Gacha games can't save this bizarre world.

This nightmare is even worse than the Night Demon; at least the latter can at least have a dream of spring, while the former, after being sucked in, will still have nightmares.

After observing for a while, Zhao Hao decided to stand up for justice and do what was right.

Zhao Hao attached his dream image to it, then opened the barrier and tried to walk over.

He crossed the barrier between the two dreams, expending considerable effort and spiritual energy. Once inside, however, it felt much the same as his own dream. It was just that controlling it wasn't quite as easy.

It's probably a matter of limited access, since it's not my own dream.

Zhao Hao summoned all his summoned creatures. He sat atop the Thousand-Mile Donkey, with Little Soft on the left, Wangcai on the right, a clay puppet standing behind him, and Orange Stool crouching in front of him. He wore a jeweled armor cloak and wielded the Dragon-Slaying Saber!

He roared, "You demon, cease your arrogance! Let me teach you a lesson!"

Zhao Hao spurred his horse forward and swung his broadsword at the heads of the group of bizarre zombies.

The entire dreamscape instantly changed. Zhao Hao used magical tricks to create a commotion, with gongs and drums beating and shouts of battle shaking the heavens. He charged through the zombie horde, cutting down countless zombies like wheat.

The dreamer may have awakened his potential. In the dream, he had just found a pistol and killed four zombies with seven bullets. Just as he was about to be surrounded by zombies, a fierce general charged in and killed them. He was truly a one-man army!

Zhao Hao's actions left the dream's owner bewildered. The dream's rationality and self-consistency were compromised, and due to the dream owner's wavering, ownership of the dream shifted towards Zhao Hao.

Zhao Hao took the opportunity to use his spiritual energy to empower dozens of soldiers, who then followed behind him, shouting encouragement to bolster their morale!

This left the dreamer even more bewildered, further losing control of their dream.

Of course, Zhao Hao had mostly taken control of the dream from the nightmare that had invaded it, and was currently playing a hack-and-slash game with the endless stream of zombies emerging from the ruins.

After about half an hour of killing, the nightmare couldn't hold on any longer and slowly died.

Zhao Hao felt a surge of spiritual energy flowing into his body, and his total spiritual energy actually increased significantly!

Wow! Is this for real? Nightmares absorb their dream masters, and I absorb nightmares?!

……

Zhao Hao spent the whole night dealing with three nightmare scenarios, killing two of them. The last nightmare seemed quite powerful and had a certain degree of self-awareness, so he cut his losses and ran away.

Zhao Hao's spiritual energy increased significantly that night, equivalent to more than half a month of arduous training!

Moreover, this kind of psychic growth is not about tapping into one's own psychic potential, but about genuinely increasing one's psychic potential.

Unexpectedly, after my trip to the Heart Demon Town, the Hidden Dragon Sleeping Pill Technique mutated again, turning into the Dream Slaying Magic!

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Chapter 156 Shadow Base

The cultivation of inner strength is a highly personal matter; even the same text can lead to different extraordinary paths depending on the individual and their circumstances. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many religions divided into various sects.

Zhao Haoxiu's cultivation method was developed from the Hidden Dragon Sleeping Elixir Technique given to him by Uncle Tie, a method for cultivating Qi.

Uncle Tie didn't expect him to awaken his Qi and become a superhuman through this method.

However, Zhao Hao managed to turn his sleeping skills into dreaming skills, and now, due to his experience in the Heart Demon Town, this skill has changed again.

Psychic power is the manifestation of mental energy, and dreams are the place where people can most easily access their own mind, so it is understandable that they are unpredictable and changeable.

The Dream Slaying Magic of today can slay nightmares and those extraordinary beings unique to dreams, thereby increasing the total amount of spiritual energy. This is considered a very high-level technique, one that even prestigious sects would only teach to their direct disciples.

This is a masterpiece created by a confluence of various conditions and a remarkable coincidence.

However, Zhao Hao stayed in the Demon Town of the Mysterious Realm for three days, and three days have passed since he came out. It is now December 10th.

Zhao Hao had to focus some of his energy on final exam preparation, because the final exam was tomorrow!

Even last-minute preparation can be effective!

If all else fails, you can make some cheat sheets and have Wangcai take them into the shadows, so the proctor won't notice.

The exams started the next day and lasted for a week.

Everything went smoothly, and I didn't need to use a cheat sheet.

After all, with Gargamel and the Red Wizard equipped, Zhao Hao's intelligence attribute had reached 16.

To put it simply, they can read ten lines at a glance, have a photographic memory, and solve many problems naturally without even thinking. Their mental calculation speed rivals that of a computer. They might even be smarter than the average genius!

Of course, intelligence attributes are only reflected in memory, logical reasoning, calculation speed, reaction speed, etc. Creativity and inspiration are not the same thing.

However, Zhao Hao's 16 points in intelligence were truly impressive. His mind was incredibly clear, and he was exceptionally focused, reviewing all the knowledge points from the entire semester in just a few hours. Extremely efficient!

Zhao Hao even used his high intelligence to design puppets and research spells in his dreams, with excellent results.

Because the exam wasn't as stressful as he'd imagined, Zhao Hao could even "play some games" at night.

I've been finding a few nightmares these past few days, which is quite an achievement.

When it comes to dreams, people's dreams are truly bizarre and varied.

Even people who are incredibly calm, rational, and organized during the day cannot control themselves in their dreams and may experience bizarre dreams that are completely illogical and inexplicable.

This situation was extremely troublesome. One second they were chasing a train, the next they were surviving in the desert. Before they could even find water, a public toilet suddenly appeared not far away.

The dreamer ran over quickly, unzipped his pants, pulled out a water gun, and breathed a sigh of relief... He wet the bed!

Zhao Hao had also seen people lording it over others in his dreams, including presidents and emperors.

I even saw someone dreaming of spring, not because they encountered a captivating succubus, but because they were spontaneously dreaming of spring.

It's the kind of story with a harem, featuring everything from lolis to mature women!

Can Zhao Hao still tolerate such a discordant dream?

He immediately enlightened more than a dozen burly men, who then went up and gave them a brutal beating.

The dreamer was severely beaten and finally thrown out of the window by Zhao Hao. The feeling of weightlessness woke the dreamer up.

But after waking up, the person still remembered their rare harem dream and immediately covered their head with the blanket, wanting to continue dreaming.

Just as Zhao Hao turned to leave, he saw that the mistress of the harem dream had returned and immediately surrounded him again with a group of burly men!

"So, you bastard, you dare to come back? Keep beating me!"

……

Zhao Hao originally thought he could get through this week smoothly and then enjoy a long vacation after the exam.

On the fourth day, however, an accident occurred.

Zhao Hao, who had just finished an exam, suddenly felt something unusual about his spatial ring. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was the shadowy ring he had obtained from the magician.

The ring was entirely black, with a flat surface engraved with "VIII".

The ring was currently heating up and exhibiting a slight psionic reaction.

Zhao Hao knew that the ring was working.

He thought for a moment: This ring is a token of the Shadow Organization, used for sending messages; it shouldn't be dangerous. Otherwise, the mage McGeek wouldn't still be wearing it.

He went to a toilet stall, locked the door, set up a protective barrier for Wangcai to guard him, and then put on the ring.

The moment he put on the ring, he felt its guidance. He knew that as long as he infused it with spiritual energy, he could activate its functions.

He thought for a moment, and just to be on the safe side, he first changed to the [Ghost] skin card, then put on the [Mysterious Badge], and finally put on the human skin mask.

This way, the other party should be unable to see through their true form and face.

Then he poured psionic energy into the ring. In a daze, he felt as if he had entered a dream. A wisp of his consciousness was separated and pulled, crossing an unknown distance from the sea of ​​psionic energy, and wandering to another place.

The next moment he was in a closed cave. There were some glowing crystalline minerals on the ceiling of the cave, but the whole cave was still somewhat dark.

Around him, nine people of different shapes and sizes had already stood still.

Before Zhao Hao could carefully assess his surroundings, the Destiny System in his mind suddenly vibrated.

"Check-in location discovered: Underworld Shadow Base, check-in is available..."

Zhao Hao's mind raced: No matter what, as long as I clocked in, I'd already won. Even if I got kicked out of the gathering the next second, it was worth it—might as well take it. Hesitation wouldn't necessarily lead to anything good. What if they didn't kick me out?

We're going to make a profit either way, let's do it!

He suddenly spread his legs wide and assumed a horse stance, pointing one finger to the sky and the other to the ground, but the gesture was "making a fist while extending the index and little fingers".

This was the pose given by the system, and Zhao Hao didn't know whether it was rock and roll or the Great Heavenly Dragon.

"Check-in successful. You have obtained the skin card: [Shadow Man]."

[The Shadow Man]

Bronze 1-star skin card

Skin effect: Malicious intent.

Skin effect: Mysterious presence, nowhere to be found.

Note: There is only one truth, and the murderer is that person!

ill intentions: Your image gives the impression that you have ill intentions and are definitely not a good person.

Mysterious existence: No one can obtain your useful information by any means.

Vanish without a trace: You will leave no trace whatsoever, including footprints, droplets, dander, psionic traces, body temperature, scent, and so on.

Zhao Hao changed to the new skin card almost instantly because he could sense that there were several bronze-level superhumans among the people around him!

He worried that his Iron-level "Mysterious Three-Piece Set" wouldn't be enough, so he decided to go for the [Shadow Man] instead, as it had a higher level and more privileges.

In the blink of an eye, in just a second or less, Zhao Hao completed the actions of thinking, striking an embarrassing pose, checking in, and changing his skin.

Its appearance has also changed from a milky white, semi-transparent ghost wearing a human skin mask to a completely black figure, with only its eyes and mouth visible, and the rest of its body being a black outline.

At this moment, he had not yet put away his "Heaven and Earth, only I, the Mighty Heavenly Dragon" pose.

The eight or nine people around him all frowned as they looked at this new member who seemed to be in poor spirits.

Only those wearing the Shadow Organization's ring can spare a wisp of psychic energy to participate in this gathering.

The Shadow Organization only has ten official members and ten rings.

The only one currently out of reach is the Magician's "Nine Rings".

So, the magician was actually killed by this mentally unstable freak?

At first, the person appeared as a ghost, wearing a leather mask that faintly emitted the cries of a young girl. The next second, the person had transformed into this completely black appearance, and their other abilities were no longer discernible.

This person is definitely not normal; they're clearly not a good person! They might not even be human.