Grudge Breaker

Chapter 319 Nightmare Body Dream Bud
The Dream Weaving Bureau is the largest government-run institution in the Dream Realm.

Together with the "Dream Catching Department" and the "Nightmare Extinguishing Department", it has always been managed by Huang Liang, the Lord of the Dream Realm.

The Dream Weaving Bureau is guided by the wishes of all living beings and takes the desires of all things as its source. It uses a spiritual seed called "dream bud" to weave dreams for the creatures of the three realms - to untie old knots, to eliminate lovesickness, to resolve past grievances, and to end eternal sorrow.

Of course, dream buds can also give rise to nightmares, but "nightmares" are mostly invisible and intangible, and do not last long, so they are unlikely to have an impact on the real world, and basically do not require intervention.

Only in extremely rare cases, when the evil spirit is contaminated with the spirit of evil spirits and threatens to harm people, the Dream Catcher is needed to get rid of the evil spirit.

I don’t know how many years this kind of day lasted in the dream world.

Until the last few thousand years, perhaps because of the decline of morals, or perhaps because of changes in people’s hearts, some dream buds were actually contaminated by dreams and turned into "nightmares".

Unlike "nightmare", "nightmare" can produce real form and reality, and will expand rapidly.

It continuously pollutes the minds of living beings through nightmares, while constantly absorbing the more distorted desires that grow from them. Eventually, it becomes extremely ferocious and becomes the number one scourge in the dream world.

The pressure in the dream world increased dramatically, and the Nightmare Extermination Department was born.

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Nightmare always wants to escape from the dream world.

And once it succeeds, it will definitely choose the Dream Realm, the only way to the Three Realms, to escape.

In this situation, the Dream Realm can only ask the Mei Realm for help.

Si Chen Mansion was naturally the first to take the lead, but Gu Cangyue had also taken action several times before - it was not that they were willing to take on "social responsibility", but that "Nightmare" was easily attracted to the black water of Wangchuan that was full of the breath of death, and Gu Cangyue simply hated these dirty things that broke into his territory.

The merits of eliminating nightmares in the sleeping world will naturally be noticed by the upper world.

It's a pity that Mo Tingfeng is too busy with the affairs of Sichen Mansion to be in charge of the Dream Weaving Department at the same time, so Tianzun intends to ask Gu Cangyue to take over and let Qin Huan assist in the management, so as to add an extra protective barrier for the dream world.

In recent years, the censors from the upper realm have repeatedly suggested that Gu Cangyue take over, but he simply ignored them. Unexpectedly, he agreed after coming out of seclusion this time.

There is only one condition: to remain in the realm of sleep and not leave the River of Oblivion.

The Heavenly Lord naturally agreed.

But it was at this time that the "Dream Nirvana Technique" that was banned by the Dream Weaving Bureau reappeared in the world.

The art of dream nirvana uses contaminated dream buds as seeds, infuses them with the blood of the practitioner, and feeds them with "nightmare", so that they grow into a "nightmare body" with flesh and blood.

The original purpose of the Dream Weaving Department in nurturing the Nightmare Body was to help the short-staffed Nightmare Extermination Department, so that the "Nightmare Body" could fight evil with evil and devour the "Nightmares" that were wreaking havoc in the dream world.

Unfortunately, as it grew, the nightmare body gradually lost control - there was no shortage of dark forces in the Three Realms, who deliberately lurked in the dream world and completely demonized the out-of-control nightmare body, allowing it to not only enter dreams to harm people, but even appear in reality in the image of a specific person, inflicting harm on the target and coming and going without a trace.

The danger and harm level is a hundred times more than a "nightmare".

There has always been a rumor in the market that the catastrophic disaster "Falling Sleep" that the Sleep World experienced before was caused by the infiltration of a demonized nightmare body.

In short, due to various events in the past, the dream world had long since banned the art of dream nirvana. For nearly two thousand years, this word has been almost forgotten by people.
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Let’s talk about Ye Wujiu.

He had never experienced the art of dream nirvana, but he was familiar with the important cases in the dream world and the sleep world. Therefore, when he encountered the mysterious necromancer in the dark and bright array, he suddenly thought of this art.

During his fight with Ma Zhenchun, he found that his sword could not hurt him at all. He clearly saw him being hit by the sword energy many times, but the one that was injured was his own arm which was already injured by the Gu.

During the fight, Ye Wujiu had a bold guess that Ma Zhenchun in front of him was most likely a nightmare body.

Ye Wujiu remembered that there was a file about nightmare bodies that harmed people that mentioned: Anyone who was caught in the art of dream nirvana must find and remove the dream buds inside the nightmare body in order to escape from the "nightmare field".

There is also a crucial sentence in the file - the dream bud is not on the nightmare body, but on the person who is possessed by the nightmare.

And this is exactly the reason why Ye Wujiu lost his arm.

He made a horrifying move, casting a spell and swinging his sword to slash at the wound on his arm that looked like a strange rune, wishing he could remove all the flesh.

As the fracture became deeper, a black and purple gas gushed out. After it dissipated, Ma Zhenchun, who was attacking him, disappeared without any warning.

"Ye Wujiu, I didn't expect you to be able to see through this technique. I underestimated you."

This is the aftermath of the necromancer's disappearance.

Maybe it was an auditory hallucination, the voice was not Ma Zhenchun's, it sounded like a woman's. The tone seemed very familiar, yet very strange.

Without caring about anything else, Ye Wujiu used all his willpower and struggled to walk out of the Huiming Xuanji Array.

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Everything seemed to be gradually clearing up, and Ye Wujiu looked at Mo Tingfeng with clear eyes.
"Sir, I suspect that I have been under the spell of dream rebirth since the first time I met Ma Zhenchun in the back mountain."

"The rune on my arm is not a solar prominence poison, but a dream bud. It is because of this dream bud that I was led into the dry well step by step."

"But what exactly does the person behind the necromancer want to achieve through me? Is it really as simple as just wanting to kill me and Tsuruzen?"

"In addition, there is another unusual thing..."

Ye Wujiu seemed to want to say something but stopped himself, his expression gradually turning gloomy.

"Ma Zhenchun asked me to kill him again and again. If it was just a nightmare body, it would be impossible for him to have such consciousness."

"I am confused."

Mo Tingfeng gently patted Ye Wujiu Wushang's shoulder to comfort him, and carefully helped him up.
"It's not appropriate to worry about such a serious injury."

He looked at Zhuang Yuheng.

"Lao Zhuang, what do you think? Was Wu Jiu's injury caused by Meng Nie's technique?"

Zhuang Yuheng stared at his fingers in silence. There was blood on them from treating Ye Wujiu's wound. He twisted his fingers subconsciously, thinking of old times, and his brows furrowed.

"There was once an immortal official from the Huangquan Division who was under the spell of dream rebirth. His family noticed that his behavior was different and asked me to go and see him, but it was too late."

"The ancestors of that immortal official had cultivated a method that could make paper people give birth to souls and bodies. It was extremely cruel and vicious, so when it came to his generation, although he knew the method, he banned it and vowed not to teach it to anyone."

"Obviously, the villain came here for this purpose. The purpose of using the Dream Nirvana Technique is to let the Immortal Official demonstrate how to make a paper person have a soul, and the price is so cruel."

Zhuang Yuheng still remembers the tragic scene.

When he arrived, the immortal official had not yet completely died, but his body below the neck had turned into a paper man, with blue Yin fire burning on the tips of his toes. He could not be saved.

This incident caused a great commotion at the time. Ji Baishou, who was the head of Sichen Mansion at the time, was ordered to capture the murderer, but in the end, the case was dropped because no clues were found. It remains an unsolved case to this day.

"I have seen some of the memories that Ah Bai and his team extracted from the deceased. The 'nightmare body' actually looks exactly like the immortal official. He personally saw 'him' light the incense cone made of his own ashes to burn his own feet, which had been turned into paper figures. Thinking about it now makes my back tighten."

Zhuang Yuheng's thoughts returned to reality.

He looked at Ye Wujiu's blood on his finger again, and there was indeed a nightmare aura in that blood, similar to that of the former immortal official.

"Wujiu is most likely to have been struck by the long-lost Dream Nirvana technique today."

"However, the nightmare body is similar to the chaotic soul, and has no emotional consciousness. So the Ma Zhenchun that Wu Jiu saw before, who was determined to die, was not a nightmare body, but something else."

Zhuang Yuheng just didn't understand who would go to such great lengths to put Ye Wujiu to death.

"Did you come across some big secret?"

Ye Wujiu was stunned when he heard this. He thought about it carefully, then smiled bitterly and shook his head. He really couldn't think of it.

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“We are all designed.”

Mo Tingfeng looked solemn and handed Ye Wujiu over to Ding Heran's care.

"Nothing that happened tonight was a coincidence."

"The purpose is to make us doubt each other and bite each other."

"Once someone gets into trouble, everyone will fall into a vicious circle of proving each other's innocence. I can't explain why He Ran and Wu Jiu sneaked into such a remote dry well and accidentally entered the Huiming Mysterious Array; Yu Heng and Madam Jing can't explain why they sneaked into the Lord's Mansion; it is very likely that Gu Cangyue can't explain why the long-abandoned Meng Ni technique reappeared with his taking office."

"So why not think about it the other way around? Who will benefit if we bite each other?"

"I believe the person who set up the trap must be among those attending the banquet tonight."