Mythical Card Creator: Myriad Ghosts Night Parade at the Start - Section 646

The [Malangfu Guanyin · White Bone Incarnation] card was faintly warm, almost hot to the touch.

That was the lingering heat left behind by the fierce clash with that Evil God's true body in the dream just now.

And on [Li Bai]'s card, the sharp sword intent had not completely dissipated.

Even Li Bai's image on the card looked somewhat listless at that moment, clearly suffering from mental exhaustion.

It had all been real.

They had truly taken a walk through the gates of hell.

If Wei Zheng had not arrived in time to save the day, if those two roars had not shaken him awake—

The consequences would have been unimaginable...

Lin Chen sat on the bed, steadied his mind, and began reconnecting every clue in his head.

"Hide Mount Putuo inside a dream...

Use sleep-talk to beguile people...

Giant tentacles... a fish-headed, human-bodied monster...

The deep sea...

A god capable of manipulating dreams and influencing reality while people slept..."

With those keywords combined, a name that had been infamous in his previous life, one that made his hair stand on end, slowly surfaced in his mind.

The true culprit behind this instance was none other than—

The most renowned of the Great Old Ones in the Cthulhu mythos.

Indeed, the entire Evil God system was named after him—

Cthulhu!

He was regarded as the "Lord of R'lyeh" and the "Sleeping God."

His signature ability, "The Call of Cthulhu," involved influencing human dreams with dreamlike whispers while he slept, invading their sanity and driving them mad.

In the Cthulhu mythos, the most famous line about this Evil God's "male protagonist" was—

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

(In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.)

This meant that Cthulhu had been sealed away and fallen asleep beneath the