Chapter 1084: Chapter 1082: Whale Fall 2

Dream Dao Attainment, Opening Scheme Against Cultivators

Dream-Making Expert

When Lin Qi was young, he truly did enjoy toying with other people's dreams.

He still remembered clearly even now.

How he had once peered into the wonders of cultivation from the dreams of an ordinary cultivator named Zhao Zijing.

That truly was a time worth remembering.

But Lin Qi remembered that he only ever liked toying with other people's dreams. He had never liked toying with other people's fates.

So he greatly disliked that sentence from Li Qizi.

But he did not pursue the matter. He only silently glanced at the Empress Wa Banner as it flew back.

He was silent for a moment, then skillfully fabricated a set of fate arrangements for Lin Feng going forward.

Li Qizi took the fate script Lin Qi handed him with a half-smile, then turned and left.

Lin Qi watched Li Qizi disappear, his face neither sorrowful nor joyful.

He only gazed at the withered lotus pond and murmured once more.

"A whale fall, and all things are born."

Only, this whale fall was no longer that whale fall.

After all, though he was not a Supreme, in the Fourth Era where there were no Supremes.

He, Lin Qi, was the largest whale of all.

…

"Ha ha."

"I escaped."

"I finally escaped."

Amid the excited shouts.

Lin Feng transformed into an earthworm, burrowing swiftly deep into the earth.

He ran all the way, not daring to pause for even a moment.

At the same time, he maintained the form of an earthworm, not daring to leak even a trace of his aura.

Because it had been far too difficult.

Lin Feng's eyes held tears, lamenting his own ill-fated destiny.

He had clearly already gone into hiding, had even stopped being human.

He had turned himself into the most lowly single-celled organism, parasitizing among the countless living beings of the Star.

All to evade the calamity of the Ancient Gods of the Holy Hall Cosmos.

And yet someone had actually dug him out.

Truly, he had thought he was dead for sure this time.

But unexpectedly, the clash of two Supreme Emperor Weapons had given him a chance to escape.

However.

As Lin Feng fled, suspicion arose in his heart.

He always felt that this narrow escape of his was somewhat strange.

Could it be a scheme within a scheme?

Lin Feng's thoughts flickered, and then he had no time to react.

Like a giant hand, without any warning, it plunged deep into the earth and seized him in its grasp.

Lin Feng was shocked and furious. Instinctively, he was about to manifest his true body to resist.

Then he saw the Dharma Treasure radiating immortal might in the hand of the one who had caught him.

It was the other Supreme Emperor Weapon he had seen when he escaped, the one that could contend with the Empress Wa Banner. It seemed to be called the Six Paths of Red Dust.

So Lin Feng decisively chose to be sensible, forcing a smile as he said, "Many thanks, Fellow Daoist, for saving my life. This humble one will remember it in my heart."

"So you guessed it was I who saved you."

"Very good. Then I suppose I didn't save an ingrate after all."

Li Qizi looked at Lin Feng in his palm without expression.

"A life-saving grace is greater than heaven."

"I saved your life. How about you do one thing for me?"

Lin Feng was unwilling. But with his life and death in another's hands, he could only force a smile and nod in agreement.

But in his heart, he had already made up his mind.

As long as he was given a chance to escape, he would flee far away.

As for helping someone do something, do a fart.

Hmph, he hated these kinds of people who held favors over your head the most.

"Don't worry."

"I won't make you repay me with your body, and I won't make you fall into a deathtrap."

"If you really want to put it that way."

"We could be considered mutually beneficial."

"Oh right, let me introduce myself first. My name is Li Qizi."

Li Qizi spoke lightly. Seeing that Lin Feng seemed not to know him, he frowned.

"Of course, I have another identity as well. I am one of the Nine Spirits of Heaven's Mandate under Lin Qi's command."

"The same identity as the Heaven-Abandoning Emperor, the Demon Buddha, and the Divine Mother that you've met."

Lin Feng's pupils instantly constricted.

"Don't misunderstand."

"I didn't save you on Lin Qi's orders, and it's not because of the Heaven-Abandoning Emperor."

"I saved you because you are one of Lin Qi's memory bodies."

"At the same time, you were once a chess piece of the God Race's Supreme."

"Hmph, he's more like my memory body!"

Lin Feng sneered.

After learning Li Qizi's true identity, he no longer held any hope, nor did he pretend to cower. He said angrily.

"Speak."

"What scheme do you people have now."

"Keep it simple. When you scheme against me, keep it simple."

"Don't play those games of repairing the plank road while secretly crossing at Chencang."

"Or just call Lin Qi out directly."

"Stop acting. He's definitely hiding nearby, right?"

"You are quite alert and clever. Mm, it seems I don't need to worry about you failing at your task."

Li Qizi said lightly.

"That's right. Releasing you was indeed Lin Qi's idea."

"Because he needs you to make another trip to the Holy Hall Cosmos."

"To help the Divine Mother share the pressure from the Dusk Mother Goddess."

"But that is only Lin Qi's arrangement for you."

"I have other arrangements for you as well."

Hearing this, Lin Feng froze.

But then something occurred to him. He seemed to think of something and said suspiciously, "Don't tell me you and Lin Qi aren't of one mind either? Like that Demon Buddha, you've also grown a Rebel Bone?"

"Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, because even if you ask, I won't say."

"Besides, with your intelligence, if I said yes, would you believe me?"

Li Qizi asked in return.

Lin Feng immediately fell silent, adopting an attitude of listening respectfully.

"Lin Qi is currently afflicted by the Supreme Curse, his cultivation completely lost."

"He no longer has the strength to control the Dream Bubble Shadow that he relies on to survive."

"Otherwise, he wouldn't have fallen to the point of needing you to help the Divine Mother."

"Of course, believe it or not."

"Anyway, my request of you is very simple."

"I want you to follow Lin Qi's intentions and do as he wishes."

"But beyond that, your more important task is to try and see if you can steal the authority of the Dream Bubble Shadow."

Li Qizi read from the script Lin Qi had given him, reciting it by rote.

"In a moment, I will take you into the Dream Bubble Shadow and grant you the identity of a Reincarnator of the Lord God's Space."

"After you enter, first honestly carry out the tasks the Lord God gives you."

"Do not be impatient. You should slowly try to communicate with the Lord God and steal its authority."

After hearing Li Qizi's words, Lin Feng remained wary. He asked, "Then what benefit do you get?"

"Do you know what the Dream Bubble Shadow that Lin Qi created represents?"

Li Qizi asked in return.

Lin Feng furrowed his brow. He didn't know much about Lin Qi's Dream Bubble Shadow.

But the Lord God's Space, he did know about.

After all, in this era, the Lord God's Space was already regarded as the final retreat for the living beings of the Myriad Realms in the Great Destruction.

If not for his worry that falling into the Lord God's Space would mean being controlled by the Lord God.

He actually would have long wanted to obtain the identity of a Reincarnator and go explore the Lord God's Space.

"The Dream Bubble Shadow was originally a divine ability Lin Qi cultivated after being secretly schemed against by the Supremes."

"It bears the heavy responsibility of, after the Great Destruction, Refining the False into the True, containing the Myriad Realms, and achieving the New World."

"In the past, it was naturally under Lin Qi's complete control. Even the Supremes would find it hard to steal."

"But now the Great Destruction has descended."

"The Supremes of All Heavens joined forces and slaughtered their way into the Origin Era of the Myriad Realms, planting the root of the Dream Bubble Shadow into the origin of the Myriad Realms."

"Thus the origin of the Dream Bubble Shadow no longer rests solely in Lin Qi's hands."

"Instead, it has become the Root of the Great Dream that existed at the very birth of the Myriad Realms."

"From then on, the Dream Bubble Shadow was no longer Lin Qi's private possession."

"In theory, all living beings are qualified to obtain the highest authority of the Dream Bubble Shadow."

"Of course, that is only in theory."

"Because Lin Qi is still needed to complete the final Refining the False into the True of the Dream Bubble Shadow."

"So even though in theory one could steal the highest authority of the Dream Bubble Shadow."

"But in reality, before the day the Dream Bubble Shadow is Refined from False into True, it is absolutely impossible for anyone to truly replace Lin Qi and obtain the highest authority of the Dream Bubble Shadow."

"Because the Supremes do not permit it."

"But as long as you do not attempt to replace Lin Qi and steal the highest authority of the Dream Bubble Shadow."

"Then you will not alarm the Supremes or Lin Qi."

"So do you understand?"

"What I want you to do is very simple."

"That is, after entering the Dream Bubble Shadow, using your special identity as Lin Qi's memory body, sharing the same origin as Lin Qi."

"Try to steal the next level of authority within the Dream Bubble Shadow."

"If you can succeed."

"Then you and I can, without anyone knowing, plant one or two foundational laws that we need into the Dream Bubble Shadow."

Li Qizi explained to this point.

Lin Feng's eyes widened in sudden understanding. Everything clicked. "I get it. You think I can fool the Dream Bubble Shadow's authority authentication, and then open a back door in the Dream Bubble Shadow's foundational laws?"

"Correct."

Li Qizi nodded.

"The Dream Bubble Shadow is destined to be the only New World after the Great Destruction."

"So if there could be such a back door."

"You should know what that means, right?"

Lin Feng said nothing. After pondering for a long time, he finally said, "Knowing is one thing, but sorry, I don't believe you."

"You don't need to believe me."

"You only need to believe in interests."

"Do you know where the Demon Buddha is now?"

Li Qizi sighed softly.

"The Demon Buddha has now been lit as a sky lantern by Lin Qi, becoming the Commandment Spirit of the Dream Bubble Shadow's Sixth Precept."

"You don't want to die, and I don't want to end up like the Demon Buddha."

"We are all cultivators."

"We should understand one thing."

"That is, my fate is decided by me, not by heaven."

Lin Feng's expression instantly turned subtle.

Reason told him Li Qizi's words could not be trusted.

But emotionally, he felt Li Qizi had not lied to him.

After all, a true man is born between heaven and earth, how could he long remain beneath another?

"Whether you believe me or not, I actually don't care."

"After all, memory bodies of Lin Qi like you aren't the only one in this world."

"Come to think of it, the very reason you memory bodies of Lin Qi exist is that the Supremes intended you as one of their backup plans to steal the authority of the Dream Bubble Shadow."

"If you are unwilling to cooperate with me, there will naturally be others willing to cooperate with me."

Lin Feng was instantly stunned.

He gained a new understanding of his own ill-fated destiny.

But he was not angry. Instead, he asked calmly, "Aren't you afraid I'll sell you out and tell Lin Qi about this?"

"Never mind whether Lin Qi trusts you more, or trusts me more."

"Even if Lin Qi truly believed your words."

"He can't do anything to me right now."

"I said it just now."

"He has been cursed by the Supremes, his cultivation completely lost."

"Moreover, even if you don't tell Lin Qi."

"It won't be long before he knows anyway."

Li Qizi suddenly gave a carefree laugh. Under Lin Feng's half-believing gaze, he murmured to himself.

"In this life, have you ever fought desperately for someone else?"

"I have."