Dreamwalker’s eyes snapped open. Disbelief covered his entire face. “Impossible. Simply impossible!”
He continued to question the reality that he lived. Even as he did so, Dreamwalker’s body became transparent. His muttering slowed down, elongating to the point that it no longer resembled words, but something inhumane.
Dreamwalker was nothing more than an incarnation the remnant Chaos Fiendgod of Dreams created. Once the main body disappeared, so, too, did the connection. Without that link supporting him, he was nothing more than an illusion. Not long later, he completely disappeared. The only trace of his existence being the cave he lived in.
The dreamer awakened, and thus, the fantasy vanished.
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“Where is this?” the remnant Chaos Fiendgod of Dreams asked aloud. The last thing he remembered was those bugs trapping him inside the realm artifact.
Of course, the remnant chaos fiendgod did everything in his power to escape, but before he could succeed, he had already been ejected out of the realm artifact. And thus, he found himself in an unfamiliar void. He knew it wasn’t the Vast Void.
Those under the Divine Realm could not sense the worldly laws of the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System except for a select few, but as a chaos fiendgod’s remnant, he could naturally accomplish this. Compared to the Vast Void, this space had far fewer laws and was much less perfect.
None of the laws that made this space reached the divine level, and the foundation of this world seemed to be the Law of Spacetime. Yet, against all odds, this universe existed. Not only that, but the vastness far exceeded the size of his own inner world when he was at his peak, before Pangu slew him.
The remnant Chaos Fiendgod of Dreams didn’t dwell on this matter for much longer. He had something more urgent he needed to accomplish. Ever since he appeared in this unfamiliar space, he could sense the split bodies that vanished.
He now knew how Tianyi blocked his connection with his bodies. He was puzzled, but more importantly, he needed to regroup and regain his true strength. The remnant chaos fiendgod didn’t believe Tianyi or those dogs of the Immortal Court lost sight of him. Since they could transport him to this void, they must be familiar with it. In that case, it was more wise to regain his strength instead of weakening himself to flee.
The remnant chaos fiendgod attempted to teleport. This teleportation didn’t use the Law of Space or the Law of Spacetime, but a special method he developed with the Law of Dreams. He would make his current existence disappear and reappear at another location, but it failed.
The moment the remnant Chaos Fiendgod of Dreams attempted his technique, the void surrounding him froze, and a powerful willpower that pervaded every space rejected his technique.
He didn’t show any disappointment. If he could use this technique in the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System born of Pangu’s Primordial World, he would have long used it. Alas, the restriction of the Heavenly Dao made it impossible. The remnant Chaos Fiendgod of Dreams just wanted to test if it was possible in this unknown void, since the foundation was that much weaker.
Since that was impossible, the remnant chaos fiendgod’s misty body turned into a silver streak as he made his way towards the nearest split body. That split body, which had also sensed him, also made its way toward him.
Originally, the remnant Chaos Fiendgod of Dreams thought it would only take a few minutes to an hour to regroup, but no matter how far he traveled, he still felt like his split body remained the same distance away. No matter how he looked at it, he could see something wrong with the situation.
The remnant chaos fiendgod stopped and tried many methods to merge into one once more. He even destroyed some of his bodies. Once that happened, the essence that made that body should return to all the other bodies equally, but that didn’t happen. Instead, his ‘corpse’ remained there, unmoved. Clearly, something was hindering him.
Hours turned into days, and days turned to weeks. In this timeless void, the remnant Chaos Fiendgod of Dreams couldn’t accurately grasp the passage of time, but that did not stop the urgency in the back of his mind. Would the Immortal Court just leave him alone after transporting to this strange void? Obviously not.
The longer he remained stagnant, the less his chances of escaping and getting vengeance. However, no matter how much he wanted to do something, his fantasy could not overcome reality. It was as if something had anchored him down, interfering with his ability.
After an unknown amount of time, the remnant Chaos Fiendgod of Dreams sensed a change. A temple constructed out of black and white appeared in front of him. It opened its gates and sucked that body in. Although the body didn’t lose its connection with the other bodies inside, it became immobile and unable to do anything.
The remnant chaos fiendgod started to fret and wanted to flee, but he couldn’t change his destiny. One by one, the black and white temple appeared in front of his body and sucked them in. Finally, the black and white temple appeared in front of the remnant Chaos Fiendgod of Dreams’ last free body.
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Tianyi breathed a sigh of relief after the Yin-Yang Temple he took from the Eight Pillar Sect captured the Chaos Fiendgod of Dreams’ last body. Although he had trapped the chaos fiendgod’s body inside his inner universe, it was just that, trapped. He didn’t have a method to seal him until now.
Once the chaos fiendgod was inside his Nine Heavens Universe, Tianyi used it to analyze the law the chaos fiendgod mastered. Only then did he know that the chaos fiendgod mastered the Law of Dreams. The Concept of Dreams that existed in the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System was extremely esoteric, so few mastered it. And even those who comprehended it did not have much use for it.
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But after Tianyi saw the Chaos Fiendgod of Dreams’ masterful usage of the Law of Dreams, he had other thoughts. Turning fantasy into reality and vice versa. If used well, Tianyi believed he could use it to defeat Bao Ling. After all, the Law of Dreams did not exist in the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System, meaning few knew of it. The fewer people knew about it, the more difficult it would be to deal with.
Of course, Tianyi only comprehended it to the concept level and hadn’t mastered the Law of Dreams. Still, with his mastery of the Concept of Dreams and his absolute control of the Yin-Yang Temple, the Chaos Fiendgod of Dreams was helpless before him.
He kept the remnant chaos fiendgod split because he feared what destruction the latter might cause if he had his full strength. Thanks to the hiccup in Minister Everpast’s plans, it actually worked out in Tianyi’s favor. At the very least, Tianyi only needed a few decades to devise a way to seal the current Chaos Fiendgod of Dreams instead of the hundreds or maybe thousands it might have taken before.
Tianyi waved his hand, and a portal opened. In stepped Minister Everpast and Minister Vastlight.
Minister Everpast sighed. “No matter how many times I see it, I still find myself questioning how Grand Elder Nine Heavens accomplished such a heaven-defying act as creating a universe as big as the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System.”
Tianyi only smiled. In reality, his inner universe’s size exceeded the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System. Only because he didn’t have a definite number and no one believed him when he said infinite, Tianyi simply said its size rivaled the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System.
“Grand Elder, where is the Chaos Fiendgod of Dreams?” Minister Everpast asked.
“Over there,” Tianyi said, pointing at a fifth planet away from the sun, Fourth Heaven.
One half of the planet exuded an aura of death. Specters, wraiths, and jiangshi populated it. On the other half, a colossal tree that pierced the atmosphere covered it in an aura of life. Unseen by all, the aura of life and death intermingled in the center of the planet. Sometimes the aura of death would overwhelm the aura of life, or vice versa, but both auras intermingled.
While comprehending the Law of Dreams, Tianyi gained inspiration and finally merged the Law of Life and the Law of Death, crossing the first threshold of the Law of Life-and-Death. Thanks to his breakthrough, Daoyi pretty much stayed in the core of Fourth Heaven, desperately comprehending the Law of Life-and-Death.
However, Tianyi had no need to inform Minister Everpast of his accomplishments. All that would accomplish would be more worthless praises and eyes that looked at him as if he was some monster.
He led them into the border, where the auras of life and death clashed and mingled. There lay the Yin-Yang Temple. Of all the nine heavens, Tianyi discovered that Fourth Heaven had the biggest suppression on the Chaos Fiendgod of Dreams.
Eight Heaven, where Tianyi planned to integrate the Law of Yin-Yang, might have had a better effect, but he hadn’t even crossed the threshold of that law yet.
Tianyi led the two ministers into the temple. In the main hall of the temple, rows and columns of gigantic test tubes filled the room. The room was dimly lit, and the only light source came from the test tubes, allowing them to see the many bodies of the Chaos Fiendgod of Dreams.
“Wonderful!” Minister Everpast said. His fervent gaze scanned the many capsules, akin to a mortal staring at an infinite number of gold mines.
He turned to Tianyi, eyes still shining. “Can we inscribe the extraction formation on the floor?”
“Hah?” Was Tianyi’s reply. “Of course not. This temple is a sovereign artifact. You’re going to damage it. I’ll prepare another location.”
Tianyi pointed out the temple and into the sky. Minister Everpast pursed his brows, seeing nothing but the night sky where Tianyi pointed. Then, his eyes widened. Asteroids and comets appeared at light speed. They grouped together and formed Fourth Heaven’s new moon. “Let’s call it Mengyue.”
Minister Everpast stared at it for a good minute before sighing. “I’m afraid that your powers rival divinities in your inner universe.”
Tianyi said nothing. With the extraction point formed, he brought a capsule and placed it in the center of the Mengyue. Minister Everpast and Minister Vastlight constructed a formation on the moon’s surface and started to extract the chaos fiendgod’s essence.
They planned to extract only one of the Chaos Fiendgod of Dreams’ split bodies at a time. If they merged the bodies or extracted multiple at once, it would give him a much higher chance of escaping. Had Minister Everpast not known this was Tianyi’s territory, the Chaos Fiendgod of Dreams would have been sealed a hundred times over, not this lax security trapping him.
Although sealed, the prisoner was a chaos fiendgod, a being that once fought against Pangu and a progenitor-like existence. No amount of preventative measures was too much. Even now, all of them were searching for Dreamwalker’s trail, fearing that he was an escape avatar. Unfortunately, they could only locate the cave he was last seen at. The Immortal Court guessed that Dreamwalker had already fled the Primordial Realm.
Tianyi left Minister Everpast and Minister Vastlight to their devices. Even though he left, the two only needed to say his title or name to contact him.
He stepped through the portal out of his inner universe and onto Nine Heavens Peak. After spending decades comprehending the Law of Dreams and developing the method to seal the chaos fiendgod, Tianyi didn’t want to be cooped up, so he left Nine Heavens Peak.
His foot brought him to the disciple’s sparring arena. He stood in the sky and watched as two foundation establishment disciples traded blows. His mind couldn’t help but remember the conflict he had in front of the Immortal Scripture Repository when he was still in the Foundation Establishment Realm.
‘What was that guy who fought me called again? Sima…Sima Qing? Sima…Zhou? Sima Pang? Sima Ping?’
“Grand Elder Nine Heavens.”
Tianyi glanced up to see a female sword monarch from the Numinous Sword Sect flying toward him. He tried to recall the female envoy’s name, but he couldn’t remember. Still, he gave a polite smile. “Greetings. Are you here to watch the sparring between disciples?”
The female elder chuckled and glanced at the disciples below. Since the envoys arrived, many of the Foundation Establishment Realm and Core Formation Realm disciples had already integrated into the Primordial Realm. Many even underwent their heavenly tribulations here.
“How can that be? It’s just child’s play to you and I,” the female elder said. She continued to talk with Tianyi about random topics, confusing him about her purpose for speaking with him.
Because he didn’t want to appear rude, Tianyi played along, but soon, he regretted it.
“Tianyi!”
Upon hearing the voice, Tianyi’s face darkened terribly.