104: Chapter 104 The Great Dream Tide

The atmosphere in the courtyard was just right.

With Jiang Feng's joke about "murdering her own husband," his wives and concubines in the courtyard burst into delightful laughter, completely dispelling the gloom and oppression of the past few days.

Huangfu Yunni withdrew her hand, her beautiful face blushing slightly as she gave him a playful, reproachful glare, her eyes shimmering with charm.

A wave of heat surged in Jiang Feng's heart, and he was just about to tease them a bit more.

Right at that moment.

The sky turned black.

It was not dark clouds blocking the sun, nor was it a solar eclipse.

It was as if the light of the entire world had been snuffed out in an instant by an invisible giant hand.

One second, the sun was shining brightly.

The next, it was pitch-black, so dark that one could not see their own hand in front of their face.

The sun had vanished.

The laughter in the courtyard ground to a sudden halt.

"What's going on?"

"What happened to the sky?!"

Panicked screams erupted everywhere.

Warning bells rang in Jiang Feng's mind. He tried to prop up a spiritual energy shield, only to find that the darkness held no hostility whatsoever; it simply deprived them of light.

At that exact moment, an imperceptible purple shadow bypassed all space and barriers, drilling directly into Jiang Feng's forehead.

He felt a sudden chill between his brows, but the sensation was so fleeting that he thought it was just an illusion.

Boom—!

Before he could think further, an incredibly muffled boom echoed from beyond the heavens, shaking the entire world.

A violent gale suddenly whipped up, blowing so hard that people could barely keep their eyes open.

A chill and tremor originating from the depths of the Soul swept through everyone.

...

At the same time.

In the underground abyss of the Qingyun Sect.

The churning sea of black clouds suddenly boiled, turning into an ink-black flood that surged into the sky, instantly swallowing the thirteen peaks.

Immediately after, the terrifying black clouds frantically spread in all directions, centered around the Qingyun Sect.

The sky over the entire Qing Province was completely blanketed.

Darkness descended upon the land!

Countless Mortals knelt and kowtowed, believing the end of the world had come.

Meanwhile, the high-and-mighty cultivation Sects felt the terror of that power instantly.

In the western part of Qing Province, the Sword Sect.

A dazzling sword light shot into the sky. A middle-aged man in white, cradling an unsheathed giant sword, hovered among the clouds with a cold expression.

He glanced at the overwhelming black clouds and swept his giant sword horizontally before him.

Buzz!

A blinding golden light erupted. Wherever the golden light reached, the bizarre black clouds were actually blocked, unable to advance even an inch.

In the eastern part of Qing Province, the Medicine King Valley.

Amidst the pill fragrance of the valley, a grey-robed elder with white hair and beard rushed out of a pill-refining room, his hands forming hand seals as he chanted.

"Heaven and Earth as the furnace, all creation as the medicine! Let the divine fire never die, protect our mountain gate!"

The elder transformed into a streak of light, merging into a giant Pill Furnace that stood dozens of feet high.

Beneath the Pill Furnace, purple pill fire shot into the sky, turning into a massive barrier of flames that blocked the black clouds outside the valley.

In the southern part of Qing Province, the Thousand Puppets Sect.

Before countless Disciples, a withered, elderly man on the brink of death had his flesh peel away inch by inch, leaving only a skeleton of translucent jade in the blink of an eye.

The jade skeleton formed a bizarre hand seal and gestured toward the sky.

"Roar—!"

A hundred-foot-tall black giant ape Puppet burst out of the mountain, and the jade skeleton instantly merged into its forehead.

The giant ape's eyes lit up with a terrifying red glow. It roared at the heavens and slammed its massive fists upward!

Boom!

The black clouds above its head were actually blasted with two massive holes!

...

In the small courtyard of the Jiang Residence.

Jiang Feng felt that heart-palpitating pressure.

"Don't panic! Protect yourselves!"

He shouted, the unquestionable authority in his voice calming his panicked wives and concubines.

He quickly ordered:

"Fei'er, you have the highest cultivation. Watch over Wan'er and Yu Niang!"

"Yuan Chu, watch over Yue Yao!"

Jiang Feng himself reached out to his left and right, tightly pulling the newly returned Huangfu Yunni and Huangfu Yunshang into his embrace.

The two warm, soft bodies pressed tightly against him, trembling slightly.

The black clouds surged into the courtyard.

It was not a physical entity, but a set of rules, a concept.

It passed through the walls, through everyone's bodies, bringing a bone-chilling cold that nearly froze their Divine Souls.

Jiang Feng held the sisters tightly in his arms, pressing their heads against his chest, using his own body to shield them from the invisible erosion.

"Husband!"

Three cries filled with fear and reliance rang out simultaneously.

They came from the Huangfu Sisters in his arms, and Lin Yueyao, who was being protected by Yuan Chu nearby.

The black clouds came quickly and dispersed just as fast.

A single breath.

The darkness blanketing heaven and earth rapidly receded.

The sky brightened.

Sunlight flooded the earth once more, making everything that had just happened seem like a nightmare.

In the courtyard, the women gasped for breath, their hearts still pounding with fear.

But in the next second, the relief on their faces froze completely.

Huangfu Yunni and Huangfu Yunshang stood dazed in place, still holding the posture of being embraced, but the space in front of them was empty.

That warm chest, those powerful arms, that man who gave them an infinite sense of security...

Was gone.

At the exact moment the black clouds receded, he had vanished bizarrely.

"Husband...?"

Huangfu Yunni reached out with a trembling hand, only to touch the cold air.

Yuan Chu's face turned deathly pale in an instant.

From the moment the black clouds descended, her Divine Sense had been locked tightly onto Jiang Feng.

Yet just now, at the very instant the black clouds dispersed, Jiang Feng had vanished into air right under her Divine Sense!

There were no spatial fluctuations, no teleportation Formations, and no warning signs whatsoever.

He was just... gone.

Erased from this world by an invisible force!

"Where is husband?!"

Su Wan let out a shrill cry, her body going limp, but Zhang Yuniang caught her just in time.

"Husband!"

"Second Master is gone!"

Cries and screams completely erupted throughout the Jiang Family.

All of them were in a panic.

Jiang Feng had only just woken up, giving everyone hope, yet this hope was so short-lived!

In the midst of this chaos and despair, only Yao Shifei stood dazed in place, her lips pale, her body trembling uncontrollably as she stared blankly at the sky.

She seemed to have thought of something extremely terrifying, muttering to herself.

"It's that... It's actually that..."

Su Wan forced herself to grab her arm, asking urgently, "Sister Fei'er, what do you know? Where on earth did husband go?"

Yao Shifei was shaken back to her senses. Looking at her helpless sisters all over the courtyard, she squeezed out four words with difficulty:

"Great Dream Tide."

"What?" Everyone was puzzled.

"I once saw it recorded in the oldest forbidden texts of the Medicine King Valley," Yao Shifei's voice was trembling.

"Every few thousand or tens of thousands of years, an anomaly known as the Great Dream Tide descends upon Qing Province. Wherever the tide passes, all Cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage will be forcibly pulled into an unknown world to undergo trials. The survivors will make massive leaps in their cultivation, while those who die will have their Divine Souls completely extinguished."

Her words sent a shiver down everyone's spine.

Above the Nascent Soul stage... Divine Souls completely extinguished...

Every single word weighed heavily on their hearts.

Su Wan caught the key point in those words, squeezing out a smile that looked worse than crying. "But... but husband... he isn't a Nascent Soul Master..."

Yao Shifei's face was also filled with extreme confusion and fear.

She gazed at the spot where Jiang Feng had disappeared, and in a voice only she could hear, she tremblingly asked the riddle that no one could solve:

"Indeed... the ancient texts clearly state that the Great Dream Tide only targets existences above the Nascent Soul stage..."

"But husband... he is only in the Qi Refinement Stage. Why would the Great Dream Tide take him away?"