Chapter 801 795: Dreamscape

There was still a long time before the corpse-transformed Demon Gods outside would retreat, and Lin Yuan lay in the Blood Coffin, drowsily falling asleep.

In a hazy daze, Lin Yuan had a strange dream.

In the dream, the Returning Ruins suffered an invasion by a Chaos Star Beast.

The Returning Ruins, which had fully three thousand Demon Gods, was actually beaten back again and again in the battle with the Chaos Star Beast.

An entire three thousand Tier One Powerhouses, actually, were beaten so badly they had no strength to fight back.

After discussion, the Three Thousand Demon Gods decided to use the method of "Cicada Molt" to create a Void.

Then, they would leave their respective inheritances within the Void, to ensure their legacy would not be cut off.

The Void bore the essence of the Returning Ruins; the Returning Ruins that shed it off became a dead land.

The Returning Ruins that had become a dead land happened, by coincidence, to serve as the battlefield where the Three Thousand Demon Gods resisted the Chaos Star Beast.

Within the Returning Ruins, the near-endless Arrays were precisely what had been used back then to ward off the Chaos Star Beast.

Among them, the final grand Array capable of controlling the entire Returning Ruins was called the Zhou Tian Star Array.

In the dream, Lin Yuan saw that, in the final battle with the Chaos Star Beast, the Three Thousand Demon Gods turned into stars, forming the Zhou Tian Star Array.

The Three Thousand Demon Gods used the Zhou Tian Star Array to block the Chaos Star Beast.

In this battle, stars fell one after another, like meteors, crashing down onto the ground.

The stars that struck the ground turned back into individual Demon Gods.

In the dream, Lin Yuan watched the stars falling like meteors and carefully counted them; a full two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine stars fell.

This meant that, in this great war resisting this Chaos Star Beast, a full two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine Demon Gods had fallen.

Of the Three Thousand Demon Gods, only one remained.

Immediately after, the sky in the dream fell silent again; the Chaos Star Beast seemed to have been repelled.

Lin Yuan kept waiting; he was waiting for the last of the Three Thousand Demon Gods to return.

There is no time in dreams.

Lin Yuan waited in the dream for a very, very long time, and at last, the final Demon God among the Three Thousand Demon Gods returned.

She was still alive.

But she was grievously wounded.

This Demon God was a woman dressed in palace robes, her demeanor extremely dignified and imposing.

She resembled Wa Huang by about thirty percent, but in terms of bearing, Wa Huang was far inferior to her.

Her palace robes were dyed the color of blood, and what surprised Lin Yuan most was that her lower half was not human, but a serpent's body.

Of course, this was normal among the Three Thousand Demon Gods.

The Three Thousand Demon Gods were basically half-human, half-beast, or half-human, half-plant in form.

At this moment, Lin Yuan harbored a faint guess in his heart.

The Three Thousand Demon Gods, in order to preserve their fire-seeds, had separated out the Void and left behind their inheritances.

In that case, Wa Huang was probably the inheritance left behind by this only surviving Human-headed Serpent-bodied Female Demon God among the Three Thousand Demon Gods.

In the dream, Lin Yuan personally watched as the sole surviving Human-headed Serpent-bodied Female Demon God among the Three Thousand Demon Gods dug pit after pit, preparing to bury the other Demon Gods.

However, just as she dragged the Demon Gods into the pits one by one—

She discovered that among the dead Demon Gods, there was one who had not yet completely dispersed, body and soul.

Within this Demon God's body, there was still a small remnant soul.

Lin Yuan saw clearly that this Demon God who was not quite truly dead looked exactly the same as the Fat Old Man.

Lin Yuan wanted to go forward and take a closer look, but found that he could not touch anything in the dream.

This was a dream; Lin Yuan could only be a bystander.

"What a deep obsession."

"Your remnant soul actually still holds such a deep obsession; in that case, I'll lend you a hand."

"I'll help you, at this moment, use this remnant soul laden with obsession to cut out a Possession Corpse."

"From now on, let this Possession Corpse live well in your stead!" the Human-headed Serpent-bodied Demon God murmured to herself.

After that, she bowed deeply to the corpses of those Demon Gods who were truly dead and said, "Everyone, he only has a remnant soul. Even if we cut out a Possession Corpse, it may not endure long."

"I need you all to lend me a hand, to forge a Soul-nurturing Coffin, to nourish his soul."

"Everyone, I entrust this to you!"

After she finished speaking, the Human-headed Serpent-bodied Female Demon God created a coffin, and then used the blood of all the dead Demon Gods to refine this Soul-nurturing Coffin.

The so-called Soul-nurturing Coffin was precisely the Blood Coffin in which Lin Yuan now hid.

After refining the Soul-nurturing Coffin, the Human-headed Serpent-bodied Female Demon God began to help that not-quite-dead Demon God use the remnant soul imbued with obsession to cut out a Possession Corpse.

Under the wholehearted assistance of the Human-headed Serpent-bodied Female Demon God, the Possession Corpse gradually condensed into form, and it was exactly the appearance of the Fat Old Man.

However, just as the Possession Corpse was about to be cut out, the sky of the Returning Ruins suddenly split open with a crack.

A pitch-black tentacle covered in human hands stretched out from within and lashed across the back of the Human-headed Serpent-bodied Female Demon God.

"Pfft!"

The Human-headed Serpent-bodied Female Demon God spat out a mouthful of fresh blood; the Possession Corpse that was about to be cut out also once again dissipated, leaving only the remnant soul laden with obsession standing there in a daze.

The Human-headed Serpent-bodied Female Demon God had been ambushed, and the cutting of the corpse had failed.

With no other choice, the Human-headed Serpent-bodied Female Demon God could only merge the remnant soul into one of the Arrays that had previously been used to resist the Chaos Star Beast.

That was the grand Array known as the Returning Ruins Arena.

She hoped that, with the power of the Array, the remnant soul could be temporarily preserved from dispersing, and that after she finished off this Chaos Star Beast, she would find another way.

After stuffing the remnant soul into the Array, the Human-headed Serpent-bodied Female Demon God turned and charged toward the Chaos Star Beast that had ambushed her.

"I let you escape last time. This time, no matter what, I'll kill you!" the Human-headed Serpent-bodied Female Demon God said through gritted teeth.

Very soon, the Human-headed Serpent-bodied Female Demon God was locked in battle with the Chaos Star Beast.

The battle was fierce; from the Returning Ruins, they fought all the way into the Chaos outside the Returning Ruins.

Fighting and fighting, they vanished; Lin Yuan could not catch up and could only wait quietly.

There is no time in dreams.

Lin Yuan kept waiting. In short, after he had waited for a very long time, the Human-headed Serpent-bodied Female Demon God returned.

She returned!

And yet, it also seemed as though she had not returned.

Because what came back was only a short segment of the Human-headed Serpent-bodied Female Demon God's tail.

Seeing this scene, Lin Yuan felt his head buzz.

Between the Human-headed Serpent-bodied Female Demon God and the Chaos Star Beast, who had actually won?

Only a short segment of tail came back—did that count as returning, or not?

In any case, that great battle had definitely been extremely fierce; they had fought to such a state, and only a short piece of tail made it back.

At this moment, Lin Yuan also understood how the Fat Old Man had become the Array Spirit of the Returning Ruins Arena.

The Human-headed Serpent-bodied Female Demon God, who had returned with only a short segment of tail left, could scarcely protect herself; naturally, she could no longer help the Fat Old Man cut out a Possession Corpse.

The Fat Old Man's remnant soul, bearing obsession and wanting to live on, could only rely on himself.

In a muddled state, perhaps driven by the obsession to save himself, perhaps by the obsession to save the Returning Ruins, the Fat Old Man's remnant soul, laden with obsession, fused with the Returning Ruins Arena and became the Array Spirit of this grand Array.

By relying on the nourishment of this grand Array, the Returning Ruins Arena, he gradually recovered his consciousness.

At the same time, on the other side, the Female Demon God who had only a short segment of tail left was on the verge of death.

When she had just returned, that short segment of serpent's tail still twitched a few times.

Later, it gradually became rigid and straight, motionless.