Dream Walker: Feng Shui Master Bai Ya

While having everyone create their most feared illusions was part of a scheme, Shang Muchen had some ulterior motives behind it.

Once you know what a person fears most, it's easy to control them—Shang Muchen was wary of Ashiya and his apprentice, considering that he might have to deal with them someday in the future, now was a good opportunity to expose their weaknesses.

As for Glasses, Curly Hair, and Shorty, they're not my friends either. Who knows if we'll have conflicts with them in the future? I'll have to know how to handle them then.

Therefore, Shang Muchen wanted to see for himself what they were most afraid of.

What Fujiwara Eikichi conjured was an ordinary, dilapidated wooden box magnified many times over, standing a full three meters tall.

The wooden box was simple in design, rectangular in shape, nailed together with old wood, and its opening was locked with a latch. It was also sealed with a white talisman with black characters, but the seal had loosened at this moment.

The red paint on the box has peeled off, the wood grain is cracked, and it looks like it's about to fall apart. The details on it are incredibly clear.

Countless tiny tentacles and slime seeped from the cracks in the wooden box, which was disgusting, and you could even smell the stench of decay emanating from the box.

Shang Muchen recognized at a glance that this wooden box was probably the famous urban legend "Child-Taking Box" from the notebook.

Fujiwara Eikichi was actually afraid of something like that?

His deathly pale face showed that he was trying hard to stay focused; he was indeed terrified of this.

Ashiya Ninzaburo conjured up the image of a man in a suit.

The man's form was magnified, reaching a height of five or six meters. He was entirely shrouded in a gray haze, his face hidden in shadow, obscuring his features. However, two details were particularly striking.

First, he wore a large, round watch on his left wrist, with a circular pattern floating in the air on the dial, constantly emitting a faint blue light.

This watch doesn't look like a commercially available electronic watch; it must be a specially made high-tech product.

Another detail is that he wore a gemstone ring on the middle finger of his right hand that emitted an ominous, blazing red light.

With subtle hand movements, the gemstone ring drew red afterimages in the void, like a laser crayon sketching lines on the world's canvas.

Shang Muchen secretly observed the man and found that he was very different from the "child-taking box" conjured by Fujiwara Eikichi. The man's illusion was very blurry overall, with only the blue watch and red ring being unusually clear.

Shang Muchen guessed that what Ashiya Renzaburo was truly afraid of was not this man, but the watch and the ring.

When Shang Muchen saw what Xiao Jie had conjured, he was startled.

A large, inexplicable mass appeared in front of Xiao Jie.

These elements include lines, geometric shapes, dot matrix, colored patches, and various blended colors mixed together.

All these lines, blocks of color, and colors blend together to form a large sphere, roughly three meters in diameter.

It is described as a sphere, but it is not entirely round. The entire sphere is constantly growing and contracting, moving in and out, as if it is breathing.

Shang Muchen scratched his head in confusion and asked Xiao Jie, "Dude, what's this?"

Xiao Jie awkwardly took off his glasses, wiped them, and put them back on, saying, "I don't know either. I often dream about this, and I always wake up from nightmares."

Indeed, there was nothing to be found in this colorful object with its abstract geometric shape. Shang Muchen turned to look at "Curly Hair" Fang Xuan and couldn't help but laugh.

Fang Xuan conjured up a dark-skinned, very obese, curly-haired, polka-dot dress, an apron, and a rolling pin—a middle-aged woman of Central American descent.

Xiao Jie asked in surprise, "Curly Hair, is this your mother?"

Fang Xuan smiled wryly, "Yeah, what I'm most afraid of is my mom! It's a childhood trauma."

The person that Wu Biao, the short man, transformed into was also a human. Shang Muchen recognized him at a glance; that person was Wu Biao's father.

However, Wu Biao's imagined father appeared more ferocious and savage than the real one.

Shang Muchen couldn't help but sigh. Could the pain caused by his family of origin really be this great?

Speaking of which, Fang Xuan and Wu Biao are both rich second-generation heirs with assets of over 100 million yuan. One is afraid of his mother and the other is afraid of his father. It's really strange.

As soon as the illusion appeared, the two sides lined up in front of them and, without saying a word, started fighting.

"Old Man Wu Biao" took the lead and charged at Big Ghost, knocking him to the ground with a series of swift punches.

"Good!" Fujiwara Eikichi cheered repeatedly, trying to drive his fearful "snapbox" to rush forward and finish off the enemy.

Unexpectedly, "Fang Xuan's mother" swung a rolling pin and smashed it down on the back of "Wu Biao's father's" head.

Soon, the scene turned into a complete mess.

Shang Muchen ignored them, activated his "Mind's Eye," focused his mind, and looked across at them.

Through the mist, Shang Muchen could clearly see that Lan Shannan was sitting cross-legged at the entrance of the low building in front of him, like a stone lion guarding the gate, his eyes slightly closed and motionless.

An invisible chain was tightly bound around her neck, its spikes pointing inwards, threatening to pierce her skin with the slightest movement.

The other end of the chain leads deep into the building's corridors, with no end in sight.

Shang Muchen tried to get closer to the chains. The closer he got to the chains, the more intense the hostility emanating from Lan Shannan became.

Her hostility wasn't just directed at the person who chained her; she also harbored deep animosity towards Shang Muchen, which made Shang Muchen very uncomfortable.

This feeling is like driving at night when an oncoming car not only doesn't turn off its high beams, but also deliberately flashes them at you, which is provocative and makes you feel disgusted.

Well, having been entrusted with a task, Shang Muchen originally wanted to use the chains to make Lan Shannan suffer a bit, but doing so would seem petty.

There was no need to take advantage of someone's misfortune, so Shang Muchen temporarily put aside his prejudices and tried to touch the chain around Lan Shannan's neck.

The more closely you observe, the more you discover the wonder of this chain.

Shang Muchen zoomed in with his "mind's eye" and observed the chains closely. He discovered that what made up the chains was not any physical metal, but a series of "images".

Although it was clear from a distance that the chain was not a physical object but a virtual one, Shang Muchen was truly awestruck when he saw the details.

Upon closer inspection, one can see that the chains resemble a "light stream" that continuously plays video footage. Within the light stream are individual figures interacting and communicating in different scenes, much like a movie.

Upon closer inspection of the spikes on Lan Shannan's neck, Shang Muchen discovered a heartbreaking fact: the images that made up the spikes seemed to be extremely terrifying, cruel, bloody, and vulgar religious sacrificial scenes.

Lan Shannan's neck skin tried hard to avoid contact with these images; she kept her neck stiff, not daring to tremble even slightly.

Even the slightest movement can be pierced by the invisible, cruel images that create a barrage of thorns.

After thinking for a moment, Shang Muchen continued to focus his attention more intently on the chain of light.

As he got closer to the stream of light, the image above became clearer and clearer. The "chains" were gradually magnified into a long, winding curtain of light, and then into a river.

Shang Muchen gritted his teeth and simply dove into the river.