Preaching

"Why aren't they back yet? It's been almost three hours!"

Constantly checking the clock on the table to calibrate his sense of time, Needle Stab unusually showed an anxious expression. This was not surprising, as today's events were truly too abnormal.

In the Dream World, abnormality is never a good thing. In the history recorded by the Dream Guardian, there have even been four large-scale corruption events. Each of them usually Qidian with an abnormality in a small area, and all of those events ended with a large-scale restart.

As for what happened before the restart, everyone, including the executors, lost their memories, while those outside the scope had no idea. In other words, anyone who knew even a tiny bit of information was included in the restart's scope.

However, the only thing that can be confirmed is that in the areas that were restarted, the average lifespan decreased by at least 25 percent compared to other areas during the same period.

They couldn't be sure whether it was a simple, Fated Death, some kind of punishment from above, or simply the inevitable result of corruption, but it was a fact that the average human lifespan in the restarted area had decreased by ten or twenty years.

"Normally, even if a detective wakes up in the middle of the night, he'll only wander around for half an hour before going back to sleep. This situation definitely indicates a problem. Damn it, it's so troublesome that the Dream World can't directly communicate with the Real World!"

Snake Pupil muttered somewhat irritably. Although the negative effects of the Obsession Item were partly to blame, she, who was closest to the detective, was indeed deeply uneasy about the current situation.

"Even so, we can't go into reality; it's far too dangerous. Headquarters has already started subconscious hypnosis, and they're sending over Dream Guardian has enough time."

Qing Jin spoke rather rationally, but he also knew that this would take a lot of time. In the end, the hypnotic effect of the subconscious in dreams is not very good. It is probably just a dream that leaves a deep impression. At most, it can make people suddenly have a thought like "I suddenly want to go on a trip to xx" after waking up. But in reality, most people will forget about such sudden thoughts as soon as they think about them.

However, just as the group was getting anxious, the detective lying on the bed suddenly sat up abruptly. This scene, which resembled a zombie rising from the dead, immediately startled the three people in the room. Needle Stab even reached for his waist.

Then, in the next instant, his face turned deathly pale.

However, this paleness only lasted for a moment before he breathed a sigh of relief again. Looking at his ungloved hands and the belt without a quiver, he was momentarily speechless.

However, compared to the scheming and emotionally charged Needle Stab, Qing Jin and Snake Pupil were much less concerned. They simply pulled the detective up from either side, looking at him with serious eyes, seemingly waiting for the outcome.

The detective, who had been somewhat confused, immediately snapped out of his daze in this situation and then simply touched his sapphire brooch, saying:

"It's too much trouble to say it aloud, I'll just send it to you directly."

As they spoke, the three consciousnesses were linked together, and then images and sounds began to appear in their minds.

The three were familiar with the scene. Even if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they had heard about this image of an immortal Sword Flight and cutting through lightning from Qing Jin and the detective before.

What really concerned them was the "dubbing" that followed.

"Today I am undergoing my tribulation to attain enlightenment and am about to ascend to immortality. I hereby pass down the 'Six Completions Way,' which will grant immortality to all who Qi Refining Accomplishment."

"That's it?" Needle Stab frowned, looking puzzled, but then noticed that Snake Pupil and Qing Jin both had serious expressions. He immediately realized there might be some detail he had missed and was about to ask, but before he could speak again, Snake Pupil replied:

"I've never heard that phrase before."

"Me neither. It would be understandable if Snake Pupil didn't see the tribulation, but I personally witnessed that person undergoing the tribulation, yet I didn't hear those words," Qing Jin immediately added, and the detective nodded in agreement.

"I didn't hear it at the time. My dad told me this. Actually, the reason why all these people aren't sleeping today is because they obtained cultivation techniques and are all meditating and refining their Qi in the real world."

"You mean, only the Dream Guardian can't hear it?" Needle Stab finally understood the seriousness of the problem, but the detective shook his head and said:

"No, my dad said that only a portion of the people heard it, but those who didn't have relatives and friends. And people generally don't want to admit they're not destined for it, so regardless of whether they heard it or not, they just wanted to try practicing. Speaking of which, my dad even copied it down to prevent forgetting. It wasn't very long, just the General Outline and the section on Refining Essence into Qi, plus that passage. It's roughly about how only those who have reached the peak of the qi refining realm are qualified to receive the following techniques. Of course, it's also possible that one needs to comprehend the subsequent techniques from the General Outline after reaching the qi refining realm."

"Have you memorized the technique?" Snake Pupil asked curiously, eager to see what it looked like. The detective, however, smiled wryly.

"I'm just a college graduate from a second- or third-tier university. Even the shortest manual has a thousand or eight hundred characters. Do you expect me to memorize it in two hours?"

Snake Pupil' face darkened upon hearing this. He wondered if he should wake up immediately and go to the real world to ask, but considering his overworked personality in the real world, he figured that if he woke up, he would just turn over and go back to sleep.

Just as the atmosphere became slightly awkward, Needle Stab and Qing Jin's phones rang almost simultaneously.

The two picked up their phones, glanced at the caller ID, and each found a relatively quiet spot to begin their conversation. A short while later, they returned to the Living Room, looked at each other, and then said directly:

"Check your phones, you can use all the major social media platforms."

"Ah, this..." Snake Pupil did as she was told. Then, she saw that local websites, including gossip news, Weibo, and video websites, were full of things about the Tribulation Transcending True Immortal. There were also various "big shots" interpreting the cultivation techniques and explaining the General Outline. Some people even started to argue about which sect this immortal belonged to.

"It must be those who stayed up all night practicing that couldn't stay awake any longer," the detective said hindsight, because he himself was one of those who would fall asleep if he lost focus while practicing.

However, no one paid attention to this; their attention was entirely focused on the cultivation techniques that had been published on various platforms.

The details about Qi circulation methods and the General Outline the exercises are secondary; what's most intriguing is undoubtedly that incredibly suicidal, yet ironically, extremely suitable method for rapid mastery in this world—

Heaven Stealing Technique.

Although the red king is unavoidable, let's explain it for now:

The issue of dream memories and real-life memories.

First of all, everything in a dream is like a dream in reality; you forget it once you wake up, at most leaving behind some feelings of fear or unease, but you can't really remember it.

Once in a dream, one can remember events that occurred in the Real World, but cannot remember knowledge related to supernatural powers (unless one kills Corrupted Creatures to gain supernatural memories).