The ultimate transmission fear beast stands on the Douluo Continent.

Chapter 426: The Heart of Playing Illusion is Dirty

"Human, do you know what illusion is?"

In response to the skull puzzle, Meng Yiran replied: "Illusion is a method of mental attack. It is based on one's own mental power, combined with some unintentional but secret movements, sounds, and even drugs, to make the opponent's body fall into a trance, and the mind produces all kinds of hallucinations, and eventually collapses."

'That's right.'

The skull puzzle was quite satisfied, and then changed the subject and asked: "So answer me, which bastard told you that you are an illusionist?"

"Xiaoyou."

'.? '

Not hearing the skull puzzle's answer, Meng Yiran repeated, "Xiao You."

'.Okay, I understand.'

Although it is a plant without a head and without a body to feel pain, the skull puzzle somehow suddenly understood what humans call the word "headache".

Yes, it feels like having a terrible headache now.

Because this human being named Meng Yiran has nothing to do with the word "illusionist" no matter how you look at it.

'If he says yes, then so be it.'

The skull puzzle forced itself to accept the fact and said helplessly: "Human, show me your illusion."

Meng Yiran nodded: "Okay."

The above is the conversation that took place deep in Meng Yiran’s mind with the Skull Mystery after Tang San was captured by Tang Hao and Gu You followed Xue Qinghe into the palace.

Facing Lei Tian's strongest soul skill, Meng Yiran's eyes narrowed.

"Snake rain!"

Meng Yiran's core skill as a control-type soul master is the third soul skill, Snake Rain. The basic effect is to create an illusion of the Mist Rain Snake, the source of the soul ring, and consume soul power to materialize it.

But after many modifications, this soul skill has become a mess and has lost its original youthful appearance.

For example, Gu You once said: "If a Mist Rain Snake is stretched out, it is still a Mist Rain Snake. If a Mist Rain Snake is magnified ten times, it is still a Mist Rain Snake."

"Varied…?!"

Lei Tian was horrified by what was happening before his eyes. He saw the third soul ring on the snake staff glowing brightly, and a giant python as tall as a person broke out of the ground behind Meng Yiran. Amid the flying dust, a fog rain snake ten times larger opened its bloody mouth and bit the huge thunder eagle that was flying towards it.

With the excellent vision of his martial spirit, Lei Tian could see the muscles wriggling in the snake's mouth clearly. He could also clearly see the eagle with spread wings reflected in the cold snake's pupils.

"Real stuff?!"

The lifelike, oversized python frightened Lei Tian so much that he wanted to fold his wings and dodge. Before he could move his wings, he suddenly heard the leader's voice: "Lei Tian, ​​calm down. It's just the third soul skill, charge forward."

The calmness in the leader's words quickly woke up Lei Tian, ​​who was anxious to get away after being caught off guard and frightened.

Hot knowledge: before the emergence of technology to increase the age of soul rings during the Dragon King Legend period, the power of soul skills was directly linked to the age of soul rings.

In other words, as long as it is not some mechanism-based soul skills like "Invincible Golden Body" or a martial soul like the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda that enhances the effects of soul skills at the same time, the skills attached to the later soul rings are generally more powerful.

with no exceptions.

Therefore, Lei Tian's fourth soul skill "Brave Eagle Thunder Attack" after charging is definitely stronger than Meng Yiran's third soul skill "Snake Rain".

The power formula of the spirit skill he had learned was quickly recalled in his mind, and there was no more confusion in Thunder Eagle's eyes. He flapped his wings vigorously, thunder exploded, and the whole person turned into a blue lightning and rushed into the bloody mouth of the python.

In nature, no matter how ferocious a snake is, it is nothing more than an eagle's prey, and this time is no exception.

The moment the mist snake released by Meng Yiran touched the electric current on the Thunder Eagle, it was pierced and turned into mist again. The tough scales were of no use at all and were easily torn in half by the lightning.

The Thunder Eagle that broke through the rain of snakes was majestic, with a wingspan of five meters that seemed to cover the sky. Spreading its thunder wings, it completely blocked Meng Yiran's escape route, and Lei Tian pressed down mercilessly.

boom!
The extremely terrifying electric current exploded instantly, and Lei Tian, ​​whose fourth soul skill almost consumed all of his soul power, gasped heavily in the raised dust.

Won, finally won.

When Lei Tian saw the giant python, he thought he was going to die. Fortunately, the team leader reminded him in time, which helped him snatch a precious point from Tiandou Royal Academy.

With just one more point, Thunder Academy could drag the game into a team competition to decide the winner.

Well, it was a little funny to talk about a duel with the strongest Asian dragon in history. But he believed his teammates could drag the game into a team competition.

Lei Tian was hoping that his teammates would inherit his will and continue to fight, and the referee finally announced the result of the game to everyone.

"Out of bounds. The winner of the second round is Tiandou Royal Academy."

"What!?"

Unable to believe the referee's decision, Lei Tian turned around suddenly and happened to see a pair of exquisite black leather shoes stopped in front of him.

Lei Tian slowly raised his head, and the faint light emitted by the deep purple soul ring came into his eyes.

Holding the snake staff and looking clean as if he had not participated in the battle, Meng Yiran smiled calmly: "It's a bit too easy to defeat you."

'Why are illusions distinguished from regular psychic abilities and made into a separate category?'

"Although illusions and mental abilities both target the mind and are closely related to mental strength, compared to mental attacks, which have simple and direct effects, illusions have less obvious effects and mechanisms, and are much more difficult to use than the most common mental abilities."

"You are right. Illusions are so complicated and difficult to use."

Even though the Skull Maze was an expert in illusion, it couldn't tell Meng Yiran that "illusion is the strongest mental ability."

On the contrary, it was even happier that Meng Yiran did not have a wrong understanding of illusion and could correctly understand the decisive difference between the two.

In other words, illusions don't work well.

Apart from anything else, just in terms of the simplicity and directness of the effect, illusion is far inferior to other mental abilities.

Among the mental abilities, direct attacks include mental shock, controlling enemies includes mental interference and mental confusion, and controlling oneself includes mental detection and mental sharing.

The unified feature is that it is simple and domineering, and it can take effect in an instant.

But illusion abilities are different. If you want to maximize the effectiveness of illusion abilities, it often requires the user to spend a lot of time and effort on planning.

In addition, the user needs to have strong adaptability and a little luck.

Because of this, in the long history of Douluo Continent, apart from Shi Nian, there has never been another impressive illusion user. If Shi Nian, who is at the Soul Saint level, wants to kill Tang San silently, he must first use a set of illusion torture to break down his psychological defenses.

Ten thousand years later, if Huo Yuhao wanted to kill his opponent, he would only need a simple mental shock to do it.

Comparing the two, the illusion seems particularly rubbish.

Even if we don't compare Shi Nian with the Plane Son Huo Yuhao, and look at the fight in the five villages next door where illusions are popular, the number of kills obtained by illusions is the lowest among the three types of ninjutsu, tai, and illusion, and almost no one can be killed by illusions.

'So, why did you choose to become an illusionist?'

The skull puzzle was very curious. The first two soul skills had nothing to do with illusions, and Meng Yiran's mental strength was not advantageous. His only advantages were his strong will and keen observation. Why did he suddenly switch to illusions?

"Because Xiaoyou gave me two choices when I was confused."

'.So, you chose illusion among the two choices given to you by Guyou.'

Staring at the booklet with the word "Fantasy" written in indigo on the table, Skull Puzzle fell silent.

"Yes."

Meng Yiran gently opened the booklet that he had studied many times, and confidently said to the skull puzzle that resided in the snake staff: "Don't underestimate him, he is a super genius who is destined to change the world of soul masters."

"You can feel honored, Skull Contraption. This booklet will change everything you know about illusions and take you into a whole new world."

"By the way, he also wants your report, so don't forget about it after reading it."

The expectant skull puzzle said impatiently: "I know."

The above conversation took place after Meng Yiran obtained the fourth soul ring and before Gu You set out for the Fiery Islands.

Having achieved complete victory for the first time, Meng Yiran was so excited that he raised the evolved Fear Snake Staff high up to signal the people around him.

Meng Yiran's fourth soul skill, "Transformation", which was taken from the Skeleton Owl, perfectly achieved everything that Gu You expected of this soul skill.

That is, a comprehensive illusion that can affect vision, hearing, smell, touch, and taste at the same time.

First, he used illusion to affect Lei Tian's vision, moving his position while leaving a fake self behind, and also disrupted his hearing and sense of touch, making it difficult for him to identify the position of the audience seats.
What Lei Tian thought was a circular circle was actually not round at all to outsiders.

After discovering that Lei Tian planned to use his fourth soul skill to decide the outcome, Meng Yiran decided to take advantage of the situation.

He used his third soul skill to create a huge fog snake, which forcibly blocked all of Lei Tian's senses for a short period of time. He took this opportunity to refresh his visual position in Lei Tian's eyes and moved the fighting arena and himself outside the fighting arena, which resulted in Lei Tian's big move hitting the ground.

By the way, the leader's voice that Lei Tian heard was also an illusion created by Meng Yiran. Meng Yiran couldn't let Lei Tian escape when he found out that he was frightened by the sudden appearance of the huge fog snake.

"Hey, why did the guys from Thunder Academy suddenly attack the ground?"

"You ask me? Who am I asking!"

Almost at the same time as the referee announced the result, the audience in the audience suddenly woke up from their silence. Everyone was curious about why Lei Tian's powerful charging skill hit the target out of bounds for no reason.

It would be fine under normal circumstances, but under the temptation of priceless soul bones, he would not be bribed by Tiandou Royal Academy to play a fake game.

Lei Tian is not Feng Xiaotian. Even though they both have the word "Tian" in their names, he is not a bootlicker at all.

In the audience, Xue Qinghe turned to look at Meng Shenji beside him.

It was a little difficult to explain. She inherited the blood of the Angel Douluo from the previous room of secrets, and she didn't understand what had just happened on the field.

From her perspective, this battle of spirits looks like this:

The referee announced the start of the soul fight. Lei Tian, ​​possessed by the martial spirit, took off from the spot and flew around in the air. Meng Yiran, who remained on the ground, began to glow with his fourth soul ring, and then slowly walked to Lei Tian's original position.

Then Lei Tian released his fourth soul skill and charged it, crashing into the empty ground of the fighting arena. A big snake appeared out of thin air, and after a pause, Lei Tian was extremely excited after successfully smashing the big snake, and flew directly out of the fighting arena, leaving a big hole.

It's weird, really weird.

Meng Shenji calmly explained: "Your Highness, starting from the second soul skill, Meng Yiran no longer followed the Dragon Snake Family's plan to become a spirit master of the Agility Attack System."

"The excellent third soul skill Snake Rain, together with the fourth soul skill "Transformation", which is also an illusion soul skill, made Meng Yiran determined to completely abandon the snake staff training method inherited from the Dragon Snake Family, and turn to exploring his own combat method of using illusions to fully control the battlefield."

"Lei Tian's abnormal behavior must be related to Meng Yiran's new fourth soul skill."

After listening to Meng Shenji's introduction, Xue Qinghe, who reached a cooperation with Gu You and respected his and his teammates' privacy, suddenly had the name of a soul master in his mind.

"Similar years?"

Meng Shenji nodded and acknowledged Xue Qinghe's guess: "Yes, similar to Shi Nian."

"Control-type soul masters who use illusions are rare in the world. Meng, you must train them well."

After saying that, Xue Qinghe turned around and bowed to the Dragon Man and the Snake Woman sitting behind him, saying, "Senior Meng Shu, your approach of cultivating your granddaughter's decision-making ability is truly admirable."

Qian Renxue asked herself, she couldn't give up the stable inheritance left by the ancestors of the Spirit Hall and embark on an unknown road alone.

The sudden praise from the prince made Meng Shu blush.

He thought that he had not provided any help to his granddaughter and smiled awkwardly: "Thank you, Your Highness. But she is still young and needs more guidance from you and the Education Committee."

The leader of the Xiangjia Sect, Hu Yanzhen, who had been listening attentively without saying a word, suddenly spoke up: "Lord Long, are you interested in hiring a teacher for your granddaughter?"

"Although Shi Nian has a strange personality, we must admit that he is the best in illusion in the entire continent. I believe that my granddaughter's talent in illusion that allows her to manipulate her opponent will surely impress that guy."

"It is said that Shi Nian is now a teacher at Canghui College. If you don't mind, my Xiangjia Sect is willing to recommend one or two of them as a guarantor."

"???" x2
Hu Yanzhen's sudden and unknown enthusiasm frightened the knowledgeable Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang so much that they looked at each other in surprise.

Although the Dragon Snake Family is well-known on the mainland for the couple's martial soul fusion technique, Dragon Snake Joint Attack, there are also many people who are enthusiastic and fawning towards them.

When the target is one of the four lower sects, and the leader of the Elephant Armor Sect who possesses the Diamond Mammoth, the martial spirit with the highest defense today, even Meng Shu has to say "I have never seen such a powerful force before."

"That's not fair, Sect Master Huyan."

Xue Qinghe shook his head, looking at Hu Yanzhen who was trying to build relationships in a serious manner, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

I didn't expect that Huyan Zhen, who looked honest and simple, actually wanted to steal the empire's talents.

Hu Yanzhen turned a deaf ear to Xue Qinghe's words, staring straight at Meng Shu, and said seriously: "My Xiangjia Sect is willing to negotiate with Shi Nian on behalf of the Longshe Family to let your granddaughter receive the best illusion education. I believe that you don't want to see your granddaughter fall into the misunderstanding of illusion, right?"

(End of this chapter)