77: Return, can dreams also change history?

Everything happened too quickly for Li Yan's cultivation, making it impossible for him to clearly see their movements.

He only felt the Sect Leader of Demon Shadow Sect vanish into thin air, leaving a bloody severed arm on the ground.

In the severed arm's hand, the blood glass treasure lotus lantern Li Yan had been longing for was still clutched.

He raised his hand, drawing the blood-stained blood glass treasure lotus lantern to him, and examined it closely.

It was almost identical to the replica treasure lotus lamp.

However, the feeling of holding it was completely different from the replica.

Weighing it in his hand, Li Yan's lips curved upward.

"Not bad, it's also excellent."

As Li Yan looked up, several lines of text appeared before his eyes.

[The Host has altered the illusion's history. In the battle of the Demon Shadow Sect, the Moonlit Sword Immortal achieved a complete victory, successfully preventing the awakening of the Ancient God. The Sect Leader of Demon Shadow Sect fled, his whereabouts unknown.]

[The illusion's owner's wish has been fulfilled. Beginning to exit the illusion now.]

This?

Seeing his body begin to blur, the first thing Li Yan thought of was—the Storage Ring on the severed arm's finger.

With the blood glass treasure lotus lantern in his left hand, he removed the Sect Leader of Demon Shadow Sect's Storage Ring with his right.

Li Yan's figure gradually dissipated, becoming indistinct.

Seeing Li Yan disappear, the Moonlit Sword Immortal was a little flustered.

"Senior, are you leaving already?"

Li Yan raised an eyebrow, a playful smile on his face.

"What, you don't want me to leave?"

The Onyx Moon Fairy hesitated, covering her heart, and spoke her confusion.

"Junior feels like I've been dreaming lately. I dreamed that for tens of thousands of years, this young lady was trapped in the same day."

"Until Senior you appeared…"

In the Onyx Moon Fairy's subconscious, she had been trapped in this dream for tens of thousands of years.

Every day, she repeated the battle of the Demon Shadow Sect. She repeated it countless times, experiencing the battle of the Demon Shadow Sect tens of thousands of times.

Each time, she failed to stop the Sect Leader of Demon Shadow Sect from releasing the Ancient God.

And the Ancient God's arrival drained the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, leading to the end of the Immortal Law Era and the advent of the Dharma Ending Age.

She repeated and repeated, until today, the dream seemed to have awakened?

But before she could bid farewell to the Senior, Li Yan's body completely vanished into thin air.

The Onyx Moon Fairy's eyes, filled with sorrow, watched the place where Li Yan disappeared.

"Can we meet again, Senior?"

…

…

Li Yan, holding the true blood glass treasure lotus lantern, woke up from the illusion.

When he regained consciousness, he first confirmed the gains from this trip.

He sighed inwardly.

"The true blood glass treasure lotus lantern! I really brought it out of the illusion!"

"And this Storage Ring, it must be where the Sect Leader of Demon Shadow Sect stored his treasures."

His Divine Sense probed into the Storage Ring, and Li Yan was surprised to find that it was filled with a large amount of Spirit Stone!

Spirit Stone, which had disappeared in the Dharma Ending Age.

He had brought a large handful of them out of the illusion!

These Spirit Stone would at least allow Li Yan to spend lavishly for a long time; he wouldn't lack Spirit Stone in the short term.

There were also various miscellaneous items, all Magical Artifact refined by the Sect Leader of Demon Shadow Sect, or books he had collected.

Just the items in this one Storage Ring, if any were casually taken out, they could cause a stir.

Looking at this ring, Li Yan sighed: "The Sect Leader of Demon Shadow Sect had an even more precious storage necklace hanging over his heart, but unfortunately, I couldn't get it."

Although he got the ring, it was indeed good.

But who would dislike having more resources? The more, the better.

At the same time, there was also the Moon Rainbow Sword, and the Moon Essence Stance he gained an Epiphany from the Moonlit Sword Immortal.

And the Ember Immortal's unique skill, Ashes Extinction Slash, he also learned to the introductory level.

This trip to the illusion yielded all rare ancient immortal arts that simply cannot be learned outside.

Just as Li Yan felt satisfied with the gains from this trip.

He suddenly remembered something.

"Hmm?"

"That's strange…"

He looked at the Onyx Moon Fairy's location in reality.

He saw that the white-haired Corpse Puppet that had been kneeling before the tombstone was gone.

Not only was the Onyx Moon Fairy's corpse gone, but the tombstone was also gone.

Seeing this, Li Yan felt a sense of strangeness, and he asked the Corpse Puppet Su Mo beside him.

"Su Mo, where did that white-haired corpse that was here just now go?"

Corpse Puppet Su Mo showed a confused expression and slowly spoke.

"Master, what corpse? Was there one?"

What's going on?

The Moonlit Sword Immortal's corpse was gone, and the tombstone was gone.

As Li Yan fell into confusion, the residual soul of the Ember Immortal in the Magic Eye hanging on his waist, her inner voice echoed in Li Yan's mind.

[This kid suddenly stood there in a daze, talking about some corpse?]

[He hasn't fallen prey to evil and started hallucinating, has he?]

[Strange? When did this kid get a ring on his hand? Isn't that the Storage Ring of the Sect Leader of Demon Shadow Sect?]

The Ember Immortal in the Magic Eye was curious as to when and where Li Yan had seen the ring of the Sect Leader of Demon Shadow Sect?

And through the Ember Immortal's inner voice, a bold conjecture emerged in Li Yan's mind.

Could it be that!

He changed the dream, and the side effect of the System becoming official indirectly changed the history of that year?

The Moonlit Sword Immortal didn't die?

She didn't die inside the Ancient Tomb?

Can dreams change reality… Is it really possible?

Although there were too many questions in his heart, he carefully sensed the Spiritual Qi in the air.

Very little, very thin.

This indicates that reality has not changed; it is still the Dharma Ending Age, with Spiritual Qi declining.

Then that's strange, reality hasn't been changed.

Only the Moonlit Sword Immortal's corpse disappeared; everything else remained the same.

Li Yan stroked his chin, muttering to himself: "But the disappearance of the corpse, does it mean that I, through the illusion, changed some history?"

"Never mind, the corpse is gone, finding the Onyx Moon Fairy is like searching for a needle in a haystack."

He shook his head, shaking off the distracting thoughts in his mind.

What kind of connection could a Fairy from tens of thousands of years ago have with him?

He decided not to think about the things in the illusion anymore and continued to explore the Ancient Tomb to find more treasures!

Preferably, he could pick up some half-dead Blood Corpses, enter the illusion through them, and return to tens of thousands of years ago.

But just as Li Yan took his first step, several lines of text on the wall instantly caught his eye.

"What is this?"

Li Yan focused his gaze; the stone wall seemed to have words carved into it with a sword.

The characters were beautiful, written in ancient immortal script.

Li Yan couldn't understand it, but the Ember Immortal in the Magic Eye read it out through her inner voice.

[Thanks to my esteemed Master's teachings, I am ashamed that this disciple is incompetent and no match for the Bloodline Emperor Lord. If Master descends to the mortal realm, I hope you will collect my remains. —Left by Onyx Moon Fairy.]

"Hmm?"

Li Yan's heart trembled; he never thought that changing the dream would indirectly change the history of that year.

Although it only changed a small part…

But in the end, the Onyx Moon Fairy still died in the Ancient Tomb.

And carved such a message for herself on the wall.

If he found the Onyx Moon Fairy's remains, and could enter the illusion one more time, could he change history and prevent the Dharma Ending Age from descending?

Although for a Golden Core Stage Cultivator like him to teach a Mahayana to slay a god, it was somewhat overestimating his own abilities.

But if he could get treasures from the illusion, what if he failed?

"Hmm… Let's see if I can find the Onyx Moon Fairy's remains."

"But before that, I need to deal with a few little rats first."

Li Yan noticed something; several Blood Core Realm Cultivators had set their sights on him.

It was a good opportunity to try out his newly learned Immortal Grade Cultivation Technique on them.