Chapter 395: Chapter 331: No Need to Prove to Anyone!
Tian Chunyan was unaware that the Zhuang Ying before her could clearly see and understand her innermost thoughts.
One of Zhuang Ying’s abilities was, in fact, peeping into the heart.
It even included emotions.
Thus, Zhuang Ying was completely certain that the person before him had no awareness and had always been living in a lie meticulously crafted by the “higher-ups.”
He was even very firm in this belief.
Zhuang Ying suddenly lost the desire to probe any further.
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Facing such a pitiful person, such tests no longer held much meaning.
Yes, indeed, a pitiful person.
“Do you really understand the city beneath your feet, the country you serve, and those people you loyally follow?” Zhuang Ying slowly approached her, revealing a pair of pitch-black eyes.
Seeing this caused a slight tremor in Tian Chunyan’s heart.
The intelligent beings of this world closely resembled humans in appearance, which was consistent with the overall trend among intelligent species in the trials.
Even more so, the higher the level, the more they resembled humans.
But there were always differences.
Primarily, the differences lay in the eyes and hair color.
The eyes and hair of the humans of this world carried a wine-red hue, very close to the Chi Yan power they cultivated, but their facial features more closely matched those of the Eastern People – In Tian Chunyan’s life, she had never seen such dark pupils, except on a few weird beings!
However, now was not the time to think about that.
“What if I told you that everything you know is just a lie?” Zhuang Ying pressed closer, and in the next moment, Tian Chunyan, in a trance, saw reflection after reflection in those black pupils.
She saw the Marshal she admired, motionless before the Blood Mouth Giant, merely allowing the giant to devour one warrior after another!
And numerous “big shots” in luxurious clothing, forcing out the truth amidst their groggy state!
Among them were even people Tian Chunyan knew, including the real controllers of the city!
She shuddered violently, retreating continuously, even trembling.
Finally, she shouted:
“What kind of demon are you, to confuse my mind like this!”
Her long sword slashed fiercely towards Zhuang Ying!
This was no longer a mere probe; this strike was a genuine killing move!
How could everything she had seen and believed in over the past twenty or more years be so easily overturned?
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However, facing a full-powered strike from a Third-tier Expert, powerful enough to split mountains and sever rivers, Zhuang Ying merely extended two fingers lightly, dissipating all of the power, even the astonishing momentum of the sword, completely.
It even made Tian Chunyan wonder if she had been in an illusion all along.
All of this was false.
That’s why the initial probe had no effect.
“Wake up!” She retreated sharply and bit her tongue hard, igniting her body’s Chi Yan to its extreme!
However, it still had no effect.
Sweat poured out profusely.
“Your heart is wavering,” Zhuang Ying said softly, his gaze still fixed intently on her, as if seeing through everything in her heart, his tone even carrying a hint of a sigh, “False is ultimately false, no matter how well it’s disguised, it can’t become real. You’re not completely without doubt, are you? Too many things have already revealed everything.”
“Stop confusing my mind!” Tian Chunyan shouted, but the cold sweat breaking out betrayed her inner turmoil.
That’s right, the seeds of doubt had already been planted.
Especially when she was chosen as the Young Madam, many seemed to already treat her as one of their own, no longer disguising their intentions as stringently as before.
Including the Marshal.
His looks, his words, his actions…
Thinking back now, everything seemed to carry a hint.
Even recalling past colleagues who had the fortune to enter the Inner City, without exception, all had changed.
Comrades who had once fought by her side refused to leave the city to help, no matter how she pleaded.
She had thought it was a rule of the Inner City, but now recalling those numb, even despairing and pitiful looks, Tian Chunyan’s heart couldn’t help but tremble.
Is it all fake?
The years of arduous cultivation, the battles fought by hundreds of thousands, all were fake?
Just to make them “tastier”?
Was the Dynasty just a puppet of the weird demons, a “Cultivator”?
Tian Chunyan was indeed close to collapse!
If all of this was true, the Dynasty’s thousand-year resistance, the sacrifices of countless people, were they all just ridiculous lies? Where was the hope then? Even if she reached the pinnacle and became a so-called “Great Power,” what use was it?
She couldn’t see a hint of hope!
But at this moment, Zhuang Ying took a big step forward, his deep voice thundering in Tian Chunyan’s mind like a clap of thunder.
“Your Dynasty may be fake, but we, we are real!”
This voice, carrying a strange power, managed to swiftly calm Tian Chunyan’s nearly collapsing heart.
But precisely because of this, as she marveled at this immense power, she also became extremely calm.
Looking at this powerful being who had suddenly appeared before her, after a long while, she gritted her teeth and said firmly: “How can I believe everything you have said, and how can I believe that your ‘we’ can bring hope amidst the despair you speak of?!”