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Hmph. Nightmare Shell. Nightmare Shell!
Tang Changsheng finally understood why this thing bore that name. It could not have been more fitting!
From beginning to end, they had probably been caught in the Nightmare Shell's trap. Everything they had experienced afterward, even their supposed suppression of the Nightmare Shell, had likely been an illusion.
Tang Changsheng considered himself a master of illusions, yet he had fallen into the Nightmare Shell's Nightmare Illusion and nearly capsized in a drainage ditch. His expression was naturally grim.
He looked around, wary that he might still be trapped in a dream within a dream.
The Primordial Yang Divine Lamp flared brightly once more. Its light swept across the scene, revealing everything before him as it truly was.
The truth of the Nightmare Shell's interior appeared before him. Inside a vast shell, multicolored Dream Power and the power of Laws had formed a Divine Kingdom.
Every living being in that Divine Kingdom had fallen into a vacant slumber, from the Loose Immortals who had followed Tang Changsheng inside to the kingdom's own inhabitants.
All the Nightmare Power they released while lost in their illusions was being swallowed by an enormous Black Hole.
"That's the Nightmare Shell's true consciousness!" Tang Changsheng recognized it at once.
Dreaming was also a force of consciousness, much like Incense and Fire Prayer Power. Both sprang from the human mind...
The difference was that Nightmare Force was far more muddled. Dreams were the hardest things to control and could change at any moment.
A Nightmare, though, was the deepest kind of Dreamscape. It did not have to be a bad