The next day, Zhou Fan did not leave the Zhou Family.
He asked Zhou Chenxi if her parents were still alive. Zhou Fan wanted to visit his in-laws.
Zhou Chenxi said that her parents had died decades ago during a mission.
The culprit was a Cultivator from the Wu Family. Zhou Chenxi had killed that Wu Family Cultivator more than ten years ago, which sparked a major war between the Wu Family and the Zhou Family, with both the Zhou Family Old Ancestor and the Wu Family Old Ancestor being injured in that battle.
Zhou Fan asked if he needed to eliminate the Wu Family.
Zhou Chenxi shook her head. The Wu Family's strength was now comparable to the Zhou Family's, and keeping them around would actually allow the Zhou Family to develop better on its own.
Seeing that he couldn't delay time with this approach, Zhou Fan came up with a new idea.
He suggested that they go on dates to scenic places near the Zhou Family, reasoning that Zhou Fan wanted to create more beautiful memories with Zhou Chenxi there.
Zhou Chenxi still wanted to leave the Zhou Family as soon as possible.
Zhou Fan had no choice but to use the power of his Extreme Overlord Body and spend three days intimately with Zhou Chenxi in various parts of the room.
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On this day, Zhou Chenxi woke up, determined to leave.
Zhou Fan's Divine Sense strength finally reached the Fourth Tier, and he successfully sensed the Yao creature buried within Zhou Chenxi's body.
But he didn't rush to act, because he wasn't sure what methods this Yao creature possessed.
Zhou Fan promised Zhou Chenxi that they would leave today.
However, before leaving, he wanted to pay his respects at Zhou Mei's grave.
Zhou Chenxi was silent. Zhou Fan took her hand.
After they looked at each other for a long time, Zhou Chenxi finally said, "Come with me."
Zhou Fan followed Zhou Chenxi to a secluded corner of the Zhou Family's burial mountain. Zhou Chenxi pointed to an unmarked tombstone and said, "Zhou Mei is buried here."
Zhou Fan looked at the tombstone, wanting to place some Shiliu on it, but the Zhou Family's Shiliu were not yet ripe, so Zhou Fan hadn't bought any.
"You're not Zhou Chenxi, are you?"
Standing in front of the tombstone, Zhou Fan asked Zhou Chenxi, with his back to her.
"What do you mean by that, Zhou Fan?"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Fan used his Fourth Tier Divine Sense to shatter the illusion of memory in his mind. He saw his true memories, and the Yao creature that had set up the illusion in Zhou Chenxi's body also noticed this.
"Let me guess, are you the Yao Beast from under the Monster Locking Pagoda—the Thousand-Faced Illusion Heart Butterfly?"
The Thousand-Faced Illusion Heart Butterfly's clone sensed the man's undisguised Fourth Tier Divine Sense fluctuations, knowing that its disguise couldn't fool an existence of the same realm, so it simply asked.
"You must have started suspecting me a long time ago. Why? Was my acting not good enough?"
"You acted very well. Chenxi looks exactly like this in my memories."
Zhou Fan sighed and said, "But don't you think all of this is too coincidental, too smooth?"
"As soon as I arrived at the Zhou Family, I met you leading a team to hunt a Third Tier Yao Beast. When I arrived at the scene, you were on the verge of death."
"I saved the damsel in distress, and you threw yourself into my arms, waiting for over sixty years, just because you believed I would return."
"How wonderful, so wonderful that I didn't want to expose it."
The clone listened to Zhou Fan's words and calmly retorted, "These are just your guesses. Humans are inherently very diverse creatures. You cannot deny the existence of beauty."
"I'm not denying it. The above are just guesses."
"But then I had my companions verify the truth of your words, and they all believed that what you said was true."
"What's wrong with that?" the clone asked, puzzled.
"Truth or falsity isn't actually important, but you overlooked one point: these people had no interaction with Zhou Mei. Do you think it's normal for them all to remember an irrelevant person leaving forty years ago?"
The clone fell silent. It thought carefully and realized that it had indeed made a mistake on this matter.
"The entire Zhou Family has probably been affected by your illusion. Your cultivation is not at the Yao Core Realm, but has reached the Fourth Tier Transformation Realm of the Yao Race."
Zhou Fan turned around and looked at Zhou Chenxi with a smile, saying.
"Let me guess again, you must have secretly Broken Through to the Fourth Tier seventy years ago, manipulated Zhou Chenxi through some means, and used an illusion to cover up my true memories when I was eighteen."
"After I left, everyone in the Zhou Family's memories were manipulated and rewritten by your illusions. Thousand-Faced Illusion Heart Butterfly, is your method of rapid Cultivation by rewriting memories through illusions to mislead people's minds?"
"Human, you are very good. You've guessed eight or nine out of ten."
The clone stopped pretending, a malicious smile appearing on its face as it said.
"But can you guess whether Zhou Chenxi will live or die next?"
"Your memories before the age of eighteen are real, you know. After you were tested and found to have no Spiritual Root, I controlled Zhou Chenxi and originally didn't want to have any more interaction with a Mortal like you."
"But Zhou Chenxi's strong feelings for you affected my control. I could only accompany you for a period of time each day, and then use illusions to make you believe that Zhou Chenxi was by your side day and night."
"These memories are false, but Zhou Chenxi's love for you is real and true."
"Since you're so good at guessing, guess if I can instantly end Zhou Chenxi's life right now."
Zhou Fan still had a smile on his face. He approached Zhou Chenxi step by step, his tone chilling as he said.
"If you kill Zhou Chenxi, then you and your main body will have no place to be buried."
Zhou Fan displayed his Body Refining Fourth Tier cultivation. With the enhancement of the Extreme Overlord Body (Intermediate Stage), the Gaining power now swirling around Zhou Fan could already create a great psychological deterrent to enemies of the same realm.
In the clone's perception, Zhou Fan, with his Gaining power unleashed, was even more terrifying than a Fifth Tier Ancient Vicious Beast. It couldn't even bring itself to think of fighting this man.
Because the premonition in its heart was frantically warning it: to be an enemy of this man meant death! Absolute death!
Just as the two sides were in a standoff, the clone suddenly received a gathering signal from its main body.
It took one last look at this terrifying man, then transformed into a stream of light and rapidly flew out of Zhou Chenxi's body.
Zhou Fan did not stop it, because he had also received Qin Li's Divine Sense message.
He had successfully found the Thousand-Faced Illusion Heart Butterfly hidden nine thousand li away from the Zhou Family's base. Now both sides had begun to fight, and Qin Li was able to maintain an even footing.
After the Thousand-Faced Illusion Heart Butterfly's clone left, Zhou Chenxi instantly collapsed to the ground.
Her face was pale, and her aura was weak, but she had not suffered any serious injuries.
Zhou Fan put a Second Tier Medicinal Pill into Zhou Chenxi's mouth and circulated his magic power to help Zhou Chenxi take the Medicinal Pill.
Zhou Chenxi also recovered a little consciousness at this time. She cooperated with Zhou Fan to refine the Second Tier healing Medicinal Pill in her body.
A quarter of an hour later, the Medicinal Pill was fully refined, and Zhou Chenxi's body was no longer in serious trouble.
It was just that her Sea of Consciousness had been occupied by the Thousand-Faced Illusion Heart Butterfly's clone for many years, so now there was some estrangement between Zhou Chenxi's consciousness and Divine Sense. She needed some time to re-familiarize herself with her body.
"Zhou Fan, I knew you would come."
This was the first sentence Zhou Chenxi said after opening her eyes. Zhou Fan smiled and replied, "It's good that I'm not late."