It was at this moment that Zhuge Lan reached out again and touched his chest.
All sense of reality vanished.
Lin Xiao immediately braced himself with both hands on his knees, gasping for air.
"Haa... haa... haa..."
His body felt incredibly uncomfortable, but now, he knew he could breathe. The surrounding universe was merely the Eight Trigram Formation; it was all an illusion...
"Do you find it wondrous?" Zhuge Lan asked, "Knowing that it's all fake, yet feeling it so real."
He didn't expect Lin Xiao to answer immediately. Lin Xiao was still catching his breath. After a moment, Lin Xiao recovered and looked at Zhuge Lan. "Mr. Zhuge, is this... the Eight Trigram Formation?"
"Yes and no."
Zhuge Lan's reply was ambiguous.
"Then..."
If it weren't for Mr. Zhuge speaking, he would have started complaining. What did he mean, yes and no?
It's either yes or no!
"We are inside the Eight Trigram Formation, and what you see is within it. However, it doesn't mean everyone who enters the Eight Trigram Formation can see all this," Zhuge Lan explained. "Only those who are proficient in formations, who have walked the path of a sorcerer for a long time, and who have studied the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams of Qimen Dunjia with unparalleled depth, can see what you're seeing now."
"And the universe you perceived, I call it the 'Heart Realm'."
Lin Xiao still didn't quite understand after this explanation. "But, Mr. Zhuge, I've never learned about formations before today?"
"That makes you another kind of person qualified for this," Zhuge Lan said, looking up. They had now walked into the sunlight, which was blindingly bright. Lin Xiao instinctively squinted his eyes.
"Only someone like you, born destined for formations, can see all this," Zhuge Lan said, his eyes opening fully for the first time.
At that moment, the sunlight seemed less dazzling. What was more blinding than the sun was the radiance that shot from Zhuge Lan's eyes!
His eyes seemed to contain two more suns!
No...
Lin Xiao squinted, trying his best to stare at Zhuge Lan. Perhaps what was contained within your eyes wasn't the sun... but the entire universe.
"Your eyes are the Heavenly Eyes."
"Heavenly Eyes?"
Lin Xiao was even more confused. Heavenly Eyes... his 1.5 vision was Heavenly Eyes?
"Only with Heavenly Eyes can one see the 'Heart Realm' within a formation upon first contact," Zhuge Lan explained. After finishing, his eyes returned to their previous state, slightly squinted, making them hard to discern.
After he finished speaking, the surrounding universe vanished, and they seemed to have returned to the clubhouse.
Lin Xiao quickly looked around. He realized then that he hadn't moved at all.
Dongfang Bai was still standing beside him.
As if knowing he had emerged from the formation, Dongfang Bai asked curiously, "Did you see Mr. Zhuge's 'Heart Realm' just now?"
"Yes... you know about it too?"
Lin Xiao nodded, looking at his hands, then at the clubhouse. It was too magical.
"Of course, I know about it. It's just a pity I can't see it with my own eyes."