Chapter 359 - Dreaming for 400 years (2/2)

Lin Luoran props up an enhanced Fire-Proof Dome. Huang Weijian and Cui Hejian who have been saved and Mr. Lin and Yuan Ye who have been exhausted have all been covered in it.

Orochi twists its body madly and tall buildings of Edo collapse. Affected by the battle and flood, dead bodies of civilians of all ages and both s.e.xes are lying on the ground everywhere.

Rubble, wooden beams, corpses of humans and animals are everywhere… although Lin Luoran knows it is a dream, she still feels sympathy for it.

The Fire-Proof Dome can’t hold on for a long time. Lin Luoran looks in the direction of Mount Fuji:

Goldie, you need to be faster, faster, please…

…

“Do you think if you blow up Mount Fuji, you will open up the exit to the outside world?”

Orochi jabs its tail at the Fire-Proof Dome. Lin Luoran doesn’t look very well but she is still confident.

Of course, she does not expect to blow up Mount Fuji and then can just open up the exit to the outside world. Everything here is very real so Mount Fuji must still be an active volcano in this dream. If she blows up Mount Fuji, it will affect this perfect dream and it can never be restored.

She wants to make a bet that Tokugawa Ieyasu’s ability of making the dream granted by Orochi is not an endless cycle. Otherwise, Orochi will be the G.o.d in this place. Why does it have to take so much extra work?

Because of the law of conservation of energy, the more she destroys the world in this dream, the more energy Orochi will use to repair the world later—if it doesn’t have enough energy, this dream cannot continue and the world full of the power of faith with darkness attribute will collapse completely.

Being a nice person may take three years or more. However, it only takes three days to become a bad person.

Governing a country needs several generations of monarchs to work jointly, but an evil little “screw” can easily corrupt a whole dynasty.

Fire phoenix is right. Destruction is always more direct and powerful than creation.

What Lin Luoran has to do now is being a complete disruptor.

“You want to steal my gold stamp and gold ware. You want to deify yourself with your sinful body… Orochi, I will show you that your worst decision is opening your door to me.”

The light of the Fire-Proof dome makes Lin Luoran’s profile face so bright. It’s like to confirm what she said, there is a loud noise from the direction of Mount Fuji.

The explosion sends a huge cloud of ashes so much like the giant mushroom cloud when Amelia dropped bombs on the Nihonese city Guangdao and Changqi that year—can this violent explosion and its radiation destroy this dream-like world as spreading water waves?

Lin Luoran gears up her output of Wakan. She is afraid that her Wakan can’t support it so she also uses the Strange Fire in s.p.a.ce.

The “memory bead” given by White Fairy only has the knowledge before the Bearing Essence period. Lin Luoran feels very sorry as a Bearing Essence cultivator. She has the personal ability of Bearing Essence but she is like an ignorant child holding a laser gun. It’s a pity that she can only use the spell of the Laying Foundation to deal with her enemies.

The explosion of Mount Fuji widens the cracks in the sky.

Now Tokugawa Ieyasu’s six senses turned off by Orochi have been activated because the world of this dream is so closely connected to his body.

This Nihonese Sengoku period hero who always looks like a middle-aged man opens his eyes slowly.

What he sees is the flooded Edo with wooden beams floating on the water. His favorite concubine in red is now just a cold body.

More floating corpses are in front of them. They are all people of Edo, the people under Tokugawa Ieyasu’s rule.

Half of the sacred majestic mountain is blown up. Mushroom cloud rises into the sky and lava flows spread, which is about to swallow up the beautiful mountains and rivers here.

Everything is gone forever, delicate eaves in memory, white-faced women coming over slowly in wooden clogs, blooming cherry blossoms in the corner, beautiful music, and proud samurais vowing to be loyal to him… This messy world is not the Nihon in his memory at all.

There is a flash of pain in Tokugawa Ieyasu’s eyes.

Orochi says with a low voice, “When I get the G.o.dhead of this Huaxia female cultivator, I will give you a more authentic Edo era…”

Tokugawa Ieyasu is surrounded by dark air. He looks at Yamata no Orochi and suddenly says, “Enough.”

“What did you say?”

Tokugawa Ieyasu closes his eyes in pain. “I said enough… I have dreamed for four hundred years and I don’t want to do it again.”

His Edo era has vanished in the long river of time.

The plants and trees here are sh.e.l.ls without souls. This place is not his Edo at all.

In order to steal the power of faith with darkness attribute, he even deceived himself.

He had a concubine he loved very much. She was his soulmate when he was still not famous. He remembers that she died of dystocia so he did not have a second son named “Tokugawa Makita”—he was the man who made this dream, but he even made himself a character in the dream.

There are so many regrets in his life that he wants to go back in time. For example, his concubine died young and his son who didn’t even have a name.

There are also countless glories in his life that make him want to stay in memory.

…

“I have dreamed for four hundred years and I don’t want to do it again.” thought him.

Tokugawa Ieyasu is the core of this world. This perfect Edo era was born because of his nostalgia and obsession. When he doesn’t want to dream anymore, the world melts down at a visible speed.

Mount Fuji disappears.

Flood disappears.

All corpses on the ground disappear.

The young woodman in the foothills of Mount Fuji is still trembling because of the coming lava. The next second, lava disappears in front of him and he gradually remembers who he is.

As a student of University of Togyo, how does he become a woodman?

Cui Hejian wakes up holding his hands to his head.

His brain is filled with the memory of a medical officer. Straw cape and clogs he is wearing really makes Cui Hejian dumbfounding.

Huang Juan stretches herself and wakes up gradually.

She has a long strange dream. She dreams that she becomes the mother of Toyotomi Hideyori in the Edo era, the Royal Highness. Please! She hasn’t been in a relations.h.i.+p yet… Why does she dream of having a twelve-year-old son?

The heroic middle-aged Tokugawa Ieyasu’s body instantly dehydrates. His skin is much more wrinkled than orange peel immediately.

As an ordinary person who has lived for four hundred years, his body can’t even stand upright the moment his dream falls apart.

All missing people wake up no matter from Nihon or the State of Huaxia. They stand there in a daze. Fictional characters like the masked old Kabuki woman or rōnins drinking like a fish all disappear with the melting mountains and rivers.

The colorful world is gone as everyone wakes from the dream. Lin Luoran smiles bitterly at the scene in front of her.

They can feel the beating of magma under the soil layer from the pungent sulphur smell and cracked hard soil. Everyone thinks they have been through so much. However, it turns out that they have always stayed under the crater of Mount Fuji and just had a vivid dream!

Besides these people, there are many human skeletons scattering all over this place. Are they the people who lost in the dream in the past four hundred years?

Goldie hovers outside the Fire-Proof Dome and is very disturbed.

Yamata no Orochi is not here. Where is it?

Looking at Tokugawa Ieyasu who is so old and skinny, Lin Luoran suddenly has a terrible feeling.

Everything goes so unexpectedly well. Did Yamata no Orochi just be defeated so easily?

In response to her, there is a crackling sound from the hard soil.

The magma under the soil is roaring and breaking out of the ground. What is coming out together is the writhing body and the giggling laughter of Orochi!