Dragon Tamer

Chapter 632: Chapter 634: Midnight Dream Demon

Things often seen???

The thing most often seen are the eyes of the Yama Dragon.

But that should be due to the fear curse of the Yama Dragon.

“Will the Midnight Dream Demon disguise itself as someone or a dragon closer to me?” Zhu Minglang asked.

“No, things that are too close to you, you can identify at a glance that there are hints of their presence, clever Midnight Dream Demons would not do such a foolish thing. They usually choose things that are often around you, but not that you pay much attention to,” the Female Dream Master said.

Zhu Minglang nodded his head, having a range made it much less difficult to find the Midnight Dream Demon.

Continuing to walk in this Sparrow Wolf Divine City, Zhu Minglang found that only the places he had passed during the day retained the appearance of the Sparrow Wolf Divine City, while the rest of the Divine City was patched together from images in his own memory.

Like walking across a long bridge, the opposite bank turned out to be a coral sea, upon which there was a very splendid building, just the highest Dragon Taming Academy in Neon Sea Fantasy City!

Considering these days, Zhu Minglang had not seen the Dragon Taming Academy appear repeatedly in his dreams, so Zhu Minglang did not step inside, thinking the Midnight Dream Demon probably wasn’t hiding there.

Going deeper into the city, Zhu Minglang saw an area paved with copper-colored tiles, which seemed to be the Central Imperial City within the Imperial City. Indeed, when he reached the innermost part, he saw the arena in the middle of the city river, buzzing with voices and dragons fighting fiercely.

“These days, what I seem to dream about more often should be the Ancestral Dragon City, mostly wandering around the dream area of the Ancestral Dragon City-State,” Zhu Minglang muttered to himself.

The Tian Shu God Domain is vast, and there are many realms the Female Dream Master had never seen. These fragmented images did not make the Female Dream Master suspect Zhu Minglang’s origins since what she saw and heard also followed along with Zhu Minglang’s experiences.

The Divine City in the dream embedded an Ancestral Dragon City-State. Zhu Minglang could even see the white walls of the city-state, grandiose and towering, ancient and solemn.

The gray-white walls of the city-state were slowly writhing, as if alive, astonishing the Female Dream Master to the point she didn’t know whether this moving city wall was conjured by Zhu Minglang’s imagination or if he had indeed seen such a sight before.

“Little brother, what did you write on your lantern?” At this moment, Fang Niannian appeared from nowhere again and came over to ask, her small mouth green and her eyes smiling like crescent moons.

“Immortality,” Zhu Minglang replied irritably.

“How cliché!” Fang Niannian turned and left, once again disappearing into the crowd.

Zhu Minglang scratched his head, not understanding why this girl keeps popping up to add drama.

“Did you encounter the Yama Dragon in that Crater Basin?” the Female Dream Master asked.

“Yes,” Zhu Minglang nodded.

“Then I think it’s very likely that the Midnight Dream Demon is hiding in this River Lantern Street,” the Female Dream Master said.

“Why?” Zhu Minglang reflected carefully. He didn’t recall often dreaming of the lantern festival.

“The Yama Dragon creates fear, trying to make you constantly dream of the scenes where you contacted it, but your subconscious avoids it, not allowing the Crater Basin to appear in your dreams. So, under such circumstances, a similar image was born in your dreams, such as this River Lantern Street hit by a Skyfire Meteorite,” the Female Dream Master analyzed seriously.

Zhu Minglang pondered over the details of his recent dreams.

It seems there were indeed scorched earth and rubble.

And there were also strangers coming and going.

Because previous dreams would become vague and forgotten, one only has to deliberately contemplate and seek similar images in order to delve into the depths of memory and suddenly realize that they often dream of that scene!

“Although each dream is independent, many dreams actually have traces of being pieced together. All dreams that can be pieced together are called a dream cluster. This dream cluster is like a complex ball of yarn, with scenes and events within it intertwined, intersecting, and entangled together. And when you find the end of the thread and follow it, you will unravel all the threads of the dream within the entire cluster, and scenes that you have dreamed about during the day but couldn’t remember at all will gradually emerge in your mind,” the Female Dream Master explained the composition of a person’s dreams to Zhu Minglang in detail.

That is to say, this River Lantern Street was the end of the thread of dreams, extending into many strange and curious dreamscapes.

For this reason, Zhu Minglang specifically looked around the River Lantern Street and found that one end of the river lantern street was Nothingness Fog.

Below the River Lantern Street lay an Earth Vein Labyrinth.

Even more astonishingly, across the bridge of the River Lantern Street was the Li Family Courtyard, with that small other courtyard planted with autumn nan trees visible within sight, without other common wall structures and pavilions.

Nothingness Fog, Crater Basin, Li family’s other courtyard, Earth Vein Labyrinth…

All these were scenes that Zhu Minglang had dreamed of over these traveling days, and they were all connected to this River Lantern Street – front, back, left, right, above, and below!

Truly the end of the dream thread, and once he was sure of the location, many of the dreams he had forgotten about started to resurface…

Suddenly, Zhu Minglang felt something above his head. He looked up immediately and, in a flash, saw a pair of huge eyes in the sky – flaming dark eyes, indeed belonging to the Yama Dragon!

The eyes of the Yama Dragon filled the sky above the Divine City, gazing down coldly and angrily at him, and this time he was noticeably closer!

Relentless!

One day, I’ll have you subdued, guarding and protecting my home!!!

“As you said, it really is this River Lantern Street that’s the source of my recent dreams,” Zhu Minglang said.

“Then things have become much clearer. We just need to find the thing in this River Lantern Street that the Midnight Dream Demon has disguised itself as,” the Female Dream Master nodded.

As they were speaking, a girl with her lips dabbed in green tea joyously ran over. She was dressed in beautiful new clothes, her face brimming with joy, as she approached Zhu Minglang.

Just as the girl was about to look up and ask, Zhu Minglang interrupted her:

“World peace.”

With her hair disheveled in the wind, her face flushed, she glared and asked, “How did you know I was going to ask you what you wrote in the wishing lantern?”

“You’re possessed by Mr. Jinli,” Zhu Minglang said.

“Hmph, you never give me a straight answer. I don’t believe you wrote that!” Fang Niannian said angrily.

“May everyone who finds life tough eventually be treated with tenderness by someone,” Zhu Minglang reeled off platitudes about good wishes.

“Big liar, what exactly did you write? I want to know!” Fang Niannian was indeed a girl who didn’t play by the usual rules.

“Then tell me first what you wrote,” Zhu Minglang said with a smile.

Fang Niannian hemmed and hawed for a long time before finally saying, “I wrote that I hope your wishes come true. After all, it’s the first time someone has bought me such pretty clothes. In the past… in the past, my family never saw me as a girl. They always made me wear my brothers’ hand-me-downs.”

Zhu Minglang was taken aback by her words.

Actually, Zhu Minglang hadn’t written anything about peace and prosperity.

Zhu Minglang never harbored unrealistic wishes; if the wishing lantern had just a tiny bit of power, he wouldn’t mind giving it to this diligent girl who had been tirelessly helping him search for dragon food.

So, Zhu Minglang had originally written, “May the wishes Fang Niannian makes come true.”

To Zhu Minglang’s surprise, Fang Niannian had wished for her own wishes to come true.

Wasn’t this making things difficult for the Flower God who granted wishes!

Zhu Minglang looked at the girl, whose mouth was so lush and green, and now, somehow, it appeared all the more adorable.

The premise for receiving tenderness is to treat others in the same way.

“Tell me, tell me quickly! I bought six in one go just to ensure they would work,” Fang Niannian said anxiously.

As Zhu Minglang spoke with Fang Niannian, the Yama Dragon’s eyes grew more terrifying, and it seemed to open its mouth, spewing forth a skyfire towards the Ancestral Dragon City-State, striking River Lantern Street and devastating the area.

The people on the street still ignored this, and Fang Niannian was completely clueless. She was only concerned about what Zhu Minglang had written.

“Wait, why did you buy six at once?” Zhu Minglang suddenly demanded.

“Isn’t it true that the more you buy, the more likely your wishes will come true?” Fang Niannian asked, puzzled.

Zhu Minglang frowned, beginning to suspect that Fang Niannian was transformed by a Midnight Dream Demon.

But Zhu Minglang considered Fang Niannian a well-known acquaintance. It was improbable for a Midnight Dream Demon to take her form; and even if it truly was her, why on earth would she keep running to her own undoing to talk to him, essentially allowing him to see through its disguise?

However, you can only buy one wishing lantern.

Each person is also only allowed to make one wish that day, placing it into the lantern—this is a piece of common sense. Since it was Fang Niannian’s first time at the Lantern Festival, not knowing this much was understandable, but what about the lantern seller?

“Who told you that buying more lanterns would make them work?” Zhu Minglang asked.

“I asked the old lantern seller, and he just nodded,” Fang Niannian replied.

The old lantern seller!

At the old lantern seller’s stand, Fang Niannian wasn’t the only customer. If Fang Niannian had asked that question and the old man had nodded, the people around would certainly have thought him insincere and would no longer buy lanterns there.

Therefore, it was impossible for the old lantern seller to lie just to sell a few more lanterns, as others were watching.

So, the reason Fang Niannian ended up buying several lanterns must be that the old lantern seller himself lacked this common knowledge.

He thought that as long as the lanterns sold, that was enough.

He subconsciously assumed that the more lanterns you buy, the more effective your wishes!

“Come on, let’s find that old man,” Zhu Minglang immediately had an idea and said decisively to the Female Dream Master.

The old lantern seller.

The perfect suspect who would not have attracted his attention, yet would definitely appear within his line of sight, especially since he had dreamt about River Lantern Street these past few days.

“What for??” Fang Niannian was puzzled, not understanding what Zhu Minglang was fiercely set on doing.

“To expose a fraud!”

Zhu Minglang, the Female Dream Master, and Fang Niannian made their way through the crowd to the old lantern seller.

The old man’s gaze did not meet Zhu Minglang’s. He was just mechanically continuing to sell his lanterns.

“Stop pretending, I know you’re the Midnight Dream Demon. You’ve been watching me here for so many days. Did you really think I couldn’t catch you?” Zhu Minglang looked at the old lantern seller with a cold sneer.