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The scene fell silent for a moment.

You Huan and Joshua seemed unsure whether this corpse-like life form was really the "mentor" they were looking for.

Or in other words...does the mentor really look like this?
There is something very unique about this "sea beast". Almost as soon as you see it for the first time, you will have a strange feeling.

Subconscious closeness, trust, joy...

Is the Guru really the creator of the world?

If so, could sea beasts still be alive after losing various parts of their bodies, including their brains?
Why did the sea monster create and teach reflections to go against the world He created?

Suddenly, You Huan spoke in an affirmative tone:

"You are the 'Teacher,' but you are not 'Him.'"

The implication is that this scarred "sea beast" in front of them is indeed the mentor of the anti-shadows.

But He is not the Creator who created the heavens and all the worlds.

Upon hearing this, the mentor continued to stare at him with his dark eyes, and moved his body a little closer, stirring up a warm current.

He said in a calm tone: "Don't rush to deny it. I am indeed the existence you think I am. You can feel it, right?"

Feel the warmth, peace and tolerance.

There is no need to have seen Him before. At the first sight of Him, all living beings will think that the One before them is the Creator of the World.

It's almost a biological instinct.

But You Huan obviously wanted to go against his instincts. He pointed out calmly:

"The creator of the world is dead. He cannot live, and He cannot come back. Only when He dies, completely dies, can the world be born."

Then he paused and said, "But... just as this place is the ashes from the burning when the world was born, a part of Him also burned and fell here. That is His remnant, the remaining will that was burned, which is you."

Hearing this, the teacher was silent for a while. When he opened his smooth black mouth, he no longer denied the fact: "Child, where did you know this?"

You Huan replied: "It was the real one...He told me."

When he came into contact with "I Think", "I Think" took the initiative to convey a piece of information to him, a very new piece of information.

That is information that cannot be accurately described using existing language.

It can only be roughly described as "I think" carrying the will of the sea beast after its death. It is a self-operating machine without autonomous consciousness. However, "I think" noticed that the sea beast still had a small trace of autonomous consciousness located somewhere in the outside world.

When You Huan came to the opposite world and realized the nature of this place, he also understood what a mentor was.

The mentor is that escaped consciousness, and like the negative world, it is a remnant of creation.

Of course, compared to the "remnant", the essence of the mentor is actually more illusory. He is like a small projection of the sea monster's consciousness when it was still alive.

"That's right, I'm just an illusion, the part that was luckily preserved after His will was projected." The mentor simply admitted his identity.

There was blood clots surging in the dark eye sockets, as if the eyeballs were looking at You Huan.

The instructor continued:

"At first I was in a daze, just an illusory shadow, but as some things like objects passed through the water and cast shadows on the bottom of the water, reflecting where I was, I gradually gained consciousness...

Child, think about it, which life with self-awareness would be willing to be trapped here, in this barren land... and be a phantom underwater forever?
I am not willing to give up, I want to have a real, vibrant life, I just want to be like you. "

When the instructor said this, his tone was almost sincere.

The words He uttered shook the ocean of negative matter, and the sadness and unwillingness brought about by them strongly enveloped You Huan.

You Huan also showed an expression of being affected and shaken, and asked involuntarily:

"Then why do you create reflections and let them invade the world we live in?"

The instructor's tone was tinged with melancholy and sadness: "I created them and taught them, just hoping that they could open a passage for me to the real world and let me feel the breath of life.

But I misjudged the desire of life. As soon as the reflection was born, it had an unstoppable desire for the real world, so it planned various invasions..."

Joshua chuckled and interrupted Him: "You mean, the actions of the reflections were all their own thoughts, and you are innocent and have nothing to do with the whole thing?"

Somehow, he could make words that sounded perfectly polite sound so strong and sarcastic.

You Huan, however, expressed the opposite opinion at this time. He looked at the sea beast and whispered, "Perhaps the truth is indeed like this..."

Hearing You Huan's words, the teacher's voice was filled with even stronger relief and warmth:

"I'm sorry they caused you so much trouble. Give me a chance to make amends. I can..."

"——Or perhaps, the truth is quite the opposite." At this time, You Huan made a 180-degree turn and interrupted his mentor.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, and his scarlet irises were like a red line, a sharp blade, splitting the huge and incomplete body of the sea beast in front of him, revealing the truth.

He said slowly: "You not only feel unwilling, but you also feel angry, right?"

"...What?" the instructor said slowly.

You Huan continued:
"You are right. Life has an instinctive desire, and it longs to go to the real and vivid world. Aren't you the same?

Are you angry? Resentful?
Being angry at yourself is just an illusion, an illusion, while those lives, fresh lives, are just across the water, performing everything that is beyond your reach in the real world.

You want to reach out your hand, break through the misty water surface, and become a living being just as alive..."

"so what!"

A huge wave of negative matter suddenly arose, and in an instant, You Huan and Joshua were trapped in a whirlpool. A loud and furious voice came from outside the whirlpool.

The mentor realized that his plan to play the emotional card had failed, and You Huan was not influenced by him at all.

He stood outside the vortex, no longer concealing all the resentment and jealousy in his voice:

"You are born with the ability to bathe in reality, but I am not worthy of it? Is the life born from here, a shadow, not worthy of pursuing a living existence?

Can't I be a real living thing?
Don't I deserve to be whole?

I just want to be like you! I don't even want to turn myself back into the great 'Him'!"

You Huan barely used his own field of truth to resist the surging negative matter that was constantly approaching from his surroundings.

At this moment, the negative matter no longer coexists peacefully with him, but like the negative matter in the reflection, it frantically annihilates the positive matter in his body. In the roaring sea, his voice still sounds calm:
“I don’t deny that any consciousness has the desire and right to pursue life, but I’m sorry, if your method of pursuing life is to erode the positive world and destroy the many lives in the positive world…

As a member of the positive world, I will naturally stop you.

This is not about rights, it’s about stance.”

Hearing this, the instructor's voice from outside the vortex suddenly softened:

"In that case, I can grant you and your companions absolution. You can also transform into lives like me and share the authority over the world and life with me..."

There was something strangely alluring in His voice.

Perhaps it is because He is, after all, a remnant of the sea beast that created the world, which makes all living things instinctively approach Him.

His proposal sounded so tempting...

However, Joshua's brisk voice came from another vortex:

"Come on, mentor, you have done so much and delayed for so long, aren't you just trying to devour us?
Your proposal seems insincere in the face of the reality that you are gradually devouring us.

If I'm not mistaken, you seem to be desperately craving for something from my friend?
How can you expect us to believe that you will let it go? Obviously, we are not as foolish as you to easily reveal all our intentions before you complete even a small part of your plan. "

These sarcastic words completely angered the mentor.

The whistling vortex of negative matter stopped for a moment.

But it definitely did not subside. Instead, it turned into something like a dark cloud, weighing heavily in the sky.

An invisible but terrifying heavy pressure descended, You Huan heard Joshua hiss, and his feet sank as well. He felt as if a thunderbolt from God was about to come down and destroy everything.

And he knew that if the mentor really brought down the power he had prepared for so long and he did not resist, he would indeed die!

The first thing he did was to use his "true knowledge".

In this situation where you are surrounded by enemy forces, the power of the treasure is undoubtedly the most useful.

But when he tried to move, he found that every inch of his body had frozen.

The horns in particular seemed to be stuck in a quagmire of cement, firmly fixed from all angles.

The bell of true knowledge seemed to have sunk into amber, solidified even more thoroughly.

His eyes flashed, and he tried to resist with the power in his right eye, which was suspected to come from Tanwang's right pupil.

As soon as this thought came to his mind, he felt a sharp pain in his right eye. He felt a pain in his eye socket, and then it felt hot.

It was as if a thin layer of skin had been punctured, and blood seemed to be flowing out of the eye sockets.

The instructor's voice suddenly came from behind, as if it was very close:
“Do you think I won’t block these two things you’ve already shown?
Obviously, you are more stupid, because you have already exposed your methods to me."

You Huan heard a hidden desire and greed in his mentor's voice, and he understood something.

If there is something that is worth the mentor setting up so many traps that he would even use the counter-shadow's attack as a chess piece...

What could be more desirable than the two most precious treasures in the world that he possesses?
If the part from the sea beast's body is projected by the sea beast's residual will... the mentor may be able to complete himself and truly become a living being.

However, the mentor was obviously angered by You Huan and Joshua's consecutive words.

Hearing his words that seemed like he was almost certain of victory, You Huan suddenly felt like laughing.

He wondered if he had been infected by Joshua's personality.

He whispered, "Teacher, do you know that a trap is no longer effective after it has been used on the same person once?"

Just as he had thought when he fell into the illusion of the opposite world.

Because of the characteristics of negative matter, even if negative matter constructs an illusion, it is difficult for a creature like him who comes from the positive world to detect it.

Or in other words, each layer of the negative world is actually real to a certain extent.

It’s just that the negative world is like an onion, with one layer inside another.

Right now they are only at a certain layer in the middle of the big onion, and have not yet reached the outermost circle of the onion where the mentor is actually.

The Guru wants to keep them trapped here, in this place where He is in control.

Once you kill them here, they are truly dead.

But since You Huan had been reminded by Michelia before and realized that there were layers of illusions in the opposite world, he would of course take precautions against it.

The power of the right pupil of true knowledge and delusion has been temporarily banned by the mentor because it had been demonstrated before under the mentor's observation.

But he still has an ability... an ability that he has never used on any occasion before, and he can use it.

In addition to the two branches of truth, life and vitality, as he saw when he looked up at the lines on the skill tree, he also had a third branch of truth...

create.

In an instant, the [True Spirit] located in the panel exerted its power on itself.

Target: Branch of Truth·Creation.

As an existence that is one with oneself, the power of the true spirit is difficult to seal.

In an instant, You Huan once again felt as if he was soaring upward, and endless information beyond the truth flooded into his mind like a torrent.

The mentor, who was originally observing from the outside and preparing to annihilate the two targets in one fell swoop, instantly sensed something. He leaned back in shock and wanted to increase his power output to control the situation, but it was too late -

It was as if an air bubble appeared in the originally seamless ocean of concrete.

Under the influence of the creative "truth" that transcends truth, there is actually a brand new world that belongs neither to the positive nor the negative, expanding with You Huan as the center!
Wherever this new world comes into contact with negative matter, the latter is actually affected and gradually transformed - or, in other words, "recreated" - into part of the new world.

All of this actually happened in just the tiny moment it takes for a thought to turn.

The "bubble" expanded the mentor's negative world, causing an invisible, loud and surging roar, which burst the entire negative material world!

The surging waves of negative matter fled in all directions.

Joshua's figure was the first to emerge from the layers of the "onion" and he looked up towards the conceptual "front".

The true image of the mentor has been fully exposed. (End of this chapter)