Chapter 155: The Empress Enters My Dream: This Time It's Time to Collect Interest!

Deep consciousness fell like it was plunging into an endless abyss.

Passing through layers of illusory clouds, Jiang Chen's senses, after a brief silence, were greeted by a touch of extreme desolation and magnificence.

That was the depths of his Sea of Consciousness, a bone palace built from the withered bones of billions of gods and demons.

At the top of the palace, dark purple stars flowed, as if each one carried the rise and fall of an era.

And in the center of this palace, on the supreme throne that could overlook the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, a graceful and majestic figure had long been waiting.

Today, the Empress was dressed quite differently.

She had shed the slightly casual light gauze of the past and donned an imperial robe with dark purple, gold-rolled edges.

The material of the imperial robe was extremely special, as if it were cut from the edge of a black hole, swallowing all the light around it.

The imperial robe was not bulky; instead, it clung tightly to her nearly perfect curves, especially the hem that split up to her waist, which had a great visual impact as it swayed slightly with her crystal-clear, slender, and flawless beautiful legs.

She was not sitting on the throne; instead, she was barefoot, her ankles like warm jade, her toes lightly touching the Void Realm.

With every step she took, a purple ripple spread through the Void Realm, as if even the rules of heaven and earth were submitting beneath her feet.

"You swatted a little fly, and now you plan to sleep soundly with such peace of mind?"

A cold, magnetic voice echoed in the palace, carrying a hint of unquestionable majesty, and... a trace of undetectable sourness.

Jiang Chen's consciousness condensed slowly in this space.

He was still in his usual lazy state, wearing those familiar spongebob pajamas, holding that star dream emperor pillow which seemed like a companion Magic Treasure.

"Boss, that was self-defense." Jiang Chen yawned, his eyes scanning Empress's dazzling white long legs in a daze, and muttered, "I put in a lot of effort to protect the sleeping environment. You not giving me a bonus is one thing, but why does it sound like you're here to hold me accountable?"

"Bonus?" The Empress sneered, her figure appearing in front of Jiang Chen as if teleporting.

The terrifying pressure belonging to the Abyssal Empress descended instantly, causing the entire bone palace to hum.

Her breathtakingly beautiful face leaned close to Jiang Chen, and her purple eyes reflected Jiang Chen's salted-fish-like face.

"Jiang Chen, you've been living quite well outside lately. The Ice Phoenix Dao Body is at your side, the Heavenly Phoenix Bloodline is warming your bed, and even the Saintess of the beast race has become your body pillow. Has your 'harem group' expanded a bit too fast? The miscellaneous Auras on them disturb my peace every day. How do you think... this account should be settled?"

Jiang Chen felt the faint fragrance close at hand and said without blushing or skipping a beat: "That's to maintain energy balance, scientific sleep aid, you wouldn't understand. Besides, my heart is as still as water; those are all external things."

"Heart as still as water?" The Empress's gaze fell on Jiang Chen's hand hugging the pillow, and the corners of her mouth hooked into a playful arc. "Since you claim to have such great concentration and have just comprehended that 'Space Suppression' of yours, then good, the Empress needs to collect some 'interest' today."

"Interest? I don't have money, but I do have a life. If you want it, should I sleep a little longer and dream for you to pay off the debt?"

"Who wants your life!" The Empress waved her jade hand, and the scene of the entire bone palace changed instantly, turning into a desolate battlefield of shattered stars. "I want to test the extent of your 'Space Suppression'. If you can't take three percent of the Empress's Emperors Might, then I will completely seal your Sea of Consciousness from now on, so you won't think about messy women all day long!"

Before the words fell, a terrifying Aura that surpassed all living beings erupted from the Empress.

This was not simple Mental Energy, but true "Emperors Might"!

Every strand of breath was as heavy as a mountain, carrying the will to judge all living beings. Under this pressure, the Void Realm began to crack layer by layer, turning into countless pitch-black fragments.

"Take this, this is the first layer of 'Emperors Might' — — Kneel, All Living Beings!"

The Empress pressed her slender jade hand into the void, and a fluctuation that could instantly shatter a Great Grandmaster into blood mist bombarded Jiang Chen's mental body in a way that ignored physical Laws.

Anyone else would likely have had their Divine Soul destroyed and would be begging for mercy on their knees by now.

However, Jiang Chen just let his eyelids droop. The moment he sensed that pressure, the 《Nightmare Nerve》 inside him operated automatically, and the newly acquired "Space Suppression" effect permeated his body like an instinct.

Hum!

With Jiang Chen as the center, the space within a radius of three zhang solidified instantly.

That originally unstoppable Emperors Might, after entering this three-zhang range, actually became like a snail stuck in a quagmire, its speed slowing to the extreme.

Jiang Chen even had the leisure to adjust the position of his body pillow, and then... just like that, in public (although there were only the two of them), his head tilted, and he began to snore slightly.

That's right, he fell asleep right in front of the Empress's full-force attack!

That rogue defensive posture of "you attack yours, I sleep mine" made the originally imposing Empress stiffen.

"You bastard..."

The Empress laughed from extreme anger. Her beautiful body trembled slightly, and a second, stronger wave of attacks followed.

She didn't want to really hurt Jiang Chen; instead, she was using this sparring to engrave a higher-level way of using "Emperors Might" into Jiang Chen's instincts in a way that was almost "forced empowerment."

Two extreme mental powers collided crazily in the Sea of Consciousness.

During this process, although Jiang Chen was in a sleepwalking state, his Divine Soul inevitably had deep contact with the Empress.

Divine Soul contact in a dream is ten thousand times more sensitive than physical entanglement in reality.

The Empress felt as if her consciousness had crashed into a sponge that was extremely warm, inclusive, and exuded a faint, lazy Aura.

Whenever her Emperors Might wanted to tear through Jiang Chen's defense, Jiang Chen's Concept of "not competing, not resisting, not perishing" acted like an invisible pair of hands, gently dissolving all her sharpness.

In fact, during a few intense energy clashes, Jiang Chen's consciousness instinctively reached out and accurately grabbed the slender, beautiful leg that the Empress had swept across the void.

"This corner of the quilt... feels good, cool and smooth..."

Jiang Chen muttered in his sleep, his palm unconsciously stroking along the rounded curve.

The Empress felt as if she had been struck by lightning, an unprecedented tingling sensation rushing from her ankle directly to her Sea of Consciousness.

Her originally cold and majestic purple eyes showed a hint of panic and confusion at that moment.

As the Abyssal Empress, no one had ever dared to profane her true body like this, let alone in this state of soul fusion.

She wanted to slap this rogue away, but looking at Jiang Chen's innocent, honest face that was written all over with "I'm really just sleeping," her Killing Intent dissipated by more than half for no reason.

"Could this guy... really have reached that supreme Realm of 'forgetting both object and self, neither filthy nor extinguished'?"

The Empress couldn't help but start to doubt herself.

"Facing my Emperors Might, he not only has no fear but can even treat it as nothing. This state of mind is something even those old guys who claimed to be Saints might not reach. Could it be that his usual lecherous appearance is all 'tempering his heart in the Mortal World'?"

Looking at Jiang Chen's virtue of hugging his pillow and sleeping to death even if the sky fell, the last line of defense in the Empress's heart loosened again.

She sighed softly, retracted her Killing Intent, and instead turned that violent Emperors Might into strands of purple light, gently merging into Jiang Chen's Sea of Consciousness.

That was her cultivation insight as an Empress, and also the most valuable feedback from this "interest."

Meanwhile, in the real world, Cloud Top Villa No. 1.

The originally quiet night was suddenly completely broken by a terrifying Aura leaking from the master bedroom.

What kind of Aura was that?

Even with the isolation of the villa's layers of Formation, that suffocating chill and high-and-mighty pressure instantly silenced the birds and beasts of the entire Cloud Top Mountain range, and even the air seemed to freeze into a solid.

"Thump!"

Su Qingyue, who was meditating in the side bedroom trying to sprint to a higher Realm, had her face turn pale instantly, and she almost fell off the bed as she couldn't catch her breath.

"This kind of pressure... is it Jiang Chen?"

Su Qingyue's beautiful eyes were full of shock.

As a Heavenly Phoenix Bloodline, she was most sensitive to this level of status suppression.

In front of that Aura, the Heavenly Phoenix Bloodline in her body was trembling, as if it had encountered the supreme Dominator of its Bloodline source.

"Jiang Chen is breaking through the Realm! This pressure is too dangerous!"

Mu Qingxue rushed out wearing a robe, her originally cold, fairy-like face full of anxiety.

She could feel that the pressure contained extremely chaotic and massive energy; one slight mistake would mean total destruction of body and soul.

"Guard the pass! Hurry, be his Protector!"

The three women ignored everything else and instantly guarded the entrance of the master bedroom in a triangular Formation.

Iliya's nine tails all exploded, her golden eyes full of determination: "Whoever dares to disturb Brother Jiang at this time, I will bite them to death!"

Saintess Alisa also ran out from the side room. She looked at the master bedroom, which had almost turned into a substantial purple mist, and the Holy Light cross in her hand was trembling slightly, making a mournful sound.

"This is not power that humans can possess... Lord, what is he experiencing?"

And a few kilometers away from the villa.

Several big shots from the Imperial Capital Education Administration were sitting in a specially made monitoring vehicle.

The values on the screen had completely gone off the charts, and the red alarm lights were flashing wildly.

"Director... the monitored Mental Energy fluctuation intensity... has broken through the critical value of the War God Realm!" A researcher was sweating profusely, his voice trembling, "Is this really the movement a Great Grandmaster-level student can make? If this power goes out of control, half of the Imperial Capital will be wiped out instantly!"

The Deputy Director of the Education Administration rubbed his temples, looking at the sensor that was almost about to burn out, and smiled bitterly: "He's not sleeping; he's practically detonating a hydrogen bomb in his Sea of Consciousness! Pass the order down, mobilize all Guardians, seal a ten-mile radius around Cloud Top Mountain, and announce to the public that the Administration is conducting some top-secret experiment. Do not let anyone disturb Jiang Chen!"

"This kid... the future national destiny of the Great Xia is probably all bet on this sleep of his."

In the dream, the collection of interest finally came to an end.

The Empress looked at Jiang Chen, who was radiating purple divine brilliance from being tossed around by her, and a sense of inexplicable achievement arose in her heart.

"Forget it, I'll let you off today."

She looked at Jiang Chen's face close at hand, and guided by some ghost, she reached out her slender finger and tapped lightly on the tip of Jiang Chen's nose.

"Jiang Chen, what you owe the Empress is not just interest..."

Just then, Jiang Chen seemed to be tickled by the touch, his nose wrinkled, his lips moved slightly, and he spat out a vague sleep talk.

"Liuli... don't make trouble... give the quilt... back to me... the corner of the quilt... was kicked away..."

This extremely intimate complaint, as if they were an old married couple, left the dignified Abyssal Empress frozen in place instantly.

Her cheeks were dyed with a blush at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the imperial majesty she had maintained so well completely collapsed at this moment.

"You... you bastard! Who is your wife!"

The Empress was so angry that her chest heaved, and she flicked her sleeves directly, kicking Jiang Chen's consciousness out of the Sea of Consciousness.

【Ding! Detected that the host teased an extremely dangerous target in a dream and successfully caused the other party's mentality to collapse.】

【Judgment: Although this behavior is extremely suicidal, because the host's sleeping posture is extremely stable, it conforms to the essence of "proving the Dao in a dream."】

【System Reward: Mental Energy Rank forcibly increased by one tier! Current Realm: Has broken through from the Peak of Great Grandmaster to the Early Stage of War God Realm (Initial glimpse of the path)!】

【Extra Reward: Emperors Might Fragment + 1 (The host will carry a hint of majesty that cannot be looked at directly in every move).】

【Under the blessing of Emperors Might Fragment: The host's mental combat power can be briefly increased to the Peak of War God Realm.】

【Side effect of using Emperors Might Fragment: Mental Energy is emptied, requiring the three women to replenish it and deep recovery in the Empress's palace.】

In reality.

Jiang Chen turned over on the Fengqiwu divine bed, smacked his lips, hugged Iliya tighter, and slept even more soundly.

And the three women who were guarding the door, who had been almost driven crazy by that pressure, suddenly felt the pressure that had made them unable to breathe disappear instantly, replaced by a kind of gentle and vast peace like a spring breeze.

"Phew... is it over?" Su Qingyue sat on the ground, exhausted.

Mu Qingxue looked at the bedroom door, her beautiful eyes flashing with brilliance.

She knew that after this troublemaker woke up, the entire Great Xia, and even the whole world, would probably tremble under Jiang Chen's pillow.