It wasn't just Gu Na'er, Qian Renxue, and Ning Rongrong; everyone encountered something extremely shocking in the illusion.
For example, Dugu Yan found two biographies, one officially published and the other handwritten.
Hu Liena also learned from ancient books that Spirit Hall was a wicked and utterly evil organization that sought to enslave everyone, only to be annihilated by the great Sea God.
That's right,
The illusionary World that Nangong Lingyun created for the students was the Douluo Continent ten thousand years after the original timeline, under the rule of the God King Tang.
A time when Spirit Hall was destroyed, Spirit awakening required payment, school admissions needed noble recommendation letters, Spirit Master subsidies were discontinued, Evil Spirit Masters roamed the land, and slaughter was everywhere.
The people lived in misery, and most Spirit Masters were no better off, only the Sea God's faith thrived, and the Tang Clan's eternal dynasty reigned supreme.
The illusion continued.
In a mountain village, when they discovered that the Spirit Master in front of them was planning to raise the awakening fee to twenty gold coins, all the villagers fell silent.
Ten gold coins already required years of life-risking savings; twenty gold coins were impossible to gather even if they sold themselves.
After a moment, seeing the Spirit Master's face growing impatient, the village chief mustered his courage and saw him off, saying:
"Esteemed Spirit Master, our land here is barren, with almost no valuable produce.
Twenty gold coins are truly impossible to gather, what do you think…"
However, before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a rough roar.
"Oh, what's this? Are you trying to go back on your word?
I heard it all when I came in; you were the ones begging me to help awaken your Spirits, isn't it a little too late to change your mind now?
Either twenty gold coins to awaken your Spirit, or ten gold coins for travel expenses, otherwise, I'll let you know what it means to not disrespect a Spirit Master.
If you don't have enough money, two families can combine to awaken one child, anyway, there's a high probability they'll be trash with zero spirit power, awakening or not makes no difference."
Midway through his roar, he suddenly kicked the village chief in the chest.
The old man, over fifty years old, flew back several meters, crashing heavily against the wall and losing consciousness.
Casually killing a person, the Spirit Master's face showed no emotion, as if it were commonplace.
He only looked at the panicked villagers, his eyes showing a little more mockery.
This scene immediately filled Gu Na'er with rage.
Clenching her fists, her chest rose and fell.
However, she wasn't blinded by anger; instead, she quickly retreated into the house to carefully assess her current situation.
Spirit power, Spirit, Cultivation Method, divine artifact, etc.
Talent Training Camp Handbook, Article 13: Always remain calm.
Article 16: Know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated.
As expected, she was six years old, her Spirit hadn't awakened, and there were no traces of Cultivation of martial arts Cultivation Methods, let alone the Silver Dragon Spear and spirit tool.
However, before long, with meditation, she gradually began to sense a weak spirit power scattered in her meridians.
And for this monstrous genius who consistently ranked first in nearly all Talent Training Camp projects, having spirit power alone was enough to do many things.
Gu Na'er searched the house for a moment, removed the wooden handle from a grass-cutting sickle and stuffed it into her arms.
Then, she openly walked out and headed towards the middle-aged Spirit Master, her face showing no emotion.
The middle-aged man saw it was a child and was completely unprepared, thinking she wanted to awaken her Spirit, and said with great joy:
"Hey, do you want to awaken your Spirit? Hurry up and bring the money."
But in the next second, the person in front of him disappeared into thin air.
"Flash Step!"
"Instant Burst!"
Gu Na'er silently recited the names of several of the most basic spirit power circulation methods in her mind, her feet flashed lightly, instantly moving from the Spirit Master's front to the side, and with another flash, she had already appeared behind him.
In the blink of an eye, she gripped the rusty sickle head with both hands, and with a swift burst of force from her legs and waist, she plunged it fiercely into the middle-aged man's lower back.
Then, the Instant Step was activated for the third time, leaving her hands empty and landing several meters away behind him, preventing her from being affected by the opponent's AOE attack in his rage.
"Ah~"
The Spirit Master let out a scream.
Under the intense pain, let alone resisting, even the spirit rings he had released to show off automatically disappeared.
Gu Na'er, who had originally thought that she would have to go through a battle to completely subdue the opponent, cursed in dissatisfaction upon seeing this:
"Worthless."
"You… you are a Spirit Master? Such a young Spirit Master, who… who are you?"
His kidney suffering a critical hit, the middle-aged man's entire face was twisted in pain, his face flushed, and his speech was intermittent.
"It's best not to move, or you will die, understand?"
"Understood, understood, completely understood, I promise not to move."
Gu Na'er took out the awakening stones from the opponent's backpack, arranged them into a simple hexagram formation,
stood inside and said coldly:
"Inject spirit power."
Having already sensed spirit power, even without anyone's help, she could automatically awaken after Cultivation of the Cultivation Method for a period of Time, but she didn't want to wait, eager to know what exactly was wrong with this World.
The Spirit Master on the opposite side stared blankly at this bizarre scene, feeling his brain a little Downtime.
You have already defeated a two-ring Spirit Grandmaster, and you still haven't awakened your Spirit?
But seeing the little girl's indifferent eyes that didn't seem forced, plus the sickle head stuck in his kidney, he finally endured the pain and obediently did as she said.
After a moment, a silver giant dragon soared into the air, the familiar power returned, and Gu Na'er directly solved the middle-aged man with one move.
Then, she promised the terrified villagers:
"Within a month, I will come back and help all of you awaken your Spirits for free."
Just as she was about to set off to hunt spirit beasts,
a young man among the villagers, dressed relatively neatly and presentably, suddenly came out and warned her:
"Child, don't come back, never come back, no matter what happens, always remember my words, never come back."
Having not experienced too much of the sinister nature of people's hearts, Gu Na'er didn't quite understand what the other party meant, but out of gratitude for the young man's kindness, she subconsciously nodded.
The pace of Time in the illusion was very fast.
In the blink of an eye, she re-entered the Chang Sheng Jue, and after experiencing countless hardships, hunted down a seven-hundred-year-old water-attribute Tuo Dragon, which is a crocodile.
The skill effect was of course far from being comparable to the elemental control spirit ring bestowed by her true self, but it was enough to break the bottleneck and allow her to continue Cultivation.
Gu Na'er remembered her promise and was planning to return to the village to help everyone awaken their Spirits when she overheard the surrounding guests discussing in a teahouse.
"Have you heard? Another village has been slaughtered, with not a single one of the hundreds of households left."
"Damn Evil Spirit Masters."
"This Time it wasn't Evil Spirit Masters, Evil Spirit Masters would suck the blood dry and turn them into dried corpses, but the people in that village didn't, instead, as if to vent their anger, the corpses were tortured beyond recognition."
Gu Na'er suddenly thought of the village chief's son's reminder, suppressing her horror and asking:
"What's the name of the village you're talking about, and where is it?"
"Hanjia Gully, it should be more than a hundred miles north of here, my aunt has relatives in the village next to Hanjia Gully, and they came back so scared that they were almost out of their minds."