Chapter 42: Dream Arrow

  "Is it my second brother?" Lao San immediately relaxed and laughed, "Impossible, he's always been with us, where would he have the time?"

  "What if it's another Jun Yang?" Fu Ma said.

  Lao San seemed to have a sudden realization: "You're talking about that vengeful spirit?"

  Xiao Lao sighed and said: "I'm afraid he's no longer just a spirit now, the Four-Leafed Soul Grass is a divine object that appears only once in a hundred years, it has already replicated Jun Yang's three souls, two of his seven spirits were taken away by the spirit, he is no longer controlled by the Raksha ghost curse seal, he is not such a simple person, and...". Xiao Lao looked at me seriously, "One will inevitably devour the other."

  I let out a wry smile, my own war with myself, sounded so unbelievable, yet it left me feeling helpless.

  "It's pointless for all of you to stay here any longer, so go ahead and venture into the vast world. Whatever questions you ask, I won't answer." Dài Xīnxīn said politely.

  "I feel like there's something fishy going on ahead, this little girl keeps chasing us away, but today I'm not leaving." Lao San plopped his butt down on the ground with a mischievous grin.

  Dai Xinxin said with a mixture of tears and laughter: "Do as you please, the array has been opened, I'll take my leave." After saying this, Dai Xinxin disappeared, leaving us with bewildered expressions.

  "It's still early, everyone can sleep for a while longer." Wu Zihan said seriously.

  Xiao Lao shook his head and said: "How can you still sleep?"

  "I think Zihan brothers are considering that later we will face the two strongest arrays in the gossip array, let alone sleep, I'm afraid we won't even have time to eat, whether we can survive or not is a problem, so let's take advantage of now to nourish our spirits." Karamay attached and said.

  I nodded in agreement: "Zhen Ling said that this formation has been opened, it seems there's no danger now, so we shouldn't need to keep watch at night."

  "Could it be that she wants us to let our guard down, and is intentionally saying this, so as to capture us all at once?" Old Three said with a furrowed brow.

  Yang Cangcang scolded with a pout: "You pig brain, if she hadn't appeared just now, we would have almost died. Just looking at her is enough to make one feel like they've got it, and you still don't admit that you're stupid."

  Lao San rolled his eyes and scratched his head, saying: "Well, it's still my family's Cuan Cuan who is clever."

  We tidied up and went back to sleep. I tossed and turned in the tent for a long time before finally falling asleep gradually.

  I don't know when, I vaguely felt myself walking close to the ground. I could clearly feel the coolness coming from the sand. Suddenly, my sense of touch became sensitive, and even the slight vibrations on the ground were clear to me. I took two steps forward and felt a bit strange. I turned around and looked at myself, and was shocked - when did I turn into a snake?

  I panicked and stumbled forward a few steps, saw the familiar tent, and thought to myself, "Isn't that our tent?" Let Wu Zihan take a look at what's going on, maybe he'll have some idea. Everyone was sleeping soundly, so as not to wake them up, I quietly approached Wu Zihan's tent. He seemed to be very tired these past few days and was sleeping particularly soundly. I stood beside him, lost in thought, not daring to disturb him.

  Wu Zihan turned over, and I saw that he was in a half-asleep and half-awake state. Just as I was about to open my mouth to speak to him, Wu Zihan suddenly opened his eyes, startling me. He looked at me warily, with a glint of cold light flashing in his eyes, and quickly drew out a dagger from his waist and stabbed it towards me.

  "I am Zhou Junyang! I am Zhou Junyang!" I shouted loudly, but my voice was still hoarse. Wu Zihan seemed to understand and stopped attacking, staring at me straightly.

  The two of us fighting woke up the others, and Lao San rubbed his sleepy eyes to see me and couldn't help but shout: "Damn, where did this huge snake come from? Didn't they say it was safe tonight?" He immediately picked up a machete and rushed towards me.

  I rushed towards Old Three, shouting: "I'm Second Brother, Old Three!" Old Three hacked wildly with his knife and charged over, muttering to himself: "This big snake is still spitting out its venom." Old Three's knife skills were incredibly fast, my leg - no, I should say tail - didn't have time to dodge, and was chopped by him. A sharp pain shot through me, and from the depths of my heart arose a surge of anger. A voice in my mind bellowed: "Kill them!"

  Wu Zihan immediately stopped Lao San, who was still scolding loudly. Wu Zihan turned to Yang Cangcang, who was standing by in a daze, and said: "Go quickly and wake up Junyang."

  Yang Cangcang didn't react until half a day later, realizing she was being called. She responded with an "oh" and quickly came into the tent. Seeing that I hadn't made any noise for half a day, she understood that this matter wasn't so simple. Immediately, she said: "Jun Yang can't be woken up!"

  Wu Zihan warned Lao San not to fight the snake again, ran over, looked at me for a moment, and Xiao Lao seemed to understand, probingly said: "Meng Shu ba."

  Wu Zihan nodded: "Should be." He ran over, hissing at me who had turned into a snake. I heard him clearly as he said: "Go to your own body and bite yourself to recover."

  I stuck out my tongue to show I understood, then crawled over to my own body and suddenly had a strange feeling. Looking up at myself from the ground didn't feel like looking in a mirror either. I looked at my face and felt delighted: "It turns out my sleeping posture is also this handsome!"

  Uh... it seems I wasn't thinking at that time, I quickly bit my arm, and my body seemed to produce a strong suction force. I felt myself being sucked back in, and after a brief darkness, I opened my eyes, feeling waves of pain coming from my feet.

  "What just happened?" Hearing myself speak in a human voice, I finally let out a sigh of relief.

  Fu Ma looked at me with concern and asked: "Is Jun Yang okay?"

  Xiao Lao patted my forehead, knocked on the bottom of my eyes, just like an old doctor examining a child, and said: "It should be fine now, fortunately you attacked Wu Zihuan, if it was Lao San, you would have been dead long ago."

  I looked at Xiao Lao with a questioning gaze, waiting for the next part of the story. Old Three hastily continued: "That's because I'm just a little bit more formidable than Zi Han brothers."

  Yang Cangcang glared at him with a "hiss", and Xiao Lao continued: "You must have been hit by the Dream Arrow earlier, your primordial spirit turned into a snake. Zi Han brothers should have seen your true self, otherwise they would have made their move long ago."

  "What's a dream arrow?"

  "A kind of sorcery that can only be performed when people are in a dream state." Old Xiao added.

  "Isn't it Dai Xinxin? I said this little girl isn't honest." Lao San guessed.

  "It's not her." Wu Zihan gazed into the distance, "The source is over there!" He pointed ahead.

  It's already broad daylight now. Karamay gets up, packs his things and says: "Let's go ahead and see what's going on. What's meant to come will come."

  Lao San smiled and said: "Karamay's words have a bit of a 'regarding death as going home' feel to them."

  We packed up our things and set off towards the Qiankun Formation in front of us. For some reason, I felt a sense of unease in my heart, feeling that something big was going to happen this time. Wu Zihan walked at the very front, and looking at his back, I felt slightly more at ease.

  As we walked, the surrounding fog suddenly rolled in, getting thicker and thicker. Wu Zihan had already disappeared from my line of sight. I hastened my pace, and Kelamayi shouted loudly: "Everyone stay close together, don't get scattered!"

  The fog obscured everything around, visibility was less than a meter. I followed Wu Zihan's back all the way, everyone remained silent. Suddenly, an image flashed in my mind, Wu Zihan turned his face, and I took a closer look, it was actually a blue-faced man... I quickly patted my head, how did I start daydreaming? I must have been driven crazy by the blue-faced man.

  Lao San shouted from the side: "Have you found out, the fog is slowly retreating."

  Suddenly, a black shadow flashed before my eyes, the speed was too fast, like a gust of wind blowing by, and nothing could be seen clearly. At first, I was stunned, subconsciously chasing after it, everyone also discovered it and chased out together, running and running, I found something was not right.

  Lao San and Yang Cangcang ran while shouting: "Stop, don't run!" But why did I feel that the voice was getting farther and farther away from me? I looked around again, the fog had begun to clear, and it seemed like only I was left. We saw the same black shadow, so why were they running further and further away?

  I realized this and quickly shouted: "Everyone stop running, this black shadow seems to be trying to scatter us, don't fall for it!"

  Yang Cangcang immediately stopped and said: "Huh? What I'm saying is, why am I the only one around here?"

  "Let's wait for the fog to clear up before we regroup. Everyone stay where you are and don't move. If anyone encounters danger, just shout loudly." Karamay's voice came from a corner.

  We all responded with a sound, and the voices came from all directions. It was indeed an attempt to disperse us. I thought to myself, Yang Cangcang shouted loudly on one side: "Zihan? Wu Zihan?" No one replied. Yang Cangcang said worriedly: "Has anyone seen Wu Zihan?"

  "He's right next to you, and if you call him, he might not even respond. Honestly." Lao San said indignantly.

  The fog around me has slowly started to thin out, and I can vaguely see the person in front of me, who seems to be Fuma. To prevent any accidents between us, we have been chatting loudly all along. As the sun rises higher, the fog has almost disappeared. Just as we were about to merge, our eyes widened in shock.

  Around me, everywhere I looked, there were countless Lao San, Xiao Lao, Cang Cang, Kelamayi and Fu Ma, but not a single Wu Zihan. Seeing the same astonished expression on all of them, I knew that what we saw was all the same.

  Yang Cangcang said in surprise: "What's going on, which one of you is real?"

  Xiao Lao looked around cautiously and said, "It seems that someone has deliberately led us into the mirror array. The dense fog earlier was just to conceal this formation. That black shadow wanted us to disperse, now we can see each other but can't tell which one is real. Everyone must not touch the mirrors!"

  Lao San shouted from the side: "Why didn't you say it earlier..."