Bai Ye abruptly opened his eyes, and a brightly lit ceiling came into view.
He slowly sat up, his gaze sweeping across the white padded room before finally settling on the skeletal Gao Shanhe.
Gao Shanhe was still asleep. His eyeballs rolled violently beneath his eyelids, and his shriveled lips trembled nonstop, as though he were murmuring in terror.
"So Nightmare isn't a single entity? It's more like a virus. It spreads," Bai Ye muttered to himself.
He had eradicated the nightmare virus in his own body and awakened from the nightmare, but the nightmare virus in Gao Shanhe was still there.
In truth, the nightmare virus was nothing to him. He had only fallen into a nightmare because his Heart Demon had exploited it.
Otherwise, the nightmare virus alone probably couldn't even have infected him.
"Come to think of it, did that Holy Mother-simping Heart Demon die?"
Bai Ye suddenly froze. To his surprise, something new had appeared in his Mind Space.
He immersed his consciousness in the Mind Space, where the Golden Dial and Golden Hourglass occupied the very center.
Two eyeballs, one red and one blue, one large and one small, huddled side by side in a corner.
In another corner of the Mind Space, a pitch-black crystal the size of a sesame seed floated silently.
It existed somewhere between illusion and reality. He could clearly see it, yet couldn't make it out distinctly, as though it did not exist in the dimension of reality.
Its current form seemed like a higher-dimensional projection into a lower dimension, somewhat similar to the state in which pangu matter existed.
"What is this?"
Bai Ye touched the black crystal with his mind. Instantly, he sensed a connection as intimate as shared blood, along with a faint forbidden aura emanating from