Gacha games can't save this bizarre world.

They even secretly developed an even more dangerous blood therapy.

The human pursuit of health and longevity is instinctive, which is why the Holy Blood Church, despite its constant setbacks, has never been completely destroyed.

Ultimately, they possessed something real—the corpse of a malevolent god's offspring.

Can God die? Maybe.

The body was dead, but not completely dead.

His physical body died, but his spirit, or rather, his divinity, remains.

He influences all living beings he comes into contact with, even those he makes eye contact with.

The original members of the Holy Blood Church attempted to use this divine corpse to elevate themselves, gain divinity, and transcend the realm of humanity.

But they were too arrogant. The crimson liquid, after entering their bodies, brought about tremendous changes—their bodies became stronger and more perfect, and their spiritual energy surged. However, as time went on, they began to come into contact with the residual divinity of the divine corpse. In their dreams…

Under this twisted soul, the Holy Blood Church quickly shifted from its initial concept of using divine corpses to ascend to godhood to its ultimate goal of resurrecting gods.

Taking advantage of the great upheaval caused by the conjunction of celestial bodies, they acted once again, exploiting people's yearning for the extraordinary.

In fact, if someone were to compile statistics, they would find that the number of people who are unconscious in their dreams is more than eight hundred, scattered all over the world.

Moreover, they are all those with psychic potential, and a few are even extraordinary individuals.

After they were infused with "divine blood," their souls and consciousness were drawn into this dreamlike state.

And it was because of this incident that the mad witch Farina used her abilities to track down this strange dream.

……

"Pfft~" Zhao Hao swung his sword and unleashed a wind blade, cleaving a monster more than three meters tall, which looked like a human, a monkey, and a dog pieced together, in two.

The huge scythe in its hand fell to the ground.

Before it died, it finally began to shrink and revert to its original form, a young man in his early twenties. Only half of it remained.

"That bloodline corruption is transforming their consciousness, turning them into all sorts of monsters. Even in their dream states, this is the same. It's a manifestation of moving closer to divinity..."

Although some may think that this extremely ugly monster can hardly be called divine, but is closer to bestiality.

But human aesthetics cannot define God.

Looking at the cathedral gradually lighting up in the distance, Zhao Hao said, "A single move can have far-reaching consequences. Something far more terrifying is lurking within this dream!"

Meanwhile, in the second dream realm, Farina was fighting against a group of creatures that resembled aquatic monsters.

Her magic is bloody and cruel; every gesture she makes involves tearing, crushing, and grinding, or some cruel black magic.

However, the monsters were numerous, crawling up from the pebbly shallows, cutting themselves until they bled profusely...

She has been here for forty-six hours now, without sleep or rest, according to her own time.

She found her target in that dark and oppressive town, but even in her dream, the target remained asleep.

She obtained some information about the dream from other people who had been lingering in the dream for who knows how long.

Finally, she decided to follow the mission objective to the second layer of the dream to find his consciousness.

If the first layer of the dream is a bizarre town that defies common sense, then the second layer of the dream is a period of chaotic and nauseatingly obscure past events.

Farina followed the clues and eventually discovered what those extraordinary individuals who founded the Holy Blood Church had done.

They found the corpse of a deity in a hidden cave in an ancient village on the island, and shockingly used the villagers, who had been affected by it for generations, as test subjects. They forced them to eat the corpse and even implanted parts of it into their bodies, leading to an increasingly dark and inhumane situation...

Ultimately, the entire island became the main body of this dream, and all the "divine blood" came from here, as a diluted and weakened secondary product.

When Farina finally followed the clues to the shallows of the cave where she found the god's corpse, she realized she was wrong when faced with countless monsters surging out of the sea.

I should be going crazy...

Chapter 512 Walking with God

Although in the real world, Malone was only missing for three days.

However, he had been in this dream for almost a month.

From the initial impact of being occasionally affected after arriving on the island, experiencing flashbacks; to dreaming on the first night of patients and medical staff carrying candles and walking through a door; to finally discovering clues on the third day, then fighting and being injured by the mutated and beast-like monsters, and being infected by the holy blood of the evil spirits...

In fact, when he discovered the clues, Malone already realized something was wrong.

Because this matter seems to have exceeded the scope of his ability to handle it, it has become a vicious and large-scale supernatural event, involving the ancient Church of Holy Blood, and even directly related to the God of Mischief—Ted Daniel, who has spent thirty years in the labyrinthine basements of the mental hospital, possesses the God of Mischief's blood, which is incredibly pure!

However, the moment he entered the maze, there was no turning back, because the way he came had vanished.

When he finally found the culprit that had affected the entire island, causing it to flash back and forth between the real world and dreams, he knew he had failed this time.

At the last minute, he used a painting that Uncle Tie had given him—"The Ghost Market During Qingming Festival".

This is a strange object, and a rather high-level one at that. Over the past few years, Uncle Tie has mastered the intricacies of it and refined the strange object.

Malone spent a great deal of extraordinary materials and money to escape from the labyrinth and the island using this painting, and returned to Ame.

However, although a person can leave that place, he is stained with holy blood, and his spirit can never leave it again.

After he fell into a coma, his spirit entered into this collective dream.

This place is a nightmare that has lasted for thousands of years; it is the island where the founders of the Holy Blood Church discovered the corpse of the evil god's offspring.

Here, there are many people whose spirits are imprisoned here for various reasons, tainted by holy blood; none of them are normal.

Malone has explored several blocks of this dark town over the past three weeks.

The daytime here is also gloomy with very low visibility, but at night there is a bright moon. In any case, there is never a sunny day here.

Some of the people here, even Ma Long would feel terrified if he met them.

Because beneath their human appearance, they have transformed into some kind of terrifying, unknown beast. Like wild animals cloaked in human skin, they are ready to tear through the disguise at any moment to devour people and drink their blood.

Among those who are still able to communicate, many are liars, or even malicious individuals with ulterior motives.

Having stayed here for a long time, some of them have undergone severe changes in their appearance, such as having extremely thick hair, or having very long, pointed faces with protruding blood vessels.

Because their humanity has been completely worn away, they are often extremely evil.

Malone witnessed a girl who had arrived a week earlier than him being drugged and tied to an operating table by some guy named Doctor...

By the time Malone arrived, the girl had transformed into a deformed, hunched creature, draped in a tattered black robe, with white hair and a skull, holding a bell, and a tentacle-like spirit emerging from the back of her neck.

This thing sucked the brains out of the two companions who came to the dream together.

That mad doctor even claimed it was his masterpiece, saying it could transform people even faster than delirium!

In addition, Malone also saw a person who was obsessed with gluttony, stuffing anything into his mouth and eating it all, and he turned into a strangely shaped giant ugly wild boar.

At the time, Malone didn't know he was a human in disguise; he only saw him eating people. It wasn't until after he killed him that he saw the hind legs that hadn't fully transformed and the tattered clothes, confirming that the fat man from before had become a human.

At first, Malone was clueless, simply killing dangerous people or monsters. However, he also sensed danger; his spirituality was changing in his dreams.

Although there is no need to eat or drink here, if one is trapped here for a long time, one will inevitably turn into a monster like everyone else.

After much exploration and communication with almost everyone he could reach, he finally found some clues. He discovered the diary and books of a missing scholar, which recorded the changes over the years in his delirium and the scholar's conjectures.

That scholar must have lived more than two hundred years ago; he was a British polymath.

By chance, he discovered records in his family's collection of books that his ancestors had received "blood therapy".

It was a very bad memory. After receiving the holy blood, those ancestors became unrestrained and indulged, holding banquets day and night in a remote rural manor.

After several years of this, people began to disappear from nearby villages. Gradually, the villagers noticed the abnormalities of the manor—the endless banquets, the guests who were always dancing and singing, and other illogical details.

It was later confirmed that the scholar ancestors had transformed into some kind of terrifying monster that fed on blood, and the guests were naturally the same.

The family records stop here. All that is known is that a major earthquake struck the area where the manor was located, and the manor and several surrounding villages all disappeared without a trace.

This scholar had access to some extraordinary content, so he speculated that the reason for his ancestors' fall from grace might have been the mysterious blood therapy they underwent in pursuit of health.

Finally, after several years, he came into contact with a branch of the Church of the Holy Blood in a small town in Romania. Then, unfortunately, he was stained with the blood of the Holy Blood and arrived here…

He endured it for a very long time; his diary records at least three years and nine months.

He was certain this was a dream, but not merely a dream. He also suspected that beneath the surface of the dream, there must be other real entities. Because even in the midst of delirium, some people were still infusing holy blood, seeking to draw closer to the divine.

Some people have mysteriously disappeared; they didn't die, nor did they turn into monsters.

Scholars speculate that they have successfully entered into a deeper level of the truth.

Scholars have also come to the conclusion, through their research on some sculptures and buildings, that this dream was once fragmented!

A part of the dream left the main body and left this place.

“I’ve already sensed something was wrong with me. Every night when I fall asleep, I hear some unknown murmurs, and whenever I stare at the silver moon in the sky, I fall into a long period of blankness without realizing it.”

"My body has started to change, even though I've tried everything to find any drugs that can slow down the mutation..."

“My last chance… if I can escape from here, my last chance is that split dream realm. According to the murals, it’s called the Town of Inner Demons. I must find a way…”

"Everyone in the world is a beast tamer, and the beast resides within each person's heart."

Marlon didn't know what the final result of the scholars' research was.

However, from the research and manuscripts he left behind, Malone learned that there were other dreams beneath the dream.

Although it may not be the way out, we have no choice but to try now.

Following the directions, Malone overcame numerous obstacles and killed over a dozen powerful monsters, finally arriving at the cathedral in the very center of town.

After killing the two tall, thin monsters wielding giant iron shovels, he pushed open the four- or five-meter-high solid wood door.

The spacious rotunda is about a thousand square meters, with a stained glass dome overhead.

At the far end of the rotunda, directly opposite the entrance, stands a tall throne, upon which sits a gigantic monster…

When Zhao Hao arrived, Ma Long was fighting a tall, muscular, and strangely shaped monster.

The monster had a hunched back with horribly protruding vertebrae. Its long arms could touch the ground, and at the ends were strange claws—one a beast's claw, and the other webbed like a duck's.

He was very tall, but also very thin. A layer of skin, greasy and shiny like gray-black rubber, covered his jagged skeleton, making him look like a huge, moving mummy.

It has five heads, with the central head being a horse's head with protruding lips and teeth and a mouth full of jagged, sharp teeth, which is over forty centimeters long!

Next to the horse's head, a woman's head grew crookedly.

The woman's head was emaciated, but her expression was extremely ferocious. Her mouth was wide open, pale and rotting, and her face was covered with many festering holes of varying sizes. Flames constantly emanated from the woman's mouth, indicating that she could breathe fire.

In addition, there are three small human heads on the monster's neck, the heads of two boys and a girl with blood flowing from their seven orifices.

They were crying and wailing incessantly, their voices so mournful that they made one's head throb and feel dizzy.