 236 Holographic World

The streets of Shati Sanctuary were very tidy, and the buildings, mainly colored in yellow and blue, contained a unique charm.

More than half a month had passed since Han Li's last Breakthrough.

After finishing some tasks, Han Li, finally having some free time, walked alone on the street, strolling casually and watching the crowd come and go.

After Han Li successfully reached the Void Refining stage, the position of captain of the Shati Sanctuary was handed over to him.

Not only that, but with the recommendation of Jia Lan, the position of Deputy City Lord, which had been vacant since the death of Captain Galen, was also given to Han Li.

It was Han Li's first time becoming such a high-ranking official, and he had no experience whatsoever, so he simply ignored everything and acted as a hands-off manager without hesitation.

"What is this shop for?"

Han Li noticed an incredibly large shop on the left side of the street.

His gaze pierced through the walls, and he discovered that it was full of people, all wearing strange helmets.

These helmets emitted the aura of a Formation, which made Han Li feel curious.

He walked closer and looked up; the shop was labeled with the three characters "Holographic Pavilion."

Han Li pushed open the glass door and walked in.

He was greeted by an exquisite metal counter, and a beautiful and sexy woman was standing in front of it.

Behind her were people sitting in small, cushioned cubicles, doing who knows what.

Looking past them, Han Li observed closely and found that these people were all wearing thin, precision helmets that faintly emitted a faint halo of energy, which looked quite strange.

Han Li used his Divine Sense to scan slightly and realized that the entire "Holographic Pavilion" was built within an illusion Formation, and the energy emitted from these precision helmets was connecting to the illusions within this Formation.

"Hello, would you like to stay overnight?" The scantily clad woman, who had a pair of mini horns on her head that looked both sexy and cute, asked Han Li softly.

"What are those independent rooms?" Han Li looked toward the depths of the pavilion and turned his head to ask the woman.

"Are you looking for a private room? It's 0.1 credits per night, the most affordable Holographic Pavilion in the Northern Continent!" The woman clearly couldn't imagine that Han Li didn't know about the Holographic Pavilion and thought he was asking about the price.

"Then, I'll take one for the night. 0.1 credits, right?" Han Li didn't explain but placed his beast token on the counter.

"Hiss!"

Upon seeing the beast token, the woman gasped, then looked at Han Li in disbelief.

After being stunned for a moment, she tentatively and cautiously asked, "Sir, members of the guard team get a 50% discount."

"It can be discounted? That's not bad."

The woman carefully held the beast token and placed it on a black area on the metal counter.

An image appeared out of thin air on the counter, describing Han Li's basic information.

Name: Han Li

Gender: Male

Age: ???

Residential Address: ???

Council Position: Advanced Councilor of the Shati Sanctuary in the Northern Continent, Deputy City Lord of the Shati Sanctuary in the Northern Continent, Captain of the Guard Team of the Shati Sanctuary in the Northern Continent.

Citizen Credits: 11,000,000

"Beep — Box 001, overnight stay, maximum discount of 50%, 0.05 citizen credits deducted."

A mechanical female voice sounded, and then the citizen credits on Han Li's information flashed and changed to "19,999,999.95."

"You, you, you... you..." Seeing this information, the woman's head buzzed, and even the small horns on her head trembled slightly.

Her voice immediately became stuttering.

She looked at Han Li's ordinary face; no matter how shocked she was inside, she couldn't understand why such a big shot would come to a Holographic Pavilion.

Usually, when such big shots want to play in the Holographic World, don't they have special regional Formations?

However, the woman didn't dare to ask out loud and respectfully handed back Han Li's beast token.

After receiving the beast token, Han Li smiled slightly at the woman and walked toward the private rooms in the distance.

Pushing open the metal door of Box 001, a rich, hallucinogenic energy rushed toward him.

Han Li did not resist this energy but actively allowed his Divine Sense to make contact, falling into the illusion.

Before him was a vast grassland.

Han Li floated quietly.

A breeze blew, and the green grass bowed.

Han Li could smell the fragrance of fresh grass.

"Beep — Retrieving information, connection to the main Formation failed, reconnecting... reconnection failed... Mr. Han Li, would you like to select the regional Formation mode?"

A mature female voice sounded, and a transparent panel appeared before Han Li's eyes.

"Regional Formation mode? Yes." Han Li nodded.

"Joining the current regional Formation. Currently in the Northern City area of the Shati Sanctuary in the Northern Continent. Please create your character."

As the words fell, a holographic gray figure appeared before Han Li.

The gray figure had no face, and many options appeared around the figure.

"Race, gender, body type, size, mouth, eyes, nose, ears, eyebrows... Interesting, interesting."

Han Li clumsily changed the character in front of him.

With tens of millions of choices, Han Li was overwhelmed.

Just creating the character took a full hour.

When Han Li successfully created everything, several spatial wormholes appeared before him.

Above each wormhole, the destination name of the wormhole floated.

When he focused his gaze on the names of those destinations, detailed explanations appeared directly before his eyes.

"Game World, Combat World, Trading World, Snapshot World..."

Han Li hesitated for a moment and chose the Trading World first.

The wormhole seemed to be just for show.

As soon as Han Li entered, his vision went black, and he appeared in a huge, bustling square.

The people around were dressed in strange clothes, of all races and appearances, but someone like Han Li was still a bit rare.

Han Li's current appearance was a large bear wearing yellow clothes.

The bear's face was silly, but it was over ten meters tall.

"Hey, you stepped on me!" Just as Han Li took a few steps, a pleasant girl's voice came from under his feet.

Han Li lifted his foot and found a girl with transparent, dragonfly-like thin wings on her back lying under his foot.

The girl immediately flew up and looked at Han Li angrily.

"Pay up!"

"Huh?"

" 'Dragonfly Girl' has reported 'Yellow-Clad Big Bear' for intentional harm. Detection valid. Confirmed that 'Yellow-Clad Big Bear' harmed 'Dragonfly Girl'. Automatically deducting 1 citizen credit as compensation."

The familiar female voice rang in Han Li's ears, and his bear face immediately darkened.

"What's going on?" Han Li heard this and asked the "Dragonfly Girl," whose expression had immediately turned happy.

"Are you stupid? Who told you to make such a big body!"

After the Dragonfly Girl finished speaking, she flapped her thin wings and flew away quickly.

Seeing this, Han Li hooked his finger, and the Dragonfly Girl flew directly backward, finally landing on Han Li's palm, staring blankly at the big bear face in front of her.

"Seeing that you are very experienced, why don't you be my tour guide? I'll give you 100 credits as a reward, how about it?"

Seeing the Dragonfly Girl's blank expression, Han Li smiled lightly.

"Wow, 100 credits! Are you sure! Ah ah, of course I can!"

Hearing Han Li's promise, the Dragonfly Girl's eyes lit up, and she nodded hurriedly.

So, under the guidance of the Dragonfly Girl, Han Li toured this trading square and learned in detail about the Holographic World.

It turned out that this was a form of mass entertainment vigorously promoted by Heavenly Emperor Shangyan after he unified the continent.

Later, as time passed, the original individual Formations could no longer satisfy the needs of the people on the continent.

The Purple Emperor, one of the Eight Emperors, specialized in this Dao and mentioned it many times at the Continental Council.

Finally, with the support of the Medicine Emperor, who activated the Zhou Tian Array, the Continental Illusion Formation was established, and from then on, the illusion Formations of the entire continent were connected together.

After years of development, this type of illusion Formation became extremely mature and even became closely related to people's lives, becoming a second world, which was the "Holographic World" proposed by the Purple Emperor.

However, after the outbreak of wicked energy, the main Formation was actively shut down.

Since then, only the regional Formations have been running continuously, returning to the initial stage.

However, years of development have made the content of the Holographic World extremely rich, and even if there are only regional Formations, it can still make people addicted.

"Big Bear, how did you do that move earlier? Did you get a special skill from somewhere?"

Under a majestic statue, the Dragonfly Girl stood in Han Li's palm.

Now that she was somewhat familiar with Han Li, she looked up and asked curiously.

The trading zone was a no-combat zone, and almost all means would be restricted.

Means like Han Li's, which involved absorbing people from a distance, were extremely rare.

Generally, only special props obtained in the Game World and titles obtained in the Combat World could have some effect in the no-combat zone.

However, such props and titles were extremely rare.

Not to mention the props, just wanting to obtain a combat title with special effects required at least the strength of a Nine-Star Dou Zun.

Ordinary people wouldn't even dare to think about it.

Of course, there was another possibility, which was having strength powerful enough to break through the Formation defense of the regional Formation core, but this possibility was extremely low.

Because to break through the no-combat zone of the regional Formation, one needed at least strength exceeding that of the regional Formation.

The regional Formation of the Northern City of the Shati Sanctuary had its core derived from the Central Plains.

Unless a Saint-Grade powerhouse took action, it was impossible to shake the regional Formation.

However, there were only three Saint-Grade powerhouses in the Shati Sanctuary, right?

No, wait, I heard that the newly appointed Deputy City Lord is also said to be a Saint-Grade powerhouse.

But at this time, would a Saint-Grade powerhouse have the leisure to visit the Holographic World?

The Dragonfly Girl blinked, looking at the silly bear face Han Li had created, and remained skeptical.

"How else could I do it? Because I'm strong. My strength, if calculated, is equivalent to that of a Saint-Grade powerhouse."

Han Li's bear face smiled honestly, and he said without concealment.

The character Han Li created was not only large in body, but his voice was also not small, and it immediately reached the ears of everyone around.

Therefore, as soon as these words were spoken, the surrounding trading zone became silent.

"Saint-Grade? My god, this person really dares to say that!"

"No way, did he say it wrong? These kinds of words can't be said casually..."

"How could this be a mistake? We can check his identity when we go out later.

I want to see how this guy dares to brag like this!"

After a moment of silence, the surrounding area immediately became noisy with discussions.

"Ah! Big dummy, don't talk nonsense!"

Hearing this, the Dragonfly Girl became anxious, flapped her wings, flew in front of Han Li, and covered Han Li's bear mouth with both hands.

"Mmph..." Han Li was covered, feeling quite helpless.

After the Dragonfly Girl let go, he said, "Alright, I was bragging."

"Phew..."

The surrounding people heard this, first breathed a sigh of relief, and then there was a chorus of boos.

Han Li rolled his big bear eyes upon hearing the boos, then waved his palm slightly.

Everyone suddenly felt a sense of weightlessness.

When they looked down, they found that their bodies were actually floating!

"How is this possible! No prop can affect the entire trading square!" Someone exclaimed in shock.

Han Li's strength was so powerful that just by looking at the holographic images of these people, he could see their true appearance and aura through the source.

But Han Li didn't have any other intentions; he just casually displayed some means to avoid these people talking endlessly.

Han Li looked at the Dragonfly Girl and discovered an interesting scene.

This Dragonfly Girl was indeed a "Dragonfly Girl."

In reality, she was a girl with thin wings on her back, but the details of her appearance and wings were quite different from the holographic image.

She was wearing a white dress and skirt, and seemed to be a student at an academy.

At this moment, everyone suspended in mid-air looked at Han Li with horror, seemingly realizing that the yellow-clad big bear in front of them had not lied at all!

However, just as everyone realized this, Han Li and the Dragonfly Girl disappeared from the trading square.

"You, are you really a Saint-Grade powerhouse?"

The Dragonfly Girl looked at Han Li, finally realizing, and looked at Han Li with incredulity.

"Otherwise?" The holographic bear created by Han Li said in a muffled voice.

"Wow! I actually... I actually talked with a Saint-Grade powerhouse, I, I, I also... woo."

The Dragonfly Girl was excited and cheered, but halfway through, she suddenly remembered something, and her voice became smaller and stammered.

Apparently, she remembered calling Han Li a big dummy earlier, and her excited expression suddenly wilted.

"Haha, it's okay, let's go.

I heard you say the Game World is the most interesting, let's go take a look."

Seeing the Dragonfly Girl's wilted expression, Han Li didn't mind her initial offense but smiled.

In the Dragonfly Girl's eyes, the big bear said this with a silly smile, so her eyes lit up immediately, and her expression returned to excitement and cheerfulness.

So, for the rest of the night, the Dragonfly Girl took Han Li to play many games, most of which were role-playing games, as well as some games that relied entirely on reflexes and psychological games.

Han Li, who had never been exposed to these, was immediately fascinated and exclaimed that it was very satisfying.

In this mood, the night passed very quickly, not enough time to play, but after some inner struggle, Han Li still reluctantly said goodbye to the Dragonfly Girl and gave her an unimaginably large amount of citizen credits, making Han Li see the Dragonfly Girl's blank expression again, which made him feel quite satisfied.

Leaving the Holographic Pavilion amidst the awe-filled expression of the young lady at the front desk, Han Li walked on the street, feeling a little lost.

There were many worlds within the Holographic World that he hadn't had time to explore, including the Combat World, which was said to be an excellent place to hone combat skills.

Although Han Li saw through the essence of the Combat World at a glance and understood that it wouldn't improve his own combat skills, the feeling of being able to completely crush opponents with superior skills despite all data being the same was something worth trying.

After all, most of the fun of the competitive games he played earlier lay in this.

Han Li walked slowly on the street, shaking the matters of the Holographic World out of his mind.

At this moment, the most pressing thing was still improving his strength.

Using one night to relax was enough.

"What happened?"

Walking on the street, Han Li suddenly felt a sense of unease.

A strong sense of malice appeared from afar, making his spirit tense up instantly.

Han Li's figure flashed, and he immediately appeared high above the city, looking into the distance.

Just at this moment, a thick energy film suddenly appeared overhead.

The next moment, gray mist from all directions surged from afar, crashing fiercely against the energy film.

(End of chapter)