Chapter 317 Dressing

When his head was crushed by Zede, the instant he was declared dead,

Yi Chen's consciousness immediately felt a call from the depths of the nightmare, as if a multitude of black tentacles rose from the deepest muck, dragging at his very being.

As he continued to sink with the drag of the tentacles,

there was nothing below, just a warm, primal darkness.

His consciousness was wrapped layer by layer in silt, while his physical structure began to ferment, expand, and perfect on the surface.

By the time this wondrous process completely ended,

pop!

A giant egg festooned with tentacles on the bottom dropped vertically into the Library area.

The top of the egg bloomed like a flower,

Yi Chen sat upright within, hugging his knees, still sporting his bun hairstyle, but his clothing was nowhere to be found.

Unlike Catherine,

Yi Chen was experiencing death and rebirth in the nightmare for the first time.

Even though his physical reconstruction was complete,