Dream Travel

Chapter 485 Huge Time Difference

"I wonder what good stuff they can get me this time."

Bai Mu rubbed his hands together expectantly, growing more and more excited about what was to come.

As for the attention from others, it was irrelevant to him. After making final preparations, Bai Mu even went several kilometers away and sent a meteorite falling from the sky.

The power of the meteorites from the Starfall Gloves is undeniable. Although Bai Mu himself could not personally experience it, he gained a direct understanding of the power of the meteorites.

Anyway, as long as I'm strong enough, the power of the meteorite can continue to increase.

Although the meteorite consumption differs between the two modes, the one with higher consumption is far more powerful in terms of performance.

However, even though Bai Mu was struggling to withstand the instantaneous pressure, it consumed almost half of his individual strength in one go.

The feeling of fullness provides a powerful recovery speed, but the summoning of meteorites is consumed instantly.

After use, the white curtain will still experience a brief period of weakness due to a momentary large consumption of energy.

However, regular meteor summoning is not a big problem. For example, with regular meteor summoning, White Curtain can fire seven meteors in one go.

The consequences of doing that are quite serious; you can't recover quickly and could easily exhaust yourself.

Watching the meteorite fall from the sky, Bai Mu nodded, returned to the prepared location at lightning speed, closed the lid of the box, and instantly completed the escape.

Soon after the meteorite crashed, people came to investigate the area. However, all they found besides the meteorite that had hit the ground was a large, inexplicable crater.

The operation to track down the White Curtain continues, but the person whom Qifeng of Yimengyuan Mountain mistook for an extraterrestrial demon has already fled.

Because the Mingjing Sect's leader and main gate were destroyed, the remaining main force was completely divided up. Although those branches had the secrets of the Mingjing Sect, those secrets were not complete.

Some of the secrets of the Mingjing Sect were also revealed, and the Wuchen Divine Skill, which was originally sought after by many, was thus transformed into the Wuchen Demonic Skill.

Even those who originally obtained the incomplete manual dared not cultivate it casually, fearing they would become someone else's food...

After all, no one can be sure whether the remnants of the Mingjing Sect still possess the alchemy secrets corresponding to the Wuchen Demon Art, nor can they be sure whether others have a more complete version of the Wuchen Demon Art.

Although the Dustless Demon Art is difficult to counter, a more complete Dustless Demon Art can certainly counter an incomplete one.

The Dustless Demonic Art was being eradicated by various sects, but the demonic path had high hopes for it. Although it couldn't be practiced independently, it could be used for research...

Because the dark secrets of the Mingjing Sect were exposed, the old man and the young man who had initially dealt with the Mingjing Sect were now being "rehabilitated".

But this didn't stop people from looking for the still-alive Bai Mu, but Bai Mu seemed to have vanished into thin air, leaving no trace.

For the Dream Guardians, only about half an hour had passed in the Dream Graveyard of Rota.

During this time, the strange dream source called Shan Qifeng kept the guards on edge.

The old man became young again, then turned back into an old man, and then became so old that he was unrecognizable. Then the old man 'died'.

The life signs faded rapidly, and before they completely disappeared, a large box appeared.

A dozen seconds later, Bai Mu jumped out of the box, carried it away from the source of the strange dream.

"How long has it been?"

"Twenty-eight minutes..." A guard looked at the box that Bai Mu was carrying with a puzzled expression, his eyes filled with astonishment.

That's an overly ambitious idea!
"So short? Be careful, there's a big time difference between this dream and reality."

Bai Mu was also surprised. He had been stuck in the dream for a month and thought only a day had passed outside, but it turned out that less than half an hour had passed.

He turned to look at Shan Qifeng, whose aged appearance was just like his near-death state in the alternate dream.

“We’ve measured it before, and there’s at least a hundredfold difference,” the graveyard guard said.

"It's at least three hundred times."

The white screen directly tripled this number.

The veteran's Dream Guardian was already in a panic, and quickly got his people busy moving the Dreams that had been moved away back to their original positions.

If they weren't short on time, they would have even wanted to move this strange dream source out.

Looking at Shan Qifeng's body, Bai Mu suddenly had a bold idea.

If a condensed-state longsword is used, can it stabilize the collapsing source of the dream?

Bai Mu tried it out, and then immediately retreated the moment the Dream Source began to collapse.

Clearly, the stabilizing effect of the condensed longsword cannot stabilize the Dream Source.

The white curtain quickly retreated to avoid the source of the strange dream. The dead source of the strange dream began to collapse. Under the recording of the dream-eroding camera that the white curtain took out, Shan Qifeng's body instantly turned into dust.

After the source of the alternate dream dies, it takes some time for the feedback to reach reality, and the efficiency of this feedback depends on the number of holes in the alternate dream...

When there are few openings in a dream, the feedback time is relatively long, and the length of time is related to the time difference between the dream and reality.

If there are many holes, it's like a hellish dream. Not long after the source of the dream was destroyed, they were all kicked out, and a large-scale dream erosion quickly appeared in reality, forming an alien realm.

Shan Qifeng's alternate dream didn't have many holes, so it would take some time for the actual alternate dream source to collapse after his death.

Even if there's a significant time difference between a dream and reality, it will still take a few minutes for a problem to arise.

In those few minutes, the real graveyard guards witnessed Shan Qifeng transform from a young man back into an old man, and the collapse of the alternate dream.

The collapsed dream, through the corpse of the dream source, generates a dream erosion covering a radius exceeding 120 meters.

The intensity of the dream erosion within the area was extremely high. The dense blackness made Bai Mu's eyes twitch. Even with his strong adaptability to dream erosion, being inside was probably like a human taking a bath in lava.

The graveyard guards were also deeply saddened, but thankfully they had moved those sources of strange dreams far enough away.

In addition, the dreams in the Dream Graveyard usually do not have holes, so even if a dream collapses, the area will not be too large.

A radius exceeding 120 meters is still within acceptable limits.

When a dream with fewer holes collapses, the impact is more noticeable on the quality of the dream erosion.

Some of the strange dreams collapsed, and the graveyard guards watching could see the process of the strange dream source dissolving through the dream-eroding mist.

This type of dream erosion is not considered high quality; the current pitch-black dream erosion is simply terrifying.

Fortunately, the Dream Erosion that followed the collapse of the Dream did not last long, and the Dream Realm that had terrified the graveyard guards did not appear.

"Phew~ Luckily there's no alien realm here. Next is the cleanup, but the residual dream erosion is very strong, so we'll have to wait a few days before proceeding."

A cemetery guard breathed a sigh of relief, checked the condition of the environment with his equipment, and then spoke to Bai Mu.

What was supposed to be a dream source that would take several days to collapse was destroyed in less than half an hour. No one present believed it had nothing to do with the white curtain.

It's better that Yimeng collapsed early; at least the problem was solved sooner and everything was fine.

Now that the source of the strange dream is gone, all that's left is the simple and easy task of cleaning up the dream erosion residue.

Only after the Dream Erosion disappears can the broken or intact items scattered within its range be collected.

"Mr. Bai Mu, this box..."

"Oh, these are spoils I collected from the otherworld."

The white curtain didn't explain much.

The graveyard guards looked at the huge box but hesitated to speak. The thing was too big; the box was about 2.2 meters in diameter, and Bai Mu was carrying such a huge box around aimlessly.

"As long as nothing goes wrong with the Source of Another Dream, everything will be fine." The guardians of Another Dream wisely refrained from asking further questions.

Bai Mu carried the box and left the Dream Graveyard, while the Dream Guardians continued to clean up the site.

They photographed the debris scattered after the collapse of the Dream Source.

Bai Mu arrived at Guardian Town No. 2, but to the people there, he had only been gone for half an hour.

There were empty rooms in the town, and Bai Mu found one and began a short rest.

Well, how to describe the gains this time? He learned the Thousand Mountains Qi from Yimengyuan, but it's easy to learn but difficult to master. Plus, he's not a local, so the difficulty of improving it later on is not low.

After that came other gains. Bai Mu originally thought he could obtain a large amount of Dream Mist in the Dream Realm.

He and Shan Qifeng have already done so many things in the dream world.

When the results came out, the situation exceeded White Curtain's expectations.

The amount of Dream Mist obtained this time was not much.

The last time I went to that 'palace intrigue' dream, the white curtain didn't have much of an impact, so the improvement of the dream's mist was less than one-tenth.

This time, it was less than a third of what it was: 16 transparent Dream Erosion Crystals, one Fire-Patterned Tiger Skin, one Fang, and that was it.

To be honest, Bai Mu was quite envious of the white jade longsword that Shan Qiming used.

It's unclear whether the opponent's "Dustless Heaven and Earth" was unleashed through the sword or was part of their own technique.

Needless to say, Bai Mu had already obtained one before. As for the fangs, they looked somewhat familiar to him; they seemed to be from the Zombie King's mouth, but not a pair, just one.

Both items should be Dream Erosion items.

The most important thing is his own improvement. He knows that the higher his foundation, the higher the requirements he will have for the Mysterious Dream Mist when he improves.

In the future, there will likely be many instances where entering another dream will result in an improvement of more than ten percent, but this time he really did a lot.

Putting aside everything else, the Mingjing Sect is gone, and the Jade Giant Corpse was also ruined by him.

These things must have a significant impact on that alternate dream world, right?

If it weren't for the relationship between Shan Qifeng and Shan Qiming, Bai Mu would have wanted to just replace Shan Qiming at that time.

But since this was considered a grudge between grandfather and grandson, he didn't do anything that would spoil the mood.

According to the original plan, this time he should have been able to reach his current limit in terms of improvement, but this is the result?
After some analysis, Bai Mu concluded that either the time flow in that alternate dream world was too different from that in reality, making it more difficult to obtain the mist of the alternate dream world.

Either the items brought back were of such high quality that they diverted too much of the Mysterious Dream Mist.

Neither of these scenarios is good news.

If it's the first scenario, it means that when he goes to those stronger alternate dreams in the future, the initial boost won't be much.

Is it reasonable that the high-difficulty content doesn't look like a high-difficulty content?

(End of this chapter)