Chapter 326: Long Dream
The "Demon Realm" is filled with an unpleasant dark red, and not only the sky and earth, but also the forests and lakes are impregnated with such oppressive colors. After escaping the wolf-infested hills, Liu Li and Ifrit traveled for another five days. After a week's travel, the Red Devil Girl did not show anything abnormal, but Liu Li noticed that she was becoming more and more silent every night when she reflected on the experience of the day, and the violence in her heart was also increasing day by day, and controlling her emotions became an increasingly draining problem. If there were people who were as familiar with Liu Li as Landoria or Squirrel at this time, perhaps with their keen observation and concern for him, they could see the cluster of flames that gradually grew under his eyes...... Dark.
"They should be there tomorrow, but I can't guarantee they'll still be there. Ifrit's voice sounded a little distorted to Liu Li's ears, and I don't know if it was because of the silence of the night, or the change in his heart, "A few years ago, the clansmen didn't dare to approach that place rashly, but directly reported it to the patriarch, and then the patriarch made the decision to move the clan overnight after personally going to investigate, don't blame me if you don't find them there......"
“...... Oh...... Well...... Good. ”
"You...... Are you okay?" Ifrit was very entangled when she saw the current state of this companion, Liu Li was not completely defenseless against the environment of the "Demon Realm" before, and had also made some explanations, but Fan Mao didn't know if he should start the "back hand" left behind according to his instructions at this time, after all, the way of "waking up" was too unbelievable.
“...... Ah, it's okay...... Of course it's fine. Liu Li's eyes were glazed, not at all like the "okay" he said.
"Ahh It was the metal box that Liu Li had given her three days ago, and in the box was a short sword that seemed to be made of hedrons. The dagger was almost transparent, and a white streamer swirled through it, but the light made Ifrita feel a sense of disgust in her heart—she didn't want to touch the beautiful weapon unless it was necessary.
Seeing the pink hair walking towards him with a sharp blade in his hand, Liu Li's muscles up and down instantly tensed, but soon relaxed again. The short sword was forged by Liu Li's condensed elemental crystals, and in his concept, anyone who held this crystallized weapon could be trusted 100%. What's more, the pink haired right hand in front of him was also imprinted with a red rune belonging to him, which further deepened Liu Li's trust in her who had fallen into chaos.
"I'll ask you one last time, can you wake up on your own!?" When Ifrit shouted these words, the person had already come up to Liu Li, and the faces of the two people were less than ten centimeters apart, and they could even clearly feel each other's breathing. It was in this state that Ifrit finally discovered the dark red flame hidden in the depths of Liu Li's eyes.
"Ah...... me? I'm fine...... What can I do?" Liu Li's performance was still as if he was mentally retarded......
"Okay, don't blame me, it's all your own arrangement!" Ifrit gritted her teeth, and clenched her right hand holding the crystal dagger again, at this time, the tip of the dagger had reached Liu Li's chest, and it only needed a light push to pierce the heart, "If this sword goes down, you may die!" Hmph...... Let me do such a shameful thing to my companions, and you will have to explain it to me later!" Gritting her teeth, Ivriet's eyes closed, and the short sword in her hand gently slammed forward, sinking into Liu Li's chest.
"Thank you...... Xie ......" Liu Li's gaze regained clarity in this intense pain, and with the blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth, he tried his best to squeeze out this sentence of thanks, leaving that almost inaudible sound: "Wait for me to come back......"
"Hey, you can tell me clearly, I'll wait for you to come back!?, how long will you wait!?" Efritte repeated in vain as she looked at Liu Li's corpse, which was gradually losing its temperature. However, she hadn't forgotten to pull out the crystal dagger, after all, this was also a step that Liu Li had repeatedly emphasized. It's just that under the emotion, the pink hair was splashed with blood spurting from Liu Li's chest, and in the cave used as a temporary resting place, the scene was like a murder scene...... Well, this would have been a murder scene.
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Not to mention the pink hair who guarded Liu Li's corpse for the time being, this planned death made Liu Li feel different from the previous resurrection from the dead, the main difference is that after this death, his consciousness did not fall into chaos.
"It's ...... What's the situation?" Liu Li was also confused at this moment, he still vaguely remembered what happened in the last few seconds of his awakening, and remembered that Ifrit killed himself with the elemental crystal short sword as promised. Liu Li thought that when he regained consciousness again, it should be after he came back from the dead, but he didn't expect to fall into such a strange space.
"What the hell is this place?" Liu Li's space was so empty that he didn't even know how to describe his surroundings. If there is no light is black, and no sound is quiet, then even the concepts of "black" and "quiet" no longer exist here, and being able to realize his own existence is already the limit of what Liu Li can do, but this consciousness alone is not complete, and he can't even figure out the form of his existence at this time.
Liu Li was no stranger to this feeling of losing his physical body, and when he accidentally fell into the shattered "Heavenly Realm", he was floating in the form of a soul before arriving in Dragon City. But at that time, the distant "Dragon City" could at least be used as a target for action, but now he is in chaos, completely unsure of what to do.
"I don't know what's going on outside?How long will it take to 'live' up?Alas, it would be nice if there was a little light, at least I could look around......" One question after another came one after another, after all, Liu Li had nothing else to do except think now. It's just that at the moment when he thought of "there must be light", in this chaotic space, there was really a flash of light!
The sudden flash of light startled Liu Li first, and what surprised him the most was that he didn't even have eyes at this moment, how did he see the blue that filled the entire space. Soon, however, a strange sense of familiarity took over his thoughts, and it finally made him realize where he was—"It was...... Dreams?"
Since learning the method of hammering the soul, Liu Li has never relaxed his soul cultivation, even after initially entering the "Demon Realm", but as his consciousness fell into chaos, he was gradually unable to continue. Now that he already knows that this is his dream, Liu Li also knows how to change the empty environment in which he lives.
Liu Li was also a little apprehensive at this time, after all, he had usually observed in his dreams in the way of five senses and mental power perception before, and he had not had time to really change the direction of the dream, but now it was the first time that he had the opportunity to truly control everything in the dream - he didn't know how far he could exert this control.
"Well, it's a little bit unaccustomed, I need my body. After all things in heaven and earth were manifested one by one, Liu Li felt that he could no longer maintain his soul state. It was good that he was in chaos before, and although the current environment still did not have any breath of intelligent creatures, at least the mountains, rivers, plants and trees already existed, and continuing to maintain his soul state made him feel a stronger sense of shame than that of Kuo Guoben. Liu Li is not Alex's second product of the Sea Clan, so he is insensitive to such behavior.
It is not difficult for Liu Li to reconstruct his body in a dream, after all, there is a mysterious mapping between the soul and the body, and it is only a matter of moving thoughts to manifest the body as it is in reality. It's just that I don't usually dream that this personally embodied body always makes Liu Li not very accustomed to it. Although he couldn't say anything wrong, there was always a slight gap between the fit with the soul and the original body. The gap may not even be one percent, but he is still a little difficult to get used to.
"Whew, forget it, it can barely be used...... Since you don't know when you will wake up, you can just continue to hammer your soul here. Liu Li didn't dwell on it for too long, and since he didn't feel the signs of "waking up" for a while, he quickly made such a decision.
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Day after day, year after year, Liu Li no longer calculates how long he has been asleep, it no longer has any meaning to him, and this dream seems to last until the end of time.
As time passed, his dream world became more vivid and real. There have been traces of civilization here, and more than once, there have been technological civilizations like Earth, magical civilizations like Oderland, and even more bizarre forms of civilization that only exist in fantasy.
I don't know when Liu Li gradually lost the perfect control of the dream, and finally became the same as the previous dream, at most he could only control himself and become a passerby walking in this false world.
Liu Li's mentality also gradually changed, he no longer regarded himself as the master of the dream, and even no longer regarded himself as the center of the dream, and finally he gradually abandoned the identity of the participant, but was promoted to a higher position, incarnated as an observer, and watched everything in the dream with his own eyes.
Liu Li can still feel the close connection between himself and the dream, and he also knows that his soul is the cornerstone of this long dream, but these are meaningless to him at this time.
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"What's going on!?" said Ifrit, who was hiding in the cave, frantic again. Right in front of her, on Liu Li's corpse, some fine spots of light gradually appeared, and fine blue light chips splashed out from the spots. The light spots gradually covered the entire corpse, as if Liu Li was about to volatilize and dissipate like this.
What Ifrit saw was only the appearance, at the soul level that she couldn't perceive, Liu Li's third-order soul was also filled with bright blue, and the mysterious power that overflowed from the soul also fed back to his physical body at the same time.