Chapter 2830

Lotus Wind guarded it firmly and competently, sweeping away all the purple dust from its body, leaving not a trace. Purple dust kept falling from the valley's sky, pouring down upon it, but this clear breeze blocked it all.

In the blink of an eye, Earth Mother was clean all over.

From this moment on, it felt lightened throughout, that heavy, sluggish feeling swept away by the clear wind. Earth Mother tried taking two steps, its body much lighter, its stride much longer.

Indeed, it was those butterfly powders all along that had been suppressing its strength, draining its soul energy.

Earth Mother strode forward, and suddenly felt the purple alfalfa on the ground growing shorter, the pebbles by the bank growing smaller.

No, it was not the scenery shrinking, but itself growing larger.

In just a dozen breaths, Earth Mother had recovered to a height of one zhang.

It clenched its fists tightly, feeling power surge through its body once more.

Good, excellent!

Having regained its strength, its mind settled considerably; next came finding a way to leave this damned place!

What did Pack Chi-hai say before? Every dream actually has an entrance and exit, because the dream's owner themselves must also leave from there, including Earth Mother's own dream—only it was unaware.

Nightmares are even more so—there must necessarily be an exit, and whoever finds it can escape. This is a limitation of mortal law, as the saying goes: "Heaven leaves no one without a road." Since the Goddess of Phantasy Music creates dreams in the mortal realm, she must surely abide by mortal law.

Earth Mother first went to inspect the original opening of its earth fissure, but there was not even a ditch there—obviously not an exit.

Even if there were an exit, how would one find it? Earth Mother climbed to the top of the highest small hill and stood there in a daze for a while.

Wandering about is less useful than stopping to think more; it also conserves soul power.

Looking around, everywhere was purple—either purple alfalfa or purple butterflies, completely covering every inch of the valley's land. The scene was dazzling at first glance, but after looking long, it felt monotonous and dull.

Earth Mother knew the valley's soil was not actually purple.

It took out another drop of wind dew. Should it put it in its eyes? Perhaps then it could see the exit?

This thought was very tempting, Earth Mother hesitated for a long time before finally putting it away again.

No, this is the only thing linking it to reality; if used up and ineffective, would it then be forever trapped in the Phantasy Music God's realm, unable to return?

It thought, if the Nine Abysses Great Emperor were trapped here, how would he break through?

Would he seek loopholes in the rules by going with the flow, or would he break through by not standing on ceremony, not being bound by this dream's rules?

Earth Mother thought, everything it sees here is what Phantasy Music wants it to see.

Then, what does Phantasy Music not want it to see? Is it hidden away?

So, this valley will have endless flowers and grasses, endless bees and butterflies.

After thinking for a long time, Earth Mother finally decided to do what it does best.

"So-called nightmares, capable of partially remolding others' dreams, capable of digging traps and making disguises." This is what Pack Chi-hai said, and since Pack Chi-hai, as a nightmare intruder into others' dreams, can do these things, why can't Earth Mother do them?

So why doesn't it just play the nightmare a bit, also come to destroy and remake this world?

As long as it finds the correct method of the nightmare, it will do. Isn't that how Phantasy Music treats it?

Hmm, speaking of correctness, it may lack skill and experience, but it has power, very pure power!

Pack Chi-hai said that in dreams, power comes from the soul. Mortals are ridden by nightmares in their dreams because they don't realize what they can do; Earth Mother, though it has entered Phantasy Music's dream, but with the toughness of its soul that has survived since ancient times, should far surpass other nightmares!

Thinking this, Earth Mother walked back to the original spot of its earth fissure, and drew a deep, deep breath.

Then, it raised both fists and slammed them heavily onto the ground.

"Boom!"

Once, twice, thrice!

It struck three times in succession, each faster than the last, each more violent than the last.

The shockwaves from the fist wind and the earthquake, centered on the point of impact, swept in all directions!

The entire valley trembled, the purple butterflies startled into flight, while those too slow to take off were shaken into fragments. The purple flowers on the ground met the same fate.

After the three punches, the originally vibrant purple valley became a large meteorite crater!

Vegetation was completely destroyed, revealing the deep black soil and gray-white rock beneath.

Earth Mother stopped, and observed carefully.

That is, twenty breaths later, from the soil overturned underground by the shock, points of new green sprouted out.

New alfalfa grew again.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, they grew vigorously, like a fast-forwarded clip—from seedlings to branching, budding, blooming, until finally refilling the entire valley with purple flowers, leaving no gap, the whole process taking over half an hour.

Bees and butterflies came uninvited, resuming their dance among the flowers.

The dream returned to its original state, as if Earth Mother had never caused any destruction here.

It had done useless work.

But Earth Mother was not discouraged. It discovered that the several earth fissures it had previously punched open were also quietly healing during the alfalfa's growth.

One can imagine, if it continued destroying the valley, Phantasy Music Goddess would just keep repairing the dream.

The two sides could play many rounds, only time would quietly pass.

Those few strikes did not consume too much of Earth Mother's power.

So it raised its hand again and launched another set of combination punches.

This time it was still three consecutive strikes, but the force far exceeded the previous round. Not only were all plant and animal life completely destroyed, the ground was also struck with dozens upon dozens of cracks, large and small, spreading like a spiderweb across the entire valley!

Although this valley is a dream created single-handedly by the Phantasy Music Goddess, the composition of a world, even if illusory, still has its own unchanging laws. For example, here water still flows from high to low, plants still grow in soil rather than on stone, butterflies still must land on flowers to gather nectar...

Even in a dream, its underlying basic rules still follow reality, not something the dreamer can change just by a thought.

That is to say, here there are still rules that Earth Mother can use, some of which are quite advantageous to it.

After throwing the three punches, the entire valley was turned upside down. Earth Mother did not stop, but instead drove its fists directly into the ground, closing its eyes.

Since it is called "Earth Mother," it does not merely master earth-system divine abilities, but also possesses a unique, unparalleled talent for commanding earth that other beings cannot even aspire to.

Its own body, at a speed visible to the naked eye, rapidly expanded, from one zhang tall to one zhang, then two zhang, then five zhang...

The ground pressed by its hands emitted black light, also transforming from soil into bedrock.

This transformation spread rapidly outward, centered on the Earth Mother's position, black light expanding outward — this represented more and more land being converted into rock.