168: Chapter 168 Believe in Reality

"Brother Xuan, you really are a good brother. I didn't misjudge you!"

Tang Zheng grinned and didn't hold back, taking the spirit Bead and absorbing the spirituality within it on the spot, adding attribute points according to Chu Xuan's instructions.

Chu Xuan put away the spirit Bead, which still had 400 spirituality value remaining, and smiled. "Now you should finally understand that I won't treat you poorly, right?"

"Mm-hmm." Tang Zheng nodded repeatedly. "I definitely believe in you."

"So next, no matter what I ask you to do, you must believe in me unconditionally, just like back in the dorm. Understand?" Chu Xuan emphasized.

"No problem!" Tang Zheng patted his chest in guarantee.

"Then next, I want you to help me make a trip to Tongcheng..." As he spoke, a taxi happened to pass by. Chu Xuan flagged it down and paid five thousand yuan on the spot.

"Master, take the cross-river bridge and bring him to Tongcheng. The faster, the better!"

After giving the driver the destination, Chu Xuan raised his phone and instructed, "Keep your shared location on. If anything happens, speak up immediately."

Tang Zheng made an 'OK' gesture.

He didn't understand Chu Xuan's purpose, but he had habitually stopped asking questions. Since asking would only result in being told that 'heavenly secrets cannot be revealed,' it was better not to ask at all.

Watching the location icon representing Tang Zheng on his phone quickly move away toward the nearest highway, Chu Xuan's gaze became heavy.

In the first dream, that mysterious person had said this sentence—

"I followed you the whole way. I thought you wanted to do something, but I didn't expect you were trying to escape... Why do you want to leave Haicheng?"

Clearly, it was the act of leaving Haicheng that caused him to be targeted by that mysterious person.

Inferring from Future Tang Zheng's description, only he was unable to leave Haicheng, but Chu Xuan still wanted to verify it again.

He would have Tang Zheng, who had also awakened his talent naturally, take the route toward the capital from the previous two dreams to see if the mysterious person would catch up to him.

Chu Xuan glanced at his phone. It was 4:40 AM, with 50 minutes left until the end of this dream extension. He certainly wouldn't waste this precious time and decided to try another trial and error.

Two minutes later, Chu Xuan also hailed a taxi, told the driver to drive aimlessly around Haicheng, and began spending spirituality value to add attribute points.

After reaching Rank LV.4, the attribute points required for each stat increase had also risen. Just as he had suspected, it now cost 4 points per increase.

Chu Xuan first spent 220 spirituality value to top off his current attribute points to the limit of 40. Then he added them one by one, raising his Strength, agility, and spirit to 33, and his stamina to 31.

Perhaps because he had rested for a day, his body had recovered slightly. As he increased his stats, he once again felt the refreshing sensation of his entire being being enhanced.

Continue!

Chu Xuan consumed another 400 spirituality value to replenish his attribute points to 40. To be cautious, he still added them one by one.

This time, he added 2 points each to Strength, agility, and spirit, and 4 points to stamina. In this way, all four attributes were balanced at 35 points.

However, this time there was no refreshing sensation to speak of.

Chu Xuan sat in the back seat, appearing calm on the surface, but his entire body was already drenched in sweat. He felt once again that he was faintly approaching his limit.

Chu Xuan could sense that his attributes should be able to increase by 1 more point, but with only 195 spirituality value remaining, he chose to save it for now.

He would wait until he earned more spirituality value to use it in conjunction with 'Li Guifen's Porridge'.

"My friend, congratulations. Your strength has significantly improved once again," the Phantom Demon's voice echoed eerily.

Chu Xuan's expression was indifferent. "I have already rehearsed the future in my dreams. With foresight, everything in reality will naturally go smoothly."

"But I find one thing quite strange. You sold so many good things directly at such a low price? And you even let Tang Zheng accept the erosion of a Pioneer. Isn't he your 'brother from another mother'?" the Phantom Demon asked with a laugh.

Chu Xuan knew the Phantom Demon might be doubting whether this was still a dream rather than reality. He immediately gave a cold laugh.

"In this life-or-death moment, those things aren't worth a damn. Quickly raising my Rank and increasing basic attributes is the only way!"

The Phantom Demon questioned, "Life-or-death moment?"

Chu Xuan said, "Qin Qing used her mental consciousness to communicate with me and told me to leave Haicheng immediately. You should have heard it, right?"

"Are you saying someone among the Night Watchers wants to kill you?"

"Exactly. I've wanted to leave this place for a long time, but to be safe, I planned to rehearse it in a dream first. At the same time, I wanted to make a killing from the Resurrection Society before leaving."

At this point, Chu Xuan paused slightly. "But unfortunately, something went wrong in the dream. It didn't go as planned, so I had to give up and try to leave Haicheng first. Sadly, Tang Zheng and I have long been watched. We can't leave Haicheng at all... because leaving the city means certain death!"

"So you're letting Tang Zheng leave the city now to draw attention? You sold out your good brother just like that?" The Phantom Demon's voice sounded quite surprised.

"Aren't good brothers meant to be sold out at critical moments?"

Chu Xuan sneered. "Otherwise, why do you think I let him absorb spirituality? Naturally, it was to give him a reassurance so he wouldn't hesitate to leave the city quickly and act as a shield for me."

"I never would have thought you could go this far. You weren't like this before."

Chu Xuan's expression was cold. "People change."

While speaking, Chu Xuan saw through the location display that Tang Zheng had already reached Xuzhou and was heading toward Tongcheng. He immediately looked up and said:

"Master, to the airport!"

His voice carried a hint of Heart Bewitchment power. The driver's mind echoed with this voice, completely ignoring Chu Xuan's 'talking to himself' just now, leaving him focused only on driving.

"So now, it really isn't a dream? My friend, you truly disappoint me..." The Phantom Demon's voice was still gentle, yet a faint sense of pressure had already enveloped his body.

Chu Xuan's eyes sharpened, immediately noticing something was wrong.

He recalled how in the first dream today, the Phantom Demon had released pressure like this after discovering his chat logs with Future Tang Zheng.

When he failed to immediately increase his Charm attribute, the Phantom Demon instantly guessed that he had already known through Future Tang Zheng that the Charm attribute was a trap.

In the second dream, the other party discovered through the chat logs that he was facing a life-or-death crisis, so it hadn't caused any trouble from beginning to end.

Now it was the third dream.

First, he hadn't let the Phantom Demon see the specific chat logs about the future with Future Tang Zheng like in the first dream.

Second, he had already let the other party know about the upcoming life-or-death crisis.

No matter what, the Phantom Demon had no reason to release pressure like this. Wasn't this just forcing him to increase his Charm attribute?

Normally, the Phantom Demon shouldn't do this. It should be playing the part of being afraid of him increasing his Charm attribute.

But there was one point different from the previous two dreams: in this third dream, the Phantom Demon already believed it was in reality!

Chu Xuan suddenly thought of a possibility.