Longevity begins with alchemy master

Chapter 1132 Nightmare Enters the Dream
"Sneaky?"

Luo Chen frowned slightly, staring silently at the door.

Before anyone knew it, streaks of blood had spread across the whites of his eyes.

His divine sense was unusable and his magical power was completely gone, but that didn't mean his eyes were "blind".

After hundreds of years of nurturing, the crimson eyes and golden pupils have long been fully developed, and can be activated to some extent by using source power.

With his bloodshot eyes peering through the doors and windows, Luo Chen looked outside. Under the cover of night, the torrential rain obscured everything, but the unsettling feeling that Luo Chen had been experiencing still lingered.

"What exactly is lurking in the shadows?"

With a thought, Luo Chen mobilized even more source energy to gather in his eyes.

Gradually, some outlines began to appear amidst the wind and rain.

The outline is not fixed; sometimes it resembles a human, sometimes a wild beast, and more often it dissipates into smoke, blending seamlessly with the rain and mist, making it difficult to detect.

It lingered outside the door, seemingly eager to break in, but was blocked by something, appearing anxious and uneasy.

Luo Chen subconsciously looked at the hearth inside the house, where wisps of blue smoke were rising from the Dream Stone.

"The strange objects that came with the ghostly rain were blocked by the blue smoke emitted from the burning Dream Stone. What exactly are they?"

Curious, Luo Chen stood up.

Upon reaching the door, Luo Chen hesitated for a moment before taking the tattered blue lamp.

Having nothing of value, even with exceptional skills and daring, this is still an unfamiliar place called the Great Destruction Realm, so caution is paramount.

However, this tarnished green lamp is still a top-grade magic artifact, and it can be activated to some extent using the power of qi and blood.

A stream of vital energy was injected into it, and a blue light suddenly shone brightly.

Carrying the blue lantern, Luo Chen opened the door and went out.

The moment he emerged, the sinister creature in the rain rushed forward, but it was blocked by the masculine energy that had already spread throughout his body.

With the help of the light from the magical artifact, the Azure Lamp, Luo Chen carefully observed the azure smoke swirling around his body, a thoughtful look in his eyes, as if searching for a corresponding entity from his memories.

Gradually, a look of suspicion appeared in Luo Chen's eyes.

"Could it really be that legendary thing?"

next moment!
Luo Chen's powerful masculine energy had a gap, allowing the sinister creature to pounce on him.

In an instant, Luo Chen's body stiffened, as if something was pressing down on him, but his eyes remained bright.

After a while, Luo Chen's blood and qi suddenly swelled, and everything that had rushed in earlier was completely washed away by the powerful blood and qi.

Luo Chen vaguely heard a scream.

Under the rain, Luo Chen stood inside the eaves with a lantern in hand, a look of sudden realization on his face.

"So this is really it!"

Through his personal experience just now, Luo Chen has verified a record in his memory: the strange thing he just saw was a creature called "Nightmare".

This item is extremely rare, but legends about nightmares have long been circulating.

Nightmare, also known as a nightmare!
This is a ghost that has no physical form, but truly exists.

It is on par with the infamous demons and monsters.

However, in the world of mountains and seas, this item only exists in legends and is rarely encountered.

The reason lies in the fact that the Nightmare feeds by invading the dreams of living beings, plunging them into a state of anxiety, unease, anger, fear, and many other negative emotions, until they are finally trapped in a nightmare from which they cannot awaken. The Nightmare then takes the opportunity to absorb the pure soul power of the living being. However, the Mountain and Sea Realm is a world dominated by cultivators. Not to mention the powerful Nascent Soul and Divine Transformation stages, even the weakest Qi Refining stage cultivators have begun to condense their divine souls. Upon reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, they can even project their spiritual consciousness out of their bodies, reflecting their surroundings and warding off evil.

In that kind of environment, the Nightmare simply cannot survive!

Even if ordinary people occasionally encounter nightmares, they are only the weakest forms of nightmares. Those with a slightly stronger will or even a clearer mind can wake up from the nightmare. After waking up, they may at most feel a lingering fear and say "sleep paralysis," but they will not suffer much mental damage.

Over time, the nightmares that lacked food only existed in legends.

To put it jokingly, the Nightmare is a peculiar existence that has no fertile ground to survive and starves to death. Luo Chen's knowledge of this thing stems from his study of numerous formations related to illusions and dreams when he was refining the Dust Fate Immortal Mirror, which gave him this kind of knowledge.

He never expected to encounter a true Nightmare in the Great Destruction Realm.

Although there was only one, and it was equally weak.

The initial spark of interest vanished in an instant.

Shaking his head, Luo Chen picked up the green lantern and prepared to return to the house.

But his steps faltered in mid-air the moment he pushed open the door, as if a sudden inspiration had struck him.

"According to Jing Lan, whenever the ghost rain comes, the villagers will light up the stored dream stones, which are obviously used to guard against the ghost nightmares."

"Such traditional customs are not formed overnight. They must be because someone has been affected by them long ago, and their dreams have been corrupted by the ghostly nightmares, which have devoured their soul power."

"In other words, this Great Destruction Realm must contain a large number of Nightmares that appear alongside the Nightmare Rain."

"In this world, cultivators cannot live forever, so there is no situation where they can use their powerful spiritual energy to obliterate and crush ghosts. Even those who are highly skilled in body cultivation mostly rely on their abundant blood and strong will for passive defense."

"In this way, over time, will powerful and ancient nightmares be born?"

Upon thinking of this, a glint of light flashed in Luo Chen's eyes, which had already dimmed.

A certain idea suddenly popped into my head!
The purpose of refining the true artifact, the Immortal Mirror of Destiny, was to strengthen Canglong's spiritual foundation in his sleep, so that he would break free from his seal on his own.

That's why Luo Chen consulted a large number of array formation books related to illusions and dreams.

Among the knowledge gained, it was mentioned that the Ghost Nightmare is most suitable for creating dreams and also most suitable for breaking the restrictions on the soul!

After all, this creature feeds on the soul power of living beings.

Luo Chen didn't care about the latter point at the time, because his soul was incredibly powerful and he was also skilled at breaking soul restrictions.

But now...

Luo Chen's divine sense is currently unable to be released, and his powerful divine soul foundation has no use, all because his main soul has been sealed by Qixia Yuanjun.

With his own strength, it would be difficult to break the soul seal of Qixia Yuanjun, after all, she was an unparalleled existence in the Void Refinement stage at her peak.

The sealing of the main body's soul triggered a series of chain reactions.

The most obvious example is that even though Luo Chen can convert his blood and qi into a small amount of mana, he still cannot open the storage ring without the assistance of his divine sense.

However, if a large number or powerful ghosts could be used to forcibly break the seal on Qixia Yuanjun's soul, then her soul could be freed from its cage!
Even though the Great Destruction Realm has the soul-shaking thunderous sound to intimidate cultivators, with divine sense, Luo Chen can still do much more.

For example, opening the storage ring and taking out some materials inside.

For example, one can use one's divine thoughts to illuminate one's entire body to aid in physical training.

Even deducing cultivation techniques and understanding the essence of this world.

After all, divine sense can only be used within the body, not outside it.

Luo Chen's thoughts were in turmoil, and ideas kept surging within him.

"Um……"

A soft murmur came from inside the room, seemingly because a cold draft blew in through the open door, making the sleeping woman feel a chill.

Luo Chen looked at the pitch-black night sky, his eyes flashing with a sharp light before finally returning to calm.

"No rush, let's take it one step at a time!"

He returned to his room, closed the doors and windows tightly, and resumed his cultivation as if nothing had happened.

　Thank you to "I am a book-eating beast" for the 10,000 Qidian coins reward, and thank you to "Seeking Truth Through Doubt" for the 5,000 Qidian coins reward.

　　Thank you to the two fellow Daoists for your generosity in October. I hadn't noticed before, and you've gone to so much trouble.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)