Free Web NovelChapter 213: Chapter 213: Three Dream Phrases
The rescued researchers were brought back under academy protection.
Yu Qingmei ordered complete isolation, medical treatment, and dream-cleansing. No one outside the sealed investigation circle was allowed to question them.
Qin Yuheng wrote the three phrases separately.
The false sun is not the first light.
The first shadow was once loyal.
The sleeping seal remembers a gate beneath the mountain.
Qin Mo stared at the lines.
"They are all useful and all horrible."
Qin Yuheng nodded.
The first phrase suggested the false sun imitated or replaced an earlier legitimate light source.
The second suggested the first shadow was not originally corrupted. It had been loyal before being forced to bow.
The third suggested the sleeping seal had a memory of a mountain gate—possibly an ancestral Qin seal site, possibly the external ritual center, possibly another lure.
Qin Wanshan reacted most strongly to the third phrase.
"A gate beneath the mountain..."
He did not explain immediately.
But his expression told Qin Yuheng the phrase touched old family history.
That night, Qin Wanshan opened another restricted Qin record.
Not a memory jade this time.
A map.
Very old.
Most of it was damaged, but one mountain mark remained visible. Beside it were four characters:
Hidden Origin Mountain Gate
Qin Yuheng looked at the map.
"Is this connected to the Qin sleeping seal?"
Qin Wanshan’s voice was low.
"Possibly. Hidden Origin Mountain was one of the old Qin family’s ancient retreat sites. It vanished from public maps long ago."
"Vanished?"
"Some places do not disappear physically. They become unreachable without the right conditions."
Qin Mo leaned closer.
"Could Blood Sun know it?"
"They may know fragments," Qin Wanshan said. "Enough to imitate. Not enough to enter."
Qin Zhengyuan looked at the dream phrases.
"The sleeping seal remembers a gate beneath the mountain. That may mean the external ritual center is not the true mountain gate, but a false imitation trying to use its memory."
Qin Yuheng felt the structure deepen.
False sun.
First shadow.
Mountain gate.
Sleeping seal.
Qin inheritance.
Blood Sun wanted to force a false opening route into something that should remain closed until much later.
Mu Qinglan’s face was grave.
"If Hidden Origin Mountain is involved, this becomes more dangerous than a wound."
Qin Wanshan nodded.
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The decision was immediate.
They would not search for Hidden Origin Mountain.
Not yet.
Even if the phrase was true, it was too early. The ancestral jade had warned: before Level 1000, do not awaken the deep blood seal.
Hidden Origin Mountain might be connected to that deep seal.
Approaching early could be exactly what Blood Sun wanted.
Qin Yuheng wrote a new rule.
Do not seek Hidden Origin Mountain until:
1. External false sun ritual center is identified independently.
2. Qin bloodline remains stable.
3. Father’s anchor is safer.
4. Grandfather approves.
5. Level threshold risk is understood.
Qin Mo added:
Also do not follow dream-mountain maps offered by suspicious people.
Again, Qin Yuheng kept it.
Floor progression resumed after five days.
Floor 51’s file appeared.
[Floor 51: Hollow Crown Battlefield]
Type:
Post-Fifth-Gate war field / crownless armies / false sovereign / command pressure.
Warning:
Armies without kings may still fight for crowns.]
Qin Mo looked exhausted.
"More crowns."
Qin Yuheng nodded.
Floor 51 would begin the next ten-floor stage after the Fifth Gate.
He expected stronger enemies, deeper conceptual trials, and perhaps more rewards aligned with anti-false authority.
The Tower was not done teaching him how to face the false sun.
Not yet.
