Chapter 947: True and False Heavenly Medical Bureau

Faced with Hanhai's tearful accusation, the "Venerable Tianjue" finally turned his head to "look." His eyes remained closed, and his voice was quite strange—intermittent, fluctuating in volume.

"Who am I?"

"...Guess."

As he spoke, he suddenly clenched his left hand. Yunshui Heavenly Palace, which had long been utterly silent, with no survivors other than Hanhai and Taiyi, now echoed once more with the painful wails of disciples in their dying moments.

Hanhai, pinned in mid-air and unable to move, saw transparent figures rising from the disciples' mutilated corpses. Their faces were filled with terror and despair, as if still frozen in the instant before death.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh..."

What the "Venerable Tianjue" did was not merely "killing"! He intended for the disciples of Yunshui Heavenly Palace to live in eternal agony, forever trapped in the moment just before their deaths!

What kind of deep-seated hatred could lead to such a malicious act?

Overwhelmed with grief and indignation, Hanhai unleashed his full power, trying to break free from control. However, he couldn't budge the black rays piercing his body; instead, the rebound caused him to bleed from all seven orifices, a truly wretched sight! Hanhai could only watch helplessly as the person before him transformed all the deceased disciples into tragic beings that were neither truly alive nor truly dead!

"The Venerable Tianjue, master of the Way of Slaughter," Hanhai muttered. "Such a method is absolutely beyond his capabilities. No, that's not right..."

Hanhai's eyes lost their focus, and he mumbled to himself. A moment later, as if struck by a realization, Hanhai's body trembled slightly. "Tianyi? You are Tianyi!?"

As Hanhai uttered those words, the figure tormenting the disciples of Yunshui Heavenly Palace paused momentarily. Then, a strange smile spread across his face.

"Tianyi..."

"Hehehe, indeed. I am Tianyi!"

The moment these words were spoken, the world in Hanhai's eyes dramatically shifted. The perpetrator, who had appeared as the "Venerable Tianjue," instantly transformed into Tianyi! His face radiated compassion and righteousness, yet he had committed such horrifying deeds! And the black sword-lights that had trapped Hanhai also transformed into countless fine black needles!

"So it was true!"

"Why, Tianyi?!"

Hanhai, believing he had uncovered the truth, let out a thunderous roar. "Why! Why!"

He kept questioning, but Tianyi paid him no heed, his expression remaining unchanged throughout. Only his clouded eyes held a hint of appreciation as he gazed at the "resurrected" disciples of Yunshui Heavenly Palace, as if admiring his own masterpiece.

The newly formed disciples were initially bewildered, staring at their somewhat transparent bodies, then looking around. Gradually, however, they began to realize what had happened to them. Hanhai's roars further made them understand who the culprit behind all this was.

"Tianyi!"

"Tianyi!"

Vicious roars echoed through Yunshui Heavenly Palace, one after another, chilling to the bone. Yet, Tianyi's face showed a look of ecstasy, as if he were listening to a magnificent piece of music. This made it even harder for the Yunshui Heavenly Palace members to control their emotions; they yearned to devour Tianyi's flesh alive. But they remained under Tianyi's control, only able to emit futile roars without any means of resistance.

After an unknown period, as if he had heard enough, Tianyi's expression suddenly changed. With his cold snort, endless darkness engulfed the Yunshui Heavenly Palace members. The scene abruptly cut off.

When light reappeared, it was back to a short time ago, to the moment Hanhai and Taiyi were conversing in the great hall.

"It seems this nightmarish memory is the source of Hanhai's torment," Li Fan mused to himself.

From Hanhai's perspective, Li Fan replayed this memory several times. After confirming there were no other anomalies, this wisp of Li Fan's divine consciousness wanted to leave the place. But to Li Fan's surprise, he couldn't find a way out! The scene here, in its endless cycle, had become extremely close to real space-time. While one could awaken from illusions or memories, how could one return from reality to reality?

His connection to the outside world had been severed. Li Fan attempted numerous methods to leave, but all ended in failure. Yet, Li Fan showed no panic. After all, only a wisp of his divine consciousness had come here. For his main body, the injury from losing this wisp of divine consciousness could heal in less than a breath. Normally, since escape was hopeless and it wouldn't harm his main body, this wisp of Li Fan's divine consciousness could simply self-annihilate. However, due to its innate desire for survival, this wisp of Li Fan's divine consciousness still wanted to try once more, to see if it could find a way to break the deadlock.

"Even I, an outsider, cannot escape this eternal nightmare, let alone Hanhai, its owner."

"But the reason for this situation is worth thoroughly considering. Is it simply that Hanhai was too traumatized to free himself, or is there more...?"

Li Fan, though surprised, remained calm and continued to experience the nightmare from Hanhai's perspective. After enduring the hellish scene once more, as Tianyi's cold snort came and darkness descended, Li Fan focused intensely, peering into the darkness.

The darkness lasted only a few breaths. At first glance, it appeared to be pure darkness caused by a lack of memory. However, Li Fan keenly perceived that the period of darkness was divided into two distinct parts. The first part was Hanhai's perception of the outside world being forcefully obscured. Only then came the interlude of the nightmare cycle. Yet, both manifested as utterly silent blackness, so Hanhai, in his state of madness, couldn't distinguish between them. Only Li Fan, as an outsider, could faintly detect these subtle differences. Indeed, had Li Fan not been accustomed to the world's tragedies and possessed a heart like stone, remaining perfectly calm and largely unshaken by the horrific events in Yunshui Heavenly Palace, he would have found it difficult to perceive the distinctions between the two.

With this insight, Li Fan's wisp of divine consciousness waited patiently within the nightmare's cycle, attempting to pierce through the darkness and witness what was happening outside.

"It seems that Tianyi didn't stop because he grew tired of listening. That sudden, subtle change in his expression..."

"Someone arrived," Li Fan realized with a jolt.

After patiently enduring hundreds more cycles, gradually piecing together subtle glimpses of light and shadow captured each time, Li Fan finally assembled what had happened in the moment obscured by darkness, like completing a puzzle.

Shortly after "Tianyi" suppressed everyone in Yunshui Heavenly Palace, a figure rapidly flew in from the horizon. "Tianyi" showed a look of mockery, then his form faded and vanished. The figure who arrived, strikingly, also bore Tianyi's appearance!