Buer Was Establishing the Sanctuary of Surasthana

Although Ji Feng had said that, he still began thinking it over himself.

If Nahida had descended in her true form, she would naturally have possessed genuine god-level mental power. But at present, she could only be considered a projection of her true self. Ji Feng estimated that his current total mental power was roughly on par with an ordinary Titled Douluo.

Although the techniques inherited from Nahida were enough to spread his mental power across the entire landmass, forcibly drawing other people's minds into the dream world would probably limit him to a few tens of thousands. If he wanted to draw in Soul Masters, that number would shrink pitifully as their mental power increased. An ordinary Titled Douluo would probably be impossible to pull in at all.

And even if she could pull them in, forcibly maintaining that state would drain her considerably. If only she had an Akasha Terminal.

As the God of Wisdom, Nahida soon thought of a solution. She could develop a mental imprint that, once implanted in someone's mind, would use their own mental power and Soul Power to sustain the dream. She could reap the benefits of their Martial Souls for free, and even put their Soul Power and mental energy to good use strengthening herself!

Research into mental power on the Douluo Continent was extremely crude. Nahida was confident she could keep these natives from discovering the imprint, but the Soul Power it consumed would be very real. Sooner or later, they would probably find traces of it.

Was there any way to make them willingly supply Soul Power and mental power?

Nahida tried reversing her train of thought and approaching it from the opposite direction.

Forget it. I can't think of anything!

She gave up trying!

"Please enlighten me, strategist!"

Nahida flung her arms around Kokomi's white-stockinged thigh, abandoned all further thought, and told Kokomi what she had just come up with, leaving her to find a solution.

After hearing her out, Kokomi immediately said with delight, "I see! This is hardly difficult!"

Kokomi was quite confident in her grasp of people's hearts. With a graceful smile, she said, "A Consciousness Link is like an Akasha Terminal. It isn't without benefits. Just as an Akasha Terminal lets people draw on knowledge, dreams themselves have value too."

"Through the dream world, we can let Soul Masters relax their minds, simulate battles, and even exchange information. Its uses are endless. For some of the outstanding participants, Lord Dendro Archon could even grant knowledge, answer questions, or use your authority to heal injuries and even evolve Martial Souls. The possibilities are endless, and all this would cost only a little Soul Power! With a little publicity, plenty of people would willingly ask to receive an imprint."

Kokomi gave a sly smile, already having formed a plan.

"Rest assured, my lord. I have a plan."

Kokomi produced a folding fan from somewhere. Raising her elegant arm, she snapped it open with a swish and gently waved it, looking every bit the strategist with pearls of wisdom firmly in her grasp.

"Let us proclaim to this continent the arrival of the God of Wisdom, Lesser Lord Kusanali, Buer!"

Kokomi was also rather excited to assist a genuine deity and have the chance to put her talents to use.

After hearing Kokomi's plan, Nahida nodded gladly, then gently raised her fair hand, using her own faint Dendro power to draw upon the Dendro power around her.

Ji Feng's Innate Soul Power had been zero. As a direct result, the summoned Genshin Impact characters' innate ability to sense and control the elements was almost nonexistent. Even when they used a Vision to harness elemental power, their efficiency fell to less than one percent of its original level.

But for gods who were themselves incarnations of laws, their authority could forcibly bypass this restriction. Constantly invoking that authority, however, would increase the drain on their mental power. And when they used their authority to summon elemental power, they naturally could not apply it elsewhere. This would seal off certain skills that required their full strength, leaving them able to fight only in their basic form.

Of course, different gods had different understandings of laws, so the effects varied. At least for Nahida, who specialized in her own authority rather than combat, the impact was extremely slight.

Now that Ji Feng's Soul Power Level had reached ten, Nahida's Elemental Resonance had recovered to one-tenth of its original strength. For a god as adept at fine control as she was, this could already be considered virtually no impediment at all.

Instead, her mental power was the limiting factor. As a projection, her total mental power was probably less than one-tenth of her true self's.

But Nahida naturally had a solution.

First, she used her own elemental power to resonate with and harness the elemental power between heaven and earth. Then she used magic to simulate the Dendro Archon's Vision, amplifying her own elemental power, and used her Elemental Authority to resonate with the local laws of the Douluo Continent.

In an instant, an endless stream of elemental power gathered toward Nahida from between heaven and earth. The power surged in so wildly that the resulting gale alone lifted her into the air, making her appear incomparably divine.

She instantly felt as though heaven and earth had bestowed their favor upon her. Extending her mental power and authority felt as effortless as if aided by the gods.

Nahida's consciousness spread outward, encompassing building after building, district after district, town after town, kingdom after kingdom, empire after empire... yet it continued expanding at a frenzied pace.

Even so, drawing the consciousness of every person on the continent inside remained impossible.

Nahida's expression did not change. In an instant, her Psychic Network transformed from a broad surface into individual points.

Nahida gathered her mental power into countless points and scattered them into the Psychic Fields unconsciously emitted and woven together by Soul Masters. Then she stirred ripples in a specific pattern to create resonance, forming a specialized Psychic Network that became an extension of her consciousness-

-at last! Almost everyone across the entire Douluo Continent had been drawn into her mental web.

Accomplishing this with the mental power of an ordinary Titled Douluo was unquestionably a divine feat.

But it had its shortcomings. Since she relied on Psychic Fields unconsciously formed by groups of Soul Masters, the mental web caught only Soul Masters in the major population centers. It could not capture the handful of Soul Masters in remote areas or those in unusual environments.

The next instant, Nahida opened her eyes. Within her deep emerald irises, pale green, four-leaf-clover-shaped cross pupils suddenly shone with the shifting brilliance of colored glass. They seemed to hold the stars and the universe, as though the entire world lay within her gaze.

At the same time, the world closed its eyes.

Countless people and Soul Masters lost consciousness at that instant and collapsed to the ground.

Under the might of this divine authority, even Qian Daoliu, one of the world's three great Peerless Douluos, saw his vision go black and instantly sank into a dream.

Then, one after another, they opened their eyes in a World of Dreams that approached reality to an almost limitless degree. They stood upon a lush green meadow, countless people gathered across the boundless land.

Looking up at the sky, they saw innumerable emerald rays flowing amid a roiling sea of clouds. What finally emerged on the horizon was a child's face-her features exquisite and flawless, bearing a cool dignity and nobility that did not belong to the mortal world.

Within those strange pupils, the cross-shaped petals of four-leaf clovers were clearly visible. They reflected the contours of the entire land, revealing how tiny the multitude below truly was.

At that moment, heaven and earth fell silent, and all living beings held their breath. People simply gazed quietly at that face, which belonged beyond doubt to a deity.

The corners of Nahida's lips-or rather, Ji Feng's-curved upward in pleasure, forming a breathtaking smile on the young girl's face.

That smile almost robbed heaven and earth of their splendor, leaving countless people entranced.

She parted her cherry lips and addressed the multitude in a youthful yet cool female voice.

"I come from beyond this world. I am the deity of wisdom and life, and the sovereign who rules over dreams."

"My arrival is not for conquest or judgment, but to grant you new life."

"I shall guide my people with wisdom and lead them beyond the shackles of their birth."

"The Age of Martial Soul Awakening and Fate's Judgment has reached its final chapter. Those who harbor resentment toward it! I shall grant you new life!"

"In the name of Buer, God of Wisdom, I proclaim that the doors of the Sanctuary of Surasthana shall open to every noble and kind soul."

"All who yearn for new life may follow the guidance of dreams and enter my sanctuary."