Wandering Gods of Day and Night-Chapter 357 - 211 Dream Realm Heavenly God_4

"This move should work." Zhou Xuan was both a Tattoo Master and a storyteller, having walked through two Tangkou alone, only lacking the "Earth Child."

As for the "Earth Child" tattoo, Zhou Xuan not only mastered it but had just created it not long ago—

—In order to torment the Master of the Hall, Zhou Xuan had tattooed the "Paper Banner," symbolizing the Earth Child, onto his back.

And now, it could be put to use.

During the time Zhou Xuan closed his eyes to search for Li Chengfeng earlier, the situation had already changed from defense to offense.

Within the dreamscape conjured by Liu Shen, the torrential downpour from the skies was no longer just rain—it had transformed into intensely corrosive acid. When the raindrops hit the ground, one could hear sizzling sounds.

Zhao Wuya manipulated the wind to blow away the acid rain, but he accidentally let a few drops fall on his wrist, which corroded his skin, leaving four or five small pits.

"I don’t have a single scar on my skin, and now you’ve burned a few into me. Don’t let me catch you, otherwise, I’ll skin you alive."

Zhao Wuya cursed furiously, hopping in anger.

The acid rain poured harder and harder, and Zhao Wuya was clearly struggling to hold out.

Fortunately, Gu Ling had extraordinarily strong regenerative abilities. She reached with her right hand behind her back, tearing off the skin of half her back and throwing it into the sky.

"The decree of the Supreme—search and eradicate vile spirits—Golden Sword and Golden Armor—protect my divine form."

Gu Ling’s five-incense spell, the "Protective Divine Spell."

This spell enhanced Gu Ling’s ability to regenerate blood and flesh.

She recited it twice: the first cast targeted the piece of her skin she had thrown out, and the second was cast upon herself.

The torn skin, blessed by the Protective Divine Spell, absorbed the energy in midair and grew rapidly. In mere moments, it transformed into a dome-shaped flesh parasol.

The parasol spanned four to five meters, covering Zhou Xuan, Gu Ling, and Zhao Wuya, shielding them from the acid rain pouring down from above.

Meanwhile, the Protective Divine Spell applied to Gu Ling was swiftly repairing the damage to her body.

But she didn’t wait for her injuries to heal completely and continued tearing at her skin, digging into her flesh and tossing chunks toward the parasol, reinforcing it over and over again to block the acid rain.

"Young Master, I fear I won’t last much longer—crush the Bone Token and call the Painter for support."

"Summoning him would play right into Liu Shen’s hands. Watch me instead."

Zhou Xuan pulled out a sheet of human skin from his pocket.

Ever since Zhou Xuan mastered "Heavenly Gods Divination," he always carried two sheets of human skin the size of books with him.

"Ya Zi, unfold the human skin."

Zhao Wuya, raising his orchid-shaped fingers, grabbed the human skin with both hands.

"Why do you act so effeminate, lifting your fingers like orchids?"

"I find this thing disgusting. Hurry up, landlord!" Zhao Wuya replied, visibly uncomfortable due to his mysophobia.

"Hold steady."

Zhou Xuan mentally recalled the "Paper Banner" tattoo, then gripped the Bone Teeth and began swiftly puncturing the human skin.

With Zhou Xuan’s current Incense Fire Level, while he couldn’t control the Bone Teeth midair, his skill in wielding them had reached a point of mastery akin to moving an arm as he wished.

Even though the human skin was merely held aloft by Zhao Wuya without any firm support beneath, Zhou Xuan’s puncturing technique was so precise it never caused the skin to wobble, regardless of the force applied.

The design of the Paper Banner was simple, and as Zhou Xuan had already tattooed it once before, his Bone Teeth moved across the skin with lightning speed.

Just as Gu Ling’s body had turned mostly into white bone, Zhou Xuan completed the "Paper Banner" tattoo.

With the final puncture of the Bone Teeth,

Zhou Xuan saw an infant levitating in midair.

The baby had no nose, no eyes, and no ears—it was the Earth Child, an Alien Ghost that navigated the world through dreamscape perception.

This was the "Earth Child" apparition that Zhou Xuan witnessed.

"Fabricate the Dream Realm Heavenly God."

As soon as Zhou Xuan’s thoughts emerged, he used the Bone Teeth to slice open his right palm, sprinkling blood onto the "Paper Banner" tattoo etched on the human skin.

Buzz, buzz—

Zhou Xuan’s Nuoshen Blood dripped down, and the invisible "Bi Fang" mask at his waist emitted a "buzzing" noise, slowly floating upwards to hover above the face of the Earth Child.

Thump!

The mask suddenly slammed onto the Earth Child’s face.

In Zhou Xuan’s ears echoed the harrowing cries of an infant. Immediately after, the apparition of the "Earth Child" sat upright and looked toward the Bone Teeth.

Compelled by a divine will, the Bone Teeth flew two meters away and directly drilled into the infant’s brow.

The Bone Teeth pierced through the infant but didn’t stop—it carried the infant with immense force, ramming into Zhou Xuan’s body.

Thud!

The heavy collision embedded the infant into Zhou Xuan’s physique, causing him to stagger backward three steps, his body weakened, and kneel on one knee.

The Bone Teeth reversed direction and hovered steadily on Zhou Xuan’s shoulder.

The Earth Child apparition, the tattoo Bone Teeth, and the storyteller’s mask converged in that instant.

"Young Master?" Gu Ling, focused entirely on defending against Liu Shen’s acid rain dreamscape, hadn’t noticed what befell Zhou Xuan.

It wasn’t until the loud collision noise earlier that she turned to look. What she saw was Zhou Xuan kneeling with one knee on the ground, his expression distorted in agony.

"What happened to you?"

Gu Ling was about to express concern when suddenly she noticed Zhou Xuan raising his right hand and grasping the Bone Teeth.

Once Zhou Xuan gripped the Bone Teeth, he lifted his head—his gaze no longer carried human emotion, but instead radiated divinity.

In his eyes, there were no traces of human feelings.

Fear, joy, compassion, disgust, hatred—all the intricate and unique emotions of mankind were absent in Zhou Xuan’s stare.

"Kneeling is human; rising transforms you into a god?"

Gu Ling could hardly believe her eyes.

Zhou Xuan stood, gazing at the Bone Teeth in his hand, and gently blew on them.

A mountainous and overwhelming aura burst forth, pressing on Gu Ling and Zhao Wuya with the weight of a thousand iron bars. Even standing upright required monumental effort.

They weren’t the only ones struggling—

Zhou Xuan himself felt great difficulty too. An oppressive weight was exerted on every joint of his body.

Yet, the divine aura of the "Dream Realm Heavenly God" filled his spirit to bursting with boundless ease.

This coexistence of lightness and heaviness quietly intertwined within Zhou Xuan’s being.

Zhou Xuan tilted his head upward, his gaze landing on Gu Ling’s flesh parasol. With a slight lift of his brows, the parasol dissipated into nothingness.

As the parasol vanished, the acid rain poured down on the three of them once more.

"The Heavenly God says: In the dreamscape, there is light—thus, there was light." Zhou Xuan said softly.

His words transformed into commands within Liu Shen’s dreamscape.

The torrential rain abruptly halted, and the dark clouds dissipated. Where the specks of moonlight ought to have been, brilliant radiance now emanated.

The pitch-black night morphed into a blazing white day as if the fierce sun sat high above.

On the ground, countless serpents appeared.

The snakes gathered, swelling into a tidal wave of serpents, surging toward Zhou Xuan.

"Resist within the dreamscape?"

Zhou Xuan raised his gaze slightly, and the thousands of snakes instantly took flight, suspended in midair.

As fellow wielders of divine laws, Zhou Xuan, who now embodied the Dream Realm Heavenly God, surpassed Liu Shen in control over the laws.

With the laws in his favor, only one rule governed this dreamscape—the Dream Law conjured by Zhou Xuan.

With a casual sweep of his hand, the suspended snake tide compressed inward toward its center.

The immense pressure forced the snakes to grind against one another, their scales scraped violently under the stress.

Eventually,

The thousands of serpents merged into one humanoid figure—a kneeling man.

"You... you... I know who you are. You’re..." Liu Shen gasped, incredulous.

Though he knew Zhou Xuan wasn’t truly a god, and acknowledged himself as a defeated Evil God in the battle of laws,

He couldn’t shake the shock of witnessing Zhou Xuan’s semblance to "that person."

That person—

From three hundred years ago—

Beneath the peach blossom tree of Mingjiang Prefecture—"that person."

"Born within the dreamscape, then returned to the dreamscape."

Zhou Xuan didn’t know why he uttered those words, but driven by the essence of the Dream Realm Heavenly God, he simply spoke them aloud.

In this moment, Zhou Xuan’s consciousness was a small fraction his own, while the majority stemmed from the Dream Realm Heavenly God.

Zhou Xuan waved his hand lightly, and the Bone Teeth hovering above his shoulder shot forth toward Liu Shen’s brow.

Liu Shen was pierced, and his body, composed of countless serpents, dissolved into droplets of blood that scattered and faded.

The "Paper Banner" tattoo signifying the Earth Child suddenly developed numerous cracks before shattering completely.

The divine consciousness within Zhou Xuan rapidly dissipated. Before it vanished entirely, Zhou Xuan gestured toward Zhao Wuya.

Zhao Wuya’s Daoist robe detached itself automatically and draped over Gu Ling’s body.

Gu Ling’s outfit had become tattered and disarrayed due to casting the Protective Divine Spell, and as a young woman, her dilapidated appearance was hardly ideal.

"Young Master is so gentle," Gu Ling remarked sincerely, gazing at the Daoist robe now covering her.

"I... wouldn’t say that." Zhao Wuya, now bare-chested, crossed his arms to hug himself, shivering as he spoke.

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