86: Chapter 83 Cocoon Dream (Combined) 2 86: Chapter 83 Cocoon Dream (Combined) 2 “I want to enhance Chi Huo…

I’ll need to absorb various essences, the essence of my own breathing technique, the essence of the seal object, and the essence of Transcendents—any of these can serve as ‘food’ for Chi Huo.”

As soon as this thought emerged, Gu Shen’s gaze fell upon Qu Shui.

“Based on this situation, Chi Huo…

should be a Spiritual Extraordinary Ability.

But how can I snatch her essence?”

Gu Shen thought for a moment and realized he had only one method left.

To immerse Chi Huo into Qu Shui’s spirit.

In theory, since the girl was already dead and her consciousness had dissipated, naturally, there would be no spirit either.

But having removed the stone sculpture’s brand several times before had made Gu Shen familiar with his own Chi Huo ability.

Unlike ordinary Spiritual Extraordinary abilities, Chi Huo seemed to have a miraculous sensing ability; he could sense the spiritual fluctuations carried by objects and living beings…

These spiritual fluctuations could establish an order under the augmentation of Chi Huo, then build it into a dreamscape with mirrored meanings.

On Zhou Yexin…

Chi Huo saw a dreamscape lingering for more than a decade.

“Her shadow is emanating strong spiritual fluctuations…

If I want to absorb its essence, this is the only way to try,” Gu Shen firmly wiped his cheek, rallied his spirits, and decided to give it a try while he still hadn’t lost consciousness.

“Hum!”

The small flame attached to his forehead, under Gu Shen’s willful control, slowly detached and descended on Qu Shui’s forehead, where a bloody hole had been opened, and under the scorch of Chi Huo, a faint burnt scent arose.

Although Chi Huo currently only displayed the hypnotic power of a spiritual type, it was still an entity of real flames, possessing extremely high temperatures.

Apart from its master, Gu Shen, any other person coming into contact would be scorched by Chi Huo.

Since there was temperature, it could burn physical objects.

This also meant…

if this strand of small flame could one day grow into a massive torrential fire within the Ghost Cage that incinerated thousands of ghosts, then burning down an entire city would just be in the blink of an eye.

Just two seconds.

The bloody hole in Qu Shui’s forehead ceased bleeding, and with the descent of Chi Huo, its high temperature directly evaporated any blood that flowed out.

The colorful river bank, that small black shadow, and the intense flame, finally came into contact.

The world returned to darkness.

The river roared and bellowed.

Gu Shen leaned against the muddy stone walls of kiln 97, slightly bowing his head, sinking into “hibernation.”

…

…

Very tired.

Very very very tired.

So tired that I don’t want to open my eyes…

I want to keep sleeping like this.

My body is like a strand of seaweed, struck by ten thousand pounds of heavy waves in the sea, being incessantly ground by invisible undertows.

Falling.

Falling.

A loud “snap” like thunder, exploded.

Gu Shen suddenly woke up.

He was lifted from the bathtub by a large hand, his left cheek searing with pain, and before he could react, another slap landed on his right cheek.

“Idiot!”

The person holding him was a thin-framed man, whose scholarly round glasses were fogged up by steam, but his face bore a ferocious look, and two slaps later, Gu Shen became fully alert…

Chi Huo had entered into Qu Shui’s lingering dreamscape.

Although the original owner was dead.

Yet Gu Shen still couldn’t freely move his body.

The current sensation was unusually realistic.

He could feel his limbs, heavy as if filled with lead, and similarly, his spirit was incredibly weary, starkly different from the overuse drainage when using the Truth Ruler—constant waves in his mind were a near-desperate spiritual consciousness that was on the verge of giving up.

Is this…

Qu Shui’s father?

He felt that the man’s face at this moment, as seen in the silhouette within the side world, faintly overlay with what he saw…

very similar.

This consciousness just surfaced.

“Snap!”

The third slap came fiercely, spinning Gu Shen’s head, making him nearly vomit… he was immersed in “Qu Shui’s” perspective.

The girl was slapped so hard she flipped over face-up out of the bathtub.

At that moment, Gu Shen saw “himself” in the mirror—a small, unattractively thin body, covered with scars, several cuts on the wrists with fresh blood, soaked in cold water, the flesh opened and ghastly.

Qu Shui’s wrists, were these scabbed wounds left at this moment?

The corner of his eye caught sight of a body…

brutally dismembered and scattered, beautiful long hair soaked in bright red blood.

At that moment, an intense discomfort surged from all over.

Finally squeezing into his stomach.

The girl couldn’t help but “wah” out loud, trying to vomit something out…

but a reflux in her throat, perhaps due to not eating for too long, a dry retching brought up only some scattered acidic water.

“Daddy…”

The broken sob, harshly emitted from the girl’s throat, she curled up, pleading desperately: “Please, don’t…

”

Apart from Gu Shen, no one saw it.

In the bathtub, a dark shadow grew larger, like a shark that could leap out of the sea at any moment.

This wasn’t a dream…

but a reality truly recorded by the Extraordinary Essence…

This was the scene when Qu Shui awakened her Extraordinary abilities.

The man who lost his sanity.

And the girl who struggled bitterly.

This painfully shattered dreamscape, the moment the shadow in the bathtub rose to break the water surface, exploded fully.

The man’s panicked face was instantly engulfed by the black shadow, countless shadows entered through his eyes, nose, and lips, nearly bursting his body apart, he was slammed against the wall, collapsing weakly, while the girl still maintained her curled up posture…

There are always unfortunate souls fooled by fate, who become out-of-controls at the moment of awakening their Extraordinary powers, due to the intense spiritual stimulation.