Chapter 173

"World... forget..."

As soon as Xia Zhi entered the dream world, a distant and broken female voice reached his ears.

When he first heard this voice in his dreams, he felt nervous and curious.

Now after hearing it many times, he actually found it somewhat familiar.

Every time he entered dreams and heard her saying this, it strangely felt like coming home to hear a wife saying "welcome home."

Ultimately, it was because the dream world was too illusory, and walking alone here, he unconsciously wanted to find an anchor point.

And her unchanging voice in this world that changed every night was like a lighthouse beam, giving him a strange sense of security.

Tonight's repeating sister is also full of energy.

Xia Zhi looked at the distant haze, walked forward, and saw the three nearest dream bubbles.

The larger blue bubble should be Shenhe's dream, the two smaller red bubbles should be Zhu Zi and Diona's dreams.

Xia Zhi looked longer at the blue bubble, his gaze focusing slightly.

Blue represents fear, red represents satisfaction.

Why was Shenhe having nightmares again tonight?

With her personality and experiences, if she feared anything... it would probably only be her childhood memories, right?

Xia Zhi hesitated, but still chose not to peek into her dreams, continuing forward to enter a stranger's dream.

The scene before him blurred, then a devouring darkness swept in, carrying some indescribably vast malice.

Xia Zhi frowned, activated [Hat of Secrecy]'s stealth state, and only then did that feeling of being intently watched by strange malice dissipate.

Where was this?

Xia Zhi looked around - not a trace of light, only bottomless darkness.

How strange, who dreams of pure blackness?

Could the dream's owner be someone blind from birth? Was that malice just now an imagined nightmare monster?

Eyes seemed useless here.

Xia Zhi shook his head and activated the system's detection.

With god's eye view's help, he finally saw this was a low-lying basin.

Xia Zhi took out [Treasure Compass], following its pointer's direction. Then, a pair of beautiful white [Radiant Wings] spread from his back as he flew rapidly in that direction.

Soon, he found four [Twilight Mushrooms]. Normal dreams rarely had more than three, yet the pointer on his [Treasure Compass] still indicated new directions.

This meant this dream still had supernatural materials. With such rich resources, the dream's owner certainly wasn't ordinary, at least having abnormal mental power.

Xia Zhi spread [Radiant Wings] and flew toward the next location.

Halfway there, he suddenly heard a distinctive sound of clashing swords in the wind.

Probably from the dream's owner.

Xia Zhi pondered briefly, changed direction, and flew toward the sound's source.

Getting closer, Xia Zhi descended from the sky and finally saw the person in his god's eye view.

And a gold progress bar on him: [0%].

It was him, that confident young man handling affairs in Northland Bank.

Xia Zhi remembered his title from those documents about the Qixing conspiracy: -- "Childe."

He was currently battling another mysterious swordsman.

Their swords constantly clashed, making crisp sounds, both seemingly having special dark-vision abilities.

Xia Zhi watched from the side for a while. With his [War God] insight, he easily saw the huge power gap between them.

Childe's swordplay barely reached master level, while the mysterious swordsman seemed almost at grandmaster level.

Rather than battling, it seemed more like the mysterious swordsman was teaching Childe his signature swordplay.

Xia Zhi pondered thoughtfully - his luck value seemed to be working again tonight.

This dream must be recreating Childe's training experience.

What puzzled him was why the environment was so dark and oppressive.

Perhaps it was during Snezhnaya's eternal night?

But since he "coincidentally" encountered this, he definitely had to claim Childe's golden treasure chest.

However, as an antagonist, he wouldn't get the gentle treatment like Miss Yun Jin.

Xia Zhi bent down, placed his hand on the ground, and used [Midas Touch].

Due to certain rules, dream rocks could still be considered rocks, controlled by his skill.

After a while, a spear mixed with gold and rock appeared in his hand.

Xia Zhi lifted the spear, tested it a few times, found it somewhat heavy, and activated [Divine Strength].

Now it was ready.

Xia Zhi thought for a moment, made a pure gold mask to wear, then cancelled his stealth state, and holding the gleaming golden spear, directly interrupted their battlefield.

Childe was immersed in battle when he glimpsed a golden light striking at him. He instinctively blocked with his sword, but the next second felt an unreasonable massive force hit him, violently knocking him flying.

???

Childe got up from the ground, looking bewildered as he saw his master also get knocked far away by one spear strike from that strange masked person, who then charged straight at him with murderous momentum.

???

After a period of pure beating, Childe suddenly found the masked person had vanished. He gripped his sword, looking around, expression becoming confused.

What was that?!

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Next morning, Xia Zhi woke from his dream, stretched comfortably, opened his inventory, and took out a golden treasure chest.

The morning makes the day!

Let's get something good!

Xia Zhi chose to open it.

A round badge appeared before him.

[Transformation Badge]

Quality: Gold

Type: Charging Item

Property: Transform

Effect: Requires large amounts of same-type elemental power before each use. When fully charged, based on the elemental type used, provides user with one time-limited random transformation ability of that element.

Hidden Effect: Elemental power recovery speed +10%

This was a new type of item - charging item.

Xia Zhi examined the delicate badge for a while but decided to keep it.

Try out its effects first.

Xia Zhi currently had three types of elemental power he could transform and use in large amounts.

Light element power, space element power, and geo element power.

The first two came from [Radiant Wings], the third from [Midas Touch].

Xia Zhi thought for a moment and began continuously injecting light element power into the badge.

But the charging speed seemed painfully slow.

Even after using up all his mana, the badge only lit up about one-tenth.

Really power-hungry, but its appetite was a good thing, suggesting the transformation ability would be stronger and cooler.

Xia Zhi played with the badge a bit, put it in his inventory, got up and started his daily tasks.

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