Ultragene Warlord

urprisingly, however, was Hong Xi—her original resistance was even higher than those of the members of Team Zenith.

Although she still couldn ’t compare to Zhang Lie, who had reincarnated, she was still miles beyond the others in terms of mental resilience.

This was largely an artifact of her upbringing and childhood—she had had to grow strong in a clan besieged by what seemed to be an unassailable foe in order to take care of her brother.
It was a credit to her resilience that she had even survived so long.

Zhang Lie was also shocked that Zhang Hanxiang ’s mental resilience was on par with those of Team Zenith ’s.
His sister was far less a greenhouse flower than he had given her credit for.

He caressed his sister ’s head lovingly.
”Very good.
Keep working hard. ”

Although Zhang Lie had deliberately softened the impact of her nightmares, it was impressive enough that she had gotten to the third stage in his training already.

Zhang Hanxiang glanced at him with visible unease and dissatisfaction.
”Are we still continuing, Brother? ”

Li Feng gasped as he lay on the floor drawing breath.
”Captain, this is the most horrifying, most disgusting training I ’ve ever experienced! ”

Perhaps a hundred years might have passed in an illusion, and even if you knew your world were fake, you didn ’t know how to break out.
Everyone within seemed as though they were real, and you could easily develop some feelings for them.

Worse still, Zhang Lie liked to layer these illusions one within the next like a matryoshka doll.
Upon breaking out of the first set of illusions, you would find yourself in a second set, rather than reality.
And when you discovered something wrong with the second set of illusions and broke through that as well, you might find yourself in a third set.

Yang Ze ’s forehead beaded with sweat.
”I killed myself in the illusion—only to find myself in another one! ”

If not for the fact that Zhang Lie would break them out of their illusions after a set period of time, Yang Ze wouldn ’t have been able to distinguish reality from illusion.
Each layer of illusion was more realistic than the last, and it was almost impossible to distinguish them all.

The first layer was obviously a dream.
The second layer seemed real, but contained events that would never happen in reality.
The third layer, on the other hand, was almost a perfect copy of the real world.

In general, the first layer was a pleasant dream, the second a nightmare situated in the real world, and the third a dream that seemed infinitely close to being real, just like the one in which Amurong had found himself.

At times, Zhang Lie would switch the order up, turning the first layer into a nightmare, the second a pleasant dream, and the third a near-reality nightmare.
Unless you were able to distinguish illusion from reality, you could very well be trapped deep within your mind.

Fang Yi rolled his eyes at Yang Ze.
”You ’re complaining about three layers? I ’m already on the fourth—there ’s still a long way to go. ”

Yang Ze was repulsed.
”Four layers?! Captain, just how many layers of illusions did you prepare? ”

Zhang Lie replied calmly, ”It doesn ’t matter how many layers there are.
An illusion is just that, nothing more—as long as you ’re able to cleanly distinguish between illusion and reality, as long as you have that willpower, you can break through even 99 layers of illusions. ”

”99 layers! No, there ’s no way! ” Yang Ze pretended to slump down and froth from his mouth.

Beside him, Hong Xi really did begin to vomit.
Her face was pale, almost stark white.
Sun Mengmeng patted her back as she sat by her side.
It took Hong Xi a long while to recover, and her face remained pallid all throughout.

”Just what did you see to make you so uncomfortable? ” 

Hong Xi shuddered with her entire body, as though she didn ’t want to relive her experience ever again.