Free Web NovelChapter 391: Chapter 341: Damaged Black Banner [2]
The young man was none other than Hu Qi, restored to his normal appearance.
As he spoke, his gaze fell upon a Damaged Black Banner floating before him.
Wisps of black smoke coiled around the banner’s surface, exuding an ominous aura, as if it were an aggregation of all the world’s darkness.
At this moment, the Damaged Black Banner had shrunk to a length of two meters.
Hu Qi reached out, and an Invisible Power seemed to draw it toward him.
The Black Banner fell into his hand. freewebnøvel.coɱ
A sudden chill spread through him, as if he were holding not the Black Banner, but a block of ice frozen for ten thousand years.
Hu Qi raised the Black Banner to eye level, examining it closely.
The banner’s pole was crafted from the vertebrae of some unknown black creature and felt as smooth as polished jade in his hand.
When he shook it, an eerie whistling echoed out, faintly carrying what sounded like the sneers of ten thousand wronged souls.
However, there were several obvious tears along the edges of the banner’s fabric.
As Hu Qi refined the banner, fragmented information about it flooded into his mind.
Hu Qi didn’t learn the name or origin of the Black Banner.
He only received information about the Damaged Black Banner’s Abilities.
Its Ability was named [Spirit Control].
It could capture and imprison souls, devour the Power of Emotion from living beings for its own use, manipulate Spirituality, and so on...
In short.
In Hu Qi’s view, the Damaged Black Banner’s Ability was somewhat similar to the Ten Thousand Souls Banner often seen in the novels of his past life.
However, by comparison, the Damaged Black Banner’s power was far stronger and more comprehensive.
It could control almost anything related to souls.
And this world’s Dream Eyes were all born from the power of the Damaged Black Banner combined with the deepest Nightmares in the hearts of all living beings.
The stability of this world’s Mind Realm was also due to the banner’s Ability: [Spirit Control].
As for the banner’s origin, there was no information.
In addition to this, there was also the memory of a person named Xin.
This was the very figure that had appeared when Hu Qi used his Crimson Sun Flame Fire to refine the Damaged Black Banner.
The man was one of this world’s Natives.
But to Hu Qi, he seemed more like the first of the Celestial Fate People to be born into this world.
Xin was born a very long time ago.
His birth could even be traced back to a primitive era of savagery.
In that age, a stronger physique meant a higher status within one’s tribe.
A powerful body meant the ability to hunt and secure enough food.
Xin, however, was an exception.
He wasn’t physically strong; on the contrary, he was relatively frail.
But he was very intelligent and a keen thinker.
To solve the food problem, he created tools such as fishing nets, Long Spears, and Bows and Arrows.
As a result, he never had to worry about food and even became the leader of his tribe.
However, he disliked conflict and had little interest in procreation.
The only thing he liked to do was find a relatively flat rock to sleep on.
This was because he possessed an Ability others lacked: he could freely control his own dreams.
Within them, he could do as he pleased.
For example, he could become the strongest Warrior, catching prey with his bare hands without needing traps.
Or he could become a giant, winged bird, soaring through the heavens.
However, during one of his dreams, an accident occurred.
His consciousness entered a deeper layer of the dreamscape.
By a twist of fate, his consciousness was drawn into the Black Banner.
Meanwhile, his physical body in the outside world starved to death.
Perhaps it was due to the unique nature of his soul that he wasn’t obliterated by the Black Banner’s power. Instead, he became a Soul Spirit within it—the very first one.
He was permanently trapped inside.
As time went on, Xin’s will gradually crumbled. He longed to escape the Black Banner and return to his body.
But it was impossible.
Fortunately, due to the Damaged Black Banner’s unique nature, Xin was able to observe the dreams of all living beings, allowing him to constantly learn and accumulate all sorts of knowledge.
This was his only connection to the outside world, a way to pass the time and keep himself from going insane.
During this time, he discovered that the Damaged Black Banner was using dreams as a medium to continuously absorb the Power of Emotion from all living beings in order to repair itself.
As the only Soul Spirit within it, his consciousness was passively strengthened over a long period of time, perhaps due to the Black Banner’s influence.
He could even borrow a sliver of the Black Banner’s power to interfere with reality.
This led him to abandon his desire to escape and instead fostered a spark of ambition within him.
’I will completely control this Black Banner.’
But, at the end of the day, he was just an ordinary person with a special Talent.
Even though he had been lucky enough to enter the Damaged Black Banner without dying, and could even borrow a bit of its power to interfere with reality, completely controlling the Black Banner was fundamentally impossible.
But he didn’t give up. Instead, he waited for the right moment. freewebnoveℓ.com
As time passed, the power he could wield grew stronger.
The Black Banner had no master; it only passively devoured the Power of Emotion. This gave him an opening.
He used the Black Banner’s power to create the ten original Dream Eyes.
After absorbing the Power of Emotion, these Dream Eyes would feed a portion of it back to the Black Banner.
The Black Banner did not stop this, as the action was beneficial to it.
However, the power consumed to create the original Dream Eyes was too immense.
It was completely disproportionate to the power that was fed back.
The Black Banner put a stop to this behavior.
But he didn’t stop there. He instead turned to creating relatively weaker Dream Eyes.
This way, the power fed back barely balanced out the cost of creating the Dream Eyes.
And so, the Black Banner didn’t intervene.
To accelerate the consumption of the Black Banner’s power, Xin continuously created Dream Eyes. At the same time, he laid out intricate plots to lure powerful Dream Masters into the Deceitful Painting.
