The counterattack system is only available in the Mahayana period

"Yes, what a coincidence. You are really lucky." Jiang Li picked up the tea with a smile and clinked it with Atong's wine glass.

Atong always felt that there was something wrong with Jiang Li's words, but after thinking about it carefully, he didn't think there was anything wrong with it, so he smiled politely.

"Uncle Jiang..."

"Did you come to a conclusion?"

"Well, I have some ideas."

The village celebrated the tenth day, and A Tong stayed here for ten days, always with a smile on his face, accompanying the old village chief.

Ten days later, Atong said goodbye to the old village chief: "Grandpa, Kyushu is vast, and our place is just a small corner. Tong'er wants to go out for a walk."

The old village chief was reluctant to leave, but knew that Atong had grown up and the small Hantan Village was a constraint for him, so he bid farewell with tears.

After Atong left, Li Nian'er felt like the world was spinning, the scenery changed, the pendant on his chest flickered, and he stood at the entrance of the village again.

"You two, why don't you come inside and sit down?" The old village chief walked out of the village and greeted the two of them.

"Village chief, don't you recognize us?"

The old village chief looked at Li Nian'er and Jiang Li hesitantly: "I don't have a good memory. Where have I seen you two?"

"It's nothing." Li Nian'er shook his head and said nothing more.

Familiar scenes unfolded, the old village chief told about the evil dragon, and several young people wanted to sacrifice their children to the evil dragon.

Only this time, Li Nian'er did not choose to take action.

Xu Shi's behavior aroused public outrage and was criticized and blocked by many people in the village.

It's just a few ninth-level Qi training. Could it be that thousands of third-level Qi training can't beat a few ninth-level Qi training?

Thanks to the joint efforts of the villagers, the two children were still kept.

The evil dragon got angry and rushed out of the cold pool to the entrance of the village. He wanted to eat everyone, but was killed by Atong who descended from the sky.

The villagers celebrated and drank wine, just like before.

"Senior Tong, how many times have you staged this illusion?" Li Nian'er couldn't help but say at the banquet.

When things have developed to this point, how could Li Nianer fail to see the problem.

This thing was an illusion from beginning to end, an illusion that kept repeating itself.

"Illusion? What illusion?" Atong was stunned and didn't understand what Li Nian'er was talking about.

"Senior Tong, repeat the same thing twice, no matter how stupid I am, I can still tell that this is an illusion."

"Fellow Taoist, you have been trapped in your own illusion for five hundred years, and you still don't want to wake up?"

The illusion was shattered, and the real picture appeared in front of the two of them.

The whole village seemed to have been ravaged by a hurricane, with houses collapsed and in a mess.

After years, only the skeletons of the villagers' corpses were left. These skeletons were in different postures and positions. Some fell on the roof, some were crushed to death by stone mills, and some knelt on the ground holding their children...

The only thing these skeletons have in common is that they fled outside the village, but obviously, they all failed.

Li Nian'er could imagine how frightened these people were before they died.

A huge dragon corpse lay in the center of the village. A middle-aged boy with a weathered face held the body of the old village chief with tears streaming down his face.

"Grandpa is still alive, uncles and aunts are still alive, everyone is still alive!"

"I'm not late, no!"

A monk in the integration stage cried like a child in front of the two of them.

Perhaps in Atong's mind, he is just a child, a child who has lost his only relative and is unwilling to face the facts.

In fact, it was only shown in front of Li Nian'er. Jiang Li discovered the problem as soon as he arrived here. There were illusions for more than ten miles, created by the monks in the integration period. He had long used his spiritual consciousness to see what the real Hantan Village looked like.

Seeing the reality, Li Nian'er already had a rough guess.

What the old village chief said before should be correct. The evil dragon was causing trouble and eating countless people. A Tong sneaked away, got a chance in the secret realm, learned the way of illusion, and became a monk in the Nascent Soul stage.

However, the villagers could not bear the threat of the evil dragon and tried to resist. The evil dragon was furious and twisted its huge body like a hill rolling over. The poisonous gas filled the air and the whole village was reduced to death with no survivors.

A Tong arrived late and failed to save anyone. Maybe he still watched the old village chief being killed by the evil dragon, but he was too late to take action.

A Tong was furious, fought with the evil dragon, and killed it.

But A Tong couldn't accept the reality, so he cast illusions and told himself over and over again.

I didn't come late, I didn't come late, everyone is still alive.

As Ah Tong repeated the illusion day after day, the way of illusion improved, the illusion became more and more refined, and his own cultivation also continued to improve in the process, becoming a monk in the integration stage.

It's just that if the illusion is repeated a thousand times or ten thousand times, it is still an illusion.

A Tong cannot change the fact that he is the only survivor of Hantan Village.

Five hundred years have passed, and the old village chief may have been reincarnated several times.

Jiang Li did not immediately expose Atong's illusion, but was wondering whether to break his illusion or let him live in this illusion for the rest of his life.

Jiang Li chose the former.

What Li Nian'er didn't know was that more than one person mistakenly entered the illusion, but after those people experienced the illusion once, their memories would be erased by A Tong and sent out of the village. As a result, A Tong's illusion has not been exposed for the past five hundred years.

And Li Nian'er has a protective pendant given by her mother, which blocks A Tong's methods and retains her memory.

Jiang Li sighed secretly. If he killed the evil dragon by himself according to the system's timeline and got the chance, there would be no need for Atong, and the whole family would be happy.

The "Hundred Poison Sutra" rewarded in this mission is probably used in conjunction with the Dragon Poison Pill.

The quest also rewards Dragon Blood Wood. Using dragon's blood wood as firewood, boiling the dragon's blood and soaking it in it can maximize the body-building effect of the dragon's blood.

The third reward was the Hidden Trace Talisman. Jiang Li saw with his spiritual consciousness that there was a strange object in the cold pool called the Extremely Cold Frost Mirror, which was why the cold pool existed.

The Extreme Cold Frost Mirror will release coldness all the time. Carrying it with you can strengthen your body. However, the coldness is too obvious and can easily attract other people to spy. This is where you need to use the invisibility charm that can hide the coldness.

The system is very considerate, but it's a pity that Jiang Li can't use any of these rewards.

Moreover, even if the dragon has been dead for hundreds of years, the task will not be completed.

Jiang Li didn't know if the system had planned to avoid the tragedy in Hantan Village. If so, he would have to re-evaluate the origin and purpose of the system.

"Fellow Taoist, have you ever thought about what your grandparents, uncles and aunts would think when they see you looking decadent?"

A Tong's body trembled, as if his grandfather was standing in front of him, and he didn't dare to look at him.

"Everyone has a day to pass away, but they all hope that their loved ones will remember them and move forward strongly. Time will not stop because of someone's departure, but a person's growth may be due to someone's departure. Go and stagnate.”

"Do you want to live like this for the rest of your life, living in a past that doesn't exist?"

Atong stood up slowly and thanked Jiang Li.

"Thank you Taoist fellow for enlightenment. I haven't asked my Taoist fellow yet for his name."

"You should have heard of my name. My name is Jiang Li."

A Tong was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly replied: "I hope fellow Taoist Jiang Li can forgive me. This is the first time I have heard of this name."

Jiang Li was very calm and showed no embarrassment at all.