SSS-Rank 10x Reward System: Accepting Disciples to Live Forever-Chapter 220: Horror
Doubled...
No.
At least tripled.
That was the conclusion Wang Chen reached as he felt the raw power surging through his body like a raging river.
His divine sense, which before had felt like nothing more than a fragile thread that could be snapped with the slightest touch, had now transformed into something entirely different.
It was no longer fragile.
No longer intangible.
It felt solid.
Real.
If he wished, Wang Chen could now wield his divine sense like an extension of his own weaponry. Invisible yet terrifying, it could sweep across entire regions and crush anyone weaker than him into dust.
A weapon of mass destruction.
However—
His enemy was not some insignificant ant.
Standing before him was a Domain Sovereign, a being capable of rewriting the very laws of reality within her domain.
Wang Chen’s gaze shifted toward the ancient winged woman.
Her face remained as cold and expressionless as frozen stone.
Seeing that icy expression, Wang Chen’s eyebrows lifted slightly.
Then his lips curled into a faint smirk.
The ancient winged woman noticed.
Her figure stiffened for the briefest moment.
There was a flicker of confusion in her eyes.
Audacity.
That was the only explanation.
How could a mere Nascent Soul cultivator, trapped within her domain and facing certain death, still dare to smile like that?
But the confusion lasted only a moment.
The next instant, her eyes turned colder than ever.
As expected...
She concluded silently.
The realization of his approaching death had clearly driven him mad.
Nearby, the All-Seeing Immortal watched everything carefully.
His pure white eyes flickered with uncertainty.
The rage that had clouded his mind earlier suddenly faded like smoke in a storm.
Both Logic returned and Reason returned.
And with it came a faint chill in his heart.
For some reason...
That smirk on Wang Chen’s face disturbed him, Deeply.
Something terrible was about to happen.
He could feel it.
The thought had barely formed when—
Something changed.
A voice suddenly echoed through the void.
It seemed to cut through both space and time.
"Fine."
"So be it."
"If you seek death..."
"Then I, Wang Chen, shall be magnanimous enough to grant your wish."
His voice was cold....Clear.
Each word was sharp and precise, spoken as though he were granting mercy rather than delivering a threat.
It was as if, out of sheer pity, he had decided to end the life of the ancient winged woman.
In the distance, Eternal Dream watched the scene unfold.
Her expression remained calm.
Indifferent.
Yet beneath that calm exterior, her thoughts were anything but steady.
The situation had begun to move beyond her understanding.
First—
Wang Chen’s sudden breakthrough.
He might have been able to deceive the others, but not her.
To Eternal Dream, Wang Chen was like an open book.
She knew perfectly well that he had been far from reaching the Unity Realm.
Yet somehow...
Right before her eyes...
He had skipped the Dirty Roaming Realm entirely and stepped directly into Unity.
Impossible.
Yet it had happened.
Even so, that alone was not enough to truly shake her.
What shattered her composure was something else.
Because just moments ago—
A sound had echoed inside her mind.
The sound of celestial gears turning.
For a brief instant, everything vanished from her awareness.
Wang Chen disappeared.
The vast ancient ground of the dragon race disappeared.
Memories of past and present faded away.
All that remained...
Was a single sound.
The sound of inevitability.
Tick...
Tock...
Across the endless flow of time and space, two enormous hands slowly emerged.
Ancient.
Primordial.
Older than the world itself.
They moved toward her.
Slowly.
Relentlessly.
Death.
For the first time in countless years...
Eternal Dream felt a chill run down her spine.
A terrible realization dawned upon her.
If she remained here—
Those hands would close around her.
And when they did...
She would be crushed.
A gruesome, inescapable death.
For a brief moment, beads of cold sweat formed on Eternal Dream’s forehead.
She clenched her teeth and shook her head fiercely.
No. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶
This could not be real.
She was no ordinary being.
No ordinary cultivator.
She was someone who had witnessed the rise and fall of countless eras. Someone who had seen through endless conspiracies and schemes. Someone who had survived the catastrophe that had erased the entire dragon race from existence.
Yet no matter how strongly she denied it—
As those colossal hands moved closer...
Her heartbeat began to race.
The sense of death felt terrifyingly real.
The pressure bearing down on her grew heavier with each passing moment.
Unable to bear it any longer, Eternal Dream slowly closed her eyes.
Her mind froze completely as the two ancient hands hovered above her head.
At that instant, it felt as though the entire universe had been placed upon her shoulders.
Ready to crush her into nothingness.
Time seemed to stretch endlessly.
Then—
Confusion flickered across her face.
The overwhelming sense of inevitability that had wrapped around her suddenly vanished.
Just like smoke scattered by the wind.
As if it had never existed at all.
Her brows slowly furrowed.
A strange thought surfaced in her mind.
Could it be...
Was all of that nothing more than a dream?
But how could that be possible?
That was absurd.
She was the one who trapped others within eternal dreams.
Not the other way around.
Just then—
A sharp scream shattered the silence.
"Argh!"
Eternal Dream’s eyes snapped open.
She looked around instantly, alertness flashing through her gaze.
Beneath her, vast waves rose and fell endlessly, creating a scene so grand it looked like an ocean made of light.
Yet she had no mind to admire the beauty.
Four figures had stood there before.
Now there were only three.
They floated above the raging sea of energy, each radiating terrifying auras.
Their eyes were tightly shut.
Strange expressions flickered across their faces, as if each of them were trapped within their own nightmare.
Eternal Dream’s gaze quickly locked onto the woman from the ancient winged race.
Something was wrong.
Her body was fading.
Slowly.
Bit by bit.
It was as though an invisible force was erasing her from existence itself.
Eternal Dream barely had time to blink—
Before the ancient winged woman completely vanished.
Gone.
Without leaving behind even a trace.
Silence fell over the battlefield.
Eternal Dream finally let out a long breath.
Thankfully...
She had not been the true target of that horrifying attack.
If she had been—
The result might have been the same.
Her thoughts slowly drifted back to Wang Chen.
Her eyes turned toward him.
For the first time since they had met, Eternal Dream’s expression looked slightly pale.
The majestic aura of an ancient dragon had completely vanished from her demeanor.
The arrogance.
The calm pride of a senior.
All of it had disappeared.
What remained was something far more unsettling.
Pure horror.
The way she looked at Wang Chen now...
It was no longer the gaze of a superior observing a junior.
Instead—
It was the gaze of someone staring at something utterly incomprehensible.
As if Wang Chen were not a cultivator at all...
But an eldritch entity wearing the skin of a human.
