Dream Travel

Chapter 213 Is this considered cooking?
"How many pig hearts do you want? Six?" Bai Mu rummaged through the bag; it smelled strongly of blood and contained plenty of pig's blood.

"Fifteen."

"That's quite a lot." Bai Mu took out fifteen pig hearts from the bag and squeezed out the pig blood to draw those patterns on the ground.

Although it was her first time doing something like this, Bai Mu discovered that she seemed to have a talent for it and completed the following tasks smoothly.

After he finished drawing those demonic characters, he dripped his blood onto the pig's heart.

He then said to Lily, "I'm not well-educated, so don't try to fool me."

"Lying to you would take away a lot of the fun from my daily life," Lily said, offering a dubious reason.

Bai Mu patted his weapon case: "What's next?"

“Leave it to me.” Lily helped White Curtain check the demonic script.

Although it's not up to standard, it's sufficient. Some things related to demonic script have very strict requirements, while others have very lenient requirements.

But how exactly it works depends on the devil.

Not all demons want to cause trouble; those who don't will make the requirements for using demonic language about them stricter.

Non-standard methods cannot be used, precisely to prevent unauthorized misuse, but most demons disregard this.

The requirements for demonic script are not strict, which means that as long as the image is similar, it could be used as demonic script.

That's how it is right now. Although these demonic texts don't contain the real names of the demons they're associated with, the specific demons they correspond to aren't strictly required.

"Hmm... that should be it, all done." Lily murmured in syllables that the white curtain couldn't understand, and a bloody smell spread out.

Bai Mu scratched his cheek, and only after Lily stopped did he ask, "By the way, is summoning a demon in broad daylight the proper procedure?"

Although he wasn't a professional, judging from the traces at the scene, this should have happened last night.
Wasn't there supposed to be some kind of city defense agreement? Someone even summoned a demon, so why didn't that thing take effect?

"Doing it at night is just to create an atmosphere. For many demons, it's the same at any time, unless you encounter a demon who likes to create an atmosphere."

Bai Mu remarked with some emotion, "You really know a lot about demons."

Lily smiled modestly and said, "I just used my spare time to learn some knowledge that others can't learn."

Bai Mu didn't hear a trace of humility in her words. Explain what she meant by "knowledge that others can't learn"!
The stench of blood was intensifying, but this smell seemed to have another effect; the originally unsettling demonic patterns appeared slightly holy in Bai Mu's eyes.

Bai Mu nodded and put the Dream Erosion Greatsword back. He felt that the new weapon was more suitable for dealing with biologically modified beings.

The condensed-state longsword and the Spirit Pivot, a sword and spear combination, is a very standard modern setup.

"I am Lexenberg, Lord of Light and Shadow... You... what is this??" Before the summoned demon could finish speaking, it discovered that the offerings were problematic.

What I sensed through the demonic pattern was not like this, but it changed completely when I arrived at the scene!

Without giving the demon much time to ramble on, Bai Mu rushed forward immediately. Out of caution, he unleashed his demonic energy to the level of his Golden Eyes.

The condensed longsword pierced the demon's chest. Although the demon was not a physical entity, it let out a painful roar after being pierced.

The figure that had been fading was now frozen in place.

Lily, who had retreated twenty meters away to watch the battle from the sidelines, smiled as she watched Bai Mu kick the demon to the ground and raise his Spirit Pivot to deliver a close-range attack.

Her smile widened; this devil was truly awful.

"Foolish humans! Enough!"

Bai Mu pretended not to hear and continued firing. This demon was quite sturdy, with a layer of light and shadow on its body that negated the close-range shooting damage from Ling Shu.

However, as the attack progressed, the defensive strength of that layer of light and shadow rapidly weakened.

As for the demon's other struggles and resistance, Bai Mi felt they were quite ordinary.

At least against him when he unleashes his demonic energy in his golden-eyed state, it's definitely not enough.

The beam of light released by the demon was shattered by the white curtain's shot. The demon seemed to want to escape, but it was stuck in the condensed longsword and couldn't get away at all.

The reason is probably the stabilizing effect of the condensed matter sword.

This demon is not the real body, but a projection of a portion of its power. To escape, you only need to disengage from this projection.

The stabilizing effect of the condensed matter weapon directly fixed this part of the demon's power projection.

"Aaaaaah! Stop it! I can grant you any wish, just take that damn gun away!!" As the barrier of light and shadow grew weaker, the demon became even more enraged.

He's a demon, after all; he's the one who plays tricks on humans. Who would have thought he'd be scammed one day?

After feeling that the offerings were quite good, they rushed over, only to find that they were fakes.

If that's the case, then so be it; at most, the person who performed the sacrifice will pay a terrible price.

But the passage to this place was narrow, and the person offering the sacrifice was a cunning conman who, the moment he arrived, pinned him down and began to beat him mercilessly. The weapon piercing his chest immobilized him, preventing him from withdrawing his power. What was worse, this guy only focused on beating him without revealing the demon's true intentions.

Even if it's a scam, there has to be a purpose, right?
When faced with someone more cunning, even a devil, though unwilling, will still swallow his pride and accept defeat. He may hold a grudge, but he'll get his revenge later.

The power of demons is not so easy to wield; those who abuse demonic power will ultimately become the demons' toys.

The white curtain stopped and slammed the weapon case onto the demon: "I'll stop once you go inside."

"You want to enslave me?" The demon was stunned.

Bai Mu looked at him with some confusion: "Don't many stories feature humans enslaving demons?"

"Damn it, that's what warlocks do!" Lexenberg was even more furious.

"Never mind then." Bai Mu pulled an ornament from his collar and slapped it onto the weapon case.

He shattered the demon's barrier of light and shadow with one foot, and violent lightning was released from the weapon box, slamming into the demon's face.

The demon let out a terrible scream. Under the point-blank attack of the weapon box, the demon was shattered, but a small fragment of its spirit remained.

"Bai Mu, you're amazing." Lily walked to Bai Mu's side and looked at the black marks left on the ground, which were the shadows left after the demon was scattered.

The demon summoned this time not only lost a small portion of its power, but also lost a piece of its soul. Although this piece of soul is not much to a demon, a loss is a loss, and no one likes such a loss.

"You're not some kind of demon hunter, are you?" Bai Mu sensed the situation inside the weapon case, and the remaining fragments of the demon's spirit were drawn away by the weapon case.

The fragments of spirit preserved in the weapon case, like the others, were in a state of near-static stasis.

The fact that this demon can descend through patterns formed by demonic script indicates that it is not a simple being, and is far superior to the two weak demons collected in the weapon box.

“No.” Lily shook her head, looking quite pleased. “How interesting it is for a manipulative devil to be manipulated by others.”

"Will anyone come here later?" Bai Mu looked up at the sky: "Demons have appeared, city defense protocol..."

“That thing isn’t as sensitive as you think,” Lily explained. “This demon’s power is only close to triggering the city’s defense protocol; it won’t actually trigger it.”

Listen to this. This is the kind of person who always talks about legality.

"What about me?" Bai Mu clenched his fist. He felt very powerful. He easily swept out a lightning bolt covering a distance of more than ten or twenty meters by swinging his weapon box.

In some places, he could be considered a Thunder God.

“You cheated,” Lily said matter-of-factly.

"Get to the important business."

Bai Mu stopped talking about it; he was in a good mood after killing a demon.

Some demons may have legitimate identities, but this demon that uses demonic language to deceive people is definitely breaking the law, right?

Lily nodded: "Actually, what we're doing is also somewhat related to demons."

"Is the finished product still edible?"

"Why can't we eat it?" Lily retorted. This time, she didn't let Bai Mu do it himself; this demon she had never even heard of was unimportant.

However, the next steps and the demonic scripts required have strict requirements. The white screen is not precise enough, so even if it is drawn, it will be a bunch of invalid scribbles.

Scribbles can potentially connect to other demonic texts. If it's a weaker demon, then the White Curtain is just delivering packages; if it's a powerful demon, then the White Curtain is the one delivering packages.

“This looks quite artistic.” Bai Mu looked at the demon pattern that Lily had drawn with pig’s blood.

Unlike the original demon design he created, this demon design has beautiful proportions and lines. Although the text is different, it has a symmetrical beauty.

Just looking at it gives you the urge to put something in it, unlike that messy demon pattern, which has a tempting and disturbing allure.

The difference between scams involving naturally beautiful women and scams using makeup magic is that both can be attractive, but the former at least seems 'sincere'.

“But it’s dangerous,” Lily reminded White Curtain.

Bai Mu put the pig hearts in, and they quickly melted into several meatballs. No strange demons appeared during this process, which disappointed Bai Mu.

He had all his weapons ready, just waiting for a demon to appear so he could plunge his sword into it.

He had just tested the pendant given by Sister Asha, and it worked very well. He had even tied the pendant to the hilt of the condensed-state longsword.

"Is this considered... cooking?" Bai Mu used the Dream Erosion Greatsword to pick out the meatballs. Afterwards, the pig's blood on the ground dried and turned black, as if it had been exposed to the wind and sun for ten or fifteen days.

“I can guarantee this is exactly what you need,” Lily said with a smile. She hadn’t initially said that what White Curtain required was ‘ingredients’.

She just said she could eat it.

(End of this chapter)