440: A survival trial under the rules of the fog! A mandatory mission!

“Hurry, as per the decree! Ma li ma li hong!”

Liu Ming's heart sank upon seeing this. He quickly formed a hand seal and chanted an incantation.

In an instant.

Beams of light swept across the entire basement.

Su Lie, who was standing beside Liu Ming, was terrified, his heart pounding wildly.

Fortunately, the Invisibility Rule applied to everything.

Liu Ming performed his ritual for ten minutes. Seeing that the place was now completely empty, he let out a long sigh: “What a pity! Such good materials actually disappeared...”

Having said this.

He immediately became interested again: “Humans... I have researched them enough! This Demon King, however, is excellent material!”

As he spoke.

His palm slowly opened.

Inside his palm was a bubble.

Curled up inside the bubble was a person.

This person was none other than.

Xiu, one of the two or three major directors of the Cross Star Black Market.

This was a Demon King possessing the power of a Third-Turn Professional Survivor.

He was sleeping soundly.

Liu Ming muttered softly to himself: “Although this guy is quite a bit stronger than that Liu Xiu, he really is a pig! He couldn't even compare to that kid. I only used a slight spell, yet he so easily fell into the dream I wove!”

“Hahaha!”

He observed for a moment, then raised his hand and pointed: “The ritual begins again! A new experiment... Hahaha!...”

Crack!

A large hole slowly cracked open in the floor of the secret room nearby.

A woman's body, sealed by light, was slowly lifted into the air by a ray of seven-colored light.

Liu Ming lightly tapped.

Xiu directly merged into the woman's belly.

In just the blink of an eye.

The woman looked like a pregnant woman who was nine months along and about to give birth.

Su Lie watched, marveling, and suddenly realized a question: “Is this how I woke up?”

He followed Liu Ming out of the area.

After Liu Ming arrived outside, he placed his puppet woman on the bed in the bedroom.

Just as he was preparing to wake the woman to start the act.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The door knocked three times.

“Who is it?”

Su Lie froze and turned his head to look.

Liu Ming, however, said softly: “Come in!”

Creak!

A pair of small, scaly hands pushed open the door.

When Su Lie saw the person entering, his heart trembled: “Qiqi!”

That's right!

Entering the door was a small dragonkin covered in white scales.

Her face was Qiqi's face.

While he was immersed in the dream, this girl played the role of his younger sister.

Their relationship had always been good!

Su Lie was shocked by Qiqi's appearance before him: “Is Qiqi Liu Ming's pet?”

After entering, Qiqi immediately prostrated herself on the ground and said respectfully: “Master! Young Master Liu Xiu entered your study and never came out again! We couldn't find a single trace of him in other areas of the dream; it's as if he vanished into thin air!”

“I know! Perhaps some restriction in the study triggered certain of the rules inside his body, causing him to be directly teleported out of here!”

Liu Ming said carelessly: “Anyway, this isn't an isolated incident! Besides, the only thing left to research regarding Liu Xiu was his soul! This step... forget it! It's not your fault; you are not to blame!”

“This time, I captured a Demon Race member who possesses the demon king bloodline!”

“It also carries some strange curses and Mental Viruses!”

“You are to arrange the dream according to the 37th plan I wrote! Remember, you must assign a puppet to look after and guard him 24 hours a day!”

...After giving his instructions.

Only then did Liu Ming wake the woman. Qiqi's scales flashed slightly, and she transformed into a Demon Race appearance, even sprouting a pair of purple demon horns on her head.

Before long.

Wah! Wah! Wah!

Xiu woke up like a baby, opening his mouth and crying.

Immediately afterward.

Xiu looked around intelligently.

At this moment, Su Lie heard Xiu's voice: “Where is this? Is it that mysterious place in the Black Abyss?”

“Be good!...”

Then, Liu Ming held Xiu's hand.

Under his soft whispers.

Xiu actually closed his eyes and fell soundly asleep.

Seeing this, Su Lie realized that he had entered in the same way as Xiu: “Liu Ming's power truly is formidable!”

This made him unable to resist the urge to use his Divine Thief Talent.

But to his surprise, he found he was completely ineffective.

“The Talent doesn't work? Is it because I'm in a dream?”

Su Lie frowned.

He couldn't quite figure out what this dream realm actually was.

What was certain was.

This was definitely not his own dream.

“Forget it! I'll go look at the thing in the secret room that can allow me to escape first!”

Su Lie sighed inwardly.

He observed Liu Ming for a while longer.

He found that this guy was observing Xiu and Xiu's internal mental activity without moving an inch.

When Xiu's dream manifested as a black bubble.

Liu Ming once again formed a hand seal and cast a spell.

Xiu's dream was silently pierced.

Countless black particles drifted in the space.

This space, familiar to Su Lie, instantly transformed into a different appearance.

An Obsidian Palace!

Cold and filled with demonic energy.

“What a skillful method!”

Su Lie sighed softly.

He realized he was still in a dream realm.

And it was an aggregate of dreams.

But his body was not a Spirit body; it was a physical body.

Otherwise, Liu Ming would not have been able to conduct experiments on him.

This certainly made Su Lie marvel!

Afterward.

Su Lie left the palace and found Liu Ming's study.

Although the place had become extremely luxurious and cold.

All the arrangements were exactly the same as before.

After Su Lie entered the secret room again, he first went to the area indicated by his Exploration Talent.

Click!

After he opened the mechanism.

The tool wall in front of him transformed like a mirage into a transparent light screen.

Outside the light screen was a desolate, dark ruin.

At the end of the ruins stood a huge memorial archway.

Written on the archway were seven majestic, flowing characters—"Great Dream Illusion Heaven Governor's Residence."

Standing here.

Su Lie felt power, but this power was separated from him by a membrane.

“Is this the barrier of the dream realm?”

He whispered softly.

Just as he reached out to touch the light membrane.

Buzz!

Seven-colored light burst forth from the membrane, and a key fell into Su Lie's hand.

“What is this?”

Su Lie's eyelid twitched: “A key to leave this place? But the exit... the exit is inside the cave where Liu Ming cultivated...”

Thinking of this.

Su Lie became excited.

He instinctively wanted to put the key into his storage equipment.

The next second.

His face darkened: “Damn it! My ruyi pouch!”

His storage equipment had long been taken away, and he didn't know where Liu Ming had hidden it.

Now, without the help of the mist rule's power, he couldn't find his equipment at all.

Thinking of this.

He gripped the key and muttered softly: “Damn you, Liu Ming! You are dead!”

Mumbling.

Su Lie closed the mechanism and left the secret room.

He searched around the dream palace.

He found that after the place transformed into a Demon Realm palace, the surrounding scenery had also undergone tremendous changes.

Forget mountains.

There wasn't even a single patch of forest.

“I can only stick close to Liu Ming!”

Su Lie sighed.

He found Liu Ming again, becoming a shadow wandering the dream world.

Liu Ming carefully nursed the baby-like Xiu, constantly preparing various medicines for Xiu to consume.

Under the effect of these medicines, Xiu completely lost his sense of self.

One day, Liu Ming, who was grinding herbs in the study, suddenly paused, realizing his medicine had run out.

“Qiqi! I need to go out and collect herbs! Watch this kid carefully, remember to give him the Total Heart Powder every day, and increase the psychological suggestion on him!”

Liu Ming summoned Qiqi and gave her some instructions.

Only then did he get up and walk toward the palace treasury.

Su Lie still followed Liu Ming closely.

When Liu Ming arrived at the treasury and opened the mechanism.

Su Lie saw a door leading to the outside world.

He felt power return once more: “Three years! I waited three whole years for this chance! Damn you, Liu Ming! I CNMLGB!”

Splash!

Liu Ming passed through the elemental curtain, which felt like entering water.

When Su Lie walked toward the curtain.

He was blocked outside.

When he took out the key.

A ripple flashed across the curtain.

He easily walked out.

This was exactly the same as what he had seen before.

The entrance to the dream realm behind him was actually the left eyeball of a baku sculpture.

The sculpture was about ten meters high, and the baku was seated.

Its right eyeball had been destroyed, leaving a hollow socket.

Only the left eyeball, covered in dense cracks, still emitted a faint light.

Meanwhile, Liu Ming was already walking toward the depths of the ruined site.

At this moment.

Su Lie felt his power return.

The return of his Talent, Skill, profession, and divine abilities.

Also allowed him to clearly perceive Liu Ming's movements, and even in the direction Liu Ming was heading, there was a dense elemental fluctuation.

At the same time.

Su Lie saw a mission prompt from the mist rule.

[Buzz!]

[Congratulations on successfully triggering the Survivor Trial!]

[Trial Requirement: Destroy the Great Dream Illusion Heaven OR feed the heavenly dao fruit to the baku Qiqi and kill Liu Ming.]

[Trial Duration: 10 years in the Great Dream Illusion Heaven!]

[Basic Reward: Entering Dream Talent;]

[Note: The time flow rate in the Great Dream Illusion Heaven is different from that of the Mist Main World. The time ratio is 1 year: 1 second;]

[Note: The Great Dream Illusion Heaven is an independent dream world. the rules within are different from the rules of the Mist World. All your divine abilities and Skills are ineffective in the dream world; only your Talent can be used in the dream world.]

[Note: The baku Qiqi is the last baku of the Great Dream Illusion Heaven. She controls the rule fragment of the ancient immortal race's dream realm. Therefore, some of your Talents in the dream realm may be weakened or rendered ineffective to varying degrees depending on Qiqi's mood.]

[Note: Liu Ming has completely succumbed to madness. Once he goes mad, he recognizes no kin, and may even actively destroy the Great Dream Illusion Heaven. If you do not leave when the Great Dream Illusion Heaven is destroyed, you will die along with it.]

[Note: The Great Dream Illusion Heaven only has one entrance and exit. To control it, you must first control the baku Qiqi.]

[Note: Please return to the Great Dream Illusion Heaven before Liu Ming enters it. Otherwise, once Liu Ming enters the Great Dream Illusion Heaven again, you will be unable to re-enter unless he goes outside once more.]

[Note: You may refuse this mission, but you will suffer punishment from the mist rule, randomly forgetting 3 Talents and 2 professional Skills, losing 50,000 years of Lifespan, and being demoted from a Second-Turn Professional to a Professional, permanently unable to undertake the Second Turn or Third Turn Trials.]

[Note: Please face your alignment! Survivors are Trial Takers cultivated by the mist rule alignment! You may refuse the mission, but you cannot betray the mist rule!]

[Note: Only when the mist rule is complete can you continue to grow stronger! Only then will you be qualified to protect what you must protect and walk the path you must walk!]