I Truly Am The Villian Chapter 2494 2493: Mirage, the Marvelous Uses of Beads

The next moment, Old Zhang started mumbling an incantation under his breath.

A layer of illusory scenery rose up around his body.

It looked just like a mirage.

When Tiger Wing's attack landed, it miraculously passed straight through Old Zhang's body.

As if the guy had turned completely incorporeal.

Tiger Wing frowned slightly. This abnormal phenomenon left him a bit puzzled.

He spread out his senses, but couldn't detect any trace of Old Zhang's aura.

"Kid, you think this old man's roamed all over the world without seeing a thing or two?"

"If it's a straight fight, I might not be your match, but when it comes to running for my life, no one can beat me."

What Old Zhang said was actually true.

Loose Cultivators like them traveled alone; getting robbed on the road was an everyday occurrence.

If you don't have some real skills, how would you dare come out and hustle?

Tiger Wing was helpless; he knew he couldn't do anything to Old Zhang.

He could only turn around and say to Xu Zimei, "Sorry, this guy really does have some skills."

Zimo gave a cold snort.

He said, "The mirage spectacle."

"The reason he looks so ethereal right now is because what's in front of us is just a projection."

"His real body has long since been projected far away; he's probably already started running."

A mirage is fake, but not completely fake.

It's a false image projected from something real.

In a sense, it doesn't appear out of thin air.

If there's a fake, then naturally there's a true body being projected.

Back when Tiger Wing struck at Old Zhang, Old Zhang had already slipped his true body away without anyone noticing.

While the fake body was there to confuse everyone.

To buy more time for his true body to escape.

This mirage technique was something Old Zhang had learned in the Heavenly Burial Grounds.

Without this technique, how would he dare come out and do business?

He would've been eaten clean long ago, not even bones left.

And this move had never failed him; almost no one could see through it.

Yet now it was exposed in a single sentence by Xu Zimei.

He frowned slightly, a bad premonition rising in his heart.

"My lord, then how do we break this move?" Quan Shan asked at just the right time from the side.

"Break it?" Zimo chuckled.

"From the very beginning, I've already solidified this patch of void. Where do you think he can run to?"

"Impossible," Old Zhang blurted out.

"I clearly already ran far away. If you froze the void, how come I didn't feel anything?"

Zimo looked toward one side.

He casually pointed with a finger.

In front of them, massive chunks of void started peeling away.

Then another Old Zhang, his true body, slowly emerged.

This Old Zhang was currently running in place nonstop.

But no matter how he ran, he was just stomping on the spot, unable to move forward at all.

At this moment, this other Old Zhang—his true body—looked around in confusion.

He clearly remembered he had already escaped very far, so why was it like this?

"You used a mirage to fool us, so I made a mirage for you too," Zimo said with a smile.

"Fun?"

"So everything just now was fake?" Old Zhang asked.

"What else did you think?" Zimo replied.

With a thud.

Old Zhang raised the Heavenly Fire Bead high above his head and actually dropped to his knees on the spot.

"My lord above, this little one was blind and ignorant."

"I'm willing to offer this Heavenly Fire Bead to you for free, to make up for my disrespect."

"You sure chicken out fast," the Demon Noble snorted coldly from the side.

"It's not chickening out. It's just that this little one didn't know my lord was this powerful. If I'd known, why would I have gone through all this trouble?" Old Zhang said quickly.

This was also another of his merits.

When he ran into something he couldn't handle, he chickened out faster than anyone.

At times like this, anything could be thrown away; as long as he could keep his life, that was more important than anything.

He'd actually run into some accidents before.

Generally speaking, the strong wouldn't kill him.

On the condition that he knew his place.

And right now, seeing Old Zhang in this state, Zimo smiled and said, "If I kill you, this thing will be mine all the same, and your other belongings can be mine too."

"Why would I bother being so nice about it?"

Old Zhang's face changed slightly.

He felt Zimo really didn't take any bait at all.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "My lord, if you kill me, that's the end of everything."

"But as long as I'm alive, I can keep creating more value for you."

Old Zhang raised the Heavenly Fire Bead and said, "My lord, you need this Heavenly Fire Bead. I can go to the Heavenly Burial Grounds and bring you back more Heavenly Fire Beads."

"That place is both dangerous and far away. You need someone like me who specializes in running errands."

"I'm very familiar with the place, and I've been running there for so many years. Even if you send someone else, they might not be more useful than me."

"There are many things like this in the Heavenly Burial Grounds?" Zimo took the Heavenly Fire Bead, turned it over in his hand, and asked.

"Master, based on the information we've gathered, that Heavenly Burial Grounds can be considered a treasure vault.

Any kind of danger you can think of exists there, but at the same time, any kind of treasure as well," the Demon Noble said from the side.

However, the Divine Continent's intelligence network had only just been established, so the information they could dig up was limited.

It was Quan Shan who spoke up from the side.

"My lord, the Heavenly Burial Grounds is the Origin Land of the first Cosmic Big Bang."

"According to research, long ago, there were already civilizations in the Cosmic, things from countless Epochs ago."

"But later, for reasons unknown, all those civilizations disappeared."

"Based on our investigation, it's very likely a Cosmic Big Bang occurred that wiped out all civilizations, and the Heavenly Burial Grounds is the final remnant of that explosion."

"Interesting. I'll definitely have to go take a look when I get the chance," Zimo said.

He actually knew a bit about the Cosmic's history.

The current civilizations could be traced back at the earliest to seven hundred million years ago.

It was the Perfect World of the First Star System that first broke through its limits and entered the Cosmic.

And before that seven hundred million years, the Cosmic's entire history was a blank.

Until people discovered the Heavenly Burial Grounds.

Only then did they confirm there had once been civilizations that were destroyed.

"Aside from this Heavenly Fire Bead, are there other beads in the Heavenly Burial Grounds?" Zimo asked.

"Yes, yes, yes," Old Zhang nodded quickly.

"To tell you the truth, there are six kinds of beads like this in total."

"But I don't know what these beads are, so I never paid them much mind before."

At that, Old Zhang probed tentatively,

"My lord, could you tell me what these beads are for?"

"Even if I told you, it'd be useless," Zimo said.

"These beads aren't something just anyone can use."

"Here's how it'll be: I'll spare your life, and you'll go to the Heavenly Burial Grounds specifically to find these beads for me."

"Whatever it costs, I'll foot the bill."

"When the job's done, I'll grant you a great fortuitous encounter, and I'll unconditionally fulfill one wish of yours."

"Everything will be as my lord commands," Old Zhang replied hurriedly.