Xiao Bai missed her target and fell headfirst into the central formation. Then she immediately felt her meridians, which had been stinging due to the draining of spiritual energy, begin to soothe. The spiritual energy in the formation continuously flowed into her meridians and dantian. However, as the spiritual energy continued to flow in, she also began to feel a bulging feeling of fullness in her meridians and dantian.

Sure enough, the feeling of spiritual energy filling the body is not something that ordinary people can endure!

Xiao Bai knew that it would be best for her to meditate immediately to absorb the spiritual energy that was surging into her meridians, but her time was really limited, and now was the best time to catch the nightmare!

Xiao Bai immediately shouted at Murong An, "Come and help! Otherwise it will kill more people!"

Murong An hesitated for a moment, then stood up and stepped forward to stop the elder who was attacking Xiao Bai.

"What the hell is going on?!"

"What happened to the Sect Leader? Why did the elder suddenly go crazy and hurt people again?!"

At this moment, the central formation was in chaos! The most powerful of the five elders had died, and another had suddenly gone berserk and attacked the others. The originally frantic leader suddenly stood there like a lost soul, dumbfounded.

It was Elder Qi Zhen who saw something and exclaimed:

"This is a nightmare! No, it should be said that this is the incarnation of a high-level dark creature!"

Qi Zhen also realized the danger of the nightmare at this time. He was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. However, the elders present now had a group of disciples behind them who were maintaining their balance by absorbing the spiritual energy transformed in their bodies. Once the three of them stopped meditating and stood up to fight, the disciples outside the formation would have their meridians drained of spiritual energy and die.

Elder Qizhen turned to look outside the formation. The disciples following the two elders had lost their spiritual energy supply to the elders due to the sudden attack from the Sect Master. Many lower-level disciples, suffering from the sudden loss of spiritual energy from their meridians, lay unconscious, their lives unknown. Some of the more advanced disciples also hurriedly scrambled to the backs of the other elders.

The three elders are now regretting deeply. They originally wanted to use this method to save the disciples of the sect, but now it has become a confinement for them. If they want to protect the lives of the remaining disciples, they must stay where they are and meditate!

Therefore, the only ones capable of fighting now are Murong An and a few other disciples who were originally destined for sacrifice!

Oh, and there's Xiao Bai! Although her combat ability is the lowest, she's the only one present who isn't afraid of Nightmare's sea of ​​consciousness attacks.

"Murong An! You hold back his attacks and try to force the nightmare out of his sea of ​​consciousness! Then I'll deal with it! Remember, don't get close when the nightmare comes out! Otherwise, it will parasitize your sea of ​​consciousness!"

Xiao Bai picked up a long sword next to him and attacked the elder who was possessed by the nightmare!

Murong An and others endured the pain in their meridians and fought with the parasitic elders. During the battle, they also had to carefully protect the remaining three elders who were unable to move. The battle was very difficult.

"Be careful, you must capture this nightmare. If he releases the three sealed high-level dark creatures, it will be the end!" Although Elder Zhen was unable to move, he tried his best to tell the people around him what he knew:

"Alas, if this nightmare had been parasitic in the master's sea of ​​consciousness, the five elders in the seal would probably be in great danger!" Elder Qizhen sighed, and then explained the origin of the nightmare to everyone.

It turns out that nightmares aren't naturally occurring creatures; they're clones of advanced dark creatures. Among these advanced dark creatures, there's a special race: spirit-like dark creatures. These advanced dark creatures can create a clone, and this clone feeds on the spiritual consciousness of cultivators. It's said that in ancient battlefields long ago, when advanced dark creatures battled human cultivators, the spirit-like advanced dark creatures used this clone as a means of attack, specifically targeting the cultivators' sea of ​​consciousness.

"I found all of this in our sect's ancient texts. I always thought it was just myths and legends, but I never imagined such dark creatures could actually exist! Spiritual dark creatures don't look much different from other dark creatures. Advanced dark creatures all look strange anyway!"

Elder Qizhen said this, looking at the parasitic elder who was fighting with Murong An and others with a complicated expression:

"One of the three high-level dark creatures we sealed was a spirit. However, when we captured and fought it, it didn't display the ability of a nightmare clone. So, we always thought that the clone that parasitized and absorbed spiritual consciousness was just a legend. Unexpectedly... it must have released this clone a long time ago!"

Although Xiao Bai had been fighting the entire time, she had been providing support since physical damage wasn't her strong suit. After hearing Elder Qi Zhen's explanation, she suddenly realized: This nightmare had brought her through time to save her sealed true self! But why had it chosen her over anyone else? Xiao Bai was perplexed.

If Nightmare knew what she was thinking, he would have said that his original target was actually Murong An! He was the best anchor point to travel back to the past! But who knew that after entering Xiao Bai's sea of ​​consciousness, he accidentally discovered that Xiao Bai's sea of ​​consciousness also had an anchor point to travel back to the past! So he simply took her back to ancient times!

The book spirit and Murong An connected in Xiao Bai's sea of ​​consciousness had also been paying attention to what was happening on her side, and naturally knew the origin of the nightmare that Elder Qizhen mentioned.

"So, everything fits together!" The Book Spirit clapped his hands, assumed the posture of Detective Conan, and transmitted his thoughts:

"So, this nightmare originally wanted to use Xiao Anzi to travel back to ancient times, but Xiao Anzi proved too difficult to deal with and it couldn't be defeated. So it wanted to absorb your consciousness first to feast on it, but then it accidentally discovered that there was also an anchor point for traveling back to the past in your sea of ​​consciousness. So it brought your consciousness back a thousand years ago, all to save its own body?!"

Xiao Bai rolled her eyes, indicating that she was busy and didn't want to talk!

Murong An quite agreed with this, but then he asked, "I am a person from a thousand years ago, so I have an anchor point to return to the past. Why do you also have an anchor point in your sea of ​​consciousness? Is it that iceberg?"

Xiao Bai rolled his eyes again, then realized that the other party couldn't see it either, so he said in a bad mood, "How should I know? Is this the key point now? The key point now is how to capture this nightmare, otherwise you will all be doomed! What you experienced in the past was the successful sealing of the rift between the two worlds. If we can't capture this nightmare now, then once it is destroyed, the entire history may undergo a major change. By then, I dare not even think about what the real world will become!"

Xiao Bai's words reminded both Shu Ling and Murong An. Judging from the changes in Murong An's memory, Xiao Bai was now in the real world over a thousand years ago. Any changes would affect future generations! Some small changes were harmless, but if they affected something major, such as if the seal ultimately failed, the consequences would be unimaginable!