According to deep-sea data surveys, the optimal sleep duration for human health is around eight hours per day.

Prolonged periods without rest or sleep can quickly lead to impaired concentration and confused thoughts, followed by heart failure and ultimately sudden death. The peak endurance for an average person is approximately three days.

Of course, this data only applies to ordinary individuals. All scientific data is inapplicable to extraordinary individuals.

Obviously.

This noblewoman had reached her breaking point.

Having gone three days without sleep, she no longer possessed the ability to utter a complete sentence. Supported by Gu Shen, she managed to reach the reclining chair and closed her eyes.

But it was merely closing her eyes.

Closing her eyes didn't mean falling asleep.

"I...can't sleep..."

After closing her eyes, the noblewoman's voice trembled as she said with difficulty, "It started...three days ago...no matter what...I can't sleep..."

Who would have thought that the greatest nightmare would be the inability to dream?

"Hmm...don't worry, I'm here."

"Close your eyes and empty your mind."

Gu Shen's voice was soft as he squatted beside the reclining chair, soothing her emotions. The center of his brow slowly cracked, revealing a tiny but intensely hot flame.

This time, the appearance of the Blazing Fire was completely different from before.

The flame trembled violently and silently.

"There's a residual extraordinary aura..."

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes, his expression solemn.

He attempted to release his mental power through the Blazing Fire.

"Sizzling..."

The Blazing Fire emitted a soft sound.

Gu Shen felt that his current state was somewhat peculiar...somewhat like opening a third eye.

He saw a larger and more vast world.

Or rather...a more real world!

When his mental power was projected through the Blazing Fire, all the things and people that came into view were dissected and broken down—

Was this the unique "sight" of mental-type transcendent beings?

However, this method was consuming his mental power. Gu Shen guessed that as the Blazing Fire grew, the world he could see would become larger and larger, and the mental power consumed would also increase.

Currently, this consumption was nothing.

Thanks to the uninterrupted practice of the Jingzhe Breathing Method these days, Gu Shen's mental power had been tempered very well.

He carefully examined the noblewoman from head to toe.

She was an ordinary person, and unlike Sister Xiao Xin, she didn't carry any sealed objects... Her current insomnia symptoms shouldn't be caused by accidentally wearing a sealed object.

"Affected by extraordinary power...leading to loss of sleep...If the cause cannot be found on a material level...perhaps the answer can be found in 'dreams'." Gu Shen thought for a while, silently concluding in his heart: "I need to hypnotize her, force her to enter a dream state, and search for the truth in her dream."

In fact, from the first moment he saw her.

Gu Shen was already considering something more important than hypnosis. This type of insomnia patient wasn't difficult to treat. He had already awakened as a transcendent, and with the Blazing Fire's blessing, he could make her fall asleep peacefully in just a second.

But what was truly important...was finding the source.

This could already be confirmed as an extraordinary event.

Perhaps this was also part of Cui Zhongcheng's assessment of him?

During this minute of his contemplation, the compartment was silent.

The noblewoman followed his instructions and closed her eyes, but after waiting for a minute, she finally couldn't help but tremble and whispered, "Dr. Gu...I still can't sleep..."

"You can open your eyes now."

Gu Shen's thoughts returned to reality.

Hearing this voice, despair surfaced in the noblewoman's eyes.

She thought she had met the right person...but now it seemed that this little Dr. Gu probably had no solution either...

She slowly opened her eyes, the bright light of the fluorescent lights on the ceiling shone, glaring and dazzling. After dozens of consecutive hours without sleep, the whole world seemed to be spinning.

And at this moment.

The noblewoman felt that she was having a very serious hallucination.

She seemed to see a wisp of Blazing Fire appear between little Dr. Gu's eyebrows.

Brighter than the fluorescent light.

But it wasn't dazzling, but very gentle.

With a "buzz".

All the noisy sounds in this world disappeared, leaving only Gu Shen's gentle, deep voice.

"Go to sleep peacefully...you will have a good dream."

The woman on the reclining chair closed her eyes again, her depleted spirit found peaceful sleep, and she fell into a deep slumber, accompanied by shallow murmurs.

The boy sitting quietly beside her, guarding the side of the chair, remained motionless, like a stone sculpture.

...

...

In endless darkness, Gu Shen opened his eyes.

He stood in the extreme darkness. Above, below, left, right, and in all directions, there were whistling, cold wind blades, as if they wanted to tear him apart.

"I've successfully entered the dream."

Gu Shen's expression was calm. This was his first time hypnotizing someone, and also the first time he used the power of the Blazing Fire to come to someone else's dream.

Unlike the time with Han Dang.

The Blazing Fire had only just formed, and he hadn't yet discovered abilities similar to domains... In other words, Gu Shen hadn't completed the construction of his own dream territory. That time at the orphanage, he was forcibly pulled into Han Dang's domain of truth.

And this time, it was considered an active "immersion".

"An ordinary person's dream is so cold and dark... This should be considered a very bad nightmare."

The dream was so bad, indicating that her spirit was already on the verge of collapse.

If she hadn't met him, or someone with the special ability to hypnotize.

This noblewoman was probably...in grave danger.

Gu Shen stretched out his fingers and slowly grasped. A series of firelights tore through the darkness, roaring and dancing, and finally turned into a floating lantern, illuminating this dark dream realm.

Frost and wind blades were all expelled from the circle of light and fire under Gu Shen's feet by the Blazing Fire.

"In the dream...the power of the Blazing Fire is much stronger than I imagined."

Gu Shen clenched his fist. He felt the rising and falling of his mental power, "Sure enough...my extraordinary trait is still more inclined towards the mental type?"

He slowly exhaled.

The Blazing Fire swirled and spread, and the circle of light slowly grew larger.

Gu Shen spoke softly, wanting to spread his firelight as much as possible...to see this dream realm more clearly.

"Spread."

With a command, it was like an edict from the gods.

The blazing firelight connected into a tide, surging into a sea, completely tearing and incinerating the dark night.

At this moment, the woman sleeping on the reclining chair, a touch of bloody redness appeared on her face, and her cold body gradually generated heat.

In the滔天(tao tian - overwhelming) sea of fire, the truth of this nightmare was torn open.

Gu Shen looked up, his expression gloomy.

Among the countless burning flames, he saw at the top of this nightmare world, dark clouds densely covered, a scarlet reflection in the fiery tide... vaguely visible were a nose, eyes, and fangs. 苏丹小说网(sudanxs.com)

It was a human face.

Or rather, the face of a demon.

The clouds above the nightmare world were extremely low, the blood-colored face was ferocious, and the demon's face opened its lips, as if to swallow the heavens and the earth into its mouth.

If he guessed correctly...with the descent of this demon face, eventually this dream would be completely overturned and swallowed, and at that time, the spirit of the dream host would collapse with it.

If this was a residual spiritual imprint of a certain sealed object...

Then the characteristics of this sealed object were too vicious. How could ordinary people resist it?

Taking a light breath.

Gu Shen recalled the scene of slaying demons in the Yougui Cage that day.

At that time, there were thousands of demons, and he had slain them all.

Having seen the real hell, he would not fear demons.

He stretched out two fingers and pointed them at the huge demon face in the sky.

He silently recited a word in his heart.

"斩(Zhan) - Sever——"

The two fingers slowly swiped across.

The dream trembled violently, the night was as fragile as paper, and was instantly torn to pieces.

In the last moment, shock, astonishment, and fear seemed to appear in the eyes of the demon face, but it was only for a moment, before it was cut in half along with the dark clouds.