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Chapter 110 Nightmare Siphon
"Is this the [Gate]? The second-stage characteristic shared by all pollution systems on Duling Star?"

Sensing the Shadow Dream Hole in the spiritual world, which was extremely closely connected to him and under his control, the Tiger Demon's mind was filled with questions.

This thing was so easy and so simple that it made it wonder if it had been cheated. It was like participating in a free event on the street at no cost, and then being notified that it had won the first prize of 100 million.

The brainwashing knowledge Zhou Chu, the anti-cheat pioneer, had instilled in Tiger Demon a deep sense of doubt in his mind about the authenticity of the [Shadow Dream Hole = Gate]. Could he still be trapped in an illusion?
Xiao La Tiao reminded him, "I think you're fine! I've also detected a new plug-in and have installed the driver."

Although his heart was still filled with doubt and distrust, the Tiger Demon opened the portal of the [Shadow Dream Hole] in a flash, pointing it at the outside world (reality), and also aimed at the indigenous practitioners who were trying to retreat but were being delayed and restrained by the strands of Qi.

At this moment, the [Shadow Dream Hole] is opened.

The three worlds of the Underground (reality), Shadow Dimension, and Nightmare Layer were pierced, creating a hollow tunnel. A terrifying internal and external pressure immediately formed between the bubble world and the Nightmare Layer.

[Shadow Dream Hole] was like a water pump running at full power, instantly bursting out with a terrifying suction force, swallowing up all the substances locked by the tiger demon in the underground [Cicada City] and siphoning them into the 'shadow space' behind the Shadow Dream Hole.

The first to bear the brunt of the attack was the cultivator, a solemn-looking man struggling desperately against the suction. He was too busy blocking and capturing the intruders to even consider the pheromone flares he had just unleashed to disperse before being sucked into the Shadow Dream Hole by the terrifying suction force that suddenly appeared.

This powerful siphoning had nothing to do with the Tiger Demon or the Shadow Dimension itself. It was entirely the plundering of this bubble world by the outside [Nightmare Layer].

If you imagine the Underworld as a spaceship riddled with cracks, the Nightmare Layer is the vacuum of subspace. When the Tiger Demon pierces the Shadow Dimension and opens the Dream Hole, it's like opening a temporary hatch to patch up the cracks. Everything within the spaceship is instantly drawn into a dangerous and chaotic nightmare.

At the same time, the Tiger Demon saw the shadow space behind the [Shadow Dream Hole] through the "three-dimensional projection" that appeared in his mind.

His [Shadow Dream Hole] didn't connect directly to the [Nightmare Layer]. Instead, it used this small space of approximately 30m as a medium (filter + permeable membrane) to filter and intercept the dirt, floorboards, sand, gravel, tree roots, air (spiritual energy), and other debris that entered the underground space. Only then, following the Tiger Demon's thoughts and ideas, were they thrown into the super trash can of the [Nightmare Layer].

The Tiger Demon realized that the [Shadow Dream Hole] could be automatically opened and closed. The 'shadow space' connected to the Dream Hole acted like a pre-filter and a private storage room. It could actively intercept and retain personal property (absorbed items), while discarding all other useless garbage into the [Nightmare Layer].

And does this count as an "ascension"? Opening the gates to heaven with one claw, helping the inhabitants of the underworld ascend to the Nightmare Dimension? Embarking on a brand new adventure.

The Tiger Demon even had a premonition that it could escape into the shadow space and temporarily hide there. However, it chose not to do so, instead humbly giving the precious opportunity to enter the [Shadow Dream Hole] to the Qi Refining Cultivator before it.

Despite the enemy's malicious pursuit, sudden blockade and control, and even the sounding of an alarm to summon troops to siege him, who could say the Tiger Demon King was kind? He returned evil with kindness and gave the enemy the precious [Ascension] spot.

[Shadow Dream Hole] devoured and absorbed the opponent as easily as the King of Golden Horns using the purple-gold-red gourd to capture a monkey. He didn't even need to call out his name. The Qi-refining warrior and the 'Qi Silk Field' that sealed the Tiger Demon were sucked in without any resistance.

boom!
The Tiger Demon's mind moved once more, and he easily closed the [Shadow Dream Hole] again. The Qi Cultivator, also locked in the [Shadow Space] behind the Dream Hole, could vaguely sense through the Shadow Dream Hole that the other person was not dead, nor had he fallen into the [Nightmare].

The Tiger Demon was confident that if the opponent dared to rebel against the Tian Gang in the 'Shadow Space' and try to destroy the space and escape from the Dream Hole, he would be able to take the initiative, modify the opponent's 'label', and throw it into the Nightmare Layer as garbage, and exile it from the dream.

...

The short-lived terrifying suction force disappeared, and the underground street where it was located was in a mess. A large amount of soil, bricks and stones on the ground, as well as buildings on both sides of the street, were pulled into the dream hole and thrown into the [Nightmare] by the tiger demon as garbage.

The whole process was as smooth as pressing the toilet tank, and the water was flushed away with a "whoosh".

To some extent, the 'shadow space' behind the Dream Hole is really like a smart toilet, which can automatically sort out valuable things for preservation according to the owner's wishes and flush the garbage into the nightmare.

And this short ten seconds of frantic gulping caused the Tiger Demon's mana bar to rise instead of fall. During the frantic gulping (Dream Hole) and frantic flushing (Space Toilet), the [Shadow Dream Hole] received a small but very pure amount of 'energy' from the Nightmare Layer.

This energy surged into the Tiger Demon's body. It wasn't Shadow Power, but it was of extremely high purity and varied forms. It perfectly blended with Shadow Power as a substitute for mana, slowly nourishing its spirit and life. This gave the [Boss Template] a new nutrient.

The blue bar suddenly soared back to 50%. This change made the Tiger Demon unable to adapt and even a little uneasy.

The Tiger Demon's growth method was already absurd. Simply by sleeping in the shadows, it could grow stronger and stronger. It was like God was feeding it. Now, if he could just open the [Shadow Dream Hole] and continuously draw waste into the Nightmare, the [Nightmare Layer] would feed back unfamiliar pure energy, further strengthening him.
This power came so easily that the Tiger Demon hesitated to accept its offer. Fearing a trap? At the same time, he reflected on the various knowledge and cultivation common sense he had acquired in Running City. In this world, gaining power and becoming stronger appear easy. The process of becoming stronger is to actively and controllably accept and embrace pollution. The difficulty lies in suppressing it, controlling the process of becoming polluted, and mastering it... The slower you grow stronger, and the more stable your power becomes, the more difficult it becomes.

The current Tiger Demon posture can be regarded as experiencing the "easy" of rapid pollution growth. As long as you dare to let go, you can really ascend in a hundred days.

"Boss, the surrounding environment is too severely damaged, and the [Shadow Dream Hole]'s devouring effect is too exaggerated. Although we eliminated the opponent in an instant and successfully absorbed the pheromones, preventing the opponent from alerting the police, it was too successful, which turned into active exposure. We have been discovered!"

Even without Xiao La Tiao's reminder, Tiger Demon knew this wave was a bit too big. The noise from opening the [Shadow Dream Hole] was no less than the [Boss Template] going all out and killing everyone.

The only advantage was that the "siphon" triggered by the Nightmare Dimension was too brutal, subduing the Qi Refiner in an instant. If it were me (the Tiger Demon) fighting, it would take at least several rounds before I could defeat the opponent or successfully escape.

This wave of self-exposure also bought me time to escape.

"withdraw!"

Not daring to linger any longer, nor thinking of sneaking into the "hemispherical incineration plant" to find out what was going on, the Tiger Demon turned around and hid back in the shadow layer, returning the same way with full firepower, running for his life at full speed.

This round of exploration yielded a rich harvest. The greatest treasure was undoubtedly the inexplicably discovered [Shadow Dream Hole], which allowed the Shadow Element to successfully enter the second stage ([Gate]) of the Duling Transcendental System. As for the secrets of the underground [Cicada City], they could easily extract them from the mouths of their "trophies."

As the Tiger Demon charged forward at full speed towards the entrance from which it came, the spatial fluctuations caused by the opening of the [Dream Shadow Hole] also alarmed the entire underground city.

Figures were seen tearing through the air at breakneck speed. They leaped down from the inverse-growing forest at the top of the dungeon, transforming into black lines. With a sharp whistling sound, they flew out and landed towards the location where the [Dream Hole] had just erupted.

"Invasion! A [Heavenly Level] expert is invading Chan City!"

Alarms blared throughout the city, causing Yuan Zhu considerable psychological pressure. He felt as if he had stirred up a hornet's nest and was racing for life and death with the hornets that were about to attack him.

"Stimulate!"

At this time, the tiger demon had already rushed several thousand meters away and was about to return to the tunnel entrance where he had sneaked in.

Suddenly, a wave of energy spread out, and one after another pre-buried underground blockade arrays were activated continuously, blocking all the exits of the dungeon one by one.

Afterwards, more pre-buried magic arrays were activated one after another to reinforce the entrance to the passage. It seemed that the underground city was about to be closed and the tiger was killed in the battle.

At the critical moment, the massive Shadow Tiger Demon, clad in skeletal armor, broke free from the shadow layer and leaped out. It pounced on the entrance to the passage, its [Abdomen] superimposed on its [Claws] once again. One claw opened the gate, and the other shattered the magic circle.

The violent space-cutting force slammed heavily into the energy barrier.

Tear!

The tiger demon swung its claw, shattering bones. The energy film of the original formation, along with the magical instruments surrounding the cave, and the immortal tree roots that connected and fused with the instruments, were all destroyed by the tiger demon's claw.

Not only was a large hole torn in the magic circle, but even the deeply buried magic tools and roots were broken and pulled out of the ground.

boom!
The massive, armored tiger's body slammed fiercely into the shattered light curtain, shattering countless glittering fragments of energy. Then, with a roar, a chilling wind blew up, sending countless flying sand and rocks flying.

The shadow tiger demon crashed through the blockade and charged into the tunnel with a nimble figure, its speed no slower than that of a cheetah. Countless dark winds from the underworld behind it turned into sharp blades to cut the soil in the cave, causing sandstorms, stirring up storms, destroying the transmission of pheromones, and collapsing the tunnel.

The tiger demon, which had already entered the passage, also escaped for the second time. Its body turned into a pitch-black silhouette, twisting, stretching, and changing direction, turning into a black lightning and blending into the darkness, disappearing without a trace, and even its own breath disappeared.

(End of this chapter)