Chapter 1049
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Chapter 1049 Deceptive Tricks
This world, apart from Loki himself, Si Xiaonan is absolutely the person who understands him best.
Loki’s divine domain is the [Deceptive Trickery], numbered 009 by the Night Watchers. Its sequence ranks quite high even among divine domains. This power can weave “tricks” capable of deceiving all things in the world—whether people, gods, objects, or even established reality—all can be rewritten through these “tricks.”
And this ability has only two flaws.
First, the “trick” itself must possess logical consistency.
[Deceptive Trickery] can use “tricks” to overlay established facts with events that never happened, but the woven “trick” must be logically feasible. He can make a newly hatched hen turn into a rooster, but cannot make an egg hatch a piglet.
Second, weaving “tricks” requires time.
The time needed to weave a “trick” depends on the target being deceived. If it’s just a trick to fool mortals, for Loki it’s practically instantaneous.
But if the object of deception is an established fact, then it depends on how long ago that fact occurred. From Si Xiaonan’s observations over the past few years, Loki seems to be able to change events that happened within fifteen seconds at most, and even such “tricks” require several seconds to weave.
Si Xiaonan stood within the great formation, looking back at the ripples in the void, her eyes flickering with subtle light.
She was calculating the time.
From when Loki reached out to touch the formation until he passed through it, there was an interval of 3.46 seconds… and this was the time Loki needed to weave a “trick” that could deceive a god-level formation.
Whether it would be useful in the future or not, Si Xiaonan firmly committed this data to memory.
And like this data, she had already recorded dozens more.
Loki’s gaze swept over the many celestial palaces standing before him, and he spoke in a deep voice:
“Kunlun Void has too many divine temples, searching them one by one would waste too much time…”
Before he finished speaking, he took Si Xiaonan with him, transforming into a streak of black light, flying rapidly toward the nearest celestial palace. At the entrance of that palace, dozens of celestial soldiers stood in long rows, carefully patrolling the surroundings.
They hadn’t noticed that two shadows had already silently appeared behind them.
Since Loki didn’t want to search each palace one by one, grabbing a small fry to ask for directions was naturally the most efficient approach.
The celestial soldier at the very end, holding a long halberd, was marching forward with a solemn expression when a hand suddenly extended from the void behind him, silently reaching for his neck.
But in the next moment, that hand passed through the celestial soldier’s body as if through nothing.
“Hmm?”
A soft exclamation came from the void.
Loki looked at his empty palm, surprise appearing in his eyes. After hesitating for a moment, he reached out again, grabbing toward another celestial soldier.
He still couldn’t touch the soldier’s body.
Loki frowned slightly, lowering his head in thought.
Beside him, Si Xiaonan saw this scene, her eyes also filled with confusion.
These celestial soldiers were clearly standing right in front of them, why couldn’t they be touched?
Loki narrowed his eyes, bent down to pick up a small stone from the ground, and pinched it between his fingers to examine it carefully.
A few seconds later, he seemed to realize something and laughed coldly.
“I wondered why the divine power here was so dense. So that’s it… relying on a fragment of time imagery to nearly deceive all divine countries. This must be the ‘deceiving heaven by crossing the sea’ strategy in Great Xia’s plan?”
“Time imagery?” Si Xiaonan looked around.
“Everything you saw at the Peach Banquet, and everything presented before us now, are all just images from a certain period in Kunlun Void’s past. It’s a false appearance deliberately shown to you proxies. I felt something was off earlier—Kunlun Void of Great Xia has always been extremely mysterious, so why would they suddenly reveal a glimpse of heavenly secrets at this critical moment, exposing their location?
Great Xia did this to lure in proxies like you who are trying to explore the bottom of Great Xia’s divinity, and then use this time imagery to convey a false impression to all other divine countries… the false impression that the Great Xia gods are still stationed in Great Xia and at full strength.
From the beginning, Kunlun Void was a trap prepared for the four great divine countries.”
Loki paused, then continued: “But if they’re not in Great Xia, where exactly did they go?
If I were them…”
Loki seemed to have some kind of guess, his eyes flickering with light.
Hearing these words, Si Xiaonan’s heart immediately sank.
If things were truly as Loki said, and Great Xia did this to use proxies like them to transmit false information to other divine countries, then Loki, this infiltrating god of trickery, became the variable in everything.
He had seen through the Great Xia gods’ arrangement, which put Great Xia in a dangerous position.
Just as Si Xiaonan was worrying, Loki raised his head, his whole person seeming quite pleased, the corners of his mouth turning up slightly.
“Interesting…”
Then, as if sensing something, he turned to look into the distance.
A green shadow flashed across the sky above them, flying straight toward the central celestial palace. Si Xiaonan looked carefully and discovered it was a maid wearing a green dress.
Loki stared at the green-dressed maid for a moment, a strand of hair at his temple gently fluttering in the breeze. He raised an eyebrow.
“Not an illusion?”
Without any hesitation, he reached out and grabbed at the maid in mid-air. The green-dressed maid’s pupils contracted sharply, and in the next moment, she fell from the sky.
A hand immediately gripped her neck, and in a dizzying moment, she was pinned against a wall in a corner of the celestial palace.
The green-dressed maid groaned, trickles of blood seeping from the corners of her mouth, her face extremely pale.
Seeing this, Si Xiaonan’s eyes flashed with a trace of conflict, but she still waved her hand, and an invisible gauze completely covered the corner of the celestial palace. Black light flashed on the gauze, and a “trick” was immediately attached to it.
[Causeless Gauze] was already the strongest forbidden domain for concealing aura. Years ago, Si Xiaonan could use it to block the leakage of [Shiva’s Resentment]’s aura. Now with the addition of a “trick” that deceived all beings, even gods, short of the supreme ones, could not detect their presence.
The green-dressed maid opened her eyes in pain, and before her was a pair of cold, snake-like narrow eyes.
“I hear your Kunlun Void has a secret treasure?” Loki pinned the maid against the wall with one hand, holding her in mid-air, and spoke calmly, “Where is it?”
The green-dressed maid bit her lips tightly, glaring at Loki, not saying a word.
“Never mind.” Loki shrugged. “Let me try another way to ask.”
As he spoke, Cold Xuan’s snake-scale-covered right arm twisted strangely, and a small black snake head broke through his palm, violently drilling into the maid’s right ear, directly churning into her brain.
Screams echoed through the empty celestial palace.
