80 Dream Disciple (1/2)
”Haha… This Golden Blade Talisman is indeed a useful spiritual talisman!”
Seeing the power of the talisman, the young master laughed heartily, but after a while, his laughter stopped. He stared at Fang Yuan, who was bleeding profusely, and his face turned blank. ”You… you… you...”
The physical body would be extremely precious to those Immortal Cultivators who have yet to break through and enter the Golden Pill period.
As for him, left with two empty shoulders, he should have passed out from the pain, or even die!
Surprisingly, Fang Yuan appeared extremely calm, as though it was not his own body that was hurt.
”Since all of this is a dream, then the pain and the suffering I am experiencing would be fake... As long as I want to exist in this dream world, I will be able to do so. In theory, I am the owner of this entire dream world!”
Fang Yuan tried to change himself and return to his real state; he tried regrowing his limbs, and later on, he tried to increase his cultivation level directly to Tribulation Stage.
Nothing happened. His plan to cheat and become an immortal failed miserably.
Following that, Fang Yuan tried to change the physical world. For instance, he tried to summon the 99 Wind-Fire Tribulations to strike and kill those noisy pests but failed again.
”Ah... It seems like I have to take things step by step!”
Fang Yuan recalled the description of the dream world. Some people, under certain circumstances, would be aware that they were having a nightmare, but would not be able to wake up from it. Furthermore, they could do nothing about the fear in the dream, because they were not able to control their own consciousness, and Fang Yuan was in this situation.
”To be able to be conscious in a dream is already an important step. The next step would be to remain conscious the moment the dream begins. As the saying goes, I would always know who fell asleep first!”
Fang Yuan took a few steps forward. The blood from his arm already formed a pool on the ground, but he was still calm, as though it wasn't even his own blood.
”What are you doing? Fre... Freak! Don't... Don't come over!”
The young master was in shock and fell to the floor. A foul smell came from his crotch, as he peed in his pants.
Regardless of how high he was in his Spirit training, he was after all a young man, and after witnessing such a gruesome scene was scared till he peed!
”I guess that death is still the quickest way to leave the dream world in the initial stage? Of course, I must have the intention of leaving, if not, even the Tribulation stage would be able to wipe me completely off from this world...”
Fang Yuan frowned, took two steps forward and lifted the young master up.
”Very normal... Very real...”
He cut the wrist of the young master, and the arteries, veins and bones were visible.
The young master continued to struggle and threw a few objects on Fang Yuan. A few more bloody holes in his body appeared.
”Interesting! Interesting! Would I still return here the next time I dream?”
Although the dream world was interesting, the flow of time in both worlds had to be managed well.
In history, there were dream masters who were careless while cultivating and were trapped in their dream world, unable to escape. In the end, they died of hunger in the real world!
As a rule of thumb, whenever a junior dream master trained, there should always be a senior dream master by his side to look out for him.
Fang Yuan did not have a senior by his side, and to be safe, he wanted to leave immediately without having to consider if he still had enough time in the real world.
”Only after I am able to control my dream world will I become the owner of the world. By then, controlling the flow of time would not be a problem... Based on this alone, I could get endless time compared to others...”
Fang Yuan heaved a sigh, brought the screaming young master to the edge of the cliff, and jumped down.
...
”Rumble!”
Green Peak spiritual land.
Fang Yuan's body shook, and he opened his eyes.
”Entering a dream... so interesting... Who would've known that my first dream world would be a world of Immortal Cultivators? I thought that it would be the other weird dream!”
He was longing to experience the other modernised world full of technology another time.
However, a junior dream master could not control his own dream worlds, and could only roam around dream worlds without control.
”Eh?”
He looked at the incense in front of him and saw a halfway-burnt incense smoking away.
”I spent more than 10 years in the dream, but it is not even equivalent to the time to burn one incense in the real world?”
The speed of time in dream worlds conjured by dream masters was usually faster than that of the real world. Of course, there were still many weird and wonderful dream worlds, and therefore dream masters could cheat time and explore every one of them.
Fang Yuan heaved a sigh and placed the jade on his forehead.
”The cultivation of a dream master is split into 4 steps: Entering a dream, becoming self-aware, changing the dream world and lastly, ruling the dream world!”
Becoming self-aware meant that every time one entered a dream, he could be aware that he was dreaming, and not be confused.
The next step was changing one's body, followed by the surroundings and finally the entire dream world. Only then would one rule the dream world!
After this dream world training, Fang Yuan felt a cool stream of knowledge and consciousness flowing into his Mind Palace and into his body. He became refreshed, took in a deep breath, and glanced at his stats window:
”Name: Fang Yuan
Essence: 8.0
Spirit: 7.9
Magic: 4.1
Profession: Dream Disciple (Junior)
Cultivation: [Martial Artist (11th Gate)]