428: Dream Witch and Red Tiger

This isn't right!

Xiao Shi's brows furrowed.

Logically speaking, this heart should have been able to resolve everything.

But now, in this Dream World, it has failed!

This made Xiao Shi feel something was amiss.

He vaguely felt... this was most likely due to a problem in some aspect!

If this heart couldn't resolve Demigod Yao Xi in the Dream World, with his current strength alone, he couldn't possibly be Demigod Yao Xi's opponent.

Taking advantage of the time his substitute bought for him, Xiao Shi carefully sensed the heart in his hand, wanting to find the problem within it.

After a thorough sensing, his heart stirred, and he instantly found the problem!

He discovered that it wasn't that the heart had no effect in this Dream World.

Instead, the method of using the heart here was different from how it was used in other areas.

"The method to use this heart in the Dream World is to allow me to visualize powerhouses similar to Demigod Yao Xi here!"

"No!"

"It should be said..."

"I now need to visualize a powerhouse even stronger than Demigod Yao Xi, to destroy her in one fell swoop!"

Xiao Shi's eyes flickered.

He had already realized that the Dream Witch Lineage of the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect, after reaching a certain level, could visualize powerhouses within dreams!

These powerhouses visualized in the Dream World would be as strong as real-world powerhouses!

Thus, the Dream World could become a powerful offensive means.

In the past, the Dream World's primary function was for secret meetings, communication, and information transfer.

Just like how Xiang Zizhen and other members of the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect used to meet through the Dream World.

But to use the Dream World to kill enemies... it seemed a bit weak.

Unless it was to kill someone whose cultivation was lower than one's own, then there wouldn't be much of a problem.

However, trying to deal with powerhouses of the same realm through the Dream World would be very strenuous.

Usually, powerhouses of the same realm could escape from the dream.

And the dangers in the dream were far from being able to threaten them, at most, they could only cause a certain degree of interference.

But the Dream World Xiao Shi was now in contact with was already extremely stable, not easily escaped from.

Most importantly... he could now visualize powerhouses within the Dream World!

Once killed by a powerhouse within the Dream World, it would be a true death in every sense!

This also made the Dream World a powerful means.

Immediately, Xiao Shi began to visualize powerhouses through the heart in his hand.

He discovered that although he could visualize powerhouses in the Dream World, it wasn't an arbitrary visualization without conditions.

This visualization also had certain conditions and limitations.

First, the powerhouse he wanted to visualize must genuinely exist.

That is to say, Xiao Shi could not fabricate a non-existent powerhouse.

Secondly, the powerhouse he visualized must conform to their actual cultivation.

For example, if Xiao Shi were to visualize Xiang Zizhen, then the Xiang Zizhen in the Dream World would necessarily have to be a Dao Master.

He couldn't directly make the visualized Xiang Zizhen in the Dream World possess Demigod cultivation.

Finally, the powerhouse Xiao Shi visualized had to be someone he had come into contact with.

For example, an existence like Martial Ancestor, whom he had never encountered, could not be visualized from within the Dream World.

At the same time, the strength of the visualized powerhouse in the dream would also depend on his contact with the other party.

Like the current Demigod Yao Xi, although she could use the rules of time in the Dream World, her use of the rules of time remained at a very superficial, very basic stage, and she did not display the kind of powerful strength that would make Xiao Shi unable to resist, which clearly was not her true strength.

This was because the Demigod Yao Xi Xiao Shi had encountered at that time had only displayed such strength.

If Demigod Yao Xi had displayed all of her power in front of Xiao Shi at that time, then Xiao Shi could now visualize Demigod Yao Xi with her complete strength.

That is to say, the strength of the person he visualized would depend on the extent to which the other party had displayed it in front of him.

After understanding this, Xiao Shi decisively gave up the idea of visualizing Demigod Xing Kui to counter Demigod Yao Xi.

Although in his battle with Demigod Xing Kui, the latter had displayed a lot of power, and if he were to visualize Demigod Xing Kui now, his strength would definitely be above Demigod Yao Xi's.

However, Xiao Shi knew that even if he visualized Demigod Xing Kui, it would still take a lot of time to defeat Demigod Yao Xi.

Rather than that, he might as well directly visualize an even more powerful existence to resolve Demigod Yao Xi in one fell swoop.

With this thought, Xiao Shi began to visualize.

As he visualized, a figure rapidly formed within the Dream World, transforming into a middle-aged man wearing an imperial crown, with flowing black hair, and a golden robe.

This person had sword-like brows and starry eyes, exceptionally handsome!

He also possessed an imposing aura that commanded respect without anger, especially his gaze, which could dim the sun and moon!

It was... Martial Ancestor!!

Although Xiao Shi hadn't seen Martial Ancestor make a move much, he knew that as the supreme powerhouse of the Martial Dao Ninth Realm, Martial Ancestor didn't need to know his techniques and killing moves.

The sheer crushing power of his cultivation realm alone was enough to instantly obliterate Demigod Yao Xi.

As expected, with the appearance of Martial Ancestor, a violent and astonishing aura immediately stirred the entire Dream World.

Under this terrifying and astonishing aura, cracks instantly spread across Demigod Yao Xi's face.

Martial Ancestor gazed indifferently at Demigod Yao Xi, then raised his hand and pressed it towards Demigod Yao Xi from a distance.

Boom!!

Demigod Yao Xi instantly shattered into countless fragments, exploding apart.

At the same time, it wasn't just Demigod Yao Xi that exploded, but the entire Dream World as well.

Crack!

A sound like a mirror shattering echoed in Xiao Shi's ears.

The shattering of the entire Dream World instantly brought his consciousness back to reality.

"It seems this Dream World is far from enough to support my visualization of an existence in the Martial Dao Ninth Realm..." Xiao Shi mused.

Once he forcibly visualized an existence in the Martial Dao Ninth Realm, the entire Dream World would be unable to bear it and would instantly collapse.

Fortunately, although the Dream World had collapsed, the collapsing fragments all merged into Xiao Shi's heart, which then greatly enhanced his Dream Witch Lineage abilities.

Xiao Shi believed that with his current dream abilities, even a demigod would not be able to directly escape the dream.

Instead, they would have to defeat the enemies within the dream to escape.

However, Xiao Shi was currently unable to visualize a powerhouse capable of fighting a demigod.

The demigods he visualized in the Dream World were clearly not strong enough to contend with normal demigods.

And if he were to visualize Martial Ancestor... it would directly exceed the Dream World's capacity, causing the Dream World to collapse.

Therefore, the current dream abilities still couldn't threaten demigods.

However, it was already enough for him to kill all Dao Masters!

Now, with his departure from the dream, Xiao Shi also saw a statue not far away.

However, to his surprise... the statue he saw was actually a sleeping beast statue!

It had a long trunk and tusks, resembled a bear, with a cow's tail and tiger's feet.

This reminded Xiao Shi of a mythical beast from legends: the Baku!

This beast statue, suspected to be a Baku, lay on the ground, deep in slumber.

As Xiao Shi gazed at it, he noticed that above the head of this Baku beast statue, there was a scene that only he could see.

This scene seemed to be a special era!

An era existing within the Baku's dream.

Clearly, the Dream Witch Lineage, like the previous Evil Ghost and Mountain God Lineages, was a special system formed with an era as its foundation!

This made Xiao Shi full of anticipation for the final Crimson Tiger Lineage.

After all, the Crimson Tiger Lineage held a completely different significance for him compared to the other three lineages.

He had only gained the abilities of the other three lineages after obtaining their hearts and gaining control of the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect.

But the Crimson Tiger Lineage was the foundation he had cultivated earliest.

At the same time, Xiao Shi was also eager to know... what kind of improvement the Crimson Tiger Lineage would bring him!

Soon, Xiao Shi left the area of the Dream Witch Lineage and arrived at the next area.

What appeared before him now was a world of blood-red.

Both the sky and the earth here were entirely crimson.

And the moment Xiao Shi entered here, the aura on his body instantly became active, faintly resonating with this blood-red world.

This resonance emanated from his body, echoing throughout this world, and at the same time, this world also emitted responding fluctuations, intertwining and colliding, after which an even more astonishing fluctuation suddenly surged.

Xiao Shi's eyes gleamed with wonder, clearly feeling that his entry here was vastly different from entering the previous three areas.

He tried to activate the power of the Crimson Tiger Lineage here.

Rumble!

The entire world suddenly let out a deafening roar, and at the moment this sound spread, Xiao Shi's Crimson Tiger power resonated even more strongly with this world, the sound grew louder, as if the entire world was roaring.

This roar was filled with excitement and anticipation!

As a result, the entire world emitted dazzling red light.

These lights flashed rapidly, constantly connecting to form streaks of blood-red lightning, moving through this area.

The lightning grew faster and faster, the sound grew louder and louder, as if a force of life, after too many years of slumber, was trying to struggle out of death, using this moment of resonance!!

Boom boom boom!!

Heaven and earth shook, lightning surged!

It quickly reached an unprecedented peak.

The entire world, at this moment, seemed to have completely awakened.

The light was dazzling, no longer flickering, but thoroughly connected, the entire world was resplendent with colors, and countless rays of light spread throughout this world.

Boom boom boom!

The deafening sound caused countless, incalculable bolts of lightning in this area to all rise at this moment, howling and sweeping towards Xiao Shi.

In the blink of an eye, these lightning bolts appeared before Xiao Shi, engulfing him, and at the same time, frantically drilled into his body through all his pores, continuously merging as if being poured into him.

Xiao Shi's body trembled, and he let out a tiger's roar towards the sky!

Under this mighty tiger's roar, even more lightning surged, and within this world, one crimson giant beast after another also gathered under Xiao Shi's tiger's roar.

These crimson giant beasts all maintained the same form as the Crimson Tiger.

However, they were not tigers.

Instead, they were other types of giant beasts.

Each of them had eyes filled with bloodlust and savagery.

Just like the evil ghosts Xiao Shi encountered in the Evil Ghost area.

But the difference was... these crimson giant beasts merely approached Xiao Shi and hadn't even had time to attack.

Their bodies suddenly exploded and shattered, transforming into blood-red lightning, which Xiao Shi absorbed into his body.

Each lightning bolt contained a fragmented, broken image, and when countless lightning bolts all drilled into Xiao Shi's body, it was equivalent to countless fragmented, broken images combining in Xiao Shi's mind, forming a complete image!

Within the image, Xiao Shi saw a majestic giant tiger, entirely crimson.

The entire majestic giant tiger held its head high, in a roaring posture.

And all around the majestic giant tiger, there were countless giant beasts.

These giant beasts were all crimson.

Among them, some even exuded the aura of a demigod.

However, even so, under the majestic giant tiger's roaring roar, all the surrounding giant beasts, regardless of their cultivation, all exploded and shattered, turning into blood-red lightning, which was sucked in by the majestic giant tiger's open mouth.

As a result, a huge blood-ball, interwoven with blood-red lightning, condensed and formed above the majestic giant tiger!

Crack!

The image shattered.

Xiao Shi thus realized that the era associated with the Crimson Tiger Lineage was an era dominated by beasts.

The beasts in this era were all crimson.

Therefore, this era could be called the Crimson Beast Era.

The scene he had just witnessed was probably the Crimson Tiger reaching the Martial Dao Ninth Realm and unifying the entire Crimson Beast Era.

And besides this scene Xiao Shi saw, a powerful killing move from the Crimson Tiger also appeared in his mind simultaneously!

This killing move was called Red Fiend!

It was the most powerful killing move of the Crimson Tiger, who unified the Crimson Beast Era.

It was not only applicable in the present but also had greater room for growth as Xiao Shi's cultivation improved.

"More accurately," he said, "this killing move is actually a demigod-level killing move!"

"Although Dao Masters can also use it, its power will be greatly reduced."

"Only upon reaching demigod status..."

"Can the strongest power of this killing move be unleashed!"

Xiao Shi's eyes were bright.

It was obvious that his gains in the Crimson Tiger Lineage were far greater than in the other three lineages.

After all, he had gained control of the other three lineages through the heart of the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect.

Only the Crimson Tiger Lineage was the foundation he had been cultivating since he embarked on the path of a martial artist.

He didn't even need to use the heart here; he directly gained immense improvement.

For him, it could be said that this was the easiest and also the most rewarding of the four areas!