The moment Zhang Yuyan's figure was swallowed by the sword light, the entire dreamscape shattered with a crash.
Miss Ge and Li Chu woke at the same time.
Li Chu's Divine Light paused, and he immediately closed his eyes again, opening his mind's eye. High up in the boundless sky, a wisp of ethereal smoke was fleeing at tremendous speed.
Killing this Nightmare Spirit once in a dream was not enough to destroy it, but it could inflict a considerable degree of heavy damage.
Li Chu followed the trail with his gaze and saw the smoke finally sink into a hidden mountainside cave somewhere on Miao Feng Mountain.
Sure enough, the distance a Nightmare Spirit could move was also limited.
Was its lair on Miao Feng Mountain?
After the dust had settled, Li Chu opened his eyes again.
He found an exquisite little face leaning close in front of him, sizing him up with the look one would give a monster.
Li Chu frowned. "What are you doing?"
Li Xinyi had just listened to the awakened Miss Ge describe what had happened in the dream, and felt as if her entire worldview had been overturned.
A Nightmare Spirit was invincible within a dream. Wasn't that common knowledge?
But why could Li Chu instantly kill a Nightmare Spirit in a dream with one sword strike? That was far too appalling.
But when she thought about how he was Li Chu, it somehow did not seem quite so shocking anymore...
Other than "monster," she could not think of any good explanation.
Only after staring for a long while did Li Xinyi calm herself and say, "If a Nightmare Spirit is slain by you once inside a dream, the trauma it suffers is far greater than what an ordinary person would receive. For