Vol 4 Chapter 72: Real fantasy (below)

Burning city, blurred sky, grand ball, false expressions, wonderful performances, and free flying on the blue sky, pictures are intertwined in Xiu Yi's mind, and the intricate information almost makes him completely lost.
"These ... what the are these? I saw myself, I saw myself killing like crazy," Xiu Yi horrified.
Fink said with compassion, "That's not a dream, it's a real occurrence."
"I don't understand!" Xiu shouted, "If that's the case, what's going on now?"
"Here is the illusion, the illusion of the gate of magic, is a test. Everything that happens in front of you is something that has happened before, not a real existence!"
"I do not remember."
"That's because that part of me remembers."
"Who are you then?"
"I am you ... or part of you." Fink looked at Xiu. "When I woke up ... I was in Fink's body. But I couldn't grasp Fink's fate, he was still himself. I can only play a role occasionally. Both you and my destiny have begun to change. You rejected my previous arrangements and chose another path. Although I tried to get everything back on track, you were still rejected. Maybe from the beginning, you've been eager to control your destiny in your own way. You don't like my arrangement, or everything that happened. "
Xiu looked at Fink dumbly: "You said you were me?"
Fink shook his head: "I honestly don't know. I used to think I knew who I was, where I came from, and what to do, but now I don't know anymore. I began to wonder, why I existed. It ’s like a lonely ghost, unable to find his destination ... "
Xiu Yi dazed: "I don't understand."
"Yes, you do n’t understand, but the key question now is whether you can get away from it all. Just as you are trying to change the established destiny, Xiu Yi, do you not like the feeling of indulgence right? Yes, whether it is You're still me, we don't like it. But this time I can't help you. You have to rely on your own power to get out of this illusion and get rid of control. "
"How to get out?" Xiu Yi shouted.
"As long as you can prove that all this is false and does not exist, you can come out."
"How to prove it?"
"Use your wisdom and think about it ... this is what I can finally do for you." Fink's voice gradually lowered.
After a while, Fink suddenly raised his head and looked at Xiu Yi in shock: "Is anything happening? Xiu Yi. Why am I here? Where is this place?"
"I don't know," Xiu replied, "Don't you remember what you said to me just now?"
Fink blinked confusedly, and he seemed to remember nothing.
Xiu Yi was at a loss.
In the distance, Pier and Andrew came over.
Cold eyes stared at Xiuyi and Fink.
"Wow, it seems our little companion sees something and is trying to escape. But where can you escape here?" Andrew said with a grin.
Beside him, Pier was humming coldly.
Xiu looked at Pierce's cold eyes, and a strange feeling suddenly appeared in his heart.
A picture flashed through my mind, a desperate shout before Pierre was dying.
"I saw your death, Lord Pierre," he said suddenly.
Pierce's footsteps paused, and his face burst into anger: "What are you talking about, little bastard."
"You are dead, you have no reason to stand in front of me." Xiuyi replied, "I was killed."
Andrew Haha laughed wildly: "Pie, did you hear that? He said he killed you. This little is crazy!"
Shuy turned to Andrew: "You too, Lord Andrew. You all don't exist, just my hallucinations. Exactly ... you were created by me. Created from my memory."
"Oh? Really?" Andrew continued to smirk. "So what would it feel like to be killed by your own memory?"
"I don't know. Maybe I won't wake up." Xiu muttered.
Pierce said coldly, "That's a shame, but I'm not interested in listening to your nonsense."
"That's not nonsense."
"It's ridiculous." Andrew also shook his head. "I've never been so real."
"Really?" Xiu sneered.
"Of course." Andrew replied, "I have lived on Purgatory Island for twenty years and came here under the command of His Majesty the Emperor to work for my mentor.
"So you should know what your patriarch's name is?" Xiu suddenly said.
Andrew shut up immediately, and he looked at Xiu in horror.
Xiu shouted, "Answer me, Andrew! You are from the Dalimore family. Wouldn't you know what your clan's name is?"
Andrew stared at Xiuyi with stunned eyes.
He couldn't answer.
"Don't you know?" Xiu said coldly: "Everything you know is what I know, but when I ask a question I don't know and you should know, you can't answer ... because your existence is based on my memory. "
"No." Andrew shook his head in horror.
He took several steps back and forth.
Suddenly, his tall body turned into a cloud of smoke, dissipating on the flat ground.
Xiu Yi slowly turned to Pier, and Pier's face had become extremely ugly.
Xiu Yi slowly said: "The girls who were raped by you, what are their names?"
"No!" Pierce, who could not answer, also turned into a cloud of smoke.
But the world still exists, and the illusion has not disappeared.
Xiu turned to Fink with a dignified expression.
That was the last person standing next to him.
"No, Xiuyi, you can't kill me." Fink stepped back and forth: "I'm your friend! Don't kill me!"
"Fink ..." Xiu's voice was a little dry.
"Xiu Yi, I helped you! I saved you!" Fink shouted, "You can't be so ungrateful! Look, we can live here. We can live here together, please don't kill me!"
Xiu shook his head: "You are not Fink."
Fink was lagging.
Xiuyi stared at each other with cold eyes: "You are such a sly guy. You stole my memories and stripped away my most important memories. Now I am trying to use friendship between friends to keep me forever. Stay in this illusion! You are not Fink, Lord Kripwell!
Fink's movements were frozen.
A mysterious smile suddenly appeared on the freckled teenager's face.
He actually started clapping.
"Very good, Shuigler, how did you find that the problem was wrong?" His voice became thick and powerful, and a faint smoke rose around the whole valley.
The scene gradually changed, the valley ceased to exist, and Xiu Yi was clearly a vast and vast space.
Before Xiu's eyes, Fink no longer existed, only a huge magic crystal suspended in the air, and there was an image of an old man flashing in it.
Xiu Yi smiled and looked at the old man: "This is not surprising. I have changed the original events in my memory. I did not do what happened. I shouldn't have been sent to the valley, but I came there. , Everything that shouldn't have happened, and it didn't go as I expected. Then the question arises, how did this experience come about? "
"Don't you think that it should be the inevitable result of your choice? Memories can be inferred. A choice must have a result, and a new result is generated." The old man in the crystal ball answered.
"That's right, but the problem is that this is a new script. Although a new choice must have a new result, this result always needs someone to write it out. I'm not the person who wrote that result, I just give it It's just a matter of choice. It's as if the person asking the question doesn't have to give the answer in person. Someone gives a new answer according to the question I asked, so I have to realize that there is another person who is manipulating everything in secret. Although he interpreted everything perfectly, the fact is that he still left traces of manipulation. "
"What trace?"
"Andrew and Pier should not be in the canyon at the same time. The reason why this happens is because you do n’t know what happened in the canyon. You do n’t know because I do n’t know. I have n’t experienced that. Scene, so you can only make up a fiction yourself, which caused serious problems in the occurrence of the incident. For example, we were taken to the canyon, but no one cares about us. For example, I can easily escape, in the absence of a pass Under the circumstances, out of the guardian of the samurai ... "
"So you realize that it's not just an illusion based on your memory, there is another person and everything involved with you."
"Only in this way can illusions proceed smoothly and normally. Although I don't understand illusions, I know that no illusions can develop freely without manipulation."
"Then why do you know that Fink is me?"
"Because you can seal my memory, but you can't seal my feelings. Human emotions are sometimes beyond everything. When I see blood orchids biting your fingers, I don't feel a trace of heartache. At that time I was very sad What surprised me was so cold-blooded, but then I understood. Because you are not Fink, you can deceive my eyes, but you cannot deceive my feelings, the instinctive emotions that are deep in my memory. "
"That's it ... you're right, I didn't create Fink based on your memory. I played Fink myself, but I hid another memory of your life in Fink's body. Because there is only this I can get close to you and control the development of the plot perfectly. "
"To this end you even simulated a virtual emotion to affect me." Xiu Yi's disdainful smile appeared on his face. He was referring to the voice yelling in his mind.
"I want you to think it's your instinct."
"If my instinct is really sound, he will never say that kind of headlessness and ignorance. He will tell me what happened in the simplest and most direct way, rather than simply accusing. So from one From the beginning, I suspected that this consciousness was a ghost. The purpose of this consciousness is to get me back to everything I have ever experienced, and to be a twelve-year-old pure Heygler.
"It's a pity that you didn't listen, but you pulled out the ghost face and completely revised all the stories that happened. Are you really not afraid of all the consequences? Is this your wisdom?"
"Wisdom?" Xiu Yi sneered: "What is wisdom? It's nothing more than a coping method in the face of various incidents. Everyone has different ways of thinking about problems, so they have different ways of coping. Some people are rational, some people Perceptual. When I live on Purgatory Island, survival is the only thing that matters to me, so everything I do is for survival. But when I live in the illusion you create for me It is most important to get rid of the doubts in my heart, get rid of the power that is trying to manipulate my destiny, and unlock the unknown mystery. So I must go the other way and focus on what should not be done. Purpose It ’s very simple, it ’s not controlled by fate. If you say this is wisdom, then I ’m sorry, I do n’t think there is any real wisdom in this world, only different views on the same event and different results after making different choices That's it. As long as the result is what you want, then your means are full of wisdom. "
"Good point." The old man in the crystal ball would applaud if he had a hand.
"I don't understand one thing." Xiu Yi said: "Although I can still think and retain some recognized ways of thinking, the disappearing memory does cause me a major obstacle to thinking. For many things, I I still ca n’t make an accurate judgment the first time. If I continue to do so, it is likely that I will not be able to get out of this illusion in the end, and the key to being able to escape from him is that you release a short period of my ontological memory. Do n’t think I ca n’t guess that it was you doing it on purpose, but I do n’t understand why.

"Because this is a test, not a deadly death. The test must leave clues. Who will give unsolved questions during the test?" Krepwell replied: "So I must At the last moment I will give you some hints. But I also did not expect that with this little hint, you not only successfully defeated Andrew and Pie, but even discovered my existence. Oh, I forgot to tell you, in fact, as long as you can defeat Andrew You can pass the level with Pier. There are not many people who can come to the mainland, and I can only choose the goals that meet. The so-called rigorous test is a joke in the case of insufficient candidates ... otherwise Then, when you send the Abyssal Dragon into the gate of the samurai, it is already a corpse. You are really bold enough to say that, do n’t you know who destroyed the western continent? "
"Being human." Xiu quickly replied: "It was destroyed by human beings. Bathgate, the Lord of the Abyss, is a human being. It is human beings who initiate the magic of the curse that destroys the continent. No matter from which perspective, it is human beings who destroy themselves You. I know that people in the West continent hate the Demon Realm, but you can never deny that this is the only person who can destroy humanity. Any other life, any form, any disaster ... is just a tool and a manifestation. "
The old man in the crystal ball was silent.
After a long time, he finally sighed: "You're right, boy, the West Continent was destroyed by human beings. Only humans can destroy human beings, even the powerful magic world ... can't do it."
"So I dare to send Xu to enter, although it is because I do n’t know that there are life forms to think about, but I also believe that even if there is not too confused, there is no reason to look down on him because he is an abyss-like dragon, Or kill him regardless of how good it is. Of course, if you are stupid, things may be exceptional. But sometimes we have to choose to let our children face some challenges and trials. Today, a dragon from the abyss entered The gate of the inheritance of the Western continent, tomorrow, he may become the new human protector. "
"Is that so?" A trace of confusion appeared on the old man's face, and a large cloud of smoke filled the crystal ball: "I'm not sure about this, I need to think about it."
"Speaking of which I don't know what kind of being you are, aren't you dead? Why can you still leave such a clear soul?"
"I am indeed dead. As for why my soul is so clear ... Hugh Iglell, aren't you also a soul mage? You should know how the soul exists, and that is the root of our ability to learn soul magic. "
"Soul ..." Xiu opened his mouth. "Honestly, I don't know what it is until now."
"You know, but you don't realize it. The soul is actually the embodiment of human memory in another way through the carrying of energy. The soul spell can not only attack human consciousness, but also create illusions and control Thought. This soul crystal carries my consciousness, so you can fully understand that although my body is dead, my soul is forever. "
"Forever?" Xiuyi chuckled: "How can there be eternal existence in the world?"
"Right, there is no real eternity in this world. Congratulations, young man, you have passed the test of the soul maze anyway, and you are eligible to inherit the gate of magic. When I pass on all my knowledge about magic to you At that moment, the moment of my real death came. My souls were left behind the three doors. One has disappeared hundreds of years ago, and it's my turn now.
Kripwell's voice gradually deepened. Come down: "But before that, I need one of your promises."
"What promise?"
"Fight the Devil and kill Bathgate."
"What did you say?" Xiuyi shook his heart.
"I said ... kill Bathgate. As you hear, Bathgate is not dead, he is just trapped, but one day he will break through the predicament. By then, he will return Go to the abyss and lead his Death Legion scroll back ... "
When he stepped out of the magic gate, Xiuyi seemed to have changed.
Encounter of the magic gate, Xiu Yi thoroughly understand the mystery of soul magic.
He didn't expect that the power of the western continent in soul magic would be so powerful that it could create such a maze of souls.
This is the most powerful soul maze that Xiu has ever seen. Compared to it, the soul maze of the Ring of Devourer and the soul maze of the Tower of Death are so insignificant.
At this point, Xiu Yi really understood that the so-called test itself is actually a way of inheritance.
All magic is just the skill of human beings to learn how to master the power of heaven and earth. Skills can be learned, they can be explored, and they can be created, but understanding of the origin of things is not easy to learn.
From this point of view, the various spells hidden in the gate of magic are not even more valuable than the tests that Xiuyi was given in the soul maze.
But because of this, a new confusion has arisen in Xiu Yi's heart.
What is Gong Hao's existence?
He even wondered if the world he was in was another bigger maze of souls, a dream space, or just a powerful and boring prank trick, kneading two souls together and throwing them into a certain world. Let it float like a leaf.
However, after going through the test of the magic gate, Xiu Yi finally felt such a trace of abnormality.
If the soul is only the manifestation of memory through energy, to a certain extent, is the so-called Gong Hao's soul just a copy of a certain memory?
Hugh Iglell is still just Hugh Iglell.
He has never died, but he is no longer a single existence.
If so, how did this memory of the soul appear?
Maybe he can't find the answer in his life, maybe the answer will appear one day.
No longer thinking about this troublesome headache, the door of the samurai opened, and Asahi had come out of it.
He was downcast.
"I failed, father, I didn't pass the test of the samurai gate." Xu cried and rushed into Xiuyi's arms.
"What happened? Asahi."
Asahi then intermittently recounted her experience at the Samurai Gate.
In the gate of the samurai, Asahi suddenly grew into an adult dragon.
He returned to the abyss, becoming one of the most powerful beings there, while also encountering the most feared opponent, Bathgate, and his death legion.
In the battle for the abyss, his mother Rita and his father Xiuyi died one after the other, leaving only Asahi himself.
Busgate challenged Asahi.
Asahi was scared and the little guy chose to escape the fight.
"I failed your expectations, father." Xu Xu sobbed.
"No, child, that's not your fault." Xiu lovingly stroked Xu Xu's small head. "You're still young, just a child. You can't challenge Bathgate in that situation. You have to know that the reason why I sent you into the gate of the samurai is not to let you learn what kind of power. To be powerful, one needs not only powerful power, but also a strong heart. Remember Lancelot Special? I once criticized him for not being brave. Later he understood, so he challenged everywhere, and then practiced in isolation. People will have fear of death and danger, but one day, people will find that fear and escape are meaningless In the face of him, even if the sharp sword stabs in our eyes, we must watch it penetrate! We can die, but die with our eyes open. "
Xiu Yi was very skeptical whether Xu had really failed. From the conversation with Kripwell, Xiu Yi realized that Kipwell still had a strong alert to the creatures in the Demon Realm. He is unlikely to teach Asahi the important way of samurai so easily.
Mizuhiko passed the test, but Kripwell may use the soul spell to modify Xu's memory.
However, Xiuyi was not sure about this. The purpose of sending Xu to enter the Samurai Gate was to exercise his strong qualities and cultivate his courage. From this point, Xu can cry out of the Samurai Gate, indicating that he has already With a sense of shame, a desire to be motivated.
This is very good progress.
Whether a person is mature or not is not determined by age but by their experience. Asahi's experience at Samurai Gate is bound to help him in the future.
So Xiuyi comforted at this moment: "Xu, you regret that you didn't do what you longed for. This is a huge improvement in itself. Someday you will really grow up. By then, you will still You can come back and challenge the samurai gate again. "
"Can I challenge again?" Xu looked at Xiu in surprise.
"Of course." Xiu Yi nodded: "The temple only stipulates that one person cannot challenge different doors, but there is no rule that he cannot challenge the same door repeatedly. Trust me, Asahi, one day you will come back here and restart Pass the test and become a true strongman. "
There is a sentence, Xiu Yi did not say. Xiu Yi will test Asahi before returning him to the gate of the samurai. If one day, he finds that Xu has really reached the point he expected, but fails the test. He doesn't mind passing everything through the door to the samurai.
Forgive Kripwell's old thing and have to weigh the consequences.
As for now, let the Kripwell in the gate of the samurai think carefully about whether to let a demon creature accept the inheritance. Anyway, the three souls share the thinking, as Xiuyi said in the gate of magic, the samurai Kripwell in the gate knew the same.
"Yes father." Xu nodded earnestly at this moment.
"Then things are over here, and we should go home," Xiu Yi said, holding up Xu Longsheng. Gently waved, a harmonious soul energy spilled over the whole body of the rising sun, washing away the pain of his soul.
"Oh, father, your soul spell ..." Xuguai cried.
"Yes, upgraded. At the gate of magic, I have grasped the mystery of the real soul spell. Now I am a fourth-level soul mage." Xiu laughed: "And from then on, my soul spell will never have Any talent limitation. "
"So you passed the gate of magic, then other magic knowledge ..."
"It's all in my head, Xu, that's far more knowledge than you think, you can't even learn it." Xiu Xiangxu blinked and smiled: "It's like an unguarded granary. , You always worry about how to digest them as fast as possible. "! ~!