When Lu Jun previously created the Super-tier Spell Peach Blossom Spring, he had encountered a bottleneck.
After all, shaping vivid, lifelike illusory characters was extremely difficult. Without the ability to multitask hundreds of thoughts at once, and without sufficient spiritual power and experience, it was impossible.
Later, when Lu Jun cultivated the Death Element to the Mid Tier and obtained Soul Summoning, Peach Blossom Spring immediately found its breakthrough. He could directly enlighten ghosts or living corpses to serve as the "villagers" of the Peach Blossom Spring, making things far more convenient.
The advantage was that its lethality skyrocketed. The drawback was that it required prior setup with the Undead Element, and the dream's operation became somewhat rigid.
Lu Jun had arrived at this northern settlement in advance and had already cast True Dream, constructing a trap. He had also used High Tier Soul Capture to put the herders into slumber.
To his surprise, Soul Capture: Mortal World and True Dream: Peach Blossom Spring could link together perfectly.
All the sleeping herders' spiritual consciousness entered the dream, possessing one corpse or ghost after another.
They were completely unaware, believing everything to be normal. Reflected in True Dream, the sky was blue, the clouds white, the grasslands vast, NPCs moved intelligently and the spiritual power generated by their dreaming souls would in turn reinforce True Dream.
Not only did this greatly reduce Lu Jun's consumption in maintaining the Super-tier, it also amplified the power of True Dream tenfold or even a hundredfold. Thus it was said to be "formed through the unified will of all living beings."
When Leng Jue and his group stepped into the area enveloped by True Dream, they fell into this half-real, half-illusory world.
With Lu Jun's Eighth-Level Spiritual Realm as the core, layered with the combined spiritual power of thousands, unless the Black Vatican members possessed spiritual strength at the peak of the Ninth Level, they simply could not break through it.
Everything they saw was illusion. Any destruction they caused only affected True Dream, causing no harm to reality.
At the same time, the more Leng Jue conversed with the villagers inside Peach Blossom Spring, the more he was influenced by the power of Soul Captivation: Mortal World, his subconscious gradually altered as he sank deeper and deeper.
If the enemy attempted to shatter the dream by force, True Dream would undergo a mutation, degenerating into Dark Peach Blossom Spring.
All the villagers' consciousness would sink into slumber, murderous intent of vengeful ghosts surfacing. The enemy's own personality, tainted by demonic shadows, would erupt, suppressing their cultivation until they were no different from ordinary mortals.
"It's not ghosts possessing humans, but humans possessing ghosts."
After understanding True Dream's effects, Lu Jun could not help but feel a chill.
If those "villagers" were slaughtered, their consciousness would be further stimulated, generating a power akin to evil faith. Killing intent, resentment, and malice would flood into True Dream, elevating its might yet another level.
It could be said that once he cast True Dream, trapped enemies could neither resolve it peacefully nor break it with violence.
Lu Jun felt that his Psychic Element Super-tier was somewhat sinister. Unlike the straightforward brutality of other elements' Super-tier Spells, it was an entirely different style.
However, he recalled the Sea Demon Empire's prophet Magic Trench Demon Ghost in the original story. Its psychic ability devoured a person's soul and memories to replace them. During its mental clash with Ding Yumian, the scene had been mind-bending and incomprehensible, equally bizarre and uncanny.
"If my True Dream were to envelop an entire city, wouldn't it create an eternal dream world, like a black hole devouring all travelers who approach? The bodies of all citizens I could sustain with the Life Element—a brain in a vat?!"
His imagination suddenly ran wild, and he took a deep breath.
"Ahhh!"
At that moment, Leng Jue's faint screams echoed through the tranquil settlement.
Lu Jun refocused, standing in the center of the village. Inside the surrounding yurts, all the villagers lay asleep within the dream, their snores rising and falling.
He gazed ahead. A hazy, violent figure flickered into view—green-faced with fangs, ghostly masks covering its body, like a towering Evil God. It floated in agony midair, as if invisible vengeful spirits were attacking it.
Leng Jue was too powerful. His true form even broke through the boundary between illusion and reality, faintly manifesting.
Even so, under the torment of Dark Peach Blossom Spring, his aura steadily declined, nearing death.
Rip—
Each time the sound of flesh tearing echoed through the void, one ghostly mask would fall from the Evil God's body. The mask would shatter into a strand of crimson soul, dissipating within True Dream and releasing a surge of evil faith power.
In just a few minutes, Evil God Leng Jue was left drenched in blood, reduced to a skeleton, incomparably weak as his power collapsed.
Crash!
Meanwhile, Lu Jun closed his eyes, sensing within his spiritual world the Psychic Element Star Ocean surging like a rising tide. The Li Fan Flower Imprint absorbed vast quantities of evil faith. All thirty-six petals bloomed one by one, half holy and half wicked.
The evil faith Leng Jue had painstakingly gathered ultimately served another, for the Li Fan Flower Faith Imprint accepted all without discrimination.
Boom!
One must not forget that Lu Jun's prior battles had made his name resound worldwide. People across the globe continuously provided faith power.
Now, his Imaginary Force was filled to the brim. The second barrier of his Psychic Element Star Ocean cracked loudly. At the moment the lotus fully bloomed, a thunderous roar resounded, the heavenly wall shattered, and the Psychic Element advanced to Super-tier Second Level!
The azure Star Ocean expanded, swelling to more than twice its former size.
Under the pitch-black cosmos, the azure Star Ocean and the black-red Star Ocean firmly occupied the center, while the Metal Element and Water Element Star Oceans lay on either side.
"Not bad. Curse and Psychic Elements have both reached Super-tier Second Level."
Lu Jun suddenly opened his eyes. Rosy radiance shimmered within his pupils, brewing a terrifying power that seized the soul. His transcendent abilities, Nether Gaze and Fantasy Pupil rose alongside his cultivation.
The Curse and Psychic Elements had been the first to advance to the Super Tier. Their foundations were solid; gaining an opportunity to break through to the second level ahead of the others was only natural.
He sensed the Li Fan Flower Imprint filling the Psychic Star Ocean and revealed a faint smile. Imaginary Force was omnipotent—this gave him far greater confidence in cursing Nine Infant.
Before that, Lu Jun looked toward the desiccated corpse imprisoned within the dream and willed it so.
Leng Jue's soul was extracted from within, twisting in terror in the void. Upon seeing him, it cursed loudly, "So it really was you, Lu Jun, behind this!"
Lu Jun remained expressionless. Above Leng Jue's soul, a Netherworld rift opened, cold winds howling as it swallowed him whole. He said quietly, "Spend the rest of your days enjoying torment in hell."
Immediately afterward, he dispelled True Dream.
The hazy veil shrouding the region gradually receded.
The instant Lu Jun ended the spell, the snoring within the hundreds of yurts across the settlement ceased. Thousands of people awoke groggily from their dreams, then walked out to resume their activities, utterly unaware.
Not a single person realized how terrifying it was that they had all fallen asleep together in broad daylight.
Lu Jun picked up Leng Jue's corpse, only the head remaining intact, to serve as proof of slaying a Red Cardinal, and prepared to depart.
Suddenly, he caught sight of a chaotic, misty triangular prism floating above the Qiqige statue and reached out to touch it.
The next instant, however, Lu Jun heard an earth-shattering snort, like the splitting of heaven and earth, deafening to the ears!
His body froze in place, his expression changing drastically. The triangular Chaos Mirror shattered silently, and a pillar of light shot straight into the heavens.
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