landbeastnovel Chapter 346: Breaking the Curse, Comprehending the Mystical Technique
Chapter 346: Breaking the Curse, Comprehending the Mystical Technique
Li Wei and Alice stood in the air above the cracked earth, staring down at the pitch-black, materialized curse.
When you gaze into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes also into you.
Li Wei felt a strong, malicious gaze upon him.
It was a very strange sensation.
But it was true—the curse was alive.
Alice said, "I can’t help you much with dispelling the curse. I can only do my best to prevent the Nightmares from affecting you.
This curse is fused with a part of the spirit of the person who ambushed me. If it encounters a powerful enemy, it will likely summon Nightmares for aid.
I can only block most of the Nightmares, so you must be careful."
Li Wei nodded. "Yes, I understand."
"I’m going down now," he said.
Li Wei flew down.
He touched the True Dharma Ring on his right hand.
If Alice hadn’t mentioned it, he never would have realized the True Dharma Ring could be brought into and out of the dream.
Equipment from the real world could be replicated in the dream.
But they were mere copies of the originals, possessing none of their true power.
Take the Blade of Judgment, for example.
Li Wei could summon it in the Dream World, but it lacked its Legendary Level lethal effect.
However, equipment that could enter and exit the Dream World was completely different.
Both the Golden Bone Ring and the True Dharma Ring could unleash their full power in the Dream World.
Their power wasn’t diminished by the dream.
With a thought, Li Wei manifested an Illusory Body beside him.
In the Dream World, the Illusory Body became even stronger.
Li Wei transferred one-third of his Power to the Illusory Body.
He controlled the Illusory Body, sending it down to test the waters.
It passed through the fissure in the earth and into the pitch-black Abyss.
Li Wei stared directly at the dark curse hidden at the bottom of the Abyss.
The materialized curse surged, and from its depths, countless pitch-black hands reached for the descending Illusory Body.
The countless black hands wove into a dense, inescapable net, giving the Illusory Body no chance of escape.
The only way to counter this was to fight offense with offense.
"Fire Dragon Skill!"
"Flame Dragon Roar!"
A massive Fire Dragon Head materialized in mid-air.
The Fire Dragon opened its great maw, spewing forth a torrent of raging flames that incinerated everything.
SSSSZZZZZ!
CRACKLE! POP!
All the surrounding black hands were burned to ash by the flames, unable to get near the Illusory Body.
Li Wei breathed a sigh of relief.
For now, it seemed the threat from the curse wasn’t too great.
A curse is typically formless and insubstantial.
But in the Dream World, the curse was able to manifest a physical form.
This provided Li Wei with an opportunity to break it.
Otherwise, he would have been helpless against the Nightmare Curse afflicting Alice.
The Illusory Body continued its descent.
Like a small Sun, it illuminated the pitch-black Abyss.
This exposed the materialized Nightmare Curse.
Li Wei gathered all the Power within the Illusory Body, created a Cyan Fireball, and smashed it into the materialized curse.
BOOM! BANG!
The terrifying explosion instantly tore apart the pitch-black curse.
A powerful gust of wind carried countless plumes of black smoke up into the sky.
"Assault Storm!"
The fierce wind scattered the black smoke, and Li Wei looked down.
The pitch-black curse that had been entrenched deep within the earth’s fissure had vanished.
Li Wei looked toward Alice and asked, "Is it over?"
When he looked back, Alice was nowhere to be seen.
The sky had turned black, and a dark miasma blotted out the sun.
The curse had not dissipated from Li Wei’s attack.
Instead, it had seized the opportunity to break through Alice’s suppression and spread throughout the entire Dream World.
Li Wei felt the Dream World twisting and warping.
The ground turned to flesh, the mountains became skeletons, and cracks appeared in the Dream Bubbles. A flood of dreams poured in from the outside, vying to devour everything within.
He scanned his surroundings, and the scene before him felt familiar.
A similar scene had once occurred in the dream of the Maple City Mage Tower.
Li Wei had seen the aftermath of a dream’s corruption.
He stared up at the sky.
A white light appeared, splitting the pitch-black sky in two.
Two forces were vying for control of this world.
Li Wei knew it was Alice’s will.
She was fighting back against the corrupted Dream World.
Li Wei took a deep breath, knowing he couldn’t let the Dream World’s corruption reach its final stage.
Now that the curse had spread throughout the entire dream, Li Wei had to find its source to break it.
He transformed into the Flame Lord and unleashed his Flame Domain.
He set the entire world ablaze.
The flames burned the world.
Li Wei was forcing the source of the curse to reveal itself.
Alice realized what Li Wei was doing and fanned the flames.
The fire instantly engulfed the entire world.
Not only the curse, but Alice too was enduring the agony of the burning flames.
The fire treated all with impartiality.
With the two of them working together, Li Wei discovered an anomaly.
The entire world was burning, yet the castle on the hillside remained untouched by the flames.
Li Wei flew to the sky above the castle.
He discovered that everyone inside the castle had vanished.
Only Old Q remained on the castle wall.
Li Wei stared at Old Q. "You’re the mastermind who ambushed Alice."
It wasn’t a question; it was a statement.
Old Q looked up at Li Wei and smiled.
"That foolish woman didn’t discover me for years, yet you found me so quickly. You’re quite impressive."
It was a case of hiding in plain sight.
Alice, too, had been desperately searching for the source of the curse.
But she never imagined the source was right beside her all along.
And to think she had always believed Old Q was one of her Dream Creations.
Old Q was a disguise for the source of the curse.
It was a strand of Spiritual Power from the mastermind who had ambushed and cursed Alice.
RRRIP!
Old Q’s body was torn open, and a black shadow burst out from the paper-thin guard’s body.
WHOOSH!
The black shadow shot toward Li Wei.
Li Wei casually hurled a Fireball at the black shadow.
But the shadow simply ignored the Fireball’s attack, passing right through it.
It ignored the defense of his Invisible Armor, passing through it as well.
It shot straight into Li Wei’s body.
"Now, this body is mine."
The black shadow laughed triumphantly.
Li Wei smiled, too.
"Is that so? Then it’s all yours."
Li Wei’s Flame Body turned blue.
The black shadow had a bad feeling.
Then, the blue turned to cyan.
The black shadow inside Li Wei felt as if it had entered a high-temperature furnace.
When it tried to escape, it discovered there was no way out.
The harshness of the environment inside Li Wei’s body far exceeded its imagination.
Under the continuous, searing heat of 30,000 degrees, its Spiritual Power was burned to ash.
Watching the black shadow’s Spiritual Power dissipate into ash inside his body, Li Wei suddenly had an epiphany.
He seemed to have grasped a sliver of a Mystical Technique.
Normally, flames cannot harm Spiritual Power.
Perhaps it was because of the Dream World, or perhaps because Li Wei’s flames were different.
He had, in fact, burned away the black shadow’s Spiritual Power.
Li Wei was lost in thought.
’In theory, anything can burn, as long as the temperature is high enough.’
’Theoretically possible, and demonstrably real.’
’Isn’t this the world I believe in?’
Li Wei looked inward, sensing the changes in his body while in his Cyan Flame Lord state.
Countless Fire Elements collided within him, erupting with even greater Power.
This was energy that originated from the Elements themselves.
Li Wei now understood the way to break through to Tier Four.
’I was wrong. I was on the wrong path.’