Chapter 432: The 400th Sneak into the Dream with the Wind (2-in-1)
"This is...the power of dreams?!"
The clone controlled by Lin Chen couldn't help but pause, and a solemn look appeared on his face.
If it were said that the most mysterious thing in this world to him was not the mysterious destiny, nor the heaven-shattering formation left by the ancient monks, but - the dream!
Dreams, whether in Lin Chen's previous life or in this life, are mysterious and unpredictable, and no one can explain their existence clearly.
In Lin Chen's previous life, many top scientists also speculated and studied this.
Some think it is an illusion of nothingness produced by human subconsciousness, some think it is a low-dimensional projection of a high-dimensional space, and some think it is human consciousness connecting to another multiverse in a vague way.
But no matter what kind of speculation, one thing is common, that is, the events and scenes formed in dreams all come from people's existing cognition and memory.
In other words, the imagination of dreams is based on the cognition of individuals or groups.
The same is true in this world.
Whether it is the shallow lucid dream that Lin Chen experimented with in the past, or the deep dream state that confused reality and illusion constructed by Taoism using the human brain computer array in his inner alchemy experiment, it is also the cognition of reality by living beings. constitute.
But the dreamland in this world is different. In addition to the shallow and deep layers, there are also lost layers and forbidden areas below.
These places are so bizarre that for millions of years, few monks dared to get involved in them. They are the first-class forbidden places in the world.
This is where the dreamy snow world that Lin Chen fell into after being promoted to the Golden Core came from, and he couldn't tell whether these areas were created due to the recognition of intelligent beings, or whether they were another world.
"If this is really a dream, I'm afraid..."
Lin Chen has always been decisive, but at this moment, he couldn't help but show a look of hesitation on his face.
After all, dreams are something that even ancient monks may not be able to detect clearly, and are even extremely fearful of. After all, they are suspected to involve the layout of the powerful powers in the upper world.
In dreams, some places confuse reality and illusion, just like another world, some involve the intertwined scenes of the past and the future, and some places are even almost exactly the same as the spiritual world in Western fantasy in previous lives, full of distortion, pollution and... It's weird. Once you fall into it, you can't tell whether you can come out.
"I really didn't expect that this golden elixir monk hiding in the city would give me such a surprise. No, to be precise, it should be a difficult decision."
"However, the dream world is illusory and extremely difficult to get started. Its talent is more precious than the heavenly spirit root. Therefore, there are only a handful of monks who can follow the dream world, and the opponent has reached the golden elixir realm, or he is just a casual cultivator who has got bad luck. , or, it is one of those two major forces..."
Lin Chen's eyes flickered. As far as he knew, there were only two monk sects in this world that followed the Dream Realm.
One is the Nanhua Dream Sect, one of the nine major forces in the Immortal Alliance. However, the opponent is an orthodox member of the Immortal Alliance, and is not hiding secretly on a spiritual island in the East China Sea.
If it can be ruled out that the other party is a monk from the Nanhua Dream Sect, then there is only one possibility left. The golden elixir inside is most likely a member of the Demonic Dream Sect that is most feared by the Immortal Alliance and makes countless intelligent beings extremely afraid!
But the latter was exactly what Lin Chen wanted to meet. After all, the other party was a member of the Heavenly Demon Dream Sect, and had been fighting for millions of years with the Immortal Alliance who controlled the Heaven-Shaking Universe Formation. There must be a way to hide it.
"But whether it's a member of the Nanhua Dream Sect or the Demonic Dream Sect, the other party's purpose in the dream world is definitely deeper than mine."
"According to my perception, the other party should be in a dream. And the secret of the Demon's Dream that can compete with the Heaven-Shaking Universe Formation must be the core part of the memory. If you want to steal it, I'm afraid you have to enter the other party's dream."
"But competing with him for control in the dream of a monk who follows the path of dreams, this..."
Lin Chen's expression changed again and again. Fighting at the opponent's home court was no joke.
He hesitated for a while, constantly weighing the pros and cons, thinking about the cards in his hand that could be played, and finally made up his mind.
"If you don't enter the tiger's den, you won't catch the tiger's cubs. No matter whether it's morning or night, you have to break into this dream, so you might as well take advantage of it now!"
he finally decided.
Although this is very dangerous, it is not impossible to try.
After all, he has something beyond this world, such as time-travel memory, in his consciousness. Even if something goes wrong, he still has the ability to fight.
And if he misses this opportunity, judging from the current situation, it may not be so easy for him to find a way to avoid the Heaven-Shaking Universe Formation and get the information from the dream!
As soon as he thought about this, Lin Chen immediately took action.
At this moment, he took back control of his clone and opened his eyes instantly in his main body outside Lingyuan Island.
He glanced at the cave next door where Zhang Hao was in retreat controlling puppets, and then activated the formation restriction protection of his own cave.
After a series of extremely mysterious forbidden auras isolated the inside and outside, he did not hesitate to take out the [Ning Shen Xiang] and the [Yan Meng Xiang] from the divine soul skill [Dayan Ling Meng Jue] that he had taken from Zhang Hao in the past. .
The former can replenish the power of the soul that he consumes in creating dreams, while the latter helps in the formation of dreams.
Immediately afterwards, he used the Same Breath Curse Soul Technique to create a soul lamp with the power of his life essence and blood, the origin of the golden elixir, and the divine soul, using a ten-thousand-year-old warm jade as the foundation stone.
Then, he sat cross-legged on the jade bed, with the ghostly soul fire in the soul lamp reflected in his two pupils, and with the power of his true name, he brazenly used the curse!
The dream is too weird. The shallow dream is okay and can be awakened through stimulation, but the deep dream is different, and ordinary methods will not work at all.
So Lin Chen simply used his real name as a medium to anchor his connection with reality!
"Hope everything goes well."
After doing everything in front of him, Lin Chen's face was full of solemnity.
After all, the dream itself is locked into the main body of intelligent beings and is the location of true consciousness and memory. There is no such thing as a clone dispatch.
Once you fall into a dream, even your clones, even if they are thousands of miles away, can be involved in the main body. Unless you can control another intelligent being with consciousness as a medium, no matter how many clones you have, you can only enter in person!
"With the soul lantern as a medium for escape, and the memory of time traveling as a back-up, in order to get out of the current predicament, this risk is worth taking..."
Lin Chen took a deep breath, used his clone as a medium, crossed thousands of miles, blended his breath into the residence of the mysterious golden elixir in the city, and began to use the technique of entering dreams.
For a moment, Lin Chen suddenly felt that he was in a trance, and his whole perception of the world seemed to be blurred at this moment.
This feeling is difficult to describe in words. It is as if the "consciousness" that was originally sealed in one's own body suddenly "extends" for a moment.
"Dream..."
This idea suddenly appeared in Lin Chen's mind, but was soon swallowed up by an inexplicable force. He felt that his consciousness was in a state of clarity and blur, and finally his whole person underwent an unexpected change.
At this moment, he felt that his thinking suddenly became extremely sharp, and his range of perception was extremely broad. Even his soul had expanded beyond his body and established connections with countless souls in extreme distances.
- This is not an illusion.
The other party fell asleep and went to an unknown place, and with Lin Chen's intrusion, he also followed the other party's connection and went to the unknown area together.
"Concentrate..."
Lin Chen's body uttered murmurs as he fell into a deep dream. While half asleep and half awake, he began to gather his thoughts with the help of his previous research on dreams.
Soon, he completed the re-stabilization of his thoughts, and the moment he regained control of his thoughts, the scene in front of Lin Chen was turned upside down.
Dark, mysterious, strange... This is a dark, seemingly endless road.
The surroundings are dark, as if there is nothing, but if you look carefully, you will find that there seems to be something crawling in the shadows.
And the surroundings were very quiet, so quiet that there was no trace of noise, as if everyone in the world had disappeared, and he entered a lonely world that was forgotten.
At this moment, on the dark road, a dim yellow light suddenly appeared. Amid the changes in light and shadow, a figure appeared in the center of the light and began to walk forward.
The sound of slight footsteps suddenly sounded on the quiet road.
"Where is this...?"
That figure was Lin Chen.
At this moment, he was holding the soul lamp in his hand, and the dim light illuminated the dark surroundings, bringing a clear scene, but Lin Chen's eyes showed a solemn look mixed with doubt.
He used the method of entering a dream and followed the connection to invade, and came here.
But the problem is, this dark and seemingly endless road doesn't look like a place where the other party meets and communicates...
Um?
Suddenly, the scene in front of him seemed to have changed in some way, which immediately caught Lin Chen's attention.
I saw that the crooked, seemingly endless road under his feet suddenly changed.
The scene in the distance began to become clearer little by little, and continued to enlarge, as if it had changed from a distant view to a close-up view. The originally bifurcated road gradually moved from the distance of sight to his feet, as if he had walked a long way in an instant.
No!
Rather than saying that he has walked a long way, it is better to say that this road is constantly getting closer to him!
"What's going on?" Lin Chen couldn't help but be shocked by the sudden vision, and he raised the soul lamp in his hand with a solemn look.
Once an unexpected situation occurs, he will not hesitate to use this lamp to escape from the dream!
But what he didn't expect was that as the road in front of him continued to get closer, his consciousness began to wander again.
This kind of trance is exactly the same as the feeling he had when he first fell into a dream!
'So, this road is just a medium for shallow dreams. Is the main purpose to use it to enter deeper dreams? '
This idea came to Lin Chen's mind, and he concentrated his mind again to fight for the dominance of his own thoughts.
The next moment, the surrounding environment began to change suddenly, and the light that shone from nowhere shrouded this long and dark road.
The light continued to brighten, covering the entire road, and finally turned the place into a blazing white color, causing Lin Chen to completely lose his perception and sight!
After an unknown amount of time, when he came back to his senses, he found that he was standing in a city that was difficult to describe in words.
This city has almost exhausted human imagination of words such as "majestic", "magnificent", "elegant" and "beautiful". It is even less than one ten thousandth of the most prosperous city in his previous life.
Countless white majestic buildings stand in the city, and the edges of every building and building are inlaid with borders made of pure gold.
Above the sky, the essence of the great sun even appeared and took shape. Falling from the sky, the rich and extreme spiritual energy formed a gorgeous aurora sky.
And in the sky, there are large and small floating land, surrounded by various kinds of spiritual energy between heaven and earth, as well as mountains and rivers, beautiful buildings and jade buildings, spiritual beasts and rare treasures... just like the paradise of the immortal family!
All these scenes hardly look like they were built for human habitation, but more like they were created specifically to express imagination and confirm the majestic scenes in myths and stories.
Given Lin Chen's temperament, he was shocked when he saw this city and the world, and he couldn't help but subconsciously said:
"Where is this?"
Then, as if he felt something in his heart, he turned his head.
I saw a huge city wall made of spiritual jade, with a line of handwriting written on it, emitting a purple-gold light.
And there were three big characters written clearly:
【Utopia】!
Utopia?
Lin Chen looked up at those three big characters, and the shock in his eyes could no longer be concealed.
These three words, he who was in the red country in his previous life, naturally would not fail to understand them.
That represents the hope of philosophers in previous lives for the highest level of human civilized social system.
But now these three words appear in this world, in the dreams of people suspected of being from the Demon Sect. Is it a coincidence or...
Lin Chen suddenly had thousands of thoughts in his heart.
He realized that this might be the force behind his invasion of the mysterious golden elixir.
After all, it was such a huge, complex, majestic, unbelievable, yet real scene. It was far more exaggerated than the inner alchemy sect dream he had experienced before. He couldn't tell the difference between reality and illusion.
Such a huge dreamland could never be built by a monk, and it definitely couldn't be just a place for communication and communication. It was most likely the headquarters of the other party!
'No, the exploration ends here and cannot be continued! The other party may have thought that there were no monks proficient in Dream Dao on the island, so they neglected defense, which gave me an opportunity. But now I have accidentally sneaked into the opponent's headquarters, and it is very likely that I will be discovered! '
Lin Chen realized this instantly and was about to use the soul lamp to escape from this place and wake up from his deep sleep.
But the next moment, he seemed to sense something and looked aside suddenly.
In the originally empty city streets, faint shadows suddenly appeared one after another.
Those shadows solidified quickly after they appeared, and soon became lifelike figures one after another.
They appeared like aborigines who suddenly appeared in the city, walking and living in the city - this scene made Lin Chen couldn't help but think of the "character loading" process in the virtual scene.
No!
To be precise, they are not characters, nor are they "lifelike figures", but real people!
Lin Chen saw almost instantly that these suddenly appearing figures were not illusions.
Because each of their faces has a vivid brilliance, and their words and actions are no different from those of real intelligent creatures.
More importantly, he can clearly feel the wisdom and agility shining in the other person's eyes. This cannot be simulated by illusions, only intelligent creatures themselves can!
Obviously, the figures that suddenly appear in this city have "reality reflections" - I'm afraid these are all real people!
As soon as the other party appeared, they were walking in the streets and alleys. They were wearing various spiritual clothes and had otherworldly temperaments. They were happily enjoying every leaf, every ray of sunshine here, and even feeling the joy of saying no to each other. Unknown temperature.
There was joy on their faces, and they seemed to be completely addicted to it, indulging in a beautiful dream, but when Lin Chen saw this scene, he felt excited all over.
These figures are all living people, and they appear and gather here. It is self-evident what this means.
Now he still doesn't understand that he has sneaked into the other party's lair!
Sure enough, the moment his idea first appeared, these people who appeared suddenly looked at Lin Chen, with expressions that were either surprised or weird, as if they were looking at a monster lurking in the crowd.
And they also issued all kinds of angry accusations, and one after another spiritual pressure filled the air, sweeping towards him brazenly!
'Exposed so soon? ! '
Lin Chen was startled, and then he seemed to realize something. He looked down suddenly, and instantly understood why he was noticed by the other person.
Because his figure is completely different from theirs.
No clothes, no body, no color, just like a game character that has not yet been built, or a black and white image that has a problem loading!
I've been attacked?
This thought came to Lin Chen's mind instantly, but he quickly reacted.
Rather than saying that he was attacked, it is better to say that he did not have permission to enter this place.
Sneaking in now is like a Trojan horse virus breaking into the program. Not only is it inconsistent with the environment, but it has also been marked with a red name!
"Who dares to break into my dream!!!"
At this moment, an angry voice sounded like thunder in Lin Chen's ears.
The next second, the scene in front of Lin Chen instantly became blurry. The glorious and majestic city, the blessed land and cave in the sky, and the crowds of monks coming and going, quickly became illusory like a mirage, and the darkness came like the night after dusk.
Soon, he fell into a dark, chaotic and strange space.
Here, he couldn't feel the passage of time at all, and even all his perceptions disappeared, as if he had fallen into an endless darkness!
Obviously, the Jin Dan who was invaded by Lin Chen discovered his existence, and now followed the connection to fight back, trapping him in this dream like a cage, seeming to trap him until his body collapses, forever!
(End of chapter)
