Chapter 896: Chapter 146 Illusion
The red-eyed frog-like sea beast finally neared, its dull solitary eye catching sight of the piercing elephant sea beast.
The two controlled sea beasts faced each other head-on.
With a long bellow, the piercing elephant sea beast charged directly, colliding wildly.
The difference between sea beasts and the Sea Clan is like that between wild animals and humans. They are fundamentally different.
Before the Sea Clan entered the Cang Sea, it was the sea beasts that were the masters there.
Contrary to what some people claimed, that sea beasts could transform into human form and advance into the Sea Clan after a certain level of cultivation, the two were not the same group at all. In the end, such statements were merely a deliberate attempt to stigmatize the Sea Clan.
If Jiang Wang had entered the Lost World using the normal channels, these basic pieces of information would have been informed to him beforehand.
However, he had been demoted to the Lost World to cleanse his sins, on short notice, and clearly, Chongguang Zhenren wasn’t in the mood to waste time explaining things to him.
What was he lacking compared to Granny Bizhu? Was it only a pointer to guide him?
This was why, upon arriving in the Lost World, he didn’t recklessly act but chose to stop first and familiarize himself with the environment.
Sea beasts without awakened spiritual intelligence were like that, devoid of thought, driven only by instinct. When hungry, they sought food; when frightened, they fled.
The piercing elephant moved its sturdy legs, rolling over everything like a small hill.
The red-eyed frog remained motionless, and standing atop its head, Granny Bizhu simply flicked her finger. A crimson fish shot out like lightning, tracing a nimble arc, and accurately burrowed into the long trunk of the piercing elephant!
Just like the red-eyed frog before it, the piercing elephant beast collapsed with a loud thud.
Now, through the Red Mirror, Jiang Wang actually saw the appearance of the crimson fish clearly: fine scales, sharp teeth, long tail, extremely fast, and incredibly ferocious.
Jiang Wang lay in ambush motionless, maintaining the utmost patience,
but the thirty-seven sea beasts he was controlling had already formed an encirclement, putting their strength together to accelerate towards the ambush point.
Given their generally enormous size, the sea beasts’ approach from all directions naturally created a terrifying pressure.
However, Granny Bizhu merely lifted her eyelids, ignoring the sea beasts and instead turned her gaze toward the large rock where Jiang Wang was hiding. In her left eye, a vortex was spinning, clearly having discovered Jiang Wang!
"Who would have thought you were also ambushing me!"
In her voice, as opposed to surprise, there was more of a delighted tone.
No. In fact, her words were a ruse; she wasn’t surprised at all. From the earlier encounter with the red-eyed frog, she had noticed something was amiss and realized that Jiang Wang was countering her ambush!
And she had played along the entire way here, just going with the flow, turning the tables on him.
She had enough confidence to fight Jiang Wang, so she entered the game without hesitation.
At that moment, all the sea beasts controlled by Jiang Wang stalled on the spot, motionless.
The Soul Stealth Snakes residing within the bodies of the sea beasts were all trapped inside a bubble, unable to move.
And even before Granny Bizhu’s words had ended, she had already pounced out, heading straight for the large rock.
She had long seen through the way he controlled the sea beasts and knew she would be encircled, so she was prepared! The vortex in her left eye was definitely her hidden technique, which must have an effect similar to Li Longchuan’s Candle Micro Divine Skills... Clutching the Red Mirror, Jiang Wang thought rapidly while calmly triggering his methods.
Bang!
The piercing elephant sea beast, now controlled by Granny Bizhu’s crimson fish, violently exploded just as she flew over it!
Flesh and blood splattered in all directions.
A golden Dao Talisman burst open, with dense golden light arrows crazily shooting toward Granny Bizhu.
Golden Arrow Talisman!
A turquoise-colored talisman burned by itself without wind.
Water Banishing Talisman!
Expelling all Water Element within a three-mile radius.
A yellow talisman was torn in half by an invisible force.
Mountain-Bearing Talisman!
Making one heavy, as if carrying a mountain!
Jiang Wang had initially chosen to hide within the ear of the Sea Beast precisely because of its exceptionally large size and thick hide, which made for an excellent cover.
It was only later, realizing Granny Bizhu’s astonishing beast-controlling skills and fearing detection and counteraction, that he decided to hide atop a large boulder instead.
His **Soul Stealth Snake** was trapped by Granny Bizhu, but it didn’t affect his ability to ignite the Dao Talismans hidden inside the Sea Beast’s body.
Facing such a sudden Dao Talisman assault, Granny Bizhu was composed. With a tap of her dragon-headed cane, invisible ripples spread out, a sign that she was scanning for any potential follow-up attacks.
In her left hand, she held up a small water jug, which, upon a slight tilt, released a forceful torrent in an instant!
It was as if she carried rivers and lakes with her!
Aided by the fierce torrent, brightly colored fish interwove as they scrambled towards the large boulder where Jiang Wang was hidden.
Distant starlight swayed down onto her hunched figure. She suddenly stood upright, her old age unchanged, but seemingly endowed with boundless strength, striding forward as if shouldering mountains!
As she advanced, with just a couple of casual swings of her dragon-headed cane, the turbulent waters danced around her, blocking all the golden arrows.
The attack of the Sea Beasts failed, and the arrangements on the Sea Beast’s body failed. The hard-won initiative seemed to have no effect.
Granny Bizhu’s brightly colored fish had already reached the boulder.
Jiang Wang took a large stride forward and brought his palm down firmly, in which a terrifying purple Dao Talisman resonated with a whoosh, "Take this, my **’Forbidden Nine Heavens Thunderstrike Talisman’**!"
Boom boom boom!
Terrifying power descended.
Above the vault of heaven, a giant serpent-like dark purple thunder surged, diving towards Granny Bizhu with a world-destroying demeanor.
At first glance, the power of this Dao Talisman appeared to be at the **God-approaching level**.
Yet Granny Bizhu didn’t even glance at it, waving her dragon-headed staff dismissively, "Child’s play!"
With a rush of waves, the dreadful thunder easily dissipated—it was nothing but an illusion created by the Mirage Pearl.
The old woman’s left eye’s vortex spun faster, and she directly overlooked the "Jiang Wang" in front of her, shifting her gaze to another part of the boulder. She had clearly seen through the illusions of the Mirage Pearl.
The brightly colored fish accompanying the torrent also rushed towards where she was looking.
About a hundred fish of various colors, each trailing a long waterline like thrown daggers, plunged down one after another.
Granny Bizhu’s illusionary skills were astonishing. Not only could she easily see through the Mirage Pearl, renowned for dominating islands, but as she stepped through the air and deployed numerous tacticts to effortlessly handle the ambush, the illusions she posed before people showed no flaws.
Had it not been for Jiang Wang seeing her true form hidden behind the illusions through the Red Mirror, he might have made a grave misjudgment.
As the sky filled with plunging fish, a steadfast and handsome young man drew his sword and leapt out, against the current of the fish.
His sword descended like a setting sun, fiercely ferocious and resolute.
Granny Bizhu horizontally positioned her dragon-headed staff, ready to confront him, but then suddenly turned her head.
She felt the fluctuations of **Path Origin**!
Out of thin air, two pitch-black chains slithered like spirit snakes, crisscrossing and binding her body.
The **Legalists’ secret technique, Body-Binding Chain**!
The Jiang Wang wielding the sword turned out to be another illusion, one that not even her eyes could see through!
Granny Bizhu saw through the Mirage Pearl but failed to see through the Red Mirror.
Relying on the illusions of the Red Mirror to regain the advantage, Jiang Wang burst through the stone tiles concealing his body. As he moved at high speed, his **Hidden clothes** could no longer mask his form.
But he no longer needed to hide!
With a tug of his left hand, the **Body-Binding Chain** suddenly accelerated its grip, and with his right hand brandishing the sword, the sword’s light was sharp and unreservedly aggressive, full of youthful arrogance!
His chains and his sword both surged towards Granny Bizhu’s illusion, as if he had not seen through her true self.
However, a rope dimly glowing with radiance, like a venomous snake, quietly slithered toward the water droplet.
The **Body-Binding Rope**, obtained from Hai Zongming.
Renowned as "touch and be bound"!
