The Nightmare Tapir spat out a crystal ball that flew to Lu Chen slowly.
"This is what you wanted. Get the Gods-Slaying Rat out now!"
Lu Chen looked at the crystal ball and said in his deep voice, "You should know that it can find you even if you hide at the end of the world after being bitten by the furball!"
The Nightmare Tapir heard the threat in Lu Chen's words and said immediately, "I won't risk my life because of this little dream."
Lu Chen nodded and called the furball back.
The furball followed behind Lu Chen and left with Lu Chen.
At that moment, Lu Chen stopped in his tracks.
He frowned slightly at the furball.
The furball stared at Lu Chen strangely with its little eyes.
Lu Chen's frown grew deeper and deeper.
Subsequently, Lu Chen turned around and looked at the Nightmare Tapir. "So, all of this is a dream!"
The Nightmare Tapir lifted its head to look at Lu Chen. A moment later, the Nightmare Tapir burst into laughter all of a sudden. "Hahahaha! Lu Chen, you found out?"
"That's strange. How did you find out that this is a dream?"
Lu Chen said coldly, "The furball is very lazy. It won't walk if it doesn't have to. Rhubarb, Little Beast, and Originator are its mounts!
"Moreover, it doesn't look like it's reluctant to eat. In the past, it would grumble whenever I asked it to leave someone behind. But this time, it didn't hesitate at all!
"Most importantly, everything seems to be going too smoothly!"
"Hahahaha!" The Nightmare Tapir no longer looked as weak as before. "Lu Chen, I've really underestimated you."
"People rarely question whether they're in a dream or not when they're in a dream. They won't suspect anything that doesn't make sense. But you … you can notice such tiny details!"
"Do you know that you'll never see me again if you've noticed it a little later? That way, you'll be like everyone else, forever slumbering in the void of stars! "
Lu Chen also felt a lingering fear in his heart.
If he hadn't remembered Rhubarb's words, he wouldn't have suspected that this was a dream.
Rhubarb had said that it had never heard of anyone encountering a Nightmare Tapir. Perhaps one could only encounter one in a dream!
"When did I fall asleep?" Lu Chen asked.
The Nightmare Tapir smiled lightly. "Before you met me!"
"It's true that I'm not good at fighting, but I've been able to survive for so long. If I didn't have any tricks up my sleeve, I would have been killed long ago!"
Lu Chen sucked in a breath of cold air. Without him knowing, he had already fallen into a trap!
Although the Nightmare Tapir was not good at fighting, it was the most terrifying opponent in another sense!
"However, to my surprise," the Nightmare Tapir proceeded to say, "Apart from Mu Sheng's dream, you didn't ask for anything else. I'm curious. Aren't you interested in what you've been looking for?"
"If you investigate all the dreams that I've devoured, you should be able to find out more about what you want to know."
Lu Chen said calmly, "Dreams are too mysterious. If it's not your own dream, you won't be able to tell if it's real or fake when you check someone else's dream. Just like when I check Mu Sheng's dream. Apart from what we've experienced, I can't confirm which are dreams from her memory and which are illusions. "
"Moreover, I'm asking for Mu Sheng's dream. It's too much for you."
"I'll find out what I want to know myself."
The Nightmare Tapir stopped smiling and looked at Lu Chen with its huge eyes. "You're the Emperor indeed. You're different from the rest."
"I've seen the greed of these creatures in the void of stars. There aren't many people as rational as you …"
"Since you've found out that you're in a dream, you'll wake up soon." The Nightmare Tapir spat a luminous pearl out of its mouth as it spoke. "This is what you want. Get Mu Sheng to consume the dream, and everything in the past will replay in her head."
"As for whether she can retrieve her memory through the dream, it'll depend on whether she cares enough about the past.
"Just like what you said, the dream can only help her to retrieve her memory. It's not the real memory."
Lu Chen took the crystal ball in surprise. "T-This isn't another dream, is it?"
"Hahahaha, a dream within a dream? It's indeed a game that I like to play. However, since you've seen through the dream, the foundation of the dream world has collapsed. There's no need for the game to continue. "
The Nightmare Tapir before him began to blur gradually.
"Oh yeah, Lu Chen, since you didn't kill me in your dream, I'll give you a small gift."
"A terrifying creature has awakened in outer space. It … has no rationality, and it's extremely bloodthirsty. It'll be a disaster when it appears in the Alien Battlefield!"
Lu Chen's eyes widened. "Who are you talking about?"
"You've heard of it. It should've awakened 20 years ago, but you ruined it!"
The Nightmare Tapir's image disappeared as soon as it was done speaking, and everything around him collapsed.
Lu Chen woke up abruptly and realized that he was standing on a planet.
"I-is this the planet that I landed on when I first came to the void of stars?" Lu Chen was completely dumbstruck.
In other words, he had fallen asleep when he was still at the outermost region of the void of stars?
He had been fighting the urge to fall asleep since then, but it was all in a dream!
It felt like he could not get out of bed in the morning, but he dreamt that he got out of bed, washed his face, and brushed his teeth …
"Damn, that's terrifying …"
Lu Chen looked at his right hand immediately. At the moment, he was holding a crystal ball in his right hand that was shining faintly.
"Mu Sheng's dream!" Lu Chen's eyes widened.
"It's a good thing that I got it."
Lu Chen put away the crystal ball and turned around to cup his fists at the void of stars. "Thank you, Senior Nightmare Tapir! Goodbye! "
…
After leaving the void of stars, Lu Chen found Netherworld and the rest.
To Lu Chen's surprise, he felt that it had only been a few hours since he entered the void of stars, but Netherworld and the rest said that three months had passed!
Fortunately, Lu Chen had returned safely.
The furball said that it had a dream and ate the Nightmare Tapir, but it did not taste good at all.
Lu Chen smiled slightly. If it were not for this little guy, he might have been trapped in the void of stars.
Subsequently, Lu Chen told Netherworld and the rest about the 'terrifying creature' that the Nightmare Tapir had told him about.
"Boss, I know who the Nightmare Tapir is talking about!" Rhubarb said.
Lu Chen nodded. He had already gotten the answer from the Nightmare Tapir's reminder. "It's the Mad Demon War God that those strange beasts in the rift world that I went to back then!"
"If even the Nightmare Tapir said that it's a terrifying existence and a disaster, then …" Netherworld frowned and sighed. "Does that mean that even the eight Supreme Gods might not be able to defeat it?"
Withered Claw said, "Didn't they say that Kong Gu has comprehended Heavenly Dao and his strength has increased greatly? Did the Nightmare Tapir consider this factor? "
"It should be a conclusion after considering it." Lu Chen said, "The Nightmare Tapir gives me the feeling that it knows almost everything. It won't make such a low-level mistake."
"Then what should we do?"
Lu Chen thought for a moment and said, "Demon-Sealing War God, Otherworldly Demons, Autarchs, Overgods of the Nine Heavens, Overgods … these are not existences that we can deal with right now."
"Now, our mission is to continue cultivating!"
"If Kong Gu can find a way to become stronger in outer space, so can we!"
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