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At this time, the only ones left alive were the two disciples from Soaring Feather God Mountain and the several dozen Asura Road disciples. When Lin Ming turned his eyes towards these Asura Road disciples, all of them held their breath.
Among these people, Lin Ming could see several youths wearing a uniform robe as well as having seven-colored feather crowns on their heads.
He recognized this clothing – these people came from Divine Void Divine Kingdom!
Divine Void Divine Kingdom was one of the two True Divinity level influences of the Asura Road. The one who established Divine Void Divine Kingdom, Soul Emperor Divine Void, was Empyrean Divine Mist’s brother. But at the same time, they shared a deep-seated blood hatred with each other.
“The lot of you, come over here!”
Lin Ming pointed towards the disciples from Divine Void Divine Kingdom. The group of them turned pale white.
However, they obediently followed Lin Ming’s orders and walked over.
“Use your soul attacks to severely wound these two. Don’t kill them.”
Lin Ming pointed towards the two Soaring Feather God Mountain disciples who were imprisoned by him.
The Divine Void Divine Kingdom disciples gulped. Just why did they need to use soul attacks?
Did this omnipotent human not know any soul attacks? However, this was also possible. After all, humans weren’t known to excel in the domain of the soul.
After a brief bout of doubts, the Divine Void Divine Kingdom disciples complied with the command.
Although Lin Ming had imprisoned the movements of the two Soaring Feather God Mountain disciples, he hadn’t locked down their spiritual sea. To break through spiritual sea defenses, not harming their lives while getting just the right amount of soul damage, this was a difficult task. The two Divine Void Divine Kingdom disciples that did so could be said to have given their everything to accomplish this.
Finally, they accomplished their task. The two disciples from Soaring Feather God Mountain fell into an unconscious state.
Lin Ming inspected the condition of these two disciples and was satisfied with the results.
“Very good. Then, it’s time to deal with the rest of you…”
As Lin Ming spoke these words, everyone’s complexions changed as if they had fallen into an icy lake. “You…”
Without waiting for these people to respond, black energy began surging up from Lin Ming, wildly erupting like a black volcano.
This black energy was Lin Ming’s soul force!
Such a terrifying soul force instantly shocked the Divine Void Divine Kingdom disciples!
Their jaws fell down and their eyes widened to full moons. “How is this even possible!?”
These disciples came from Divine Void Divine Kingdom and were also spiritas, thus they had a naturally deep understanding into the aspect of soul force. They originally thought that because Lin Ming was a human his attainments in the soul weren’t too amazing, and thus they were ordered to attack the Soaring Feather God Mountain disciples.
But now, seeing this human erupt with such a dreadful soul force, they were all frightened to death!
It had to be known that this was all occurring beneath the suppression of the final trial Laws. If this were outside, to what extent would his soul force reach? Perhaps even a spiritas Empyrean wouldn’t be able to compare!
A human, in the aspect of soul force, was able to surpass a spiritas Empyrean?
Such formidable strength and with such a terrifying soul force, could this man be the reincarnation of the Asura Road Master?
This was a ridiculous idea. But, what was occurring was so stunning that their frazzled minds couldn’t help but produce such a thought.
At this time, a black cube appeared in front of Lin Ming, slowly spinning around.
The black cube’s surface was engraved with mysterious patterns. As it appeared, it caused the surrounding space to collapse. Dim motes of divine light gathered in space, slowly floating towards the black cube, as if the black cube contained a real universe within.
This black cube was the Magic Cube.
During these years, Lin Ming had already fully restored his soul force. Moreover, because of the several reincarnations he underwent, because he experienced the hundred tastes of life and death, because his mood and state of mind had been tempered, his soul force had broken past its previous boundaries to achieve an even more perfect Eternal Soul.
The Eternal Soul, ancient and unchanging.
Although this soul force might not be able to compare to those peak spiritas characters, in terms of quality, no one could compete!
As Lin Ming used his perfect Eternal Soul to galvanize the Magic Cube, he was truly able to command it!
For a time, the winds changed, whipping up. Massive dark clouds covered the surrounding space, and all of the Asura Road disciples suddenly saw illusions surround them as their spiritual seas fell into enemy hands.
The truth was that the moment these people saw the Magic Cube, their eyes were no longer able to leave it.
They forgot what danger they were in, they forgot everything. In their eyes all that existed was this divine object. Afterwards, because of the Magic Cube, their spiritual seas swung completely open.
Out of so many people, not a single one was able to resist Lin Ming.
What Lin Ming first wanted to do was erase all the memories of what had just occurred from the minds of these people.
Using Lin Ming’s evolved Eternal Soul and the divine tool that was the Magic Cube, he could perfectly accomplish this. He could do so with such skill that not even a True Divinity would be able to see through it.
Erasing memories was like a skilled criminal erasing all traces of his own crime from a crime scene. In order to be flawless, the criminal would have to remove every possible trace of his presence there, including every thread of hair or even mote of dust, all in order to make it seem that he had never been there at all, to the point that even the most intelligent detective would be at a loss of what to do, unable to argue against that criminal at all.
Lin Ming was such a criminal. This was because he knew that when these people returned, the ones investigating them would be Soul Emperor Divine Void and Soaring Feather God King.
Although Lin Ming’s strength was far inferior to these True Divinities’, his advantage was that he possessed the Magic Cube and Eternal Soul. When it came to erasing memories, if Lin Ming claimed he was second then no one in this universe could say they were number one.
After earnestly erasing all of these memories, Lin Ming repeatedly inspected them to make sure not a single trace of his presence was left behind. Then, he started to forge memories.
After erasing memories there would be an unexplainable void where they had been. One naturally had to craft new memories for the plan to be perfect.
However, while erasing memories was easy, forging memories was far, far more difficult.
If Lin Ming tried to forge memories from nothing, he couldn’t guarantee that he could hide the truth from a True Divinity.
But Lin Ming had another plan. That was, to manufacture ‘illusions’ that occurred in reality, and have these people experience what Lin Ming wanted them to.
Thus, they would believe everything that happened to them and would think that it was all real.
If they believed everything they saw was real, then these memories would truly be real.
No matter how sharp a True Divinity’s sense was, if they were to inspect memories that were real, what would they be able to find out?
Thus Lin Ming didn’t falsify memories. Rather, beneath his guidance, he had these Asura Road and Soaring Feather God Mountain disciples have real memories.
Under Lin Ming’s control, the Asura Road disciples’ minds were brought back to the moment they had seen the great ghost appear above the blackwater swamp.
In order to seize treasures they had rushed to the scene, where they engaged in a fierce battle with the disciples of the Good Fortune Saint Palace and Soaring Feather God Mountain.
Chapter 1977.2: B – Stirring Up Trouble
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The Good Fortune Saint Palace disciples had used their body metamorphosis. They summoned the power from Famine’s flesh and blood in their body, causing casualties to stack up all around them.
But then, wind and clouds rose up from within the final trial, and the world started to change colors. Heavenly retribution descended!
Countless Asura Law runes condensed into divine thunder that rumbled onto the 20 some Good Fortune Saint Palace disciples, immediately disintegrating them into ashes!
The illusion Lin Ming crafted made it seem that the Laws of the final trial didn’t abide the existence of the abyssal demon Famine’s reappearance, and it would descend to erase it from the world. Moreover, with Lin Ming’s understanding of the Asura Heavenly Dao, the illusion of heavenly retribution crashing down to earth was recreated perfectly, all of it seeming real.
In this alone, no matter how a True Divinity tried to look through they wouldn’t be able to see any flaws. This was because Lin Ming’s understandings of the Asura Laws were number one within the 33 Heavens!
As for creating the illusion that the abyssal demon was erased in the final trial, Lin Ming didn’t fear the Good Fortune Saint Sovereign would return at the next final trial to verify this. This was because every time the final trial opened, what occurred inside was unpredictable and it was impossible to figure out the rules that governed this space. The Good Fortune Saint Sovereign would never think that the memories he investigated and the incomparably real scene of heavenly retribution were actually forged by someone with such a higher understanding of the Asura Heavenly Dao.
Following that, Lin Ming had yet to finish. His carefully prepared play was just beginning.
After the Good Fortune Saint Palace disciples were eliminated, the other Asura Road disciples would try to snatch away the treasure, and thus attack the disciples of Soaring Feather God Mountain.
Finally, two of the Soaring Feather God Mountain disciples were slain, the gray-clothed woman included, leaving behind two severely wounded disciples who fled.
The reason these two disciples were able to escape was because the other Asura Road disciples had begun infighting due to the treasure, so no one could be bothered to chase after them.
All of this seemed extremely lifelike, and also very reasonable.
Finally, the disciples of Divine Void Divine Kingdom relied on their superiority in strength and numbers to steal the treasure and run away!
And from the memories of these Divine Void Divine Kingdom disciples’ memories, Lin Ming found some useful tidbits of information. For instance, they had brought some one-time use items that could play a great role in stealing away treasures, such as interference illusory magic arrays, withdrawal-type divine runic symbols, and so forth.
These things were all taken away by Lin Ming. But in the illusions that the Divine Void Divine Kingdom disciples experienced, they had used up all of these things.
They had fought bravely and wisely, and with luck on their side they were able to wrest away the treasure. They managed to cast off their pursuers and flee into a distant mountain valley.
They were all overjoyed; this was a treasure that could even move the heart of a True Divinity!
They took out the treasure and studied it, seeing if perhaps it could increase their combat strength somehow. But then, at this time, a scene that destroyed their hearts and minds occurred.
A thick demonic energy erupted from that demonic relic!
This demon energy condensed into a giant ghost head in the skies, similar to the ghost head that appeared above the blackwater swamp at the start.
This phenomenon was too great; everyone from thousands of miles away could clearly see it.
Thus, everyone was drawn to this area and the disciples of Divine Void Divine Kingdom had their positions revealed.
The other inner Asura Road disciples rushed towards this location, and even the two severely wounded disciples from Soaring Feather God Mountain came here with looks of deep unwillingness etched on their faces.
The disciples of Divine Void Divine Kingdom were panicked. They had relied on luck to escape the previous mess, and now facing so many people, there was likely no way they could win. In a worst case scenario, they would follow in the steps of the Good Fortune Saint Palace disciples and turn to dust!
And at this time, that massive ghost head in the skies suddenly spread outwards, dissolving into a force field that covered the surrounding area for hundreds of miles. Everyone lost consciousness as they were covered in this black energy…
This was also Lin Ming’s final illusion.
From this point on, false memories transitioned into real memories.
Even if Lin Ming’s skill in forging memories far surpassed anyone else in the 33 Heavens, he couldn’t guarantee that these little white mice wouldn’t experience traces of confusion and loss during the transition period of the memories from false to real.
Although this was only a minor flaw, the sense of a True Divinity had a high chance of discovering this.
But, if they were to faint and then reawaken, they would believe that everything that just occurred was realer than real. No matter how a True Divinity investigated, they wouldn’t discover anything wrong with these ‘real memories’.
When Lin Ming had been conjuring up these illusions, these little ‘white mice’ had already been transferred to the mountain valley.
Moreover, it wasn’t Lin Ming that moved them. Under the thrall of his illusions, they flew there themselves.
All the scenery they witnessed along the way was real.
Even their movements in the air, their offensive and defensive maneuvers, everyone’s expressions, it was all lifelike.
As for the two severely wounded Soaring Feather God Mountain disciples, they also joined the encirclement. Even when the ghost head appeared, they still weren’t willing to leave.
Then, when the ghost head exploded into a wave of energy, they too fell unconsciousness.
All of this was perfectly done. Of course, when these people woke up it would be many days later. At that time the final trial would be on the verge of ending.
These people believed they had all fallen unconscious due to the force field formed by the demon relic, and that force field was also what protected them from the attacks of the vicious beasts on the fourth level.
But they wouldn’t be happy at all. In particular, the disciples of Divine Void Divine Kingdom...
This wasn’t because they had missed out on continuing the final trial, but because after they woke up, they discovered that the demon relic had vanished after the eruption of the force field. They didn’t know where it had gone, and the worse stroke of luck was that the others believed that the demon relic was still in their hands, and yet they had no way to explain what had occurred…
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At this time, Lin Ming started heading towards the final trial’s fifth level alone.
The demon relic was taken by Lin Ming and placed within his spatial ring.
As for the little black dragon that had eaten its fill, it was deeply slumbering in the Magic Cube. After it swallowed the flesh and blood of Famine, all of it turned into a red ball of meat in its stomach. This meat ball would require some time to digest.
This time, Lin Ming could be said to have had a rewarding trip.
However, he didn’t have time to study the demon relic more in-depth. All he felt was an incomparably pure strength contained within it. If he could refine this strength, then whether it was him or the small black dragon, there would be a tremendous benefit.
From between the fourth level and fifth level there also existed a test, just like the Gate of Laws between the second and third levels.
When Lin Ming came to the final trial last time, the checkpoint here was the 33 Heavens Divine Seal Altar. Lin Ming had easily climbed it. This time, the test was different; it was not an illusory killing array. Of course, he had no problem this time either.
Lin Ming easily stepped into the fifth level. At this time, a voice echoed in his mind.
“Your methods are quite cruel…”
This voice was somewhat weak and somewhat ethereal. Lin Ming was extremely familiar with it; it was Empyrean Divine Mist.
During these past years, beneath the sustaining effects of the Magic Cube, Empyrean Divine Mist’s soul force was like a candle in the wind but it never extinguished. Most of the time he was deep in slumber.
Lin Ming faintly smiled. “Senior has awakened?”