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Chapter 663: Meng Yao's Fear! Dream Cultivation in Action!
Chapter 663: Meng Yao's Fear! Dream Cultivation in Action!
Four individuals stood together, three of them surrounding a single person.
Lying there, the smallest in stature among them, was none other than Meng Yao.
Meng Yao lay speechless on the experimental bed, gazing at his own image in the distance as if observing a lab rat, his face filled with grief and anger. "Damn it! I said I wanted to participate in the cultivation process, not like this! You bastards, just wait and see how I'll crush your research results!"
At this moment, Meng Yao, the center of attention for the trio, was indeed participating in the dream cultivation process, and the method of his involvement was quite unique.
He was the test subject for the skill.
Currently, a test subject was precisely what they needed.
Furthermore, this could still be considered a form of participation.
After all, for the upcoming experiment, the higher the spiritual power of the test subject, the better, and it was preferable to have a pure spiritual attribute without any other elemental changes.
Meng Yao was the ideal candidate.
"Alright, if this skill can become a Hall-level skill in the future, your contribution, Meng Senior, will be recorded for eternity. You should consider it an honor and stop complaining," Su Ping said without looking up from the spiritual feedback display.
"Damn it! If you can't use idioms properly, just don't use them at all! What do you mean by 'recorded for eternity' and 'eternal honor'? You promised there wouldn't be any danger!" Meng Yao shouted, but the trio ignored him and glanced at each other, then turned their attention to a nearby pet beast.
This pet beast was none other than the Dream Butterfly used earlier as the cultivation test subject.
The recent cultivation primarily focused on the Dream Butterfly, and once the cultivation was complete, Su Ping could transfer it to Feifei without any issues.
Moreover, he was quite curious about the Dream Butterfly's skill usage.
The experiment they were conducting was based on the previous cultivation theory, which involved transforming spiritual power derived from fear within the dream realm to inflict damage in the real world.
Of course, this damage wasn't what Su Ping had initially envisioned; he didn't want a cut in the dream to result in an identical wound in reality.
The concept of such a skill was excellent, but unfortunately, despite the trio's discussions and experiments, they hadn't found a way to make it work.
As a fallback, they proposed the idea of influencing the dream realm, which was relatively easier to accept and simpler to execute, utilizing the soul brought about by spiritual awareness and brain death.
This attack method was more straightforward for spiritual-type beings.
As for the earlier idea of creating a real-life Freddy-like scenario, Su Ping hadn't given up on it, but as he always said, you eat your meals one bite at a time, and you walk your path one step at a time.
The time for that stage hadn't arrived yet.
This attempt was based on Su Ping's previous cultivation extension using the Fearful Little Ghost and the Screaming Banshee in the Heart of Souls.
The former possessed a unique racial skill called Fearful Power, which enhanced the effectiveness of spiritual attacks and imbued them with fear.
Additionally, the Screaming Banshee had another skill called Nightmare Entanglement, which didn't induce actual nightmares but was an extension of fear-inducing spiritual power, capable of reducing an opponent's spiritual reaction and immersing them involuntarily.
These two skills were racial skills possessed by the two pet beasts.
As spiritual-type undead pet beasts, the number of these two creatures was certainly not high, despite their low grades—the former was only a Commander-level, and the latter was a Monarch-level.
However, the effort required to analyze and cultivate these racial skills onto other pet beasts over the past month was immense.
Of course, effort was just one aspect; the reason they could complete it in a month was that Su Ping had used approximately 200 generic experience points, equivalent to 2000 catalog experience points.
Otherwise, even with the effort, it would have taken much longer to isolate the skills, let alone complete this initial cultivation experiment.
Now that they had successfully cultivated both skills, they combined them with the Dream Butterfly's dream cultivation, resulting in a unique synergistic effect.
Dream Butterfly entered the dream state, using spiritual energy to form a dream surfing scenario to execute an attack that merged with the enemy's fear and spiritual energy.
After several days of leveling up these skills, they had reached an initial level of parity. For Su Ping, it was finally time to begin the experiments.
"Dream Butterfly, let's begin!" Meng Yan spoke.
Dream Butterfly had significantly improved during this time, and the three of them had become extremely close. Naturally, they were fully cooperating with the skill experiment.
Meng Yao had spoken harshly, but he also knew that during this time, the three of them had put in tremendous effort and dedication to cultivate this dream surfing ability.
At this moment, since they had already decided to cooperate with the experiment, they were extremely obedient.
He did not use his spiritual energy to resist; otherwise, a mere Monarch-tier Dream Butterfly would never be able to put a Holy Spirit-level dream surfer to sleep, no matter what.
The dream connection slowly formed, and as expected, after Meng Yao completely relaxed his spiritual energy resistance, it took less than half a minute before his eyelids began to droop.
Then, in less than ten seconds, after he closed his eyes, they did not open again.
A faint snoring sound accompanied the frequency signal of the spiritual energy, appearing on the spiritual detection instrument.
This signal and number represented normal sleep.
During this time, they had all become extremely familiar with these numbers and signals.
However, after just a few minutes, the number began to rise rapidly.
This indicated the activity of the other party's spirit.
But this activity was still within the normal range of dreaming.
If it was a pleasant dream, it would be more comfortable, and if it was a nightmare, it would only cause one to wake up at most.
At this moment, including Su Ping, they all stopped looking at the recording instrument.
Because they had more suitable equipment.
On the projection screen provided by Feifei, the scene within the dream appeared.
Indeed, this was also the reason Su Ping did not let Feifei conduct the experiment. Feifei's Dream Heart and the dream connection could simultaneously connect, and through the mechanical device, the dream scene could be converted into reality.
They could see the cultivation effect within the dream more clearly.
And at this moment, the scene was Meng Yao's dream.
Water.
As a Water-type Holy Spirit, it was obvious that Meng Yao's dreams were mostly about water.
In this water, his Holy Spirit could fully utilize its advantages and abilities.
Su Ping and the others were also curious to see what changes would occur when a dream was guided by fear.
As soon as this thought appeared, as expected, the scene in the projection changed!
The impact and lethality of the dream were revealed at this moment.
Even in this dream, the embodiment of Dream Butterfly did not appear.
Because Dream Butterfly and Meng Yan knew that for someone as powerful as Meng Yao, they were never afraid of the appearance of an enemy.
Fear in their hearts would not come from a person, unless under special circumstances.
For Meng Yao, his fear obviously came from something else.
And at this moment, Dream Butterfly utilized that 'something else'!
Immediately, it was clear that Meng Yao was getting anxious.
He had already forgotten that he was still dreaming.
In this vast ocean, the temperature seemed to rise suddenly.
The next moment, in his astonished gaze, the sun in the sky seemed to draw closer.
It descended lower and lower.
Then, the vast waters were directly evaporated.
Boundless mist rapidly spread in the hazy atmosphere.
At this moment, the three of them clearly saw Meng Yao's spiritual aura weaken.
Moreover, the speed of this weakening continued to intensify.
Weaker and weaker.
It even dropped by an entire realm.
As his spiritual energy weakened, Meng Yao's spirit seemed to quieten within the dream.
The fear was so intense that Meng Yao's forehead was covered in sweat, not only in the dream but also in reality.
At this moment, Su Ping looked up at Meng Yao on the detection instrument bed. They could clearly see without the need for any instruments that Meng Yao was affected.
The current Meng Yao had beads of sweat on his forehead, and the spiritual energy around him was in extreme chaos.
However, Su Ping showed no signs of amusement.
This ability was still not enough to threaten a Holy Spirit Level; it was simply impossible.
Even if this was already a Chao-jie Skill, it couldn't possibly reach this extent, let alone the fact that this skill was just a combination and hadn't completed the fusion process.
It hadn't truly condensed into a true Chao-jie Skill.
So, with just this, an unexpected change occurred.
The first change was with Meng Yao's Dream Butterfly.
On Dream Butterfly's body, spiritual energy began to rapidly deplete.
Although it was also in a dream, the speed of depletion was much faster than Meng Yao's.
It was evident that in such a dream, the manifestation of a sun capable of evaporating waters to instill fear required a significant amount of energy. Even in one's own dream, Dream Butterfly, as the creator of the dream, couldn't arbitrarily exert its will.
Energy was always an essential element that couldn't be ignored.
But this was an expected occurrence.
Even this scene didn't cause much disturbance in Su Ping. He already had an idea about this, the one he had obtained previously based on the Kongxiang Stone.
What caught his attention at this moment was another special situation that had just emerged.
Through instrument observation, within this fear, Meng Yao's dream began to fracture.
Simultaneously, Meng Yao's forehead, drenched in sweat, his eyelids quivered, and his eyes began to rapidly rotate.
The next moment, a piercing breathing sound echoed, and Meng Yao abruptly sat up.
Instantly, all spiritual energy fluctuations vanished without a trace.
All spiritual energy responses returned to normal.
Meng Yao, in a daze, looked around for three seconds before finally regaining his senses. He waved his hand and exclaimed,
"Damn, you scared the hell out of me!"
Evidently, the fact that Meng Yao had just cursed so profanely proved the immense impact of the previous scene on him.
The next moment, Meng Yao waved his hand again,
"I'm absolutely not participating in this kind of experiment again, damn it!"
Su Ping paid no heed to this and asked directly,
"Senior, what do you feel?"
Meng Yao glanced at him and replied, "What else could I feel? It's just a nightmare!
Moreover, the sensations within the dream are extremely real. Damn it, it's a bit unreliable. The sun collapsed? A piece of it fell and evaporated both me and my waters? Can it get any more absurd?"
Hearing these words, Meng Huangliang by his side chuckled,
"The stimulation of fear, according to the dream, is something you fear the most. Yao Sheng, this is indeed one of the things you fear the most."
Su Ping smiled. Meng Yan had previously told him that the creation of dreams needed to be tailored to each individual.
It also required more cultivation of beasts in this aspect.
If the dream could accurately grasp the heart of the person, it would be twice the result with half the effort, and vice versa.
Undoubtedly, this Dream Butterfly, if it hadn't accurately grasped Meng Yao's fears, would not have caused such a significant reaction from Meng Yao, even though Meng Yao had not resisted.
But this was enough.
Indeed, the three people present, hearing Meng Yao's cursing, turned their attention back to him and saw the satisfaction in his eyes.
It was indeed enough.
Even without the fusion into a Chao-jie Skill, the effect was sufficient to weaken the spiritual energy of the corresponding life form in the real world to this extent.
This proved that the effect of this skill combination was absolutely greater than the sum of its parts.
As long as some of its weaknesses and defects were improved, at the very least, the absolutely enhanced version of Dream Surfing would not be too far off from the effect recorded in the Dangtang-level Hall!
(End of Chapter)
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