Chapter 305: Mirage

Time keeps passing.

The Taoxian Festival is getting more and more lively, and the fighting conference is also being held.

128 to 64, 64 to 32... Day after day of fighting, providing fun and topics for the soul cultivators in the city.

A group of cultivators speculated who would eventually win the beauty and become the son-in-law of Taoxian Mansion, and even opened a handicap for everyone to bet.

However, under this prosperity, some discordant voices quietly spread among the crowd.

For example, a rumor about an invisible killer spread like wildfire.

…

At noon a few days later.

Gu Xia came to a teahouse to satisfy his craving, but there were no private rooms, so he could only sit in the lobby on the first floor.

He found a table by the side and sat down, and ordered a table of delicacies and a pot of good tea.

Gu Xia enjoyed it alone.

As many Xuan cultivators become more and more powerful, their material desires are weakened, but they always keep one of their hobbies.

Gu Xia's hobby is the six tastes of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty and fresh on the tip of the tongue.

(Hey, no need to remind me, I know spicy is not a taste.)

There are many soul cultivators eating in the hall on the first floor. In order to avoid conflicts, everyone tacitly does not open the soul force field.

If the soul cultivator does not open the soul force field, the five senses of the body are only slightly stronger than those of ordinary people. Gu Xia, a warrior who has entered the internal organs, has five senses far superior to ordinary people even if his Xuan Qi is sealed.

So, the soul cultivators in the hall don’t know that Gu Xia can actually hear their chat.

“Hey!! I saw the guy in the corner this morning!”

“Well, who is he?”

“He is a Taoist master. At the fighting meeting today, he used the five elements of Taoism to perfection!

He can perform Taoism easily, unlike us who have to make seals and chant spells for a while.

This guy’s opponent used a stack of talismans, but he couldn’t beat his Taoism.”

“Wow! He is really a master.”

The two were talking about a match between 64 and 32 in the Taoyuan Fighting Meeting this morning.

Gu Xia defeated Qian Duo, who defeated his opponent in the first round with a large number of talismans, with his Taoism.

He didn't think anything of it, but it was still quite impressive for the audience.

Most of the top 64 contestants in the magic competition were masters of magic weapons and talismans, and only two or three people could break into the top 32 with just their Taoist magic.

Gu Xia continued to eat.

The conversation on the other side caught his attention again.

"Hey, be careful when you go out recently!"

"Why?"

"Three more died last night!"

"So, the invisible killer really exists?"

"Of course! My cousin's cousin is a Wu Lingwei, and he knows all the true news. He said that the killer kills people almost every night.

For this reason, the number of Wu Lingwei patrolling at night has almost doubled!"

"But I heard from others that the disappearance of those people was actually a conspiracy of the Wu Lingwei. Is that true?"

"How is it possible..."

Hearing this, Gu Xia picked up a cup of hot tea and drank it all.

I thought to myself: "The density of Wulingwei at night has obviously increased a lot recently. I'd better stop hunting for the time being."

Now Gu Xia's soul power has reached more than 700, and the computing power of Xingchen has increased by about 40% compared to before he came to Taoyuan City.

The reason why it can grow so fast is that Gu Xia has gathered the power of nearly 20 night wandering Taoist friends to help him practice in the past 10 days.

Gu Xia has proved with facts that everyone's power is strong and outstanding.

And because he only cuts souls and does not make any other contact, the Wulingwei can't find any useful clues at all, so they can only increase the number of people to patrol.

However, this method is indeed effective. After all, the model of Xingchen is just a simulation, not real-time positioning. Too many people may really block Gu Xia.

So, he decided to take a few days off and observe the situation.

Not long after lunch.

Gu Xia came to the Taoism Hall of Taoxian Mansion. This place has the same function as the martial arts hall of Xuanwu Sect, where monks practice Taoism, talismans or magic tools.

Gu Xia came here because he would be invited to drink tea by the Wuling Guards if he practiced Taoism and magic weapons casually in the city.

After paying 50 taels of gold, he rented a venue.

Although this price is nothing for high-level Xuan Xiu, it is also a bit outrageous.

In the past few days, Xingchen concentrated all its computing power to analyze the Xuanneng data obtained from the Secret Realm Challenge Day and Night. It lived up to Gu Xia's expectations and really stole the Taoist magic in the Secret Realm.

Unfortunately, what Xingchen stole was not the injury-bearing substitute he wanted most, but the illusion-making technique.

If there is enough data, Xingchen can also create an illusion with some of the strength of the main body like the Secret Realm.

But the secret space of Taoyuan City was created by an innate master, and the large number of spells and arrays in it can collect enough data to create illusions when the target is only fighting.

Gu Xia does not have this kind of magical power, so the illusion that Xingchen can create is only Gu Xia's own illusion.

Of course, this illusion that is almost like a clone is also very useful in combat, so Gu Xia was very happy and came here to try it out without stopping.

He took out an object from the ring.

It was a brass mirror, which was the third-grade magic weapon Mirage Mirror obtained from the Blood Evil Village a few years ago.

Although this mirror is a third-grade magic weapon, it is quite useless to use.

It can only create illusions and illusions without actual lethality, and it must be supported by the target's flesh, blood, hair, etc.

Gu Xia has always brought it with him because Xianfu City is a warrior city and magic weapons are not easy to use.

However, not long ago, during the trip to Qiyun City, the Mirage Mirror absorbed some strange white mist.

According to his colleagues, Gu Xia guessed that the white mist was the residual mirage after the giant blood demon mirage tower generated by the people of Qiyun City was blown up.

In short, after absorbing the mirage, the mirage mirror changed.

Its illusion-making ability no longer needs to be used, and with possession, it can create illusions that are more difficult to break.

Before, Gu Xia and Yu Chang of Xiaoyao Gate looked at each other from a distance, and took advantage of her being too far away and not being prepared for soul magic, and used the mirage mirror to create an illusion of a sea of ​​blood and corpses for her in an instant.

And the changes of the mirage mirror are more than that, it has an additional effect, which is to summon a small mirage demon that is more than ten feet tall.

Its strength is only at the level of an ordinary warrior entering the internal organs, very weak, but like the giant mirage tower, it can be reborn quickly.

As long as Gu Xia's soul power is not exhausted, the mirage tower is immortal, and it is very suitable to be used as a minion soldier.

And now, the mirage tower has a new use.

The creation of the secret realm illusion requires a spiritual entity to record the spell.

Xingchen has scanned it and found that the main bodies of the illusions in the Taoyuan Secret Realm are all peach wood, and the main body of the nine-layer illusion is a puppet made of a small piece of hundred-year-old peach wood.

Peach wood is naturally spiritual, and hundred-year-old peach wood is an excellent material for making magic tools, but it is expensive, and it is also a bit troublesome to prepare puppets.

Gu Xia thought that since he had to use a spiritual object to make a puppet anyway, he might as well use the mirage tower as a support and record the spell on its surface.

This way, there is no need to worry about the puppet being damaged.

The only drawback is that the mirage tower is essentially a group of constantly flowing mysterious energy mirage. If you want to keep the spell from collapsing on it, you need to use soul power to make constant fine adjustments.

If ordinary people do this, if they lose their concentration, the illusion will collapse, and they will consume a lot of soul power, not to mention commanding the illusion to fight.

However, there are solutions for both of these for Gu Xia. First, his soul power is stronger than that of ordinary soul cultivators, so he can consume it. The second star can perform precise and tedious ritual maintenance on his behalf.

"Let's try the effect!"

Gu Xia's soul power drove, and a group of mirages overflowed from the mirage mirror, forming a gatehouse-like humanoid demon puppet more than ten feet tall.

"Xingchen executes the illusion generation plan."

"Yes!"

Then the mirage tower turned into a white gas again, and then slowly condensed and reorganized into a seven-foot-tall human figure.

After a while, the mirage gathered like an ordinary person, and the figure looked very similar to Gu Xia, but without a face.

Seeing this, Gu Xia knew it was done.