502 Awakening (2/2)
”To the Hall of Sacrifice!”
His eyes darted around as he quickly ran towards the dark hall, pushing the door with all his might.
”Who's that? Eh? It's you!”
A skinny old man in black clothing appeared stern as soon as he spotted Fang Yuan. ”This is not a place you are suppose to be in!”
Although Fang Yuan only skimmed through the hall, he could already observe most of its interior.
Lanterns lined the walls of the hall and equipment were laid out on the sacrificial table. There were many caskets as well as a single painting scroll hidden in the corner of the hall.
On the painting scroll, the drawing was a... door!
'That is... exactly similar to the door that I saw in the memories of this realm!'
Fang Yuan wanted to take a few more glances at the things around. Suddenly, he felt a sense of confusion.
”What have you angered...”
The old man noticed a red silhouette and his expression changed. Immediately, he plucked a black ring from his finger and threw it towards the ground.
”Bang!”
A layer of black fog appeared, engulfing the old man within. The old man took a few deep breaths and immediately, his body started to rot and within seconds, he became a zombie.
Without a second thought, Fang Yuan turned around and ran for his life. After just a few steps, he could hear a pitiful shriek. It was from that old man!
”What is that?”
Fang Yuan did not slow down. As he arrived at the ancient mansion, he noticed the silhouette of a group of people.
At the same time, the feeling of confusion in him finally disappeared.
”Did that old man become my scapegoat?”
Fang Yuan clenched his fist. He had finally encountered the threats of this realm and could not wait to restore his cultivation!
”I don't want to care anymore. No matter how eerie this realm might seem, I have to begin my experimentation on dream elemental force!”
...
On the second day, Fang Yuan had received news of the death of the old man. Tantai Juexin had personally delivered this piece of news to Fang Yuan. Evidently, he was suspecting that Fang Yuan might have something to do with his death.
From Tantai Jueqing, Fang Yuan had also obtained information about the scissors which was cursed with black magic.
”What was 'that' which I encountered last night?”
Fang Yuan sat on his bed and started to recall what had happened last night with a look of confusion growing on his face. ”Something is not right. To think about it, that female ghost's face was a little blurred and did not seem to be Qiu Liang's face... Could the ghost have taken advantage of my mind to cause me to hallucinate? All because I have imagined about Qiu Liang being cursed by the scissors, and that is why I have imagined her to be the ghost in red?”
”Regardless, I am sure that the appearance of these ghosts have something to do with the Demonic Heart Realm!”
”This realm is even more affected by the Demonic Heart Realm compared to Da Qian!”
Fang Yuan clenched his fist. ”In order to resist against such pollution and foreign entities from the Demonic Heart Realm, I must regain my ability to harness dream elemental force! Furthermore... it feels a little different here!”
All along, Fang Yuan was already interested in the other paths of the Demonic Heart Realm.
Although Shang Hou did not have the records of such paths on him, every path would have its foundations rooted in dream elemental force! After obtaining the many dream master records, Fang Yuan had his own theory.
Of course, in a thousand of his ideas, 999 of them would be likely to be useless and could even result in him suffering an irreversible damage. The last idea might not be entirely safe as well. Therefore, dream masters had completely given up trying to explore the other paths.
After experiencing the dream dao, why would the dream masters be interested in any other paths?
Being in another realm was the best opportunity for Fang Yuan to pick off where his research had left off.
Experimenting on himself would surely be more effective than using other dream masters as experimental products!
The weirdness of this realm and the fact that it had been polluted by the Demonic Heart Realm further affirmed Fang Yuan's thinking.
”The first step is always the same, and that is to sense the dream elemental force.”
Fang Yuan closed his eyes and weird shapes started to appear in his consciousness.
These shapes started to float around and gather together, forming an inverted triangle.
The triangle was quickly formed which could be due to the fact that the realm had long been polluted by the Demonic Heart Realm. With that, streaks of evolved dream element force started to descend.
”Purple?”
Fang Yuan was stunned. ”Isn't the dream elemental force of the Demonic Heart Realm silver?”
In that instant, an even more drastic change happened.
His body started to absorb the dream elemental force greedily as though a desert had come across a flowing river.
”This is...”
Completely submerged in the process, Fang Yuan did not notice that his body was turning pale. Following which, the temperature of the room started to go down as well.
This was not the physical temperature, but a higher-dimensional cold sensation only felt by the soul.
”Ah!”
A shriek had jolted Fang Yuan out from his trance.
He quickly came out of the room and realised that a tray of food was scattered across the floor.
”What happened?”
Fang Yuan frowned as his eyes glistened.
On the ground, there were fine prints which resembled the shape of a human!
”This force... it is indeed representative of inauspiciousness!”