Dream World, One Against Two

"How long had I been walking this road?" Dao Xuan muttered to himself. The next moment, the confusion in his eyes instantly cleared.

Dao Xuan smiled faintly. "Fellow Daoists, I came here with no ill intent. Why did the two of you resort to such methods against me from the very start?"

As he spoke, a fan appeared in Dao Xuan's hand—it was his Dao-proving treasure, the Four Symbols Treasure Fan.

With a gentle flick of the Four Symbols Treasure Fan, Dao Xuan sent forth a fierce gale.

In an instant, the scene before him became like a tranquil lake suddenly stirred by wind, ripples spreading one after another and growing ever more violent.

Before long, they turned into raging waves. With a boom, the entire scene abruptly shattered, transforming into a vast, boundless chaos.

Dao Xuan's expression hardened at the sight.

He already knew what he had encountered. This was the Dream-Proving Dao technique of Jieyin, one of the two Western cultivators.

It could be used to comprehend and cultivate the Dao, creating countless incarnations to experience the mortal world and temper one's Dao heart. It could also be unleashed to form a Dream World that trapped and killed enemies.

What Jieyin and Zhunti did not know was that Dao Xuan possessed a world of his own. He was exceptionally sensitive to the workings and transformations of a world, so after entering this Dream World, he quickly discovered the truth.

What surprised Dao Xuan now, however, was that his strike with the Four Symbols Treasure Fan should have shattered this Dream World and returned him to reality.

Yet now, it seemed this Dream World was actually a dream within a dream.

That flick of his fan had merely broken through the first layer.

And now, he had entered the second layer of the Dream World. This layer was a realm of chaos.

"Hmph!"

At that moment, a cold snort suddenly rang out. Dao Xuan recognized it as Zhunti's voice.

"Dao Xuan, you truly have some skill. But since you dared set your sights on us martial brothers, we must settle this today."

As soon as he finished speaking, the boundless chaos underwent a sudden change, and endless currents of chaos began to surge.

Above Dao Xuan's head, a golden thundercloud rapidly took shape!

Thunder rumbled.

Bolts of Geng Metal Divine Thunder crashed down upon Dao Xuan, engulfing his figure in an instant.

But after the violent barrage ended and the thunder dispersed, Dao Xuan appeared once more, completely unharmed.

At that moment, Dao Xuan stood atop the Twelfth-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus.

With this supreme defensive treasure protecting him, the Geng Metal Divine Thunder naturally could not harm Dao Xuan.

Dao Xuan smiled. "To wield such divine abilities even within a dream, the two of you are indeed formidable. But it seems your strength is still somewhat lacking."

"The Twelfth-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus?"

Zhunti's voice rang out again. "Fellow Daoist Dao Xuan, you truly possess many treasures. Then let us see how you handle this move."

"Boom!"

The endless thunderclouds above Dao Xuan suddenly changed, transforming into countless streams of spiritual light that descended.

Each stream of light was a treasure. They swept down from all directions, wave after wave of terrifying power crashing toward him.

Even the Twelfth-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus trembled under the bombardment.

"Interesting!"

Facing the countless treasures, Dao Xuan remained composed. Four divine lights suddenly appeared behind him—azure, red, yellow, and black. The Four-Colored Divine Light swept violently in all directions.

In an instant, every treasure vanished, all of them drawn into the Four-Colored Divine Light.

However, these treasures were not genuine treasures, but merely objects formed from the dream.

Dao Xuan still had not broken free from this Dream World.

Jieyin and Zhunti had long known the might of Dao Xuan's Four-Colored Divine Light, so they were not surprised.

What they had not known was that Dao Xuan possessed the Twelfth-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus. Standing upon it, he was practically invincible, which gave them both a severe headache.

Yet at the same time, they desired even more strongly to capture Dao Xuan. After all, the Twelfth-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus was simply too tempting to them.

Thus, the two of them unleashed their divine abilities again. A massive hand, seemingly boundless, appeared above Dao Xuan and slammed fiercely down at him.

Dao Xuan's vision instantly darkened. It seemed that everything had disappeared, leaving only that heaven-covering hand descending from above with unstoppable might.

This was Jieyin and Zhunti's full-force strike, delivered within their home ground, the Dream World. It could not be underestimated.

Dao Xuan poured the Four-Colored Divine Light into the Twelfth-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus and urged the lotus platform with all his strength.

The Twelfth-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus immediately erupted with an incomparably dazzling radiance that made it impossible to look directly at it.

It was impossible to tell whether the light was azure, red, yellow, black, or white. Everywhere he looked was a vast expanse of brilliance.

Continuous booming explosions rang out.

The enormous hand jointly unleashed by Jieyin and Zhunti slammed heavily onto the Twelfth-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus, forcing the lotus platform to sink.

But that was all, because at that very moment, the Twelfth-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus struck back.

As its dazzling radiance blossomed, the Purification Law contained within it was fully activated. Combined with the Four-Colored Divine Light, which embodied the Four Symbols Laws of Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind, its power surged forth.

Jieyin and Zhunti's massive hand was ground away and purified into nothingness in an instant.

Even the residual force of the Twelfth-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus and the Four-Colored Divine Light did not diminish. They launched a fierce attack directly at the boundless chaos ahead.

"Rumble!"

This strike was like the creation of heaven and earth, plowing a massive ravine through the endless chaos.

Clear and turbid qi surged from within that ravine, while Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind churned and raged without restraint!

At that moment, the entire sea of chaos became extremely unstable.

Clearly, Dao Xuan's attack had inflicted tremendous damage upon the Dream World maintained by Jieyin and Zhunti.

It had come within a hair's breadth of collapsing completely.

"Not good, Senior Brother! We cannot let him break the Dream World!" Zhunti cried out. No longer caring about anything else, he controlled his Bodhi Golden Body and sent it directly into the Dream World.

This Bodhi Golden Body had twenty-four heads and eighteen arms, each hand holding a different treasure.

In a flash, it arrived before Dao Xuan. Eighteen arms wielding eighteen Dharma treasures struck toward him all at once.

Dao Xuan burst into laughter at the sight. "You delivered yourself right to my door!"

At that moment, when Jieyin saw that Zhunti had actually sent his Bodhi Golden Body into the dream to attack Dao Xuan, and heard Dao Xuan's words, his heart jolted. A sense of foreboding rose within him.

"Junior Brother, do not use your Golden Body!" Unable to hesitate any longer, he immediately sent out a thought.

Within the Dream World, Dao Xuan suddenly felt the entire world—the boundless, desolate chaos—come to an abrupt halt.