If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 1044 The Rise of the Great Chu, Chen Sheng Becomes King

After sending Han Xin away, Xiao Yu immediately planned to fulfill his promise: to give Liu Laosan a dream.

As early as when she reached the fourth level of "Building Bridges" in her "Dream God Skill", she could already freely travel through dream dimensions.

They can, like "intestinal worms," ​​graft their own dreams onto the dreams of a specific target.

It's like building an invisible bridge between two dreams.

Since they are connected, she can naturally travel from her own dream to the target's dream in an instant.

However, the spacetime of dreams is far too complex.

If the Pangu world is like a layered cake, the underworld is one dimension, the human world is one dimension, the Thirty-Three Heavens are thirty-three dimensions, and so on. These dimensions are like layers of cake, stacked together.

Each dimension is clearly distinct.

Humans running wildly in the mortal realm won't inexplicably end up in the underworld or the celestial realm. Immortals flying in the celestial realm won't suddenly fall to earth.

The dream dimension is like a mille-feuille cake, broken into small pieces, which are mixed together. Overall, it is chaotic and disordered, but within certain small pieces (areas), it maintains a relatively stable structure like the mille-feuille cake.

For example, if you run in "dimension A", you may enter "dimension B" after running a few steps, and if you continue running, you may enter any dimension that is completely random.

If the two dreamers are located close to each other, in the same area, such as in a county town.

The two people's dreams will also be relatively close, existing in the same relatively stable dream space.

At this point, as long as Xiaoyu can grasp the opponent's energy, building a bridge will be very simple.

You can go into anyone's dream at will, arriving instantly without a second's delay.

But if the distance is too far, like now, Xiaoyu Meng and Liu Jimeng are separated by a chaotic dream space-time. The "Dream Bridge" travels through this chaotic dream and is easily lost.

It's not impossible for Liu Ji to appear in a dream.

However, the chances and risks of spell failure are relatively high.

It's not worth the risk at all.

She could fly directly to Pei County and then appear in Liu Ji's dream.

Before meeting the sorcerer Lu Sheng, Xiao Yu could only use this safe, but somewhat clumsy, method.

Most spirits or ghosts that appear in dreams do so in this way, requiring them to come to the side of the person being visited in the dream.

For example, during the Journey to the West, the King of Wuji appeared in Tang Sanzang's dream, asking for the help of the wandering god to deliver him to Tang Sanzang's side.

Now.
Xiaoyu learned the "Method of Worshipping the Dream God's Footsteps" from Lu Sheng.

Every night before going to sleep, I would recite a divine incantation, calling upon Zhili to descend.

Although I never saw Zhi Li, the divine incantation was indeed very effective.

The "Dream Power" (not internal energy, but spiritual energy) she cultivated using the "Dream Divine Skill" underwent a significant change—her vision in the dream dimension became clearer, and she could see further.

The Dream God Technique can build bridges over long distances, but there's a risk of getting lost.

Seeing more clearly and having a wider field of vision helps to overcome "dream disorientation," right?
In fact, even without the "Dream God Technique," simply practicing Lu Sheng's "Toe-Separating Divine Mantra" allows one to traverse the dream dimension with a broader perspective. Spreading prophecies within dreams is also effortless.

In the dream dimension, the greatest danger is always getting lost.

At this moment, after seeing Han Xin off, Xiao Yu's physical body sank into the earth and transformed into the earth, while her spirit entered the dream world.

"Yuanzhou Zangguan married Zhu Mi Ti!!"

As usual, after reciting the "Toe-Leaving Divine Mantra" seven times, Xiaoyu in the dream "opened" her eyes.

Previously, she opened her eyes in her dream and was surrounded by a thick purplish-gray fog, making it difficult to see anything beyond a certain distance.

It was as if, in the early morning, an ordinary person was walking through a misty wilderness. Even if there were dreams belonging to others in the distance, they were as blurry as stars in the night sky.

They can recognize the starlight, but they cannot see the constellations on the stars.

Now, Xiaoyu is like a "clairvoyant," entering the universe of her past life.

Not far from her, in the dark void, floated seven or eight crystal balls the size of fists.

The crystal ball sparkled, revealing a tiny world inside.

Xiaoyu stood still, her gaze fixed on one of the crystal ball worlds.

I saw the small world of Changchun Temple, where a group of Taoist priests were arguing inside the temple.

The dream's protagonist—a twelve or thirteen-year-old Taoist priest—sat beside the coffin of the head priest of the Yu Temple, gnawing on chicken feet.

Uh, this is the dream of the gluttonous little Taoist priest.

Xiao Yu activated the "Dream God Technique," reaching the fourth level, "Building Bridges."

An invisible and intangible "golden platform" appeared beneath her feet.

Jintai is the "Bridge of Dreams".

One end of the bridge connects to her own dream, while the other end is remotely locked onto Liu Ji in Pei County. She senses it for a moment but does not find the "signal" of Liu Ji's dream.

Xiaoyu wasn't in a hurry. The golden platform transformed into a lotus platform, and she sat cross-legged on it, her eyes slightly closed, her palms facing upwards, and continued her cultivation.

Around 2 a.m., she sat down on the "Lotus Platform Golden Bridge," which shimmered with a faint golden light.

Liu Ji finally fell asleep and entered a dream, and within the dream dimension, there was a fluctuation of "Liu Ji's Dream".

Not to mention Liu Ji's appearance, position, and aura, she had even mastered his most deeply hidden destiny.

Even some of his weather phenomena, such as the Tiankui Fuxing, were faked with her help.

The "Old Man's Joy" technique that he secretly practiced without telling anyone was taught to him by her.

The connection between Liu Ji and her is far deeper than that between Xiao Yu, who absorbed the power of the Demon Eye, and the intestinal worms during the Red Sleeve Workshop period.

Therefore, locating Liu Jizhi's dream is relatively simple.

The difficulty lies in the fact that the dream bridge needs to cross complex dream environments.

Xiaoyu opened her eyes and looked around, where she could see dream worlds that resembled crystal balls.

She could also get a general idea of ​​the scenery inside.

There were many more broken crystal balls, which were slowly sinking like snowflakes in the sky.

Their owners have awakened, or rather, they are a dream from "last night".

The dream was not over. The crystal ball shone brightly, but the world inside was just a distorted landscape. The outer glass sphere (the wall of the dream world) was still intact.

When a dream ends, the dream world begins to die. Some dream worlds wither and disappear quickly, like ice crystals under the sun; others are filled with too many of the dreamer's "dreams" and too many emotions, becoming obsessions that make the dream world even more solid.

Even if the dream doesn't die, this dream is always connected to its owner (like the dream world of Xiaoyu raising a sleep bug), it is just hidden away, slowly decaying until the owner is completely defeated by reality, forgetting or giving up their dream.

These decaying dream worlds, the crystal ball begins to disintegrate and separate, slowly falling into the deep darkness "below".

This is also why the spacetime in the dream dimension is chaotic and it's easy to get lost.

A dream, a world, a crystal ball, a dimension.

How many people are there in this world? How many dreams have people in this world dreamt over the countless years?
Countless crystal balls were stacked together, and countless dream worlds were mixed together, with dimensions in disarray.

"Whoosh~~" Xiaoyu sat down on the golden platform and drew an arc, like a flying rainbow, instantly crossing "dozens of miles" and arriving at a large city: Huaiyin.

Huaiyin also appears in my dreams.

Many people from Huaiyin have created countless "dream crystal balls" in the city of Huaiyin in the dimension of dreams.

They piled up together, squeezed and rotted together, and finally their common "dream elements" combined to form a solid, semi-eternal dream city: Huaiyin.

On the surface, it doesn't look much different from Huaiyin in reality. But it's made up of countless dream crystal balls, and its structure of time and space is extremely complex. Xiaoyu didn't dare to go deep inside and just floated "above".

Xiaoyu slowed down the speed of "Jintai Flying Rainbow" on her own initiative, and Jintai carried her through the streets of Huaiyin.

There are houses on both sides of the street, but no one is inside. Instead, they are filled with tiny, crammed-together worlds: the dreams of real people.

She saw someone getting married in the miniature world.

Some people dream of being a wealthy lord.

Someone was thrusting on top of the goddess of their dreams.

Someone was running around in a panic, the ground beneath his feet sometimes sinking into a large pit, sometimes bulging out into a large bulge. He was covered in sweat and looked terrified. He just kept running, but he could never get very far.

Some people were urinating, and they kept urinating, their expressions a mixture of pleasure and agony.

Shutan thought he was urinating, but he felt uncomfortable because in reality, he was still holding in his urine in bed.

The dreams were all sorts of strange and wonderful, but after a while, Xiaoyu found them boring.

"Whoosh~"

Jintai streaked across the "deep space of the universe" in an arc of light; she had already left Huaiyin City.

It felt like traveling at near-light speed through a meteorite belt in the cosmos.

Sparkling dream crystal balls, ruins of crystal balls, dream cities, and dream realms—they were like meteorites of varying sizes, seen by her, avoided by her golden platform, and finally left behind.

But she dared not completely leave the Dream Crystal Ball area and enter the upper boundless deep space or the lower dark abyss.

The existence of the Dream Crystal Ball proves at least one thing—even the consciousness of mortals can enter this "space-time" to weave dreams.

The fact that ordinary people can weave dreams here indicates that this space-time is relatively safe.

Gradually, Xiaoyu adapted to "sub-light speed flight in the meteorite belt." Her eyesight was like a camera and a detector, and her brain was like a CPU and a graphics card.

It can process the massive amounts of data collected by "intelligent driving" in complex road conditions.

With the activation of "semi-autonomous intelligent driving", Jintai's speed is getting faster and faster.

Suddenly, Xiaoyu caught a sound in her ears, like a fox calling or a bee buzzing.

Weird.

She listened carefully, but it was too far away to hear clearly.

Jintai came to an instant, going from near-light speed to zero speed with unparalleled smoothness.

"The Great Chu Dynasty will rise!"

Xiaoyu listened intently, found the right direction, and the golden platform started up again, drifting towards the source of the sound.

A moment later, she heard clearly that someone was shouting, "The Great Chu will rise, Chen Sheng will be king!"

Xiaoyu's expression turned strange. Jintai continued to drift until they arrived at a vast and magnificent dream city.

Above the city gate are two huge ancient seal characters engraved in intaglio: Pengcheng!
Pengcheng was the capital of Sishui County, the stronghold of rebels, and would also be the capital of Xiang Yu, the future King of Western Chu.

"The Great Chu will rise, Chen Sheng will be king!"

This time, Xiaoyu not only heard it more clearly, but also saw the person shouting.

Above a street east of Pengcheng, there was a group of soldiers in black uniforms.

There were fifty or sixty men, all fully armored with lotus symbols on their chests, holding spears, arranged in neat rows, their military bearing impeccable.

As they marched forward in unison, they turned their heads and shouted to the common people on both sides of the street: "The Great Chu will rise! Chen Sheng will be king!"

The sound was like a fox's cry, but the tone also carried the buzzing of a bee's wings.

She could faintly hear the voice even outside the city, and the people of Pengcheng, who were asleep, naturally received this prophetic message in their dreams as well.

"Damn it, how dare they be so arrogant, a group of people lining up to spread prophecies, do they really think the Xianyang court and the Pengcheng Sima Ling are dead people!" On the golden platform, Xiao Yu couldn't help but curse.

She knew and could understand that Chen Sheng and Wu Guang from Dazexiang were planning to cause trouble, after all, they had been holding back for ten years.

After all, the stars had already given their predictions.

She understands the importance of building momentum before stirring up trouble.

Using prophecies to create momentum is incredibly cost-effective. It's still very popular in this era, appealing to everyone from emperors to the lowest commoners.

She could understand why Chen Sheng and Wu Guang used prophecies to "advertise" and prepare for their uprising.

She had even seen the prophecy "The Great Chu will rise, and Chen Sheng will be king" in her textbooks in her previous life!
But she couldn't understand how Chen Sheng could be so arrogant as to send a team of "soldiers" to shout directly on the streets of Pengcheng in her dream.

There was no hiding, no concealment of identity or whereabouts, and it wasn't even one person, but a team of "soldiers." No, more than one team of soldiers.

Jintai drifted with Xiaoyu to the center of Pengcheng, where she saw another group of "black-clad guards" marching in the western district, "shouting out their dreams."

"Back then, when the Emperor Zheng was inspecting the Central Plains in his carriage, he passed through Pengcheng. The people were timid and fearful. Even Liu Laosan knelt by the roadside, obedient and not daring to show the slightest disrespect."

They truly had all the advantages of timing and location, but lacked only the right people.

That overwhelming and ferocious power that allowed him to dominate his contemporaries, silence all heroes, and command the respect of all people, is still vivid in my mind.

In just over a decade, how could this ancient city in the Central Plains have transformed into the burial ground of the Qin Dynasty?

"Let the traitors act with impunity, brazenly and without restraint. What is the prefect doing? Where is the military commander?"

(End of this chapter)