Clan Cultivation: I Transmigrated With My Smartphone Chapter 955 716: Reincarnated Supreme Expert (Part 2)

This formation is known as the Heaven-Deceiving Array.

When activated, the Heaven-Deceiving Array muddles heavenly secrets even further, enabling evasion from pursuits by certain cultivators to some degree.

Cultivation on the immortal path demands self-strengthening and perpetual growth. Far from peaceful leisure, it brims with schemes, plots, savage clashes, lurking perils, and sudden death from mishaps anytime.

Low-realm cultivators often clash to the death for meager resources; close allies betray one another for a single Foundation Establishment Pill.

At the Purple Mansion realm, one endlessly harvests gains from those below.

In advanced stages, monopolizing resources becomes key, along with crushing rivals and blocking their rise.

Along the immortal path, heavenly tribulations hold no terror, life calamities can be sidestepped, but human tribulations prove hardest to overcome.

Especially in Tribulation Transcendence Realm, foes strike fiercely during each tribulation to sabotage breakthroughs and devour the weakened cultivator.

Activating the Heaven-Deceiving Array warps outside perceptions somewhat, marginally raising chances of surviving a tribulation.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Suddenly, the void thundered violently as boundless lightning tribulations crashed down.

The green lotus unleashed its power, morphing into a streak of light surging upward.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Lightning bolts erupted, smashing repeatedly into the green lotus, each annihilating the other.

As auras clashed wildly, myriad worldly laws cascaded, got scrutinized, grasped, and forged into one's own insights.

After endless moments, the tribulation vanished, propelling the green lotus into Tribulation Transcendence's second stage.

...

Deep in the cave abode, mana surged between the pair, profound secrets flowing back and forth.

After some indeterminate time, Lu Xuanji's eyes snapped open.

Ning Xue waited close by, smiling as she asked, "Master, how do you feel?"

Lu Xuanji replied, "Still a little short!"

Ning Xue let out a sigh, saying, "Normally, a small shortfall means nothing, but in battle, it's a huge gap."

Lu Xuanji fell quiet, unsure how to respond.

Ning Xue's body aligned perfectly with his, marking her as a destined Dao companion.

Their latest dual cultivation yielded major advances for him, yet insight into deeper mysteries remained insufficient.

Suddenly sensing a shift, Lu Xuanji blurred into motion, exiting the grotto-heaven. Ning Xue trailed right after, both arriving in the outer void to behold a shocking sight: immense heavenly tribulation descending.

Lightning raged wildly; amid infinite thunder, the green lotus shimmered while demonic qi billowed upward.

After what felt like ages, the tribulation cleared, revealing a woman at last.

"Congratulations on attaining Tribulation Transcendence's second stage!"

Lu Xuanji advanced and offered.

"Husband, have you not seized that opportunity yet?" the green lotus inquired.

Lu Xuanji nodded, replying, "Still lacking that spark... I sense my heart's too turbulent, shedding my serenity and poise, hindering Dao comprehension. I'll pause cultivation for now to cherish time with you all."

"Priceless treasures are easy to seek, but kindred spirits are hard to find; the future is unpredictable, treasure those who are present!"

Saying this, he moved ahead, clasping Ning Xue's hand left and the green lotus's right.

Ning Xue flushed red, gazing at him without pulling away.

The green lotus twitched instinctively to resist, but sighed deep inside upon meeting his resolute eyes.

Lu Xuanji continued, "Xi'Er, who can predict tomorrow? Will you help me locate Ye Wanyi..."

Requesting one woman to track another smacked of roguery.

Yet he voiced it anyway.

Long ago, Ye Wanyi failed Divinity Transformation and perished outright, etching eternal sorrow in his heart.

Through the years, ceaseless divinations hunted Ye Wanyi's reincarnation, yielding naught.

He chalked it up to his cultivation's inadequacy for such calculations.

Jin Xi heard him out, brow furrowing faintly, yet responded, "Mortals perish utterly upon death; dust returns to dust, earth to earth—no reincarnation exists. Only Nascent Soul powerhouses, souls mighty enough, might gain Heavenly Dao's safeguard for rebirth after falling, to live anew!"

"Ye Wanyi fell at Nascent Soul's pinnacle; reincarnation should await her..."

"Any belongings of hers...?"

Lu Xuanji affirmed, "Yes!"

He then passed an incense bag holding Ye Wanyi's long hair.

The proverb mentions husband and wife united, at the marriage moment when their long hairs get tied together and kept in an incense bag for remembrance.

Jin Xi accepted the incense bag, grasped the hair within it, unleashed her primordial spirit, and started divining specific matters.

With the long hair serving as the cause, she traced the hidden connections to divine the unknown results. Yet, as her divination progressed, her brows furrowed lightly, and Jin Xi spoke, "I can't calculate it. My calculations show that after Ye Wanyi's fall, no reincarnation occurred; she simply vanished, as though she never existed, dissolving into the void."

"When I attempted to press further, I discovered that certain traces had been wiped away!"

Lu Xuanji questioned, "Why is that?"

Jin Xi explained, "Two possibilities exist. First, a supreme powerhouse has concealed the cause and effect directly, blocking me from gaining any details on her; second, Ye Wanyi herself was a clone from a supreme powerhouse, sent into the myriad worlds to live diverse existences. Once the clone perished, it got reclaimed."

"Ancient Daoist texts describe a secret art known as Dream Dao, where a supreme powerhouse dreams, spawning ten thousand clones inside to enact countless lives and grasp the boundless facets of human existence."

"Ye Wanyi might have been among those ten thousand clones, merely a fragment of another's journey. When the dream concludes, all persists unchanged, and none regard the dream's contents as authentic life!"

Lu Xuanji creased his brow and uttered, "How could that be?"

Jin Xi replied, "Nothing's impossible! Often, we believe we know ourselves fully, yet we truly don't. We assume our lives are genuine, but we could be mere code, nothing but data."

"Why else, with your late-stage Harmonization power, can't you divine a Nascent Soul cultivator's reincarnation? There's a fundamental issue here."

"You simply won't face this truth, preferring to dwell in your illusions..."

Lu Xuanji fell silent.

In his previous life, the renowned double-slit experiment with electrons showed patterns only without observation; under scrutiny, it produced mere double lines.

His past life also featured the film 'The Truman Show', where the lead thought his reality true, only realizing it was someone else's constructed movie world.

Reality often deceives; what seems solid isn't always so.

What we witness and feel firsthand isn't always authentic; senses like sound, sight, touch could be deceptions. Even inner experiences—thoughts, emotions, sensations—might prove illusory, lacking solid proof of truth.

Perhaps everything amounts to a brain suspended in a vat, or a vast virtual simulation.

This held true even in his former life.

"I understand now..." Lu Xuanji murmured, "Our world might just be a supreme power's dream, making us nothing more than dream figures."

"We may not live authentically; our existence could be fabricated. I didn't truly transmigrate to the Purple Mansion World for a fresh start—I'm simply immersed in a massive virtual game titled 'Purple Mansion World'."

"Caught deep in the game, I can't pull away. Fantasy and reality merge, leaving me unable to tell truth from illusion, confusing the game for a real crossing..."