Heavenly Official Sends Evil

Chapter 805 Floating Light and Dream Fairy
"When I entered the dream for the third time, I knew that I had been targeted by the Giant in the Mist."

"Fortunately, I have the magic artifact, the Cloak of Invisibility, so as long as I am careful, I can avoid that thing's sight."

"Actually, I saw you downstairs, but I didn't greet you because I was afraid the Giant in the Mist would see me through you. I just followed you upstairs."

“But now that you’re ready to start the final meeting, it’s not appropriate for me to keep hiding any longer. I have to participate in this meeting.”

Hawke remained hidden and explained his current situation to everyone.

Therefore, no one insisted that he show himself, allowing him to remain invisible while attending the meeting. As a result, the number of his companions who had gathered became six, with only Du E missing.

Next, the meeting to prepare for the decisive battle officially began.

The first to speak was Yun Tianchu, who looked haggard.

He took out a yellow scrap of cloth from his Taoist robe. The scrap of cloth itself was not unusual; each of his followers had received a piece after waking up from their second dream.

But the scraps of cloth that Yun Tianshu took out amounted to a small pile!

Lingji asked in surprise, "How do you have so many?"

Yun Tianchu replied in a hoarse voice:

"When I woke up from the second dream, I was in a room where scraps of cloth were offered, and I realized that these scraps of cloth might be the key to our departure from the blessed land."

"The problem is, even if all seven of us have a piece of cloth, we may not be able to get all the pieces."

"Therefore, in order to collect the scraps of cloth, I have returned to the real world of the blessed land many times... This is the third time you have entered the dream, but for me, this is the thirteenth time."

These words shocked everyone. Han Shuihe asked him incredulously, "The third time you entered the dream has only been going on for a short while. How could you have woken up so many times?"

Yun Tianchu rolled up his sleeves, revealing a dense array of cuts on his arm.

"The Sleeping God's Sacrifice Blade has two abilities: one is to allow people to enter the Mystery Tower from the reality of the Blessed Land, and the other is to wake up people who are in a dream."

"I woke up from the mystery tower quickly by cutting my own body with the Sleep God's Sacrifice Knife, but this method is too exhausting for both my mind and body, and the worship of the 'Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden' will not be refreshed as a result."

"When I woke up for the last time in reality, there were no more fragments of yellow cloth around me. This means that all the fragments of yellow cloth are in our hands. We can piece them together and see the contents of this yellow cloth decree!"

Wu Xian suddenly realized.

No wonder Yun Tianchu looks so haggard.

He also realized that the yellow cloth was important, but he did not focus his investigation on the yellow cloth.

He knew that the Sleeping God's Sacrifice Knife had this use, but he did not try it because he was worried about the potential risks.

Without Yun Tianchu's decisiveness, the clue of the yellow cloth fragment might not have been put to use for a long time.

This slightly changed Wu Xian's impression of this 'womanizer'.

The group took out the fragments of yellow cloth they had obtained, and together with Yun Tianshu's fragments, they pieced them together based on the tears and the writing.

The moment the shredded cloth was pieced together, tiny golden specks of light seeped from the tear in the yellow cloth, as if guided by invisible needles and threads, causing the yellow cloth to automatically adhere. After the piece was completed, the entire decree shimmered with golden light, and the faint sound of elegant music could be heard within the golden light.

When the golden light faded, what was revealed to everyone was a golden, rectangular imperial edict, just like the one in an ancient drama.

The edict contained the following content:
When a fog descends upon the vast land, a sorceress appears in your dreams.

This demoness was originally an evil spirit, but through a series of fortuitous events, she gained the faith and incense offerings of the people, her demonic heart returned to its true nature, and she absorbed the essence of heaven and earth, protecting the people of this world. Therefore, she has rendered meritorious service to Heaven! Thus, by the decree of the First-Rank Heavenly Official of the Upper Yuan, the Great Emperor Ziwei, she is granted the demoness the removal of her evil statutes, ascended to the ranks of immortals, and bestowed with a divine name...

Floating Light and Dreamy Fairy!

This was actually an imperial edict bestowing a title upon the evil sleeping woman!

Everyone's pupils dilated slightly.

No one was particularly surprised that the Sleeping Woman wasn't an enemy.

Many clues obtained from the initial mystery tower pointed to the Sleeping Woman, so everyone naturally regarded her as the root of the nightmare.

However, as more information was gathered and the giant in the fog appeared, everyone more or less realized that the real root of the problem lay elsewhere.

But no one expected that the Sleeping Maiden had actually received an imperial decree from the Heavenly Emperor!
Only Yun Tianchu had an expression that said, "I knew this would happen."

Wu Xian stared at the imperial edict, unfolding and piecing together the intelligence and clues he had previously obtained in his mind. After thinking for a while, he suddenly realized something.

It would be quite strange if this decree was not intended to bestow titles upon women who sleep.

The mysterious building is fraught with danger, and the indigenous people live in great pain, like sinners suffering in hell.

But if we set aside the terrifying appearance and just look at what the Sleeping Woman provided for the natives, we can see that if it weren't for the Sleeping Woman, no natives would have survived in this world long ago.

In the reality of the blessed land, all the awakened natives were killed by evil spirits in the fog, and only the natives who were trapped in the dream survived.

And the Sleeping Woman doesn't just throw the indigenous people into nightmares.

Those four rooms numbered nine respectively met the indigenous people's needs for food, rest, emotional support, and enjoyment.

Under normal circumstances, the lives of these indigenous people in the mystery building should not be too bad.

But perhaps due to some unexpected event, or perhaps influenced by the true source of the nightmare, rent collectors appeared in the mysterious building, and the original inhabitants, in order to meet these demands, had to transform in a more cruel direction...

Ultimately, these indigenous people, though still human, began to resemble evil spirits in their mental state.

Furthermore, the attitude of the evil spirit in Room 9 towards its followers is also worth considering. Zhu Qipei, the pig-headed man in Room 409, said that the reason he was different from other evil spirits was that he was given a name.

But can simply giving a name reform evil spirits?

Wu Xian thought of the 'White Snake Fairy Willow' he had met in the Eight Tombs Blessed Land. She had been freed from her demonic form by asking Wu Xian for a title.

If the name bestowed upon the evil spirit is by a 'deity', then it is equivalent to a higher level of 'bestowing a title'. When the evil spirit receives a name, it is as if it has broken away from the evil spirit camp and gained the recognition of the deity.

Since the evil spirits in Room 9 have been purged, it's quite normal for the Sleeping Maiden, who orchestrated all of this, to be granted divine authority.

While Wu Xian was coming to his senses, the others were already thinking about it as well.

After a moment of shock, Ling Ji smiled and stroked the golden decree. Wherever her fingertips brushed, fleeting golden flowers bloomed.

“I used to think that the indigenous people of this blessed land had all become like evil spirits, and that none of them were worth saving.”

"Because of this, I even began to doubt the meaning of the existence of this blessed land."

"But if the person we're trying to save is this Sleeping Woman, then... it'll still have some meaning."

(End of this chapter)