Lead Soul Into Dream
Fang Yuan recognizes lead soul into dream as the rare dream path killer move that put even Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord to sleep in the Battle of Yi Tian Mountain, where it also struck Fang Yuan, who survived only through heaven’s will. He soars back at once. Facing it now, even an instant inside a dream realm could kill him, given his sovereign immortal body. He doubts Ying Wu Xie still has the Immortal Gu the move needs and knows the strength path immortal zombie body absolutely lowered its power by several levels, so gaining distance without any dream, he suspects a bluff. ch. 1260
Then the world shifts and he falls into a dream of his first life, a merchant caravan he had joined after Bai Ning Bing’s self-detonation destroyed Qing Mao Mountain, now ambushed in a valley by two groups of bandits. He knows at once it is a dream. He moves to counter it with unravel dream, but is yanked back to reality before he can, still standing in the regional wall. A second pull sends him into the same dream’s continuation, where boulders rolled down by mortal fighters crush many of the caravan’s Gu Masters from above. Escaping again, Fang Yuan judges the move incomplete: it can pull him in and out repeatedly without holding him for good, yet it still poses a serious threat. ch. 1260
With no attack coming, Hei Lou Lan asks in disbelief whether Fang Yuan retreated. Ying Wu Xie admits he secretly rebuilt lead soul into dream after Yi Tian Mountain but can barely assemble it now, meaning to save it for Fang Yuan’s trump card rather than use it this early. He had no choice but to use it early, since Fang Yuan’s next successful attack would have turned the battle and ended in their deaths, and he orders a retreat, warning that the incomplete move keeps weakening with time. They have not gone far when Fang Yuan, recovering as the dream’s interference shrinks, resumes his chase and harries the four immortals, Tai Bai Yun Sheng still unconscious, as they struggle through the regional wall. Inside the recurring dream, Uncle Big Beard saves young Fang Yuan from a falling boulder, then rushes off to help the young master, under attack by two rank three demonic path Gu Masters at the caravan’s center. ch. 1260
The dream keeps pulling him under, cutting Fang Yuan to twenty or thirty percent of his battle strength. Its hold on him weakens with time, even as the four immortals remain unable to leave the regional wall. Shi Nu tells the others to go, saying he will hold Fang Yuan back. He activates an immortal killer move, Land Boundary, and his body cracks all over as a huge zone of space around him is cut off from everything beyond it. Fang Yuan tries to retreat, but the dream pulls him under at that exact moment and he misses his chance to escape the zone. His dragon breath fizzles out after only a few steps, and his dragon body cannot break through it either. ch. 1260
