Chapter 351

"Kanzaki Rei! What have you done?!"

Kanzaki Rei gripped his battle spear, his gaze cold as he looked off to the side.

There, suspended in midair, stood a man with graying hair at his temples—

His father.

My father... couldn’t possibly be here.

My father is in my storage pouch.

This kind of illusion... how utterly boring.

Do you really think a cheap fabrication of familial bonds can shake my will to fight?

But...

Kanzaki Rei’s perception swept across the figure before him.

There was a soul.

And not only that—his lifespan was only a little over thirty years remaining, no different from an ordinary human.

A being with a soul, and one that still had a fixed lifespan...

Given the current situation, Kanzaki Rei examined himself.

And this illusion... was likely of an extremely high level.

His enemy was a pupil-type creature. Although he didn’t know whether it counted as a monster, the moment he saw that it was essentially an eye, he had already guessed that it likely possessed illusion-type abilities.

As for the methods he currently had...

He didn’t really possess any particularly powerful means to break illusions. Kanzaki Rei did know some magic capable of dispelling illusions—

But whether it would work against this enemy was uncertain.

Boom!

Kanzaki Rei cast a spell toward the sky, exploding into a burst of multicolored brilliance.

Yet his illusion-breaking magic produced no feedback whatsoever.

[God-Tier · Final Perception] granted premonition and ensured that his senses could not be obstructed—but even within his perception, the person before him still felt completely real.

It even had a soul. Truly lifelike.

The battle spear in Kanzaki Rei’s hand shifted, turning into the color of black iron.

"Kanzaki Rei! What have you done?!"

Lu Zhenghang’s face streamed with tears of pain and despair, while Kanzaki Rei’s expression only grew colder.

He spoke icily, "This is truly meaningless."

Thrust!

Taking a few steps forward, Kanzaki Rei drove his spear straight through Lu Zhenghang’s body.

A resolute conviction solidified within his heart.

This was an illusion—not his real family.

His only real family was already inside his storage pouch, transformed into a monster. Everything else was false, no matter what form it took.

Kanzaki Rei had already anchored this belief as the foundation of his mind—unshakable.

He pulled the spear from Lu Zhenghang’s body, blood spraying outward.

Then Kanzaki Rei swept his perception across the surroundings again, intending to find a way to break the illusion.

But the moment his gaze passed over the environment, the scenery around him began shifting like foam.

He now stood in a vast, open plaza.

This place... he knew it all too well.

This was Qingdao’s Wuyue Plaza.

And at this moment, he stood right at the entrance of the shopping mall.

In his hand was a metal rod, its tip stained with fresh, crimson blood.

Behind him—

Lay a woman with her head smashed open.

In front of him—

Was Lu Zhenghang, his chest pierced through.

The clothes on his body were no longer enchanted combat gear, but instead a brown winter jacket.

Lu Zhenghang clutched his chest as he staggered backward.

His eyes were filled with incomprehension—utter disbelief and grief.

"Why...?"

"Kanzaki Rei... why would you...?"

Blood flowed continuously from his chest. It also spilled from his mouth and nose. With his lungs pierced, a normal person shouldn’t even be able to speak—

Yet he stubbornly tried to ask the son before him.

Why?

Why do this?

Why suddenly pick up a stick and beat your own mother into that state?

Weren’t we just here to buy ingredients for dinner?

"M-Murder!"

"Call the police—quick, call the police!"

"Oh my God!"

Voices erupted all around.

Kanzaki Rei looked around, seeing only panicked crowds.

There was not the slightest trace of Fallen Moon Island anymore.

What a realistic illusion.

What a convincingly real world.

How do I break this illusion?

Kanzaki Rei raised his hand!

Boom!

Thunder roared across the sky!

Endless chains of lightning spread out, filling the entire sky of the Earth. The range of Kanzaki Rei’s magic had long surpassed what a small planet like Earth could withstand.

The first step to breaking an illusion—

Destroy everything that interferes with you.

Boom!

A deafening explosion rang out!

A thin beam of lightning pierced straight through the Earth, penetrating deep into its core before erupting outward!

The heavens collapsed, the earth split apart!

Countless fragments of rock exploded outward, along with magma from beneath the crust.

Kanzaki Rei rose into the air.

Standing above the sky, he found himself directly in outer space.

In the distance was the Moon.

Beneath his feet—the shattered remains of Earth.

Farther still, a massive burning sphere—

The Sun.

"Kanzaki Rei..."

A whisper echoed once more in his ears.

Kanzaki Rei turned toward the sound—

And saw Luluwei’s figure again.

"You... killed your parents."

"They... were real."

Crackle—

Her figure flickered like a dream, appearing and disappearing.

Whether my parents are real or not—wouldn’t I know?

Such a low-level illusion.

"Ansu, do you see anything unusual about this illusion?"

Ansu’s voice responded within his mind.

"Kid... this doesn’t look like a simple illusion."

"But it’s hard to say."

"It feels like the Deep Realm... but also not quite the same."

"It’s more like a domain constructed using the laws of the Deep Realm."

A domain...

Kanzaki Rei recalled Lomor—the eighth-tier monster he had killed.

Creatures at the eighth tier had already mastered domains.

And it was said that powerful Rank 8 class-advancers also possessed their own domains.

So everything he was seeing now was likely the effect of his enemy’s domain.

When he had faced Lomor’s domain before, he had the support of a divine artifact.

But this time—

Kanzaki Rei had no such artifact in hand.

I really should have forcibly taken Yelia’s divine artifact back then... A moment of mercy, and now I’m paying the price.

An enemy without a tangible body to attack—

Was the most troublesome kind.

"Is there any other way to break a domain?"

"Heh. Simple. Let me take over."

"Other than that," Kanzaki Rei asked calmly.

He might truly need to deal with this enemy himself. If there was a method he could use on his own, he would not rely on Ansu.

"Even a Rank 9 class-advancer cannot maintain a domain forever. Sustaining a domain consumes immense energy... As long as you endure long enough, the domain will dissipate on its own."

That was Ansu’s answer.

And as Kanzaki Rei spoke with Ansu, Luluwei’s figure appeared once again before him.

Crackle—

"You could have lived a happy life."

"Kanzaki Rei... do you know that only a very small portion of people in this world meet a peaceful end?"

"This is a method that can bring happiness to everyone in the world."

"If you can’t understand it... how unfortunate."

Her figure flickered between clarity and distortion—

But her speech became increasingly smooth.

Crack—

Kanzaki Rei saw fractures appear in the surrounding space, like cracks in an eggshell.

Boom!

The scene shifted once again.

He turned his head—

And found himself holding a rope.

A light rain fell from the sky.

At the other end of the rope—

Was Leng Qingying.

This was... the night she was kidnapped by that man.

And now—

He himself was that man.

Kanzaki Rei instantly understood the situation.

But in the very next moment—

He saw Leng Qingying gripping a sharp blade, thrusting it toward his throat.

His power was still there.

With just the slightest movement—

He could kill the girl who dared to fight back.