Chapter 157

The Nightmare Swamp is located in the extreme north of the world of cultivation. The reason why the cultivators came here was that someone mistakenly entered this place and discovered a new race here - the Dream Demon Race.

As they were unsure whether they had any ill intentions towards mortals and monks, several sects sent people to investigate.

Bai Roushuang came here on orders, while Xu Shulou, who had just returned to the mortal world, came along to join in the fun.

The Dream Demons did not give them a chance to explore and launched an attack right away - it seemed that there was no need to explore any further, and they looked quite malicious.

The huge monster in the swamp stirred up a huge amount of mud, sweeping away all the people on the shore.

The Dream Demon Clan, just by hearing the name, you can probably guess their abilities.

Xu Shulou was sucked into the swamp and lost contact with his junior sister and her group. While looking for them, he saw two monks who were also sucked in fighting not far away. Their bodies were covered in mud, like two clay figures. They looked at each other with fear, as if they had mistaken each other for some kind of horrible monster.

She quickly stepped forward to separate the two men, and punched each of them until they woke up.

The two woke up, both of them were stunned, and they covered their faces at the same time: "It hurts, who hit me?"

"..." It seems that the two of you have been fighting for a long time, but your punch is not as strong as my punch? Xu Shulou felt guilty, "You must be possessed. Leave while you are still awake, and don't come in again."

The two of them had just asked subconsciously, and now they remembered what had happened. They had been tricked without realizing it, and had mistaken their companions for monsters. They were still frightened at this moment. If no one intervened, they would most likely fight each other to death in the swamp.

This kind of spiritual attack could not be resisted by a high level of cultivation. The two of them would not endure it. They quickly thanked him and hurriedly swam upstream.

Xu Shulou continued to dive. After diving about ten feet, she felt her body lighten. She actually entered a clear water from the swamp. Is there a lake below the swamp? What kind of structure is this? Before she could think about it, she was pulled back to the swamp by a huge tentacle.

Movement was sluggish in the swamp, fighting was extremely difficult, and vision was not clear. Xu Shulou was tightly entangled by the tentacles. When he summoned his sword to cut the tentacles, he couldn't help but feel distracted for a moment. It was so big, if it was made into grilled octopus legs and sprinkled with chili, cough...

After taking some time to solve the troubles encountered along the way, Xu Shulou dived into the water again and was inadvertently swallowed by a big fish by the current.

The fish stomach was very elastic. Xu Shulou held the Night Pearl in her hands and observed the surroundings, trying her best to ignore the food residues. She used the fish stomach as a trampoline out of curiosity and jumped back and forth a few times. Before she had enough fun, the big fish probably felt nauseous because of her jumping and vomited her out.

In this way, after encountering many minor troubles along the way, they finally found a crystal corridor built at the deepest part of the water. Outside the corridor was a moon-white earring, which looked somewhat like what Bai Roushuang was wearing today.

When she raised her hand and touched the crystal wall, Xu Shulou seemed to be in a trance for a moment. Some illusions quickly passed by her eyes. She shook her head and quickly woke up.

"Go, go forward," a devilish voice whispered in her ear, "Go to the end and meet your inner demon."

Xu Shulou was indeed curious about what her inner demon was now. She walked through the crystal corridor, but saw Bai Roushuang's figure at the deepest part.

"Junior sister is my inner demon?" Xu Shulou was puzzled.

The Dream Demons who were wearing hooded robes nearby were stunned by these words and almost didn't react: "No... we just tied her up here to threaten you."

Xu Shulou paused: "...This does sound much more reasonable."

The Dream Demons surrounded her, and the leading woman looked at her with a curious look: "You no longer have any inner demons."

Xu Shulou was slightly startled: "...That's not bad."

"Sister!" Bai Roushuang looked a little guilty. "I'm sorry. They just bewitched the other members of the team. I was caught off guard and was ambushed by them. Oh, I also saw people from Lingxiao Sect. Senior Brother Lu didn't seem to be fully awake. He might have been attacked as well."

"It's okay, don't worry, I'll deal with him later," Xu Shulou waved his hand and looked at the hooded Dream Demon, "What is your purpose?"

The Dream Demon in front of him had a nice figure and was graceful, like a young girl in her twenties. She walked close to Xu Shulou, raised her delicate hand, and lifted the hood that was covering her face, revealing an extremely old face.

"..." At this distance, Xu Shulou could see the wrinkles and grooves on her face clearly.

The others took off their hoods one by one, both men and women. Their old faces and young bodies looked particularly strange.

This sense of contrast made Bai Roushuang gasp.

The woman raised her hand and lit the oil lamps on the wall one by one, illuminating the crystal cave with bright lights: "All members of the Dream Demon Clan, when they reach the age of marriage, must choose between a young face or a young body under the witness of the gods. If you choose a beautiful face, your body will be so weak that you will have to lie in bed most of the time. Otherwise, we will be like this."

Bai Roushuang felt pity: "It sounds unfair."

"We have lived like this for thousands of years. Since we can't see what the outside world looks like, we don't feel it's unfair. We used to live a very peaceful life," the Dream Demon said with a sad look, "until a month ago, a cultivator broke in and showed everyone what normal people look like."

“…”

"At first, everyone thought that the monk was different and they were curious and asked him all kinds of questions. But in the end, we found out that we were the odd ones out." The woman trembled. "Can you imagine? Confusion, jealousy, rage, all these emotions burst out between us in a short period of time... It was the monk who ruined our peaceful life!"

"...I'm sorry," Xu Shulou sighed, "I feel sorry for what happened to you."

The Dream Demons sneered, "No need. Our Nightmare God said that as long as we lure beautiful men and women like you to offer as sacrifices to him, he will grant us blessings and allow us to experience a normal life for once. The more beautiful the sacrifice, the better the effect."

"..." This doesn't sound like a serious god. Are you guys being deceived? Bai Roushuang opened her mouth and wanted to recommend a disguise magic weapon from the cultivation world, but she was hit by a silencing spell and stopped talking forcibly.

"Don't try to resist. You can't resist God."

She held her breath and recited a very long passage. The others also closed their eyes and recited along. Bai Roushuang could not hear clearly, she just felt that the pronunciation was gibberish with a strange rhythm, as if it was some kind of spell.

Bai Roushuang only understood the last sentence: "Great God of Nightmares, please show up!"

“…” No one showed up and the scene was completely silent.

It wasn't until the silence became almost awkward that Xu Shulou couldn't help but say, "That..."

"Shut up!" the leading woman shouted, "Do it again!"

Then everyone chanted the mysterious-sounding spell again with solemn faces.

"Great God of Nightmares, please show yourself!"

It was quiet again.

Xu Shulou was curious: "Is he not at home today?"

The nightmare people were fed up with it and threw a bunch of silencing spells at her, but she blocked them one by one.

"Great God of Nightmares, please show yourself!"

It was the third time, but there was still no movement. Bai Roushuang was even hypnotized by the spell and felt a little drowsy.

Seeing that all the Dream Demons present were panicking, Xu Shulou suddenly felt something was wrong and asked cautiously, "What does your Nightmare God look like?"

No one paid any attention to her.

Xu Shulou asked persistently: "Isn't it that the upper body is like a crab, and the lower body has many tentacles?"

"How do you know?" The Dream Demon finally stopped the discussion and looked at her.

"I killed it by accident. It attacked me first... I thought it was a specialty of your Nightmare Swamp, and I was thinking of asking you if I could eat it later." Xu Shulou took a step back after hearing the other party's furious howl. "Based on your reaction, I guess... I can't eat it?"

“…”

Xu Shulou said sadly and self-awarely: "I'm on the banned list again, right?"