# Chapter 273: The Abrupt Truth
"Not... an illusion?" Even though these were Mo Li's words, Yun Che still shook his head. "Impossible! I'm completely certain that absolutely cannot be a real world—it's merely an illusion!"
Mo Li said indifferently, "Although I don't know why you're so certain that it was only an illusion, I am even more certain that it was definitely a real world. Moreover, when it comes to judging whether something is real or an illusion, I am far more qualified than you! And with your current level of power, you simply don't have the ability to determine whether it was an illusion or not."
Yun Che: "..."
He truly couldn't judge whether it was an illusion... Just like the Phoenix Trial Ground and the Dragon God Trial Ground, those two worlds, aside from being filled with dangers, were no different from the real world to him. If he hadn't entered them for a trial but instead stumbled upon them under other circumstances, he wouldn't have thought they were mere illusions either.
But Mo Li was different. The realm she existed in was something Yun Che simply couldn't comprehend. Her understanding and perception of elemental laws and spatial laws were far beyond anything Yun Che could ever hope to reach. Just like when they first entered this Tianchi Secret Realm, Mo Li was immediately able to state how long this secret realm had existed and that it couldn't possibly have been created by humans of this plane... In the end, the Evil God's Soul had also confirmed that it was indeed not a secret realm created by human power but one created by the Evil God himself.
"The place you were in before, which you call the Cang Yun Continent, possesses an extraordinarily complete and stable system of elemental laws, natural laws, and order laws. And these laws could never be the basic laws temporarily established within an illusion! Moreover, judging by the completeness of these laws, that is a continent that has existed for at least several billion years! It is by no means some so-called illusion... Even if a true god were alive, they could not create an illusory world with laws comparable in completeness and stability to a continent that has existed for billions of years!"
Yun Che: "!!!!"
"Even the Evil God absolutely could not have done that... Let alone the fact that was only a remnant soul of the Evil God. When that remnant soul spoke with you, it was already extremely weak. Its last bit of power being able to complete one round trip of space was already the absolute limit. It simply couldn't have created an illusion! Not even the most basic mental illusion!"
Mo Li's words struck Yun Che's mind like successive thunderclaps, causing his entire consciousness to overturn and churn with monstrous waves...
That wasn't... an illusion?
That was... a real world? A world that truly exists? The Cang Yun Continent he knew so well?
Then what about Ling'er... and time...
No! Impossible! Ling'er had already passed away, leaving in his arms, and he had buried her with his own hands—how could that have been the real her? And time—the real Cang Yun Continent shouldn't have had a time like that...
"And another thing," Mo Li's voice continued at this moment. "Not only does that Cang Yun Continent truly exist, it shouldn't be too far from this Tian Xuan Continent. Because its elemental, natural, and order laws share many commonalities with Tian Xuan Continent. It and Tian Xuan Continent might even be on the same star. It's just that..."
Mo Li paused briefly, her voice carrying a hint of confusion. "The basic laws of Cang Yun Continent all share common ground with Tian Xuan Continent, but the one law that should have been the most consistent—the law of time—shows a clear misalignment. Hmph! While interfering with the law of time is fundamentally an impossible occurrence, for these low-level planes, my perception absolutely cannot be wrong! Either the time law of Cang Yun Continent has been interfered with, or the time law of Tian Xuan Continent has been interfered with, or perhaps both have been interfered with!"
Mo Li's voice filtered through Yun Che's mind again and again, further agitating his already chaotic thoughts... Then, he suddenly lifted his head sharply, as if a bolt of lightning had struck through his mind...
He suddenly recalled a very strange passage the Phoenix Spirit had said to him back in the Phoenix Trial Ground...
"...It seems that the girl you call Ling'er is truly very important to you. Because of her, your heart carries a very heavy regret. However, you don't need to suppress this regret deep within your soul. You crossed through reincarnation by means of a Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasure, altering the karmic laws of this world. Under the butterfly effect, time, dimensions, and planes have all shifted accordingly. Some regrets and debts may not necessarily be without the chance to be resolved and made up for..."
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Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasure...
Crossed through reincarnation...
Butterfly effect...
Altered karma...
Interfered with time...
These terms churned wildly within Yun Che's mind, then slowly began to align piece by piece—with his bewildering rebirth, with Mo Li's words, and with the Cang Yun Continent and Su Ling'er from that "illusion"...
Crossing through reincarnation... After dying in the Cang Yun Continent, he had awakened in his dead body from Tian Xuan Continent...
Wasn't this precisely crossing through reincarnation? Because after a person dies, they should have all memories and life experiences washed away, entering the next reincarnation as an entirely new life and form. Yet he had carried all his memories back to a previous reincarnation...
If the Cang Yun Continent he had just visited wasn't an illusion, and the Su Ling'er he had encountered wasn't a phantom... then wouldn't that be... precisely a change in karma and time?
His "crossing through reincarnation" was real because it was the most genuine and bizarre experience he had. So then... so then... the interference with time in Cang Yun Continent and Ling'er's reappearance... were also real!?
But even Mo Li had said that interfering with time was fundamentally impossible... And on his person, there was no so-called "Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasure" capable of "crossing through reincarnation" as the Phoenix Spirit had mentioned. The Heavenly Poison Pearl he possessed was indeed a Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasure, but its abilities were concentrated in poison, medicine, smelting, containment, and detection—it had nothing whatsoever to do with "crossing through reincarnation." Aside from the Heavenly Poison Pearl, he had no other Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasures. If he did have one without knowing it, how could Mo Li have failed to detect it?
"Mo Li..." Yun Che took a deep breath and asked softly, "Among the Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasures, is there one that can... cross through reincarnation and alter karma?"
"...I just said that interfering with the law of time is fundamentally impossible, but I didn't say it's absolutely impossible. That's because among the seven Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasures, there exists one heaven-defying item that can cause time to flow backward. It is the seventh-ranked among the seven Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasures—the 'Lunhui Jing (Reincarnation Mirror)'! The ability of the Lunhui Jing is precisely 'altering karma and crossing through reincarnation'! With the complete annihilation of the true gods, the world no longer possesses power sufficient to interfere with time and dimensions—except for this Lunhui Jing, which can interfere with time, and the sixth-ranked 'Qiankun Thorn (Cosmic Thorn),' which can interfere with dimensions."
"The anomaly in the time law of Cang Yun Continent made me think that someone might have used the Lunhui Jing... This is an extremely interesting discovery, because it at least indicates that the Lunhui Jing once appeared in Cang Yun Continent! If 'those people' were to find out about this, this plane would likely be engulfed in a storm of blood and murder!"
Lunhui Jing... Jing (Mirror)?
Yun Che's heart suddenly pounded violently. His hand instinctively gripped the pendant that had always hung around his neck.
Could it be...
"Mo Li," Yun Che said in a calm voice, "If the Lunhui Jing were to actually appear, with your abilities, you should be able to sense its existence, right?"
"No," Mo Li denied. "Among the seven Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasures, the Lunhui Jing's ability is the most heaven-defying, yet it is ranked last. That is because each time its ability is triggered, it must go dormant for a full twenty years. During those twenty years, it possesses no power at all and is no different from the most ordinary mirror."
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Yun Che's heartbeat accelerated rapidly, his hand clutching the pendant tightly... According to his memories from the Cang Feng Empire, he had worn this pendant around his neck since childhood, never taking it off. In the Cang Yun Continent, he had also worn it on his person the entire time. Two different continents, two different lives, yet they both shared this pendant that had always accompanied him.
When this pendant was opened, there was a small mirror inside... A small mirror that looked utterly ordinary.
And according to Xiao Lie's account, his biological parents had been pursued back then because of something called a... "Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasure"!
Could this be... the Lunhui Jing, one of the seven Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasures?
If it was the Lunhui Jing, then it would explain why he had gone from Tian Xuan Continent to the Cang Yun Continent, and then back from Cang Yun Continent to Tian Xuan Continent... The memories and life experiences throughout were continuously connected, with no breaks whatsoever! All the questions could also find corresponding explanations...
If it really was the interference of the Lunhui Jing, then... then... the Cang Yun Continent he had just visited... and Su Ling'er, whom he had embraced...
Were also real!!!
His entire life on the Cang Yun Continent, the chaos of reincarnation, the disorder of time and space... everything, everything was real!!
Su Ling'er... was still in this world! Still on that Cang Yun Continent where he had grown up and was familiar with!
Then, his master... might also still exist because of the reversal of time! After all, when Su Ling'er was ten years old, he was only twelve. At that time, he was still roaming the world with his master!
"That was Ling'er... That was Ling'er... That really was Ling'er... She isn't dead... She is the real Ling'er..."
This truth, which had suddenly burst forth, made Yun Che's mind feel as if it were exploding. The blood in his body nearly boiled over. He stared at his own hands, his body trembling violently... He had clearly seen and held Ling'er, who was right before his eyes, yet he had naively believed it was merely an illusion created by the Evil God's Soul. Mo Li's words, combined with his own experiences and the voice of the Phoenix Spirit, struck him like a morning drum and evening bell... His Ling'er had been right there before him, by his side, yet he had treated her as an illusion and then just left like that...
Yun Che let out a low roar from his throat and abruptly struck his own head with his hand. At times, he was almost delirious with joy; at others, he was so frustrated he felt on the verge of mental collapse... What sent him into wild ecstasy was that Ling'er was still in this world. What tormented him was that he had treated her as an illusion and hadn't brought her back...
Yun Che's various abnormal states finally made Mo Li begin to understand something. Watching the pendant he kept clutching in his hand, she suddenly said, "So that's how it is. No wonder you went to that continent and lost control of your emotions when you saw that little girl... And no wonder the Heavenly Poison Pearl actually merged with your body..."
"The one who triggered the power of the Lunhui Jing... Was it you!?"
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