I'm extremely interested in Nen abilities.

Even Yun Gu, Hart, and Zhehao had similar reactions, clearly disapproving of his sudden violation of the competition rules.

Black bone fragments rolled back across the ground, leaping up like popping beans and flying back onto the black skeleton, mending the broken parts.

"What an arrogant brat!" The black skeleton's two rows of teeth clattered together, and black energy surged from its body. "Let this old man teach you a lesson, let you know what it means to be more desolate than the sky and more violent than lightning! Take this!" With that, a skeletal kick was delivered.

"Is that a palm strike?"

With a thought, Jingyang activated the star mark behind his neck instantly, 'Meteor Like the Wind'!

With a jade-like light flickering in his eyes, Jing Yang was in a state between waking and sleeping. His instinctive reactions and self-control achieved perfect harmony. He was able to respond optimally to every move the black skeleton made. This brilliant counterattack made the Sky Master on the other side cheer.

"What a load of crap!" the black skeleton roared, its black aura growing even stronger, quickly putting Jing Yang at a disadvantage.

Jingyang stepped back and shouted, "We agreed to a martial arts competition!"

"It was you who broke the rules first!" the black-skeleton man yelled.

"That's right!" Jingyang clapped his hands. "So I abstain! Is that alright now?"

The black-skeleton-clad man snorted coldly, stood with his hands behind his back, and looked like he couldn't be bothered to pay him any attention.

"Yungu, Hart, you two should also abstain," Jingyang said, turning to the two men.

"Why should we abstain?" Hart asked, puzzled.

Yun Gu disagreed, and he opened his mouth to speak.

Jing Yang shouted, "Fine, then don't forfeit. I'm going back to the hotel to bother your master! Xiao Di, let's go."

Xiao Di withdrew from the start and left the training ground with Jing Yang. She was the least concerned about the bizarre things happening there.

Yun Gu could not ignore what Zhen Yuanzi said.

After much hesitation, he still left with Hart, who had abstained from the contest, and hurriedly caught up with Jingyang and the other person on their way back to the hotel.

“Zhen Yuanzi, you’d better not…” Yun Gu caught up and said.

Jing Yang turned around and looked sharply at Yun Gu. "Think back to what exactly happened."

"What happened?" Hart was full of questions.

Yun Gu thought back carefully, and soon cold sweat broke out on his forehead. Why did we really mistake that black skeleton for the Sky Master, and even obediently exclaim, "This—is it because of the mark on our heads?"

Hart had already realized what was happening and shuddered with fear.

My senior brother and I had unknowingly been bewitched by that skull-shaped monster!

How could it possibly be the Sky Master?

“Things are getting stranger and stranger. I don’t think either the skeleton or the first one is the Sky Master,” Jingyang said. “But they are probably both related to the Sky Master.”

Yun Gu said solemnly, "The most important thing now is to remove the marks on us."

Jingyang said, "I can't help you with that. I'm not a mind-removing master."

"So we're just going to let others control us?" Hart said sadly. "We don't want that!"

Little Drop said, "In seven days, after this conference ends, perhaps the mark will disappear on its own?"

Upon hearing this, Hart became even more worried and grabbed Yun Gu's arm, pleading, "Senior Brother Yun Gu, please ask your master to think of a solution!"

It would be best to invite her over!

Jing Yang said speechlessly, "If you want to call for help, why go to all this trouble? Go find Netero, the leader of your Heart Source Stream! Isn't he right on the mountain?"

As dawn broke, many people were still asleep in the mountain villages on both sides of the mountain.

Jingyang and his group of four returned to the hotel behind the mountain. A waiter came out from around the corner in the lobby, greeted them with a smile, and asked, "What kind of guests are you...?"

Snapped!

Before he could finish speaking, Jing Yang grabbed his wrist with lightning speed.

"What exactly are you?" Jing Yang focused his gaze, scrutinizing the creature. "This wretched place is truly bizarre..."

hiss!

The waiter's entire head transformed into a gray-scaled snake's head, its dark yellow snake eyes staring at Jing Yang.

Hart was horrified. Yun Gu immediately raised his "Firmness" and stood ready. The waiter, who had revealed a snake head, suddenly scattered into many small gray-scaled snakes, crawling all over the ground, and then disappeared into thin air.

Jing Yang focused his eyes on the air the entire time, and as soon as he saw a trace, all the gray-scaled snakes turned into air and disappeared.

Xiao Di looked at Jing Yang.

Jingyang nodded. These gray-scaled snakes were clearly the same ones they had seen in that dream.

Previously, Jingyang thought that the appearance of those snakes was a reflection of the dream of the Snake Sister of the Twelve Branches.

Now it seems that this is not the case at all.

These gray-scaled snakes, the peach tree in the dream, the old beggar sitting on the tree, and the black skeleton that can absorb energy are all related to that strange dream!

Or, it could also include the white-haired, youthful-looking man who was initially thought to be the Sky Master.

Jingyang and his group rushed into the hotel. Along the way, they saw waiters from time to time. Without exception, every waiter who saw them disintegrated into a pile of gray-scaled snakes and quickly disappeared.

"What is this?" Hart cried, on the verge of tears. "Where is this place? Senior brother, are we in a horror story?"

Yun Gu was speechless. He suspected that when he participated back then, there was also an old beggar, a bizarre dream, a peach petal mark, and a black skull absorbing the participants' energy. However, he was completely unaware of it from beginning to end, and only thought that he was participating in a martial arts tournament. But now, when he thinks back, he can only vaguely remember the specific details of the tournament he participated in.

This is probably the result of being influenced by the peach petal mark back then; the memory has been blurred and altered, like looking at flowers through fog.

Finally, Yun Gu could only comfort him, saying, "Don't be afraid. The Sky Master you saw when you participated in the Immortal Water Mountain Conference was the same one from the very beginning. Since you've been safe and sound until now, you'll be fine this time too. At worst, like we just said, we can just wait until the conference ends in seven or eight days..."

Hart, on the verge of tears, said, "But you didn't end up like this back then, senior brother! In horror stories, if someone exposes a ghost's true identity, they're in big trouble!"

Yun Gu was having a terrible headache.

Jing Yang thought to himself, "Dreams, Nen beasts, Nen clones, peach petal marks... If dreams are materialized as Bisky guessed, then among these four, no, five strange things, one of them must be a materialization type. 'Sky Master's' palm strike was undoubtedly an emission type; that black skull, with bubbles all over its head, seems to be an enhancement type; the gray-scaled snakes can combine to form different waiters, are they acting as NPCs in the manor? I guess they're transformation type... And the old beggar, is he a materialization type? Is he the one who materialized everyone's dreams?"

Who's in charge of the operations system?

peach!

Jingyang thought of the withered tree he saw on the cliff edge when he ascended the long staircase to immortality.

“But these things, whether it’s the black skeleton or the old beggar, can be seen with the naked eye, and are obviously materialized…” Back in the room, Jing Yang pondered and analyzed, “But if the black skeleton is considered an enhancement type, it can also use the peach petal mark that seems to be left by the peach tree to secretly control you… Can these things share and borrow each other’s abilities?”

Xiao Di said, "But the black skull and 'Sky Master' don't seem to have a good relationship."

“We’re still missing a special talent…” Jing Yang muttered to himself, “There’s a special talent that hasn’t even surfaced yet, that’s when the true Sky Master will emerge?”

"Ugh, I'm completely confused!" Hart clutched his head and rolled around on the sofa. "I just want to go home! Who is the Sky Master anyway?"

"Hey hey hey hey, Master Sky, of course it's me, the old man!"

Suddenly, Jingyang and Xiaodi both heard a familiar, strange laugh coming from above. When they looked up, they saw the old beggar hanging upside down from the ceiling light.

"Young man, do you want to know the meaning of life? Do you want to truly live?"

The old beggar spread his arms wide, and Jiajia laughed strangely, "Enjoy the real revelry! Jiajiajiajia..."

He vanished in an instant, turning into a wisp of air.

call!

It was as if a gust of wind swept through the room; scraps of paper fluttered from the coffee table, the carpet was lifted from top to bottom, the tables and chairs shook, the windows trembled, the door rattled, and something in the air seemed to have changed...

"Crash."

Suddenly, a loud noise erupted, and a pile of trash appeared out of nowhere in the room. Several fierce-looking children stood atop the trash heap, holding baseball bats studded with nails, glaring at Jingyang and the others.

"Is this... Shizuku's dream about Meteor City?"

Jingyang was surprised. Had the dream truly materialized into reality?

After glancing at it, Xiao Di said to Jing Yang through the ring: "Jing Yang, control me."

Jingyang's voice immediately rang in her mind, issuing the command using the third operation: [Protect the star from being destroyed.]

Little Drops did not show any obvious signs of being manipulated, but the piles of garbage and the thug-like children in the room quickly disappeared.

"Senior brother, you look so strange!" Hart's laughter rang out.

Jingyang and Xiaodi turned their heads to look, only to see that Yun Gu had transformed into a two-meter-tall, burly man, his muscles bulging so much that his clothes were torn, and he confidently took off his glasses and crushed them.

However, the "senior brother" Hart mentioned was not him.

In front of Hart stood a thin man named Yun Gu, who was half a head shorter than him.

Hart laughed heartily, displaying his martial arts skills and easily subduing the frail Yun Gu, overjoyed.

A cheerful atmosphere filled the air.

This is not an exaggeration; there was a genuine atmosphere that seemed to overflow, almost solidifying into something tangible.

Xiao Di merely glanced at Yun Gu and Hart, who were immersed in the materialized dream, and then ignored them, saying to Jing Yang, "They have already been marked by Peach Blossom Petal, and there's nothing you can do about it."

"Yes, I know." Jingyang nodded.

The so-called "first move wins" principle applies here. By using this, one can avoid being manipulated. Similarly, one cannot use stars to interfere with Yun Gu and the other two who have already been manipulated by others.

"Let's ignore them for now. Although this daydreaming is quite terrifying, it doesn't seem to pose any major danger."

Jingyang led Xiaodi out of the room, and along the way they saw many strange sights in the hotel. About twenty martial artists had returned to the hotel to rest earlier, and now all sorts of eerie scenes were coming from their rooms.

"boom!"

A martial artist, transformed into a humanoid mecha warrior, crashed through the wall and excitedly rushed out of the room, raising his mechanical greatsword and shouting at the bio-monster that appeared in the air: "Don't run away!"

The bio-monster panicked and jumped towards Jingyang and Xiaodi.

The little drop materialized into a chainsaw-wielding bulging-eyed fish, and with a "whoosh," it cleaved the bio-monster in two, blood splattering everywhere before dissipating in the air.

The entire hotel was thrown into chaos!

The waiters have all disappeared.

Jingyang and Xiaodi arrived at the training ground, and wow, the situation there was just as impressive. The entire training ground materialized into a huge arena, where Zhehao, clad in golden armor, was wreaking havoc. Upon closer inspection, Jingyang realized that among the people being crushed by Zhehao's fists, there seemed to be Yun Gu, and even himself...

The black skeleton and Master Sky have long since disappeared.

There weren't many people staying at the hotel on the back mountain, and although the scene at the hotel and training ground was chaotic, with about thirty people seemingly sleepwalking, it wasn't actually that bad.

The other side of the mountain is truly bizarre and wonderful.

Even from the back mountain, Jingyang and Xiaodi could see a hazy ball of light enveloping the entire villa on the front mountain. The sky was reflected with constantly changing images: sometimes a starry sky like several swirling eddies, sometimes the shadow of a giant clown dancing, and sometimes a rising sun suddenly appearing... Countless dreams intertwined repeatedly, real, surreal, distorted, crazy, and sacred, all taking on tangible forms.