The fake prince was exposed at the beginning, and I took office as emperor on the spot

Chapter 15: A Dream of the Yellow Millet (Two in One)

As the name suggests, a psychedelic array is an array that can confuse the mind and make people fall into hallucinations.

But this is actually a general term for a type of formation, and there are dozens of formations with different functions.

When Gu Fangchen stepped into the courtyard, he had already determined that the fifth-grade formation "Yellow Millet Dream" was set up there.

Although the name of this formation sounds elegant and nice, the effect is disgusting.

People who fall into illusions will experience endless changes in time and live in the vicissitudes of life, mistakenly believing that they have lived for an unknown number of years.

If the master of the formation does not remove it, the person who enters the formation will believe it to be true. After spending so many years in the illusion, when he comes out, he will really age "time spent in the illusion * 0.16754 - magic resistance * 0.21765 (the final result is not less than 0)" years.

In the worldview of "Mirror in the Dust", the soul and the body are connected, and the two will truly influence each other.

If you spend too long in the illusion and your magic resistance is not enough, your soul will eventually wither and you will die like a candle burning out.

For players, this is the most disgusting type of debuff.

There are many ways to shorten your lifespan in this world, but few ways to increase it.

If the controlled character's lifespan is not enough, he will die of old age.

Many tasks require waiting for several years before there is any feedback. By then, you die of old age before the NPC can give you the next task. That would be ridiculous...

"Damn it, now I'm the funny one."

Gu Fangchen looked at the big sun in the sky with a dead look in his eyes.

Now this tattered body has no more than five years left to live.

And the magic resistance may still be negative...

Others are candles, and he is at most a candle wick. If he really falls into this formation, he will probably burn out in an instant.

Of course, for him, the difference between five years and five months is not that big.

The worst thing was that he had no idea what nonsense he would say during this time while being controlled by the psychedelic array outside...

"No, we must break the formation immediately."

Gu Fangchen looked at the endless yellow sand all around him, and could vaguely see a hint of green in the distance.

It seems that you can reach an oasis by just walking a short distance.

But he knew that these were all traps.

In this psychedelic array, no matter where you go, there is no exit.

Everything visible to the naked eye is a bait that leads people to gradually get lost in it. There is only one real solution.

"Okay, let me recall the strategy."

Gu Fangchen sat down on the spot, put on a thinking posture, and pondered with his chin in his hand.

"First of all, the first requirement for breaking this fifth-grade psychedelic array is not high. It only requires the most basic ninth-grade cultivation of the Divine Dao..."

Oh, the ninth level of Shinto, the state of entering into meditation.

Compared to the fifth-grade formation, the conditions for breaking this formation are indeed very low. After all, it means that as long as you get started, you can start practicing.

Gu Fangchen: “…”

Damn, he didn’t!
Gu Fangchen had no expression on his face.

MMP, the first condition is not met, just wait to die.

The two most popular paths of practice for practitioners are martial arts and Shinto.

The former cultivates the body, while the latter cultivates the soul.

The ninth rank of the Shinto path is really as low as it can be. As long as the player starts practicing and it is the Shinto path route, he will directly reach the ninth rank.

But the problem is that Gu Fangchen is not a player now.

The player's physique is unremarkable in the game, and he can choose any route. But in the world view, it is the "Hunyuan Holy Body".

Definitely one of the top cultivation talents.

And where is Gu Fangchen now?
He could probably be ranked first among the useless ones...

As we all know, no matter which route you choose, Dantian and meridians are essential for cultivation.

Without Dantian, it is impossible to store spiritual energy.

Without meridians, it is impossible to practice the exercises.

If you don't have either, even gods can't save you!

Gu Fangchen's dantian was smashed by a palm strike, and his meridians were completely entangled and blocked by three kinds of poisons, especially the "heart poison", which directly blocked his most important heart meridian.

If it weren't for the "Flower-Picking Seal" of the monk from the Galan Temple, he would have died of the poison.

In this situation, practicing is as difficult as ascending to heaven.

"Do not……"

Gu Fangchen was suddenly stunned, then jumped up and looked at the illusion in front of him.

"There is another way."

Dantian and meridians are not necessarily necessary!

He once saw a not very popular post on Tieba. The poster had developed an extremely niche cultivation route.

Because in "Mirror in the Dust", there is a hidden mechanism——

"When a practitioner lives for a certain number of years, there is an extremely small probability that he will directly trigger an upgrade in realm."

This mechanism is called "sudden enlightenment" or "tempering the mind in the mortal world" by players.

And the key point is that this level of improvement ignores the original level of cultivation.

Even if you are a mortal, as long as you live long enough, you can trigger this hidden mechanism and directly cross the realm.

For example, the woodcutter who was watching the chess game and lost himself in the game, if he had such an opportunity, he could directly become a cultivator.

However, the prerequisite is to "live long enough" and be "lucky enough".

Coincidentally, right in front of Gu Fangchen, there is a formation that uses time as a maze.

As mentioned before, the years spent in the formation also have an impact on the physical body, which was first discovered by the player who posted that thread.

Because that hidden mechanism is also effective inside the illusion array!

And now, Gu Fangchen is blessed with [Feng Tian Cheng Yun]!
In this world, no one is luckier than him except Emperor Yong'an.

"I only have about five years left to live. Calculating backwards according to the formula, I can probably stay in this illusion for thirty years."

"Using [Beng Tian Cheng Yun] to increase the probability of the event happening is more than enough..."

Gu Fangchen muttered something that seemed extremely crazy to others.

Actively entering the illusion of time is something that even the powerful dare not do.

Regardless of whether they are lost or not, what these practitioners value most is their own lifespan, and they will definitely not gamble with it.

But Gu Fangchen is barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes.

It started from hell, and we are already at the bottom. No matter how we go from now on, it will be upwards.

Besides, he wasn't worried about actually dying.

Because Princess Prajna outside would not let him die at this time no matter what she asked.

With this guarantee, all he needed to do was try his best to stay rational and remember that he had to break the formation.

"It seems there is no need to worry..."

Gu Fangchen's eyes flickered.

People in this world get lost because there is little difference between the inside and outside of the illusion, and there is no anchor point.

But Gu Fangchen is not from this world.

Moreover, the density of information received between the two worlds at the same time is too different.

In modern society, just one night of browsing on a mobile phone is equivalent to the huge amount of information that ancient people could not access in their entire lives.

The world he is familiar with is completely different from here. Even if he is thrown here for a hundred years, he will never forget where he came from.

As long as his cultivation level breaks through, he can remember it again with just a thought.

Gu Fangchen took a deep breath, stood up, and walked towards the endless yellow sand.

……

In the yard, a young man with a hint of evil in his eyes sat by the pool, staring blankly at his reflection with lifeless eyes.

A delicate hand lifted the gauze curtain, and then a beautiful woman wearing a soft white shirt, a gorgeous necklace, and with her eyes covered with a veil walked out.

"Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding..."

Her pair of slender and well-proportioned naked feet lightly touched the ground in the air, creating ripples wherever she walked, and lotus flowers bloomed with every step.

Princess Prajna looked very interested as she walked around Gu Fangchen. Although she was blindfolded, she seemed to be observing everything he did carefully.

She stretched out her finger, touched Gu Fangchen's forehead from an inch away, and slowly slid it down.

From his brow bone, to his nose bridge, and then to his lips.

Finally, a conclusion was drawn:

"They really don't look alike."

He looks neither like Ning Caiyong nor like Gu Yuye.

But... he's not like the lowly groom who was caught.

Princess Prajna lightly raised her fingertips and hooked a phantom blood-red thread from Gu Fangchen's body, as if it were made of blood.

She pulled back again and pulled out a net woven with dense red threads from the void.

Each string was tightly tied to the one on Gu Fangchen's body, with such great force that even she could not shake it at all.

Princess Prajna: “…”

She let go of her hands, and the red lines disappeared into the void again, but her curiosity grew.

The Demon Cult used the art of cause and effect to sever the blood connection between the real and fake princes. This was news that had been confirmed in Huangtian City.

After all, if this were not the case, with Gu Yuye's cultivation level, it would be impossible for him to mistake his own blood.

But this is just the surface.

The cause and effect of Gu Fangchen's life is not just the fake bloodline.

Even everything else... is fake.

Moreover, the person who casts the spell has extremely high cultivation level, and he can conceal the true cause and effect so tightly that it is unbreakable.

So, did the person in Huangtian City fail to notice the abnormality of this fake prince, or did he deliberately not say anything?
Princess Prajna paused, then moved her finger down to touch Gu Fangchen's heart.

This is where the poisons gather. With just a thought, she can instantly detonate the three poisons and turn Gu Fangchen into a corpse.

But it was clear that she had no interest in killing people.

Princess Prajna curled the corners of her mouth, raising a dangerous arc:

"Your Highness, let's play a game. I ask you questions and you answer them. You are only allowed to tell the truth, otherwise I will dig out your heart—"

"Do you know I'll be at the White Horse Temple tonight?"

Gu Fangchen raised his head, his eyes still blank, and nodded stiffly:
"know."

"puff!"

Princess Prajna's slender jade fingers instantly penetrated into Gu Fangchen's chest skin.

Gu Fangchen was unaware and shook his head again:
"I don't really know. I know you'll be going to Huangtian City to look for the lost sacred object of the Tara Cult, but I don't know exactly when you'll arrive."

Princess Prajna paused for a moment, her smile deepening:

"Holy object?"

Gu Fangchen seemed happy to explain:

"Yes, the top-level item for refreshing points, [Lotus in the Womb]."

Princess Prajna's smile remained unchanged, but her tone was as cold as ice.

"How did you know about the fetal lotus?"

The five fingers exerted force simultaneously and instantly penetrated into Gu Fangchen's chest, grasping and loosely holding his heart.

The finger holding the flower on his chest emitted a golden light and seemed to flicker faintly a few times, as if trying to resist.

But behind Princess Prajna suddenly appeared a statue of the Buddha Mother sitting on a lotus platform.

The face of the Buddha Mother showed compassion. She stretched out a hand and touched the flower-picking seal, which immediately calmed the latter's restlessness.

"forum."

Princess Prajna was silent for a moment: "Forum?"

It sounded like a religion, but why had she never heard of it?

Could it be that there is an organization in the Wei Dynasty that she doesn't know about?

Gu Fangchen seemed to be in a state of excitement and began to talk non-stop:
"If I remember correctly, you wanted to find Xu Fu to figure out the whereabouts of the holy relic, but Xu Fu happened to be assigned by the emperor to assist in the investigation of the true and false prince."

——Yes, it was a series of events triggered by him.

"You can only return empty-handed, and thus miss the best opportunity for the return of the holy relic."

He stopped here.

Princess Prajna was listening intently when she suddenly stopped talking. She reached out and poked Gu Fangchen's beating heart.

"and then?"

Gu Fangchen continued:

"Actually, there's no need to go through so much trouble. The sacred object is actually here..."

Princess Prajna was shocked. He actually knew where the holy object was?!
Her face was solemn as she asked, "Where?"

Gu Fangchen opened his mouth and was about to speak when his expression suddenly changed.

Suddenly, Princess Prajna felt something was wrong.

She raised her head and saw a light suddenly appear between Gu Fangchen's eyebrows.

This bit of light suddenly bloomed and condensed, like a seed, floating in the middle of Gu Fangchen's forehead.

The lanterns that were lit around were all extinguished in an instant.

With Gu Fangchen as the center, countless light golden spiritual patterns spread out like waves, and then with a "click", they shattered together!

The illusion of "A Dream of the Yellow Millet" was broken!

Gu Fangchen's eyes instantly regained their spirit, the light on his forehead was restrained, and he exuded the aura of a cultivator.

Although to Princess Prajna, this aura was insignificant.

But it does exist—

The ninth level of Shinto, entering the state of meditation!

"?"

Princess Prajna, the holy lady of the Tara sect who governs the Buddha lands in all directions and treats all sentient beings in the six realms equally, slowly asked a question.

Over the years, she has seen people get lost in the Time Formation, people go crazy, and people stick to their Taoism and remain unmoved.

These are common occurrences and are not surprising.

But, someone cultivated within the Time Formation and then achieved a breakthrough?!
She really had never seen it.

What's more, this guy was originally supposed to be a useless person who couldn't practice at all!
Princess Prajna instantly felt doubt, bewilderment, shock and other emotions, and stared blankly at Gu Fangchen in front of her.

As soon as Gu Fangchen woke up, he felt something was wrong.

Why does my heart hurt so much?
He looked down in a daze and saw a pair of hands as white as jade and snow inserted into his chest over his heart.

When I looked up again, I saw a beautiful and somewhat familiar face.

"?"

Gu Fangchen also typed a question mark.

No, sister, what are you doing to me?
His consciousness, which was not very clear at first, became completely clear, and a very forced smile appeared on his pale face, which was twisted by pain.

"Um...Princess Prajna, can you pull it out now?"

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P.S. There was an error when I copied and published it from the coding software. A paragraph was repeated and it has been modified.

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