Chapter 10 Linyuan Dreamland, Imperial City Guards
【Name】:Xingmengjiu
Grade: medium to top grade
characteristic:
Star Dream Drunk: The entrance to Xingtian Cave is hidden in the clear dreams of Linyuan City. After drinking this wine, the monks can obtain the dream demon body for twelve hours.
Note: Drinkers need to find the hidden entrance to the cave in the collective dream of millions of people in a city. If they fail to leave the dream before the dream demon body expires, they will be trapped in it forever.
This was the attribute that Du Kang saw after he picked up the Xingmeng Wine. When he drank the foamy bowl of wine without hesitation, he felt a taste of bubbles bursting in his mouth like a fat house's happy water.
Each bubble is like a unique, colorful and wonderful dream that rises and falls, bringing Du Kang into an illusory dream world.
Du Kang was not drunk at all, and his Yinshen became clearer and more sensitive than ever under the stimulation of the wine. A gust of night wind blew by, giving him the illusion of being in a state of ecstasy and wanting to ride the wind back home.
The world around him also changed miraculously.
With the blessing of the fishing fire, the Qingshui River under your feet began to shine brighter than the stars. Boating on it felt like walking in the sky...
The cheerful singing in the boat suddenly turned sad and desolate. All the lights in the city were lit up in an instant. Crowds of people quietly appeared in the originally cold night market. In this way, Linyuan City returned to its busiest time of the day.
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The boatman at the stern was wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat, hiding his entire face under the darkness of the bamboo hat. He gently rocked the boat's oars, shattering the reflections of stars and lights in the water. After the surrounding scene stabilized, he stopped and faced
said the two boat passengers.
"We have arrived at Linyuan Inner City. Now that we have cleared all the money and goods, please get off the boat."
Du Kang patted his arm. This temporary dream demon body actually had a fresh feeling like flesh and blood. He was not in a hurry to get off the boat, but looked at the fish stew boiling in the soup at his feet and asked.
"I see there is fish stew on the boat, and it smells quite delicious. I wonder if I can buy the fish stew from the boatman?"
The space inside the boatman's bamboo hat was covered by shadows, and his face could not be seen clearly. He suppressed his hoarse voice and laughed.
"Since things are placed here, they are for sale. There is nothing in this world that money cannot buy. If there is, it is most likely because there is not enough money."
"I heard the boatman say this fish is not cheap."
"The price of my fish depends on the person. If you encounter a person with a decayed complexion who is likely to die in a dream, you need to charge a million taels of silver.
But if a lucky person like the guest wants to buy it, I won’t charge for the fish. I only need the guest to catch two fish and return them to me before leaving Linyuan City after taking the pot of fish."
Du Kang turned his head and looked at the bustling crowd on the river bank. His eyes signaled Yang Liu to take the fish stew away and said to the boatman with a smile.
"It is said that free things are the most expensive, but I always like to buy expensive things. I want this fish, and I will give you two back when I leave."
Yang Liu immediately picked up the casserole that was still under the fire and jumped off the boat with Du Kang.
After the transaction was over, the boatman didn't say how he would catch the fish next time. The boat's oar swung like a fish's tail and was about to sail away. Du Kang took advantage of this moment to ask again.
"The boatman just said that there have been so many people drinking recently that the price of wine has gone up. I wonder if you could tell me how many people have bought wine from you recently?"
After a moment of silence, the boatman's hoarse voice sounded.
"In the past month, a total of twenty-three people have come to see me. Tonight, you are already the third one..."
The boat rowed away into the distance, the boatman's body and the boat gradually became more and more sluggish, and soon completely disappeared from this world.
"Wandering through dreams at will, is this the so-called dream demon?"
Transformation conditions: Devour the dreams of millions of people with the dream world you create, or occupy a large-scale collective dream that has been formed somewhere, and become the master of dreams, and you will automatically advance to the dream demon king.
Du Kang couldn't help but shake his head and smile when he recalled the information he had just used his spiritual consciousness to contact the boatman and recognized on the panel.
“This Linyuan City looks like it is full of flowers.
But there are all kinds of people in the imperial court. There are many people who cheat and enrich their own pockets. This dream monster is just a small part of them.
There are corrupt officials inside, and the Immortal Cult and Rakshasa Cult outside are clinging to and sucking the luck of the dynasty. With so many giant rats eating together, the Liang Dynasty will be over sooner or later."
Du Kang was not too concerned about these major world events at this time. He just sighed and put his hand on the hot casserole held by Yang Liu. The panel immediately recognized the information of this pot of fish stew.
【Name】: Ran Yi Fish Braised
Grade: medium to top grade
characteristic:
Escape from the dream: Intermediate monks who take Star Dream Wine and enter the dream, if they fail to escape after twelve hours, will be lost in the dream and gradually turn into a random demon. After being cooked by the dream demon, the monk can escape once after eating it.
Dream opportunity.
Legacy of the previous life: Although Ran Yi has been transformed into a demon, the demon body of Ran Yi may still have impressive memories and inheritance of sorcery left behind. After eating the fish head, the monks can obtain relevant inheritance.
Sure enough, this is something that can be used, Du Kang said directly to Yang Liu.
"The fish brain in the pot contains a magic inheritance. Eat it."
"Yes, Yang Liu thanked the master for the reward."
Yang Liu opened the lid of the pot, and a sharp animal claw popped out from his index finger. He slashed Ran Yi's fish head that looked like a snake's head, and quickly picked out a steaming brain and swallowed it in his mouth.
The fish brain turned into red vitality at the entrance and merged into Yang Liu's body. During the fusion process, a weak red aura quickly emerged on Yang Liu's body.
At the same time, in his mind, some messy and fragmented memory fragments began to emerge suddenly.
Du Kang listened intently in the voice-hearing mode. In an instant, countless voices surged in, and he heard the life of this monk who became Ran Yiyu.
"Cao Yougen, who was born in the suburbs of Yanzhou, is a farmer's boy who has been smart since he was a child..."
"When I was sixteen, I hooked up with the youngest daughter of the Sun family pawnshop in Acropolis on the outskirts of Beijing because of my sweet talk, and became her son-in-law..."
"Three years of hard work and hard work, Cao Yougen finally gained the trust of the Sun family, got the opportunity to sponsor learning spells, and got a job patrolling the streets in the city..."
"When he was twenty-three years old, he was lucky enough to meet the wife of his immediate superior, the inspection captain. Although the wife was as strong as a bear and had a patch of dark hair on her chest, which required daily shaving to keep her face clean, Cao Yougen still gritted his teeth and did it.
Offended her face..."
"Under Cao Yougen's attentive service, my wife not only allowed him to advance to several levels in just two years, and at the age of twenty-five, he was transferred to the City Guards Department to serve as a small flag, but he also upgraded his blazing skills to level C.
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"The high-spirited Cao Yougen finally turned over and became a master. He divorced his original wife and began to serve his wife wholeheartedly..."
"But just as men are philandering, powerful women are also philandering. My wife soon got tired of Cao Yougen's face and some of his tricks, and abandoned him..."
"In the midst of despair, Cao Yougen overheard that the patrol captain seemed to be like Long Yang, and then he approached the patrol captain and successfully captured his wife's man..."
"In the following years, Cao Yougen seemed to have opened the door to a new world. With his open mind, he successively had friendly relationships with the three sons and two daughters of the patrol captain, and his magic successfully broke through to the D level...
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"But after all, one person had to deal with seven people, dealing with several beds. Cao Yougen's energy was limited and it was difficult to cover everything. The matter was finally exposed..."
"The patrol captain was grateful for the friendship we had had with each other for several years, and hated him for messing around in his own home, so he used his connections to transfer him to the Imperial Palace in the capital to show that he had forgotten her...
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"Unexpectedly, when he first arrived at the Rencheng Imperial Division, Cao Yougen received an assignment. Under the leadership of an Imperial Division Qianhu, he went to Haizhou to monitor whether Haizhou Prefecture Mufu Ruhai had any treason...
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"After half a year of running around, a group of more than a dozen people came to Linyuan City. Without contacting the local Imperial City Division, they began to secretly investigate the situation in Haizhou alone..."
"Without any effort, the people from the Imperial City Department could easily find out that in addition to being very attentive to the construction of Linyuan City, Fu Ruhai's management of the entire Haizhou over the years can almost be described as a corpse-like meal. There is no
After presiding over the liquidation of local forces in the state, I did not vigorously expand the frontier, so I set my sights on the main goal of this trip, Xingtian Cave..."
"After half a month of secretly snooping among the three sects and nine liu in the city, the Imperial City Secretary finally found a secret way to enter the Xingtian Cave, so he took most of his men with him and entered the group in neighboring Yuan City through a teleportation array arranged in a brothel.
Dreamland..."
"The entrance to Xingtian Cave is unpredictable. In the process of searching for it, Huangchengsi and his team were attacked by dream creatures and sneak attacked by unknown people. They suffered heavy losses. Cao Yougen was also lost in the dream...
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"The moment before he was eroded by the dream and turned into a random demon, apart from the pain and despair, what Cao Yougen thought about more was the happy life of the patrol captain's family of seven..."
This is the end of Cao Yougen's memory. Since the being named "Cao Yougen" was essentially dead before he became Ran Yiyou, the memory left behind by him is extremely fragmented. Only a few key turning points in his life are relatively complete.
Du Kang also combined Cao Yougen's complete memories before and after, and even guessed, to roughly restore his life experience.
He looked at the lively flow of people in front of him and thought to himself.
"Both Jiao Niang and Meng Xiu Yi mentioned that there have been a lot of people wanting to enter the Xingtian Cave recently. It turns out that it's because the emperor is worried about Fu Ruhai."
"But that's not right. All the personnel of the Imperial City Division came in through another route. But Meng Xiuyi said that in the past month, more than twenty people entered the collective dream of Linyuan City through him. Such a number is extremely abnormal.
of."
"Cao Yougen is just a junior member of the Imperial City Division. He may not know his true purpose of coming to Haizhou. What happened in Xingtian Cave to attract so many people's prying eyes?"
"Ah sneeze——"
In Du Kang's contemplation, Yang Liu also woke up from the confusion of fusion. He sneezed subconsciously, and a ball of flame spurted out from his mouth, burning a stone slab under his feet black.
Du Kang swept Yang Liu's body with his spiritual consciousness and immediately obtained his latest status.
【Name】: Yang Liu
[Thousand Eyes Technique]:
Level: D level
Skill:
To ward off evil spirits, the Yellow Ox: Clear Eyes (Fourth Level), Powerful Ox Body (Fourth Level)
Advanced conditions: 1. Implant the hundreds of demonic eyes of the multi-eyed centipede into the back of the spine to obtain the multi-eyed centipede's blinding golden eyes and the ability to spit poisonous smoke.
Second, hold a bloodline fusion ceremony to fuse two of the four existing monster bloodlines. Each time you fuse, you will be promoted to one level. When you merge into one at the last step, you will be promoted to a high-level monk.
bless:
Blazing Flame: Manipulate the fire spirit floating between heaven and earth to form a blazing flame that only hurts the enemy but not yourself.
Yang Liu's attributes have not changed much. On the basis of the original ones, after eating Ran Yi Yao, he has gained a blessing of fire, which allows him to control fire.
"how are you feeling?"
Du Kang asked about Yang Liu's subjective feelings after the memory fusion.
"My mind suddenly became blurred, and a person's memory suddenly appeared out of thin air. It was like having a lucid dream, and I felt a sense of discomfort all over my body.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But for being able to gain the ability to control fire, Yang Liu feels that he should have earned it."
Yang Liu spit fire into his hand, and then wiped it on his bald head. The already shiny scalp immediately became even more shiny.
"Well, as long as you like it."
Du Kang needs to use the memory in Ran Yiyu, but he is not willing to bear the contamination of other people's memories. At this time, the benefits of having subordinates can be seen.
For a small profit that I don't like, I can let my subordinates do unsafe things for me, and I can still get the gratitude of my subordinates. It's really a cheap deal that kills two birds with one stone.
"Since there is nothing left, let's set off. Xingmeng Wine still has twelve hours of effectiveness for me to find the entrance to Xingtian Cave."
Du Kang led the way, taking one step towards the flow of people in front of him, as if passing through an invisible barrier, and truly living in the same world as the creatures in the dream in front of him.
Yang Liu held the clay pot in his hand and followed Du Kang into the crowd.
Yang Liu had been busy with his own changes just now and had not noticed it. After a quick look, he felt that both the people and objects in this dream were exactly the same as those in Linyuan City.
But when I actually walked with these dream creatures, I discovered that although they had the bodies of dream monsters and the two of them walked in the night market without attracting their special attention, there was something weird about these human-looking things.
First of all, no one spoke in the dense flow of people. They were like performing a vivid mime, with a unique mechanical and rigid sense of limbs, repeating the movements of human life in the daytime.
The owner of the barbecue stall mechanically turned the meat skewers in his hand, completely ignoring that the mutton on it was already blackened. The customers at the stall looked at the mutton with salivation, and opened their mouths to swallow the carbonized mutton...
A soft tune on the boat has been repeated over and over again without changing the tune...
The flow of people in the night market seems to be extremely large, but in Yang Liujiu's observation, the number of people here has never increased or decreased, coming and going, walking back and forth in the vicinity over and over again.
Everyone is repeating their actions again and again, like poor imitators, trying to achieve their purpose of disguising themselves through repetition.
Yang Liu looked at Du Kang, wondering how he would find the entrance to Xingtian Cave in such a strange environment.
Du Kang had also discovered these anomalies a long time ago, and scanned them with his spiritual consciousness to obtain information about these dream world creatures.
[Name]: Wu Ming/Lin Yuan Menggui
Level: Little Demon (3/6)
Skill: Dream Ghost Apparition (Third Level)
Self-division (double)
Absorbing telekinesis (second level)
Mechanical Infestation (First Level)
Transformation conditions: Dream ghosts in the realm of little demons are illusory creatures that can only live in dreams, possess only low intelligence, and rely on the power of dream thoughts emitted by eating human hearts to achieve transformation.
The collective dream of Linyuan City has been invaded by monsters from Xingtian Cave all the year round, and has actually become a common dream for both Xingtianjuan and humans. The dream ghosts have also been infected by the mechanical concepts of Xingtianjuan, and have some mechanical properties.
The spiritual thoughts swept across a hundred feet in radius, and all the people in sight were transformed from the dream ghosts of the neighboring abyss. There was not a single human monk who entered this place.
Before coming to the dream world, Du Kang already had some understanding of the dreams in Linyuan City.
The dream world is a vast world that has existed since ancient times. It is an objective world that exists before living beings and does not exist dependent on living beings.
It's only when a creature happens to interact with it during sleep that it creates the individual dream that almost every creature has.
Individual dreams are originally wild, unrestrained, and ever-changing, but if a group of people live together and share similar cultures, beliefs, and conceptual identity bonds, they can create a stable collective dream in a vast dream.
The solid dreamland of Linyuan City in front of us was solidified by the wishes and thoughts of the millions of people in Linyuan City and some monsters in Xingtian Cave, which created this weird scene before us.
The entrance to Xingtian Cave is directly connected to the real world, but the monsters in the cave will run out from this entrance from time to time, causing great harm.
In the previous dynasty, high-level monks who were proficient in both dreams and space used spells to seal the entrance in the dream world, allowing it to constantly change and wander in this dreamland.
There are no such monks in Daliang today. They can't even grasp the exact location of the entrance to the cave at all times.
The imperial court's so-called mastery of the Xingtian Cave can only determine its location when a large number of Xingtian Scrolls pour into the dream world from the entrance, or when monks return from the other end of the cave.
Most of the six routes Du Kang had overheard from Jiao Niang were deceptive routes that only lead to dreams. On the contrary, the one she told Du Kang personally was the safest route in and out.
But that line requires waiting for a fixed period of time before entering, and then blending in with the court's team entering and exiting the cave to complete the smuggling.
Such passive waiting was not Du Kang's style. He naturally chose to enter the dream and look for the entrance to the cave.
Du Kang was walking among the dream ghosts in the neighboring abyss, and was thinking about using the Xuanming Zhenhai Seal to divine the location of the entrance to the cave, when suddenly there was a loud noise from the street in the distance.
boom--
Bright firelight shot up into the sky, illuminating the already bright night even more brilliantly red.
The Linyuan Mengguis in the night market stopped stiffly in place amid the explosion.
The next moment, they turned their heads and looked in the direction of the fire in unison, as if they were uniformly produced machines reacting irritably.
In those stiff faces, Du Kang could clearly see the greedy desire in their eyes.
Putting down the movements in their hands in an orderly manner, the Dream Ghosts of Linyuan changed the direction of their bodies, changing from stillness to galloping in an instant, running towards the distance.
Neighbor Menggui, whose intelligence was already low, acted as if he was crazy, turning into a torrent and rushing past, filling up water whenever it encountered, demolishing houses when encountering it, and rushed to the place of fire with rumbling sounds and rising smoke.
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Looking up into the distance, there are dozens of such smoke and dust as far as the eye can see.
Dream ghosts kept falling to the ground, and the next moment they were trampled by the same kind behind them, turning into blue smoke and disappearing invisible.
Du Kang and Yang Liu saw the opportunity quickly and hid in a shop on the corner of the street in advance, so as not to be overwhelmed by the surging crowd.
Yang Liu eagerly asked Du Kang about his next plan with his eyes, but he did not dare to speak for fear that the dream ghosts would notice that the two of them were strangers wearing the skin of the dream demon.
But all I saw was Du Kang beside him smiling faintly, raising his legs and swinging his arms, imitating the strange running postures of the dream ghosts, and galloping away...