The World-Ending Dog

Bai Ge put away the agreement and quickly cleaned up the scene, returning the safe to its original position. Since he had made the opening from the back, even if Hu Hanlong came back, he would not discover anything as long as he did not open the safe.

He tidied up the area and even sprayed some air freshener. Wearing gloves and shoe covers, he had been extremely cautious and left no trace behind.

With his bag slung over his shoulder, Bai Ge quietly walked out. Before jumping through the window, he glanced at the living room. The servant was still happily watching television, completely unaware.

"He'll probably be back in another ten minutes..."

Bai Ge had an excellent sense of time. Sometimes, he could tell the time without looking at a clock, with an error of no more than a minute.

He jumped out the window without being seen. But the instant he landed, the hairs on his body stood on end. A black blur silently pounced at him.

"Huh?"

Bai Ge had no time to dodge and was tackled squarely by a vicious dog.

"Ah! Tch..."

The vicious dog bit down on his arm. If Bai Ge had not raised his arm in time, its fangs would have bitten directly into his face.

"Has this dog gone mad?"

Bai Ge had ultimately underestimated the dog.

He had not expected it to have already finished eating the braised pork knuckle from earlier, yet still to remember the unfamiliar intruder who had broken in. It had hidden in a corner, and now it was biting him without letting go.

"Tch, you ate my meat and still bit me!"

Bai Ge's arm throbbed with excruciating pain. He wanted to take out another braised pork knuckle, but the vicious dog had pinned him beneath its body, and one of his hands was trapped in its jaws. For the moment, he could not reach the meat and bone.

He wished he could draw his knife and stab the dog to death, but he forcibly held himself back. Otherwise, his covert operation would be ruined.

Manager Chen had asked him to secretly install the equipment, naturally hoping he would do so without anyone noticing.

"Grr... roar!"

The vicious dog was suddenly struck in the belly by Bai Ge. It finally released its bite, but immediately afterward it lunged for his face.

If that bite landed, Bai Ge's handsome face would probably be disfigured.

At the critical moment, Bai Ge smelled the foul stench in the dog's mouth. He could even feel the cold, sticky fangs against his forehead.

But in that instant, for some inexplicable reason, his mind began to wander, and all sorts of images from his previous lucid dream surfaced.

That feeling from before—"holding the universe in his heart," "boundless vastness," and so on—appeared again, as if he were dreaming while awake!

Immediately afterward, the vicious dog vanished, leaving Bai Ge stunned.

"Where's the dog?"

Bai Ge was genuinely bewildered. The feeling from his lucid dream had flashed through his mind, and then, just like in a dream, a living, breathing dog had disappeared right before his eyes.

"Did I gain a superpower?"

Bai Ge was a very calm person. Enduring the pain in his arm, he began recalling that sensation.

If this was truly a superpower, there was no reason he could use it only once. He should be able to trigger that state again.

Sure enough, Bai Ge soon recovered the feeling from his lucid dream.

"This isn't a dream..."

Reality lay before his eyes, while fantasy filled his heart. The two strange visions overlapped, and he immediately determined that this was not a "daydream" or a "waking dream."

It was too clear. The universe in his mind was exactly as it had been before he woke up in the hospital. The many wondrous rules he had established there still existed.

Could a dream really have such a clear continuation? Dreams did not save progress...

He closed his eyes and sank his thoughts into the other universe. He was still its supreme ruler.

It was not merely a matter of possessing overwhelming strength. Even saying that he controlled the rules was insufficient to describe it.

All rules existed and changed because of him. He was the Definier, the Setting Weaver of everything in nature.

This was fundamentally different from something like a creator god. To such a being, rules were not objective existences that could then be controlled.

Rather, Bai Ge himself was the "objective" itself.

Of course, everyone actually possessed this feeling, because everyone had a "wild imagination," or what could be called an "inner fantasy."

Who had never fantasized? The difference was merely in the clarity.

To a thinker, everyone was the absolute ruler, the Setting Weaver, and the supreme will of the world they imagined.

Whatever they imagined in their minds became reality. Could anyone think of something yet be unable to imagine it? No intelligent creature was like that.

Thus, Bai Ge was not unfamiliar with this sensation. It was simply far too clear...

It was as if he could feel two kinds of "reality": one before his eyes, and one in his heart.

"This isn't a dream... It actually exists?"

At that moment, one piece of ironclad evidence forced Bai Ge to reconsider the astonishingly clear world in his mind.

The vicious dog that had bitten him had now appeared on a planet he had created himself—a planet in an immortal cultivation world.

It was one of the many worlds he had casually created while lying in his hospital bed.

A real-world dog had appeared in a place from his imagination, causing Bai Ge to completely abandon the idea that this was a dream.

"If something from reality can enter, can something from fantasy come out?"

Bai Ge did not bother with the dog at first. Instead, he excitedly tried to take a large piece of gold from his mind.

He was short on money, after all!

"Fuck!"

He felt a strange sensation at the back of his head. When he reached back and touched it, a piece of gold really did emerge.

And this was no ordinary gold. It was Cloud Pattern Gold, an innate material from the immortal cultivation world he had created.

In his mind, it was a heavenly treasure coveted by countless immortals and gods.

Holding the naturally patterned gold nugget, Bai Ge found that although it had lost its divine radiance and overwhelming spiritual energy, its appearance was still wondrous and exquisite—far more beautiful than any gold product he had ever seen.

It was just... far too light...

"Why is it so light?" Bai Ge had originally planned to exchange it for money, but he soon noticed something was wrong.

He squeezed hard, and the Cloud Pattern Gold crumbled like mud. It was even softer than tofu.

"Impossible! I established that it was incomparably hard. Even immortals couldn't refine it, so how could I crush it with my bare hand..."

Bai Ge frowned. This thing had been weakened far too much. Forget exchanging it for money—it had no practical use at all.

Unwilling to accept this, he directly moved himself into the world in his mind.

After several attempts, he had already figured out how to use this ability.

His head—anything that touched his head could be sent inside. Conversely, things inside could jump out through the back of his head...

This naturally included himself. Just like that, he vanished in an utterly bizarre manner.

On a special planet in one of the universes within the world of his mind, it was called special because Bai Ge had personally designed it.

The meaning of the entire universe originated from that planet. During his lucid dream before, Bai Ge had wanted to create an immortal cultivation world, and so he had shaped this universe.

The universe was enormous. How could he possibly design every planet? The only one he had truly designed was this one. As for the rest, Bai Ge had never bothered with them. They were probably random.

On that planet, a vicious dog was utterly bewildered.

It stood atop a towering peak amid a range of mountains, feeling far lighter than usual. It suddenly threw back its head and howled, its voice shaking the heavens and earth. The mountains trembled, and the wind swept away the clouds.

"Woof!"

That bark shook the heavens and earth. A foul stench surged outward with it. There was not much of it, but it stirred the winds and clouds, obliterated countless mountains, and forcibly roared open a path.

An unlucky immortal sect happened to be destroyed in the process. Its mountain-protecting formation burst like a bubble.

"Who destroyed my Daoji Sect?" A disheveled old man flew into the sky and roared in fury and shock.

The vicious dog had merely exhaled, yet that breath had caused a major sect to be annihilated. Only one reclusive rogue immortal had escaped quickly enough to survive.

The howl shook the entire planet. Before long, tens of thousands of cultivators gathered deep in the mountains.

"A dog?"

The old man trembled as he looked at the vicious dog. With his cultivation, he could not see through it at all.

But judging from its appearance, the dog was nothing special. It neither trod on auspicious clouds nor radiated divine light.

It looked like an ordinary idiot of a dog, its tail tucked between its legs as it stared at the countless people flying through the sky.

The vicious dog, having been frightened by the cultivators flying in from all directions, looked panicked.

After all, the cultivators looked more ostentatious than the next. Many of the exotic beasts they rode were several times larger than the vicious dog.

Everyone had initially assumed that the dog was some ancient variant, but when they saw the panic in its eyes, they immediately began to look down on it.

"It's afraid of us."

"Strange. Was that bark really from it just now? There must be something unusual about this dog."

"Hmph, who cares what kind of variant it is? Capture it first!" The disheveled old man, consumed by hatred for his destroyed sect, roared as a golden palm seized toward the vicious dog.

The vicious dog saw the golden palm and tried to run in fright.

But it soon discovered that although the palm looked terrifying, it felt like nothing when it actually touched its body.

With a slight struggle, the golden palm exploded, leaving every cultivator present dumbstruck.

"What? Pure physical strength?"

"It must be an ancient variant. Fortunately, it hasn't cultivated yet. Hmph... I'll do it!"

Another rogue immortal's eyes lit up. He tossed out a magical treasure, intending to capture the vicious dog.

The vicious dog barked several times in terror. The sound instantly sent the magical treasure flying and cracked it apart.

The tens of thousands of cultivators were not frightened but delighted. They immediately used every method at their disposal, sending countless strange lights and bizarre magical treasures toward the vicious dog.

But by then, the vicious dog had discovered that these things were merely for show. They looked frightening, but in reality, there was no need to fear them at all.

Terrifying monsters and dazzling weapons were all things it could shatter with a casual slap.

The vicious dog leaped ferociously. It was as fast as a streak of black light as it crashed into the crowd.

In an instant, the physical bodies of hundreds of cultivators exploded, sending flesh and blood flying.

With one swipe of its claw, a rogue immortal died. With one bite of its fangs, it could even chew through a primordial spirit.

Its ferocity was utterly savage!

After only a few breaths, tens of thousands of cultivators had been reduced to a scant few. Even the disheveled old man from earlier had died a violent death.

"Beast, stop!"

Soon, an old man in green arrived at high speed, his robes fluttering in the wind.

One of the survivors immediately recognized him and shouted, "Old Immortal in Green! Hurry! Hurry and save us!"

Old Immortal in Green was publicly recognized as the strongest expert of the current age, the most powerful rogue immortal on the land.

He flicked out a sword, and the sword light stretched for several thousand meters as it struck the vicious dog.

Yet the vicious dog did not lose even a single hair. It had already grown excited from rampaging around and found all of this extremely interesting.

"Boom!"

The rampaging vicious dog was too fast to dodge. Old Immortal in Green, hailed as the strongest, exploded on the spot, his remains reduced to ashes.

Only a strand of his primordial spirit escaped and fled in panic.

A token emerged from Old Immortal in Green's primordial spirit. The words "Heaven and Earth" were written on it, and it shone with blinding radiance.

Immediately afterward, a mighty Divine Might descended. Golden clouds filled the sky, and faintly visible among them were jade towers and immortal palaces, causing countless people to prostrate themselves.

"Is that an projection of the immortal realm?"

"Did Old Immortal in Green call for help from a mighty immortal of the immortal realm?"

"Haha! With a True Immortal taking action, let's see how this beast can..."

Before the spectators could finish speaking, a majestic immortal descended from above the golden clouds, his expression indifferent.

Clearly, this immortal was the one Old Immortal in Green had summoned at tremendous cost.

The majestic immortal said, "Just for this black dog... you used the token? Hmph, the mortal world really is the mortal world..."

"Pfft!"

He had not finished speaking when the countless people on the ground looking up saw a horrifying scene.

The black dog shot into the sky, breaking through dozens of layers of golden defenses. It slapped the True Immortal on the forehead, instantly shattering his immortal spirit body. The True Immortal died without even having time to react.

Countless cultivators watched with their hair standing on end, their cultivation shaken.

"Impossible! What exactly is this dog?"

"An unparalleled ferocious beast?"