The charred woods exude the smell of decaying vegetation, and there is a canyon deep in the foggy forest.
There is a secret cave in the canyon, and inside the cave is an old tree with no flowers or leaves but many roots.
The trunk of the ancient tree is hundreds of meters high, but the top of the tree has been cut off flat.
The strange ancient tree is not straight, but its body is bowed like a bow.
Countless roots hanging down from the top of the tree are wrapped around a dozen thick chains engraved with runes.
Under the chains, there was a huge sarcophagus hanging vertically.
The lid of the sarcophagus has long since disappeared, and there are two black shadows inside the huge sarcophagus that exude an extremely evil aura.
There are countless intricate runes affixed to the body of the sarcophagus, which is emitting a faint light at the moment.
There is an altar not far from the ancient tree, with many complex patterns and formations carved on it.
There is a standing stone tablet in the center of the formation. There are many incomprehensible tadpole characters engraved on the stone tablet.
At this moment, on the altar, an old man was laying a young girl flat on the ground.
He was shirtless and used a vermilion pen to carve strange textures on his body.
Immediately afterwards, he walked to the center of the altar, took out a jar of bright red blood-like liquid, and poured it on the stone tablet.
The stone tablet has strange lines, which can actually guide blood into the dense pattern formation on the altar.
Like flowers blooming all over the place, bright red blood stains flowed all over the patterned hooks on the altar.
The originally colorless altar was dyed red in the blink of an eye, and a powerful forbidden energy poured into the stone tablet and injected into the entire formation, causing the formation to gradually glow with a faint light.
Immediately afterwards, the old man took out hundreds of forbidden stones and scattered them on various nodes of the formation.
Suddenly, the entire array suddenly glowed with light, gradually forming a mask of light that enveloped the entire altar.
"puff!"
Perhaps because he had consumed too much forbidden energy, the old man suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, and his body seemed a little sluggish and became ferocious.
His face was covered with bloodshot eyes, and he looked extremely painful.
The strange lines carved on the body before were now glowing with blood, like blood lines tightly entangled in the old man's body.
Soon, the radiant blood-colored threads gradually became dim, and the old man seemed to have recovered his strength and exhaled a breath of turbidity.
He came to the girl lying on the altar a little weakly, took out a scarecrow and stuck it in her hair.
Following the old man's hand gestures, the unconscious and seemingly lifeless girl slowly sat up.
Immediately afterwards, the old man raised his hand and grabbed the girl's arms. He quietly closed his eyes and suddenly an extremely evil aura erupted from his body.
I saw an illusory black shadow with a human face covered in abscesses, floating out of the old man's body and slowly entering the girl's body.
"boom!"
At this time, a loud roar came from outside the altar.
The light mask covering the altar shook a bit, but was not shattered by the powerful impact.
"boom!"
"Bang bang bang..."
Immediately afterwards, the light mask suffered a series of indiscriminate attacks, but the light mask was still not damaged at all, only ripples appeared.
"Don't bother! Without the power of the Spirit King Realm, it is impossible to break through the light barrier defense!"
A somewhat old mocking voice came from Zhang Qian, who was sitting cross-legged on the altar.
"She is your biological daughter, and you are plotting against her like this, and you can't wait to take her away?"
Zhou Fan, who came to the scene, shouted angrily towards the altar, wondering why the Ghost King was so cruel and ruthless that he would not spare his own daughter.
"I want to let her go too!"
"It's a pity that if I want to strip away the unknown in the evolved soul, I need the blood sacrifice of my relatives."
"Only by taking her body away can I survive!"
An old voice came from Zhang Qian's body again, as if she was making excuses for herself.
"Even if this is the case, there is no need to cause Zhang Qian to lose her life, right?"
"I can help you......"
"Okay! Boy, you are smart, but you can't help me!"
"I know you want to delay time, but it's impossible for this little girl to wake up, so just give up!"
Before Zhou Fan could finish shouting, he was interrupted by the Ghost King.
He seemed to know that Zhou Fan wanted to delay time, but since he was already sure of winning and was just waiting to win, he didn't mind talking more nonsense.
Of course, he is not stupid and will not give Zhou Fan too much time.
"ah!"
"Impossible, how could you wake up!"
"boom!"
Suddenly, a cry of surprise came from Zhang Qian's body.
Immediately afterwards, an illusory black shadow was seen being bounced back into the old man's body.
"puff!"
At the same time, Zhang Qian and the old man both spat out a mouthful of blood, and their faces seemed a little sluggish.
"Hehe! It was me who saved her, so she could wake up from her dream!"
At this time, Zhou Fan suddenly appeared behind Zhang Qian, startling the Ghost King, and quickly stepped back two steps.
"Impossible! Boy, stop bragging!"
"She has completely forgotten herself, there is no way she can still wake up!"
"If she can't remember herself, even if she commits suicide, she will only end up in a state of confusion."
The Ghost King still didn't believe that Zhang Qian could wake up. He had tried so hard to let Zhang Qian's soul fall into sleep.
"If you are not in a hurry to take action, what do you think I will help you sort out your thoughts?"
Zhou Fan was not sure of defeating the Ghost King, so he could only try to delay for the time being.
"Okay! I'm not in a hurry to kill you. I want to hear how you did it!"
The Ghost King worked hard and planned, but now that it was destroyed by Zhou Fan, he almost hated him to the core.
But he also wanted to hear where exactly he made a mistake that allowed the other party to counterattack.
"Let's start when you and Zhang Qian enter the No. 3 sarcophagus!"
"By the way, he is your father, the Ghost King. He always wants to harm you. He also has the ghost face mask!"
Zhou Fan was about to get into the topic, but when he saw that Zhang Qian seemed a little confused when she woke up, he quickly explained and reminded her.
The Ghost King opposite heard this and his cheeks twitched slightly, and he almost couldn't help but beat Zhou Fan.
Zhang Qian, whose mind was a little confused, also came to her senses at this moment, and looked at the old man opposite with a somewhat complicated look in her eyes.
She did not speak, but looked at Zhou Fan quietly, waiting for his explanation.
"In this No. 3 sarcophagus, everyone who enters will be wrapped in mud, and then be sent by mysterious power into the Buddhist shrine cave on the cliff of the mountain to turn into a clay statue."
"And these people will enter the dream state and forget their own memories. Once the soul falls into the dream state for a long time, the physical body in the outside world will die."
"After the physical body in the outside world is completely dead, the soul in the dream will gradually lose its consciousness and eventually become a puppet."
Zhou Fan began to speak slowly, revealing the secrets about the dream realm of Sarcophagus No. 3.
"That you?"
Zhang Qian, who had completely come to her senses, couldn't help but raise her own questions after listening to Zhou Fan's speculation.
She knew that her father, the Ghost King, and Zhou Fan were both in the dream realm and had restored their own memories.
"The Ghost King and I are exceptions. We are actually outsiders."
"There should be a loophole in that dream. It will only erase the memory of the person who has the skull mark of Sarcophagus No. 3."
"Although I also have a skull mark, it is not the mark of Coffin No. 3, so as long as I fall into a deep sleep, my memory will slowly recover."
"Your father, the evil old ghost king, knows this, so he always tries to scare me and prevent me from sleeping."
"..."
The Ghost King standing opposite his cheeks twitched slightly when he heard this, but he did not refute, apparently acquiescing to Zhou Fan's guess.
"Before I entered the dream, Zhang Qian should have integrated into the dream and thought that she was Qiu Chan."
"Your original guy, Ghost King, was supposed to lure her out of the village and let her be killed by something in the darkness outside the village!"
"Just because my sudden intrusion disrupted everything, there must have been some subtle changes in the dream..."
Zhou Fan slowly spoke again, telling his various conjectures.
The candlelight in the house in the dream courtyard was the only candlelight in the village. The Ghost King was too careless and failed to notice that this was unusual.
The candlelight lamp was left by Liu Shan and was obtained by Zhou Fan in the Forbidden Land of Bones.
It was actually able to enter the dream world, which surprised him greatly.
Although Zhou Fan left the dreamland, the lamp remained in the dreamland.
Inside the lamp is a young girl's soul, Xiao Shi. She is usually useless, except for lifting up Zhou Fan's skirt to relieve his boredom. She has no fighting power at all.
But being able to wake up Zhang Qian in time this time was a real debt to her.
"It turns out that I missed a lamp!"
The Ghost King said with a gloomy face!
Unexpectedly, he, who had planned everything for a long time, would fall short because of a lamp.
"Are you going to use force?"
At this time, Zhou Fan held a green lantern and looked at the Ghost King solemnly and asked.
"That's ridiculous! I'm already in the Spirit King realm, why do you stop me?"
The Ghost King, who already exuded a terrifying aura, did not hide his murderous intention at this moment.
"I want to ask you, did you give birth to me just to take my body?"
"yes!"
"You must not care about me?"
"yes!"
"I am your only flesh and blood!"
"So what? I can create flesh and blood whenever I want!"
Faced with Zhang Qian's question, the Ghost King responded very coldly.
He suddenly flashed towards Zhang Qian, but was forced back by the flames activated by Zhou Fan.
"You are already half human and half treacherous, so this flame will restrain you!"
Zhou Fan shouted loudly and all the forbidden energy in his body poured into the lamp. He activated the lamp and turned it into a fiery snake, spitting out flames and emerging as the Ghost King.
The Ghost King snorted coldly, and the black energy around him turned into black bats and rushed towards the fire snake.
The moment a bat and a fire snake fought together, the ghost king disappeared in a flash.
"boom!"
There was a loud bang, and a large pit appeared where Zhang Qian was standing.
"Boohoo!"
I saw overwhelming vines twining towards the Ghost King in the blink of an eye, spreading countless vine leaves on the ground.
"snort!"
The Ghost King snorted coldly, and his body turned into a black mist and passed through countless vines in the blink of an eye.
The vines contaminated by the black mist began to wither and rot quickly, and Zhou Fan and Zhang Qian were frightened and quickly retreated to a distance.
"Obey and obey, I don't have to kill that kid!"
"Otherwise, don't blame me for going on a killing spree!"
The ghost king's cold eyes fell on Zhang Qian, and it was obvious that he was telling her a warning and threat.
"He won't let me go!"
"And I can't just watch you being taken away from me!"
Before Zhang Qian could speak, Zhou Fan had already made his position clear.