The Dream Dao Immortal Gu resting in Fang Yuan's palm was like a perfectly round, ball-shaped ruby that had been split in half.
This plump, hemispherical Gu Insect looked quite adorable, and its crimson hue was wonderfully magnificent.
Its head accounted for only a tenth of its entire body. The enormous back surface was smooth and rounded, marked with black crisscrossing patterns that evoked the image of a turtle shell.
This was the Seventh Transformation Dream Dao Immortal Gu — Dream Armor Gu.
It was a defensive Dream Dao Immortal Gu!
Fang Yuan possessed many Immortal Gu, but he held only one Dream Dao Immortal Gu — the Eighth Transformation Like Dream Decree, a core Immortal Gu of the Dragon Palace.
Like Dream Decree was shaped like a dragonfly, with a round head, an elongated body, a pair of compound eyes like pink gemstones, and four pairs of translucent wings. Looking closely at those delicate wings, one would discover a faint, shimmering halo of seven colors upon them.
Comparing the two, Fang Yuan noticed something — it seemed that all Dream Dao Immortal Gu were quite beautiful.
"I wonder what Dream Wing Immortal Gu and Entering Dream Travel look like?" Fang Yuan couldn't help but muse.
He carried five hundred years of memories from his past life, and he knew that the Dream Wing Immortal Gu was currently in Feng Jinhuang's possession, while the Entering Dream Travel Immortal Gu was with the Poison Scorpion Lady.
It wasn't as though Fang Yuan hadn't considered pursuing them.
But all along, he had found it difficult to make a move against Feng Jinhuang, and as for the Poison Scorpion Lady, his chances were slim.
In his past life five hundred years ago, Entering Dream Travel, Fixing Immortal Travel, Wine God Travel, and Carefree Travel were universally recognized as the world's four great movement Immortal Gu. Though Fang Yuan was powerful, the Poison Scorpion Lady could rely on Entering Dream Travel to instantaneously shuttle into any dream realm.
"Currently, the Dream Dao has not yet truly manifested — the time for dream realms to appear everywhere has not come. Dream Dao immortal materials are rare, and Dream Dao Immortal Gu are even scarcer, but I already control three of them." Fang Yuan was fairly satisfied with this achievement.
In his past life over five hundred years, the scale of dream realm manifestations had far exceeded even the Ghost Dream Realm — they had practically flooded all five regions.
This way, everyone in the world could enter dreams to explore, no longer like the present, where dream realms were monopolized by the upper echelons.
Massive quantities of dream realms provided massive opportunities, allowing Gu cultivators to unearth massive amounts of Dream Dao Gu materials. With these materials as a foundation, the Dream Dao truly entered its phase of rapid development.
Therefore, the current period was merely the opening curtain of the Dream Dao. The remnants of the Heaven Stealing Dream Realm, the Blissful Earth Dream Realm, and the Ghost Dream Realm were like a fire, but one that couldn't boil the cold water in a great cauldron.
To make the Dream Dao's cauldron truly boil over, the Ghost Dream Realm's scale was still far too small — what was needed was the entire world to lend its strength.
For Fang Yuan, the importance of the Dream Making Gu and Like Dream Decree was both lesser than that of Dream Armor Gu.
Because Dream Armor Gu was a defensive Immortal Gu.
With this Immortal Gu, he would have the capital to resist Dream Dao tribulations, and thereby help his Pure Dream Truth-Seeking Clone successfully ascend to Immortal status!
Fang Yuan recalled his earlier fortune inspection results.
The Pure Dream Clone's fortune was a pink sand table of small scale, but yellow sand kept falling in from the surroundings, transforming into pink sand and enlarging the table.
The sand table fortune indicated that the Pure Dream Clone would receive support from the Blissful Earth side, and indeed, so it seemed.
Fang Yuan now activated the Destiny Boiling Cauldron once more to observe fortune.
His own silver pillar fortune hadn't changed much. The luminous pillar had only grown faintly larger, and the yellow sand at its base had mostly dissipated.
As for the Pure Dream Clone's fortune, it remained in the form of a pink sand table — except that no more yellow sand was falling in. The pink sand in the table had piled up high, at a critical juncture of either collapse or breakthrough.
"I absorbed the Blissful Earth Southern Border True Inheritance and received support, giving the Pure Dream Clone an opportunity for breakthrough. But even so, there remain enormous risks. I need to make even more thorough preparations."
Fang Yuan immediately understood.
After the Destiny Boiling Cauldron was elevated to Eighth Transformation, Fang Yuan gained many conveniences from the Destiny Dao.
He now increasingly felt the benefits of the Destiny Dao — no wonder Great Sun Immortal Venerable had been able to rise to prominence back then.
The Mad Demon Den had to be visited, but Fang Yuan couldn't go right away.
This was a critical period for a rapid surge in his strength, and Fang Yuan planned to raise his power to the limit before heading to the Mad Demon Den.
Although Lu Weiyin had painted the situation as extremely urgent, Fang Yuan could inspect his own fortune and knew there was still a precious window of time.
"Sharpening the axe won't delay the woodcutting. Let me first study Dream Dao techniques and help the Pure Dream Clone ascend!"
Fang Yuan reviewed his situation. His attainments in the Dream Dao could be called the greatest in the current era.
The common knowledge of dream realm exploration brought by his rebirth was still the most cutting-edge research available, but this advantage was rapidly diminishing.
However, after his rebirth, Fang Yuan had also made enormous gains in the Dream Dao.
His original memories came with the Dream Dissolution killer move. From the Shadow Sect, he had obtained Soul Entering Dream, Dream Soul Swap, and Pure Dream Truth-Seeking Transformation. From the Dragon Palace, he had gained the killer moves Light Smoke in Dream, Dream Enlightenment, and Dream Within a Dream. Now, from the Southern Border Blissful Earth True Inheritance, he had acquired the Dream Dao killer move Three Lives Dream Ferry for the Fated.
The Dream Dao killer moves Fang Yuan commanded far exceeded the number of Dream Dao Immortal Gu he possessed.
Many Dream Dao killer moves used Immortal Gu from other paths as their core, and out of necessity, massive numbers of mortal Dream Dao Gu were used to substitute for Dream Dao Immortal Gu. Such as the Soul Entering Dream, Dream Soul Swap, and other killer moves.
"What I need most is to create a Dream Dao defensive killer move with Dream Armor Immortal Gu as its core. Second are Dream Dao teleportation and evasion methods — if I could teleport away during a moment of danger, I could buy precious breathing room. Third are healing methods, and lastly, I should add some offensive techniques."
Though Fang Yuan's Dream Dao realm was merely ordinary, he was brimming with confidence in creating new Dream Dao killer moves.
The reason was that he bore the Carefree Heavenly Mark, which allowed him to create a great many composite killer moves!
Eternal Life Heaven and the Heavenly Court were undoubtedly scheming over the contest for the Mad Demon Den, so they would not dispatch any forces to join forces with Hairy Old Ancestor and crusade against Fang Yuan's Foreign Race Grand Alliance.
Still less would they come to cause trouble for Fang Yuan personally.
As for the Southern Alliance in the Southern Border, led by Wu Yong, if Fang Yuan didn't go looking for trouble with them, they would already consider themselves very fortunate. How could they possibly come to Fang Yuan's doorstep seeking death?
The external environment was more stable than ever before. Fang Yuan secluded himself in quiet cultivation, creating Dream Dao killer moves, making gratifying progress every day.
After more than ten days, Fang Yuan suddenly stopped and was briefly stunned.
He had advanced to Dream Dao Grandmaster!
This was all the result of accumulated preparation and gradual buildup, and so it was both smooth and natural. During the process of creating killer moves, he had succeeded without even realizing it, thoroughly stepping into a new tier.
Since his rebirth, Fang Yuan had been driven by external pressures, and had never invested time or effort into the Dream Dao path.
Only now had he finally begun to truly cultivate the Dream Dao and dedicate himself to it.