The Ji God in the white sedan fell into the pile of bones. It didn’t expect the divine palace to become corporeal. It was ambushed, but ultimately, it was still a Ji God. Incomprehensible singing came from the sedan. The white bones emitted a horrid stench. The sedan curtains were pulled back. An arm covered in burial sutra reached out. The fingers pointed at the sky, the ground and lastly, at Zhang Mingli’s heart.
Zhang Mingli, whose body was stitched together, instantly sensed something. The points of connection of his body became extremely itchy. Black meat burst out. Smelly blood oozed out of his eyes and lips.
“What a demon. If you’re not vanquished, how can one become a divine immortal?” Zhang Mingli stood on the moral high point, but his actions brought shame. He reached down into the mirror. It looked like he merely washed his hands, but in reality, he transferred the tragedy on his body through the mirror to his followers in the temple. They might not be there to share in the blessing, but they would be there to shoulder his pain.
Gao Ming saw the followers collapse from Ji God’s power. They suffered immensely as their wounds festered and burst with pus. To Gao Ming’s shock, most cultivators gritted their teeth and accepted the suffering. They took on the pain that was meant for Zhang Mingli and willingly surrendered their power. They gave up everything for that empty hope. Without this hope, they would slowly fade away in Dream Break Town. However, the appearance of the nine-story Soul Temple offered them hope. It gave them a different choice. It was simple. Since they saw the beauty of the alternative path, the villagers gave up everything to be closer to it.
Gao Ming had this complicated feeling.
For a moment, the followers in the mirror looked just like the death portraits in his nightmare. Both parties surrendered their lives to chase after something always out of their reach. Gao Ming suddenly empathised with the cultivators. He placed his hand lightly on his heart. He listened to his heartbeat and the voices in his ears.
“I know why you hold onto me so hard. You also treat me as your only hope. It is why you’re summoning me so madly.” Once he stopped resisting the voices in his heart, Gao Ming’s ears were instantly flooded. He was dropped into a theme park where every visitor held a mental patient’s brain. The twisted faces tried their best to smile amidst the despair.
“Open the hidden room in your heart, and your past will return. Are you ready to abandon everything?”
“The truth might be the source of pain. Trust me. Do not open that room.”
As the divine palace owner mobilised the power of the temple to stimulate faith among his believers, the room in Gao Ming’s heart kept expanding. More things tried to escape and flee from the nightmare. The Blood City tattoo activated on its own. It was using the power of faith to transmute something. Gao Ming had no power to intervene. To stop the Blood City tattoo, the only way was probably to destroy the Soul Temple and make the source of faith disappear.
The deer’s fur turned black. It stomped on the ground to cover more burnt paper on its body. Only it felt the changes to Gao Ming on the eighth floor.
Thunder rolled. The twelve side doors of the divine palace opened. Coiling dragon pillars rose up from the ground. Thunder, wind, the sun and the moon gathered above Zhang Mingli’s head. His simple clothes swayed like the divine waterfull. He stepped on the mirror and crazily fed on the faith of the disciples.
“Haha! With my one thought, the sun shines on the world! Evil creatures that bring tragedy to the world, all of you deserve to die!”
The cultivators bled from seven orifices. Their black hair turned white. The buildings in the divine palace became more palpable to hold up the heavenly gate.
“Everyone, the nine-story Soul Temple is not easy to take down. Why don’t we work together and kill it first before we decide the winner among ourselves?”
“Agreed.” Content orıginally comes from 𝗇𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗅•𝖿𝗂𝗋𝖾•𝗇𝖾𝗍
After the three Ji Gods, Dream Break Town’s Yong Gods moved to the east of the floor.
The yellow soil transformed into a human spine. The rocks formed the skeletal frame, and the coursing river became the blood capillaries. The beasts and bugs became the ears, and the tall trees were his hair. Yong Gods became acupoints. They normally maintained the running of Dream Break Town. They easily turned everything on the eighth floor into a giant God that could touch the divine palace.
The divine glow shone brightly. Golden swords pierced the divine ghosts. However, they didn’t give up. They worked together and attacked at the same time.
The white bone stairs, the big grave, the black mist and the giant God grabbed the divine palace from all four nautical directions. The glazed tiles crumbled. The divine palace tipped to the side.
“Evil shall never prevail. Your divine stands here today and refuses to budge. I will bring a new dawn to everyone who lives in the nightmare!” The galaxy was branded on his robe. Zhang Mingli controlled the divine palace. When he closed his palms, the divine palace trapped all the divine ghosts. “It’s time to wake up!”
Using all the disciples as a connection, Zhang Mingli temporarily trapped the divine ghosts and attached them to the heavenly gate at the centre of the divine palace. “I have predicted your plan! All of your actions are within my calculation! Greed, selfishness, viciousness. I knew this would happen. I’ve seen the ending. Don’t you want to enter my divine palace? Come!
“I’ve prepared this heavenly gate for you! Dear friends, it’s time to wake up and flee from this endless nightmare!” Zhang Mingli’s face was deformed from excitement. Some of the cultivators had already perished, but he didn’t care. “The heavenly gate is behind me! Once the gate is open, all the illusions will fade away! Everything you wish for is behind the gate!”
After all the divine ghosts were connected to the heavenly gate, the power of their faith gathered on the gate. Their strength was temporarily borrowed by Zhang Mingli. This could only last for a short period of time, but it was more than enough.
“Sacrificing everyone to enslave the divine ghosts for a few seconds. It is definitely worth it!”
Zhang Mingli’s eyes burned as he looked at the heavenly gate. The power of faith reached its maximum. The heavenly gate that shouldn’t be there stood firmly.
Zhang Mingli moved towards the heavenly gate and stopped before it.
At the same time, Gao Ming’s consciousness kept sinking. He landed before a door deep inside his heart.
The big lock was covered in cracks and infiltrated by the Blood City pattern. With a slight push, the door would open.