Chapter 478: Daydreaming
Jiang Li didn’t expect to encounter Holy Maiden Jingxin here, and Holy Maiden Jingxin equally never imagined she would meet Jiang Li at this place.
If they had met by chance anywhere else, Holy Maiden Jingxin would have been overjoyed.
But at the entrance of the Food and Beauty Dream Sect…
With the Nine Provinces being so vast, how could they possibly meet right here?
Holy Maiden Jingxin suddenly felt the Nine Provinces were incredibly small.
“What are you all doing here?” Holy Maiden Jingxin seized the initiative, asking first.
“We heard there’s a Unity Stage cultivator here who practices the Dao of Dreams, probably someone we know, so we came to check.” Jiang Li acted with a clear conscience, answering honestly and straightforwardly.
“What about you?” Jiang Li asked.
Holy Maiden Jingxin realized that seizing the initiative hadn’t been particularly useful.
“I… I’ve been having some issues with my cultivation recently, and it’s not convenient to practice them directly, so I wanted to simulate them through dreaming. I also heard there’s a Unity Stage cultivator overseeing this place, so I thought I’d give it a try.”
Holy Maiden Jingxin certainly couldn’t say she came here to dream about Jiang Li taking his clothes off.
Bai Hongtu looked at Holy Maiden Jingxin with a strange expression—was this unlucky girl thinking about trying dual cultivation with Jiang Li?
In certain specialized areas, the Food and Beauty Dream Sect was quite famous.
……
“Are you all here to join the sect, or to dream?” the outer sect elder asked, the question sounding somewhat odd but upon reflection seeming perfectly reasonable.
Recently, many people had wanted to join the Food and Beauty Dream Sect.
“Is there a cultivator named Meng Chun here? We’re looking for her. Just say Jiang Li has business with her.”
“Everyone coming to find Elder Meng is connected to Human Sovereign Jiang. You’ll need to queue up.”
Then, the outer sect elder pointed to a long line of people waiting nearby: “See that? All these people want to find Elder Meng.”
“I am Jiang Li.”
The outer sect elder waved his hand dismissively: “Don’t try that trick with me. Everyone who comes here to dream hides their identity, but you’re the first to pretend to be Human Sovereign Jiang.”
The outer sect elder looked at Bai Hongtu: “You’re quite interesting too—pretending to be Bai Hongtu?”
The outer sect elder compared Jiang Li and Bai Hongtu, then nodded and said: “Indeed, Sect Master Bai Hongtu is considerably more handsome than Human Sovereign Jiang.”
“Good eye.” Complimented like this, Bai Hongtu’s depressed mood from being brutally beaten by Jiang Li dissipated considerably.
Holy Maiden Jingxin rarely went out, so people didn’t know her appearance—otherwise the outer sect elder would have thought she was also pretending to be Holy Maiden Jingxin.
The outer sect elder lowered his voice: “Our sect’s management says that recently Great Zhou has been strictly investigating cultivators of the Dao of Dreams. Great Zhou officials frequently come with search warrants into sects that practice dream cultivation. Some dreaming customers were startled awake, disguised themselves as other people, and successfully escaped. Those who fled without disguises had their appearances remembered by the officials and were captured, facing massive spirit stone fines.”
“You two disguised yourselves in advance—truly experienced veterans.”
“If you want to see Elder Meng, that’s possible too. You enter dreams woven by inner sect disciples, and if you’re unsatisfied, you can have Elder Meng personally weave dreams for you.”
Cultivating the Dao of Dreams required weaving many different dreams, so the Food and Beauty Dream Sect had inner sect disciples receive customers—this way they could both practice dream cultivation and earn spirit stones.
“We’ll give it a try.” Jiang Li treated, so Bai Hongtu and Holy Maiden Jingxin didn’t need to pay.
The three were led to three small rooms, where incense was lit, and following the inner sect disciples’ instructions, they entered the dreams.
“Honored guest, what kind of dream would you like to have?” the inner sect disciple asked Bai Hongtu.
“Can you make me the Human Sovereign of the Nine Provinces, punching Jiang Li with my fists and stepping on him with my feet?”
The inner sect disciple was very unhappy—Jiang Li was her idol, and even if he was a customer, she couldn’t allow such a dream.
“You can become the Human Sovereign of the Nine Provinces, but you cannot bully Human Sovereign Jiang.”
“That works too.” Bai Hongtu wasn’t picky about dreams.
Bai Hongtu’s request was a major one for the inner sect disciple—dreaming of being the Human Sovereign meant the dream needed to include the complete landscape of the Nine Provinces Continent. The inner sect disciple struggled for quite some time before finally perfecting the dream and inviting Bai Hongtu inside.
As soon as Bai Hongtu opened his eyes, he found himself sitting at a round table, presiding over the Nine Provinces Assembly.
“Human Sovereign Bai, how should we handle this matter?” The Eastern Sea Dragon King begged Bai Hongtu to solve the problem.
“What matter?” Hearing someone call him Human Sovereign Bai made Bai Hongtu feel almost as good as defeating Jiang Li.
“A monkey came to my dragon palace and stole the Tide-Crushing Divine Needle Iron. I hope Human Sovereign Bai will uphold justice.”
“This matter is easily handled. After the meeting, I’ll go reason with that monkey. Any other problems?”
“Human Sovereign Bai, we hope the Joyous Sect will establish branch sects in our Great Wei Dynasty and Mengjiang Emperor’s domain.”
“Why does this problem sound so familiar?”
The leaders of various major powers showed Bai Hongtu great respect, clearly treating him as their central pillar.
In handling problems, Bai Hongtu’s abilities were not inferior to Jiang Li’s. He methodically resolved various issues, and people secretly praised him—truly worthy of being Human Sovereign Bai, genuinely impressive.
“Where is Jiang Li?” After handling all problems, Bai Hongtu, feeling smug with success, wanted to see where Jiang Li was.
“I’m right here.” Jiang Li’s lazy voice sounded—he was right beside Bai Hongtu’s left hand.
Bai Hongtu could obviously find Jiang Li; he just wanted to ask to emphasize his own status.
“May I ask where Brother Jiang is employed these days?”
“Human Sovereign Bai truly has the short memory of an important person. When you became Human Sovereign, I became Dao Sect Master—this was agreed upon before the old Human Sovereign.”
“Haha, I’ve been too busy recently and forgot about this.” Bai Hongtu slapped his forehead, “By the way, what did you just call me?”
“Human Sovereign Bai.”
“Could you say it a few more times?” Bai Hongtu’s expression was sincere.
Sect Master Jiang Li rolled his eyes and ignored Bai Hongtu who was having delusions of grandeur.
“Lately my memory hasn’t been great. What things have I done before? Can someone tell me?”
“Replying to Human Sovereign Bai: You defeated Sect Master Jiang Li in the Human Sovereign selection, becoming the sole Human Sovereign candidate. Afterwards, the old Human Sovereign retired, and you became the new Human Sovereign.”
“Under your leadership, the Nine Provinces World has flourished and prospered. You led by example, standardizing the behavior of powerful cultivators, greatly reducing bullying of the weak throughout the Nine Provinces.”
Just as Bai Hongtu was happily enjoying his one-sided conversation, a terrifying presence suddenly appeared.
“It’s the Outer Realm Demons!” Bai Hongtu shot to his feet—he was all too familiar with this aura.
Bai Hongtu flew out of the Human Sovereign Hall and saw the vicious Outer Realm Demons ravaging the Nine Provinces.
With a thought, he drew upon the faith power within the earth veins, empowering himself to touch the threshold of Earthly Immortal.
Bai Hongtu fought the Outer Realm Demons to the bitter end, battling until sun and moon reversed positions and stars shattered, yet still he couldn’t achieve victory.
Just as Bai Hongtu was in utter despair, wanting to drag the Outer Realm Demons down with him in mutual destruction, Jiang Li made his move, easily crushing the Outer Realm Demons to death.
Jiang Li revealed a mysterious smile.
Bai Hongtu froze: “Wait, why is he still stronger than me, the Human Sovereign, even in the dream?”
The dream collapsed, and the inner sect disciple appeared to explain, with reasoned justification: “Honored guest, you only said you would be Human Sovereign—you didn’t say to lower Human Sovereign Jiang’s level. Human Sovereign Jiang is still at the Mahayana Stage.”
“Damn it, refund my money!”
Bai Hongtu was furious.