I can find treasures in my dreams.

after one day.

The Ice Soul Venerable Valata quietly entered the world gate of this civilization and left the Ice Soul World alone.

This venerable one's destination is the Tianmeng civilization in the neighboring world region.

Each world domain is incredibly vast; even with the Venerable One's strength, a round trip would take quite some time.

Almost at the same time.

An Ice Soul Knight was dragged into the Dream Realm by the suddenly appearing Dream King Serpent.

The knight did not remain passive.

Prior to this, the Holy Heaven Palace had given each knight a supernatural item called the "Dream-Breaking Pearl".

This item has one function: if dream creatures invade reality, simply throwing out the Dream-Breaking Pearl will create a shockwave that will have a significant destructive effect on the dream creatures.

These are supernatural items that the Ice Soul Civilization purchased from other civilizations at great expense.

Unfortunately, the Dream-Breaking Pearl has a negligible effect on the Illusionary Dream Serpent.

At the very moment the Xuanzhu exploded.

The enormous body of the Dream King Serpent was blurred by the impact of the dream's power.

The Ice Knight seized the opportunity and immediately used a secret technique to perform a short jump.

When the rider appeared from a kilometer away, the surrounding space was instantly illuminated by a large expanse of ink color.

A dreamlike king serpent opened its mouth wide and appeared out of thin air from where the knight had appeared, swallowing him whole.

This knight essentially walked right into a trap, willingly offering himself up to be devoured by the king cobra.

The ink faded quickly, and the king cobra and the knight disappeared without a trace.

"Ah~"

Only a mournful wail remained.

The Venerable One of the Mountain Rock Civilization, Chongyan, hidden in the nearby dimensional rift, witnessed the entire scene.

He did not attempt to stop the king cobra.

Because he knew very well that once he made a move, he would inevitably be attacked by the Nightmare Enemy.

Chongyan turned to look at the previously appeared Dream King Serpent and muttered to himself, "Impressive!"

This venerable one saw very clearly that this king serpent was merely a shadow of a dream, which could be understood as an illusion.

The Dream-Breaking Pearl only struck the illusory image, without even harming a single hair on the King Serpent's head.

In other words, the King Serpent anticipated that its target possessed the Mystic Pearl, which is why it used this tactic.

This is the most amazing part.

This means that for the Nightmare Enemy, the target it has chosen has no secrets at all.

on the other hand.

Valata had just left, without telling any of the Ice Souls.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Dream King Serpent immediately dragged a knight into the Dream Realm.

It's not hard to deduce from this that the other party can observe the Ice Soul Man's every move at any time through the Dream Realm.

However, the Ice Soul Civilization knew nothing about its Nightmare enemies.

This is the most typical example of information asymmetry.

Therefore, Chongyan dared not make a move easily; he only wanted to earn a commission and did not want to risk his life for the Ice Souls.

He did not rush to leave the dimensional rift where he was hiding, but waited for a while before emerging from the dimensional rift.

As Chongyan appeared, he suddenly noticed that an eyeball pattern had appeared on a stone slab on the floor of the hall.

These are clearly the eyes of a king cobra.

this moment.

He felt a chill down his back.

This venerable one immediately understood that this must be a warning from the nightmare's enemy.

It means—I've found you. At first glance, it looks like it was painted on with some kind of paint.

But Chongyan knew that this was not paint.

Unbeknownst to him, a wisp of dream power quietly descended, interacting with the physical matter in a wondrous way, thus creating an effect similar to paint.

Chongyan stared at the eyeball for a long time, but he still couldn't figure out what the principle was.

He gazed at the eye pattern on the ground and gently waved his hand.

The pattern disappeared quickly.

Chongyan sensed that the pattern was only invisible to the naked eye; it still existed on a supernatural level.

With his abilities, he couldn't erase it.

This was his first encounter with his nightmare enemy, and he had to admit that he seemed to be at a disadvantage.

Chongyan shook his head and muttered under his breath, "How could the Ice Soul People have provoked such a terrifying opponent?"

*
Another day passed.

Chongyan received two pieces of information from the Holy Heaven Palace.

The first piece of information: "Since the departure of Venerable Valata of the Ice Soul, as many as sixteen Ice Soul Lamps stored in the Holy Heaven Palace have gone out. This means that sixteen Ice Soul Knights have fallen, including six high-ranking knights and the rest are all mid-ranking knights."

"The Holy Heaven Palace sent people to investigate, but they found no remains left by the knights. They were most likely dragged into the Dream Realm. Now, all the knights of the Ice Soul Civilization are living in fear."

Chongyan smacked his lips, feeling a pang of sympathy for the Ice Soul Man.

At the knight level, high-ranking knights make up about one-tenth of the population. The loss of so many high-ranking knights in the Ice Soul Civilization is a devastating blow.

How miserable!

The second piece of information: "Among the more than 60,000 ice castles of the Ice Soul Civilization, more than half of the ice castles have seen multiple strikes organized by the poorest people in their lower levels."

This was undoubtedly the work of the Nightmare Enemy.

The speed at which the Equal Rights Association spread was quite astonishing to Shigeo.

The Ice Soul Civilization has a population of 420 billion. Roughly calculated, half of the Ice Fortress would have a population of 200 billion.

Then, based on the ground floor area of ​​each ice castle, which houses 50% of the ice castle's population, this amounts to 100 billion Ice Souls.

In such a short time, the Nightmare Enemy has affected 100 billion people.

terrible!

According to Chongyan's observations, the Holy Heaven Palace seems to be struggling to cope with the current situation.

The dozen or so knights under Valata who managed government affairs, or what the Icecrown people called "Icecrown Councilors," were unable to come up with any measures to quell the situation and instead became embroiled in infighting.

The Ice Soul Civilization appears to be facing a massive, "overturning" crisis.

Chongyan immediately realized that after leaving Valata, the Ice Soul Civilization lacked a single strong individual capable of shouldering the responsibility at crucial moments.

He could see a problem in this: Varata usually acted too domineeringly and failed to cultivate a qualified successor.
This is a fatal problem.

If something happens to Valata, the Ice Soul Civilization will face a huge crisis.

All of the above led Chongyan to a thought: "The Ice Soul Civilization claims to be the strongest civilization in the Ancient Heaven Sixty-Two World Group, but now it seems that it is somewhat undeserving of its reputation."

*
Inside Dream Island.

After devouring sixteen knights, Yang Fan, who had transformed into a three-headed, ten-armed giant ape, conjured a slightly blurry battle helmet from the very center of his head.

The Dream Soul Armor has grown a little more.

One of the key milestones on the path to promotion has been overcome.

Yang Fan, however, paid no attention to this. At this moment, he was staring intently at a majestic, giant altar.

The altar reaches an astonishing height of 1500 meters, resembling a mountain floating in an ink painting.

The altar has a simple name—the Prayer Altar.

Its function is by no means simple.

Since he taught the art of prayer to the Ice Soul Poor, the construction of the altar began simultaneously.

After a day and a night of hard work, the altar had taken a basic shape. (End of Chapter)