The sword seller, dressed in red, deserves applause for the prankster.

Beneath the pure white light, there were twinkling stars, and as Chi Miao released his spiritual power, these stars became more and more numerous and brilliant, enveloping everything around them!

Yan Shu subconsciously looked behind Chi Miao, but she saw nothing.

"Where is your Dharma image?"

Normally, summoned forms appear behind the user and are enormous in size.

The smallest image she has ever seen is two meters tall, so there is absolutely no way she could not see it.

"Here." Chi Miao spoke, then opened his palm. In his palm sat an invisible, formless, transparent little figure, sitting obediently, like air. Apart from the vaguely human shape, almost nothing else could be seen.

Yan Shu was also stunned. She blurted out, "An illusion?"

A phantom image is indeed just a phantom.

but……

"No, with so many techniques and so much Dao essence within you, plus the tempering from such powerful tribulation lightning, it couldn't possibly be an illusion! Where did things go wrong?"

She frowned, unusually unable to explain what was happening before her.

Strictly speaking, Chi Miao's Dharma form doesn't even qualify as an illusion; how could a human's Dharma form be so small?

But she could indeed sense the aura of the Dharma form emanating from this transparent little figure; it was both mysterious and exuded an inexplicable power.

This is undoubtedly an illusion.

"Hey sis, you've made such a big fuss for so long, and all you're doing is conjuring up some illusion for me?!"

She'd been looking forward to it for so long!

Are you kidding me?

Chi Miao put her hands on her hips, and the transparent little figure floated in mid-air.

She proudly declared, "Although this is an illusion, it's no ordinary illusion!"

Yan Shu bent over, staring at Chi Miao's illusory form, and even poked it. "What's so unusual about it?"

Chi Miao: "This is an illusion in Wang Wei's poems."

Yan Shu: "Wang Wei is...?"

Chi Miao: "A very awesome poet, but you don't need to know who he is. I'm just making a joke."

Yan Shu: "..."

It's inexplicable.

Has he gone mad from being struck by lightning?

Chi Miao: "Why don't you try putting your own methods in there?"

Yan Shu was taken aback, then she also condensed a ball of Daoist essence in her hand, pointing it at Chi Miao's Dharma form to confirm: "Put it here?"

Chi Miao nodded.

Yan Shu: "Alright."

That's a really weird request.

However, she was also curious about what different methods this illusion could have.

The moment the Dao essence of the Sage touched Chi Miao's Dharma form, the Dao essence directly merged into the Dharma form. The originally transparent little figure gained a light golden yellow color, and its aura visibly strengthened, and its size also increased!

These days, you absolutely can't control something with just one slap!

"This is... a fusion?!" Yan Shu's face flashed with astonishment, finding it hard to believe that what was happening before her eyes was real!

It took her a while to calm herself down before she changed her movements and expression, then almost uncontrollably shouted, "No, there's something wrong with your act! Something very wrong!!"

"Your illusory form can actually fuse with the power of the Dao?!"

Chi Miao nodded, smiling to reveal her little tiger teeth. Although she wasn't being overly indulgent, her smugness was still quite evident.

"Don't underestimate it just because it's only at the illusory stage now. If we really go head-to-head in terms of strength... it's not even as good as a regular bronze stage! Moreover... after being baptized by the lightning tribulation, I've also come to some realizations myself."

"If you rigidly condense a powerful Dharma image, there is a limit to it. Only by constantly changing and becoming stronger can you have infinite possibilities."

"The tribulation lightning disrupted all my Dao essence, so I reorganized all my Dao essence. In the end, amidst the chaos and order, I merged and balanced these two states... By using the power of the tribulation lightning, I fixed the initial state of the Dharma form, and only by emptying it could it take shape."

"You can think of this as a blank sheet of paper, into which you can add colors infinitely to transform it into whatever shape you desire. It can be endlessly painted and changed at will. The Dao essence is the color; as long as I have enough Dao essence, the power of this Dharma form will increase infinitely!"

When Chi Miao spoke, her eyes shone, which showed just how satisfied she was with her Dharma form.

Yan Shu couldn't help but gasp after hearing this: "You're a fucking genius!"

She had never thought of this approach before.

Even if she figured it out, she didn't have enough Dao essence to nourish and nurture it.

but……

"I see you just merged in at least several hundred Daos. How many exactly? How did you manage to merge so many Daos, and yet it's still just an illusion?"

Chi Miao said with a relaxed expression: "I currently possess 1,577 kinds of Dao essence. The quality of these Dao essences varies, but when I have about 1,500 kinds of Dao essence, my Dharma form will reach the bronze level, 5,000 kinds will reach the silver level, 10,000 kinds should reach the gold level, and the jade level... I estimate I'll need 50,000."

"As for the Jade Image, I don't know either. Your book doesn't contain any information about the Jade Image."

Yan Shu's mind was about to explode.

"How much?! How much did you say?!"

"Fifty thousand paths? Even if you count all the paths in Miaohua Continent, there wouldn't be fifty thousand! Why don't you just fly to the heavens! You might as well just take what's mine for free!"

Because the number 50,000 was so terrifying, Yan Shu completely ignored the fact that Chi Miao possessed more than a thousand paths.

Chi Miao blushed and scratched her cheek shyly, "It shouldn't be... impossible, right? I should be able to reach it after cultivating for a few hundred years, right?"

Yan Shu's soul questioned, "You think you can live for hundreds of years? Your Yama Curse will erupt in less than two years. You really dare to dream."

"In my memory, the one who lived the longest among our reincarnations was a person named Jiang Yue."

Chi Miao was taken aback: "Jiang Yue?"

Yan Shu: "You've seen it?"

Chi Miao shook his head: "No, but I should be able to guess her identity."

The first holy woman of Esoteric Buddhism, and the founder of Esoteric Buddhism.

If she had known earlier that Jiang Yue was her past life, she would have gone to the Tantric sect to claim the position of saintess long ago.

She was misled into believing that she had inadvertently stolen the lineage of the Tantric saintess.

She now understands that most of the extraordinary opportunities she has had are due to the path she paved in her previous life, and the remaining one or two are all due to her talent and hard work!

How long did she live?

Yan Shu stroked her chin and smiled, "Her? She was a very interesting person. She lived for a full thirty years."

Chi Miao: "?"

"Taking away the young master?!"

No way, our longest-lived person only lived to be thirty?!

The future looks bleak no matter how you look at it!

A deeper meaning flickered in Yan Shu's eyes, and a slight smile curved her lips:

"The thirty years I'm referring to are the thirty years she lived as a 'human being,' as our 'reincarnation.'"

"If existence counts as being alive, then she... has been alive from a thousand years ago to the present."

Chi Miao: "???!!"