Chapter 1636: Chapter 700: Time Disordered Forest

Mu You awoke from his slumber.

Above his head was a pale red sky, under the strange colored sky, instead of white clouds, there were spiral-shaped flowing clouds, resembling Van Gogh’s famous starry night painting, swirling and merging rapidly in a highly abstract manner at low altitude.

Sitting up and glancing around, he found himself on a piece of verdant land, in the distance was a sparse forest, but the trees growing there weren’t normal, they were twisted and gnarled dead trees, looking more like ‘monsters’ baring fangs and brandishing claws rather than trees.

Even more bizarre were the numerous transparent spheres floating above the ground.

The sizes of these spheres varied, the largest as big as basketballs, the smallest as small as glass marbles, the only commonality being that just like a fortune teller’s crystal ball, all spheres were playing some kind of dynamic image.

“Is this… the Dream World?” Mu You looked slightly surprised.

The environment here was very different from his imagination because the scenes inside his backpack space were all picturesque landscapes, leading him to subconsciously assume that the Dream World would be similar.

However, the real Dream World had a completely different style; rather than a realistic style, it was more like a dark version of a fairy tale world sketched by a child with crayons…

Little Ya and Lin Xue also awoke beside him at this time, all three wearing only a very simple layer of fabric, and their clothes, equipment, storage rings, even the Magic Spells and Divine Power in their minds, had all vanished without a trace.

“Yes, this is the Dream World.”

Vivian’s familiar voice sounded, her wings fluttered as the crow landed on a tree branch ahead, looking at the somewhat disordered trio below.

“Don’t worry, your powers and equipment haven’t disappeared; rather, you just haven’t manifested them in the dream yet.”

“Manifest?”

“Focus your attention and imagine the items and abilities you possess in your mind, the more detailed the better; however, the precondition is that it must be something you own in reality.”

Vivian reminded them, seeing all three look at each other in bewilderment, she comforted, “Don’t stress, it might feel uncomfortable just getting in, but as you slowly get used to it you’ll be… fine…”

Vivian hadn’t even finished speaking when she suddenly stopped.

Because she had already seen Mu You rapidly manifest complete clothing and equipment on himself.

Following closely, Lin Xue too, after closing her eyes for a few seconds, completely restored her external state.

“It seems even Divine Power can be manifested…”

Mu You looked thoughtfully at his hands, suddenly forming a hand sword gesture with his right hand and slashing forward.

A miniature Crescent Sword Aura took shape, drifting across the grassland, hitting a distant dead tree, which disintegrated in a flash of white light and vanished completely.

“Magic can also…”

Lin Xue, observing Mu You, grabbed at the void, and a Magic Wand appeared in her hand. With a wave of the wand, a water sphere floated out and exploded in front, instantly saturating the nearby air with mist.

“Uh, does it work even for things not carried with you?”

Mu You eyed a bag of cat food appearing in his hand bizarrely, opening it to taste a few pellets.

“No taste, just purely a product of imagination… but it seems it can actually be used to fill the stomach here.”

Opposite, Lin Xue tried too, but no cat food appeared in her hand.

“It seems not everything can be manifested; only things belonging to oneself can be.”

The cat food was an item from the pet shop, and before the items were sold, ownership belonged to Mu You as the ‘shopkeeper’.

“What about pets?”

“Apparently not, living creatures can’t be manifested…”

“But summonable magical creatures can…”

…

Vivian watched the two discussing back and forth, and within minutes, they had already figured out the basic rules of the dream world, leaving her feeling somewhat redundant.

To think, when she first arrived, she spent an entire day barely adapting to the manifesting rules here…

Fortunately, not far away, Little Ya was still flustered and had just gotten to the step of manifesting clothing.

Seeing Little Ya’s clumsy behavior, Vivian finally breathed a sigh of relief, this was the normal response one should have.

Thankfully, it wasn’t her being outdated with the times, but rather these two were simply extraordinary…

“Don’t rush, do as I say…”

Vivian began to focus on guiding Little Ya, originally prepared instructions for the three were now dedicated to coaching Little Ya, and after more than an hour, finally got Little Ya familiar with the various manifesting rules here.

“In short, what appears here isn’t your true form, but a ‘dream body’ formed by mental coagulation, so if something happens here and you accidentally die, there’s no need to worry, you’ll just wake up in reality and temporarily won’t be able to enter here again.”

“What about our physical bodies?”

“Your physical bodies are with the Elves, protected by the World Tree, and until you wake up, no one can harm you unless someone actively attacks the World Tree. If our bodies are harmed, we might be forcibly dragged out of the dream world.”

Saying this, Vivian was already leading the three deeper into the dream world.

Mu You passed by a floating Crystal Ball by the roadside, leaning in to take a curious look.

The image inside the Crystal Ball showed a man being chased by some kind of monster, gasping for breath as he stumbled and tumbled through the forest to escape.

“These are ‘Dream Spheres’, dreams that some creature in the outside world is experiencing… theoretically, all dreams by external creatures are projected in real-time somewhere in this world, forming their respective Dream Spheres,” Vivian explained.