201: Breaking the illusion

As Xiao Zhuo’s words fell, dark clouds suddenly swirled and gathered in the sky, and a gigantic, pitch-black skeleton tore through the clouds, descending with a roar!

A terrifying pressure instantly spread, causing Ning Yuanshan, Liu Jian, and the elders of the two great Families, who had rushed out right behind him, to change their expressions.

This skeleton was three zhang tall, its bones gleaming with a metallic, icy luster, extraordinarily sturdy.

Xiao Zhuo merely smiled faintly: “The big guy finally came out! I just wonder how many moves it can take from me?”

The Devil King’s pitch-black eye sockets flickered with intense, eerie blue Devil Fire, clearly enraged by Xiao Zhuo’s disdain.

It raised its hand and clenched, and a massive, pale bone scythe instantly condensed into shape, gripped tightly in its hand.

Its enormous body suddenly launched, stirring up a violent hurricane, and in an instant, it had charged before Xiao Zhuo!

The bone scythe tore through the air, emitting a piercing shriek, and a flash of pale light, it chopped down directly!

Xiao Zhuo, however, was unhurried, casually grabbing a flagpole beside him. With the infusion of his Primal Chaos True Qi, the flagpole was wielded as if an extension of his arm.

“Clang—!”

The sound of clashing metal echoed through the sky, and the massive skeleton was actually forced back several steps!

Xiao Zhuo flicked his wrist, and the dark blue flag rolled up, revealing the cold, glinting spearhead at the end of the flagpole. Cloud Cliff Town’s flagpoles were originally equipped with spearheads, and at this moment, it transformed into an eight-foot-long spear!

Although he was not skilled in spear techniques, Xiao Zhuo used it without any hesitation.

His figure flickered, and he had already soared into the air, pursuing the retreating skeleton like a shadow!

Xiao Zhuo, holding the flagpole spear, transformed into a streak of light, and in an instant, he caught up to the Devil King!

The Bone Devil King’s eye sockets flickered wildly with eerie blue Devil Fire, filled with shock and fury.

The power of this tiny Human Race was actually so terrifying, capable of forcing it back!

“Human Race, you are strong! But this King is stronger!” It let out a shriek, the pale light on its bone scythe in its hand surged, no longer chopping directly, but instead, like a venomous snake flicking its tongue, it viciously and cunningly coiled towards Xiao Zhuo’s waist!

Wherever the scythe blade passed, the air was cut into distorted ripples!

“Petty tricks.” Xiao Zhuo’s eyes were indifferent. The flagpole spear, infused with the Primal Chaos True Qi of the Condensing Aperture Realm, was no less than an ordinary divine weapon in his hand. He neither dodged nor avoided, the spear seemingly casually parried and flicked.

“Clang—!!”

A deafening explosion resounded again, sparks flying everywhere!

This time, the ferocious bone scythe was actually deflected by a clever force!

The spearhead, taking advantage of the momentum, shot out like a venomous Dragon emerging from its lair, a point of golden light, condensed to the extreme, tore through the air, striking with unparalleled precision at the Devil King’s left eye socket, which was burning with Devil Fire!

Fast! Faster than the Bone Devil’s reaction limit!

The Bone Devil King’s enormous body suddenly stiffened, only managing to turn its head slightly.

“Hiss—!”

The spearhead grazed the edge of its skull, which was as hard as profound iron, leaving a trail of dazzling sparks and plowing a deep gash on the smooth bone surface!

Although it didn't hit a vital spot, the terrifying penetrative power and destructive Primal Chaos True Qi contained within the spearhead still caused its skull to tremble violently, and the Devil Fire in its eye socket flickered intensely, like a candle in the wind!

Excruciating pain and even deeper horror swept through the Bone Devil King! It used the force to retreat dozens of zhang again, its feet stamping out dull explosions in the Void Realm.

It stared intently at the “ordinary” long spear in Xiao Zhuo’s hand, no longer showing any contempt—the lingering destructive aura sent a chill to its very bones!

Xiao Zhuo did not pursue, holding the spear suspended in the air, his robes fluttering. He glanced at the deep gash on the opponent’s skull, shaking his head slightly, seemingly dissatisfied: “Tsk, the bones are hard enough, but unfortunately, my aim was a bit off.”

These understated words infuriated the Bone Devil more than any provocation: “Impossible! This King has already advanced to the Grandmaster Realm, how could you injure me!” It roared up to the sky, and the Devilish Qi around its body surged out like boiling ink, the space within a hundred zhang seeming to solidify, filled with the heavy pressure of death and decay!

It tightly gripped its massive bone scythe, and pale light rapidly condensed on the scythe blade, a terrifying power capable of destroying the heavens and earth rapidly brewing—it was about to use its true killing move!

Seeing this, a faint trace of interest finally flickered in Xiao Zhuo’s eyes.

He gently twisted his wrist, the flagpole spear pointing diagonally downwards, Primal Chaos True Qi flowing silently, the spear body emitting a low hum, as if a sleeping divine weapon was about to awaken. A barely perceptible arc curved at the corner of his lips: “Now this is getting interesting.”

Immediately, the spear flicked, ten thousand points of cold light converged at the spearhead, and a terrifying Concept condensed upon it!

At the same time, the Devil King’s bone scythe ruthlessly slashed down! A ten-zhang long pale crescent moon tore through the sky, crashing down with a roar!

Xiao Zhuo’s spearhead flashed with golden light, thrusting the spear straight out! The golden light, like a meteor piercing the sky, struck the center of the crescent moon with unparalleled precision!

“Crack—!”

The pale crescent moon shattered from the center in response! The golden light continued its momentum, and amidst the Devil King’s soul fire’s violent tremor of terror, it fiercely struck its glabella!

“Boom—!”

The gigantic, pitch-black skull exploded with a roar! The entire skeleton Devil body subsequently disintegrated and shattered inch by inch!

Under the hopeful gazes of countless townspeople, the King of Yao Beasts and Devils, who had been entrenched outside Cloud Cliff Town for nearly a century, was actually annihilated with a single blow!

Perceiving the flickering numbers on his panel, Xiao Zhuo immediately felt a sense of boredom.

This time, he didn't even use the power of adding points; he broke through the situation with just one night of Cultivation, which was truly unchallenging.

As the Devil King completely perished, the entire world began to rumble and tremble violently!

Xiao Zhuo’s eyes flickered slightly, and an understanding surged in his heart: “It seems this Devil King is the end of this illusion. Breaking it will allow me to escape. This illusion… is nothing more than this.”

He had originally thought that the Evergreen True Immortal would use an entire world as an illusion to test the Prodigy, but now it seemed that the other party had only condensed an illusion covering several hundred miles.

The world shattered like a painting, and the figures of the Ning Family, Liu Family, and countless Cloud Cliff Town residents vanished from his sight.

With a blur before his eyes, Xiao Zhuo found himself in a beautiful plain filled with the chirping of birds and the fragrance of flowers.

What he didn't know was that the Evergreen True Immortal’s illusion was capable of deceiving the Divine Soul of all Undergoing Tribulation Prodigy, making them lose their memories, so they could only be tested as identities within the illusion world.

However, Xiao Zhuo, this guy with a cheat system, had his memory completely unaffected, which allowed him to easily break through the illusion.

Standing on the plain, Xiao Zhuo subtly sensed his own state, and finding everything normal, he began to survey his surroundings.

“Is this the core zone?” The massive barrier/boundary behind him was gone, but the Evergreen Immortal Power unique to the Myriad Ages Evergreen Realm was several times denser and purer than outside, its power clearly stronger!

It seemed that after passing the test, one would be randomly teleported. He wondered if Qiao Zimo could pass… That guy also seemed to have some Luck, so he probably wouldn’t die so easily.

Xiao Zhuo sensed his Divine Soul link with Qiao Zimo, but his brows furrowed slightly—he couldn’t sense him! However, the “thread” of Divine Soul that connected them was clearly still present.

This anomaly caused his expression to darken slightly.

However, since he had already entered the core zone, the top priority was to find the enlightenment tea tree.

The enlightenment tea tree was in the center of the core zone, but this place was still vast and boundless. With his Divine Sense obstructed, searching would inevitably be time-consuming and laborious. Xiao Zhuo covered thousands of zhang in a single step, constantly exploring, and along the way, he harvested several rare millennium Spirit Medicine and encountered several waves of Yao Beast attacks.

The Myriad Ages Evergreen Realm had its own inhabiting Yao Beast. The ones that attacked him were just a few Crimson Flame Wolves comparable to the Integration Stage, which he casually swatted to death.

Under his unremitting exploration, an endless, boundless primeval dense forest finally came into view. On the outskirts of the dense forest, thick, dark green miasma churned and swirled, emitting an ominous aura, clearly not a benevolent place.