TBOUMTBDK Chapter 63

Chapter 63: Severing Bones, Illusory Heart

Outside the Holy City, Yun Xia was taken by Xiao Tongfu, flying in the void towards Moli Mountain in the southwest.

Moli Mountain wasn’t exactly close to the Holy City. On the way, Yun Xia kept talking to Xiao Tongfu, trying to extract more information. He was also diligently trying to figure out how to send a message in this situation.

He did know a way, thanks to the time he spent reading in the Demon Lord’s study.

The Demon Lord might not have many books on fundamentals, but he had plenty of strange and unusual ones.

And when Yun Xia was being lazy during his cultivation breaks, he liked to find some strange books to read. He had seen in one book how to transmit messages with his Divine Consciousness while his body was being controlled.

Doing this required very precise control. Yun Xia tried all the way, and although he failed many times, he believed that as long as he worked hard, he could do it sooner or later!

His Divine Consciousness was pulled into thin threads, and with each failure, he inevitably felt throbbing pains in his head, but Yun Xia didn’t give up, trying while listening to Xiao Tongfu’s words.

And Xiao Tongfu didn’t seem to be planning on hiding anything from him, saying, “You know quite a bit, hahaha, that’s right. I’m following the instructions of Her Highness Princess Quelan Wu. The stability between the Immortal and Demon realms has lasted too long, like a stagnant pool of water. I’ve been in the Immortal Realm for so many years, and everyone is just cultivating, cultivating, cultivating according to the rules. It’s been like this for thousands of years. It’s really boring. I really like what Her Highness Quelan Wu said: the Three Realms need a reshuffle, to break the millennia-old rules of the Immortal Realm, so that stronger experts can be born out of the chaos, which is much more interesting.”

Yun Xia’s head was buzzing with pain as he listened to him. Hearing this, he couldn’t help but say, “Bullshit! You’re clearly just an antisocial personality. Just say you’re a bad seed. What do you mean, ‘more interesting’ and ‘stronger experts can be born out of the chaos’? Are there no strong experts now? Isn’t the Demon Lord strong? Even if it’s the Immortal Realm you speak of, are there no strong experts? Isn’t Xiao Nanli strong? You’re clearly just selfish and self-interested. You want to become a strong expert yourself, but your talent is limited, and you can’t see the day you’ll break through relying on yourself, so you followed Quelan Wu, taking these crooked paths, harming others to improve yourself!”

Xiao Tongfu was silent for a moment. He stopped, standing on the edge of a cliff, facing the wind, and said:

“You’re right, I do want to become a strong expert, to break through my current limitations, to gain a longer lifespan, to possess a higher Cultivation Base. A man dies for wealth, a bird for food, so what’s wrong with that? That brat Xiao Nanli has so many opportunities, and his talent is indeed good. I watched him grow rapidly from an outer disciple. In just a few decades, he actually surpassed my status and became one of the elders. Do you know how unwilling I was? He’s just a young punk, yet he’s already stepped on my head. If I don’t do something, wouldn’t I be forever and completely trampled under his feet?”

Yun Xia paused his attempts at manipulating his Divine Consciousness, and understood something.

He had been wondering why Xiao Tongfu, a disciple of a Great Elder, would follow Quelan Wu, a Demon King of the Demon Race, to learn how to make Spirit Puppets. The Great Elder himself was easy to understand, he was a ruthless person and one of the biggest villains in this book.

But why would a disciple of a Great Elder with a promising future do such a thing?

It turned out it was because of the Male Lead of this novel, Xiao Nanli.

In many upgrade novels, there are always various people who take the path of the villain because they envy and are jealous of the Male Lead. Xiao Tongfu and Xiao Nanli came from the same place. When Xiao Nanli was still young, Xiao Tongfu was already a highly sought-after inner disciple of the Great Elder of the Immortal Sect. But Xiao Nanli used a very short time to climb up from the bottom, various opportunities falling on him, quickly making him one of the top eight people in the Immortal Realm’s largest Immortal Sect—the eighth Elder.

And of course, Xiao Tongfu’s jealousy couldn’t be contained.

Thinking of this, Yun Xia stopped thinking about these messy things. Many people and events in this world revolved around the Male Lead Xiao Nanli. Even the Demon Lord was created to highlight the Male Lead’s strength.

It was only in the later stages that the Demon Lord’s character became too strong and somewhat beyond the author’s control, so the Demon Lord’s final outcome was to leave alone, disappearing before everyone’s eyes.

But for Yun Xia, these characters were real, and he had to face them now.

He asked, “Senior Brother Xiao, I heard you prepared a formation? Where is it?”

Xiao Tongfu opened his arms and suddenly jumped off the cliff.

“You’re already inside!”

Inside? Already at Moli Mountain?

Through the eyes of Yun Xia’s own body, he could see that Moli Mountain was a continuous mountain forest, with large patches of trees. He could only hear the rustling of the wind blowing through the leaves, but not the sound of any wild beasts.

Unlike Ten Thousand Beasts Valley.

This place seemed… to have no animals? Or was it because of the formation?

Yun Xia was free-falling in the air, hearing his own voice say in an unfamiliar tone, “Telling you is no harm. The formation I prepared for Li Yu is called the Severing Bones, Illusory Heart Formation. You’ve definitely never heard of it. What’s the use of asking? Even Li Yu couldn’t have heard of it.”

Yun Xia: “…”

This… he really hadn’t heard of it. Although he had the memories of the entire book, he didn’t know all the formations and moves in this world. He naturally didn’t know anything that hadn’t appeared in the book.

And it wasn’t in the books he had read.

But Severing Bones, Illusory Heart sounded ominous!

It must be a dangerous formation. He wondered if the Demon Lord had heard of this formation. If the Demon Lord really came, he had to learn how to transmit his consciousness before then!

Yun Xia once again tore at his Divine Consciousness, a “person” in his Sea of Consciousness twisting his face in pain, pulling out the power of his Divine Consciousness into thin threads over and over again.

To avoid being discovered by Xiao Tongfu, they had to be thin enough, but not so thin that they broke. This was extremely difficult.

Yun Xia also had to pretend that he wasn’t doing anything and talk to Xiao Tongfu: “Didn’t you already feed Holy Monarch Li Yu the Demon Nucleus, why do you still need to set up this formation?”

Xiao Tongfu controlled Yun Xia’s body to land steadily on the ground, walking into the woods as he said, “Hahaha, the Demon Nucleus? That’s just one step towards achieving my real goal. Now that things have come to this, Yun Xia, do you still think my goal is to bring you two back to the Immortal Realm?”

Although Yun Xia had guessed that it wasn’t, he still pretended not to know:

“What are you saying? Isn’t it? What do you want to do?”

“Don’t worry, you’ll know sooner or later.”

Xiao Tongfu didn’t say anymore.

Yun Xia was a little anxious, saying, “Then can’t you let me know sooner? Anyway, I can’t escape from here, can I? Let me die knowing what’s going on.”

“Die? No, you won’t die, hahahahahaha.” Xiao Tongfu laughed loudly, stepping into the woods.

The trees on Moli Mountain were very tall, unlike those in Ten Thousand Beasts Valley. Each tree was like a century-old tree. Looking up, they were like huge umbrellas, completely occupying the sky.

Sunlight shone very sparingly through the gaps in the trees, forming beams of light.

Tiny dust particles floated in the beams of light. The trunks of the huge ancient trees were very thick, twisted, and even split into several branches, even closely attached to a large tree next to them, as if two trees had become one larger and thicker tree. It would probably take more than a dozen people to hug these ancient trees.

There was not enough light under the trees, and it was somewhat dim. The surrounding trees were like trees in the Land of Giants, quiet, silent, and very mysterious.

Yun Xia blinked, as if he was seeing a strange landscape. He slowly walked forward, standing under a tree, and he was like a little person in the Land of Little People. The scent of fresh grass and trees filled his nose.

For some reason, he felt a great affection for this place. These huge, twisted, and somewhat strange trees didn’t make him feel scared, but rather very close, so close that he even wanted to live here.

At this time, he heard a voice: “It doesn’t matter, this is your world. Imagine what you want to do. Everything you imagine will become reality. You can do whatever you want, whether it’s objects or people.”

The voice floated down from above. Yun Xia was in a daze, he could do whatever he wanted?

Then he wanted to live here with Esteemed Lord, there were so many big trees, they could make a treehouse, big enough for the two of them to live in. They wouldn’t need to pay attention to external disputes, they wouldn’t need to think about Xiao Nanli, Quelan Wu, or the Great Elder, they wouldn’t need to care about what would happen in the future.

They could quietly enjoy a peaceful and beautiful life here.

As he was thinking, suddenly, the tree in front of him slowly changed its appearance. A very large hole was carved out of thin air on the huge trunk, looking like a room?

Yun Xia’s eyes widened. Was it real?

Could everything he imagined really become reality?

He immediately excitedly grabbed the roots of the giant tree that snaked down to the ground and climbed up, climbing into the recessed space, thinking, there should be a bed here, there should be a window there, there should also be a table and chairs, and a long couch by the window with soft cushions and a thin blanket, so you could lie down here and rest when you were tired.

Ah, it’s a little ugly. Let me think, let’s turn it into Esteemed Lord’s study!

So the room in front of him changed from a bedroom to the look of the study in the Star Demon Pavilion, even the bookshelves were there. Yun Xia directly restored the study one-to-one.

In order to match the style of the big tree, he also slightly changed the appearance of the study, so that the interior arrangement also had a solemn, simple, and nature-friendly look.

At this time, that voice spoke again: “Where is this?”

Yun Xia happily said, “This is Esteemed Lord’s study.”

That voice repeated strangely: “Esteemed Lord? You mean the Demon Lord?”

“Yes,” Yun Xia said affirmatively.

At the same time, his heart skipped a beat.

Demon Lord?

He immediately realized something was wrong. He could actually control his body? And he had suddenly and naturally shuttled through this place, as if he had inhaled a hallucinogen.

When did this start? Where was Xiao Tongfu?

At this time, Yun Xia realized that Xiao Tongfu seemed to have left his body. The voice was coming from above, which meant Xiao Tongfu was up there?

But the distance sounded wrong. His head was now under the ceiling of the room…

Right… the ceiling, he had actually imagined a room?

How could this happen? Why would his thoughts become reality? Was Xiao Tongfu still in his head?

Yun Xia carefully checked again. There was only him in his Sea of Consciousness, just like before, no one else!

At this time, Xiao Tongfu’s voice rang again: “Why is it the Demon Lord’s study? Do you often go in and out of his study?”

Yun Xia opened his mouth and wanted to say no, how could a small Demon Attendant like him often go in and out of Esteemed Lord’s study.

But as soon as he opened his mouth, he uncontrollably said: “Yes, of course I often go in and out of Esteemed Lord’s study.”

Yun Xia: “…”

Damn it, what’s going on!

“Why?”

Yun Xia uncontrollably said: “Because I am the Demon Attendant of the Star Demon Pavilion, I have to go to the Star Demon Pavilion every night to keep watch, and Esteemed Lord’s study is in the Star Demon Pavilion.”

“Oh, I see,” Xiao Tongfu’s voice said faintly.

Yun Xia was covered in cold sweat.

He couldn’t lie! !

Was this the effect of this formation? Could the people inside the formation not control their mouths, and could only tell the truth?

Then what if Xiao Tongfu asked him who Holy Monarch Li Yu was, wouldn’t he say that Holy Monarch Li Yu was the Demon Lord of the Demon Race!

Too, too scary!

If he continued to be asked, his identity would probably be revealed.

Yun Xia tried to speak on his own, leading the topic elsewhere.

Fortunately, if he took the initiative to speak, there were no restrictions. He pretended that he hadn’t noticed anything, and that he hadn’t awakened, still immersed in the somewhat trance-like feeling just now, and said: “Esteemed Lord’s study is so good. If Holy Monarch and I had such a room, that would be great. I didn’t expect it to really come true!”

He paused, turned around and ran out, saying as he ran, “The Demon Lord’s things are the best in the Demon Realm, I…”

He wanted to say that the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen is Esteemed Lord, but he found that he couldn’t say it.

Yun Xia: “…”

Was this a lie? Why couldn’t he say it?

Then he thought that he seemed to have a lot of amazing things in his modern life, so saying this sentence was a lie, and he couldn’t say it?

Could it be like this?

“I really want to pack up all of Esteemed Lord’s things and take them home!”

He immediately changed his statement.

Just thinking about it, how normal!

Afterward, Yun Xia heard that voice chuckle: “Sure enough, even Yun Xia, you are a greedy person. In this Severing Bones, Illusory Heart Formation, no one can fake it.”

After that, Yun Xia found that he seemed to be split into two people, one calmly measuring in the Sea of Consciousness, and one joyfully constructing his wooden house.

He didn’t know why he could do this, but it might be because the Demon Lord triggered his alertness, which was a secret that Yun Xia could absolutely not reveal.

On the other hand, he had been tearing at his Divine Consciousness, practicing non-stop, and the continuous pain of the torn Divine Consciousness made him more sensitive.

In fact, a person’s Divine Consciousness has no specific shape. You can make your Divine Consciousness look like anything.

But if you want to send a message out when your body is occupied, you need to inject enough power of Divine Consciousness into a very thin thread of Divine Consciousness.

This was very difficult.

It’s like hanging a heavy object with a thin thread. If you’re not careful, the thread will be broken.

The pain caused by this is also very strong.

Fortunately, this pain helped him instead, allowing him to split himself in two.

After a while, Yun Xia simply decorated this place into the appearance of his ideal wooden house according to his own wishes.

Xiao Tongfu looked at this place and was rarely silent.

Because Yun Xia turned this place into a huge wooden house garden.

Yun Xia completely let go. Since he said that everything he imagined could become reality, then he would let himself go. As someone who had lived in the 21st century, his imagination, or rather his knowledge, was incomparable to the people here in some ways.

A mushroom house about the size of a person lying down, the mushroom house was full of soft cotton, and it would be very comfortable to nestle in for a nap.

A petal as tall as a person, the middle of the pistil can flow out sweet honey.

A huge, extremely long swing tied down from a tree trunk more than ten meters high, sitting on it was like an amusement facility in an amusement park, which could swing out very high and was very exciting.

This was Yun Xia’s dream when he was a child, but he didn’t expect it to be realized here.

There were also all kinds of rooms, all made by digging holes from the belly of giant trees, inspired by what he had seen and heard in the Holy City.

There were also many places where flowers grew, not only on the grass, but even on tree trunks where there was nothing. Small animals such as bunnies and agile deer not only moved on the ground, but also jumped onto the branches of the trees and shuttled on them.

Yun Xia turned this place into a fairy tale.

Xiao Tongfu watched and said in a low voice: “You do have a so-called childlike innocence. I haven’t seen it for many years. That was still… many years ago.”

Yun Xia was worried about how to speak. Now that he heard his voice, he raised his head, with a dazed smile on his face, and said: “I really like this place so much, if I can…”

Uh, he couldn’t say it again, he wanted to say how great it would be if he could live here forever, of course, this was just a casual remark, but he couldn’t say it now.

“It would be better if there were other people.”

Xiao Tongfu said in a low voice: “Severing Bones, Illusory Heart, enter and never retreat. One person becomes a dry bone, two people share joy.”

Yun Xia paused. Before he could figure out anything, he heard Xiao Tongfu say: “I said, the people and things you want will appear. If the person you imagine and the person who actually walks in are the same person, then that will…”

The sound stopped abruptly.

Yun Xia asked: “Then what will happen?”

Xiao Tongfu’s voice was a little frustrated: “That will be of great help to my plan.”

Yun Xia was thoughtful. It seemed that Xiao Tongfu would also be affected by the formation. He couldn’t tell lies either. Could he also get something out of him?

But he couldn’t expose himself.

“Hmph, so what if you know? He’s already here, hahahaha Holy Monarch Li Yu, he really came!!!”

Yun Xia was shocked, Esteemed Lord was here? He really came!

But Xiao Tongfu’s sentence “two people share joy” made him a little uneasy.

Joy?

It wouldn’t be that kind of joy, would it…

What kind of broken formation was this! Did it like to watch people do that kind of thing?

Yun Xia thought for a while and decided to ask Xiao Tongfu. Anyway, Xiao Tongfu couldn’t lie. At most, he would be suspicious, but it was just a question from him, so he shouldn’t suspect too much.

So he asked: “Senior Brother Xiao, what did you mean by ‘two people share joy’ before? Did you mean that I will share joy with Holy Monarch Li Yu? Why is it joy?”

Xiao Tongfu really said: “Of course it’s joy. This kind of thing can stimulate people’s deepest desires. People, whether they are Immortal Cultivators or Demon Cultivators, can’t escape the word ‘love’. Only those who can break away from this word can achieve great things. Although I am very unhappy, Xiao Nanli never falls into these love affairs. I hate him very, very much, but I have to admit that he has something on him.”

Yun Xia felt strange. Why did this sound a bit resentful?

Could it be that Xiao Tongfu once had someone he liked, and then the person he liked didn’t like him, but instead confessed to Xiao Nanli and was rejected by Xiao Nanli?

Xiao Tongfu blurted out: “How do you know?”

Yun Xia: “…” It turned out that he had just accidentally said his thoughts.

“Oh, this kind of plot is normal, it’s all in the books, it’s all the same routine.”

Yun Xia could only answer truthfully.

“What books? Where did you read the books?” Xiao Tongfu asked.

Yun Xia: “Of course, I saw the books from my world. This kind of routine has been overused. I have already guessed your situation. It’s just that the author sets it up to create the Male Lead’s charisma, to make the Male Lead handsome, so many people like him, but he doesn’t like any of them, and he keeps rejecting all kinds of beauties, and there is always some supporting character who likes beauties who gets angry because of this, and then goes to trouble the Male Lead. As a result, of course, he gets slapped in the face. You are the character who gets slapped in the face.”

Yun Xia: “…”

Xiao Tongfu: “…”

Yun Xia collapsed, what the hell! ! Why did he say all this! ! It was too scary, he couldn’t control himself at all. As long as the other party asked, he had no way to stop his mouth!

Xiao Tongfu heard it a little muddled. Although he didn’t completely understand it, he still understood roughly that Yun Xia meant that Xiao Nanli was the so-called Male Lead, and he was a supporting character?

In real life, not many people are willing to admit that they are supporting characters, cannon fodder who serve as a foil to the protagonist, let alone Xiao Tongfu.

Just as he was about to speak, someone’s footsteps slowly approached.

Yun Xia was stunned and looked back. It was Holy Monarch Li Yu!

After Holy Monarch Li Yu walked in, he looked at this place with surprise, then smiled warmly at Yun Xia and said, “This place is so beautiful. Is this your handiwork?”

Yun Xia stared at his face, thinking, fortunately, it’s the face of Holy Monarch Li Yu. He was worried that this formation would break the Demon Lord’s disguise and make him appear in his original appearance as soon as he came in!

He didn’t know how the Demon Lord did it. Was it because Yun Xia himself had just deliberately imagined the face of Holy Monarch Li Yu instead of the Demon Lord’s face?

Moreover, not only him, but even Xiao Tongfu imagined him as Holy Monarch Li Yu, so this result was created?

Then he heard Xiao Tongfu ask him: “Yun Xia, who is he?”

The alarm bells rang in Yun Xia’s heart. Damn it, he really asked this question. How should he answer without revealing the Demon Lord’s identity! ! !

Fortunately, Yun Xia used to have to act like an actor in the Demon Palace, so he controlled his expression. While walking towards the Demon Lord, he answered Xiao Tongfu’s question: “He is the person I like the most!”

Then he heard Xiao Tongfu ask the Demon Lord: “Li Yu, who is he?”

In the Severing Bones, Illusory Heart Formation, you can’t tell lies, but you can take advantage of some loopholes, just like Yun Xia just did. Xiao Tongfu asked who he was, not his identity, so he could answer that way.

The Esteemed Lord had just come in and had no idea that he had fallen into the formation, let alone the mystery of this formation.

Yun Xia was a little nervous, but it shouldn’t be a problem. The Demon Lord heard their answers just now. As long as he replied similarly, he should…

But Yun Xia thought of something and frowned slightly. Esteemed Lord, he… probably wouldn’t say “He is also the person I like the most”, because…

Even if he knew, Yun Xia still had fantasies, and the gentle and considerate man in front of him appeared in his mind. Maybe, he liked him a little bit.

The Demon Lord said: “He is Yun Xia, an undercover agent from the Immortal Realm.”

Then he paused and continued: “I knew it a long time ago.”

Yun Xia’s heart was empty.

Sure enough.

Xiao Tongfu then asked: “You knew he was an undercover agent from the Immortal Realm a long time ago, and you still kept him?”

The Demon Lord didn’t look for the source of the voice at all, but still looked at Yun Xia, smiled slightly: “That’s not important.”

“Why?”

Yun Xia was afraid that the Demon Lord would answer “Because I am the Demon Lord.”

Then he heard the Demon Lord smile and answer: “He is quite interesting, and I like him quite a bit, which is even more important.”

Even if the other party was an undercover agent, he could still like him and keep him? This is what someone who is very confident in himself would do.

Xiao Tongfu instinctively didn’t like his flamboyant confidence and domineering.

He sneered: “Then I hope you can be loving and enjoy yourself to the fullest later. In the end, I’m waiting for you to still be able to laugh like this, hahahahaha.”

Thinking of the final outcome of these two people, Xiao Tongfu couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

“Even a Demon King level person can’t get out of this formation unscathed, let alone a small Demon Attendant and a Immortal Race orphan hiding in the Demon Realm?”

When Yun Xia heard this question, his eyes widened, and he opened his mouth to say: “This is not a Demon King level person, but the Demon Lord!”

They can only answer questions, and Yun Xia can’t control his mouth!

At that moment, he even thought that it might be good to let the other party know the Demon Lord’s identity, at least it could make the other party leave on his own?

But Yun Xia couldn’t guarantee what Xiao Tongfu would do, and he might do something even crazier.

Just as he said the first word, the Holy Monarch Li Yu on the opposite side suddenly stepped forward and covered Yun Xia’s mouth with his lips.

Yun Xia’s eyes widened, and the person’s soft lips swallowed every word behind him. Lips met, leaving only slight ambiguous sounds.

Xiao Tongfu didn’t realize what Yun Xia wanted to say. He only thought that Li Yu was finally driven by his inner desires and was about to have sex with Yun Xia.

He smiled sinisterly and stopped talking.