You Call This A D-Level Ability?

"How much time is left?"

Xu Ye asked without thinking, looking at the guard in front of him.

"There are still three hours until the ancient Yuanxu Realm is closed." The guard responded expressionlessly, "In one hour, the third trial will end."

Xu Ye nodded slightly and turned to look at his feet.

Everyone except him was still climbing the ladder with blind eyes at this moment.

But most people are in the middle of the ladder, far away from the end.

Among them, Qin Ze is the most advanced one, but his steps are extremely hesitant, and he needs to think for a long time before taking each step.

On the other hand, the last person in the crowd was Zhou Li who was the first to step onto the ladder.

Rather than saying it was at the end, it would be better to say that Zhou Li completely gave up moving forward, and instead sat cross-legged on the first island, looking particularly quiet.

As for the others, they gradually moved forward at varying speeds.

Slowly retracting his gaze, Xu Ye roughly understood something about this last trial.

The last trial in the Ancient Yuanxu Realm is a trial only for the spiritual aspect.

As soon as you step into the trial, your consciousness will enter a fictional "illusion world".

This world is extremely real. It will be shaped based on the memory of one of the trial participants, and other people will be reasonably distributed in the fantasy world and their memories will be replaced.

There is only one way to break the trial, and that is to be able to see through the illusions of the world and find the truth.

No matter how real this fantasy world is, it still has its flaws or loopholes.

Those missing details and some anomalies in life can become the anchor point for "seeing through illusions".

In this process, there are two difficulties.

First, after finding the anchor point, you need to prove it yourself and confirm that the world you are in is not real.

After noticing and confirming this, the tester himself will unblock the original memory.

After unblocking the memory, if you want to escape from the fantasy world, you only need to "die" your body in the fantasy world to return to reality.

But even if the memory is unsealed, it will still be difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion. In the past, many testers even suffered from symptoms similar to "mental patients" after the memory was unsealed, and it was difficult to make a choice.

Secondly, the fantasy world constructed by the trial will itself materialize what the trialist desires most.

Take the previous fantasy world as an example.

Han Hao enjoyed being praised by everyone, An Lan enjoyed the resurrection of his adoptive parents and the happy family environment. Qin Ze's mother and master did not die, but stayed with him...

The more regrets a person has in reality, the harder it will be to escape from the fantasy world.

Even if the anchor point is discovered, he will still be unwilling to discover the truth because of his own inner avoidance.

Xu Ye's "grand exit" earlier was like a shot in the arm, directly hitting the hearts of others.

Having witnessed all this with their own eyes, they will naturally question the world, thereby detecting more loopholes and increasing the chance of escaping from the fantasy world.

Whether they can really escape depends on themselves.

Qin Ze's extremely hesitant steps at this moment represent his reluctance for his family and current environment.

If he cannot overcome this, it will be difficult for him to leave the fantasy world.

As for Zhou Li...

Xu Ye's eyes dropped, and there was a little helplessness in his eyes.

In the entire illusion world, Zhou Li was the only person who was not affected by any illusion at all.

He has been able to awaken since he was a child and has no concept of feelings or even his own emotions.

No matter how strong the illusion is, it cannot make a person without emotions and feelings suddenly have emotions.

Because of this, even if he steps into the fantasy world, all hallucinations cannot affect him at all, and his memory can be restored almost instantly.

But Zhou Li did not choose to leave, but instead enjoyed the fantasy world.

In this fantasy world, he will no longer absorb and feel the negative emotions generated by the humans around him as before, and it is rare for him to feel quiet.

Therefore, he did not want to leave, nor did he want to break away. Instead, he wanted to enjoy this rare silence.

His weird behavior also serves as an anchor for Xu to question the authenticity of the world.

He deliberately talked to Zhou Li before, just to confirm this point.

Xu Ye lowered his head and looked at his palm.

The "balloon" that was originally held in his hand was now broken, and the energy lingered around him slightly.

Obviously, the special reward given to him by the academy had already started on its own after he fell into the illusion.

In the illusion, if the endless "balloons" hadn't made him aware of the contradiction in the world, it might have taken some time for him to wake up.

With the help of the balloon's shattering, he realized that he was in a fantasy world.

After confirming with Zhou Li, he stepped onto the rooftop, jumped down, and escaped from the fantasy world.

Xu Ye recalled what he had done in the fantasy world, but suddenly froze, and then frowned.

"No, there is something missing from this memory..."

He tapped his head gently and thought about it carefully.

But in his memory, he always felt that something was missing, or in other words, "someone" was missing.

Somehow, he always felt that he had an extremely important conversation with someone.

But at this moment, he couldn't remember who that person was, nor what the conversation was about.

When he wanted to think carefully, his brain automatically skipped and ignored this part.

But he could always feel the sense of disharmony.

"What happened in the illusion just now?" Xu Ye frowned, threw away the balloon fragments in his hand, but his eyes suddenly froze.

"This is..."

He looked down at the back of his hand.

But he saw that the skin on the back of his hand was cut, and a strange symbol appeared bloody.

In a triangular pattern, there was a circle, embedded between the three corners of the triangle.

He quickly looked at his right hand, and there was some blood on his nails.

Obviously, this symbol was carved by himself.

But he had no impression of it.

"Wait, this symbol..." Xu Ye looked at the symbol on the back of his hand, and his expression immediately became weird.

As a meticulous person, he often calculates the worst-case scenario when making plans, and makes some back-up plans based on this.

Simply put, Xu Ye has a serious "paranoia".

In his spare time, he often thinks about some "extremely low probability" things.

Including but not limited to, what if he is assassinated, what if his memory is affected unconsciously, what if he is infected with a power but cannot detect it...

Although most of the extremely low-probability events, even if they are considered in advance, are difficult to guard against, and can only rely on temporary reactions.

But there are still some plans that can be responded to in advance.

For this reason, Xu Ye designed 26 special marks for himself to remind himself in various situations.

At this moment, the pattern on his palm is one of these 26 special marks.

What it means is——

"I have been infected with a certain power?"