Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now! Chapter 1272 - 379: [Cognitive Distortion] 2

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Previously on Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now!...
Chen Yan learns from Zhou Qingning that Chen Jue's massive sword strike in Luoyan Town was undeniably the might of a Saint. However, this fact was never widely known, and Chen Jue became infamous. Chen Yan questions why You Su Yi, who witnessed the event and wrote the battle report, never mentioned Chen Jue's Saintly power. Zhou Qingning reveals that all fourteen survivors who witnessed the strike met terrible fates, suggesting a deliberate suppression of the truth.

You Su Yi, what happened to you? Encountering a great disaster in the Domain Realm, forced to escape to this world to seek refuge.

Zhou Qingning is also an example. Bearing meritorious achievements, she was Jiang Yu’s adopted daughter, yet in the end was also hunted down, escaped to this world, and wasn’t spared, got killed, lost her physical body, and became a wisp of a remnant soul!

With these two examples before us, the fate of the other twelve people can be easily imagined!

"The battle report was written and uploaded. Later reinforcements arrived, and the fourteen of us spoke about that battle, that sword, and we have mouths, while others have ears."

Zhou Qingning said with a wry smile: "But later on, it seems that everything, everything, everything..."

As she spoke up to here, a trace of fear flashed in her eyes.

"What happened to everything?"

"Everything vanished into thin air, everything was silent, everything was erased!"

Chen Yan frowned: "Someone altered the battle report? Someone silenced witnesses? Someone shut mouths?"

Although Zhou Qingning was in spirit form, she suddenly also trembled slightly: "Not just that!"

After lowering her head in thought for a moment, she lifted her head to look at Chen Yan and said with a wry smile: "Telling you this might be hard to believe, but now I’ve recovered all my memories and remember everything that happened in the past.

But... it seems that before I died, I had forgotten the power of that sword, I had forgotten about the Saint’s power, this thing!

It’s just... strangely forgotten!"

Zhou Qingning pointed at her head: "It’s as if there’s an invisible hand that wiped away some of the knowledge in my memory."

Chen Yan frowned.

Zhou Qingning continued: "I mean, I remember everything that happened, but at the moment when I came to this world, hunted and killed, now thinking back, it seems I had somehow intentionally or unintentionally forgotten the power of that sword.

I remember the lord, I remember the past, I remember that battle, that sword.

But I seem to have ’forgotten’ the simple fact that the sword belonged to a Saint’s means."

She said with a wry smile: "I know saying this is hard to understand, and it might leave you confused, but... it was strangely forgotten! Until after I died, became a remnant soul, and recently fully awakened and recovered my memories, then I remembered it all!

To manage such means, it is by no means possible by human efforts, even Saints might not be capable of it, only..."

Heavenly Dao!

Chen Yan and Zhou Qingning exchanged a glance.

Only Heavenly Dao!

Heavenly Dao shields the heavenly mechanism, alters people’s perception!

An invisible giant hand altered the perception of the living, attempting to erase the connection between Chen Jue and the Saint, as if to prevent everyone from knowing that Chen Jue broke the confinement of the Saint Position and possessed Holy Power.

And even the fourteen individuals who could serve as witnesses had their perceptions altered and were one by one...

Silenced!

That’s right, altering perception wasn’t enough, they had to be physically silenced.

That’s ensuring nothing would be left to chance, absolutely unwilling to let anyone know that Chen Jue could potentially become the new Saint! To make this matter a true secret!

The fourteen witnesses were the key.

Even though these fourteen later told the reinforcements, seeing is believing, hearing is doubting.

Even if fourteen people spoke out, those hearing the tale merely heard it, without feeling it in person, some might believe, some could be half-convinced, but moreover, many would likely think those survivors exaggerated.

For the auditory audience, distort and alter perceptions.

For witnesses, physically eliminate!

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"After that battle, I returned home with my foster father’s remains for burial. Among my foster father’s numerous adopted sons and daughters, so many perished in that battle that only I survived, thus I took responsibility for this matter.

But when I was returning with my foster father’s remains to our homeland, I met with an ambush!

I was traveling on a transport flying boat operated by the Town Army, but that boat suddenly crashed in the wild.

Originally, there were several generals from the Xiantai Battle Department accompanying me back to the foster father’s land to issue posthumous honors.

But after the boat crashed, those generals and samurais from Xiantai suddenly turned against me!

My strength was originally not their match, plus just recovering from serious injuries, I was no match.

After a chase, I was almost driven to despair.

I questioned them why they were doing this, but the situation was bizarre, as if they had lost their minds, stubbornly claiming they were following a secret Xiantai order, investigating me as an evil cultivator, colluding with the alien race, harboring malicious intent, ordered to kill me on the spot.

I pleaded in every way possible, but it’s as if they lost their minds, could not reason with me, I even begged, said I would stop resisting, only asking not to kill me, to take me bound to Xiantai, I was willing to defend myself on the spot – but they still wouldn’t relent, doggedly determined to kill me on the spot.

I fought desperately, tried to flee, but ultimately the disparity in strength was too great, I was trapped.

Just when I thought it was inescapable, I was finally rescued."

Chen Yan pursed his lips: "The one who saved you, was it a Saint?"

"...Yes."

"The Saint intervened, but didn’t kill the Xiantai generals who wanted my life, instead knocked them out, summoned me to speak.

At that time, I was anxious and apprehensive, like a drowning person grabbing at straws, pleading with the Saint to redress my grievances, to be my advocate. I was willing to go to Xiantai to defend myself, only asked for the Saint to ensure justice for me.

But the Saint, however..."

"What did the Saint do?" Chen Yan asked.

"The Saint told me, in this realm, you cannot live, and I cannot save you. If you wish to find a glimpse of survival, you must leave this realm."