Dreaming for 10,000 years

Chapter 242 Xuan and Ming

In a strange place, there is a mysterious heavenly palace.

The Heavenly Palace is suspended between reality and illusion, neither reality nor a dream.

The white jade steps meander upwards, each inlaid with star fragments, emitting a soft silver light. On both sides of the steps, wooden carved dragon pillars reach straight into the sky, with colorful rays of light flowing on the dragon scales. Cranes fly through the clouds with Ganoderma lucidum in their mouths, scattering dots of starlight as their wings flap.

In the center of the palace, a man dressed in imperial robes and wearing a crown sat on the Nine Dragon Throne.

His face showed no joy or sorrow, as if he had seen through the vicissitudes of the ages. The throne was carved from a whole piece of Kunlun jade, with nine jade dragons coiled around it. The dragons' eyes were inlaid with the essence of the moon, emitting a cool moonlight.

An ancient bronze mirror was suspended in front of the man, with strange beasts from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" carved on the frame. Each one was lifelike, as if it would break out of the mirror at any time.

This side of the mirror reflects the grand scene of the heavenly palace: fairies holding peaches and stepping on auspicious clouds. Gods wearing golden armor and holding painted halberds. The God King sits on the clouds with a golden light behind him.

There was fairy music floating in the air, auspicious signs were everywhere, and the scene was peaceful and harmonious.

However, the other side of the mirror was a completely different world—an indescribable mass of flesh was wriggling, with chaotic energy churning on its surface.

Around the piece of meat, countless Outer Gods and Old Ones were buzzing like flies and mosquitoes.

If you zoom in and take a closer look, you can see the true appearance of these "flies". They are all strange-looking creatures, full of indescribable fear, as if they are the most terrifying existence in a nightmare.

They are the Outer Gods, the most powerful beings in the universe! Now, they hold chaotic instruments and play maddening music around the indescribable mass of flesh.

Of course, "terrible" and "powerful" are only for ordinary people. For the things in the mirror and the people outside the mirror, they are just insignificant existences.

"Ming, why did you exile him from this world?" The man wearing a crown said to the indescribable thing in the mirror.

Anyone could see the smile on his face.

"Xuan! He doesn't belong to this world!" The indescribable thing in the mirror made a strange sound, like a whisper in a dream.

The person outside the mirror is mysterious, and the things inside the mirror are bright.

Xuan and Ming are not two people, but one person and an indescribable thing. It can even be said that they are two existences inside and outside the mirror.

From Xuan's perspective, he is outside the mirror. But from Ming's perspective, how could Xuan not be inside the mirror?
Who is inside the mirror and who is outside the mirror is just a matter of angles.

"He is an outsider and he delayed the game!" Ming in the mirror continued in a voice like a whisper in a dream.

"Okay! Okay! He has won, so you just say he is an outsider!" Xuan laughed and said to Ming in the mirror.

He and Ming have a bet, a bet that lasts eternity.

It was a long, long time ago, when he was still a human. In order to pursue the truth of the world, he traveled all over the world and met many old rulers.

Those Old Ones were so terrifying and so numerous that they gave him a problem.

Why do the Old Ones exist in this world? What is the meaning of their existence? What is the world really like?

He had doubts in his mind so much that he dreamed of a strange place.

There were wonders that he had never seen in the tribe before, steel buildings that towered into the sky, and boxes running faster than horses on the wide roads. Everything was an eye-opener for him.

It took him a lot of effort to adapt to life in this strange place.

There is no way, this place is too convenient, so he can't adapt to it! Here, as long as you keep working, you can survive. Apart from working, the rest of the time can be spent at your own discretion!

Compared with his backward tribe, where sometimes they could not survive even if they tried their best, this place seemed like a dream.

What’s even more surprising is that there is a lot of advanced knowledge available right at your fingertips.

His questions about survival were answered. He knew that the sky was round, the earth was round, the sun, the moon, the stars, rain, fog, thunder and lightning, and he even knew mathematics and advanced mathematics.

When all the questions were answered, there was still one ultimate question in his mind.

What is the world really like?
With this question in mind, by chance, he learned about the "Church of the Supreme God", joined the "Church of the Supreme God", participated in the church's ceremonies, and understood the church's doctrines.

That doctrine was so absurd that most people would not believe it. But he had to believe it because he was a person who came from a dream. This was the world in his dream, so what about his "real" world?
Thinking about these questions, Xuan woke up from his dream.

He saw the vast starry sky, the leafy earth, the sound of insects in his ears, and the avoidance of the Old Ones he met about this issue.

Xuan finally understood that the world he lived in was also a dream!

A dream of a great existence!
Using the knowledge he gained from the dream, he went through untold hardships and polished a bronze mirror that could spy on the Lord of Dreams.

When he first met the Lord of Dreams, he suddenly received countless incomprehensible and confusing information, which seemed to be about to burst his head.

Fortunately, he knew it was a dream.

Everything is an illusion.

I don't know how long it took, but he finally got through this information.

He met Azathoth, the Creator, the Lord of Dreams, the God of Blindness and Stupidity.

Azathoth in the dream was also surprised by his arrival. It was the first time that someone in his dream came to him.

The unconscious in Azathoth's dream turned into Nyarlathotep, and Yog-Sothoth and Gauze-Niggurath were born in the world in his dream.

Now, in his dream, there is actually a strange existence that finds the chaotic and disordered consciousness in his dream with a special method. How can he not be surprised?
Soon, or rather, after seeing that person, Azathoth realized that that person was his own reason and order.

Dreams are a combination of consciousness and unconsciousness.

Although the universe in his dream was mostly chaotic and disordered, there was still order in the chaos. This proved that even a blind and foolish god had reason and order.

And this reason became a person and found him.

interesting!

So interesting!
It’s just that he doesn’t like the way Xuan addresses him, because Xuan doesn’t call him by his real name Azathoth, but calls him “Ming”.

In response, Xuan explained: "It doesn't matter who you are, what matters is, how do I see you?"

No matter what Azathoth is, Xuan has to look at it with his own thoughts and cognition.

In the face of chaos and disorder, reason and order, even if they are very weak, still have their own persistence.

(End of this chapter)