From the Carp that Brings Children to the Celestial Officials

Chapter 407 My Dream World
After the dragon girl left, You Ming slowly closed his eyes. He could clearly feel that the external calamity he had been sensing had decreased significantly.

At the same time, his magical power surged, his soul became stronger, and his harmony with heaven and earth improved considerably.

"Snow on the Cold Pond... So this is where it should be."

When You Ming broke through to the Tribulation stage, he sensed five places in the darkness: Maple Bridge in the Night Rain, Yellow Crane Tower, Fishing Snow on Cold Pond, Spring Water in Willow Market, and Night Mooring on Plum Creek.

These five locations represent his five calamities.

This time, however, he faced the tribulation of "Fishing in the Snow on a Cold Pond" in the world of Huangliang.

The pond is covered in snow, making it difficult to distinguish the water surface from the snow, and the shadows of fish are hard to tell.

You Ming experiences a blurring of dreams and reality, where illusion and truth are indistinguishable, and he must discern himself amidst this confusion.

If a fish's shadow appears, it may seem real, but it is not.
Bingxin reflected in herself, and her dream came true.

It's all in vain; gain and loss are both meaningless.
Only those who can forget about fish can truly align themselves with the principles.

You Ming looked up into the distance, a sense of profound understanding washing over him. In this state of mind, he felt as if a lamp had been lit deep within him, revealing to him profound truths, both real and abstract.

At the same time, his will seemed to have been tempered by ice and snow, becoming even stronger.

It is a power that remains undiminished despite loneliness and undisturbed even amidst illusion.

If his spirit was once like a sharp blade, now it is like a heavy iron sword, immovable as a mountain, unbreakable and indestructible.

In a flash, his comprehension and willpower each increased by 1 point, reaching a total of 6 points.

"It is said that the Tribulation Realm is a series of hurdles, but with each level you cross, your strength will increase dramatically, sometimes even more than when you crossed a whole major realm."

The Tribulation Realm is almost the most crucial realm for cultivators, perhaps even more critical than breaking through the Nine Realms and becoming a True Immortal.

There is a shortcut from Earth Immortal to True Immortal. For example, one can obtain a Heavenly Court summons and leave their name in the Immortal Register, which will allow them to immediately advance to True Immortal and ascend to the Heavenly Realm.

However, even celestial beings born in the heavens must overcome these numerous trials on their own.

Although You Ming only experienced the first calamity, he still felt the danger of it.

He was lucky to have cheat codes this time; otherwise, whether someone else could have survived would have really depended on luck.

You Ming stretched, and then with a thought, he disappeared from the spot.

Then he appeared on a street.

The streets were bustling with activity, and occasionally one could see Taoist priests dressed in purple or yellow robes walking among the crowd. In the distance, a towering statue, hundreds of feet tall, stood majestically.

You Ming looked around. Although there was a crowd around him, it seemed that no one saw him. Some people even passed right through his body.

This place is indeed that world of illusion.

"Now, this world of illusion... is mine."

With just a slight shift of thought, You Ming could see the entire world reflected in his mind.

Although it is a very small dream world, it is much larger than the grotto-heaven, covering an area of ​​nine thousand miles and with a population of ten million.

However, because this is a small dream world, although the people here can provide incense for Youming, each person can only provide one-tenth of the amount of incense they would in the outside world.

However, this total amount is four or five times more than the incense offerings that You Ming actually received in his jurisdiction.

You Ming's consciousness sat upright in the void. In an instant, the entire world changed in his eyes, surrounded by an invisible stream of light. It was not spiritual energy, nor magic power, but the rules of the world itself. He could even feel the river of time flowing through his fingers, the threads of cause and effect woven around him, and the boundary between reality and illusion shifting with his will.

The sun, moon, and stars rise and fall in my heart; the universe revolves and floats before my eyes.

He even had a feeling that he could cause mountains and rivers to collapse or be reborn with a single thought, and all things would move accordingly.

Of course... that's impossible.

This is a world constructed by the Dragon Girl Ao Jun with the help of the Mirage Dragon. You Ming's strength is far from that of the Dragon Girl. He is like a piece of code written by someone else. Before you have absolute strength, don't mess with him.

Therefore, You Ming was very cautious.

Even if he takes over this dream world, it doesn't mean he can completely control it.

He was like a nominal world ruler, but to truly reclaim his power, he needed to gradually permeate every corner of the world with his own strength.

"However, even if we cannot adjust the world rules, it does not mean that we cannot adjust the existing rules."

A glint flashed in You Ming's eyes.

What he can do now is to make subtle adjustments within the existing rules.

For example, those cultivators had their memories collectively altered by him before they left the Yellow Millet World.

These people have completely forgotten that they were hunted down by themselves for a thousand years in the Yellow Millet World. However, since these memories are all false, they have very limited effect on the training of their Dao heart.

If they do perish in this calamity in the future, You Ming can only apologize.

After all, if those people knew that they had been killed dozens or hundreds of times over a thousand years, their Dao hearts would probably have even greater flaws.

A glint of light appeared in You Ming's eyes, and then a compass appeared in front of him.

Cheat code: 壬子零陆谰叁零肆.

[Cease Mindfulness and Flow of Observation]!
In an instant, the figures around him who were walking normally began to move faster.

One time...five times...ten times...fifty times!
Time seemed to have been accelerated throughout the entire Yellow Millet World, with everything moving at fifty times the normal speed.

Not only people, but also the plants and objects inside grew at fifty times the normal rate.

This is another characteristic that You Ming discovered.

That is, the Yellow Millet World seems to be closely connected with his world of consciousness. Although he cannot add any new laws to this complete world, he can do some work as long as it is within the original scope of the laws.

For example, time speeds up.

The cheat code 【Cessation of Thoughts and Flow of Observation】 can increase the speed of his consciousness flow. The stronger his will, the faster his consciousness flow will be.

"Equal-quantity tuning".

You Ming immediately activated another cheat code and raised his Willpower attribute to 10 points.

Therefore, his original upper limit for the speed of his consciousness flow was 50 times, but at this moment it immediately broke through the limit and reached 60 times.

And it surged upwards, reaching a 100-fold increase.

The figures around him almost turned into streaks of light, and the scenery around him was also changing rapidly.

(End of this chapter)