Chapter 924: Dreams Have Everything

Little Shiji felt her heart surge with fighting spirit.

The quantum martial arts of the Cthulhu gene could perfectly combine with their clan's Iron-based gene, forming a super qualitative change... Perhaps, their combat power would far exceed anything known in their Iron-based race's ancestral memories!

"I'll work really hard," Little Shiji said, her face filled with excitement, thinking she too needed to become diligent. "I'll ask my sister to teach me the essence of martial arts!"

"Work hard, and don't disgrace our clan," Xu Zhi said, smiling gently with satisfaction. "In the future, my daughter will be the greatest genius of the entire Iron-based race."

"Yes," she replied.

Little Shiji was eager to start practicing quantum martial arts by throwing punches.

Xu Zhi simply smiled, as if on a casual outing, chatted with the two for a bit, and then returned to the villa to rest.

After all, his quantum martial arts, the quantum battle body of the great universe, were still in their final research phase, at the very last stage of integrating the entire Zerg Mother Nest...

Once integrated, it would undoubtedly be an unprecedented qualitative change, subtly connecting with all Zerg subjects.

Only after Renimanska had left did Medusa feel a slight shock again.

"So that's it," she thought. "The Cthulhu race's gene system cultivation methods perfectly align with the Iron-based race's gene system cultivation methods. The two genes complement each other... No wonder they are so close!"

She felt the situation becoming clearer, and she congratulated herself on being very clever, leaving no flaws.

After her father left, the two looked down at the situation. "That monster has left, and the Martial Arts Alliance Leader can't catch up... But it seems both suffered heavy losses and are injured."

"Perhaps someone will take advantage of the situation."

Medusa smiled, continuing to watch the battle below. "After all, those old masters of the martial world are not so simple; each of them has emerged from countless perils... In terms of direct combat power, the Martial Arts Alliance Leader is naturally the strongest, but the others are no pushovers... They will probably kick someone when they're down."

"He has absorbed the data from this battle again and is still dreaming wildly... The dream embryo should be taking shape now," Medusa laughed.

"What is 'A Dream of the Universe'?" Little Shiji asked curiously.

Medusa displayed an extremely peculiar and eerie expression, then suddenly asked, "Do you dream?"

Little Shiji shook her head repeatedly.

"Yes, as a naturally divine and great life form, you naturally don't dream."

Medusa smiled, "But mortals do dream... Dreams are a wonderful experience. Sometimes, it's quite normal to dream that you are not yourself, but someone else..."

"I dream I'm someone else?" Little Shiji repeated.

"Yes. How do you prove your life isn't just a long dream? You might be dreaming right now, from start to finish. In reality, you could just be a burly man with a hairy chest taking a nap," Medusa said.

Little Shiji mused, "The current me might just be a long dream? When I open my eyes, in reality, I might just be a burly man?"

"Dreams are always incredible, yet extraordinarily real. Dreams can best stimulate a creature's deep potential... Self-suggestion can enable one to do incredible things," Medusa said.

Medusa smiled, "For example, in classical martial arts, there were some innate masters who broke human limits – only second-tier, mind you – but they would cultivate certain mental martial arts to charm others and to suggest things to themselves, thereby stimulating their own potential through suggestion..."

Little Shiji was stunned again. "Suggesting things to yourself, stimulating potential?"

"If classical martial arts had such techniques, this martial world naturally has them too," Medusa said.

Little Shiji still didn't quite grasp it.

"Life is but a grand dream; who is truly whom?" Medusa sighed with emotion. "This time, that old man isn't dreaming he's the Martial Arts Alliance Leader anymore... He's finally switched to dreaming about someone else."

Little Shiji's heart jolted, as if she suddenly understood something.

"However, when necessary, if things get lively enough, I can also join in and have some fun," Medusa said, smiling. She hadn't fought in a long time, not in thousands of years, and she was itching for a fight.

Di Qi left the place, his expression peculiar.

"This guy is really a thorny hedgehog, both foul and tough... The one who turned into a dog before didn't lie to me. This Martial Arts Alliance Leader, I'm afraid everyone avoids fighting him. His speed is slow, he can't catch up, so he can only shout from behind."

*Woosh.*

Di Qi walked through the starry sky.

The opponent's martial arts were very orthodox and straightforward. It wasn't that he couldn't learn them; there were no shortcuts. Each layer of strength had to be slowly accumulated, step by step.

Moreover, the difficulty increased geometrically with each additional layer of strength.

It was like the Nine Revolutions Profound Art, where opening each spatial aperture doubled the difficulty.

Not only did it require precise calculation and research into how to stack the next layer of force, and mastering control, but even the number of particles in a quantum wave impact probably had requirements...

"This monster, who knows how insanely strong his cultivation has become, how many hundreds of millions of layers he's stacked? No matter how strong the defense, he shatters it with one punch."

Di Qi continued flying.

Such a monster was naturally to be avoided. You couldn't deal with him, and he couldn't deal with you either.

"Looking at his age, that guy must be only over two thousand years old. Truly admirable. When I was that young, I wasn't as formidable as him; I could only just fight Dao Changsheng."

But the next second,

*Woosh.*

In the void, a figure slowly appeared.

"Does someone know I'm severely injured and are trying to snatch something?"

Di Qi smiled, his expression calm. "It shouldn't be Carolyn. She might be hiding in the dark, but she wouldn't make a move. She knows my true strength, knows that even if I'm seriously injured, I can break through to the ninth tier at any time... If I were her, I would wait until the moment I was so injured I couldn't perceive my surroundings, then strike to kill instantly, not even leaving time to break through."

*Woosh.*

Before him, grains of sand in the void condensed, forming a white-haired old man.

"You are... that dog?"

Di Qi stood in the void, his hands clasped behind his back.

He suddenly chuckled softly, looking at the white-haired old man, and said, "So that's it. This was your scheme from the beginning... Luring that Martial Arts Alliance Leader to fight me. You knew he had invincible defense and invincible offense... Then, taking advantage of both sides being injured, you came to cause me trouble."

As he spoke, his expression grew colder.

Who did everyone think he was, a soft persimmon to be squeezed?

The guy just now was indeed difficult to deal with, but that was all.

He looked seriously injured? But he had only lost a little over a hundred lives, and in the span of a few breaths, his internal World Furnace had already recovered more than seventy lives...

And he originally had over a thousand lives; it could be said he was never truly hurt!

Yes.

The opponent's quantum martial arts were very strange.

But was their Nine Revolutions Profound Art something to be trifled with?

Each had their strengths.

For the opponent to come and intercept him now was simply ridiculous. Surely, the opponent's cultivation method couldn't be unlearnable like the Martial Arts Alliance Leader's?

Zhou Meng chuckled, "Martial Arts Alliance Leader, I'm sorry to have caused you trouble. I told you before that I met him right before he left, but you didn't believe me."

"Then I truly appreciate your good intentions," Di Qi also chuckled.

Zhou Meng then said, "However, since the Martial Arts Alliance Leader caused you trouble, I naturally need to make amends. Perhaps we could exchange a few blows."

Di Qi suddenly calmed down. The opponent clearly thought he was severely injured. "I couldn't ask for more. To meet a friend in the martial world, a true confidant is rare in life!"

"Please!" Zhou Meng said.

"Please!" Di Qi stepped forward.

A terrifying aura erupted.

Zhou Meng, facing him, instantly unleashed the Nine Revolutions Profound Art, the True Body of the Witch Tribe, and various moves of Di Qi. The two became entangled in battle, and endless energy began to surge and vibrate.

Di Qi himself trembled slightly.

"This person really didn't lie to me before! He doesn't have a cultivation method for me to learn... instead, he's learning from me? His movements, posture, words, all seem like another version of myself... What kind of strange quantum martial art is this?"

Di Qi had no time to react.

The opponent erupted wildly, fighting fiercely. Di Qi could only passively block, and in his daze, he felt as if he was fighting himself... It was bizarre and terrifying!

At the same time, he realized that the opponent was starting to resemble him more and more. The cultivation methods, moves, martial arts, and various techniques, which had previously been clumsy and somewhat off, were now being rapidly learned as they continued to exchange blows.

"He's learning from me!"

Di Qi's heart pounded. "His learning speed is unbelievably fast... It's as if I'm seeing another me."

"This is 'A Dream of the Universe'," the old man opposite him said, tears streaking his face, creating a chilling, Peking Opera mask-like sensation. "Who am I... and who is me... Life is like a play... A play is like life..."

Di Qi was incredibly shrewd. The opponent's combat power was not exaggerated, and it was clear that he wasn't trying to kill him, but rather... to learn from him and take advantage of him!

"Bastard, who did you dream you were before? Change back! Don't dream of becoming me, don't live my life..." Di Qi became utterly furious.

This anger was on a completely different level than his fury during the previous battle with the Martial Arts Alliance Leader.

Before, the Devil Lord's cultivation method was already disgusting and terrifying, but who knew this one... was even stranger and also disgusted others.

The opponent's quantum battle body was dreaming.

It was treating the entire universe as its own dream.

And when one dreams, they naturally become a certain character "in the dream," living that person's life and experiencing all its facets...

"Before, I dreamt I was the Martial Arts Alliance Leader. That guy was also very angry, going around kicking doors at the old man's house..." The old man's voice was weathered, filled with emotion, saying, "But now, there's a better option. I can dream of becoming another, more interesting person and live that person's life in the dream..."

"This is impossible!"

Di Qi's expression darkened completely, and he said coldly, "Even if you use a quantum battle body to dream, how can you learn these cultivation methods without the corresponding bloodline?"

The old man was incredibly calm. "Indeed, originally, this old man could only learn the quantum martial arts of the martial world, not the bloodlines from beyond. But there's a God-Devil Alchemist's shop here... and it has some strange plugins... With no more bloodline barriers, anything can be learned."

"This place has truly made this old man's dream omnipotent," he said, constantly forcing an engagement with Di Qi. "It truly fulfills this old man's saying... 'Everything is in a dream'... 'Whoever you are in a dream... that's who you are.'"

Di Qi's expression became utterly solemn as he looked at the alchemy factory within him.

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He was utterly bewildered.

"Why are you looking at me?"

Goosebumps erupted all over his body, and he screamed internally, "I'm innocent! It's all those idiots who set up the shop, it has nothing to do with me!"