Chapter 390 The Truth Behind the Nightmare Beast’s Dream
Azhu, who noticed something strange, cried out in surprise, but could not wake up Xu Yang, whose consciousness was blank.
Originally, Azhu herself had reached the critical moment of forming a demon pill.
A red, warm but not transparent demon pill embryo appeared in her body, becoming more and more solid, and the pill was about to be formed.
Perhaps it was the special constitution of Azhu's Vermillion Bird spirit that the mysterious spiritual fluctuations generated by the prototype of the demon pill in her body actually reached the deepest space of the nightmare beast dream and entered a distant but seemingly close world - the spirit world.
Spirit world.
A world that is more than ten thousand times larger than the Zhongyuan world where the Zhongyuan continent is located. This is a vast world with various noble true spirits and arrogant demon spirits.
Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Tortoise are the kings of true spirit beasts, known as the Four Symbols Divine Beasts, and other true spirits such as Golden Bird and Sky Peng are countless.
As for the demon spirits, which are opposite to the true spirits, there are also powerful ones. Among them, the Teng Snake and the Gou Chen Foot can rival the four sacred beasts in the true spirits, and are called the six sacred beasts in the spiritual world.
Like the Zhongyuan Realm where Xu Yang is located, the most prosperous race in the spiritual world is the human race. The human race in the spiritual world lives in the form of countries and large tribes. They use various powerful spiritual beasts or demon beasts as their totem symbols and worship gods, and usually offer sacrifices and worship. When a war breaks out, the great wizards among them can even use the secret method of sacrifice to invite the projection or original body of the guardian beast to help in the battle.
The spiritual world is also a half-level higher than the Zhongyuan Realm. Its internal spiritual power is more abundant, and it has a variety of genius treasures that are much richer than the Zhongyuan Realm. Many cultivators in the Zhongyuan Realm have used ancient magic arrays to enter the spiritual world to find opportunities, but very few can return safely.
Because the cultivation resources in the spiritual world are richer than those in the Zhongyuan Realm, it is much easier for cultivators in the spiritual world to improve their realm of merit and body than those in the Zhongyuan Realm. The cultivators in the Zhongyuan Realm often need to go through more training and preparation to break through their cultivation. At the same level of cultivation, their foundation is more solid than that of the cultivators in the Spirit Realm. In general, there are many high-level cultivators in the Spirit Realm, and their strength is much stronger than that of the Zhongyuan Realm.
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The mysterious spiritual fluctuations emitted by the prototype of the demon pill in Ah Zhu's body were originally invisible and non-destructive fluctuations, but they caused changes in the deepest part of the nightmare beast's dream. This change quickly caused a sudden change in the entire nightmare beast's dream.
The time in the entire nightmare beast's dream suddenly stopped. It was the powerful power of the law of time, which was mysterious, untouchable, and irresistible.
In Yun Qiao'er's dream world.
The waves thrown up on the sea surface were suspended in the air, neither going up nor down, and large pieces of water droplets were frozen in the air like a bead curtain, without reflecting a single ray of light;
The waterfall descending from the top of the mountain seemed to be grabbed by an invisible big hand, unable to make a single sound;
A yellow bird in the sky could no longer flap its wings, and no air flowed over the tips of its feathers;
Everything was like an empty picture, with only solidified colors, but without the original vitality.
The two Yun Qiao'er who were practicing in the Mirror Pond were completely unaware, as they were immersed in their practice and had become part of the solidified picture.
In the woods not far from the Mirror Pond, on a large bluestone, Liu Haiyu, dressed in blue, sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, his mana running through his body, flowing smoothly and unimpeded.
Liu Haiyu's acquisition of the Blue Water Flame Spirit can be said to be the greatest Taoist fate of his trip to the East China Sea. The Blue Water Flame Spirit is a water-attributed spiritual flame of extreme yin, which complements Liu Haiyu's ten water-attributed spiritual veins of extreme yang. The Taoist practice of Liu Haiyu emphasizes the harmony of yin and yang, and the perfection of the great way. Therefore, Liu Haiyu, who had already reached the half-step Yuanhun realm, could even be sure to break through to the Yuanhun realm at any time.
But Liu Haiyu was not ready to break through immediately. He was waiting for the most appropriate time. Waiting for the moment when he and the Blue Water Flame Spirit would be perfectly matched, thus achieving the most perfect Yuanhun realm.
At this moment, Liu Haiyu, who was extremely sharp in consciousness, seemed to have noticed something. His eyelashes on his slightly closed eyelids fluttered, but before he opened his eyes, a powerful force of the law of time swept over him, and he was also frozen in this moment.
And Xu Yang, who was in a blank consciousness, had not had time to produce new spiritual veins in the four melted spiritual veins in his body, and was also locked by the powerful force of the law of time, and the whole person seemed to fall into nothingness.
In the deepest part of the nightmare beast's dream, a pair of green eyes suddenly lit up. They were the eyes of a huge demon spirit, full of murderous aura, flashing with terrifying demon light.
"Hmm? There is actually a Vermillion Bird spirit that has formed a pill in the nightmare beast's dream. It is really rare in ten thousand years. Although it is only the Vermillion Bird spirit that has not yet awakened, it is a rare and great tonic for this king." The huge beast spirit behind the green eyes murmured to himself.
In the north of the spirit world, there is an endless rift valley, called the Valley of Demonic Spirits. The demonic aura is pervasive here, and the demonic atmosphere is rampant. There are countless natural treasures filled with demonic aura, such as three-headed grass, five-poison vines, seven-color demon flowers... and so on. At the same time, it is also a place where many demonic beasts gather, such as three-headed civet cats, four-clawed Archaeopteryx, two-tailed blue fox... Each of them is like a demon.
Because the demonic beasts are rampant in the Valley of Demonic Spirits, it is also a battlefield where various demonic beasts fight and devour each other. There is ruthless killing every moment, and the valley sometimes emits violent roars when demonic beasts fight and explosions when demonic forces collide.
In the deepest part of the Demonic Spirit Valley, it was terrifyingly quiet, without a single sound. There was only one answer, which was that all the other demonic spirits were slaughtered. It was the silence of death, so terrifying.
The demonic power here is the purest and most concentrated in the entire Demonic Spirit Valley. Due to the extremely high density of demonic power, the demonic power turned into a large piece of purple-red mist and settled at the bottom of the Demonic Spirit Valley, like a demonic power lake, without waves, making it difficult to see the situation inside.
At this moment, the originally calm demonic power in the Demonic Power Lake suddenly churned up. Clusters and pieces of purple demonic energy were blown up hundreds of feet high, like a purple sea of raging waves.
A sleeping, or resting, huge demon opened its eyes.
The Demonic Spirit Valley shook violently, the valley cracked, and the demonic energy overflowed. A monstrous demonic power rushed into the sky and turned into a huge purple-red light column that rushed straight into the sky. For a moment, the dark clouds rolled back, and the purple lightning frenzy was extremely shocking.
Thousands of miles away, countless demons outside the Demonic Spirit Valley also felt the pressure brought by this powerful phenomenon. These demons prostrated themselves on the ground, not daring to speak, and could only surrender, worship and be humble.
A huge demon emerged from the Demon Valley. It was a huge snake that was a thousand feet long, with purple-black scales all over its body. It had a pair of huge wings on its back. The double-winged snake's body occasionally emitted purple-black demon fires, and its green pupils were filled with the aura of a demon. Just one look at it could freeze the void.
This demon was the Teng Snake, which could rival the Four Symbols True Spirits in the spirit world.
Looking closely, there were still many burnt marks on the scales of the Teng Snake's body. There were three deep claw marks on its huge snake head, which scratched its eye sockets and nose bridge. It seemed that it had experienced a fierce battle.
The huge body of the Teng Snake hovered above the Demon Valley, motionless, as if it was investigating something.
"This Vermillion Bird spirit did not enter the nightmare beast's dream from the spirit world, but from the Zhongyuan world. There were three cultivators from the Zhongyuan world who entered the dream together, two men and one woman. They relied on the dream of the girl. However, their cultivation was too low, and none of them were worthy of being devoured by this king."
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Xu Yang and others did not know that the nightmare beast's dream they were in was actually the different space in the huge belly of the Teng Snake.
As a powerful demon spirit king, the Teng Snake has the ability to control the law of time. And the different space in its belly is constructed using the law of time.
The nightmare beast that Xu Yang had was actually just an ordinary frog-shaped demon beast named "Sleeping Frog". The biggest feature of this frog is that it is good at sleeping, and in the process of sleeping, its life essence is almost not lost, so the actual lifespan of the sleeping frog is very long, and it is possible to exceed ten thousand years.
This sleeping frog was originally a treasure given by the Teng Snake to the king of the "Teng Snake" country in the spirit world. Through the connection between the sleeping frog and the different space in the Teng Snake's belly, you can enter the nightmare beast's dream. After practicing for sixty years in the nightmare beast dream, only fifteen days have passed in the outside world.
Using the "nightmare beast dream" to practice, the strength of the "Teng Snake" country's royal family has been strengthened in order to maintain Teng Snake's status as the king in the spiritual world and the imperial power of the "Teng Snake" country.
But the truth behind it is that once a cultivator that Teng Snake likes appears in the nightmare beast dream, even if it is the king of Teng Snake himself, Teng Snake will not hesitate to kill and devour him directly in the dream to improve his own body.
This Teng Snake ancestor beast has devoured countless powerful "Teng Snake" kings and other high-level cultivators who used the nightmare beast dream to practice. These people have become supplements for the Teng Snake ancestor beast, which is also one of the helpers for Teng Snake to finally advance to the king of demon spirits.
At the beginning, Teng Snake gave a total of five sleeping frogs to the "Teng Snake" country. The one in Xu Yang's hand was obtained by Zang Wuya, the founder of the Tiangui Sect, in the "Teng Snake" country when he traveled in the spirit world. Later, it was given to Xu Yang's master Guigu Yeyan, and then given to Xu Yang by Guigu Yeyan.
It is precisely because of the long-term use of the nightmare beast dream that there will be unpredictable risks from the Teng Snake. Therefore, Guigu Yeyan reminded Xu Yang that although the nightmare beast dream is good, it cannot be overly relied on.
This time, when Ah Zhu was in the nightmare beast dream, the mysterious spiritual fluctuations emitted were discovered by the Teng Snake. It immediately awakened the Teng Snake, which was originally in cultivation, and it wanted to devour Ah Zhu.
"Red Hair, last time you teamed up with the green-headed turtle to seriously injure me, this time, it is natural to send me the spirit of the Vermillion Bird with your pure blood to nourish me. Hehehe——" The Teng Snake laughed strangely.
There is a huge Flame Mountain in the south of the spirit world.
This mountain is so high that it reaches the sky. The red flames on the mountain are burning continuously, as if they are going to burn a big hole in the sky.
In a huge valley of Huoyan Mountain.
A thousand-foot-tall Vermillion Bird ancestor beast stands in it. This spirit beast has a golden crown and flaming wings, a thin neck and a long tail. Its appearance is 70% similar to Ah Zhu, but it has a more sacred and inviolable temperament.
"A-choo--"
The Vermillion Bird sneezed, and then said to himself: "It's so hot, who is talking about me behind my back?"
Located in the north of the Spirit Realm is the endless Polar Sea, which is many times larger than the East China Sea in the Zhongyuan Realm.
On a huge island deep in the Polar Sea. A thousand-foot-tall giant turtle is perched on it, and the tail of the giant turtle is a huge snake head.
At this time, the turtle head of this two-headed spirit creature is sleeping with its eyes closed, and the snake head is looking towards the south at this time, with a murderous aura flashing in its amber eyes.
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