“What do you mean by that? I, Zhang, am genuine. How can you say I'm an imposter?” Zhang Ling said after a moment of contemplation.
“You say I've already died a tragic death. How do you prove your words? I find you two rather suspicious.”
“Are you really Fellow Daoist Zhang Ling?”
Xu and Wang's expressions turned uncertain and gloomy upon hearing this, and they asked with some hesitation.
“It's simple to prove. I have a treasure here that can not only detect our words but also prove your authenticity.”
Xu Ji patted his storage bag, and a burst of misty white light flashed as he grabbed something in his hand.
Narrowing his eyes, Zhang Ling saw that the item in the man's hand was a small, silver-shining mirror.
The moment this object appeared, Zhang Ling felt a sense of familiarity. He couldn't help but take a few more glances at the silver mirror.
Then, Zhang Ling realized that this mirror seemed familiar, somewhat similar to the Mind Inquiry Mirror that was brought out when he was interrogated by three Core Formation cultivators in Yanh霞 Immortal City.
“What is this thing?” However, Zhang Ling still looked at the small mirror with curiosity and asked. But in his heart, he was already on guard.
“Mind Inquiry Mirror. As long as Fellow Daoist undergoes the examination of this treasure, your identity can be proven,” Xu Ji said, word by word.
“This matter requires your cooperation, Fellow Daoist. I wonder if you dare to try it.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Ji and Wang Caidie each summoned their own magical artifacts, looking as if they would start fighting if he didn't cooperate.
“Alright, I am willing to cooperate with you two,” Zhang Ling said with a wry smile, hearing the somewhat threatening words.
Seeing him relent, Xu Ji and Wang Caidie's expressions improved a lot, and they wore smiling faces.
“Rest assured, as long as you are truly Fellow Daoist Zhang, we will never harm you.”
“Stand still. I will cast a spell to activate this treasure.”
Xu Ji tossed the small silver mirror in his hand, and the silver mirror floated above his head. A layer of colorful light appeared on it, looking very exquisite, like a glazed treasure mirror.
Then, the layer of colorful light flickered twice, and then condensed into a white ball of light, which shot towards Zhang Ling with a whoosh.
Zhang Ling remained motionless, as if he really believed their words.
But as the white light approached, a water-blue talisman appeared on Zhang Ling's body. The blue light condensed, transforming into a water-blue curtain. The white light struck it, erupting with even more intense white light.
For a moment, everything in front of him was a blurry white, making it impossible to open his eyes.
If anyone could see the situation clearly, they would have noticed that in the instant the white light shone brightly, Zhang Ling disappeared in a flash.
……
Looking at Xu Ji and Wang Caidie again, after activating the treasure mirror, their eyes were fixed on Zhang Ling's location, without moving.
Even when the white light shone brightly, these two did not shift their gazes.
Suddenly, several whooshing sounds of air being torn apart rang out. A few yellow rays inexplicably appeared ten feet behind Xu Ji and Wang Caidie, turning into several sword shadows that instantly pierced through their figures.
But the scene of their deaths that was imagined did not appear. Instead, they saw Xu Ji and Wang Caidie releasing different colored lights from their bodies. They looked like figures composed of spiritual light.
And Zhang Ling's next attack had already arrived. From the fog on the left side of the two, two thick vines rushed out, instantly wrapping the two in them.
“As expected, there's a problem.”
After a few breaths of silence, the vines loosened, and there were no bodies of Xu Ji and Wang Caidie inside, as if the two did not exist.
But the vines were wrapped around two fist-sized tricolor orbs. The spiritual light on them was dim. Zhang Ling calmly walked out from another direction and retracted the vines.
Seeing the orbs, he knew that it was the work of the Iridescent Clam.
At this time, he was in a large area of coral. The surrounding fog was thick, unlike what he had seen before, where the fog had disappeared.
The method of reflecting white light just now was a trick he used to detonate a second-order Water Mirror Talisman. The white light entered it and was detonated. He took this opportunity to launch a successful sneak attack.
Originally, he thought that the two were like Yuan Peng before, with their minds bewitched by the giant clam. But now it seems that the situation is more complicated than he thought.
This place seems to be far from simple, which made Zhang Ling feel a sense of foreboding, always feeling that countless eyes were watching him from all around.
Generally speaking, only cultivators who practice illusion techniques can perform this kind of deceptive illusion. In addition, illusion formations can also have the same effect.
But this is an isolated island. Although there is the mist released by the Iridescent Clam, the Iridescent Clam is, after all, just a demon beast with low intelligence, only surviving by instinct. He would believe it if it could conjure mirages and other scenery.
But Zhang Ling couldn't believe that it could create characters with thinking ability out of thin air. This was definitely not something that low-level demon beasts could do. Could it be that there is a fourth-order or higher-level Iridescent Clam here?
……
When Xu Ji took out the silver mirror just now, he was convinced that these two had a problem.
Although he scanned the two with his divine sense several times and found no problems, his divine sense was greatly suppressed here and was not so easy to use. It could easily be interfered with by the environment.
And Xu Ji being able to take out the Mind Inquiry Mirror was also a flaw. The Mind Inquiry Mirror is not an ordinary treasure. Only some sects can refine it, and it will never appear in the hands of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
There are not many cultivators who have actually seen the Mind Inquiry Mirror. Zhang Ling guessed that these illusions were also transformed based on the memories and thoughts of the cultivators.
Then, affected by the surrounding mist, he himself had hallucinations.
Zhang Ling pondered for a moment, patted his storage bag, released the Corpse Bear, and let it be on guard around him.
Then, he took out a cyan talisman, which was a kind of “Clarity Talisman”. It is also a special talisman among second-order talismans. It has the effect of purifying and clarifying the mind.
Zhang Ling patted the Clarity Talisman on his body, and with a wave of his hand, a layer of ice-blue, thin spiritual light lit up on the Clarity Talisman. As the spiritual light spread throughout his body, a sense of coolness rushed straight to his brain.
Immediately, his spirit was refreshed, and he felt that his five senses were also much sharper, and even his divine sense was clearer.
Zhang Ling checked around, but still found nothing unusual. He also checked the surrounding coral, for which he directly used magical artifacts to destroy a lot of coral.
After a lot of tossing and turning, the surrounding coral was just ordinary coral, and there was nothing strange about it.
Without any gain, Zhang Ling looked at the mist, thinking about how to find the right way out.
Thinking like this, Zhang Ling also went to investigate again in one direction. Again, his mind moved, commanding the Corpse Bear to clear the way forward.
After walking for a while, Zhang Ling suddenly stopped, looked at the Corpse Bear in front of him, and a flash of inspiration came to his mind. He thought of a way.
“Spirit Seeking Technique.”
The so-called Spirit Seeking Technique is used to sense the strength of the surrounding spiritual power, but there are also some other uses. It can not only be used to find treasures with strong spiritual power, but also to track and investigate other cultivators.
