Ren Qing took a deep breath, and immediately the information flow surged before his eyes.
[Do you choose the bizarre transformation gestation of Darkest Demon Lord, will consume nine years of lifespan?]
[Do you choose the bizarre transformation gestation of Darkest Demon Lord, will consume eighteen years of lifespan?]
[Do you choose the bizarre transformation gestation of Darkest Demon Lord, will consume thirty-six years of lifespan?]
The final bizarre transformation branches fused with each other, Ren Qing flickered with distorted light and shadow, even the dream market became unstable.
He did his utmost to suppress the aura of the technique from leaking out, his entire body could not help but tremble.
But under the effect of the information flow, the bizarre transformation merged into one in a moment, finally giving birth to an embryonic divine ability belonging solely to dream techniques.
Ren Qing summoned the information flow, and immediately noticed the name of the divine ability.
[Divine Ability: The World Is Like a Dream]
"The World Is Like a Dream?"
Ren Qing could not help but mutter to himself, his gaze subconsciously looking toward the diseased tree in the Mud Pellet Palace, whose appearance had undergone a different change.
On the branches of the diseased tree originally hung dozens of fruits, containing various disease seeds.
Because of the divine ability, the outer skin of the fruits actually became semi-transparent, and from inside one could see countless disease seeds multiplying wantonly, as well as various scattered figures.
Ren Qing digested the information brought by The World Is Like a Dream, and quickly understood the function of the divine ability.
First, each disease seed fruit would give birth to a dream.
The dreams formed by different disease seed fruits were all different.
The dream of the deformed disease seed was composed of countless twisted vegetation; the dream of the Fatty-Liver Disease Seed was mountains of accumulated grease; the dream of the wind-cold disease seed was covered in a world of ice and snow...
Ren Qing used his consciousness to touch the fruit, and could feel that the figures inside the fruit were living beings suffering from wind-cold, and he could even perceive the thoughts they produced in their sleep.
The nightmare aura emitted when living beings dream would be absorbed by the disease seeds, causing the speed of their reproduction to accelerate.
There was no upper limit to the disease seeds stored in the diseased fruit, it could be said that the greater the number, the more terrifying the power Ren Qing could exert.
Tens of thousands of wind-cold disease seeds pouring into another's body could likely destroy vitality instantly.
This was the divine ability of The World Is Like a Dream.
As long as one was within a distance of five to six hundred li centered on Ren Qing, any living being that contracted a disease already present in the diseased tree would be pulled into the dream formed by the disease seed fruit when they slept.
With a thought, Ren Qing casually exerted influence on the living being within the wind-cold dream.
This living being was actually a swimming fish, located in the wine sea of the stomach-contained world, apparently having been infected with cold poison after mistakenly entering the range of an iceberg.
He could extract the scattered memories of the fish while it dreamed, and could also draw out the wind-cold disease seed through the diseased tree, or even cause the disease seed to erupt.
Ren Qing casually extracted the wind-cold disease seed from the fish.
The wind-cold disease seed, through the connection of the dream, was absorbed by the diseased tree.
He looked toward the wine sea in the stomach-contained world, where a listless swimming fish suddenly became invigorated, flicking its tail and diving into the water.
If Ren Qing wished, he could even use the characteristic of disease transmission to turn the entire stomach-contained world into a hotbed for breeding disease seeds.
When his dream technique realm increased, the range of The World Is Like a Dream would become even more exaggerated.
Heavenly Aberration realm?
Or Earth Immortal?
Sooner or later, Ren Qing would rely on The World Is Like a Dream to become the plague god of this world, controlling all diseases, showing the potential of the divine ability.
He now understood that the divine ability he nurtured through the fusion of five primary and secondary techniques had far greater potential than ordinary divine abilities.
Ren Qing did not stop his seclusion and once again summoned the information flow.
Among the five dream techniques, only the Dream Demon Art "Demon Dream True Person" was still at the Ghost Envoy realm, and it was about time to advance to the Yin Difference realm.
Whether to choose the branch Demon Demon True Lord, will consume two hundred years of lifespan
Ren Qing confirmed without hesitation, and immediately the flesh of his entire body began to boil, giving a feeling of imminent loss of control through mutation.
If he had broken through on his own, it would inevitably have affected his mental state.
But since he used the information flow to advance, Ren Qing remained as calm as still water.
The flesh of his body immediately collapsed, and in the blink of an eye turned into black-gray distorted light and shadow, filling several hundred meters of the spinal region.
After the breakthrough ended, Ren Qing returned to normal.
The Buddha qi did not riot, mainly because Ren Qing was not casting a technique just now, but had become a kind of monster called "Demon Demon."
The aura of Demon Demon was extremely restrained, far from as terrifying as its appearance.
He chose the Dream Demon Art's Dream Worshipper path, and advancing realms inevitably produced irreversible mutation, at the Yin Difference realm becoming half human, half demon.
However, Ren Qing's flesh and bones had already been mutated once by various techniques, and with the Dream Demon Art being only a secondary technique, he forcibly suppressed Demon Demon True Lord.
Ren Qing's consciousness controlled his right hand to undergo Demon Demon transformation, constantly switching between the real and the illusory.
He guessed that Great Dream True Person also mastered the Dream Demon Art, which was why his appearance had a feeling of not being made of flesh and blood.
After advancing to Demon Demon True Lord, Ren Qing could also temporarily transform into Demon Demon.
He could use this to enter the dreams of others, and if combined with The World Is Like a Dream, he would truly be like the Demon Demon of legends that devours dreams.
Theoretically, Demon Demon True Lord was actually similar to the ability of Storyteller.
In fact, although Demon Demon True Lord could also hide body and soul within dreams, Demon Demon could not achieve the tracelessness of Storyteller.
It was even a source of pollution, and when within the dreams of living beings, would continuously erode their souls, thereby causing deviation and madness.
Moreover, no one's dream could be maintained for a long time.
Ren Qing resisted the urge to try using Demon Demon True Lord, intending to quickly advance Darkest Demon Lord to the Yang Spirit realm, as time was not abundant.
Whether to choose the branch Covering Heaven and Obscuring Sun, will consume one thousand years of lifespan
He took a deep breath, the mere words "Covering Heaven and Obscuring Sun" contained the terrifying deterrence of the Yang Spirit realm.
And the breakthrough process of Darkest Demon Lord further demonstrated the dominance of a primary technique.
The mutation tree of Covering Heaven and Obscuring Sun effortlessly devoured the mutation trees of the other techniques, representing that the techniques had stepped into fusion.
When the primary technique advanced to the Yang Spirit realm, the secondary techniques naturally crossed their bottlenecks, reaching the complete state of the Yin Difference realm.
Ren Qing could also sense the connection between the five techniques.
The range of Covering Heaven and Obscuring Sun was similar to The World Is Like a Dream, capable of pulling hundreds of li into endless darkness, spreading a disease plague.
It could also, after transforming into Demon Demon, freely travel through dreams via disease fruits.
Of course, just like how Ren Qing could clearly transform into a panlong of several hundred to a thousand meters, yet in battles only maintained a size of two to three hundred meters.
If one dared to make such a grand display at the Yang Spirit realm, they would be taught a lesson in minutes.
Ren Qing felt somewhat pained for his remaining lifespan of less than a thousand years, but still gritted his teeth and advanced Three Inches Human World to the Yang Spirit realm.
Whether to choose the branch Governing the Dream Nation, will consume five hundred years of lifespan
Five hundred years of lifespan vanished in an instant.
The dream market on Wine Lake Island immediately underwent a drastic change.
Han Li walked along the streets of the ghost market, preparing to go to Great Dream Pavilion to purchase resources. Before long, the Shadowless Ghost would also reach a bizarre transformation.
And he was only a hundred meters away from Great Dream Pavilion, at most a few steps.
But Han Li felt that Great Dream Pavilion was becoming farther and farther away, and no matter how much he increased the frequency of his steps, he could not close the distance.
Every cultivator within the dream market noticed this situation.
From the outside looking into the dream market, the area showed no change at all, but the internal streets were expanding wildly.
The extremely crowded dream market turned into a vast town in a short time.
Ren Qing stretched out his palm, and the Method of Modeling Heaven and Earth was displayed, causing the dream market to appear in his palm, with countless buildings entering his sight.
Only a small portion of the buildings were shops similar to Great Dream Pavilion, the rest were ownerless, and the capacity increased dozens of times.
Not only cultivators of the Restraint Officers' Hall, but also living beings within the disease fruit dreams could be pulled into it, their lives completely under Ren Qing's control.
The dream market now resembled a prosperous town, it would be more appropriate to call it "Dream City."
Of course, the most important thing was that the rules of trade in Dream City had undergone a qualitative change.
The lifespan Ren Qing obtained from cultivator transactions could be harvested more flexibly according to how much lifespan the cultivator possessed.
This was "Governing the Dream Nation."
Most of the people on the streets were Xiangxiang civilians who had just begun cultivating body techniques, they stared dumbfounded at Ren Qing, who was like a colossal being.
Ren Qing clenched his palm into a fist, and the effect of the Method of Modeling Heaven and Earth disappeared.
He posted information about leasing thousands of shops on the notice board, so that he could obtain a fixed monthly lifespan income.
Soon cultivators noticed the papers about shops on the notice board.
Those with surplus resources naturally would not miss such a guaranteed profit business, and successively rented shops in good locations.
Even though they knew it would consume their lifespan, they had no hesitation.
Because the Restraint Officers' Hall indeed had many methods of extending lifespan, not to mention various materials for longevity, even being in the stomach-contained world, occasionally being drenched in rain could increase lifespan by several days.
For cultivators, lifespan was never a problem.
No matter how they traded, it would not lead to depletion of lifespan, the issue was how to live until the limit.
In less than half an hour, various shops opened within Dream City, most of them selling pills, with magical artifacts second.
It was really because the alchemy technique created by Ren Qing had too low a threshold.
As long as one mastered fire-attributed techniques, one could basically refine pills, though the quality of the pills would certainly vary greatly.
Ren Qing once again felt the pleasure of a surge in lifespan, the Dream City shops also boosted the business of Great Dream Pavilion, after all doing business inevitably required stockpiling goods.
He thought of Great Dream True Person, and tried to contact the other party using dream techniques.
As a result, Great Dream True Person was in an unknown location, the environment felt extremely closed, and his consciousness was faintly present, making communication impossible.
Song Zongwu's situation was similar, likely his body and soul were shielded by a Buddhist temple.
Ren Qing could only vaguely sense that Great Dream True Person was in the south, Song Zongwu in the northeast, the three scattered across distant regions.
He helplessly shook his head, and immediately the information flow surged.
[Lifespan: seven hundred fifteen years]
[Eyeless Method (Dream Butterfly Method, Dream Demon Art, Six Diseases Method, Taishui Scripture), Covering Heaven and Obscuring Sun (Governing the Dream Nation, Demon Demon True Lord, Death Plague Immortal, Overwhelming Fungal Calamity)]