Day and night tour

Chapter 316 Snake Dream
The elder walked around Awang and looked at him carefully.
If the greed in his eyes could be materialized at this moment, it would definitely be a big mouth drooling with saliva, tearing off Awang's flesh and blood bite by bite.

"Looking at this spiritual energy, he really feels a bit like a psychic from the Blood Well. However, we still need to verify whether he is a real psychic or not."

The Great Elder turned around and said to Li Liuyun.

Li Liuyun's eyes were touched by the greed in the eyes of the Great Elder, and his body subconsciously produced a feeling of disgust.

She quickly avoided the Great Elder's unconcealed gaze and said with her head down, "The Great Elder has great means, so he must have a way to find out whether Awang is a psychic from the Blood Well."

"That's natural."

Li Jiumu turned his head and blew a whistle at the corpses of white cranes on the ground. The shrill whistle urged the crane corpses to stand up unsteadily and walk towards him step by step.

"Chirp, chirp, chirp..."

The crane corpse cried out, and its beak, with the skin peeled off, chiseled at Li Jiumu's body like a small hoe.

After each blow, a piece of soft meat was held in the crane's beak.

"Law of the Nine Snakes, I am your loyal servant. My flesh and blood await you, and the altar built of vines awaits your coming."

"I am here to see the Nine Snakes, and only ask you to grant me a spiritual officer so that I can see the truth about Awang's identity."

Li Jiumu's body was pecked by dozens of crane corpses. His body was full of bloody holes and blood was flowing like a mountain spring.

He casually wiped a handful of blood on his body and sprinkled it on the ground, muttering something. Seven vines as thick as wrists grew on the bare ground of the yard which was originally covered with yellow soil.

The vines grew wildly and intertwined with each other, twisting into the shape of a snake's head, lifting up the tied-up Awang.

The snake head is like an altar, and Awang is like a sacrifice offered on the altar.

Awang had already prepared a way to escape. He had swallowed the "Index Finger of the Bone God" into his stomach early on. Once he needed it, the "index finger" would burst out of his stomach and activate the third level of the Star Law - Transformation into Stars.

Under the impetus of the laws, his body will transform into tens of thousands of bright light spots, which will drift in all directions with the wind. As long as one light spot successfully escapes, that light spot will guide him to come and allow him to escape.

He could escape at any time, and his life was not in danger. But even so, when he was lifted up by the altar, he still felt the huge shadow of death, which was ruthlessly covering him, like the tongue of a poisonous snake sliding across his cheek.

"Great Nine Snakes God, your servants have prepared the finest flesh and blood for your spiritual officer. Please enjoy it to your heart's content."

Li Jiumu roared with all his might while holding his hands flat. The crane corpses spit out the soft meat in their mouths into his palms.

The squirming soft flesh, under the influence of the blood, began to gather unconsciously, and the soft flesh condensed into the shape of a "snake head"...

Li Liuyun, who was standing aside, was from Liuyun Village, but she seemed to have no good feelings towards "snakes". She turned her body and tried hard to keep herself away from the snake's head.

Although Li Jiumu did not look back at Li Liuyun behind him, he seemed to have eyes on the back of his head and saw every move of the female boss of Paramount clearly.

He taught Li Liuyun: "As a person with great responsibility in Liuyun Village, Lao Si, I don't ask you to be extremely fanatical about the Nine Snake God, but please put away your disgust.
Just because the Nine Snake God is tolerant doesn’t mean I am tolerant too.”

"Listen carefully, Great Elder."

Li Liuyun didn't dare to turn sideways any further and spoke with his head down.

As he spoke, the soft flesh in Li Jiumu's hand had gathered into a snake head. The snake head had its eyes closed. He held the snake head and walked towards Awang.

When he was only an arm's length away from Awang, he moved the snake's head closer to Awang.

A dream that seemed real and unreal happened quietly because the snake head opened its eyes.

There is an evil god behind Liuyun Village, and the evil god has mastered a certain law.

And the Nine Snake Gods...

"Is it the law of dreams?"

Li Liuyun looked at the changed scene around him - the dusty courtyard just now had completely disappeared, and in its place was a towering altar for the gods. Li Jiumu was no longer wearing coarse cloth clothes, but gorgeous colorful feathered clothes, which gave him the demeanor of an "ancient high priest" in ancient books.

With just one glance, Li Liuyun knew he had fallen asleep.

The great elder Li Jiumu did not understand the laws of dreams. Even in Li Liuyun's consciousness, the Nine Snake God did not understand the laws of dreams.

Having grown up in the village for many years, Li Liuyun knew clearly that the Nine Snake God controlled the laws of nature. Just like what happened just now when Li Jiumu used his own blood to grow seven fleshy vines in the bare land, this was the law of nature.

With my flesh and blood, I grow all things.

"Why, are you surprised?"

"The God of Nine Snakes has mastered two laws at the same time?"

Li Liuyun asked.

Li Jiumu did not answer, but looked intently at the snake head in his hand.

There was a strange gleam in the snake head's eyes, dominating this dream.

Li Liuyun only saw that a huge lump of flesh had bulged out in Awang's chest. The bulge was shaking constantly.

puff!
After a dull sound, a snake head the size of a finger emerged from the mass of flesh, followed by a series of dull sounds.

Dozens, hundreds, thousands of snake heads emerged from the meat ball. Li Liuyun felt a tingling sensation on his skin and flesh for no apparent reason... The feeling of disgust reached an unbearable level.

"vomit."

Li Liuyun finally couldn't bear it anymore, he lowered his head and vomited the food in his stomach.
In addition to feeling nauseous, she also had a very familiar feeling. This scene seemed to stir up her memories...

…She used to not hate snakes. As a girl born in Liuyun Village, she lived with snakes day and night, so how could she hate snakes?

When did she start to hate it?

That strange dream four years ago,

That day, she dreamed that she was pregnant. In the dream, she even felt that she was carrying a delicate baby in her womb. But it was obvious that she was not carrying a baby. She was carrying a bunch of snakes. Each snake was as thick as a finger. They swam out of her broken womb and crawled all over her body...

After that day, whenever Li Liuyun saw a snake, he felt an inexplicable disgust, but he didn't dare to show it in the village.

But in Mingjiang Mansion...she ate snake soup, boiling dozens of snakes into a pot of soup, and then drank it with hatred and anger, as if only in this way could she relieve the hatred in her heart.

The villagers who believed in snakes actually ate snake soup. If the rest of the tribe knew about this, they would probably be stoned to death by the tribe members.

Today, the scene that had once appeared in Li Liuyun's dream appeared in front of him again in the form of a dream...

Moreover, it was a perfect re-enactment of the scene. Except for the fact that the person who was wrapped by thousands of small snakes was replaced by Awang, all other details were exactly the same as in her previous dream.

The great elder Li Jiumu, as if watching with a very excited expression, watched as thousands of little snakes emerged from the flesh and tightly wrapped Awang up.

He clapped his hands and laughed, "Old Four, it's actually very simple to tell whether Awang is a psychic from the Blood Well... Just use my snake dream to find out.
The perception of the Blood Well psychic is extremely strong. Take you and me for example. You are just five incense sticks, and I am seven incense sticks, but my perception is far inferior to yours. "

Li Jiumu's words were like a sharp knife, pressing hard against Li Liuyun's neck, forcing her not to move.

Her vomiting movement suddenly disappeared, and was replaced by a fear that penetrated deep into her bones.

——Li Jiumu was talking about psychics, why did he shift the topic to her?

An extremely ominous premonition quickly grew in Li Liuyun's heart.

"Could it be..."

Li Jiumu did not give Li Liuyun a chance to breathe, and continued: "The little snakes in the snake dream feed on the perception in the dream. If the perception is strong, it will grow extremely quickly. In the blink of an eye, it can split into thousands of small snakes and wrap the person in the dream tightly..."

"So this snake dream is your way of identifying the psychic of the Blood Well."

Li Liuyun suddenly felt desperate. She finally understood the reason for the strange dream of being entangled by snakes four years ago.
That was the Great Elder, who was testing whether she was a psychic from the Blood Well. The answer was yes. She had been hiding as "Sesame Paste" for four years, but her true identity had long been seen through by the sinister Great Elder.

"Compared to making money in Mingjiang Prefecture, the third brother is more suitable. If Paramount is left to him to run, I'm afraid the scale will be several times larger than it is now.

The second brother is a smart guy who is naturally good at dealing with people. If he went to Mingjiang Mansion, perhaps our Liuyun Village would have found a strong backer in the Bone Elders Association.
Why did I go against all odds and overrule the other elders in the clan and let you go to Mingjiang Mansion? It was because you are a psychic of the Blood Well... I wanted to raise your incense and strengthen your perception so that you can serve as my food. It would be much easier for me to burn eight incense sticks.

You are in Mingjiang Prefecture, far away from the village. I secretly killed you, and the other elders could not find out that it was me who did it.

Originally, I should have kept you for a few more days, but you were unlucky today and sent a five-stick-worth-incense-worth-blood-well-psychic… The two of you together will be the perfect fuel for me to ascend to the eight-stick-worth-incense-worth level. I can only use the dream law to capture the two of you and conceal the eyes and ears of my clansmen.”

The Nine Snake God naturally only mastered the laws of nature, but the disciples of the Seven Incense Sticks were able to comprehend two laws at the same time.

Li Jiumu walked recklessly in his dream with his hands behind his back, saying as he walked: "I have been looking forward to the eight incense sticks for many years. When I think that I can accomplish it in one fell swoop today, I actually feel a little unreal..."

"Old bastard... Today is the day of the Yin Hall Blood Sacrifice. The Nine Snake God may have already descended. We two Blood Well spiritualists are offerings to the gods. How dare you get involved?"

Awang's mentality was much tougher than Li Liuyun's. He knew he couldn't escape.

According to the dream law, once a dream occurs, the dreamer will be completely controlled by others, unless there is a way to break the dream. Now Awang is tied up and can't use the incense method. As for calling the bone god index finger, it is also powerless under the influence of the dream.

Awang simply used the title of "Nine Snake God" to suppress Li Jiumu.

As long as he gets on the altar, Awang will no longer be shrouded in dreams, and there will be a glimmer of hope to save his life. As for Li Liuyun's life,
That was Li Liuyun's business. What did it have to do with Awang? They were originally great enemies of the two feuding villages, but because of the relationship with Xuejing Tianzun, they were forced to come together.

"Today is the day of the Yin Hall's joint blood sacrifice, but the Nine Snake God will not come.
I feed on the two of you, and the Nine Serpents will not notice me. I will just have to offer sacrifices to Him after He descends next month."

Li Jiumu said it with certainty.

"You old bastard."

"Old Four, you are one of my people after all, I will let you live a little longer. As for this rude man from Shizhai, I will eat him alive now."

Li Jiumu approached Awang sternly. The dry face of this great elder actually looked a bit like a venomous snake, with a triangular head and fangs sticking out of its mouth, which made Awang tremble with fear.

"High Priest, High Priest, I seek your help."

Awang screamed madly in his heart,

But the "snake dream" generated by the law of dreams dissolved all his will...

……

"Hey, where did these two go?"

Zhou Xuan brought Qingfeng to Huifeng Medical College and found his fifth senior brother to change the psychic properties of the "Taiping Scale".
The fifth senior brother was a ruthless man of few words, so he naturally agreed and took Qingfeng to the autopsy room.

"Master Qingfeng, I have made it clear in advance that to change the spiritual characteristics, you need to remove the incense... your ability of six or seven incense sticks..."

"Mr. Lu, don't worry, I'm mentally prepared."

"That's good." Lu Mingkun closed the door of the autopsy room.

Zhou Xuan sat on the bench at the door, paying attention to his secret realm.

Today was the day that Ji Ji Cao and Zhi Zhi Jiang were to do something for him - to investigate the Nine Snake God. However, these two seemed to have disappeared without a trace. They neither reported their progress to him through the Blood Well nor told him about their plans.
"It won't really disappear, will it?"

Zhou Xuan thought again, wondering if the plan of these two people had been exposed and they had been killed by the people from Liuyun Village.

"That's not right. A trapped beast will still fight. Even if these two were shot dead, they would at least ask for help. It's not like they haven't asked me for help before."

The more Zhou Xuan thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. As his hands were free, he entered the secret Chenghuang Taoist temple and looked up at the blood well and said, "Jingzi, check where the Achnatherum splendens and sesame paste are?"

Achnatherum splendens and Sesame are not ordinary people, they are believers of the Blood Well.

It just so happened that the Heavenly Lord Xuejing was very protective of his people, and he created a whirlpool in the Chenghuang Taoist Temple.
In the vortex, there was a fog. It was hard to see clearly what was in the fog, but looking around the fog, there was a mud house courtyard.

"What's inside the fog?"

Blood Well did not reply.
Zhou Xuan also sensed the crisis and immediately left the secret realm.

"The mud house courtyard should be in Liuyun Village. The sedge and sesame paste are covered by a layer of mist... It must be some kind of magic circle or something like that."

Zhou Xuan felt that time was running out and he didn't have time to ask for other helpers, so he spoke to the link on his wrist.

"Sister, Master, I need to go do something. I'm afraid I'm not strong enough to go alone. Can you come and help me?"

After Zhou Xuan finished speaking, he traveled in spirit and soul to Liuyun Village.

His soul was walking in the sky, and the towns and forests of Mingjiang Prefecture were all within his sight.

In just a few seconds, he found Liuyun Village hidden in the mountains. He released his perception and locked onto the loess courtyard with almost no effort.

There was indeed a blood-red fog in the loess courtyard, and it was difficult to see what was happening inside. He took advantage of the fact that his soul could not be seen and was extremely concealed, and took the initiative to move forward. He then smelled the "breath of dreams" around the fog.

"Oh, a dreamer? This major is suitable for you."

Zhou Xuan changed his form and his real body arrived at the courtyard.

"Sister, use the ancestral tree to send Master over here. We, the master and disciple, must team up to find trouble with this man in the fog."

Zhou Xuan said.

"Good disciple, I'm here."

Before Zhou Xuan finished speaking, Yuan Buyu had already walked out from behind Zhou Xuan, waving a folding fan.

"Wu Zhong is a dreaming Yin Tang disciple. Master, do you have the confidence to defeat him with you and me?"

"Do we still need you? In this Jing country, as long as the disciples of our hall are dreaming, no matter they are from the main hall or the Yin hall, we will beat them to their knees and kowtow to us three times."

"If you have confidence, then let's go into the dream."

Zhou Xuan also slipped out a folding fan from his sleeve, and with a "snap" sound, he opened the fan. The master and the apprentice, two graceful storytellers, shook the corners of their robes at the same time and stepped into the dream...

……

After entering the "snake dream", Zhou Xuan saw Li Liuyun at a glance. She was curled up on the ground with a pale face.

"Zhimajiang and Jishencao are all men's voices in the Blood Well Society... How could there be a woman?"

Among the three people in the snake's dream, Awang had been swallowed by Li Jiumu, who had a snake head and a human body. Zhou Xuan naturally would not think that Li Jiumu was one of the "Ji Ji Cao and Sesame Paste".

The woman lying on the ground and the man whose half body was eaten, these two could be members of the Blood Well Society.

"The members of the Blood Well Society are all very cautious, and it is not uncommon for them to change their voices when speaking at meetings."

Zhou Xuan didn't think any more and looked at Li Jiumu, who had a human head and a snake body, and said, "That deformed freak, stop focusing on swallowing people."

Li Jiumu opened his mouth wide, and foul-smelling mucus came out of his mouth, corroding Awang's body.

Awang was in great pain. When he saw Zhou Xuan, he immediately shouted, "Young Master of Mingjiang Mansion, please save me."

"Ah? You know me?" Zhou Xuan thought his vest had fallen off, but Yuan Buyu reminded him, "You've become famous for your book. There are a few people in Mingjiang Mansion who don't know you now."

"Too."

Zhou Xuan held the fan and pointed at Li Jiumu: "I'm talking about you, you freak. You had a bloody dream and delayed our cultivation. You're so annoying... and I'm here to take you in."

Li Jiumu's mouth was still swallowing Awang's body, with mucus flowing. He said vaguely: "This is Liuyun Village, I am the chief elder of the village. You want me to be accepted in my own village? I'm afraid it's a fool's dream..."

"There's a person in my mouth, and my words are unclear, which makes me feel annoyed."

Zhou Xuan took a step forward, waved his paper fan gently, and struck the wake-up stick.

"Are you the storyteller? But how can you be dreaming in my dream?"

"In the halls of dream-telling in the world, the storyteller is the ancestor. When the ancestor comes, he either bows his head or worships. Why are you still talking nonsense here?"

After Zhou Xuan's wake-up stick rang, he turned himself into a dream.

The storyteller’s ninth incense stick’s method—I am the master of dreams.

Once upon a time, the Buddha's "six desires" made his body a dream. Zhou Xuan relied on "I am the master of dreams" to force himself into a dream in the Buddha's dream.

Li Jiumu's dream was far inferior to that of the Buddhist disciple in terms of quality and spiritual attainment. Zhou Xuan's dream transformation was very natural and easy.

In an instant, a smaller dream emerged from the blood mist dream. This was Zhou Xuan's dream.

His dream was more realistic. The altar in the "snake dream" disappeared, and Li Liuyun and Awang appeared in the loess courtyard again.

But Li Jiumu was still in the form of a snake-headed man-god.

"Dreaming within a dream? May I ask who you are, young master?"

After seeing this, Li Jiumu dared not delay any longer. He hurriedly spat out Awang's broken body and bowed to Zhou Xuan and Yuan Buyu.

"You are no longer interesting. You were so arrogant just now, but now that you have seen my apprentice's dream, you are actually polite."

Yuan Buyu also took a step forward and said, "I will never change my name, I am Yuan Buyu of Pingshui Prefecture."

"Mr. Qizhuxiang from the storyteller's hall?"

Li Jiumu could never have imagined that he was just eating some raw food, how could he alarm such a famous storyteller like Lao Xiang?

The storyteller's hall is very special. The disciple of seven incense sticks must be treated with the same eyes as the disciple of eight incense sticks. He knows that he cannot win and subconsciously begs for mercy.

Yuan Buyu didn't give him any chance. Since his disciple wanted to accept this freak, he had to accept him. It was useless to be polite.

"It's just a dream. If you can stop it, I'll turn around and leave. If you can't, I'll leave my life behind."

Yuan Buyu looked at the corpses of white cranes scattered around the courtyard, and he was a little angry. He said, "The ancestor of storytellers, the first generation of gods Bifang, was named after the divine bird, and his body resembled a crane. Therefore, our storyteller Lao Xiang usually has white crane cloud patterns on his long gown.
You believe in snakes but kill cranes, so I will use a white crane to appear in your dream and have a fight with you."

"clatter!"

When the wake-up stick was struck, feathers grew on the corpses of the white cranes on the ground, and they flapped their wings and flew towards Li Jiumu.

Li Jiumu turned his whole body into a snake shape and rolled over to hide, but he couldn't.
Cranes are natural enemies of snakes. They stepped on Li Jiumu's snake head with their slender and powerful legs, and pecked at it fiercely with their beaks like hoes.
If one crane couldn't dodge, how could the remaining dozens of cranes escape? With dozens of cranes' beaks, Li Jiumu, the big snake, was pecked at and made him cry out in pain.

"The crane is a sacred bird, please descend upon us, ancestor."

The continuous pecking left Li Jiumu covered in wounds.

At the critical moment, Li Jiumu vomited blood mist again, and had another snake dream, in which thousands of snakes and pythons were used to devour the white cranes.
Unexpectedly, Yuan Buyu changed his move, raised his right hand, and dozens of cranes flew up into the sky at the same time, like dozens of stunning white lights, fiercely colliding somewhere in the sky, filling the sky with white feathers.
White feathers fluttered in disorder, and a Bifang with an air of fairy descended from the sky, standing on one leg like a crane, and landed gracefully, with one leg stepping on the blood dream that Li Jiumu had just woven.
If you trample on dreams with dreams, the dreams will be vulnerable.
"Bifang" crushed the blood dream with one foot, and then stepped on Li Jiumu's head again, pressing it to the ground.

"Those who work in the Yin Hall are all disciples of the evil god. If the evil god meets the righteous god, he should be trampled to death."

Yuan Buyu's murderous intent was revealed. He used the folding fan in his hand as a flying knife and threw it hard to the ground.

puff!
The folding fan was nailed into the ground with great force, and Bifang suddenly exerted force and crushed Li Jiumu's head into a pulp with one foot.

"I came like a dream, and I will leave like a dream. Master, I will go first."

Zhou Xuan's spirit traveled throughout the day, pulling Li Jiumu's soul out of his dying body. After his spirit returned to Dongshi Street, it changed its form... His real body had quietly returned to the store, bringing Li Jiumu's new soul with it.

After Zhou Xuan left, Zushu naturally brought Yuan Buyu back to Pingshui Prefecture.

"Disciple, next time you meet someone who is ready to fight, call me. This great elder is so weak that he cannot withstand a single blow."

It was obvious that Yuan Buyu had not yet had his fill.

The master and disciple came easily and left even more easily, like white clouds passing over the ground. After killing Li Jiumu, they each floated away without leaving a trace.

Li Liuyun and Awang were stunned.

"all gone?"

"what!"

"How did you leave?"

"Didn't see clearly."

Li Liuyun gradually came to his senses from his shock and spat at Li Jiumu's body.
However, Awang still remembered his mission. After escaping, he called out to the "high priest" in the blood well.

"High Priest, the great elder of Liuyun Village said that the Nine Snake God will not descend today... The Nine Snake God will not descend today..."

Awang kept repeating—important things need to be said several times.

"Isn't today the day of the Yin Hall's joint blood sacrifice? Why won't the Nine Snake God come?" Zhou Xuan asked.

"Li Jiumu said that Li Jiumu's soul was captured by the young master Zhou Xuan of Mingjiang Mansion..."

"I'll send someone to ask Zhou Xuan for it."

Zhou Xuan immediately lied angrily...

(End of this chapter)