Chapter 741 - 839: Illusion Technique Will Do
As expected, just like Tian Chu Zhenren said, Ye Tianfan was called over by Taichu Zhenren and others in the evening!
"Tianfan, is what you said true?" asked Taichu Zhenren.
"Returning to Sect Leader, of course it's true! I heard the villagers say it with my own ears!" Ye Tianfan replied!
Actually, Ye Tianfan remembered it wrongly. The villagers didn't say it was the anomaly of the nine-headed demon dragon; they just said there was an anomaly. Ye Tianfan had imagined the part about the demon dragon, but considering the situation at the time, Ye Tianfan had just deduced that Tian Chu Zhenren might die, so he automatically thought those villagers had said those things.
"It seems the people from that organization are truly despicable. Their thinking is vicious; if they can't have this world, then no one else can. If they fail, they'll just find a way to destroy it!" Taichu Zhenren said heavily.
Hearing these words, Ye Tianfan was startled in his heart. It seems that Taichu Zhenren's strength allows him to see far; his master only said that the organization wanted to destroy the Taichu Sect, but Taichu Zhenren could see that the organization wanted to destroy the world.
Thinking like this, the organization is even more dangerous. After all, if they aim to destroy the world, that's really not a good thing, because in such cases, they would do things to the extreme.
"Alright, just sit here and listen! You can also say if you have any ideas!" Taichu Zhenren gestured for Ye Tianfan to sit down and then the leaders began the meeting again!
After listening for a while, Ye Tianfan understood what it was about. They were discussing ways to injure that ultimate monster. Because of the rules of omnipresence and reality distortion, there was no way to truly hurt that ultimate monster, so everyone was brainstorming!
Ye Tianfan thought for a while himself and found that it seemed like there was no way to directly attack that ultimate monster.
But if reality-based methods can't harm the ultimate monster, how about using non-reality-based methods, like illusion techniques or spiritual attacks!
However, it seemed that spiritual attacks wouldn't work either, because once spiritual power reaches a certain strength it becomes materialized. So, it seemed that the only option left was to use illusions!
Although Taichu Zhenren was discussing with the others, he would occasionally check on Ye Tianfan to see what he was thinking, and found that at first, Ye Tianfan was in deep thought, but after a while, a look of realization appeared on his face.
Taichu Zhenren's heart moved; could it be that Ye Tianfan has already thought of a way to deal with that ultimate monster?
"Nephew Tianfan, have you thought of any solutions?" Taichu Zhenren asked Ye Tianfan, seeing that Ye Tianfan had a look of understanding, he wanted to hear what plan Ye Tianfan had come up with!
Ye Tianfan was taken aback by Taichu Zhenren's words. What was going on? I just thought of a solution, and he's already asking me. Isn't it supposed to be that none of them can think of a solution, then I say I have a great idea?
But since Taichu Zhenren has pointed him out, Ye Tianfan could only stand up and start explaining his idea!
"Since this ultimate monster has the rule of omnipresence, it means there is no way to effectively harm it with physical attacks. Moreover, with the rule of reality distortion, it also means mental attacks won't work, as those are based on realities. If the monster distorts them slightly, we'll end up getting hurt instead. However, I have a method, and that is to use illusions!" Ye Tianfan spoke up!
"Illusions?" Taichu Zhenren shook his head and then said, "Illusions won't work. We've considered this method. There's nothing wrong with illusions themselves, but we don't have anyone skilled in illusions, and in the world, there is no one skilled in illusions either."
However, immediately sensing that he may have spoken too absolutely, Taichu Zhenren added, "It's not to say there's no one skilled in illusions, but rather, there's no one capable of ensnaring that monster within an illusion. To make the ultimate monster fall into an illusion, the person skilled in illusions would need to be at least in the mid-level of the Ten Directions realm, or have some kind of world-class magical treasure to assist them!"
Upon hearing these requirements, Ye Tianfan was speechless, because he knew illusion-type magical treasures are already rare, and world-class illusionary magical treasures have never even existed in this world!
Now, despite Ye Tianfan's method being viable—after all, illusion attacks are ethereal, have no physical form, and don't exist in reality, making them perfect to counteract the ultimate monster's omnipresence and reality distortion—the plan couldn't be put into action. Just the magical treasure alone was impossible to gather. But even leaving that aside, as long as one's strength reaches the pinnacle of the Ten Directions, one wouldn't need a magical treasure to use illusions to trap the ultimate monster. But the problem is, there currently isn't a cultivator specializing in illusions at the Ten Directions realm. What can we use to confront the ultimate monster!
"It's alright, even though this method isn't practical, we can still consider other possibilities, right?" Taichu Zhenren comforted Ye Tianfan, fearing that with his first suggestion being shot down, Ye Tianfan might hesitate to think further!
But by this point, the other leaders were already quite desperate because from the start until now, nearly a year has passed, and they haven't thought of any good ideas. They've even held meetings with leaders and elders of other sects, but no effective solutions materialized. Still, they meet every day, hoping someone might have a sudden flash of inspiration and think of something!
Then everyone could build on that inspiration and work on perfecting it, hoping to turn that flash of light into something complete!
However, after a whole year, they hadn't thought of a good solution. They've considered every possible idea, even Ye Tianfan's use of illusions, which they thought of at the very beginning, but it was immediately dismissed for the reasons Taichu Zhenren mentioned, as they couldn't meet the conditions, so no one brought it up again!
But because the idea was brought up by Ye Tianfan, they still found him quick-witted because they didn't think of using illusions until a week later and marvel that Ye Tianfan thought of it so quickly!
It's just that illusions are rarely used or encountered, so they subconsciously forgot about the possibility of using them!
