Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 296: Dream Technique

The commotion here naturally attracted the attention of many evil spirits, but to Xiao Ran's disappointment, these evil spirits just grinned and sneered, turned their heads and ignored him.

Xiao Ran then noticed that after the old man and the woman were both killed, a wisp of green smoke came out of their bodies and was immediately sucked into the ancient locust tree.

"No wonder!"

Seeing this, Xiao Ran understood that these evil ghosts were just resurrected from dead bodies, and the destruction of their physical bodies had no effect on them.

You can even use this ghost locust tree to parasitize a new body.

"It seems that the problem still lies with this ghost locust tree."

Xiao Ran looked towards Gui Huai, but didn't want to glance at him out of the corner of his eye. He didn't want to look directly at the Taoist who had praised him for being blessed before. The pair of eyes flashing red were looking at him.

The moment their eyes met, Xiao Ran's pupils tightened and a red light flashed in his eyes.

"kill!!"

The next second, Xiao Ran had the [Guillotine] in his hand. Without thinking, he raised his hand and chopped towards the Taoist.

Now that you have been discovered, you must act decisively and not give the other party any chance to react.

The blade was like a white rainbow, tearing through the muffled sound of breaking wind in the air.

"puff!!"

After just one encounter, the Taoist's head and body were separated. The head spun in the air and fell heavily to the ground: "Bang bang bang..."

The head rolled on the ground several times before it stopped, with a look of surprise on its face.

Xiao Ran succeeded with one knife, but he did not feel happy. Instead, he felt something was wrong.

He immediately looked around and saw the other two Taoists standing aside with half-closed eyes and smiles on their faces, as if they didn't see Xiao Ran at all.

Xiao Ran looked around again, but found that the people around him seemed not to see him at all.

"This……"

Xiao Ran's heart skipped a beat, and he turned the knife in his hand around and quickly cut his arm.

The stinging pain coming from under his skin made Xiao Ran unable to tell whether it was an illusion or reality.

It wasn't until my eyes noticed my empty wrist that I had the answer in my heart.

"The bracelet is gone!"

"Hallucination? Or..."

Xiao Ran quickly took out the [Spiritual Vulture Pupil] he had previously used and activated it.

The strange thing is that although he was in an illusion, the cursed objects and spell patterns were not affected.

Raise the dark red eyeball in your hand and activate the privilege, the spiritual pupil.

Privilege 1: Spiritual Eye

After activation, it can penetrate D-level spells and skills, and forcibly tear the spells apart in an instant.

A red light flashed in the dark red pupils, and then the void in front of him was torn apart.

"Success!"

Seeing this, Xiao Ran immediately jumped forward and tried to jump out. His figure passed through the crack. The next second, when Xiao Ran opened his eyes again, he found himself still standing in the same place.

Just a hand has landed on his shoulder. The Taoist priest in front of him looked at Xiao Ran in surprise, as if he didn't expect Xiao Ran to wake up suddenly. A cold light flashed in his eyes: "Go to hell!"

The moment the words came out of his mouth, a chill suddenly came over him. Xiao Ran dodged by leaning sideways suddenly, and at the same time, he opened his mouth and spat out an arrow made of corpse qi at the Taoist in front of him.

This move was the combination of [Divine Damage Wind] and [Corpse Evil Arrow] from the Record of Corpse Dissection, skillfully combined by Xiao Ran.

At such a short distance, the Taoist didn't even have time to dodge. The arrow exploded directly in his face, instantly blowing half of his face off.

"court death!!"

The Taoist let out a strange cry, and the skin on his back tore open. A shadow tore open from behind him, and a big hand formed and slapped Xiao Ran on the head.

Before the huge ghost hand fell, a strong air pressure was generated.

"Bang bang bang..."

The surrounding floor tiles suddenly exploded, and countless pieces of rubble flew around like bomb fragments.

“Soul Slash!!”

A cold light shot out in the smoke and dust, and visible murderous intent burst out from the blade. The cold light flashed in all directions, thunder rumbled, and one knife pierced through the big hand above the head, and the next knife chopped towards the black shadow.

Looking at the oncoming knife light, the black shadow did not dodge or evade, but opened his mouth and spewed out a ball of dark red flame.

"Burn you to death!"

Before the flame came close, Xiao Ran felt a stinging pain as if his skin was burning. Knowing that the flame was powerful, he immediately put away his knife, did a somersault backwards, and leaped as if he was stepping on something in the air. Although he looked unrestrained, he was actually using his lightness skill of drifting with the wind to the extreme.

He narrowly avoided the incoming flames and just as Xiao Ran stood firm, he looked again and saw that the sneaky black shadow in front of him had completely escaped from the Taoist's flesh. Drops of black blood dripped below, and it was clearly a huge centipede.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran was about to summon Senbingwei and other corpse slaves from the space to help, but when he raised his hand, he suddenly froze in place.

The wrist was empty, still without a bracelet.

"This... is still an illusion..." Xiao Ran couldn't help shivering. He felt a chill on his back and cold sweat dripping down uncontrollably.

A profession involuntarily popped up in my mind: "Dream Master!"

It is clearly written in the [Basic Manual for Beginners] that the horror of this sequence is that it makes people sink into a dream, and even if they realize they are dreaming, there is no way to wake up.

The effect is basically the same as the [Dream Lake] they fell into last time.

It’s just that [Dream Lake] is a collective nature, and the special environment of Dream Lake itself makes it difficult for people to wake up.

The situation he was facing at the moment was similar to that of [Dream Lake], but it was even more difficult because this dream was directed at him.

How to do?
It would be a lie for Xiao Ran to say that he was not panicking, but the more anxious he was, the more he could force himself to calm down.

"Any profession has its shortcomings. It is impossible to have no flaws at all. There must be a way to break free."

At the moment when Xiao Ran was distracted, the huge centipede in front of him pounced on him, and its sharp mouthparts pierced into Xiao Ran's chest. The heart-wrenching pain made Xiao Ran's pupils widen and blood dyed his eyes red. But in this burst of pain, he saw in a trance that black and white afterimages began to appear in the world around him.

"That is……"

"Yes!!"

In an instant, Xiao Ran had an idea and seemed to understand something. He simply gave up struggling and let the centipede press him to the ground. The sharp mouthparts tore his body into pieces in an instant.

The pain that was like being cut into pieces made Xiao Ran more sober.

The world before my eyes appeared in black and white snowflakes.

Until the moment his head was swallowed by the centipede, even though his body had been eaten into pieces, his consciousness did not show any sign of dispersion. Instead, he became more and more clear-headed in the darkness.

As if possessed by a ghost, he began to silently recite a tongue-twisting scripture.

This scripture sounds very familiar; it is the Mahāyāna Marāpāramitā Sutra on the Pure Land Kasaya.

Chanting is not the goal, but to find a focus for your spirit.

Xiao Ran didn't know many scriptures in his memory. Perhaps because he had suffered greatly from them, Xiao Ran was more impressed by the Mahāyāna Marāpāramitā Sutra and began to recite it subconsciously.

"Thus have I heard, seeing the nature is empty, neither attachment nor delusion, neither evil nor good, neither demon nor Buddha, the true nature of the clear vision will not fall into hell, nor be stained by the kalpa of emptiness, Namo Amitabha, Paramita..."

As the sutras were chanted, Xiao Ran's heart gradually became quiet, peaceful,

There are thousands of illusions in people’s minds, and thousands of thoughts in an instant.

Just like a man walking on the street, his eyes accidentally sweep across a woman, many distracting thoughts will subconsciously arise in his mind, whether it is beautiful, ugly, white, black, the scene of pressing the woman on the bed, the scene of beating the woman violently, and so on.

These are not the true nature of men, but the myriad phenomena that arise from their thoughts.

This is true for men and women alike.

This is true for just one lustful thought, let alone other distracting thoughts.

Just as people who work like to slack off, they will be in a daze while doing homework, they will unconsciously check their phones while typing, and so on.

Although this Buddhist scripture is evil, it is also a top-notch Buddhist scripture. It allowed Xiao Ran to gradually eliminate the many distracting thoughts in his mind. His thoughts became more and more concentrated, and gradually condensed from a diffuse state into a ball, like a light spot flashing with a faint silver light.

Gradually, Xiao Ran began to hear bursts of subtle noises.

The noise became louder and louder until Xiao Ran opened his eyes slightly and saw that he was lying under the ghost locust tree. Three Taoists were standing in a circle and seemed to be arguing about something.

He closed his eyes again and touched his wrist calmly.

Only when my fingers touched the bracelet on my hand did I feel relieved.

"Big Brother, you already got a perfect body last time. Why are you fighting with us for it this time? Shouldn't this kid's body be given to me?"

"Nonsense, what perfect body? It's just an ordinary piece of shit, a fucking broken thing."

"You two should stop practicing here. Shouldn't this body be given to Master? What are you fighting over?"

"Third Brother, stop pretending to be filial here. Master never said that he wanted to come out of the underworld. It's obvious that you said this on purpose because you knew that Master would give you the body."

The three Taoists were still arguing with each other and had no idea that Xiao Ran had woken up. Perhaps they would not even think of this. The third Taoist's dream technique was enough to make people fall into an endless sleep without realizing it.

In their eyes, Xiao Ran's body was no less than Tang Monk's. The corpse qi was so strong that it was simply the best body to possess. Moreover, the body was a rare virgin body.

He had been noticed by the third brother as early as at the altar, but he did not take action against Xiao Ran because he was worried about alerting the enemy or being noticed by his second senior brother.

Who would have thought that the second brother would lose control.

When I looked back, I found that the boy had run away.

I thought I had missed him, but I never expected this guy to come to my door himself.

But he didn't expect that at this moment, the eldest brother and the fourth brother also noticed this boy. At this moment, this boy's physical body caused the three of them to argue endlessly.

Seeing that the three people were still arguing, Xiao Ran calmly took out the Taishan Stone and quietly put it behind him.

He pinched his fingers and said silently in his heart:

"Yin Yang wins! Rise!"

　I'm sorry, my wife needs surgery. I've been updating a little late these days, and the amount has decreased. It'll be fine once she's recovered. It's not a major surgery, but there are a lot of chores. I have to pick up the kids, take them to and from school, and there are a lot of things to do.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)