Dreamlike

Buzz.

A section of the Little Dream God Lotus's root glowed with radiant light. Runes appeared upon it, brilliant light shining as auspicious mists spread. The root transformed into a complete lotus, swaying gently as Light Rain fell.

Su Ye gazed at the divine lotus before him. It was so exquisite that he was almost entranced, but he quickly steadied his mind. The Little Dream God Lotus before him was only an illusion; the real thing was merely a tiny section of root. "Don't worry, I won't eat you. Follow me, and one day I'll help you rise to the peak again."

"You?"

The Little Dream God Lotus's melodious voice held a trace of disdain. "I'm no Spirit Medicine or Saint Herb, able to recover with ease. The laws of this world are incomplete, and you can't even become a god. How could you help me return to my peak?"

Did it take him for a fool? Did he think a few glib words would make it obediently follow him?

Besides, although it was the root of a Divine Medicine, in theory it only needed to grow slowly to produce a complete Little Dream God Lotus again. But that was only theory.

If you could cut a Divine Medicine into thousands or tens of thousands of pieces and turn them into thousands or tens of thousands of Divine Medicines, wouldn't they be everywhere in the world?

Forget Divine Medicines—even if you cut a Saint Herb in half, it couldn't become two Saint Herbs. Both halves would instead deteriorate into Spirit Medicines.

"Though I'm weak now, I'm destined to reach the absolute peak in the future. Forget a Divine Medicine—even helping you transform into an Immortal Medicine someday isn't impossible."

Su Ye's expression was proud, his bearing that of a man who believed himself invincible.

"You're even bragging now. If you can defeat me, I might follow you. If you can't, you'd better submit to me instead."

The Little Dream God Lotus swayed as radiance spread and Auspicious Mist rose, shrouding the entire underground cave and filling it with sacred light.

Buzz.

Light Rain grew ever more brilliant across the Little Dream God Lotus. Amid the falling light, its form ceased to be a lotus and transformed into a graceful figure.

As soon as the figure appeared, the world dimmed. Her peerless face was so beautiful that even the sun and moon hid behind the clouds in shame. Her eyes blinked like autumn waters, lively and tender.

Her elegance eclipsed all others throughout the ages.

Su Ye stared blankly. He had never imagined that such an exquisitely beautiful woman could exist in this world. He could find no words to describe her, because any description would have been an insult to her.

"Pfft."

Suddenly, Su Ye spat out blood, his face pale. Yet a smile appeared on his face, because he had just fallen under her illusion, and now it had been broken.

"What kind of eyes are those?"

A grave expression appeared on the peerlessly elegant woman's beautiful face. She had sensed from the beginning that his eyes were extraordinary, but she hadn't expected them to be so bizarre. The moment her power touched them, she had suffered a backlash.

"Heavenly Eye," Su Ye replied.

If she hadn't touched his Heavenly Eye just now, he might have remained forever trapped in the mental world she had constructed. The thought of falling under her illusion without even realizing it was terrifying. Even now, he had no idea when he had been ensnared.

"Heavenly Eye?"

The peerlessly elegant woman nodded slightly and parted her red lips, her voice melodious. "I see. Only a Heavenly Eye could possess such power. But your Heavenly Eye is... somewhat strange. Its ability to perceive isn't very strong. It's quite different from the Heavenly Eye I know, which can see the truths of the Heavenly Dao and trace the source of the Great Dao. Could it be that it hasn't fully opened yet?"

Although she was only a Divine Medicine, she had once been the Great Dream Sect's treasured heirloom. She had also lived for a very long time and knew a great deal.

"Maybe. After all, I'm still too weak," Su Ye replied.

He didn't know much about his Heavenly Eye either, nor did he know how to cultivate or develop it.

Since ancient times, only a very few powerful experts had been able to open a Heavenly Eye. Naturally occurring Heavenly Eyes were even rarer. Since antiquity, there had only been one Double Pupil.

"Now that I've shown you my talent, are you going to submit to me?" Su Ye said with a smile. Though he smiled, he was on guard, wary of being drawn into her mental dreamscape again without realizing it.

Come to think of it, that dream just now had been pretty nice.

Su Ye shook his head. This wasn't the time to think about that. He needed to focus on the situation at hand.

The peerlessly elegant Little Dream God Lotus sensed the tension in Su Ye's mind and smiled. "You don't need to be so wary of me. With your current Mental Power, you couldn't withstand my power."

Su Ye felt a Mental Power forcibly relaxing his tense mind. His thoughts shook. The other party was far more terrifying than he had expected. With power like hers, would she really attack him?

Could he truly withstand it?

No.

Su Ye hastily rejected the thought. This might all be an illusion of the mind—her ability was making him feel powerless to resist, so that once he let down his guard, she could strike a fatal blow.

The runes in his eyes shone ever more brilliantly, and a strange energy emerged. The void behind him rumbled as Chaos Radiance surged, and the phantom of a Chaos Grinding Disc appeared. A terrifying aura descended, suppressing heaven and earth.

"The Chaos Grinding Disc... Could it be the legendary Six Paths Reincarnation Disc?"

The peerlessly elegant woman's beautiful face filled with shock. She thought of a taboo existence from a distant era—so distant that even she, a Divine Medicine who had lived through the ages, had only heard of him in legends.

"No," Su Ye said. After thinking it over, he added, "Probably not. This is a power of my Heavenly Eye. It can grind away all Great Daos and matter."

When one heard the word Reincarnation, the first person who came to mind was naturally the Immortal King of Six Paths Reincarnation, an unrivaled giant of the Immortal Ancient Era. But that didn't mean everything related to Reincarnation came from him. After all, he was only an Immortal King; he hadn't reached the end of the Dao.

The Samsara Grinding Disc spun, Chaotic Matter billowing around Su Ye. It made him immune to all laws, cut off every force, and left him as the sole being in the world.

The peerlessly elegant woman danced with graceful movements. She didn't continue questioning him. Even if he were connected to that unrivaled taboo existence, so what?

As she danced, the void around them trembled. Auspicious Mist descended in streams, and Divine Radiance coiled around her, as though a goddess were dancing.

"Have you admitted defeat, then? Is this dance your way of apologizing to me?"

Su Ye looked doubtful.

He had no idea what she was doing. Before, she had danced to bewitch and seduce him, drawing him into a dream. Now that he had seen through her, why was she still dancing?

The beautiful woman transformed from the Little Dream God Lotus gave no response. Her movements grew more and more exquisite, while the Divine Radiance around them thickened.

"You're just going to watch?"

The God Emperor's voice rang in Su Ye's ear, carrying a note of exasperation, as if to say he was an idiot for standing there quietly watching.

"If I don't watch, should I go up and dance with her?"

Su Ye shot back, then added with some regret, "It's a shame I'm not much of a dancer."

In truth, he did feel that something was off, but he couldn't say what.

Besides, her ability was illusion. Now that he was immune to all laws, was he really going to remove the power surrounding him just because she danced well?

"..."

The God Emperor didn't know what to say. But then he remembered that Su Ye was still a youngster and let it go. "That's a Sacrificial Dance."