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"Yes." Mu Xiaoling replied.

The two of them wandered around the evening market until late at night, when they finally managed to climb into the palace walls.

They had secretly slipped away, so naturally, they couldn't openly walk back. However, even though this was the case, Mu Xiaoling still felt that something wasn't right.

There were too many people living in the palace, from the three thousand beauties to the palace maids and eunuchs, there were close to ten thousand of them. Normally, even when it was late at night, the place would still be brightly lit, but right now, it was completely silent, as if there were no living people around.

Mu Xiaoling hesitated for a moment before she asked with a frown, "It doesn't seem right?"

Xiao Yu looked calmly into the distance. "It's a nightmare."

"Nightmare?" Mu Xiaoling followed Xiao Yu's gaze and saw that there were dozens of imperial guards scattered around. It seemed like they were patrolling the area.

She could hear the long, even breaths of the Janissaries, so she wasn't dead. She was really asleep.

Gu Xiu said, "Be careful, Master. There really is the aura of a nightmare."

Tao Biao gave a faint smile. "That guy is not easy to deal with."

It was the first time that Mu Xiaoling had heard this name. She asked Gu Xiu Hu, "What are the abilities of Nightmare Terrors?"

Gu Xiu said, "Nightmares are good at creating dreams and can also induce dreams. No one knows how to escape from a dream created by a nightmare. Many times, one would be trapped for a lifetime."

Taotie chuckled. "But most of the time it's because you can't eat in your sleep and starve to death."

Mu Xiaoling pondered for a moment before saying to Xiao Yu, "I'm afraid the Nightmare Terror didn't have good intentions this time. No matter what, let's go see the Emperor."

Xiao Yu didn't care about the fate of the lower realm imperial court, but he still nodded when he saw Mu Xiaoling's serious expression.

The two of them arrived at the emperor's chamber one after another.

The hall that was usually heavily guarded was now pitch black. Many imperial guards were lying on the ground, even if a knife was stabbed into their bodies, they wouldn't notice it at all.

Mu Xiaoling walked into the hall. The emperor was wearing a bright yellow robe as he quietly laid on the bed. His face was pale as he muttered to himself. It was as though he was having a nightmare.

Xiao Yu roughly glanced at it, "There seems to be something in the Emperor's dream that is absorbing his dragon aura, I estimate that it won't be able to hold on for long."

Mu Xiaoling asked, "The Emperor can't die yet. How do we wake everyone up?"

Xiao Yu said, "There are only three ways to dream. Either let the people out, or rely on them to break the dream, or kill the Nightmare. It's just that the Nightmare is good at hiding one's aura, and I can't find it."

Mu Xiaoling pondered for a moment. "But … If it were to find out that someone was not dreaming, it would probably come looking for him on its own. "

"It is indeed feasible."

"Set up a formation here to protect the Emperor. We'll go find the Nightmare Terror." After Mu Xiaoling finished speaking, she retreated to the side. After seeing that Xiao Yu had finished setting up the array formation, she left the hall with him.

Gu Xiu said, "I can smell the aura of the Crimson Gold Mouse from the east."

"Then let's go take a look." Mu Xiaoling followed Gu Xiuhu's instructions and headed east until a strong aroma of alcohol assaulted her nostrils.

Xiao Yu said, "If we go any further, we'll be at the location of the royal palace's wine collection."

Mu Xiaoling nodded and continued to walk forward. The palace's wine collection was on two floors. One floor, one floor.

She walked down the stairs and directly went down to the wine room. She saw that many of the wine jars had been knocked over, and the rich aroma of the wine was emitted from these jars. In one of the empty wine jars lay an unremarkable grey mouse, snoring loudly and occasionally letting out two sounds of 'squeak' of unknown meaning.

Mu Xiaoling didn't have any place to put the little mouse, so she gave it to him first.

She bit down on her middle finger, and just as she was about to drip a drop of fresh blood onto the forehead of the Crimson Gold-Mouse, she saw an orange figure suddenly appear. It was as fast as lightning and actually snatched away the Crimson Gold-Rat.

It was an orange-yellow rat that was three times the size of a golden red rat. However, it was slightly longer than a normal mouse. If it stood up, it would be able to reach Mu Xiaoling's waist.

In Mu Xiaoling's sea of consciousness, Gu Xiu's voice resounded. "It is a nightmare!"

Xiao Yu's eyes narrowed, "Nightmare dream."

When the big rat heard the human across it call out its name, it stopped pretending. Its mouth that was initially like a ferocious rat revealed a smile. "I didn't expect that in this dream, there would be someone who would recognize me."

Xiao Yu looked at it indifferently, "Your smile is as ugly as it was before."

"…" The Nightmare Terror was successfully blown away by Xiao Yu's words. It jumped up high and rolled its head, "What nonsense are you saying you brat, this daddy here is such a handsome and elegant purebred nightmare, how could I possibly be related to the word ugly? Don't think that I don't know you, you scum, furthermore, this daddy will go up to the board to spread the news, saying that the notorious Limitless Demon Lord has returned!"

Xiao Yu sneered, "Alright, this sovereign would like to see how good of a reputation this damn mouse of yours that only knows how to hide and hide can have."

The reputation of Demon Marshall Wu Yuan was obtained through killing, and his reputation was built up just like a rat in a sewer, after framing countless people in his dreams.

Mu Xiaoling felt that the two of them were on par with each other. However, she asked, "Are you two very familiar with each other?"

Xiao Yu said, "Not familiar."

Nightmare: "Not familiar!"

The same response came from both sides.

"Sure enough, I know him." Mu Xiaoling nodded in understanding. "So we don't need to fight with this one?"

Xiao Yu scoffed, "Can it beat him?"

The Nightmare Terror had withered. It really couldn't defeat it …

But it only took a few seconds for it to react. As it relied on Dreamscape's ability to kill to compare itself with Xiao Yu's ability to move, it was obviously bringing it into the ditch. It immediately became angry, "Laozi is not a battle type talent, laozi is a technology type talent, do you understand!"

Xiao Yu sneered, but didn't say anything, only his eyes were filled with disdain.

"The two of you …" Mu Xiaoling looked at the man and the beast speechlessly. When she saw that the nightmare was about to explode again, she immediately interrupted them. "Why don't we first tell us what exactly is going on in the palace?"

"Do you think that I, as an ancient greater demon, would be willing to go against a small country like the lower realms? Wasn't it because I owed the Middle Realm's Lie Family a favor, just now, there was a young girl from the Lie Family who summoned me with a keepsake. Coincidentally, I was in the lower realms, so I conveniently helped her out."

Mu Xiaoling was confused. "But why would she make things difficult for the people in the palace?"