Chapter 368: Dream
"Damn it! How could there be such a shitty reversal!" After reading the last message his younger brother sent him, Zhao Feiling finally understood what was going on.
Those bastards actually wanted to use him as a sacrificial lamb, to atone for a victim from ten years ago, all to exchange for something!
After deleting the message his brother sent and turning off his phone, he still felt it wasn't secure enough, so he threw it with all his might in the opposite direction from where he was heading, clutching only a large bag filled with cash and wilderness survival essentials.
No matter how profligate Zhao Feiling was, he understood that power was often just as important as one's background. When faced with an unreasonable lunatic, all status and position were worthless; only fists could shut them up.
But he lacked Zhao Feiyan's genius. Even with various protections and a piling up of resources, he still only lingered in the Life Field Stage, barely managing to achieve a mid-tier Two Tiers rating.
However, even with zero combat experience, his superior physical conditioning still allowed him to ignore most of the dangers of wilderness survival. Especially with humanity's relentless daily hunting of mutated creatures, mutated beasts outside the Big Four Mystical Realms were almost extinct.
Perhaps it was because nature sought to evade humanity's endless greedy desires, but under the Spirit Qi environment, any life forms that later suddenly awakened abilities and sentience in the wild would, at the moment of their awakening, receive an unknown message, urging them to immediately head towards the nearest Mystical Realm.
Driving his off-road vehicle along the country road, Zhao Feiling stomped on the accelerator, making the car advance at an even faster speed towards the northern border.
"Thump!" Just as the jeep was about to turn at an intersection, he suddenly felt as if the right rear wheel had run over something strange.
"Something's not right; there was definitely nothing here when I arrived." Zhao Feiling remembered clearly that there hadn't been any blue-glowing stones in front of him just now.
Something so conspicuous, he would absolutely have seen it at first glance; there was no way he would only feel it after the car had run over it.
"This is...?" Born into a prominent family, Zhao Feiling had seen countless treasures in his life, but he swore he had never seen such a beautiful gem!
A gem radiating a gentle blue light was half-buried in the pile of stones, revealing only the tip of the iceberg. Just by casting his gaze upon the gem itself, he felt a sensation of his soul ascending.
Without a moment's hesitation, Zhao Feiling, completely immersed in its radiance, rushed to the pile of stones at top speed and swept away the obstructive ordinary rocks with a few quick motions. He felt that the presence of these ugly stones around it was nothing short of a profanation.
The blue light reflected in his eyes, calming all the restlessness within him, making Zhao Feiling for a moment even forget the fact that he was on the run.
Only when he placed the gem in his palm to examine it did he realize that this was, in fact, merely a small fragment that had broken off from some colossal existence!
"The entirety of this thing must, definitely, forever be mine!" Zhao Feiling looked around, and after confirming there were no witnesses, he carefully placed the blue gem into a pocket close to his body.
If someone had happened to pass by at that moment, driven by his intense possessiveness, he, who had always been lawless and firmly believed his brother and father could resolve any trouble, might even have resorted to directly silencing them—both to conceal his whereabouts and, more importantly, to eternally monopolize the sapphire.
That night, Zhao Feiling, now completely out of touch with everyone, lay in the back seat of the off-road vehicle, munching on the hastily packed dry rations after a quick check of the car.
These dry, hard-to-eat, and unpleasant compressed rations would never have entered his diet before, but Zhao Feiling, still in the Life Field Stage, hadn't yet fully escaped the limitations of food.
Maintaining this superhuman physique required more energy intake, so in addition to absorbing Spirit Qi, he still needed to consume a certain amount of food as supplementation.
His accustomed pampered life, which meant he had never experienced hardship, made it so that after casually filling his stomach following a day of bumpy escape, he paid no attention to anything else, lying down in the back seat of the jeep and falling into a deep sleep, head covered.
The extreme mental exhaustion caused Zhao Feiling to completely cast anti-reconnaissance out of his mind... After all, he was just a pampered young master who usually had everything done for him, and his actions earlier that day had already been an extraordinary display.
In his dream, Zhao Feiling encountered a golden-haired girl in a long, water-blue dress, whose beauty was captivating enough to ruin a nation; every frown and smile seemed capable of stirring the deepest desires within a person's heart.
"Beauty, may I have the pleasure of your acquaintance?" Having long steeped himself in a bed of flowers, he was an experienced hunter of beauties, utterly defenseless against this kind of stunning woman.
He didn't realize this was a dream, so he approached her directly, just as he normally would.
Relying on his exceptional family background, coupled with his handsome face and sculpted physique, most women he set his sights on couldn't escape his grasp. After all, a man who could fulfill all the conditions of a prince charming in one go was indeed a rare species.
"Can you rescue me?" After seeing Zhao Feiling, the girl looked at him with pitiful eyes.
For such a femme fatale capable of bewitching all beings, her soft, gentle plea instantly ignited all of Zhao Feiling's protective instincts.
"I am Yicui Si, the Saintess from the Water Blue Continent. During the invasion of otherworldly demons, I was struck by a vicious curse, and my soul crystal shattered because of it, bringing me to this world amidst spatial turbulence..."
...
The girl, who called herself Yicui Si, used a stirring tone to gradually unfold a grand scroll about another world before Zhao Feiling. Her pleasing appearance, coupled with a body fragrance that subtly came and went, stirred his every nerve.
"I cannot refuse this righteous cause!" After listening to her tearful plea, Zhao Feiling said without hesitation.
"My hero, this is the introductory secret method from our Water Blue Sacred Temple. If you can truly gather all the soul crystals scattered across this world, this humble girl is willing to..." The golden-haired girl provocatively traced a circle on Zhao Feiling's chest with her index finger, transmitting some information, and then Zhao Feiling woke up.
"Cang Lan Mi Dian... it seems I've stumbled upon a treasure!" After a stream of cultivation-related information flowed into his mind, Zhao Feiling opened his eyes. He lightly sniffed the surface of the blue gem and discovered there genuinely seemed to be an extremely faint fragrance, as if what had just happened wasn't merely a dream.
"You're getting better and better at playing your games too." After seeing Zhao Feiling off, the girl heard a voice behind her that made her hair stand on end. The source of the voice was clearly a ball of white light.
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