I'm a magnetic field madman

Faced with Tanjiro's question, Bai Wujie scoffed and laughed...

"What do you want me to teach you? Well, all I can teach you is to do what you're supposed to do. Do you think I'm some kind and generous teacher? Do you want me to teach you that 'with great power comes great responsibility' nonsense?"

Tanjiro's expression was somewhat stiff, but it seemed to be true. What could someone like Bai Wujie teach him? He himself didn't look like a good person at all.

"Get out of here, you piece of trash! Go do whatever you want, who knows, you might even pick up your knife and slash my neck someday. Before I can tolerate you saying such insulting things to my intelligence, get out of here!"

Bai Wujie pointed to the door and scolded.

Tanjiro scratched his face, seemingly resigned to leaving. After Tanjiro's departure, Bai Wujie looked out the window at the passing scenery and complained…

"Ugh, this is so frustrating!"

It does seem a bit too boring, and I've already practiced the complete training. So, I might as well take a nap.

Then, Bai Wujie closed his eyes.

I drifted off to sleep as the night deepened.

24. Dreams and the Past

"It worked! I can't believe it actually worked!"

Just as Bai Wujie fell asleep, a strange hand with eyes and a mouth fell from the corner of the private room, staring intently at the sleeping Bai Wujie, excitedly repeating a murmur...

This made Nightmare extremely happy!

As one of the Lower Moons, Enmu's abilities are not suitable for combat. His Blood Demon Art: Forced Sleep Hypnosis, as the name suggests, is to forcibly bring people into a dream.

Despite its seemingly powerful control abilities, most people in their sleep are in a light sleep unless they are doing so willingly. For a person with a strong will, waking up is just a blink of an eye.

Even when guiding someone into a dream outside of combat, Nightmare is still unable to kill them at will.

Because as soon as someone gets close, the ghost's aura and killing intent will instantly provoke these experts!

Therefore, the only way for Nightmare to kill someone is through another ability of his.

Rope of Dreams

By binding a person's hand with a rope specially made using blood demon magic, one's consciousness can be allowed to enter the sleeper's dream.

Beyond everyone's dreams lies the subconscious realm... where the "Dream Core" exists, which is the entirety of a person's consciousness. Once it is shattered, that person will become a puppet devoid of any consciousness.

Although Nightmare was overjoyed at how well things were going, he was still able to control his reason.

He would never allow himself to go near to do such a dangerous thing... because the stronger a person's self-awareness, the more many other dangerous things will appear in their subconscious.

At the same time, it resonates with the intruder, thereby influencing them.

Therefore, nightmares are generally caused by controlling other people to infiltrate the subconscious of the dreamer and use them to commit murder.

"No matter how strong a person is, their soul and spirit are fragile... I did it, I did something even Upper Moon couldn't do!"

Nightmare murmured, seemingly eager to kill Bai Wujie!

But just as he was about to act, standing beside the main body at the top of the train, Zero suddenly spoke up...

"Stop, Nightmare. Don't do anything unnecessary!"

"I'm about to accomplish a task that even the Upper Moons couldn't, and even become a part of the Upper Moons. You think you can stop me with just a few words?"

Nightmare looked at Zero, whom he disliked, beside him and said with great displeasure...

"Can you guarantee your puppet is powerful enough to kill him?" Ling Yuzi asked coldly.

"If we fail and wake him from his dream, not only will you and I be in immediate danger, but we will also be guilty of ruining Lord Muzan's plan!"

Ling Yuzi raised his hand, displaying his arm covered in wood grain, and said calmly...

"Moreover, all the ordinary people on this train are being controlled by my Blood Demon Art. You're not the only one who has been given blood by Lord Muzan."

It was a threat, a huge threat, but no matter how angry Nightmare was, she couldn't ignore Zero.

Her arrowhead abilities were also enhanced after Muzan bestowed her blood. She had controlled everyone on the train for a long time. It can be said that only with her permission could Enmu destroy the subconscious realm of others!

"So what do you want to do?"

"Lord Akaza and Lord Kokushibo are on their way," Reiji said coldly.

"I will direct the train in another direction. Lord Muzan will be waiting at the end of the train. Do you want to decide things for yourself, or do you want Lord Muzan to decide their fate?"

"Ugh..." Enmu's face darkened. Lingyu's words left him with no way to refute them... If he dared to say that he would decide the fate of these people in place of Muzan, it wouldn't be impossible for his head to explode in the next moment.

"If he gets away, you will bear full responsibility!"

"Do as you please," Ling Yuzi said indifferently.

"You should try to deal with that pillar and those demon hunters. As for Bai Wujie, let him continue to enter the dream."

Nightmare gritted her teeth, clicked her tongue in annoyance, and left anyway.

Dreams are the product of fragmented memories in the brain cells combining with thoughts in the subconscious realm.

Dreams are inseparable from memories, just as things we see before we fall asleep are very likely to become part of our dreams, and memories from long ago can naturally also be a dream.

For people with a strong sense of self, dreams are never something completely out of control.

This is what lucid dreaming is all about; with special training, even ordinary people can master this ability.

This allows dreams to no longer be solely controlled by the subconscious, but rather to be controlled by rational thought.

Bai Wujie could easily do something so simple.

He rarely does things that seem effortless, and he rarely even dreams.

Sleep is already a rare thing for people with strong magnetic fields, let alone something like a dream.

Bai Wujie looked at his dream, and in this dream, he observed everything from a third-person perspective.

He was perfectly lucid, as clear-headed as he was in the outside world, even in his dreams. He could wake up at any time if he wanted to.

But why would he do that?

He was bored, which is why he let that thing hypnotize him. He just wanted to kill some time, which is why he fell asleep like that.

He was curious to see what kind of dream his subconscious would weave.

Floating in the void of the sky, Bai Wujie looked with great interest at the "world" constructed by his thoughts below, and the dream world of that world had already been built.

A vast sky, sparse white clouds, and a blazing sun.

The barren land scorched life above it like a hot plate, evaporating the moisture from every living thing and consuming their precious life and strength.

Under the blazing sun, a black-haired boy lay motionless on the scorching wasteland, as if dead, amidst the cries of mutated vultures circling in the sky.

Time slowly passed, until at the other end of the wasteland, with the earth rumbling...

A giant mutated wild boar, about seven or eight meters tall, noticed the food and charged over with trembling steps.

"Hmph!"

The fangs, raised like two sharp knives, kicked up huge amounts of dust... while its scarlet eyes surveyed the surroundings, vigilantly ensuring there were no ambushes.

On this earth today, these former beasts, after being irradiated by the power of magnetic fields, not only possessed sizes that humans could not have imagined, but also gained intelligence that surpassed that of animals.

But it seemed that the smell of blood in the air was stimulating the beast's hungry stomach, or perhaps it was because there was absolutely no movement around.

The hungry, mutated wild boar opened its blood-red maw and walked step by step toward the child who exuded a tempting aroma.

Just as it stepped into the sandpit, a pair of fists burst out from the sinking sand below!

"Drink!"

A somewhat immature roar, and a punch imbued with magnetic force landed on the beast's weak abdomen, like a sharp knife tearing through soft skin... and poured enormous power into the mutated wild boar's internal organs.

"Hmph!"

It roared in pain, but this powerful magnetic field mutated monster was not so easy to kill. It lowered its head to bite the annoying little thing below, but the moment it lowered its head, the black-haired boy suddenly leaped up and the sharp knife in his hand pierced the wild boar's eyeball.

The mutated wild boar thrashed its body wildly, and the person below broke through the sand.

He was the same age and had a similar face to the black-haired boy, but had short silver hair and a pair of eyes that were one blue and one white.

"Brother, do it now!"

The black-haired boy, who was tightly gripping the mutated wild boar, shouted loudly... while the silver-haired boy had already delivered a fatal blow.

A palm strike crackling with electricity landed squarely on the mutated wild boar's forehead. The force instantly penetrated its tough hide and reached its fragile brain, stopping the delicious creature from moving without making a mess of it!

The massive mutated boar roared and collapsed, while the black-haired boy, panting slightly, drew his weapon and slumped to the ground.

"Next time you play dead, remember to smear more blood on yourself."

The silver-haired boy spoke in a slightly indifferent voice, reaching out to pull up the black-haired boy, who grinned...

"I just don't have your talent, big brother."

"Hmph... Such a boring memory?"

Bai Wujie looked at the two teenagers below and let out a soft hum...

This was just a part of his deeply buried memories; the two little devils below were him and his younger brother.

Bai Wujie was somewhat unhappy, or more accurately, he was annoyed that his dark past had been exposed, but he still watched it slowly.

Just consider it a way to kill time when you're bored.

For the people of the solar system, the surname Bai symbolizes the majesty of a dynasty that ruled for thousands of years.

Since the second son of the ancestor established the Second Son Empire, and was subsequently defeated by the first son ancestor... the Bai family has always been the supreme ruler of the land and even the entire solar system.

Even though there were periods of turmoil and even overthrow, the Bai family's rule remained incredibly stable.

The main reason for this is that each emperor of the Bai family, also known as the Sea Tiger Martial God, must be the strongest among his brothers and sisters.

If not, anyone with the Bai family bloodline can challenge the current Sea Tiger Martial God and seize its throne!

This tradition of self-destruction, akin to raising poisonous insects, originated with the second and first male ancestors, and this method has proven to be effective.

On this land, whether the ruler is wise or not is never important; what matters is whether you are strong enough!

As long as you are powerful enough, your rule will be secure, and the world will always be at peace!

However, relying on the rule of the strongest will inevitably lead to turmoil as the strongest person passes away.

For example, the white-haired man who once ruled the solar system and brought peace to the world for hundreds of years, was killed by his son Bai Qianjun in a power struggle, and the two of them died one after the other, plunging the earth into decades of chaos.

Therefore, even though the Bai family still nominally rules the solar system, their actual territory is limited to some of the most valuable areas on Earth.

The remaining wilderness or less important areas were dominated by those powerful war gods.

The world has remained in this chaotic state ever since...

For thousands of years, under the rule of the powerful who measured everything by strength, humanity has become like this.

Looking up at the enormous warship flying overhead, and seeing the crimson shark tooth symbol belonging to the Bai family, Wujie, carrying the giant mutated wild boar, buried his deep ambitions deep within his heart.

He deeply envied everything that the strongest could possess, and in Wujie's heart, there was a deep longing for it.

"Sooner or later, I will become a God of War!"

Wujie murmured to himself. Even though he was just a child, he was precocious and understood the dangers and beauty of this world... For the strong, it was a paradise where they had everything, and for the weak, it was a hell where they could be taken away at will.

The desire to become strong is not just about personal desires, but more about the hope of no longer having one's power taken from others.

Bai Wujie, carrying a huge magnetic field mutated wild boar, brought his younger brother Qian Shuang to a small town nearby.

This is the closest city to their home, belonging to the territory of the nearby Iron Blade Clan... Although it is a very small city, it has everything one would expect.

As they carried the enormous wild boar through the city gate, several tall guards on either side glared at the two brothers with lewd looks, as if they wanted to devour them alive.

But in the end they did nothing, firstly because this was the city gate where people came and went... and secondly because the brother who was capable of killing such a large mutated beast, even if he looked young, was already a person with magnetic field power.

Even though he was very uncomfortable, Wujie silently chose to endure it, and simply took out a silver coin from his pocket and handed it to the extremely obese city gate guard sitting next to him.

"The price has gone up; now it costs one coin per person to enter the city."

"Didn't the two of them only need one yesterday?" Wujie asked, his brows furrowed.

The obese city gate guard lazily picked at his ear, looking at Wujie's tender little face, and gave a lewd, smirk...

"Little friend, if you don't have money to go to town, how about coming to keep uncle company for a few minutes? Don't worry, we won't do anything to upset you..."

Wujie frowned, but there was nothing he could do, so he could only say to his younger brother beside him...

"Qian Shuang, you stay outside the city and wait. I'll go and exchange this pig for money to buy medicine for my mother. Don't cause trouble here."