With thoughts as horrifying as it goes, Mo Xie couldn't help but shiver for the first time in his life.
He opened his eyes widely, and all he can see are hundreds of thousands of corpses floating in an ocean of blood.
Mo Xie felt something wrong, yes, he had killed a lot of people before, but this is the first time that an illusion of it clouded his mind.
"My family... Nooo..."
"My son became an orphan... why did you kill me?"
"My wife was r*ped after you killed me."
"My parents died due to a bandit's raid."
"Why are you still alive?"
"All of us died in your hands, why are you the only one alive."
"Do you even remember us?"
Mo Xie looked at the faces of these people, yet, not a single one of them crossed his mind; "Begone!"
Mo Xie howled as he waved the sword on his hands, yet, the illusion didn't vanish.
[Something must've been triggering this...] Mo Xie thought, yet, he did everything he could for the past few hours and it still remained.
"I will not succumb to fear!" Mo Xie howled yet again, as he started to rush towards a single direction, if it really is an illusion, he will definitely hit the wall in some time.
But yet, running for a few minutes, Mo Xie didn't hit a wall, neither run across something, it seemed this illusion is ridiculously real.
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...
Mo Xie had given up hope after he tried every unorthodox way in dealing with it that did nothing to the illusions.
[Should I just give up?] Mo Xie thought as he didn't struggle anymore.
[How many days had it been... how many months? maybe a year had passed already... or longer.] Mo Xie's thoughts started to crumble.
[Bingyun... Shang Ting... If only... I could touch you both again... I would've... I will do anything just for that.]
The corpses started to drag him down slowly while all of them has red eyes fiery glowing with bloodlust, the hate that they feel towards Mo Xie is extremely high.
"Join us..."
"Finally... Revenge..."
"Die..."
"Your soul will never be at peace!"
"YOU WILL COME WITH US!"
"NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO!"
The voices started to grow stronger, as all of their hands clasping at Mo Xie, trying to drag him down with them.
But out of nowhere, Mo Xie thought of something; [Everything started when I felt down while holding the book...]
Mo Xie immediately pulled out the book; "How do I use this thing..."
[Everything started when I felt down...] After thinking like that, Mo Xie started to think of some sort of an event in his life that is full of happiness...
After a while, Mo Xie gave up the thought of it and spoke: "I didn't have one... I should've spent some time with Shang Ting more..."
He tried to imagine some other things, yet, all of them were failures; "In the end... I`ll have to use you, might as well drag you down with me..."
Mo Xie spoke as he prepared to tap the book on his head; I`ll suffer one last time."
_Tap~!_ Mo Xie tapped the book on his head, the book glowed in an alluring peach color before it vanished and went straight to Mo Xie's head.
All sorts of pieces of information flooded in his head again, but this time, there is neither pain nor pulsating that happen on his muscle... only his heart... and his other part...
"Whaa...." Mo Xie became speechless at the information, he could only utter these few words softly: "This sort of thing actually exists?!"
The information that flooded in his head are all sorts of techniques, benefits, and physiques that can help him grow... through dual cultivations.
But after a while, Mo Xie tried to calm down, he studied them diligently afterward. He didn't even realize that the illusion from before had actually already vanished as he returned back inside the cavern. Well, to him, those illusions are just mere visual things, hence, he couldn't even bother himself with it.
He had already grown accustomed to such things, hence, he could only do ignore such an event.
"There are different kinds of situation where the benefit will be either perfect or disastrous." Mo Xie spoke.
[If this art is done improperly, the male will be the only one that will benefit is the male, leaving the female to become an empty shell...]
This is a really bad ending for a female, it will either become the ruin of her or a fortuitous encounter.
Mo Xie searched for some more info, yet, the only one he managed to see is... the faces of the seven beautiful women from the owner's memory.
"Are they his wives? All of them are a beauty that could even destroy a World, but somehow, one of them looks like Bingyun..." Mo Xie spoke as he pondered for some more, yet, he shook his head after a few more seconds of thinking.
[The technique has been engraved deeply within my body, yet, I couldn't even remove it... this will be a headache.] Mo Xie thought.
He stood up and looked around the cave for an exit, but something's off, he couldn't find the exit anywhere.
He then remembered something, the seven herbs that he saw earlier that are planted inside the cave.
"Haa!" Mo Xie jumped towards the direction of the flowers, yet, to his shock, there are only three of them left, the other four had actually dwindled to such a sorry state.
"What kind of herbs are these?" Mo Xie pondered as he immediately took them and placed the three flowers inside his storage ring.
And as soon as he did, something happened, the wall started to move as a huge gate appeared in front of him.
"The exit!" Mo Xie exclaimed, he immediately went forward and opened it.
The creaking sound echoed, the gate must've been extremely old to have such a rusting sound.
Mo Xie then remembered something; "If... If I came to a new World... what will happen to the Mo Family? Aiqing? Shang Ting?"
But thinking like that, Mo Xie shook his head, with the time that had past, maybe the Xiao Clan had already obliterated the Mo Family that he had established.
The only people that he can rely on there are those two elders that had arrived late, Elder Wang and Elder Zhong. But with the two of them, they couldn't really save the Mo Family's subordinates.
"I can only pray... that some of you had survived, once I grow stronger and can travel through the universe again, I will definitely search for you all." Mo Xie spoke as he looked straight ahead and started to walk, the start of his life for the 3rd time.