Chapter 1050: Chapter 1048: Ancestral Star 1999! 2
Dream Dao Attainment, Opening Scheme Against Cultivators
Dream-Making Expert
“Baa!”
A single bleat of a sheep nearly scared the souls out of the researchers.
Everyone scrambled to shut down the furnace’s operations, then impatiently threw open the furnace door.
And then they saw the most unbelievable scene of their lives.
A lamb was bouncing around wildly inside a steel-smelting furnace exceeding three thousand degrees Celsius, bleating like mad.
The instant the furnace was opened, it charged out as if its hooves were on fire.
In that instant, chaos erupted.
Until a researcher named Lin Qi stepped forward, pressing both hands down on the rampaging furious lamb, and called out in a low voice.
“Taotie, be quiet.”
Under Lin Qi’s low call, the furious lamb finally recalled the fear of being dominated by a certain someone.
It quieted down, staring at Lin Qi before it in shock and fury, bleating away.
No one could understand it.
But Lin Qi shook his head, then nodded, and said lightly.
“There was a small problem, but it’s nothing major.”
“Be good and obedient, and This Venerable will naturally take you back.”
“If you dare cause trouble.”
“Then you can lose yourself in this Ancestral Star forever.”
The lamb dared not rage but dared not speak, lowering its head to bleat a few times before obediently following at Lin Qi’s side.
“Lin Qi.”
“You can communicate with this monster? No, uh, this strange sheep?”
Someone asked, trembling with fear.
“I suppose so.”
“But I think if we want to figure out exactly what’s going on.”
“We’d best rescue Wu Lao’er first.”
Lin Qi explained offhandedly.
He possessed a strange kind of magic; a few words were enough to make people believe him easily.
So no one cared anymore whether Lin Qi could truly communicate with this lamb that could be frozen into an ice sculpture yet survive temperatures of three thousand degrees Celsius.
After everyone witnessed the lamb’s inconceivability.
They brought the lamb back to the base for deeper study on one hand, while putting the plan to unseal the giant serpent and Wu Lao’er onto the agenda on the other.
Among them, the plan to unseal the giant serpent was a massive undertaking.
Because the giant serpent was simply too large.
At minimum, a giant furnace would be needed to contain and refine the giant serpent, and it would also require extremely complex modifications.
So it was destined to require a very long period of preparation.
But neither Lin Qi the researcher nor the lamb being researched clearly had the patience to wait.
So Lin Qi proposed again.
They could directly attempt to unseal the giant serpent with a nuclear blast.
Such a proposal was obviously too absurd.
But after Lin Qi’s friendly and persuasive convincing.
The research base still accepted the proposal.
So the giant serpent was transported to Lop Nur.
Then the nuclear blast began.
The extreme heat of the nuclear explosion crushed and melted everything in its path.
As humanity’s ultimate weapon, after a nuclear blast, all things should be barren, not a blade of grass left growing.
But after this nuclear blast.
From the center of the explosion came a earth-shaking roar.
The giant serpent, frozen into an ice sculpture, had actually survived from the heart of the nuclear blast.
Such a scene was world-shaking.
All who witnessed it were so shocked their hands and feet went cold, terrified beyond measure.
Until the prepared Lin Qi, bringing the lamb that had been unsealed ahead of time, forcibly pushed through the heart of the nuclear blast zone and successfully tamed the unsealed giant serpent.
Only then did everything seem to return to the tracks of science.
“Then the next step is to unseal Wu Lao’er.”
Lin Qi held a chained lamb with one hand, and led a chained giant serpent with the other.
Standing just like that, swaggering through the research base.
Watching as the researchers carefully sent the last one, Wu Lao’er, into the prepared furnace.
“Lin Qi.”
“What exactly are you trying to do?”
“And what the hell is this place?”
“How much longer before you’re willing to let us out!”
Compared to Lin Qi’s composure.
Whether it was the lamb or the giant serpent.
No.
They should be called Great Sage Taotie and Great Sage Candle Dragon.
The two of them were truly restless.
Because they had no idea what the hell Lin Qi was up to!
After knocking them out, he turned them into these weak, powerless forms and brought them to this utterly ordinary world with no signs of any extraordinary power.
What exactly was Lin Qi trying to do!
Instinct told them Lin Qi definitely had a scheme.
But unfortunately, they couldn’t yet figure out what scheme Lin Qi had.
“Quiet.”
“This Venerable already said, there was a tiny little accident, but it should also be an inconceivable fortuitous encounter.”
“If you don’t understand, shut up and watch carefully.”
Lin Qi snapped, then watched the furnace where Wu Lao’er had been sent with anticipation.
He was waiting for Wu Lao’er’s unsealing and awakening.
At the same time, he did not forget to be fully armed.
He even successfully persuaded the researchers at the base to set up a Gatling outside the furnace.
Finally, after thinking it over, he also ordered the unsealed and awakened Great Sage Taotie and Great Sage Candle Dragon to prepare for battle.
“Damn it.”
“Let’s just go along with him for now.”
“Let’s see what the hell he’s up to!”
Great Sage Candle Dragon and Great Sage Taotie exchanged a glance, not daring to defy Lin Qi, silently choosing to watch and see.
Very soon.
From within the blazing furnace came Wu Lao’er’s roar of fury.
The next second, the furnace was hurriedly opened.
The naked Wu Lao’er stood amid the roaring flames. After a brief daze, he seemed to instantly understand something.
He glanced at Lin Qi and the others guarding outside, and without a shred of hesitation, ran without even putting on pants.
“Quick, open fire, catch him!”
Lin Qi shouted.
The Gatling rat-tat-tatted, spewing gunfire.
Lin Qi even released the tethers in his hands, letting Great Sage Taotie and Great Sage Candle Dragon rush up to control the unsealed and awakened Wu Lao’er.
No, it should be Wu Ancestor.
Great Sage Taotie and Great Sage Candle Dragon hesitated for a moment, then still decisively attacked.
But it was too late, still too late.
Whether it was Great Sage Taotie or Great Sage Candle Dragon, or even the Blue-Light Gatling that could make all flesh-and-blood bodies bow their heads, none could stop the unsealed and awakened Wu Ancestor.
Sparks flew from beneath Wu Ancestor’s feet as he escaped the encirclement at inconceivable speed.
Then the next second, before the dumbfounded eyes of every researcher in the base, he leaped and vanished into thin air.
“Damn, he got away!”
Lin Qi’s face turned ashen. After detecting Wu Ancestor’s escape.
Without a shred of hesitation, he reached out and gripped the chains around Great Sage Taotie and Great Sage Candle Dragon’s necks.
Ignoring the displeasure in Great Sage Candle Dragon and Great Sage Taotie’s eyes, he said urgently.
“Quick, hold on tight.”
“Absolutely do not let go.”
“Otherwise, if you lose yourselves in Wu Ancestor’s dream.”
“Don’t blame This Venerable for not saving you!”
The moment these words came out, Great Sage Candle Dragon and Great Sage Taotie froze, then hurriedly clung to each other, sudden realization dawning.
Only then did they understand that they were currently inside Wu Ancestor’s dream.
But wait, that wasn’t right.
Hadn’t Lin Qi called himself Daoist of Dreams, and even shamelessly compared himself to Great Dream Immortal Venerable?
Was a mere Wu Ancestor’s dream worth being this cautious about?
But just as that thought arose.
The next second.
The world spun, and the world melted and shifted before their eyes.
The entire world seemed to become a kaleidoscope, enough to make anyone lose themselves within.
Anyway, Great Sage Candle Dragon and Great Sage Taotie’s minds had already gone blank.
They only felt themselves spinning, leaping.
In just an instant of instinctively closing their eyes.
When the two of them opened their eyes again, they were赫然 standing inside a massive water-tank bonsai.
Before the two of them could figure out what era this was.
Familiar footsteps sounded.
Then they saw Lin Qi walk up to the water tank holding a wall calendar, his face ashen.
He reached out and grabbed Great Sage Candle Dragon and Great Sage Taotie, now transformed into a pet snake and pet frog, and asked word by word.
“Candle Dragon? Taotie?”
Great Sage Candle Dragon and Great Sage Taotie’s eyelids twitched. They secretly exchanged a glance, wanting to play dumb.
Then they heard Lin Qi say sternly.
“Don’t play dumb.”
“If it’s you, nod quickly.”
“If not, This Venerable will just let you two die.”
“Damn it.”
“Is the Ancestral Star truly real, or does Wu Ancestor’s dream contain some kind of root law capable of reversing dream and reality?”
Hearing Lin Qi’s barely suppressed roar of shock and fury, looking like he’d messed up.
This made Great Sage Candle Dragon and Great Sage Taotie feel awed and mystified, suspecting Lin Qi had some scheme to fool them, but they had no proof.
Yet the inexplicable warning rising in their hearts still made them silently choose to nod.
“So it really is you two.”
“That’s good then.”
“Seems he still can’t freely manipulate the dream.”
“No, that’s not good at all.”
“This means this is indeed not just a dream!”
Lin Qi’s brow furrowed tightly. Seeing Great Sage Candle Dragon and Great Sage Taotie still wearing that stupid look of knowing nothing, he said helplessly.
“This Venerable originally intended to enter your dreams.”
“To obtain information from your dreams, and attempt to reform and rewrite your minds through dreaming.”
“To make you serve This Venerable.”
“But at the beginning it went smoothly. Both of your dreams were within This Venerable’s control.”
“But when entering the dream, a problem arose.”
“This fellow claims to be the reincarnation of the Ancient Earthly Sovereign.”
“This Venerable originally thought he had just been fooled and manipulated by the Undying Wa Huang and the others.”
“But his dream had only just begun, and then…”
Lin Qi shook his head, no mood to continue.
This made Great Sage Candle Dragon and Great Sage Taotie, who had pricked up their ears and were listening attentively, nearly die of impatience and start cursing.
Fuck, you riddler.
You cut off right at the crucial moment, huh?
Finish your damn sentence!
“In short, there’s a problem.”
“We’re now trapped inside Wu Ancestor’s dream.”
“There are two possibilities now.”
“First, Wu Ancestor’s control over his dream has reached an inconceivable level, such that even This Venerable’s methods cannot contend with him within the dream.”
“But that shouldn’t be possible. After all, in dream control, This Venerable is confident that a mere Wu Ancestor could not possibly surpass me.”
“After all, though This Venerable has not used the art of entering dreams for a long time.”
“The Root of the Great Dream has already descended. In dream control, no one could possibly surpass This Venerable.”
“So it should be the second possibility.”
Lin Qi murmured to himself, his expression turning extraordinarily grim.
What possibility?
Great Sage Taotie and Great Sage Candle Dragon blinked frantically, wishing they could speak.
“This place might not be entirely Wu Ancestor’s dream.”
“This place might truly be my long-departed Ancestral Star, Earth.”