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Chapter 99 The Little Spider's Nightmare Evolution! Silver Flame Heaven!
Chapter 99 The Little Spider's Nightmare Evolution! Silver Flame Heaven! (Seeking monthly votes and subscriptions)
With a thought, Lu Yu unleashed an endless surge of chaotic energy that devoured the world before him, returning him to the chaotic space and transforming him into the Thousand-Handed Demon God.
Under his will, the chaotic energy condensed into a furnace, within which the primordial fire ignited.
The power of origin burns fiercely within, bestowing miracles upon all things.
Lu Yu's gaze remained calm as he took out the enormous [Heart of the Nightmare Sea Whale] covered in a large amount of grease from the material library and threw it into the furnace as the main material.
In a mere instant, the powerful nightmare heart was burned away, turning into a dark little pond with black flames burning on it.
From Lu Yu's perspective, the power of the Nether Sea contained within this heart was actually enough to expand into a huge lake.
It can evoke the deepest nightmares in the hearts of all living beings that come near it, ultimately causing them to drown in the lake.
Hmm... I made a mistake, it's not even a small puddle.
Lu Yu manipulated the Thousand-Handed Demon God to continue refining the Nether Sea Power contained within it, burning it down to a small fraction, leaving only the pure essence, before adding the skin of an elite mid-tier demon [Floating Dream Jellyfish].
This is a peculiar monster that lives in the dream ecosystem. Like a planktonic organism, it is not aggressive and its intelligence is a mystery.
They like to appear in groups, spreading illusions and absorbing the dream power emitted by living beings during their sleep. They can accommodate both nightmares and pleasant dreams, but if there are too many of them, they will directly drain the dream.
At best, the person's spirit will weaken; at worst, they will become a vegetable.
It is a kind of monster that has no concept of good or evil, yet is extremely dangerous, but it rarely appears in human cities.
He threw the transparent, jellyfish-like object in, and it instantly unfurled within the Primordial Flame, gradually enveloping the entire power of the Nether Sea.
Finally, the elite-tier [Heart of the Heart-Connecting Bird] was added. It is a special extraordinary bird that lives in symbiosis with its partner, shares a common consciousness, and can cooperate perfectly. If one is injured, the other will also show the same injury.
This creature could have become a lovebird among beast tamers, or even more, a mascot of the alliance, enjoying a life of leisure.
But these silly creatures love to eat human hearts, and they're incorrigible in this way; it's become an instinct. Many research institutes have tried to cultivate them, but all have failed. In the end, it was determined that they can extract a special nutrient from human hearts.
Since it's a food chain relationship, there's no room for negotiation.
Therefore, the pest birds marked by the alliance as must be killed are frequently exterminated, and there are many in stock. It only costs one million to get two auxiliary materials.
After the red heart melted and impurities were removed, only two-thirds remained. Lu Yu then incorporated it into the unformed secret food. The three intertwined and became a red and black heart-shaped chocolate, with relevant information displayed before his eyes.
【Nightmare Silk: A skill-enhancing food made primarily from the heart of the Nightmare Sea Whale, infused with 170g of the skin of the Floating Dream Jellyfish, and 250g of the essence of the Heart-Connecting Bird's heart. Consuming it grants the user the super-tier skill – Nightmare Silk.】
Consuming it grants you a super-level skill!
However, simply adding a super-level skill wouldn't warrant Lu Yu going to such lengths.
He picked up the newly created secret food, returned directly to reality, and summoned the little spider that was still carefully cleaning every corner of the room.
"Eek!"
The little spider, dressed as a housekeeper, looked at the skill food in front of her. She was already very familiar with it, and since the quantity was small this time, she swallowed it in one gulp.
Throughout this process, Lu Yu kept looking at the little spider's panel with the Eye of Truth and nodded in satisfaction when he found that the [Nightmare Silk] skill had not appeared.
It worked!
He turned to the little spider, who was still worried about not cleaning the house properly, and said:
"Take me into the dream world."
"Eek!"
The little spider nodded, used a sleep spell to quickly put its master to sleep, placed him on the bed, and then entered a dream.
"Phew... thank goodness Xiu didn't notice me..."
The hamster hiding under the sofa pillow peeked out its little head and breathed a sigh of relief. Luckily, it had escaped, so it didn't have to go back inside to curl up and could continue eating salted fish.
The mouse was happily lying on its side on the sofa, watching TV. Just as it was about to scratch its bottom, it suddenly froze, realizing what was happening.
Because it had just been repaired... it seemed it hadn't even looked for it. Its hiding behavior was just a show for the blind.
Completely ignored!
This is even more tragic than being dragged in for further training; it's too much!
What exactly is going on between Xiu Ren and Sister Zhu that they're keeping so secret? Could it be that something fun is happening and they didn't invite me?
Throwing a party?
Thinking about this, the mouse felt an itch on its head, and its intelligence suddenly soared; it wanted to…
You need to use your brain!
Driven by its boundless curiosity, it quickly floated to the sleeping Xiu Ren, jumped onto the pillow, and, looking at the soundly sleeping Xiu Ren, prepared to enter his dream.
However, it quickly realized that it didn't have any dream-related abilities, and it simply couldn't get in without Spider Sister's guidance.
Unless you use a soul-based ability to forcibly insert it.
But that would definitely destroy the Dream Prison that had been painstakingly repaired, and then the angry repairman would take away all its snacks and punish it with hellish training.
"How could this happen..."
Thinking of this, Mouse instantly knelt down on the ground, like a victim watching from outside as the door to his childhood sweetheart's room was locked by the blond-haired man.
I can't even imagine what's inside.
"Oh no..."
The mouse sat there blankly for a long time, and finally returned to the sofa in a daze. It turned its grief and anger into a voracious appetite and started eating and drinking in large gulps.
"I'm going to eat myself to death here today, so you'll lose your beloved hamster, waaaaah..."
Lu Yu was unaware that the mouse outside had entered a state of self-abandonment. The reason he hadn't called it was because...
Bringing it along is completely useless!
The first thing he saw upon entering the dream world was a pitch-black lake, floating in the air, blotting out the sky and occupying almost a third of the dream world.
Moreover, this mysterious black water, as black as ink, is constantly transforming into various images of fear in people's hearts, and continuously drawing upon the power of fear left in Lu Yu's dream, gradually expanding into a strange lake.
This is the Nether Sea Origin that Lu Yu refined to its ultimate level in Creator Mode. It is several levels higher than what he manipulated when he was controlling the Nightmare Sea Demon Whale. Furthermore, it incorporates the power of nightmares, the Dream Jellyfish that absorbs dreams, and so on.
It can no longer be called the Dark Sea; it should be called the Lake of Nightmares.
If it were leaked, it would directly pollute an entire city, plunging everyone into an endless nightmare, and could even cause hundreds of thousands of people to drown in the lake.
This has become a serious incident that has shaken the alliance!
However, Lu Yu wasn't so bored as to use something so precious for this kind of thing.
Nightmare is the manifestation of nightmares. It represents a type of fear dream and is the embodiment of fear for all living beings. It belongs to a major category of dreams.
The more a creature fears, the stronger it becomes, and it remains trapped in a cycle of nightmares, constantly eroding its reason. However, once it confronts the fear in its heart, the power of the nightmare will decrease significantly.
In this respect, it is far less stable than the Dream Beast that constructs dreams.
They use the power of illusory dreams to reprocess and construct a dream space that is half real and half fake. Even if it is known that the essence is a dream, it will not disappear just because "I think this does not exist".
Spider-Man's "Dream Prison" evolved from his dream-weaving ability. It can weave beautiful dreams of living beings, create dream prisons, and thus completely solidify a being's dream, while continuously growing by absorbing the power of the dream.
Lu Yu's true purpose was to obtain the Nightmare Overlord skill, so as to further upgrade the little spider's racial skill [Dream Prison] and achieve a Nightmare Evolution!
Everything that is born must die, everything that has a beautiful dream must have a nightmare; they are mutually dependent and mutually destructive. The miraculous power of the Secret Food allows them to merge together.
If successful, it would essentially give this dream prison the potential to evolve into a domain, or even a complete world.
"Just one last step..."
Lu Yu pondered for a moment, then looked at the little spider beside him. He could see the longing on her face, and said with a smile:
Go!
"Eek!"
The little spider nodded seriously, its figure flashing as it arrived directly at the edge of the Nightmare Lake, able to feel its own longing for this black lake before it.
Glug glug!
The moment it appeared, the entire Nightmare Lake instantly boiled over, and terrifying waves surged forth, crashing towards the little spider.
Once hit, one will be dragged into an eternal nightmare abyss, their consciousness sinking into oblivion.
"Eek!"
The moment the little spider's red lips parted slightly and her ethereal voice rang out, it was as if her words had become law, and the entire dream world suddenly trembled.
The Dream Prison instantly collapsed, no longer attached to the dream barrier, but it did not disappear. Instead, it transformed into countless dream threads that fell from the sky and forcibly merged into the Nightmare Lake, beginning to seize control.
Black nightmares and rainbow dreams collide and intertwine, existing in a state of symbiosis between destruction and creation.
Meanwhile, the little spider took the opportunity to extend its slender white fingers, using the void as a loom and the lake in front of it as raw material, continuously weaving threads that burned with iridescent and black colors, which merged together and transformed into ethereal cloud brocades like fairy feathers.
They quickly intertwined, enveloping the little spider and transforming into a large cocoon, burning with black flames of dream destruction and iridescent power of dream creation. The two extreme forces merged together, finally falling into silence, becoming a large, silver-gray cocoon.
Like the final step in the metamorphosis of a butterfly from its cocoon, failing to cross it leads to self-destruction; once crossed, one soars freely in the sky.
Click!
After an unknown amount of time, cracks began to appear on the silver cocoon, and it shattered instantly, transforming into countless threads burning with silver-gray flames that spread out and headed towards the dream barrier.
This time, however, it was not a cover-up but a fusion, integrating into the dream world and expanding it more than three times its original size. The entire barrier was transformed into a wall made of silk threads, and the previous large hole was also covered, burning with seemingly inextinguishable silver-gray flames.
If one were to look at Lu Yu's dream from within the dream realm, most beings would probably mistake it for a "Silver Flame Heaven"!
Inside, however, the Lake of Nightmares did not disappear; instead, it transformed into a moat surrounding the edge of the Dream Barrier.
Even if a creature manages to break through the scorching silver flames with great difficulty, once it enters the dream world, it will face the attack of the Lake of Nightmares. If it is not careful, it will be dragged into an eternal nightmare and be trapped for eternity.
The dream world had completed its transformation, and the little spider emerged. Its appearance hadn't changed much, but its dress had become a black and red gothic lolita dress, and its long silver hair was wrapped with a headband woven from red nightmare silk, giving it a more mysterious air. Wings made of silver flames appeared behind it.
It blends with its original sacred aura, giving it a feel of an angel from a legendary, ethereal, ancient dream world.
Lu Yu opened the Eye of Truth and saw the little spider's endless information panel.
【Void Dream-Eating Spider】
[Racial Potential: Low-Rank Monarch]
[Strength: Peak of Early Elite Rank]
[Skills: Nightmare Prison, Illusion, Void Protection, Void Ray...]
Because it was only a minor evolution that involved merging with the essence of nightmares, the race name remained unchanged, and no new skills were added.
However, the racial skill [Dream Prison] evolved directly into [Nightmare Dream Prison] or [Silver Flame Dream Prison], where "Nightmare" and "Flame" both refer to the fire of nightmares.
【Nightmare Prison: High-level super-tier, capable of fusing beautiful dreams and nightmares to weave special dream threads that entangle opponents, amplifying their fears and interfering with their spirit. Those with weak wills will be forcibly dragged into nightmares.
It can be used to weave a silver flame spider silk barrier that burns dreams and dream creatures, constructing a silver flame dream prison that can defend against the invading spirits of external enemies.
Once a living being enters the prison, its soul will be burned and suppressed by silver flames, and it can devour beautiful dreams, nightmares, and the power of fear to grow infinitely.
The damage suffered in the Nightmare Prison will be partially reflected back to the physical body in reality; the stronger the individual, the greater the reflection. Furthermore, one can use the accompanying Nightmare Sea to erode and corrupt the dreams of others, thus infiltrating their world.
When the Nightmare Prison is powerful enough, it can forcibly erode a portion of the real world, projecting a shadowy area that subjectes living beings to the onslaught of nightmares, thereby suppressing the opponent.
Although it is still a super-tier skill, it has been upgraded from a lower-tier super-tier skill to a higher-tier skill. Its defensive capabilities have changed from a single Dream Silk to Silver Flame and Nightmare Lake, increasing its defensive capabilities by more than tenfold.
Its attack capabilities have been enhanced with the power of nightmares and the nightmare fire that burns dreams, making it extremely lethal to dream-type pets.
At this moment, the little spider perfectly combines the advantages of dream-type pets and nightmares. It can destroy and devour opponents, and build its own dream home field. It is completely unreasonable, and has even evolved the power to erode the real world.
If the Nightmare Prison is powerful enough, it can even erode a projection area in the real world to suppress the opponent.
Isn't that equivalent to a disguised form of the field?
In addition, injuries sustained in dreams can be reflected in reality. In other words, wouldn't the training results also be reflected in reality?
Although it only started as a part, as the Nightmare Prison continues to grow, it will one day become 100% or even several times more effective in feeding back to the body.
It's essentially an accelerated training camp, which not only improves skill proficiency but also enhances physical strength.
It may seem like a small number, but if it's a dangerous self-harming skill, can't it reduce the severity of the injury?
"If we could find the powerful ability to transform between reality and illusion, then we would have completely constructed the Little Spider's trinity, easily achieving the dream that the Dream Eater Cult has always coveted..."
Lu Yu murmured to himself, thinking of the core tenets of the Dream Eater Cult.
Let the eternal dreamland descend upon earth, replacing reality, so that all things may return to dreamland and ascend to the eternal shore!
At that point, it wouldn't be wrong to say that Spider-Man is the master of Eternal Dreamland.
That's a great nickname, it's mine from now on!
"Waaah!"
The little spider also sensed the tremendous changes within its body and revealed a joyful expression.
The stronger you are, the better you can protect your master.
Lu Yu also breathed a sigh of relief. Although he did not achieve perfect evolution, he at least greatly increased the little spider's potential, directly making the little spider's racial potential soar to the level of a primary monarch.
Overlord and monarch, a difference of only one word, but the difference in strength is like heaven and earth.
The latter has already qualified to rule a region.
Now that the little spider possesses the power of nightmares, its combat strength has increased by leaps and bounds. Unfortunately, it doesn't have enough dream fragments as materials to continue upgrading [Nightmare Prison]. So, after familiarizing himself with the little spider's skills, Lu Yu put away the Nightmare Flame Wings and returned directly to the real world.
The hamster, who had been gorging itself, paused for a moment when it saw Lu Yu and the others wake up, and then blurted out:
"Xiu Ren, you're so fast?"
"..."
Lu Yu's fist hardened. What kind of nonsense was going through this stupid hamster's head? And it had left snack crumbs all over the floor. It was practically rebelling.
"...Um...actually...I can explain..."
The mouse realized that Xiu Ren probably just needed to go into the dream for a while, and that it had been overthinking things. But the mistake had already been made, so…
Explain what?!
The mouse is gone!
The mouse leaped forward, but it was too late. Its short legs were immediately entangled in the enhanced spider silk, and amidst its screams, it was wrapped up, its bottom was smacked a few times, and it was left hanging in mid-air watching them eat snacks as punishment.
"Shuren! You perverted Shuren! It's one thing for you guys to sneak off to play, but now you're bullying the hamster! It's so evil! Don't eat my favorite tomato flavor, cucumber flavor, and that barbecue flavor is pretty good too! Please stop eating it... Help! Someone is abusing the hamster, waaaaah..."
Halfway through its call, its mouth was gagged, and it could only wriggle its body, sending pleading glances to the little spider.
However, the little spider spread its hands, indicating that it couldn't help.
Lu Yu, meanwhile, was enjoying his delicious food while watching a mouse-shaped Teru Teru Bozu doll dangle around.
tomorrow……
It should be a sunny day, right?
If not, then let the little rat plead guilty on its back!
After finishing his meal, Lu Yu was about to wash up when he glanced out the window and noticed that the shoe repair stall in the distance was still lit up with a dim yellow light.
"It's already past 8 pm and you're still busy? You must be working so hard..."
Lu Yu sighed, then took the small spider—already prepared with a tiny spider silk mouthwash cup and a toothbrush—and a bunch of mice into the bathroom...
On the other side, at the shoe repair stall.
An Hai wiped the sweat from his forehead and finally finished mending the leather shoes.
This was the first time in his more than ten years of shoe repairing that he had encountered leather that he himself could not recognize, but the texture was comfortable and the materials were solid, making it a truly top-quality leather shoe.
Therefore, finding suitable materials for repair was troublesome, and it took a lot of time to finish. In the middle of the process, he gave Anmo twenty yuan so that he could have a bowl of ramen and go home to rest early.
An Mo was already used to this. If there were parents in the family who owned a shop, they would generally adapt. Whenever guests came, they would not have time to cook and would have to pay to eat out. However, the children were quite happy about this.
However, Anmo did not spend money recklessly. He only spent eight yuan on a roujiamo (Chinese hamburger) on the way and planned to save the rest of the money.
"Sir, your shoes are repaired!"
An Hai picked up his leather shoes and turned around, only to find that the man in the tuxedo with the aristocratic air of wearing a three-lobed eye mask was gone.
On the bench was an extra stack of 100-yuan notes issued by the alliance, roughly estimated to be seven or eight thousand yuan.
"Did they leave early because of something? But this amount of money is way too much. We agreed that it would only be two thousand..."
An Hai muttered to himself, preparing to pack up the items first. Since he had been setting up his stall in the same place, he could simply return them to the customers when they came next time.
"This is……"
Just as he bent down to put the leather shoes away properly, he froze on the spot.
Because the high-end leather shoes it had just held in its hands had somehow transformed into a pale leather-bound ancient book, with a cover covered in a large amount of graffiti-like, chaotic font, not human writing, ancient and mysterious.
My head hurts so much...
An Hai suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head and couldn't help but rub his temples. Suddenly, he saw these strange characters begin to crawl like worms, rapidly arranging and combining into a meaning he could understand, and he involuntarily read them aloud:
"Hidden...Skeleton...Emperor..."
Thank you to Wuguangzhishang for the 100 Qidian coins, thank you to Pilipalalalala for the 200 Qidian coins, thank you to Luo Hailing for the 4500 Qidian coins, and thank you to qyueguxing for the 200 coins!
(End of this chapter)