As the saying goes—"Let the meat rot in the pot."Though the world was crumbling, everything was still happening within the Nightmare Gate. Even if this dream realm was destroyed, it would soon reconverge and transform into a new nightmare world, with new dreamborn lifeforms.
Everything here could shift, warp, and evolve.
The very laws of existence were unnatural to the extreme.
Even if you killed thousands of nightmare creatures—It would ultimately be futile.
After a while, they would reemerge anew, reborn from the nightmare energy.
Thus, in this world, no matter how many monsters you killed, it didn't matter.There was no pain, no loss.
But now—The nightmare power was disappearing, silently and inexplicably.
When ordinary humans were killed by monsters, they, too, would transform into nightmare energy.Even the trees and grass were born from nightmare energy.
The landscape of destruction was saturated with terror—fueled by this dark power.
For most cultivators, these energies were untouchable.But to Yi Tianxing, it was simply a feast laid before him.
Thanks to the presence of the Dream Butterfly, all scattered nightmare energy nearby was being quietly devoured, feeding the Dreamworld inside the Hongmeng Heavenly Emperor Tower—and strengthening the other internal realms as well.
By absorbing this energy, he was directly weakening the Nightmare Gate itself.
A win-win—So why not enjoy it?
CRACK!!
The moment that bronze giant fell, a pitch-black lightning bolt ripped across the sky—Targeting Yi Tianxing directly.
It was blindingly fast.
Yang Spirit!
True Spirit!
It even surpassed the True Spirit Realm!
The energy within that lightning surged as if receiving a boost from some hidden force—Its aura skyrocketed in an instant, enough to obliterate even a peak-level cultivator with a single strike.
This would never happen in the real world.But here, in the dream realm, such impossible feats were trivially easy.
Rules bent with a thought.A rabbit could devour the heavens.
That's what made dreams so frightening—You never knew if the cute bunny would become a deadly beast.
"No good!" Nannan exclaimed.
Without hesitation, she unleashed her Ten Directions Annihilation ribbon.It spun in the air and transformed into a pitch-black demonic jar, aiming to devour the lightning.
BOOM!!
The jar pulled at the lightning with immense suction, but the power within it exploded the jar moments later and continued its deadly charge.
"Don't worry," Yi Tianxing said calmly."This strike is beyond your cultivation. With me here, you don't need to fear anything."
He gently infused Nannan with vital essence, quickly restoring her color and strength.
Then—A golden thunder pool appeared out of thin air and crashed toward the lightning like a meteor.
BOOOOOM!!!
When the lightning met the thunder pool, it was immediately absorbed—but not quietly.
It writhed like a thunder dragon trapped in an ocean, violently churning.
But the innate lightning runes within the pool wove together to form a complete thunder world, locking the lightning down.
This Thunder Pool was no ordinary weapon—it was an Innate Spirit Treasure, backed by an entire Medium World within the Hongmeng Tower.
Even the overwhelming lightning, once inside, was like a river poured into the sea—It couldn't escape.
Soon, the thunder pool vanished from sight, and the danger was neutralized.
Nannan looked at Yi Tianxing with even softer eyes.
That long-lost sense of safety and reliance returned.
With him there—She had nothing to fear.He was her shield, her guardian from every storm.
SHOOOOM! SHOOOOM!
But just as the lightning threat ended, a new one began.
Meteor showers streaked across the sky—giant fireballs raining down from the heavens.
Each meteor grew larger as it neared.Like molten suns crashing to earth.
They burned with heaven-scorching flames, filled with cataclysmic power.
A single one could annihilate an entire city.
Far deadlier than the lightning.
BREAK!!
Yi Tianxing summoned his Starshatter Hammer, now glowing with golden light.It grew massive and smashed into a descending meteor.
BOOM!!
A radiant blast followed—Infused with the primordial source power of his internal realms, the hammer crushed the meteor to fragments.
However, the recoil was enormous.Without world essence to support him, the backlash alone might've caused serious injury.
And yet—As the meteor exploded, the Dream Butterfly appeared once more, happily devouring the nightmare energy.
But that was only one meteor.
Many others had already landed across the world—Turning cities into burning wastelands.Lava burst from the ground, rising hundreds of meters.
Entire regions were now seas of fire, spewing death.
Fire serpents and fire dragons danced through the city, heading straight for Yi Tianxing and Nannan.
Water and fire—The two deadliest disasters of the world.
These flames weren't ordinary.They held true destruction, lava essence, and annihilation fire.
Even a True Spirit cultivator would be reduced to ashes.
"Nannan, stay close."
Yi Tianxing commanded, and in the next instant, a battle flag appeared above them.
It was the Zhurong Heavenly Fire Flag.
Upon appearing, the flame deity Zhurong shouted a command from the banner.
A swirling vortex formed on the flag's surface—All incoming fire was sucked into it, feeding the ever-burning flames of the banner.
Yet Yi Tianxing and Nannan remained untouched—Protected beneath the flag's might.
Meanwhile, the DreamButterfly fluttered joyfully amid the flames, silently devouring nightmare energy by the ton.
"Brother," Nannan said thoughtfully,"This nightmare realm can't be the only one. I haven't seen Sister Chen Xuerou at all."
Yi Tianxing nodded.
"Yes. The Nightmare Gate is likely a network of dream realms. Each one trapping different people. But don't worry. First we'll escape this one—then we'll find the others.As long as they can't kill me in one strike…Dreams are nothing but passing wind."
The key now was escaping this apocalyptic nightmare.
Two options existed:
Wait for the nightmare world to collapse on its own
Or forcefully shatter the realm with brute power
Like popping a balloon.
Yi Tianxing could escape at any time—But chose to remain.
He wanted to observe more of the dream's evolution.
Let the disasters come.
Beasts, plagues, hellfire—it didn't matter.Each wave of calamity was met and shattered by Yi Tianxing's power.
He stood tall and unshaken amidst the chaos.
And all the while, the Dream Butterfly devoured nightmare energy, strengthening the worlds inside the Hongmeng Heavenly Emperor Tower.
Each disaster became fuel for his rise.
A feast, not a crisis.
RUMBLE!!
As the nightmare entered its final stage, the world itself began to collapse.
The sky cracked and fell.
A heavenly river poured down in torrents, drowning everything.
Space shattered around them.
The world was being annihilated.
Nothing could survive this—Not man, not matter.
Even the strongest beings would suffer calamity or worse within this destruction.
Only despair remained.