Supreme Star Card Master

Chapter 879: Chapter 683: Fierce Battle of Purple Moon

As Gareth revealed his identity, the girl behind him known as ”Little Wan” also changed her form and appearance. She wore black stockings and glasses, but her appearance was far more beautiful. Naturally, she was Betty.

Gareth laughed, ”To escape after only three ’Nightmare Abyss’ experiences, your spiritual power, reflexes, insight, and execution ability are truly top-notch...”

First, you need a strong spiritual power to maintain more ”self-consciousness” in the Nightmare Abyss.

Otherwise, it’s easy to be affected by dream characteristics like ”forgetfulness,” ”blur,” or ”inducement,” making it difficult for ordinary people to control their actions in the dream fully.

Second, you must possess tremendous strength to deal with the sudden attack launched after Gareth’s ”Nightmare Descent.” If you are killed in the dream, you will also die spiritually!

Furthermore, use keen insight to perceive the truth of the Nightmare Abyss.

Finally, decisively eliminate everyone to completely break the cycle of the Nightmare Abyss.

Indeed, once everyone in the dream is slain, Gareth loses targets to ”descend,” and the ”cycle” of the Nightmare Abyss will automatically unravel.

The current dream doesn’t belong to the Nightmare Abyss but is a dream realm created by Gareth’s power of soul.

Gareth laughed, ”Too many have died in the Nightmare Abyss—instantly killed by an attack, some dying from a blend of reality and self-inflicted death, or collapsing after multiple cycles through mental exhaustion...

You’re the first to break this art in the fourth cycle.

Or rather... only less than five people have survived this move.”

Despite his strange moves being deciphered by the opponent, Gareth remained calm and even praised Su Yuan with admiration.

Su Yuan’s eyes narrowed slightly. Compared to opponents who are superior in quality or technique in face-to-face combat, this type of opponent with bizarre abilities is undoubtedly more troublesome for him.

Such people may not be the strongest, but they are certainly the most troublesome, the kind that can drag you into a desperate situation if you’re not careful!

Su Yuan carefully sensed this dream; it was quite magical. Star Device, Divine Fire and Divine Wind could still be used, but Qingming Realm, Guardian Beast Space, and others seemed unreachable.

Being in the opponent’s domain at the moment, Su Yuan naturally would not sit idly by.

He raised his left hand, and a Void Splitting Monument Hand extended from the void, slapping toward Gareth.

At the same time, he waved his right hand to summon the Hundred Beasts Tripod, from which purple qi flowed and quickly transformed into a purple-skinned monster that charged out.

Gareth chuckled lightly, raised his right hand, and misty white cloud qi surrounded it. A large white hand, almost identical to the Void Splitting Monument Hand, rushed out from Gareth’s side.

In no time, the Void Splitting Monument Hand and the white hand collided.

With a ”boom,” space shook, Spirit Flare burst, and both hands cracked with large fractures, exploding mid-air.

Su Yuan’s eyes moved slightly, ”You can copy my moves, huh?”

Facing the incoming purple-skinned monster, rolling white qi surged behind Gareth, and a large number of clones appeared in mere moments.

The purple-skinned monster paused in its tracks but locked onto a particular clone in no time and charged again as its gaze swept over all the clones.

”Oh?”

Surprised, Gareth didn’t expect this purple-skinned monster to have such spirituality, identifying him from numerous dream clones so quickly. He decided not to hide anymore and controlled the rest of the clones to lunge at the purple-skinned monster.

With a series of ”bang bang bang...”

All the clones along the way were easily shattered by the purple-skinned monster, and before Gareth’s astonished gaze, it quickly reached his front and rammed into him.

However, the expected burst of blood did not occur.

Gareth’s form turned ethereal, and in the next moment, the purple-skinned monster passed through him without any effect.

”Virtualization of the spiritual body,” Su Yuan frowned slightly.

The Hundred Beasts Tripod is strong, with the trait of ”ignoring energy defense,” and even physical defense struggles to withstand its mighty force. However, it has no effect on the spiritual body.

After all, ordinary physical attacks can rarely harm the spiritual body.

Gareth, observing the impacts of the purple-skinned monster on multiple dream clones earlier, easily discerned its attack type as purely physical.

The purple-skinned monster, finding its attack ineffective, returned again.

This is the characteristic of the Hundred Beasts Tripod. It will immediately return after an attack to ensure each strike possesses considerable power.

Faced with an opponent who can virtualize their spirit at will, physical attacks have limited impact, so Su Yuan promptly retracted the Hundred Beasts Tripod.

Gareth, meanwhile, didn’t remain idle. With a wave of his hand, white qi flowed around Su Yuan from all directions, and suddenly several Void Splitting Monument Hands slapped from all sides!

Remaining composed, Su Yuan, with a mere thought, had infinite power distributed externally, blocking all the Void Splitting Monument Hands.

With soft blasts of ”puff puff puff...!”

After a brief stalemate, all the Void Splitting Monument Hands disintegrated into white qi and dispersed.

Gareth clapped his hands and praised, ”Such unique abilities are truly breathtaking to witness...”

Su Yuan paused momentarily and scrutinized Gareth.

At this moment, Gareth had already displayed abilities of ”copying,” ”cloning,” and ”virtualization.”

Moreover, based on this dream space, the opponent seemed capable of freely using large-scale skills.

”I wonder if I can break through this Dream Realm...”

Fighting within the opponent’s realm is naturally not a good thing.

With a thought, Su Yuan immediately retreated, withdrawing over a thousand meters in the blink of an eye.

Whether it’s the Sea and Sky Domain or the early Qingming Realm, usual domain skills are typically bounded.

Attempting to escape the range is a normal thought process, but soon, Su Yuan stopped.

This dream indeed has an edge, but beyond the edge is a vast expanse of white, the lost land beyond the boundary of consciousness.

Quickly, Gareth and Betty followed up.

Gareth calmly said, ”A dream is not a simple domain; although it has boundaries, it is also infinite. That boundless lost land is beyond even my control and full of uncertainties, so don’t think of escaping.”

”Such a dream is indeed very hard to break.” Su Yuan raised the Demon Saber in his hand, with Undead Evil Fire and Void Sword Qi naturally climbing onto it, ”Very well, I’ll just kill you here!”

Su Yuan’s eyes turned cold, instantly teleporting in front of Gareth, striking down with a sword.

White light swirled around Gareth, who directly split into two, creating two Gareth clones to dodge Su Yuan’s strike.

At the same time, both Gareth swung a punch at Su Yuan, surges of white air, the hissing of the atmosphere, the power on their fists was not weak!

With a thought, Su Yuan used Infinite Power to block the attacks from the left and right Gareth clones, then slashed out a circular Sword Qi aiming to cut them both at once.

But with a flash of white light, the two Gareths split from the waist again, turning into four Gareth clones.

And so the fight continued, soon tens of clones surrounded Su Yuan, all swinging their fists at him.

”Evil Fire!”

With a low shout, Su Yuan released the Undead Evil Fire around him, instantly consuming all the clones in a blaze!

Gareth’s true form had long since retreated, but Su Yuan’s left hand hooked, and rippling golden waves appeared from the void behind Gareth.

These dream clones of Gareth did not inherently possess much attack power, but their strength greatly increased under the dream’s influence.

But even when enhanced, there was a significant difference compared to Gareth himself. Under the All-Knowing Vision, Su Yuan could easily identify and lock onto the true body, so he had already secretly released the Heavenly Lock into the void.

”Hmm?”

Faced with the suddenly shooting Heavenly Locks, Gareth’s pupils contracted slightly, unable to react before he was entangled.

”Chupnos’ Hand!”

With a low shout, Gareth invoked a surge of vast white air, countless massive white hands emerging, grabbing various parts of the Heavenly Lock and slowly pulling it off his body.

At this moment, Su Yuan had adopted a drawing sword stance, with the Undead Evil Fire swiftly gathering onto the Demon Saber.

”Flash!”

In the expanse of burning black flames, Su Yuan holding the Demon Saber entwined with Void Sword Qi lunged out at an astonishing speed, cutting towards Gareth within a blink of an eye.

Even if Gareth could virtualize into a spiritual body, an attack reinforced by Evil Fire would certainly inflict significant harm!

”Clang!”

At this moment, a gray-white shadow suddenly darted in, with a slender and sharp gray-white claw intercepting Su Yuan’s Demon Saber.

Su Yuan glanced at the figure before him, slender in build, with tough gray-white skin, two long horns on the forehead, and black cross-shaped pupils that were intimidating.

”Oh? So it turned into a Nightmare Demon...”

No doubt, this was the previous Betty.

This was indeed a neglect on Su Yuan’s part. He thought the opponent was just a medium to trap him in a dream, not expecting it could transform into a Nightmare Demon!

At this moment, Betty’s left claw held the Demon Saber, while the other claw like a phantom aimed at Su Yuan’s heart!

Su Yuan flashed to the other side, directly teleporting to strike at Gareth, yet Betty merely shifted and blocked Su Yuan again.

”Screech!!”

Betty suddenly opened her mouth and let out a shrill scream, causing Su Yuan’s eyes to tremble, momentarily losing focus.

In the next instant, Betty’s claw swung down.

At this moment, the immense strength of A-grade Spiritual Talent manifested, and Su Yuan recovered in just an instant, using Phase Transfer to dodge the attack, promptly reappearing and slashing at Betty.

”Clang!!”

The Demon Saber laced with Evil Fire slashed at Betty, but it couldn’t cut her entire body open, only slicing off her left arm and leaving a not too deep or shallow wound on her abdomen!

”Roar!” With an angry roar, Betty frantically devoured the surrounding dream energy, with white air swirling on her left arm and wound, astonishingly recovering in the blink of an eye.

Such speed is nearly comparable to Scorpio’s high-speed regeneration!

This is the Nightmare Demon. In ordinary times, the Nightmare Demon’s strength among demons ranks as low-level.

But within a dream, its various qualities surge dramatically, additionally gaining some abilities, absolutely comparable to top-tier demons!