Chapter 1169: Dreams Within Dreams

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Such dreams were nested layer by layer and appeared repeatedly.

No matter how hard Meng Chao struggled and tore through the layers of dreams, there would always be bigger, more complicated, and more terrifying dreams waiting for him ahead.

In the real world, it was very likely that only a short moment had passed.

The time in the dreams seemed to extend infinitely, allowing Meng Chao to spend more than a dozen or even dozens of different lives in the labyrinth of his thoughts.

These “lives” were either a part of the Ancient Dream Saintess’ personal experience or the miserable experiences of the rat soldiers that she had witnessed with her own eyes.

Or, she had snuck into the brain of the rat soldiers of the great horn army and extracted the most painful, most terrifying, and most desperate elements from their deepest dreams.

Therefore, it appeared particularly clear, deep, heartfelt, and touched the soul.

The most desperate dream of the tens of thousands of rat soldiers of the Great Horn Legion was like a black mountain that pressed down on Meng Chao’s subconscious.

It made him unable to move. He was in so much pain that he almost lost his self-consciousness.

This was the biggest difference between a ‘dream’and an ‘illusion’.

During the War of the monsters, Meng Chao had fought several demon gods who were adept at mental attacks and illusions under the command of the main brain of the monsters.

One of the demon gods, the tree of wisdom, had created a large-scale illusion called “Peach Blossom Town.”It could be said to be a vast world that was unprecedented and hard to distinguish between real and fake.

Those who fell into the illusion might have been trapped in the illusion until they were completely brainwashed by the tree of wisdom if they were not resolute and sharp enough to see through the flaws instantly, or their real bodies would have turned into curled bones.

However, no matter how delicate and real the illusion was, the mental impact it brought on people would be even stronger.

Those who fell into the illusion would always remember their identity and never imagine themselves as a completely different existence.

Meng Chao, who had fallen into the ‘Peach Blossom Town’, always remembered that he was Meng Chao.

Even if he had been brainwashed by the Demon God ‘tree of wisdom’and had joined the monster civilization, he was determined to use the monster civilization as the leader to facilitate the ‘fusion of the monster civilization and the Dragon City Civilization’.

He had done so under Meng Chao’s identity.

It was precisely because it was difficult for a person to forget his real identity in an illusion.

The creator of an illusion often had to imagine a suitable scene and find a convincing reason to act as a transition between reality and illusion so that it would not appear too abrupt and cause the people who had fallen into the illusion to be suspicious.

Once the people who had fallen into the illusion became suspicious.

It was not far from the collapse of the illusion.

The dream world was different.

When people were dreaming, they could completely, and often, they would become a completely different identity.

Men would become women, old people would become children, and even become pigs, dogs, cows, sheep, demons, ghosts, and all sorts of strange existences.

The usual way of doing things and logical thinking were completely useless in the dream world. In fact, it was the complete opposite.

A white-clothed angel who saved lives and helped the injured in reality could completely become a heinous murderer in the dream world.

A hero who was not afraid of death in reality could also completely become a coward who was afraid of death and selfish in the dream world.

Dreams didn’t need any transitions, logic, and common sense. In a dream, all kinds of incredible things would happen. People who were deep in a dream would never have the slightest doubt.

Even if they really doubted and even realized that they were dreaming, the person in the dream wouldn’t break free so easily. Instead, they would fall into ‘dreams within dreams’and ‘Dreams within dreams within dreams’.

At this moment, Meng Chao was in such a dangerous situation.

In fact, what he fell into was not a “Dream within a dream within a dream”.

Instead, it was a “Dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream”.

Every time he realized that he was dreaming, he would struggle with all his might and shatter the dream.

A brand new dream would be accompanied by a torrent of information from the depths of the ancient Dream Saintess’brain region. It would crazily rush into the depths of his brain region, causing him to lose himself once again, using a brand new identity — either he was a slave who accepted his master’s punishment.., he would either be a private hunter who was gnawed by a totem beast, a slave who encountered an accident while doing heavy work, a servant who was ravaged by a totem warrior on the arena, or a slave who was infected by a plague.., a walking corpse on the verge of death would start a brand-new, seemingly endless torture.

Such an “Infinite dream”would bombard the soul indiscriminately. It was far more powerful than the illusion of the demon god’s “Tree of wisdom”by ten times.

If it were anyone other than Meng Chao, their cerebral cortex would have burst into flames in an instant, burning their brain cells, memory banks, and self-consciousness to nothing. They would never be able to recall who they were, who was their original self before they experienced dozens of lives that were worse than death.

Even for a monster like Meng Chao, half of his soul came from the future. After being tempered by the flames of the Apocalypse and being nourished and enhanced by the ‘seed of Fire’, he was still engaged in a fierce battle with the nine demon gods and the main brain of the monster, he had built his spiritual defense line into an indestructible iron wall.

He was also lost and dazed time and time again. He felt as if he had fallen into a bottomless black swamp. Every time he struggled to the surface, he would only be able to catch his breath before he was dragged back to the deepest part of the swamp by the weird hands that stretched out from the Black Swamp, he was dragged back to the deepest part of the swamp.

Fortunately, after enduring the super high-intensity impact of the archaic runes, the mental strength of the ancient Dream Saintess was also weakened to the limit.

When Meng Chao was struggling desperately in her “Infinite dream”and bitterly enduring, he sighed at the strength of her mental strength.

The ancient Dream Saintess also didn’t expect that this guy who dared to barge into her dream and seek death would actually have such a strong subconscious and strong mental defense!

Finally, the ancient Dream Saintess’dream began to collapse.

The characters in the dream gradually melted like wax statues near a fire source, becoming indistinct.

Meng Chao could faintly hear the moans of the wounded soldiers in the colorful sky filled with whirlpools. A strong and pungent smell of herbs that had nothing to do with the dream also surged into his nostrils.

These were the information that his flesh and blood body, which was lying in the wounded soldiers’camp, sensed in the real world.

The fact that this information could penetrate the dream meant that he was about to break free from the control of the ancient Dream Saintess and awaken from the endless nightmare!

Just as Meng Chao was overjoyed…

The ancient Dream Saintess let out a furious scream.

She created the final and most terrifying nightmare.

Her subconscious directly transformed into an indomitable valkyrie wearing a white bone armor. She appeared in front of Meng Chao.

Behind her, countless blood-stained skeleton rats were squirming in a sea of blood-colored rats!

The subconscious of a human in the deepest part of a dream was often the complete opposite of his usual disguise.

The more he suppressed himself in reality, the more he restrained himself according to the laws and morals in the general sense, putting on a harmless and even merciful appearance.

The deepest part of the subconscious often hid the crueler, angrier, and darker side.

Yezi once told Meng Chao that the ancient Dream Saintess was like an ordinary girl next door, naive and kind, approachable, and full of heartfelt understanding and sympathy for all the rat people.

Although she had suffered more than any rat people on her way of growing up, she was like a mandala flower blooming after a storm, trying her best to show the best and brightest side, to everyone.

However, in this world, there was no saint who was perfect and always bright.

After losing her home and all her relatives, experiencing so much pain and seeing so much injustice, how could the ancient Dream Saintess still be like what she usually showed, was she an “Innocent, kind, and approachable girl next door”?

If she was really such a girl next door, it would be impossible for her to build the great horn army from scratch and stir up the great horn rebellion that shook the entire Lan Ze in just a few years.

It was just a disguise that she wanted the ordinary soldiers of the great horn army to see.

Even if it was not a ‘deception’, at least, it was not her true appearance.

At this moment, in the depths of the dream, her hair was disheveled, she was baring her fangs and brandishing her claws. She was incomparably hideous and ugly, like a hungry goddess of revenge. She was the real Saintess of the ancient dream who desired to devour all the wolves, tigers, and leopards alive!

Meng Chao really wanted to swallow a mouthful of saliva that did not exist in the dream to ease his nervousness and hair-raising feeling.

The good news was that he had finally broken through all the obstacles and disguises and met the most real Saintess of the ancient dream. He could have an honest meeting and a heart-to-heart exchange.

The bad news was that in the depths of Saintess of the ancient Dream’s traumatized heart, there seemed to be a monster that was even more terrifying than the apocalyptic beast.

At this moment, this monster named “Subconscious”was deeply enraged by Meng Chao!

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