Chapter 1240: Section 1241: The Resentment Tribulation
“Angel?”
As Angel was lost in thought, a deep and husky male voice came through the glowing Blood Pearl in his hand, reaching his ears.
Angel hesitated for a moment before speaking softly, “Mentor.”
The Blood Pearl that had provided him with a warm strength in his dream was actually the essence blood left to him by Sanders. And, the fact that Sanders’s voice could come through the Blood Pearl meant that Sanders was now very close—
Perhaps, outside the Ice Valley.
After a brief chat, Angel stood up, ready to meet Sanders outside the Ice Valley.
The Holographic Tablet displayed the time, showing he had been unconscious for half the night, and the situation around him had not changed from before he passed out. Toby was also lying on the table asleep, just like yesterday.
However, looking at Toby made Angel think of last night’s dream.
Without a doubt, it was the torrent of information brought out from Toby’s dream that had caused him to have a terrifying dream.
“What exactly is happening to you?”
…
At this moment, Sanders was standing on the trunk of a tree outside the Ice Valley.
After returning to Sky Island and dealing with some of the subsequent matters of Lassudral, he immediately set off to return to the Ice Valley. Just now, he had contacted Angel through the essence blood.
However, what Sanders found strange was that the voice transmitted from Angel seemed a bit off.
It felt as though there were a heavy tone to it.
Aside from Angel’s own voice, there was another faint and strange noise. It was dark and silky, rustling, emitting a “hiss” from the throat.
It was like the sound of… a serpent’s hiss.
Was it an illusion? Or had something happened on Angel’s end?
While Sanders was puzzled, a figure emerged from the Ice Valley—
When Angel came out from the Ice Valley, he looked around but didn’t see Sanders. He was about to reconnect through the essence blood when a sudden whistling wind sound came from behind him.
He turned sharply, only to see Sanders flying from a distance, accompanied by a palm strike brimming with energy!
“Here we go again!” Angel paused for a moment, then immediately reacted. However, the palm strike was already very close; it was difficult to escape. Angel decided to use his arms as a shield, hoping to temporarily withstand it with his strong physique.
“Smack!” It was the sound of flesh colliding with flesh.
Angel was stunned for a moment because he did not feel any force coming from Sanders’s palm. He couldn’t help but open his eyes and looked through the gap in his arms towards Sanders: “Mentor, why are you testing me again?”
“Testing? I am not that idle,” Sanders said flatly. “I’m helping you to dispel the darkness.”
A look of confusion flashed in Angel’s eyes. Just as he was about to ask what he meant, a gentle energy suddenly transferred from Sanders’s palm into his body.
Clean, warm, bright—like the warm beacon in the boundless darkness of his dream that had guided his way not long ago.
As this force swept through his body, Angel suddenly heard a “hissing” sound by his ear. At first, the hissing was loud, but slowly it grew much softer, until it was gone.
When the hissing sound disappeared, Angel felt an inexplicable sense of relief, as after days of heavy rain, he suddenly encountered a clear blue sky.
“Mentor, what is this… What happened to me?” Although Angel felt extremely comfortable now, he hadn’t overlooked the strange hissing sound from before or the ‘dispelling of darkness’ that Sanders had mentioned.
In Sanders’s eyes, the gloomy aura enveloping Angel formed into a bizarre serpentine shape which the Purification force completely expelled.
When he heard Angel’s question, Sanders finally withdrew his hand and said nonchalantly, “I wanted to ask you the same thing. How come you have attracted such intense Negative Energy after only a few days?”
“Negative Energy?”
As Sanders explained, Angel finally understood the cause and effect of everything.
Putting aside the double tone during the Blood Pearl conversation, the moment Angel emerged from the Ice Valley, he felt nothing, but in Sanders’s eyes, Angel was shrouded in an incredibly thick gloomy aura.
This aura continuously emitted Negative Emotions all around.
It was like a vengeful spirit, spreading hatred, terror, and anger—various forms of negative energy.
It was as though Angel had been swallowed by this vengeful spirit, making him look extremely dangerous. That was why Sanders, without any warning and appearing as though attacking Angel, was actually gathering the force of Purification to expel the gloominess from him.
Angel felt a sense of disorientation after listening.
His body was emitting negative energy… Could it be that all the malicious whispers from his dreams had followed him out?
“Where have you been these past few days? How did you come into contact with so much negative energy? If it were any stronger, it could almost form a Spirit of Resentment.” Sanders frowned as he asked, and it was fortunate that Angel hadn’t been tainted for long, as it hadn’t started affecting his thinking. Otherwise, if Angel himself hadn’t noticed, the ominous energy could have truly integrated into his body, leading to various complications.
Angel shook his head helplessly, “I haven’t been anywhere. I’ve just been in the Ice Valley.”
“Then where did this negative energy come from?”
Angel hesitated for a moment, then took Toby out of his pouch: “If there are no surprises, it should have come from Toby’s dreams.”
“From Toby’s dreams?” Sanders looked at Toby, who was still unconscious, with confusion. He didn’t see anything out of the ordinary on Toby. “What do you mean?”
Angel recounted everything that happened yesterday.
After hearing Angel’s explanation, Sanders pondered for a moment: “The curse was lifted but he remains unconscious, and as soon as you entered the dream, you were discovered, with a flood of information rushing into your mind… This does sound very unusual.”
“I have also been studying the Dream Entering Technique recently, and in the literature I’ve looked at, there’s no record of a case like yours. You were discovered as soon as your Dream Tentacle entered halfway into the other party’s dream, which is unprecedented. Unless the other party is a formal Dream Sorcerer, it is difficult to immediately detect changes in a dream, especially since you hadn’t fully entered the other party’s dream.”
Angel seemed to realize something, “If I hadn’t been detected, could the flood of information that rushed into my mind be… overflow from being filled to the brim?”