Chapter 908: Extra Chapter 4: 145

Just as Xiao Jiu was about to withdraw and prepare to activate it again, a slender figure appeared in Xiao Jiu's mind.

When Xiao Jiu saw clearly who that figure was, Xiao Jiu suddenly froze.

How could it be the former Earth Deity Maiden?

At this moment, the clothing the woman wore was also very familiar to Xiao Jiu.

That was the official robe she wore when she was invested as Earth Deity Maiden, which was also a symbol of her status as Earth Deity Maiden.

The woman not only wore that official robe, but the space she was in was also familiar to Xiao Jiu—it was the Earth Mother's Palace.

Xiao Jiu saw the woman wearing the Earth Deity Maiden's official robe, holding a tablet in her hand, with a jade thumb ring conspicuously on her right thumb.

The next moment, the Earth Mother appeared on the throne, the woman clasping the tablet with both hands, bending slightly forward, continuously reporting something to the Earth Mother.

The Earth Mother listened while nodding repeatedly, seemingly also praising her a few times.

The next moment, Xiao Jiu saw the Earth Mother wave her hand, and the woman's official robe changed, becoming more splendid and dignified, even the tablet in her hand changing color and material……Was this……a promotion?

Xiao Jiu immediately understood.

She had used the Weave Dream into Reality technique on the Xuètóng Hānsī, but for some unknown reason, the one controlled by the Weave Dream into Reality technique in the phantom mirror was the former Earth Deity Maiden.

Holding the position of Earth Deity Maiden, the responsibility on her shoulders was great.

Yet before she had achieved any accomplishment, she was already controlled by the Xuètóng Hānsī.

Her dream was not to successfully escape from the Xuètóng Hānsī's grasp, but to see the nation prosper and be promoted and ennobled……She never forgot her mission.

And this mission became her obsession.

It was precisely under the influence of this obsession that Xiao Jiu saw these scenes before her.

While Xiao Jiu felt pity for the woman, she also wondered.

The target of the Weave Dream into Reality technique was clearly the Xuètóng Hānsī, so where did the problem lie, that the one being controlled turned out to be the woman?

Xiao Jiu quickly reviewed her own procedure again, confirming there were no mistakes, and then began to look for the cause in the relationship between the Xuètóng Hānsī and the woman.

Xiao Jiu soon had a bold idea.

What if……what if the Xuètóng Hānsī itself is now parasitic within the woman's body?

The woman is still alive, but her body is inhabited and controlled by the Xuètóng Hānsī; in a sense, they have become one.

Then, when that eye closes and the Xuètóng Hānsī enters a brief dormant state, the woman becomes the dominant consciousness.

In such a case, when Xiao Jiu activates the Weave Dream into Reality technique on the Xuètóng Hānsī, the one who becomes lost in the phantom mirror would be the woman, which also seems quite reasonable.

But this realization frightened Xiao Jiu, meaning that even though the woman is still alive now, she ultimately has no chance of survival.

At that moment, the jade thumb ring on Xiao Jiu's right thumb suddenly moved.

The woman, lost in the illusion, seemed to suddenly sense something; she abruptly turned her head, following Xiao Jiu's line of sight and coming toward her.

Clearly that was only a phantom mirror, and Xiao Jiu was merely an observer; logically, the other party should not have reacted like that.

But……she still sensed Xiao Jiu's presence.

The woman, who had just been immersed in the dream, saw her belief collapse in an instant.

Xiao Jiu then saw the woman's surroundings constantly changing.

The Earth Mother's Palace disappeared, the woman's official robe was gone, the whole space turned dark, damp, and bloody, everywhere filled with the stench of decay.

The woman was soaked in a blood pool, with only her head exposed.

The entire blood pool was piled up from skulls soaked in fresh blood, the eye sockets of the skulls filled with fresh blood.

As the view pulled back farther, Xiao Jiu discovered there was actually nothing in the distance.

Because the space the woman occupied was not truly empty; the blood pool was inlaid in the underground earth!

For a moment, Xiao Jiu found she could not describe what she saw in words.

But this scene was the woman's all‑out effort to show Xiao Jiu and provide useful information, so Xiao Jiu dared not look away for even a second.

Immediately afterward, the woman gritted her teeth and shouted loudly, her whole body lunging upward from the blood pool.

As her body rose, Xiao Jiu first saw the iron chains wrapped around the woman's neck……no, not wrapped around the neck—the chains were driven straight through her clavicles and then plunged deep into the blood pool.

At the moment the woman pulled her body out of the blood pool, several chains also straightened, dragging and pressing her back down into the blood pool.

The woman refused to yield; after being completely forced down, she again thrust her body upward with a sudden jerk.

This time, Xiao Jiu saw.

On the woman's chest, a large eye was tightly closed.

The woman then quickly fell back into the blood pool, her whole body seeming to have exhausted all her energy, swaying back and forth a few times with the pool's flow; then she seemed to have suffered some inhuman torment, her eyes bulging wide, her eye sockets about to split, blood vessels instantly filling her eye sockets……and then her gaze changed.

When her eyes met Xiao Jiu's again, they turned cold, angry, and bloodthirsty.

Xiao Jiu knew the woman's body had already been taken over by the Xuètóng Hānsī.

Though it had not yet awakened, it had already detected her.

Xiao Jiu did not panic, nor did she evade.

To her, this was actually an opportunity.

Because the Xuètóng Hānsī temporarily controlled the woman's body and mind, this woman……was effectively the Xuètóng Hānsī.

So……

Xiao Jiu immediately formed another seal and chanted, adding a layer of mana to stabilize the Weave Dream into Reality technique.

Sure enough, the next second, another scene appeared in her mind.

Vast heaven and earth, endless as far as the eye can see.

The entire space was filled with a vast expanse of blood.

Within that blood mist, a large eye slowly emerged.

When the eye opened, the whole space filled with blood mist, the earth tore open, revealing countless white bones within.

When the eye closed, the blood mist vanished, the ground leveled, birds sang and flowers fragrant—a scene of peace and vitality……

This is the Spring and Autumn Great Dream of the Xuètóng Hānsī.

In the blink of an eye, it decides the fate of all living beings.

Actually, Xiao Jiu had long guessed the Xuètóng Hānsī's desires, but when they were laid out so plainly before her at this moment, she still couldn't help but become angry.

Xiao Jiu muttered words under her breath, clenched her fists tightly, and shouted loudly: "Collect!"

The dream-weaving technique was sealed away, the Xuètóng Hānsī's beautiful dream was thus cut off, and in the next instant Xiao Jiu heard the whooshing wind rising from the ground and the violent shaking of the earth……

Yīnfēng rose on all sides, as the ground trembled, with countless cracks suddenly appearing on the surface centered on Xiao Jiu's position.

As time passed, the cracks grew wider, the land in the middle kept sinking, and Xiao Jiu's body kept sinking along with it……