Chapter 64 Fire in the Dream

In the dreamscape, the Blazing Fire was no longer a tiny flame.

It was an ocean of boundless light.

Perhaps the current Gu Shen was still weak in frontal combat... after all, the Blazing Fire had only absorbed the extraordinary source substance of Qu Shui, and had not fully digested it yet.

Back in Yuandan Street, his ability to defeat Shi Li, a fifth-level Deep Sea member, was entirely dependent on layers of planning and the surprise assassinations of the "Ruler of Truth" and "Stopwatch of Time."

But in this dreamscape...

He was the undisputed "King"!

"If... you really have mastered \[Annihilation Dream], then there will still be pressure in this dream deciphering."

Gu Shen stared intently at the data flying sand in the sea of fire, and said coldly, "But... right now, I don't need to save anyone."

"All I need to do is... kill!"

He swiped two fingers hard across "Owl's" body!

With a ripping sound!

The Blazing Fire transformed into a longsword that tore through order. A bright sword light slashed across, and the overwhelming data flying sand was cut in half. There was no blood, but there was a flame more dazzling than blood, splashing from the broken sand grains.

This was a mental world.

In other words... "Owl," who had been hiding behind the scenes, was now meeting Gu Shen face to face with a strand of his spirit. This was a spiritual link, and also a soul battle.

An angry roar echoed in the dreamscape—

"Dong!"

A violent tremor.

Above the high sky, it sounded like a violent drumbeat.

Gu Shen looked up.

He heard the music from the auditorium in the real world—

The second movement of the funeral was coming to an end...

The emotions of the third movement were no longer low, but gradually became high-pitched. The leaping bow chimed lightly, and the flames intertwined and burned in the dreamscape, like fireworks of broken dreams.

In the distance, the broken and collapsing villa building was once again ignited by blood-colored flames. The data, cut in half, flew towards the villa and condensed into a towering giant in the blood-colored flames.

"After taking your compass, I've been wondering what you're trying to do."

Gu Shen silently watched the blood-fire giant rising from the ground, his aura rampant, and a huge black shadow slowly rising—

He said softly, "From the initial arson assassination, to the subsequent explosion of the solemn stone sculpture, the fog in Yuandan Street... you are not only 'assassinating,' but also 'screening.' I survived, so I got this compass."

The dark shadow grew larger and larger, surpassing the buildings and floating over an entire block, covering everything in the dreamscape.

The road, the lawn, all were overwhelmed by the blood-fire giant's figure—

It was as if... a towering mountain range had risen slowly from the ground.

"He" blocked all the light.

So day turned into night.

And in the silent darkness, a pair of eyes glowing with blood-fire, overlooked the world, staring intently at the close-at-hand teenager.

"You want to get rid of me... like you got rid of Zhou Yu."

Gu Shen looked up.

He said softly with emotion, "That's really scary..."

"Unfortunately, I've seen things that are even scarier than this."

A deafening roar resounded from the dome of the dreamscape, like thunder.

The giant pieced together from blood and fire raised its palm and crushed down on Gu Shen.

Gu Shen watched the palm fall "slowly." The powerful wind pressure overturned the surrounding buildings, and the speeding vehicles were crushed. Steel was like a tornado torrent, and the planted green trees directly sank into the ground.

The land was torn apart.

But the palm hit the Blazing Fire-entwined barrier and could no longer move forward... The blood-fire giant's pupils contracted. He continued to exert force, but his vast mental power could not break through this solid "barrier of light."

The blood-colored flames began to shatter from the center of the palm.

For every inch he pressed down, the palm would be annihilated by an inch.

The giant looked down at the teenager in shock... In that instant, he felt as if he was hallucinating.

In the blazing, swirling flames, there seemed to be a white, holy woman, like an angel, shrouded above Gu Shen, and countless blazing lights formed pure white and soft wings behind her.

……

……

"The next time you disconnect... can it not be so long?"

Gu Shen smiled softly.

He did not look back.

When his head was shrouded in a familiar warmth, he knew that Chu Ling had returned.

"Sorry."

The girl hovering in the air was a little apologetic. "The mental link was interfered with... We'll talk about it later."

Chu Ling looked up at the huge, towering giant.

"How is it? Didn't expect it? Every time we reconnect... we encounter some surprises." Gu Shen sighed, "This guy can compare with the demons in the Cage of the Netherworld. Do I have a way to shatter it?"

"Based on the current situation... it's relatively difficult."

Chu Ling scanned the surrounding environment and said quickly, "This dreamscape is not truly under his control. You are all just 'passengers'... Competing for mental strength here, even if the other party is just a wisp of spirit, our chances of winning are not high."

Yes.

This block now... was the world constructed by Zhou Yu with \[Annihilation Dream], between dream and reality.

A place similar to utopia.

Owl successfully seized Zhou Yu's body, but even after ten years, he could not truly master \[Annihilation Dream]. The root cause was the iron law that the extraordinary source substance of non-origin extraordinary people could not be shared...

Now he wanted to seize his spirit in the \[Annihilation Dream] dreamscape to try to impact perfection.

With the characteristic of Blazing Fire devouring the extraordinary source substance... perhaps, he could really master \[Annihilation Dream]!

"Owl has more than one body... His spirit is divided into countless strands... Each member of the hundred-member orchestra in Freedom Auditorium has received a strand of his spirit."

The more Gu Shen thought about it, the more familiar it felt, this ability...

"...Somewhat like 'Deep Sea'?"

"Yes." Chu Ling said lightly, "Your analogy is not a problem. He is like the main brain of the Deep Sea, and everyone who receives a mental gift is his terminal. And now the main brain is collecting other redundant mental power, we will face greater and greater pressure, this dreamscape will completely collapse before long, and we will be defeated before that."

"At this rate... we will be swallowed around the time the fourth movement outside is completed."

Chu Ling gave a mechanical conclusion.

"Obviously, everything is currently within his expectations."

This was indeed a game.

But what was being bet on... was not the lives of those in the auditorium.

It was Gu Shen's life.

"However... he miscalculated one thing, and that is my existence."

Chu Ling said calmly, "There is a way to break the game, only you yourself can save yourself."