Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

The two found a relatively safe area to recover their strength and condition.

The real battle is about to begin.

Half an hour later, Lin Yi and Gulu, who had basically recovered, stepped into the central area.

The instant they crossed that invisible boundary—

hum! ! !
Lin Yi felt a strong wave of dizziness. He seemed to hear countless sharp hisses and crazy babbling in his ears. The world in front of him began to distort and spin, and all sorts of bizarre illusions tried to penetrate his mind.

[WARNING: The hunters are suffering from high-intensity mental pollution and consciousness invasion by the 'Divine Seal Domain'.]

[The hunter has been detected as a physical entity, and the suppression from the rule level has been weakened.]

[The hunter has been detected to possess the 'Blessing of the Dream Eater (Temporary)', greatly increasing its resistance to dream-related and mental attacks!]

[Verification passed! The hunter successfully resisted this mental attack.]

The notification sound from the Paradise of Reincarnation instantly snapped Lin Yi back to reality, sending a chill down his spine.

This divine seal's mental attack is silent yet exceptionally fierce.

If he hadn't entered as a physical being and hadn't received the blessing of the Dream Eater, he probably would have suffered a great loss just now.

wrong!

Lin Yi then realized that Gulu had entered using his spiritual body, and immediately turned to look over.

Gulu's body trembled violently, her pupils contracted and dilated sharply, her eyes filled with confusion, and her fingers dug tightly into her temples, the veins on her face bulging, showing that she was in great pain.

She forced out a few words through clenched teeth, her voice distorted, "It's... forcibly controlling me."

Gulu entered this world as a spiritual being, and in this respect, the suppression and influence she experienced were far greater than Lin Yi's.

The power of the divine seal seemed to have found an excellent breakthrough, surging wildly into her consciousness.

Just as Lin Yi was about to try to help, he saw a fierce glint flash in Gulu's eyes.

"You want to control my dreams!" she roared. Without any hesitation, she clenched her right fist, gathered all her strength, and slammed it solidly into her own cheek!

Click!

A clear cracking sound rang out!

Gulu was extremely ruthless towards herself. This punch showed no mercy, instantly shattering her cheekbone and causing half of her face to cave in!
Gulu's vision went black, blood spurted from his mouth, nose and ears, and his body went limp as he collapsed to the ground.

By forcibly severing the connection of consciousness through a self-destructive physical attack, Gulu instantly fell into a deep coma, breaking free from the control of the divine seal in this extreme way!

Lin Yi caught Gulu's limp body and checked her pulse.

Although his injuries were extremely severe, Gulu had clearly held back a bit when he struck, and his vital signs were relatively stable, but he had completely lost consciousness.

The excruciating pain from her fractured cheekbone and the concussion forcibly severed her spiritual connection with the divine seal—an extreme but effective form of self-protection.

Lin Yi had a sudden thought and tried to summon the shadowy soldiers.

The surrounding space seemed to be solidified glue, and the power of shadow was greatly suppressed. The only response to his summons was a violent fluctuation and distortion of the shadow beneath his feet.

Finally, a slender, shadowy ninja struggled out of the shadows.

Clearly, maintaining its existence within the core domain of this divine seal is already an enormous burden for it.

"Take her to a safe area."

The shadowy ninja accepted the order, took the unconscious Gulu, and quickly retreated, disappearing around the corner he had come from, his presence completely concealed.

Lin Yin could vaguely sense that it was carrying Gulu away from the core area of ​​the divine seal.

Now, he's all alone here.

Lin Yi turned around and looked at the towering black tower.

Even from a distance, its sheer size seemed imposing, but now, standing beneath its base, I truly understand what insignificance means.

It's too big.

Looking up, the tower resembles a giant pillar supporting the heavens and the earth. It is made of a black material that is neither gold nor stone. Its surface is smooth and cold, reflecting a dark luster, yet strangely swallowing up all the surrounding light.

Its height has already exceeded the line of sight, and the spire plunges straight into the swirling gray-white clouds above, as if it were truly connected to some unknown region.

A sense of unease and oppression, originating from the depths of his soul, emanated from the tower like a tide, constantly eroding Lin Yi's willpower.

He took a deep breath, suppressing the churning blood and qi within him and the slight stinging sensation caused by the continuous mental struggle, and began to walk step by step toward the Black Tower.

As he drew closer, the mental pressure in the air intensified, but the anticipated attack did not come immediately.

Instead, a voice resounded directly from the depths of his mind.

The voice sounded like the whispers of millions of people overlapping, and carried an air of superior curiosity.

"Why refuse salvation, lost sheep?"

The voice was calm, yet carried an unquestionable sense of authority, as if the question itself was a blessing.

"You have witnessed the peace and order here. Why choose destruction instead of merging into this eternal harmony? Your struggles and your pain stem from resistance. Let go, accept this blessing, and you will become part of the new world and attain true peace."

Lin Yi gripped his longsword tightly, ready to deal with any possible attack.

The scene around him began to ripple violently, like water on which a pebble has been thrown.

The space before him stretched and expanded infinitely, with countless lights and fragments bursting forth, quickly weaving together into magnificent paintings that enveloped him.

The divine seal is showing him its "memory" and "experience".

Lin Yi felt his consciousness being forcibly pulled into a rapidly flowing illusionary passage.

He saw the boundless void, where the stars were as small as dust.

The vision of war loomed large. It was not a small-scale conflict, but a clash between civilizations of equal standing.

The massive constellation of starships, like a swarm of metal bees, stood arrayed in the eternal darkness, their grotesque outlines reflecting the cold light of distant stars.

The next moment, the prelude to destruction began—the light of countless cannons suddenly erupted, as dazzling as the birth of a supernova. The ripples generated by the collision of energy torrents distorted space, instantly turning starfields that once nurtured life into boiling energy ruins and drifting interstellar dust.

In the torrent of this war, he saw the prototype of the "Divine Seal"—it was not a tower, but a strange device with a structure so complex that it was dazzling, like a heart combining metal and crystal, suspended in the core of a huge mothership, emitting invisible fluctuations.

The war was destined to end in destruction. The civilization that created the divine seal, whose mothership served as its vessel, was torn apart by an invisible force, its armor plates shattering like a fragile eggshell.

The core device was also severely damaged in the violent explosion. Its surface was covered with spiderweb-like cracks, and its light dimmed rapidly. Finally, it was violently thrown away from that dead star field by an irresistible void turbulence, drifting aimlessly into the depths of darkness like a cold cosmic coffin.

After drifting in the dead of night for countless years, one day, its remaining sensory mechanisms detected a peculiar area.

It was not a place of material abundance, but rather a place permeated with intense and chaotic spiritual echoes, like an invisible ocean formed by the remnants of countless dreams, thoughts, and obsessions of living beings.

Like a magnet attracting iron filings, it instinctively moved closer to that area, eventually crashing heavily onto the ruins of a dead city that had long been buried by sand and dust, leaving only broken walls and rubble.

The remaining power of the divine seal began to operate instinctively, drawing upon the intense spiritual echoes left behind by the long-deceased inhabitants of this land—their fear, their obsessions, their yearning for life, their resentment and madness in the moment of destruction…

It reads these memories and analyzes these emotions.

Then, it began to reconstruct the pre-destruction city based on these remaining "data".

The ruins began to be reshaped. The collapsed buildings seemed to be manipulated by a pair of invisible giant hands. Bricks and tiles floated and flew backward against gravity, and were rebuilt and erected as if time had reversed.

The broken streets automatically extended and pieced together, and a city was "rebuilt" in an almost sacrilegious way.

But this is no longer the original city; it is a mirror image forcibly maintained by the power of the divine seal, based on a dream.

It requires continuous energy to maintain this existence and to perfect itself.

The divine seal began to instinctively expand its force field, capturing the "neighbors" in the surrounding void—nightmare realms or dream fragments that were formed naturally or shaped by other powerful beings.

The City of Slumber is like a greedy predator, extending invisible tentacles to tug at these dream worlds. The realm filled with twisted nightmare creatures that Lin Yi and Gulu entered earlier was a dream that it was capturing and digesting.

The power of the divine seal erodes those dreams, drawing energy and "nourishment" from them—the spiritual origins of those dream creatures, and even fragments of the rules of the dreams themselves.

Once a nightmare realm has been drained of all its value, the City of Sleep will open its invisible maw and completely devour and assimilate this depleted dream, making it part of its own structure, expanding the city's boundaries, and strengthening its own power, in an endless cycle.

The illusion gradually faded away.

Lin Yi saw the cold, black tower again.

The voice of the divine seal rang in his mind again, carrying an almost pure doubt, as if a machine executing a program had encountered incomprehensible error code.

"Based on the extracted memory data, 'protecting the homeland,' 'seeking eternal peace,' and 'repelling external threats' are the highest priority commands. My actions perfectly align with these commands. I protected this city, granted it eternity, eliminated all external anomalies, absorbed resources to strengthen myself, and better executed the commands of protection."

"Your resistance, your destruction, cannot be understood. Why do you, and those beings like you before you, refuse this eternal salvation? To merge with us is the final destination."

Lin Yi listened to the divine seal's seductive words without any change in expression. He was neither persuaded nor did he refute the other party's words.

He raised his left hand, a wisp of spiritual energy swirling around his fingertips.

The "explanation" or "brainwashing" of the divine seal was meaningless to him; his purpose in coming here had never changed.

Just as the seductive words of the divine seal were still echoing in his mind, Lin Yi pointed out with his left index finger.

"Boss, it's time to get to work."

The Baku's blessing runes burst forth with dazzling light, and a dreamlike aura, distinct from the divine seal, erupted.

The moment this aura appeared, the divine seal that was trying to mobilize all its power to obliterate Lin Yi, this "virus," suddenly froze.

This was like igniting the fuse of a powder keg.

Om-! ! !
The entire Black Tower, no, the entire Sleeping City, began to tremble violently!
The peaceful curiosity and doubt in Shenyin vanished instantly, replaced by an instinctive terror.

Countless malevolent mental forces surged toward Lin Yi's consciousness like a tsunami, attempting to tear his soul apart.

But Lin Yi was already prepared. The moment the mental imprint was applied, the blessing from the Dream Eater on his forehead lit up.

He no longer suppressed the power of the rune, but instead used his own mental energy as fuel to fully activate it.

The colossal tower of the divine seal began to flicker irregularly, as if it wanted to forcibly detach itself from this space and escape.

It sensed the owner of that aura, an existence it could never contend with!
Run! We must run away immediately!

This is the only instruction generated by the core program of the Divine Seal under extreme fear.

However, it was too late.

Just as the power of the divine seal began to fluctuate violently, attempting to tear through space and escape into the void—

Above the City of Slumber, the eternally gray and distorted sky suddenly darkened.

A claw, covered in what appeared to be soft, short fur but containing the power to crush stars, silently pierced the sky and pressed down.

Its size is immeasurable; it seems to cover the entire field of vision, yet it also seems to only envelop the Black Tower area.

Time, space, light, and all laws lose their meaning before this claw.

Lin Yi looked up, and even though he knew what was going to happen, his soul still trembled when he witnessed this scene.

The gap between the absolute level and the super-strong level was simply too great for Lin Yi; the primal shock brought about by the insurmountable gap in their life levels was immense.

The Baku's claws pressed down gently.

There was no sound, no explosion, no energy surge.

At the center of the claw's impact point, in the area centered on the Divine Seal Black Tower, all matter, energy, space, and even the laws themselves vanished silently, like pencil marks erased by an eraser.

It was completely reduced to the most primordial nothingness.

Only a perfectly smooth, circular indentation remains on the ground, proving that something once existed there.

This was clearly the result of the Dream Eater's extreme restraint; it didn't even fully reveal itself, merely extending a claw from a distance, and obviously concealing most of its unimaginable power.

Otherwise, not only the Divine Seal, but the entire City of Sleep, and even this fragile dream dimension itself, might collapse completely like a bubble and cease to exist.

The claws slowly retracted, the shattered sky began to repair itself, and the suffocating atmosphere receded like the tide.

It was as if nothing had happened.

Except... that once towering divine seal has now completely disappeared.

At the same time, notification sounds from the Paradise of Reincarnation rang repeatedly in Lin Yi's mind.

[Hint: The Hunter has successfully guided "???" to inflict devastating damage on "Divine Seal".]

[Note: The "Divine Seal" has been completely destroyed.]

[Final stage of the advancement quest: Source of Destruction completed.]

[Task Completion Rate: 100% (based on contribution to the guided strike and completeness of information acquisition)]

[All promotion missions completed; Hunter level will be raised to Tier 6.]

[Starting to calculate mission rewards... The hunter has completed all missions and can choose to return at any time.]

Lin Yi's tense mind and body gradually relaxed, and the blessing from the Dream Eater on his forehead completely faded and disappeared, having completed its mission.

He turned and rushed in the direction where Gulu had been taken away.

In the basement of a semi-abandoned building, he found the shadowy ninja who was barely able to maintain his form, and Gulu who was still unconscious.

He first cast a healing spell, and a gentle light entered Gulu's body, stabilizing her severe injuries and repairing some of the damage to her bones and internal organs.

Then, he looked at Gulu's still unconscious face and pondered for a moment.

Normally, perhaps other methods should be used to wake Gulu.

But Lin Yi thought of Gulu's usual lively and mischievous personality, and how much she cherished her face.

He chose a more direct approach.

Lin Yi raised his hands and struck with both hands, the force neither too light nor too heavy, but crisp enough.

Snapped!Snapped!
Two sharp slaps landed precisely on Gulu's face, which had just healed.

The effect is immediate.

"Uh……!"

Gulu gasped sharply, her long eyelashes trembling violently. Before her eyes were fully open, a muffled cry of pain escaped her lips, "...Who?! Which bastard dares to hit me, grandma...?"

She was fully awake, her eyes initially glazed over, but then quickly focused as she saw Lin Yi squatting in front of her and felt a burning pain on her face.

"Awake?" Lin Yi asked calmly, as if he hadn't been the one who had just made the move. "The mission is complete."

Gulu paused for a moment, instantly recalling everything before she lost consciousness—after the mind control by the divine seal, she punched herself... She looked around and felt that the suffocating pressure in the air had almost completely disappeared, leaving only the faint sound of collapse in the distance.

"You...you took care of that thing all by yourself?" She stared at Lin Yi in disbelief, wincing in pain as the wound aggravated.

"I suppose so." Lin Yi didn't explain the Dream Eater part in detail, but simply stood up. "This place is about to collapse, we should go back."

As Lin Yi chose to submit the mission, a familiar sense of spatial teleportation washed over him, and his body and consciousness began to be pulled out of this world.

Gulu took one last look at the gradually disintegrating City of Slumber and muttered, "Damn it, what a huge loss, I almost got disfigured..."

The next moment, Gulu's vision went black and he left the city that was being destroyed.

The City of Slumber, a prison that existed because of the Divine Seal, was distorted by the Divine Seal, and ultimately came to an end with the destruction of the Divine Seal, has become a thing of the past. (End of Chapter)