The Moment the Dream Ends

A cold wind blew through the straw curtains of the Ancestral Hall, causing the moonlight to flicker and dangle.

In front of the back door of the Ancestral Hall, Li Mo looked up at Ying Bing, who was dressed in a flowing black fairy dress with her hair flowing gracefully and her eyes were filled with a deep and mysterious light. She looked more like a fairy who had just descended from the bright moon.

Why did Ice Block suddenly wake up?

But it's good that you're awake... Little Li when he suddenly realized something was wrong.

Even small ones are cute...

Did she really just wake up?

Does she remember what happened before?

The Taiyin Clear Radiance shone brightly at this moment, illuminating the ancestral Ancestral Hall like a silvery day, and the ferocious appearance of the Tomb-Guarding Beast was frozen in place wherever the moonlight passed.

Even the Year Beast was no exception, turning into a lifelike silver statue. The difference was that its eyes could still move, but the sinister look in them had turned into terror.

But Ying Bing didn't look at it; instead, she turned her gaze away.

"Bing'er..."

Beside the Ancestor Statue.

Ying Xuliang and his Mother Ying stared blankly at the graceful figure standing there.

The girl in the painting, and the small figure of her daughter, seemed to slowly merge reality and dream at this moment.

A complex expression crossed the couple's stunned faces, which then turned into relief and contentment.

"So we... were already dead. This was all a dream..."

"Our daughter has grown up healthy and strong, hahaha, good, good... that's enough."

As soon as they finished speaking, silver light began to emanate from their bodies. Like the other members of the Ying Family, their figures seemed to merge into the moonlight and disappear.

Reality is the end of dreams.

They are about to vanish along with the dream.

"You, you actually woke up a long time ago?!"

"Only ten years, and you've reached this point! You..."

Cracks appeared in the clear light emanating from the black Year Beast, and its head broke free from them, letting out an incredulous cry.

Upon hearing this, Li Mo leaned back slightly, a small question mark immediately appearing on his head.

Ten years?

He keenly grasped the meaning of those two words.

Did this Year Beast know that Ice Block was dreaming, and even know that this was her ten years in the future?

How could Calamity Beast existing only in dreams utter such words?

Unless...

A thunderbolt flashed through Li Mo's mind as he recalled Zou Yongfeng mentioning that he had seen a dark figure at the Ying Family Old Residence.

This Year Beast, Nian, actually came from outside!?

So Fengzi wasn't mistaken that day!

This Year Beast, like himself, is able to sneak into other people's dreams through special means. No wonder its first reaction upon seeing him was one of astonishment, as if it never expected to be there!

The Year Beast did not dissipate as the dream began to end.

This is the best evidence!

"Click--"

Suddenly, the clear light emanating from the Year Beast shattered, exploding into countless sparkling fragments.

It realized that the girl in front of it was no longer the little girl from ten years ago, or even more than ten years later.

This ability to control the Taiyin, even in a dream, is something that someone at the Divine Observation Realm could never possess. Otherwise, even in someone else's dream, I wouldn't be so weak.

Li Mo saw the black Year Beast transform into a black gust of wind, sweeping back towards the blank space in the dream.

Buzz--

A sword rang out.

Suddenly, a sword shadow emerged from the Taiyin energy; the black Year Beast was fast, but its speed was even faster.

Li Mo even felt that the speed was absurd.

It was as if the sword had just appeared and then slashed out the next moment; it was as if this had just happened, yet it also felt like it had happened long ago.

It was clearly just one sword strike, yet it felt as if hundreds of strikes had occurred in the same instant.

This sword strike was like a phantom emerging from a crack in time.

"Aaaaaah!!"

The Year Beast let out a miserable cry, its body churning with black energy, as the sword, resembling a shadow in the moon, pierced its body fiercely.

"You are looking for me, but I am also looking for you."

Accompanied by a girl's voice.

Li Mo saw the Sword-Ray bloom amidst the black mist.

Exquisitely beautiful, yet cold and sharp.

"How could I die in a dream!"

The desperate roar of the black Year Beast echoed throughout the Ancestral Hall.

The wounds on its body emitted Sha Qi of black malevolent energy, but when they encountered the sword light imbued with moonlight, they were still utterly destroyed.

Outside world.

In reality.

The dark and windy night finally cleared up a bit, and the moon, which had been hiding behind the clouds, slowly became clearer.

The moonlight illuminated the broken walls and ruins of the Ying Family Old Residence, and the dilapidated Ancestral Hall.

A huge, dark shadow was lying prone in the hall.

It looked exactly like the Black Year Beast in my dream, only not as big as it was in the dream.

"It hurts, it hurts so much..."

"Let me out... let me out!"

The Year Beast writhed in agony, crashing into the broken wall beside it.

But even with such intense activity, it couldn't wake up from its dream.

Moreover, various hideous wounds began to appear on its body, from which billowing black Sha Qi also emerged. This caused it to shrink rapidly, as if it were deflating, becoming smaller and smaller.

Gradually, it shrank to the size of a calf and stopped moving.

Black blood flowed all over the ground.

Inside the Ancestral Hall.

The black Year Beast, which had been ferocious just moments before, now lay on the ground, submerged in the silvery moonlight, and vanished without a trace.

In the dream, the Ancestral Hall, devoid of its presence and the Tomb-Guarding Beast, became utterly silent in an instant.

"Dead?"

Li Mo had a premonition that this thing not only died in the dream, but its fate in reality probably wouldn't be much better.

He suddenly realized that his perspective when looking at the Ice Block was no longer looking up, but had returned to what it was before.

Li Mo realized it.

This dream is becoming more and more 'real'.

Therefore, he was no longer a child, but had reverted to his teenage appearance.

The lively and bustling New Year scene was gone, the victorious clansmen were gone, and the surrounding scenery was blurring and collapsing.

Only Ying Xuliang and Mother Ying mother remained, reluctant to leave.

The ones who crave it are not them, but...

"Ice Block..."

Li Mo looked at Ying Bing beside him and noticed that her face had turned somewhat pale.

The Taiyin Divine Intent of the Ice Block is related to time.

Now she is maintaining the dream, delaying its rapid descent into reality.

"Father... Mother..."

The couple gazed at their grown-up daughter and the Li family's son, their eyes brimming with unspoken words, but they only smiled.

"Daughter, the moon will set, the sun will rise again, and even the most beautiful dream will eventually end."

"If it's a beautiful dream when I wake up, that's all I need..."

Their figures were being broken down into specks of silver light, dissipating into nothingness, and even their faces were beginning to blur.

But Li Mo clearly felt that Uncle Ying and his aunt were watching him.

"Thank you for coming into Bing'er's dream..."

More than ten years ago, on an ordinary day.

The sun rose as usual, illuminating the moment when the Ying Family Courtyard awoke from its dream.

Some clansmen were doing morning exercises in the square in front of the Ancestral Hall, while others were squatting on the threshold slurping noodles, facing the rising sun and welcoming the new day.

Sunlight streamed through the bed in the side room, and Ying Xuliang groggily awoke. Gazing at the dawn light outside the window, he murmured:

"My wife, I think I had a very long dream..."

"I dreamt that Bing'er fed me dumplings, I dreamt that she grew up, I dreamt that... she was standing with a boy, it seemed to be... a boy from the Li family?"

"Me... me too."

Mother Ying also woke up, wiped her eyes, and realized that she had been crying at some point.

"You dreamed about it too?"

"Um..."

"Haha, it seems like my husband and I won't be sleeping in the same bed but dreaming different dreams anymore."

Ying Xuliang.

"You silly thing..." Mother Ying stopped crying, amused by her husband, and rolled her eyes at him.

"Wife, let's make some dumplings today and take them to Brother Li's house. Let's see if his son is as clever and mischievous as he was in our dreams."

"I'll go ask Bing'er if she'd like to go out."

The subsequent divine form of the Ice Block is also related to this; even now, she is not actually in her fully-fledged, complete state, not just in terms of realm.

The reason for her rebirth will not be glossed over by the little punk. It will only be revealed slowly as the two of them reach a higher level. Telling the story in detail will definitely be more interesting than revealing everything.

I'm going out for dinner to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I have two more chapters to write tonight, so they might not be on time.

Wishing all viewers a happy Mid-Autumn Festival in advance! May we all live long Sharing the Moon from afar. 030.