I am the villain in the book

Clearly, Gu Pan'er intended to go back tonight and borrow another three hundred taels from Wei Changtian.

When she left this morning, Wei Changtian had given her one thousand taels, but the house was priced at one thousand three hundred, leaving a bit of a shortfall.

Normally, most people would be embarrassed to ask.

However, Gu Pan'er didn't hesitate much before promising to bring the money early the next morning to buy the house.

It wasn't that she didn't value Wei Changtian's money, but she felt that not asking because of so-called face was undoubtedly putting the cart before the horse.

Since Wei Changtian had already decided to help her, there was no need for her to be coy; she should just state how much she needed.

Anyway, she would return this money to him sooner or later.

The sun was bright, and the summer breeze was warm.

Finding a satisfactory house in less than half a day, despite being subjected to a few humiliating words from the old broker, Gu Pan'er was in a good mood.

After agreeing with the young broker on a time to sign the contract tomorrow, Gu Pan'er returned to the inn early, eagerly waiting for Wei Changtian to come back, ready to discuss the day's events with him.

If possible, Gu Pan'er also wanted Wei Changtian to accompany her to "buy the house" tomorrow, after all, as a woman, she was more or less easily deceived.

"Squeak ~"

Pushing open the wooden window and propping up the window bar.

Gu Pan'er looked at the busy pedestrians outside the inn and felt like her luck was changing.

Looking back on the first half of her life, from a woman from a poor family to being sold to Manxiang House, and then having her redemption money stolen, Gu Pan'er had always believed that her fate was destined to be bitter, and she had never had a bit of good luck.

But now she suddenly felt that perhaps all her luck had been used to meet Wei Changtian.

The first "accidental encounter" at Manxiang House, with so many girls in the building, the madam just happened to arrange for her.

Later, at that small inn, the two of them unexpectedly ended up staying next door to each other.

If it weren't for so many coincidences, she wouldn't have met and known Young Master Wei.

Then, wouldn't she still be an involuntary courtesan, let alone having a place to settle down and establish a career?

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The sunlight fell on Gu Pan'er, reflecting the tenderness in her eyes.

Although she had never explicitly expressed anything to Wei Changtian before, a woman's thoughts were all written in her eyes when she was alone.

However, Gu Pan'er didn't expect to marry Wei Changtian.

She was very clear about the difference in status between herself and Wei Changtian, which was like mud and clouds.

Not to mention that she had such a past.

Therefore, as long as Young Master Wei was still in Linchuan, it would be good if she could see him more and talk to him more.

Gently touching her slightly flushed cheeks, Gu Pan'er turned and left the window, sitting on the bed, thinking about how to renovate the house while carefully listening to the movements next door.

It was a pity that she was destined not to wait for Wei Changtian to return today.

"Boom!!!"

On the other side, Yun'an Temple.

In the third breath after the Buddha's eyes opened, the first loud noise finally exploded in the main hall.

However, the source of this loud noise was not the huge Buddha statue that had slowly stood up from the lotus seat, but Wei Changtian, who suddenly came back to his senses.

"Die!!"

A sudden roar came, and countless silver long swords poured out of the Starfall Blade sheath in quick succession.

The moment Wei Changtian's eyes cleared, the first thing he did was to swing his sword at Pu Xuan, who was standing right in front of him.

"Chila!!"

The sword blade cut through the air, and the desolate Fallen Sky Sword intent cut open a pure black trajectory in the vast Buddha light.

Without holding back at all, Wei Changtian's attack was almost his strongest strike.

With this one sword, let alone a Rank 4, even a Rank 2 expert would likely die directly at such a close distance.

Therefore, unless Pu Xuan had a life-saving treasure on him, there was absolutely no possibility of him surviving.

However...

"What?!"

The next moment, Wei Changtian widened his eyes completely subconsciously, and the shock in them was no less than when he had just seen the Buddha statue open its eyes.

In the second before he attacked, he had expected Pu Xuan to have hidden his realm, and he had also expected Pu Xuan to have a life-saving treasure.

But he probably couldn't have expected that the old monk with white eyebrows and a white beard, whose wrinkles on his face were so real...

Was actually fake.

". Illusion?"

Clenching the Longquan Sword, Wei Changtian stared at Pu Xuan, and after a long silence, he uttered two words.

Pu Xuan was also frank, nodding silently, which was regarded as admitting Wei Changtian's guess.

"So... this main hall is an illusion array?"

Taking a deep breath, the surprise in Wei Changtian's eyes gradually faded away, and a self-deprecating wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He turned his head to look at this extremely realistic main hall and sighed softly:

"Alas, so it is."

"I should have guessed it just now when the Buddha statue opened its eyes."

Indeed.

Just as Wei Changtian said, the moment the Buddha statue opened its eyes, he should have been able to deduce that he had fallen into an illusion.

Because even if this world is "unreasonable", any supernatural power or phenomenon must follow a basic rule—

The virtual is virtual, and the real is real.

For example, the various martial arts supernatural powers displayed with the help of internal force, whether they are transformed into the appearance of knives and swords, or any other concrete image, their essence is still only "virtual" internal force.

Simply put, you may be able to "conjure" a piece of gold through internal force, but this gold is not real gold.

Even the luck beast is the same.

Whether it is the Yellow Dragon or Gu Diao summoned with the help of the "divine sword", or the Zhulong that can directly fight, they are just a mass of "virtual bodies" composed of the luck of the Heavenly Dao that can be seen, and not real "entities" with flesh and blood.

And from this perspective, a real Buddha statue will never open its eyes.

"Pretending to be frightened by me, making me relax my vigilance, and finally luring me into the array... Bald donkey, your acting is not bad."

Glancing at the "virtual Buddha" who had completely stood up not far away, Wei Changtian shook his head and sighed:

"You had already guessed that I would come, so you arranged all this in advance."

"Such a big deal, you must have worked hard."

". As long as we can kill you, it's worth it."

Seeing that Wei Changtian had returned to normal so quickly, Pu Xuan was stunned at first, but soon sneered:

"Also, Young Master Wei, you said one thing wrong just now."

"Oh?"

Wei Changtian narrowed his eyes: "What's wrong?"

"Just now, the young master said that this main hall is an illusion array, but that's not the case."

Pu Xuan smiled and gave the answer softly.

"In fact, the entire Yun'an Temple is an illusion array."

"And the moment you stepped into the temple gate, you were already in an illusion."