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"Tian, what's wrong with you? Open your mouth, ah. The medicinal soup should be cold soon. Be obedient, don't be naughty." Lu Wushuang said to Lin Tian with a face full of gentleness.

Lin Tian shook his head: "No."

At this moment, Lin Tian discovered that his body had shrunk more than double from before.

"This is?" Lin Tian looked at him in surprise. He felt as if he had returned to his childhood.

"Forget it, it's fine if Tian doesn't want to drink it. It's not a big injury anyway, I'll be fine for a few more days of rest." Seeing that Lin Tian didn't want to drink, Lin Feng spoke up. Although Lin Feng was a strict father, in his heart, he still doted on this son of his.

But at this time, Lin Feng suddenly took out a pill, and handed it over to Lin Tian: "This is the Qi Condensation Pill that your father got from your grandfather, and the effects of this pill can almost stop you from training for half a year, didn't you always want to break through to the 5th stage of Qi Cultivating Stage? Once you consume this Qi Condensation Pill, you will be able to reach the 5th stage of Qi Disciple very quickly."

Lin Feng smiled and said to Lin Tian.

Lin Tian stared fixedly at Lin Feng, but did not accept the elixir in his hand. He did not say anything and only stared at Lin Feng.

After he finished looking at Lin Feng, Lin Tian then looked at Lu Wushuang, then looked at Uncle Yu.

The three of them felt a strange feeling in their hearts. What was going on with Tian'er today, why was she staring at them all the time …

"Tian, are you alright? Don't scare your mother …" Immediately, Lu Wushuang became anxious.

Lin Feng looked towards Lin Tian with concern, afraid that something would happen to Lin Tian.

Even Uncle Yu raised his head to look at Lin Tian.

Lin Tian grabbed Lu Wushuang's hand and muttered to himself: "Although I know this is an illusion and I know that it is fake, but I finally saw what my mother and father look like. It's enough."

"And Uncle Yu …" Lin Tian abruptly raised his head: "Uncle Yu, to be able to see you again, I'm already very satisfied."

"Tian, don't tell me you have truly become an idiot. Don't scare mother …" At this moment, Lu Wushuang was truly somewhat worried, because Lin Tian was constantly talking nonsense.

"Tian …" Lin Feng was about to say something when Lin Tian suddenly shouted: "Protect your heart and disperse."

In that instant, Lu Wushuang, Lin Feng, and Uncle Yu all opened their eyes wide and looked at Lin Tian with faces full of disbelief.

But the scene in front of Lin Tian's eyes also came to an abrupt stop.

Everything was gone.

Only now could the current Lin Tian clearly see that the bowl of medicine in front of him was actually a bowl that emitted a disgusting stench and pus. As for the pill, it was a pitch-black poison pill.

"I'm rather curious, how did you figure it out?" Right at this moment, the original Lin Feng, Lu Wushuang, and Yu Bo all turned into a cloud of black smoke and condensed into a black cloud.

At this moment, an extremely sinister voice came from the black cloud.

"In the end, I still have to thank you. It was you who let me know what my parents looked like, and it was you who allowed me to sense them. If my parents hadn't abandoned me back then, I would have grown up happily …" Lin Tian's voice was light, not a single trace of emotion could be heard.

However, your most fatal flaw is that you are too realistic. But you must know, my parents have already abandoned me, I am only an orphan, and have just experienced the blissful scene in the illusion just now. I have not personally experienced it, and if I had experienced it, I might have been struck by it, and become immersed in your illusion, but I have never experienced it, so how could I possibly be immersed in it?

Lin Tian continued to speak with the same indifferent tone: "A bystander naturally cannot immerse himself in the illusions. You've lost … …"

"Defeated? That's not necessarily true." That lump of black cloud laughed: "Your parents, perhaps this is your first time seeing them, but it can't be that this is also your first time seeing them, right?"

On the black cloud, an incomparably bizarre scene started to appear.

Lin Tian could clearly see that the Fire Bird, whose entire body was covered in flames, was currently wailing and crying as it was imprisoned in a huge iron cage. The cage was burning with flames, but the iron cage was unbreakable.

Not long after, the Fire Bird suddenly collapsed onto the ground, wailing in pain. Not long after, it suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. At this moment, the power of fire on the Fire Bird instantly disappeared, and it turned into a woman.

When he saw the woman, even though he knew it was an illusion, Lin Tian still cried out: "Yun Huang!"

That woman was Yun Huang. Lin Tian immediately understood that the fire bird bathing in flames was Yun Huang's true body.

Yun Feng possessed the bloodline of the Ancestral Phoenix, so he should be the Vermillion Bird in other words, the Phoenix.

But at this time, how could Yun Huang be locked in his cage?

"This is an illusion, an illusion …" Lin Tian kept on telling himself in his mind that this was an illusion and not real.

But why did the scene seem so real?

At this moment, another figure appeared on the screen.

"Granny Jin!" Lin Tian was even more astonished. His gaze was firmly fixed on the scene, not daring to drop a single bit.

Granny Jin had actually appeared as well. This scene couldn't help but cause Lin Tian to pay attention to it, because the scene in front of him wasn't an illusion, but rather the black cloud's appearance.

This scene, for some reason, actually made Lin Tian's heart palpitate.

"Miss, promise them, or they won't let you go …" Granny Jin sighed as tears uncontrollably flowed from the corners of her eyes …

"No, I won't agree to their request …" Yun Huang let out a mournful cry, her face showing an expression of despair, causing Lin Tian's heart to ache.

However, at this moment, the scene gradually became blurry. In the end, it completely disappeared, and the color of the cloud slowly turned black once again.

"What, does it hurt to see this?" The black cloud asked Lin Tian.

"This is an illusion, I don't believe it!" Lin Tian roared towards the black cloud.

"Illusion?" The black cloud laughed involuntarily, "This is not an illusion, the first act is indeed my dream. I am following the dream in your heart, but you have already seen through it. In the future, you will not fall for my illusions …"

"But what you saw just now was real. It might have already happened, it might have been happening, or it might have happened in the future. All in all, it might be real."

"I haven't seen anyone in years. My name is Nightmare, an existence that can create dreams. I am the 17th guardian of the Exquisite Pagoda. Congratulations, you have passed the 17th floor."

Lin Tian understood in his heart. He had read about nightmares in some books. They were a strange creature, not a human nor a demon beast, but rather a lump of gas. What Lin Tian saw right now was the real body of the nightmare.

Nightmare creatures could create illusions, and when anyone encountered a nightmare, the nightmare would invade their brain without them knowing. Nightmare beasts could know what they wanted the most, and then create illusions that would cause humans or demon beasts to lose their way in the illusion world. Only then would the nightmare be able to absorb the power of humans or demon beasts and continue to grow.

This was what the Nightmare Terror meant when it said that it was helping others to dream. The illusions it created were like a dream for some people. Moreover, it was a dream that many people didn't want to wake up from.

Just now, the nightmare had invaded Lin Tian's brain, causing Lin Tian to sink into an illusion, but that illusion was too fake. Lin Tian had never had a father or mother since he was young, and he was brought up by Uncle Yu. Once he entered the illusion world, Lin Tian already knew that he was inside the illusion world.

But nightmares have another ability besides the ability to help others dream.

Predicting the future, or seeing the past.

Nightmare possessed this unique ability, which was why humans coveted them. Back then, many humans had looked for nightmares because of this ability. They wanted to rely on the power of the nightmare to predict the future and change fate.

So many of the nightmares were killed by humans, but Lin Tian never would have thought that he would still be able to see nightmares here …

Of course, when the Nightmare Terror said that the second act might be something that would happen in the future, Lin Tian Deng was immediately excited.

I'll just treat the scene from the second act as a gift from you, a free prediction of your future. In the past hundred years, there hasn't been a single person who could make my eyes light up, and no one has spoken to me. Nightmare smiled at Lin Tian.

"Hey …" Lin Tian wanted to ask something else, but the black cloud immediately dispersed and the entire space suddenly became empty.

The nightmare had vanished.

At this time, the space also began to rapidly collapse. In the next moment, Lin Tian felt his vision blur and he arrived in another space.

The eighteenth floor!

"The eighteenth floor, it really is the eighteenth floor!" Xiao Yunhai excitedly roared as he pointed to the white dot of light that represented Lin Tian.

Lin Tian had actually rushed to the eighteenth floor. This was the first time in the history of the Exquisite Pagoda that he had stepped onto the eighteenth floor.

On the 18th level, a new record was born.

Elder Zhang was already somewhat numb to it. This Lin Tian had given him too many surprises and too many impossible possibilities.

The eighteenth floor!

After a thousand years, the first student to rush to the 18th floor of the Azure Province had been for a thousand years. Only Lin Tian was able to do it.

Elder Zhang took out another thousand paper crane and was about to pass on another message to the dean.

"BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!" From the distance, a faintly discernible sound of a bell ringing could be heard.

Elder Zhang suddenly raised his head and looked into the distance, muttering to himself, "This, this is?"

Xiao Yunhai and Ling Tianlie had clearly heard the bell chime as well. At this moment, the ecstasy on their faces disappeared and was replaced with doubt. They looked into the distance with astonished faces, but did not know what had happened.