Huge Growth in Attainment Level
Fang Yuan turns to the nearest bound child and vows to save them all, even offering himself to the beastmen if he fails. Using unravel dream again and again, he frees every captured child in only moments, though by his own strength he could not have freed even himself. He trusts the tribe’s rule will hold, since such beliefs usually bind extremely strictly, and here the setting is a dream realm rather than reality. The children erupt in grateful joy, while the beastmen, furious but bound by their own rule, let the group go. Fang Yuan leads them away from the bonfire and into the dark forest. ch. 914
He wakes again without entering a second scene, though he saved every child this time, so his guess about the passing condition seems wrong. Dream realms are each unique, and in his previous life many explorations made no progress for decades, so he has little experience to draw on. Unable to find the clue, Fang Yuan sets the dream realm aside. He turns instead to the dragonfish, the hidden essence turtle and the nether grass, the other goals of this trip. ch. 914
Two hours later, Feng Jin Huang wakes. She praises guts Gu’s speed, relieved that no other Gu Masters approached her body while she recovered. She confirms she has healed completely, resolves not to repeat her earlier mistake, and faces the dream realm again. Dream wings Immortal Gu had shown great capability in a lesser dream realm and raised her refinement path attainment there, but she rates this one worlds harder. She notices it has shrunk slightly and grows suspicious, but cannot verify why, and settles on guessing the dream realm itself simply shrinks over time. A dream realm vanishes once it is successfully explored; in truth this one shrinks because Fang Yuan drew a harvest from it even without succeeding, so what he gained it lost, though Feng Jin Huang never learns this. She still trusts that her dream wings Immortal Gu gives her the advantage in dream path, so she enters again despite her doubts. ch. 914
Following He Feng Yang’s information, Fang Yuan finds the hidden essence turtle, a mound-sized wisdom path desolate beast hidden under rocks in its shell. Lacking any Immortal Gu and short of ancient desolate beast status, it stands no chance against him. At rank seven, he overwhelms it easily, though its shell proves surprisingly thick. He holds back deliberately, rarely using his Immortal Gu, careful not to expose myriad self giant hand in case rival sects hold investigative Immortal Gu of their own. Rather than rush, he makes the battle deliberately grand and loud while savoring his gains: his wisdom path attainment, extremely ordinary before this trip, has jumped to quasi-master, a leap that would normally take decades. The noise draws Gu Masters from other sects, who recognize Fang Yuan, call the contest unfair and retreat in fear after investigating. After a day and a night, he subdues the hidden essence turtle and stores it in his immortal aperture. ch. 914
Feng Jin Huang fails the wind knot grass thirty-six times over two days and one night, since she lacks unravel dream and had never handled the grass before. Each failure injures her soul far worse than Fang Yuan’s exploring injures his, so she must rest long between attempts. Even with dream wings Immortal Gu she calls the dream realm too tough. Fang Yuan, having already captured the turtle and the nether grass, secretly returns to the dream realm with a new idea from intense deduction, smiling with confidence as he enters again. ch. 914
