A Girl Dies Every Day in Her Dream Life 192

Chapter 192: First, Possess Me

“Nangong Mian’s older sister…”

Hearing these words, Luo Xue suddenly recalled what she had heard in her daze. Those forgotten memories resurfaced.

Luo Xue’s expression turned serious, and after sorting through the current situation, she asked,

“So, this is… the Nangong clan’s ancestral land?”

“To be precise, it’s a separate dimension corresponding to the ancestral land.” Nangong Ling replied.

She told Luo Xue everything about what happened to her and Nangong Wan’er, including the discovery of the Nangong disciples’ remains in the ancestral land, but she didn’t mention that they had been trapped here for thousands of years.

“I see… my situation seems similar.” Luo Xue’s expression was a bit troubled. “You should know about the Blood Sea Secret Realm incident, right?”

“Yes.”

“I was just in the Blood Sea Secret Realm with Nangong Mian, but we didn’t know how to get back.” Luo Xue sighed. “The phantom of the ‘Sacred Soul’ somehow brought me here…”

As Luo Xue finished speaking, Nangong Ling and Nangong Wan’er both had strange expressions.

“…Why are you looking at me like that?”

Luo Xue noticed their gazes and asked, puzzled.

“You… should take a look at yourself first.” Nangong Ling said faintly.

Luo Xue looked down at the Blood Sea.

Although filled with blood-red water, the Blood Sea was clear, its reflection perfect.

Reflected in the Blood Sea was a faintly glowing phantom, a gentle and dignified woman, completely different from Luo Xue.

“Holy…”

Luo Xue quickly touched her face, but felt nothing.

“Indeed, you… have merged with the Sacred Soul,” Nangong Ling stared at Luo Xue’s face, a hint of emotion in her voice. “As expected, the Sacred Soul’s appearance is identical to the records of our ancestor, Nangong…”

Previously, the Sacred Soul was severely weakened, only its outline visible, not its face.

But after Luo Xue’s consciousness merged with it, it gradually took on the Sacred Soul’s appearance during her life, her breathtaking beauty still captivating even as a phantom.

Could you please stop with the academic verification…

Luo Xue grimaced. It was usually ghosts possessing people, how come it was the other way around for her?

“Did you do this?” Luo Xue asked.

“No.” Nangong Wan’er shook her head. “The Sacred Soul is the ancestor worshipped by the Nangong clan for generations. How could we disrespect her soul like this?”

But you did imprison her…

Luo Xue muttered inwardly, then asked,

“So, how do I go back…”

“We’ve never encountered this before. Even others probably haven’t, so we don’t know what to do.”

Nangong Ling shrugged. “But from my limited understanding, your consciousness has already merged with the Sacred Soul. To be precise, you are becoming the Sacred Soul.”

“Uh… then what about my original soul?” Luo Xue was stunned. She had just wanted to peek at the Sacred Soul’s memories, how come the Sacred Soul gave up her consciousness?

“It’s probably gone, becoming a mindless wandering soul.” Nangong Ling said. “Perhaps, when you become stronger, you can treat it as your… hometown, and occasionally go back for a visit…”

“…”

Luo Xue was silent for a moment. She didn’t know what the consequences of this would be…

The Sacred Soul’s wisp of consciousness didn’t seem to resist her, and after merging with it, her strength was definitely far greater than her original peak Foundation Establishment cultivation.

But it felt so strange…

“Why don’t you put me down first?” Luo Xue sighed. “It’s uncomfortable being suspended in mid-air…”

“No.”

Nangong Ling shook her head.

“Why?” Luo Xue was stunned. “Don’t you trust me?”

“We do, but we can’t let you go.” Nangong Wan’er added. “How much do you know about the Sacred Soul?”

“What I know about the Sacred Soul is pretty much what you just told me.” Luo Xue replied.

She knew a bit more about the secrets of the ancient era, but it wasn’t related to the Sacred Soul itself.

“But do you know that the Sacred Soul, over the long years, has been assimilated by withering and become the Shadow of Withering?”

“…”

Luo Xue was silent for a moment. She did have an impression of this term.

Nangong Wan’er’s expression turned serious. “Once we let you go, the withering will start to spread throughout this dimension, and it might even reach the Great Thousand Worlds.”

“This won’t change even with the Sacred Soul’s consciousness being different.”

“…I understand.”

Luo Xue’s eyes flickered, and she lowered her head.

No one understood the terror of the will of withering better than her. It was a forbidden zone for life, just like the will of immortality, something that shouldn’t be touched.

“However, you did bring some useful information that can help us escape our current predicament.”

Nangong Ling pondered for a moment. “The Blood Sea Secret Realm and this distorted space of the ancestral land are indeed connected. To be more precise, there seems to be a mirrored relationship between them and the ancestral land.”

“Like… the Blood Sea?” Luo Xue asked.

Through the Sacred Soul’s vision, she could clearly sense the Blood Sea below, far more powerful than the imitation in the Blood Sea Secret Realm, a place even Soul Transformation cultivators couldn’t enter.

“That’s just one aspect,” Nangong Ling added, “Actually, we’re still in the secret realm…”

Nangong Ling explained the matter of the phantom, and Luo Xue, after hearing this, frowned slightly. It corresponded to her and Nangong Mian’s experiences in the secret realm.

Now, there was one last question.

“You seem to be in a forgotten corner.” Luo Xue looked up, her expression serious, and said to Nangong Ling, “Nangong Mian has already forgotten about your existence, and so have the Nangong disciples who entered the secret realm.”

Nangong Ling didn’t react much, just sighed.

“Unexpected, yet also within reason.”

The nature of this space seemed to be a distortion of the world’s timeline, a separate timeline, disconnected from the real world.

If Luo Xue had entered this space with her true body, her existence would also be quickly forgotten.

Fortunately, she had entered through the Sacred Soul’s remnant consciousness, so Nangong Mian hadn’t forgotten her.

“This place… feels like a cage.” Nangong Wan’er frowned slightly. “Both the forgotten memories, and the strange correspondence with the outside world’s timeline…”

“It feels like… it’s used to imprison something, something we can’t even remember.”

The moment Nangong Wan’er finished speaking, both Luo Xue and Nangong Ling’s expressions turned to shock, as if they had both thought of something.

They looked at Nangong Wan’er, making her retreat a few steps.

“Wha-, what’s wrong? Did I… say something wrong?”

“You’re not wrong, you just… reminded me.” Nangong Ling whispered. “Something we can’t even remember, something that can’t be killed, only imprisoned…”

“…I know what it is.”

Luo Xue’s expression also turned serious. She realized the gravity of this matter.

“What are you talking about?”

Nangong Wan’er, the only one who didn’t understand, looked back and forth between them.

“Don’t keep me in suspense…”

“It’s probably an otherworldly demon.”

Nangong Ling said, then looked up at Luo Xue and continued, “Otherworldly demons are calamities that occasionally appear in the Great Thousand Worlds, usually indescribable monsters, their existence illogical, possessing unimaginable power.”

“The weakest otherworldly demon is at the Nascent Soul Realm, and the most difficult battle of my life was against an otherworldly demon close to the Sea Crossing Realm. I barely escaped.”

She was explaining otherworldly demons to Luo Xue. Nangong Ling was the main force against them, so she immediately realized this when Nangong Wan’er inadvertently mentioned it.

However, Luo Xue wasn’t unfamiliar with these. She had personally killed the “weakest” deep space behemoth.

Actually, if that deep space behemoth hadn’t just been born and was still relatively weak, even if Luo Xue used the entire disaster engine to power her sword strike, she wouldn’t have been able to kill it.

“I’ve seen otherworldly demons,” Luo Xue pointed to her head, “in the Sacred Soul’s memories, the final battle of the ancient era.”

Luo Xue told Nangong Ling and Nangong Wan’er everything she had told Nangong Mian. They were all members of the Nangong clan, so it was fine for them to know these secrets.

“I didn’t expect… the end of the ancient era was actually because of these…”

Nangong Ling composed herself and said, “It seems we’ve found the reason why the Nangong ancestral land is eternally burning with inextinguishable flames. It should be to suppress the remains of an otherworldly demon.”

“Are you sure?” Luo Xue blinked. She hadn’t said much, how could Nangong Ling be so certain?

“This is the ancestral land of the Nangong clan,” Nangong Ling chuckled. “How could the Nangong clan not investigate the eternally burning flames?”

“It’s just that we didn’t know that a Great Emperor level otherworldly demon was killed in the ancient era.”

“…You’re quite… bold,” Luo Xue twitched her lips, “keeping the remains of a possibly reviving Great Emperor in your home.”

“To be precise, it’s just the remains.” Nangong Ling corrected, her expression serious. “And not just the Nangong clan, the other ancient clans should also be responsible for suppressing a part of it.”

“So the Blood Sea Secret Realm and the disturbance in the ancestral land are both because the remains of the Great Emperor are about to revive?”

Nangong Wan’er shuddered. The current Great Thousand Worlds, after the decline of spiritual energy in the ancient era, rarely had Saint Realm cultivators. They were mostly the reclusive ancestors of the ancient clans, maintaining their lifespans through seclusion.

Nangong Wan’er had once seen one of them in action. In an instant, the laws collapsed, and those below Saint… even Sea Crossing Realm cultivators, were like ants.

Even Saints were like this, a Great Emperor was unimaginable…

“I don’t know, but the Sacred Soul’s sudden awakening must be related to this.”

Nangong Ling exhaled. “Actually, I’m more worried that after being suppressed by immortality for so long, could the demonic remains… have mastered the will of immortality?”

“…”

Thinking of this, all three of them shuddered.

The Sacred Soul wouldn’t harm her own clan. Even as the Shadow of Withering, she still seemed gentle and kind.

“The Blood Sea Secret Realm appeared a thousand years ago. We investigated it at the time. Although we didn’t know who its master was, there were no problems during the explorations, and it produced Heaven-grade pill energy, so we used it as a Heaven-grade pill secret realm.”

Nangong Ling said in a low voice, “Now it seems, the Blood Sea Secret Realm is just a spatial remnant formed when the demonic remains escaped the suppression, like a crumbling building, about to collapse at any moment.”

“The Sacred Soul… probably driven by her obsession, wanted to enter this separate dimension to continue suppressing the remains, which is why she caused the disturbance in the ancestral land and entered this space.”

Nangong Wan’er also pieced together the clues and continued,

“The Blood Sea Secret Realm is a projection of this space. The disturbance caused by the Sacred Soul affected the Blood Sea Secret Realm, turning it into a land of ‘immortality,’ and also transferring the Nangong disciples inside to this distorted space of the ancestral land.”

“The mist that blocks Divine Sense… its purpose is to intercept the mental contamination from the demonic remains.” Luo Xue murmured softly. “In this unknown corner, the final battle of the ancient era is still ongoing.”

“There are also ancestral lands of other ancient clans within the Blood Sea Secret Realm. It seems their situations aren’t much better than ours, all on the verge of collapse.”

Nangong Ling frowned. “But the ancient era ended so long ago… why are the demonic remains reviving now? Could it be the work of the withering believers?”

“…I’m not a withering believer.” Luo Xue coughed lightly.

“I know.” Nangong Ling looked up. “Don’t worry, I have some ideas about this Blood Sea Secret Realm and this distorted space…”

Having been trapped in this space for so long, Nangong Ling had already figured out everything here, gathering many clues.

Coupled with the previous phantom and Luo Xue’s current appearance, many pieces fell into place.

Completely severing the connection between this dimension and the real world, and escaping this place, wasn’t impossible.

“However, before leaving, we have to deal with the demonic remains first.” Nangong Ling said, looking at Luo Xue. “And… we have to find a way to separate you from the Sacred Soul.”

“If possible, I have no objections… possessing someone else’s soul is quite awkward.” Luo Xue shrugged helplessly.

It wasn’t her intention to possess the Sacred Soul, the Sacred Soul had initiated it.

“Let’s act now, there’s no time to waste.” Nangong Ling said. “First, you need to possess me.”