Chapter 177: Midnight Attack

Chapter 177 Midnight Assault

"Don't wander off unnecessarily; the city is dangerous now, this place is safest."

"Alright, once you've eaten your fill, head back immediately."

Li Wei escorted Lilia back.

He returned to his own room as well.

Daily cultivation added the Boulder Breath Technique.

Li Wei consciously cultivated the proficiency of the Boulder Breath Technique, progress was not slow.

August 28th.

Deep night, Li Wei was deducing spells within the Dream World.

Suddenly he felt the surrounding dream change.

Instinctively, he became alert.

Stopped cultivation, walked to the door, opened it.

Found the outside covered in a blanket of mist.

Under normal circumstances, he could see the scenery within twenty meters outside the door.

But tonight, something seemed somewhat abnormal.

Gray mist was mixed with black qi.

Several strands of black qi floated toward Li Wei, trying to drill into the room.

Repelled by the power of the safehouse, the black qi could not intrude.

Li Wei gazed at the floating black qi before him.

"What the hell is this thing?"

"How did this suddenly appear inside the dream?"

"What happened outside?"

He instinctively felt the black qi was no good thing.

Otherwise it wouldn't be drifting about like a parasite, seeking to burrow into his dream bubble.

Out of caution, Li Wei did not leave the dream bubble.

He chose to exit the dream, lest he be eroded by the black qi.

Deep night, Li Wei woke up from his sleep.

Opening his eyes, he saw mist shrouding the window outside.

"Wrong? This is still the dream!"

Li Wei turned his head to look around, walking to the window side.

Outside the window the mist surged, the darkness inside writhed, seeming to want to approach.

Li Wei closed the window.

"I have been dragged into the first layer of the dream."

"Who is the enemy? What technique is this?"

Li Wei knew nothing about it all.

He continued attempting to cast the Great Dream Roaming Heaven Art, trying to break free from the dream.

But every time he woke up, he remained stuck within the dream.

The channel returning to reality was blocked.

"Yubis Cultists?"

This power of manipulating dreams subconsciously made Li Wei associate it with the abilities of the Black Cultists.

Although they do not walk within dreams, they possess the ability to control dreams.

Dreams are the forbidden domain of the Black Cultists, they are especially skilled at using forbidden domains against enemies.

Li Wei suddenly felt a chill run through his whole body.

He turned to look, a thick strand of black qi drilled in from the wall, already halfway inside.

"Damn, how did it get in?"

Li Wei reflexively hurled a fireball spell at it.

Boom!

The fireball exploded, the shadow figure like something not belonging to this dimension, unaffected by anything.

Li Wei focused his gaze.

Thought for a moment.

Boom!

Li Wei triggered a self-explosion on the spot, consciousness spreading across the entire dream.

The dream was him, he was the dream.

In that instant, Li Wei possessed absolute control over the dream.

He saw the black qi drilling into the dream bubble.

The black qi was like a parasite, corroding the protective layer of the dream bubble, trying to drill in to parasitize the dream bubble, affecting the dream owner's consciousness.

With a thought from Li Wei, the power of the entire dream produced an extremely strong rejection against the black qi.

After a stalemate moment, the black qi was squeezed out of the dream bubble.

The corroded protective layer also recovered rapidly.

Malice from the surroundings attacked.

Li Wei saw several Nightmares flying towards himself.

The Nightmares had no black qi on them.

With a thought from Li Wei, the dream opened, several Nightmares plunged headfirst into the dream interior.

The Nightmares were planning to wreak havoc on the dream.

Li Wei's form slowly coalesced out.

The Shadow Servant emerged, lunging towards one of the Nightmares.

Claw of Shadow!

Rend!

Instantly tore apart one Nightmare.

A mere first-tier Nightmare, hardly worth mentioning.

Li Wei raised his hand to channel the power of dreams, turning the dream realm into a furnace that trapped the nightmares within, incinerating them to ash. In an instant, he slew two Tier-One nightmares and one Tier-Two nightmare.

Li Wei felt no great joy.

The Shadow Servant, however, happily devoured three nightmare cores.

"It seems I have no choice but to venture out and find the source of the black gas."

"With others fighting at the doorstep, I cannot continue to hide like a turtle."

Through embodying the dream, Li Wei understood one point.

The black gas can only erode dreams, unable to affect the Dream Walkers.

Clear on this point, Li Wei could rest assured to go out.

After he departs, the dream bubble will become safer.

Only when observed does the dream bubble exist.

Without observation, the dream bubble is mere void.

Li Wei is the sole observer of his own dream bubble.

Opening the door, Li Wei stepped out of the safe house.

Looking back, the door remained in its original place.

Turning his head forward, the door behind him vanished from sight.

Li Wei walked through the mist, exploring the anomalies of the dream.

The mist here differed somewhat from the dream mist.

The dream mist was the true unknown.

Beyond the boundary of spiritual power lay boundless darkness and void.

Places unobserved were places that did not exist.

It held a sense of subjective unreality, that the world I have seen is the true world.

The current mist was merely fog that simply obscured vision.

Much like the fog in reality.

The two possessed utterly distinct differences.

"Hmm? Here it is."

Li Wei spotted the black gas and strode quickly forward.

He saw several strands of black gas eroding a dream bubble.

The dream bubble had already been stained black by a quarter.

"What exactly is this thing?"

Li Wei cautiously entered the stained-black dream bubble.

He discovered many eerie scenes manifesting within the dream.

Some things that appeared normal just a second prior.

Became a pile of indescribable, grotesque objects the next second.

The ordered dream was becoming disordered.

A disordered dream would inevitably collapse.

But under the influence of the black gas, this disordered dream did not shatter, instead evolving toward a more chaotic direction.

If one regards the dream as a reflection of the human soul.

Then, the violently changing dream at this moment meant the dream owner's soul was undergoing unprecedented turmoil.

The soul was becoming twisted.

Li Wei suddenly realized the function of the black gas.

The black gas corrodes the soul, altering human consciousness.

Like brainwashing.

Through dreams, it subtly changes a person's soul and cognition without their knowledge.

"Damn! If this continues, everyone in the Mage Tower will become cultists of the Evil Gods!"

"Master Guze!"

Li Wei hurriedly attempted to leave the dream.

Unexpectedly, the surrounding dream that had already mutated refused to let him leave.

The twisting, changing dream transformed into a monster.

Li Wei was inside the body of the monster.

The monster launched an attack against him.

Various twisted limbs lashed out at Li Wei.

Tentacles a second ago, they became a vine whip the next.

Upon striking Li Wei, they turned into a venomous snake, opening its bloody maw wide to reveal its fangs.

Ruthlessly driving the fangs into his body, intending to poison him to death.

Crack!

The fang broke off.

Li Wei cast the Phantom Shape Technique.

His body rapidly expanded, turning into a giant over twenty meters tall in the blink of an eye.

The venomous snake was also snapped apart by his enlarged body.

The true power of the Phantom Shape Technique can only be unleashed within the dream.

Li Wei's guess was correct.

Torresta created the Phantom Shape Technique based on the rules of dream creation.

Freed from the constraints of reality's rules.

The power of the Phantom Shape Technique in the dream world increased several times, or even dozens of times.

(End of Chapter)