“Bad news! A person’s dream is filled with their deepest desires and emotions. Now, Qixingzi’s laughter is stirring joy in my heart—this is a sign the dream emotions are infecting me deeply!” Fang Yuan’s heart sank as he found himself within Qixingzi’s dream.
He had experience from his previous life, so he naturally understood the dangers of dreams. One misstep, and even a powerful Gu Immortal could lose themselves in a dream, eventually perishing.
For now, Fang Yuan wasn’t too deeply immersed. The best way to escape a dream was to stimulate himself with intense pain.
But unfortunately, as an Immortal Zombie, he had completely lost his sense of pain. If he hadn't specifically retained the sense of pain when he transplanted the Bat Wings of Returning to Truth earlier, he would have surely been completely trapped in Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s dream.
His recent encounter had been incredibly perilous. Fortunately, Fang Yuan’s past-life experience allowed him to immediately recognize it was a dream and think about escaping before falling too deep.
Luckily, the Bat Wings of Returning to Truth self-destructed, and the excruciating pain it produced was just enough to surpass the power of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s dream, ejecting Fang Yuan from the dream of the Rank Nine Venerable.
But just as Fang Yuan escaped the tiger’s den, he fell into a wolf’s lair.
Qixingzi was a Rank Eight Gu Immortal. His fame was modest, but his strength was extremely outstanding. Be it the Fang Yuan of his past life or his present life, he vastly surpassed them both.
Fang Yuan no longer had any intense pain to rely on. For a moment, he felt completely helpless, as if he could only wait for death to come!
“No… there has to be a way, there must be a way…” Fang Yuan’s mouth went dry, and his eight fists clenched nervously.
Hm?
Catching sight of his clenched fists, a sharp light burst from Fang Yuan’s crimson eyes. He was overjoyed: “There’s a chance! Although Qixingzi is Rank Eight, there is still a huge gap between him and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable. In the Venerable’s dream, I couldn’t move at all. But in this dream of Qixingzi’s, I haven’t completely lost the ability to act!”
With this thought, Fang Yuan struggled to raise an arm.
It was as if a mountain was pressing down on his hand. The simple act of raising it, which was normally very easy, had become incredibly difficult now.
“Rise! Rise!” Fang Yuan’s eyes were wide with strain, staring intently at that arm, exerting all his strength.
After a full quarter of an hour, he finally managed to raise his arm to the proper angle.
Then, with extreme difficulty and incredible slowness, he spread his fingers. A cluster of starlight began to coalesce in his palm.
Within the starlight were countless tiny ice diamonds, giving off faint crackling sounds. The cerulean starlight dyed the surroundings a frosty blue.
Seeing this ball of starlight, Fang Yuan felt an intense surge of joy and satisfaction.
“Not good! I’m being infected by the same joyful emotion. The deeper I’m tainted by the dream, the more of my mobility I lose.” Fang Yuan reacted quickly and suppressed his emotions.
Just as he suspected, his mobility had drastically decreased. Before, he could still raise his arm; now, he could only wiggle his fingers.
The cluster of starlight he had painstakingly gathered was his last hope.
“A hidden dream can’t be attacked by ordinary means. But this sliver of a dream is different. It has already manifested externally. While interfering with the outside, it will naturally be interfered with and destroyed by the outside as well.”
Although this sliver of a dream contained the dreams of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Qixingzi, its value was extremely high, and destroying it was a great pity, Fang Yuan had no choice. If he didn't, he would lose his own life.
He had no choice but to make this decision!
Using all his remaining strength, Fang Yuan shook his fingers. The ice diamond stardust in the center of his palm flew out gently.
Carrying Fang Yuan’s hope, the ice diamond stardust slowly struck Qixingzi’s back.
“Hahaha, I’ve done it! I’ve merged the seven stars! Hahaha… Huh?” Qixingzi’s loud laughter stopped abruptly. He whirled around, but his body was already shattering rapidly like a mirror.
Fang Yuan only caught a glimpse of his delicate profile before his entire image completely collapsed.
“A perfect opportunity!” Fang Yuan felt a sudden lightness throughout his body, as if the invisible mountain pressing down on him had vanished.
Regaining his mobility, Fang Yuan instantly retreated. If he didn’t retreat now, and the dream recovered, it would be too late.
But Qixingzi’s dream was much more fragile than Fang Yuan had anticipated.
Not only did Qixingzi’s figure shatter, but even the surrounding clouds and the full moon in the sky rapidly disintegrated. In the span of a few blinks, Qixingzi’s dream had been completely wiped out.
“How is this possible? My ice diamond stardust wasn’t that strong. It should have, at most, temporarily shattered Qixingzi’s projection, which should have recovered quickly… Wait. This situation… Could it be?!”
A sudden flash of insight struck Fang Yuan, and he thought of a certain possibility.
As if responding to his thoughts, a sharp roar erupted from the Eighth Star Palace, the sound waves stirring up a storm: “Who? Who dares disturb my slumber!”
In the depths of the dark Eighth Star Point, on the high throne, two brilliant azure gazes suddenly lit up.
Soon after, an Immortal Zombie of ordinary build stood up abruptly, stepped forward, swept its furious gaze around, and immediately locked onto the three of them: Myriad Star Lord, Hei Lou Lan, and Fang Yuan.
In an instant, Fang Yuan’s heart was filled with alarm!
He mustered all his strength, pushed off the ground repeatedly with his back foot, and without even having time to turn around, shot straight out of the Star Palace.