Chapter 295: Soul Summoning Banner: Dream Realm Connection! Another Hundred Flowers Palace Task!
When Chen Han previously saw in that island cave that this Soul Summoning Banner was actually a computer, he already felt the game system was abstract enough.
Who knew that now, when settling the rewards for this quest instance, the Soul Summoning Banner given would actually be this same computer.
He suspected the game system might have missing game information and had casually requisitioned materials on the spot.
This possibility was extremely high.
Because this was not the first time the game system had done this. It had even plagiarized his video scripts before.
However, when he looked at the game warehouse and saw the remark information for this Soul Summoning Banner, he was surprised.
【Special Soul Summoning Banner（Upgradeable）: This is a special magic treasure, refined over a hundred years by an outer realm demonic path faction. They originally intended to use it to control powerhouses of the Central Plains, but the Shushan Immortal Alliance led people to break into the refining location, and the Soul Summoning Banner was destroyed.
Later, it was re-refined by Shushan experts but lost its original soul summoning ability and had little use, so it was rewarded to the Chen Clan, who had rendered great merit.
However, when this Soul Summoning Banner was sent to the Chen Clan, it seemed to attract the attention of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation, who bestowed a ray of divine light, making this Soul Summoning Banner special once again.
Special rule attribute: Dream Entering Realm（When there are pious believers resting at the Chen Clan and accompanied by dreams, their dreams will be sensed and summoned by the special Soul Summoning Banner and enter the Dream Entering Realm.）
Upgrade requirements: Void Stone. 100,000 wish power.
Usage condition: activate the Soul Summoning Banner and connect it to a source of energy sufficient to power its operation!】
Chen Han carefully studied this remark information.
The meaning was that after he completed the quest, the Shushan Immortal Alliance casually bestowed this Soul Summoning Banner to him, and the key point was that the thing was basically useless.
Was this not a bit perfunctory?
Fortunately, the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation was interested in this item and bestowed a ray of divine light, giving it a special attribute.
Setting other things aside, just based on this alone, even within the game plot, he would absolutely not follow the people behind the Shushan Immortal Alliance, but would firmly follow the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation.
Did the Shushan Immortal Alliance not form gradually only after the Long-browed Old Ancestor ascended and they gained backing in the heavens? There was no way the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation was weaker than the power backing them; the other side might not even be able to compare to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation.
Why forsake what was close and chase what was far?
From now on, the Chen Clan would be faithful believers of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation.
However, the fact that this special attribute belonged to the Dream Entering Realm did make him think carefully for a moment.
It meant that as long as there were pious believers who could provide wish power in the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall, when they slept and dreamed at the Chen Clan, they could be summoned by this Soul Summoning Banner into the Dream Entering Realm?
It was just that, without personal experience, it was a bit hard to truly understand what it meant.
He could only study it later.
On the other hand, this special Soul Summoning Banner was another magic treasure that could be upgraded, but its upgrade requirements left him a bit confused.
He had no idea what this Void Stone was, and up until now nothing like that had ever dropped.
And then there was the 100,000 wish power.
Over this period, because the rapeseed flower sea had attracted many tourists, and the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall had opened a square for all visitors to offer incense, the daily increase in wish power was much higher.
But so far, his wish power was only a little over thirty thousand.
The 100,000 wish power required for upgrading was still not met, and he still needed to find ways to increase the channels for gaining wish power.
So, the upgrade of this special Soul Summoning Banner did not need to be considered for now.
As for the usage condition, starting the special Soul Summoning Banner should mean turning on the computer, right?
Finding a source that could provide energy for the Soul Summoning Banner’s operation should mean a power outlet, right?
Thinking of this, Chen Han simply placed the special Soul Summoning Banner in the room where the instance teleportation array was located.
No one was using this room anyway.
At a thought, the special Soul Summoning Banner, which looked like a computer, appeared in the room.
He directly moved it in front of the socket and plugged in the power.
The computer was already assembled and did not need him to put it together; he could start it directly.
However, starting this computer was completely different from a normal one.
Normally, when a computer starts, lines of code flash by on the screen; now, when this one started, what flashed across the screen were dense runes.
After that, instead of a window interface like WIN 13 appearing, an image of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation’s statue appeared, exactly the same as the statue in the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.
This…
Finally, the computer… the special Soul Summoning Banner finished booting.
But the screen of this special Soul Summoning Banner showed nothing. It was pitch black, with moving runes swimming across it, giving a very profound feeling.
Then, in his mind, a game prompt appeared:
【Congratulations, you have successfully activated the special Soul Summoning Banner. You can view information about the special Soul Summoning Banner through the game panel in your mind’s light screen!】
Chen Han looked toward the mind’s light screen, and sure enough, information about the special Soul Summoning Banner appeared.
There was also a special rule attribute on it: Dream Entering Realm.
When he focused his attention on this Dream Entering Realm, another game prompt appeared:
【When you are in a sleeping state or in samadhi cultivation, you can enter the Dream Entering Realm!】
So this meant that others could only be passively summoned by the special Soul Summoning Banner while dreaming, but as the owner of this magic treasure, he could actively enter the Dream Entering Realm?
This made him eager to try.
He went to check by the instance teleportation array; the outer demonic path island dungeon was also refreshing.
But this puzzled him. That island would likely be discovered domestically very soon, and the outer demonic path would probably no longer be able to stir up trouble there.
If so, how would the dungeon refresh?
Leaving the room, he locked the door directly.
There were quite a few secrets here now, both the instance portal and the special Soul Summoning Banner.
Although others could not use these things and touching them would have no effect, it was best to avoid unnecessary trouble.
Back in his room, he sat cross-legged and ran the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture basic qi cultivation method》, quickly entering a samadhi cultivation state.
The game prompt just had to appear at that moment:
【Do you wish to enter the Dream Entering Realm?】
It seemed like two different states, as if cultivation was not affected.
He directly chose to enter.
The next moment, he felt his thoughts and mind being pulled by a special force, and then saw a special scene appear before his eyes.
Mist-shrouded and dreamlike, yet there was nothing all around, as if it were a void of emptiness, impossible to gaze upon for too long.
However, he could control his actions. Although there was nothing beneath his feet, he seemed able to walk upon it.
This feeling was very strange.
He roughly understood. The original attribute of the Soul Summoning Banner had been to summon people’s souls into an illusion. Now this special Soul Summoning Banner had mutated somewhat; this Dream Entering Realm should also be a type of illusion.
It was just that, because of the game system’s rule attributes, this illusion was overly real, rather than a simple hallucination like the ones induced by eating fungi.
As Chen Han was feeling some emotion about this, he suddenly saw an image appear in front of him.
He walked forward, and the surroundings changed into the scenery of the Chen Clan.
Right ahead of him was the attic of his junior sister.
Then he saw an extremely eye-searing scene: in his junior sister’s courtyard, he saw himself.
He and his junior sister were holding hands, dancing with swords together.
It was a very slow, soft, affectionate sword technique.
Just like in a movie.
Crucially, as he and his junior sister danced with swords, countless rose petals fell from the sky like rain. It seemed very romantic.
Chen Han opened his mouth, seeming to understand that this was his junior sister’s dream.
It was just that this dream…
Seemed to have been disturbed by his arrival. She clearly froze.
Then she also saw the old daoist priest standing outside.
Was this that ancestor?
She hurriedly saluted, completely confused about what was happening.
She remembered lying in her room and falling asleep, and that she seemed to have dreamed of her senior brother just now. She glanced at the senior brother beside her and froze. Was this inside her own dream?
She wanted to go up and ask what was going on, but when she gently lifted her foot, she found her body become very light and suddenly floated up, a special weightless feeling.
And she saw that, on the street outside the courtyard, a tourist was flying backward above the ground, belly up with limbs pointed upward, as if something was chasing him from the street. It was a demonic shadow carrying an axe.
Chen Han saw it too.
So a tourist was dreaming and being chased by the Chen Clan’s demonic shadow?
The key point was that his flying posture looked a lot like how he himself flew using lightness skill in dreams back before he had any cultivation, a bit weird and a bit funny.
Did everyone fly like this in their dreams?
The tourist seemed to see him and shouted, “Daoist priest, save me!”
Then the man flew right past him, with the demonic shadow chasing after him.
And that was not all. Suddenly, at the end of the street, a figure in a daoist robe appeared, riding on a cow. Was that not You Fu? On both sides were tourists filming videos.
“This is the Li patriarch, so handsome.”
“Li patriarch, I love you!”
“…”
This left Chen Han and Xiao Yu staring at each other in confusion.
“What is he doing?” Xiao Yu asked doubtfully.
Chen Han felt awkward.
Apparently, some pious believer envied him and dreamed of himself as him.
The key was that the cow the tourist rode as You Fu was clearly wrong: thick floral lips and a long face, just like a donkey.
But that tourist dismounted from the cow and directly knelt before him, shouting, “Ancestor!”
“…” Chen Han was truly speechless.
At this point, he also understood that the Dream Entering Realm pulled together the dreams of these pious believers into one place, linking their dreams together.
He observed carefully. Aside from his junior sister and the dreaming tourists, who were vivid and lively, the other people appearing in the dreams, including the “himself” in his junior sister’s dream and those tourists in other dreams, were all somewhat numb, like NPCs in a game.
“Daoist priest, save me.” The tourist still flying with dream lightness skill drifted by again, with the demonic shadow still hacking at him relentlessly.
Seeing this, Chen Han thought of something: what if a pious tourist was having a nightmare here, the kind that attacked indiscriminately?
Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly noticed black qi swirling around them, a thick fog rising, and within the fog something bouncing and hopping appeared.
“???” Chen Han was speechless. In a place consecrated to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation, some pious believer was dreaming of zombies attacking a city?
What was this logic?
“Crap, zombies…” A familiar voice sounded behind Chen Han.
He turned around and saw Uncle Dagou dressed like an expert. Beside him was Dalong, bare-chested with a world champion golden belt around his waist.
Clearly, Uncle Dagou was also dreaming, and dreaming that Dalong had won a world champion golden belt.
This Dalong was naturally an unawakened dream NPC from Uncle Dagou’s dream.
“Hey, Ancestor, I finally get to see you.” Chen Dagou looked at him in surprise, as if he had discovered a new continent, almost so excited he was about to kneel.
At this moment, the zombies also showed themselves: green-faced and tusked, wearing Qing dynasty official uniforms, just like in Uncle Jiu’s movies.
A middle-aged tourist in front of them was fleeing frantically, inwardly extremely speechless. Just because he liked old movies and had watched an Uncle Jiu zombie movie before sleeping, he ended up dreaming of this.
He had run for ages without seeing anyone, while a zombie army chased him. Now, suddenly, seeing so many people ahead, he kindly shouted a warning, “Zombies!”
Then everything fell into chaos.
The dream NPCs from various dreams, such as that group of tourists from the Li patriarch dream, scattered in all directions.
Many were caught by zombies in the blink of an eye.
Soon, a zombie reached Chen Han and the others. Chen Dagou rushed out and punched the zombie. Unexpectedly, he sent it flying into the sky with one blow.
This made him shout with excitement.
Seeing this, Xiao Yu tried to imitate him and attack. But her body floated lightly instead, and she ended up running back and forth with a zombie chasing her, both of them weightless and unable to touch each other.
This…
The funniest one was still the person being chased by the demonic shadow. At this point, the demonic shadow actually started helping him hack at zombies.
It was super illogical.
But in dreams, many things were illogical.
When Chen Han saw a zombie pounce at him, he waved his hand and directly slapped the zombie flying.
…
The next day, the alarm clock rang. Chen Han woke from cultivation, with a slightly strange expression on his face.
It really had been a marvelous experience, spending the whole night beating up zombies.
The Dream Entering Realm was pretty interesting.
Linking the dreams of sleeping people together was way more fun than dreaming alone.
He then thought about how the special Soul Summoning Banner could be upgraded and wondered how this dream realm connection would change after an upgrade.
Thinking this, Chen Han got up and checked the insect puppet in the bottle. The runes had fully integrated into its skin, making it look more textured.
Now it was just a matter of when it would spin a cocoon, pupate, and turn into a butterfly.
He went downstairs to collect the moon gazing sand as usual, then took the little white rabbit out and rode You Fu toward the special spiritual aperture.
As soon as he arrived, he heard his junior sister and Uncle Dagou excitedly talking.
“Xiao Mi Jie, I’m telling you, in my dream I chased zombies for ages and couldn’t catch them, just floating like this…” Xiao Yu said vividly, gesturing with her hands.
Chen Dagou was also full of excitement. “I sent a zombie flying with one punch.”
These words left Chen Lin, Chen Shuisheng, and Xiao Mi all incredulous.
Chen Lin said in surprise, “Xiao Yu, Dagou, you mean you had the same dream, were surrounded by zombies, and spent the whole night fighting zombies?”
“Yeah.” Chen Dagou nodded. “They were endless. I fought until I was exhausted. Luckily it was just a dream. And Xiao Yu was in my dream too.”
Xiao Yu also nodded. “Right, Uncle Dagou was there too. We actually had the same dream and fought zombies together. It was so amazing.”
When they saw Chen Han arrive, Chen Dagou suddenly said to him, “Xiao Han, you were beside Xiao Yu in last night’s dream. You were fighting zombies too. We had the same dream.”
Chen Han froze. Last night he had looked like the old daoist priest, but he reacted and realized that must have been the version of himself in his junior sister’s dream practicing the affectionate sword technique with her.
With a face full of confusion, he asked, “What dream? What zombies?”
Hearing this, embarrassment clearly showed on Xiao Yu’s face. That senior brother seemed to be someone she dreamed of, not that her senior brother was actually present in the dream.
Of course she could not say that.
Xiao Mi noticed her odd reaction and seemed to understand. “Well now, Xiao Yu, you’re just messing with us together with Uncle Dagou. Your expression already gave you away.”
“Tch.” Chen Lin shook his head. “Dagou, this is not funny at all.”
“???” Chen Dagou was stunned.
What the hell?
He was telling the truth.
With the time for energy overflow approaching, Chen Han had no mind to dwell on this. He sat down cross-legged; cultivation was the most important thing.
Chen Han began to refine and absorb the spiritual energy that had entered his body. His junior sister and his uncle had already left. The few of them had just succeeded in guiding true qi into their dantian, so each time they absorbed only a limited amount of spiritual energy, refining it quickly.
But a string of elm seeds on the ground caught his attention. He picked it up and stored it in the game warehouse.
This season was not the season for elm seeds.
But last time, due to the effect of the （Hundred Flowers Sweet Dew Talisman）, the three old elm trees had bloomed out of season and grown elm seeds.
The three old elm trees were huge, and many people did not know much about elm seeds, so even though many tourists came to see the trees, they did not pay much attention to them.
【Special elm seeds（Not ripe）: This is a string of elm seeds blown off by the wind that has not yet ripened.】
Seeing this, Chen Han rode You Fu back to the courtyard first, released the little white rabbit, and then went to Uncle’s Kitchen to prepare medicinal cuisine.
After preparing the medicinal cuisine, he took out his mobile phone to check today’s hot news on Douyin. The hottest topic was still about the five hundred thousand.
《The god of hackers makes a third move, directly catching a group of bootlickers of foreign powers!》
As for those three characters referring to people who worship foreign things, Chen Han felt it was very fitting. The list online had not been suppressed, and all over the country there were reports about people involved in the five hundred thousand being caught.
The news was extremely lively, especially when several university professors were arrested and had eggs thrown at them by students. The scene was brutal.
Obviously, this news did not negatively affect the authorities at all. On the contrary, they were glad to thoroughly clean up these foreign-worshipers.
Above all, who would dare touch this matter?
If anyone tried to speak up to suppress it, they might get dragged into the five hundred thousand affair.
…
There was also news about the Chen Clan’s rapeseed flowers. COFCO Oil had issued an announcement that it would, together with Linhe County and Great Tycoon Liu, jointly launch this promotion project with policy support.
This brought even more attention to the Chen Clan’s rapeseed flowers. After all, people knew that most domestic rapeseed depended on imports and that the country had been tricked over it. Many were indignant. Now that they knew the Chen Clan’s rapeseed could change the current situation, the “spiritual shareholders” were even more excited.
However, Chu Ping and Zheng Ruixin could not remain calm, because they knew the Chen Clan had captured several people involved in the five hundred thousand and handed them over to Linhe County, and then all the information about those people had suddenly appeared online.
Did this not feel familiar?
It had been the same the last two times. Someone provoked the Chen Clan, and that old daoist priest of the Chen Clan protected his own, causing bloodshed unknown to outsiders.
They could almost guess that all this information about the five hundred thousand had been exposed by that old daoist priest, and that to obtain it, the bloody incident must have been no small matter.
Considering the factions that could have held such information, it was obvious.
But this only further proved that the old daoist priest of the Chen Clan was truly vengeful and dared to strike at any power.
He could not be offended…
Absolutely could not be offended…
Besides these two pieces of news, Chen Han was surprised to see another news item about the Chen Clan.
《You will never guess this. A few of us tourists had the same dream at the Chen Clan. Our dreams seemed to be pulled together.》
“At first, there was only me in my dream, being chased by the Chen Clan’s demonic shadow. Later, the Chen Clan’s old daoist priest suddenly appeared in my dream. Then other tourists appeared in my dream too, tourists I did not even know.”
“The key point is that I recognized them the next day, and they recognized me. That’s how we found out we had the same dream.”
“Can you believe it? Normally, people barely remember dreams after waking up, but we all clearly remembered being chased by zombies together. If that is not miraculous, what is?”
Chen Han had not expected that these tourists would verify it in this way.
But for something so miraculous, no one believed it. A look at the comment section said it all.
“Here we go again, who believes this now!”
“Exactly, we all know Great Tycoon Liu orchestrated everything before.”
“Stop posting videos to piggyback on the popularity. No one believes it, and it is clueless attention-seeking!”
“…”
Chen Han put down his phone with a smile. Because of this special Soul Summoning Banner, the Chen Clan had gained another legend that only those who personally came and experienced it would believe.
As he thought this, a game prompt suddenly appeared, leaving him stunned:
【The Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy seems to suddenly be preoccupied. She has a wish and wants you to help her fulfill it!
Please help the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy fulfill her wish, and you will receive a special Hundred Flowers Palace Gift Pack.】
Chen Han was taken aback.
Currently in the Chen Clan, there was only one Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy, and that was Xiao Mi.
Why did Xiao Mi suddenly have a wish?
Could it be…
