Handbook of Survival in the World of Cultivating Immortals

Chapter 188 69: When I wake up from the dream ([-])
The "door" slowly took shape amidst everyone's expectations.

Although none of them could understand the faintly emerging patterns on the door, they all knew one thing in their hearts—this was the only way they had been waiting for for several years to escape from this dark inner world.

The sacrifices accumulated in the rather spacious "bedroom" have been exhausted.

But that heavy looking door floating in the mid-air has only just taken shape.

The formation still exudes brilliance and has not stopped, which also indicates that the sacrifices accumulated in this "bedroom" for opening this formation over the years are not enough to fully complete it.

The manipulator of the formation, Qu Jing, was the first to realize this.She keeps an eye on the consumption of the sacrifices and the speed at which the door is formed, and controls this huge formation with her divine sense.When the last sacrifice turned into "flowing fire" and merged into the already solid door, her heart sank, she stared at the door that had formed but remained silent, and silently swallowed a mouthful of fishy sweetness.It's just this moment of effort, and the formation that couldn't continue without being supplemented by sacrifices has already turned against her!

Is it...

Do you really want to stop here?

Clearly, success is within sight!
The formation that was supposed to be completed when all the sacrifices were used stopped, and this strangeness made everyone focus on Qu Jing.

Sweeping around the eyes that looked at him in doubt, under the light, Qu Jing could easily distinguish each person's face.

She still remembers the situation when everyone joined the Yongning settlement. Of course, everyone has their own selfishness and reasons, but since choosing to join their settlement, it means agreeing with their approach and code of conduct. It is justified to sacrifice one's life for this.

Qu Jing stopped looking at them, instead took a deep breath, and activated the formation again.

As the light flickered, the expressions on the faces of the residents who belonged to the settlement who were standing in the gap and were not affected by the formation quickly changed.

From indifferently watching the person who was sacrificed being absorbed and transformed by the formation, to seeing myself as a sacrifice being absorbed and transformed by the formation, it was only a matter of an instant.

These people who live in seemingly comfortable but so-called rule-bound settlements all the year round, follow the rules on weekdays and do not dare to cross the border to make do with it. They also regard these rules as their duty to survive and spontaneously follow them To maintain these rules, they seldom, or even think about things outside the rules, and only start to panic when these rules really touch their bottom line and their lives are threatened——

But it's too late.

Although he has shielded his senses and gave orders only through sound transmission, Qu Jing found that his conscience, which he had abandoned for a long time, would still ache faintly through the distorted and silent screaming people in front of him.

The people in front of them who use their lives as a stepping stone to escape are similar but different from the sleepers who have been unable to wake up from their dreams for many years because this "bedroom" has been set up.

Over the years, she has used the Sleepers as a kind of consumables, similar to livestock raised by people for slaughter, and their function is no different from that of livestock. The idea of ​​them is hard to shake, and they can no longer be regarded as real "human beings".

So at this time, she didn't have any pity, and restarted the formation without hesitation, using the people in the settlement as sacrifices.

Perhaps it was the last remaining conscience that made her a little uneasy, but after staying in the quagmire for a long time, she had already been stained with an indelible black, watching the door representing freedom slow down under the effect of the new sacrifice. Slowly opening and revealing a ray of skylight outside the world, the last bit of conscience is also forgotten.

Seeing the distorted faces gradually disappear in front of his eyes, a hopeful smile appeared on Qu Jing's face.

But not long after, the smile froze again.

Although the door is opening, it may be that the number of sacrifices is far from enough, and the speed and range of opening have not reached the expected level.

What made Qu Jing feel even more desperate was that even if all the people in the settlement were sacrificed, the door could not be opened.

She was the only one left in the "bedroom" that seemed crowded in the past.

Years of preparation can only stop here, everything seems to be mocking them.

Laugh at their readiness, at their persistence, at their still hope for freedom.

It's just doing whatever it takes to survive. What's wrong with them?In this world of cultivating immortals, whether it is cultivating immortals, cultivating demons, or even cultivating evil, they are all for survival.

Qu Jing stared at the door with a gap, his eyes were almost bright red.

Her mind was already unstable, and she couldn't even continue to manipulate the formation with her spiritual sense.

A moment of negligence will directly fall into the abyss.

The illusion under her feet suddenly began to disintegrate, and the brilliance emerging from the formation also flickered. Qu Jing felt a strong sense of crisis, but his whole body could not move at all.

As the formation began to vibrate and started to run against the previous direction, Qu Jing's heart also fell to the bottom, and the endless chill invaded and pierced the bones.

She is very clear about the reality of what will happen next: her vitality will be turned into "flowing fire", which will also be the source of power to open the door just like she used everyone as a sacrifice.

Obviously... hope is close at hand, only the last bit... how could... why can't it be completed...?
Qu Jing couldn't figure it out.

But the reality is that it cannot be reversed by manpower, and it is irreversible.

In the short time of Qu Jing's hundreds of years of life, when it was about to come to an end, he could only helplessly watch his vitality disappear as the brilliance circulated.

There is no pain as imagined, or the struggle to survive ends up being nothing but nothing. The pain caused by nothing is beyond the physical pain, and the pain is no longer important at this time.

Those of them who fell into the inner world and managed to break free from their dreams faced a more cruel survival path than the outer world.They made up another dream for themselves——

A peaceful, well-ordered ideal country without too many dangers - the settlement of "Yuanning".

To prolong one's own life with the source of other people's life, one does not need to pay attention to the crisis in the other world in order to maintain the vitality of the "flowing fire".

Planning for several years to escape the path of hope in this cruel and ruled underworld.

Everything seemed like a dream.

This dream was shattered in an instant, and everything returned to nothing.

What a dream come true.

Qu Jing's figure became illusory as the "flowing fire" passed, and he vaguely saw that person's face before disappearing.

Ahh...you are right.

We... all did it wrong...

Qu Jing concentrated a little, and threw an object in the Qiankun bag with the last bit of strength.

Perhaps due to exhaustion, she turned into "flowing fire" light spots and flowed into the door almost at the same time the object flew out.

The door opened.

(End of this chapter)