Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's dream realm once again unfolded before Fang Yuan's eyes.
Night. Towering bonfires pierced the sky.
Around the bonfires, beastmen danced wildly, letting out piercing beast-like howls one after another.
This was a revelry.
A bloody celebration after the hunt.
Fang Yuan surveyed his surroundings with a placid expression.
He had once again transformed into a human child, bound hand and foot. Many other boys and girls shared his fate.
"We're done for! We're all going to die!"
"Waaah… I don't want to be eaten."
The children wept piteously, their faces pale with despair.
A sharp gleam flashed through Fang Yuan's eyes. He suddenly stood up and shouted: "I want Wind Knot Grass!"
The beastmen's celebration was at its peak.
Fang Yuan's voice cut in abruptly.
In an instant, the beastly roars ceased. Every beastman turned their blood-red eyes to glare at him.
The enormous pressure made the human children fall silent as cicadas in winter, trembling and shivering—some even wetting themselves on the spot.
Fang Yuan's expression remained unchanged as he shouted once more.
The beastmen leader snorted, killing intent surging, and ordered: "Give it to him!"
"Little brat, I'll be watching you. If you so much as damage a single blade of grass, I'll wrap my trunk around your tender little body and squeeze you into a paste of meat and bone." An elephant-trunk beastman walked over, stuffed a stalk of Wind Knot Grass into Fang Yuan's hand, and threatened him in a vicious tone.
Fang Yuan smiled faintly, glanced at the Wind Knot Grass in his hand, and looked up. "One? How is that enough? There are this many human captives here. Give me as many Wind Knot Grass as there are captives. I want to undo all the Wind Knot Grass and save every last one of them!"
Exclamations erupted immediately.
Both the beastmen and the children around Fang Yuan stared with wide eyes, looking at him with various expressions.
After a brief moment of shock, the beastmen began to laugh uproariously.
And the children, who had just welled up with hope and excitement, all had their expressions crumble into worry and despair.
Soon, all the Wind Knot Grass was piled at Fang Yuan's feet.
The heap of Wind Knot Grass was already several times his current height.
To undo all of this Wind Knot Grass single-handedly, within an extremely limited time—it was an impossible task.
No one besides Fang Yuan believed he could succeed.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Fang Yuan exhaled a breath of turbid air and began working on undoing the Wind Knot Grass.
Dream Dissection.
Dream Dissection.
Dream Dissection.
……
This unique Immortal Path killing move was centered on the Wisdom Path Immortal Gu Puzzle-Solving, supplemented by numerous Dream Path Mortal Gu.
When Fang Yuan used it now, the results were excellent.
But while the Puzzle-Solving Immortal Gu could be used repeatedly, the other Dream Path Mortal Gu were being consumed rapidly with each activation of the killing move.
Fortunately, Fang Yuan had never slacked off before.
Basically every day, he would carve out time to explore his own dream realm, painstakingly refining Dream Path Mortal Gu one by one.
These Dream Path Mortal Gu had accumulated from a few into a sizeable collection. Used now, it could truly be said: opportunity favors the prepared.
"Finally entered the second act of the dream realm!" Fang Yuan rejoiced inwardly.
This time, he had not been thrown out of the dream realm. He had gotten his wish and finally entered the second act.
It turned out that to pass the first act of the dream realm, one had to save all the children.
Although Fang Yuan had attempted this before, he had in fact been a step too late.
In the original dream trajectory, some of the children had already been killed by the elephant-trunk beastman.
The elephant-trunk beastman had followed the beastmen leader's orders to bring the children up, but deliberately made an error, letting the log crash to the ground.
The log rolled over and crushed many of the bound children. The beastmen rushed to seize their flesh and blood, devouring it all.
Though this violated beastmen tradition, it was technically skirting the line.
The elephant-trunk beastman was a renowned warrior of the beastmen tribe, and the beastmen leader and others tolerated this action.
When Fang Yuan had subdued the Scripture Turtle and the Ghost Grass, he had figured out this trick. He saved all the human children, finally accomplishing his goal and entering the second act of the dream realm.
"Passing the first act—my Wisdom Path realm must have reached the level of Grandmaster!"
"Frequently activating the Dream Dissection killing move consumed a great many Dream Path Mortal Gu. I must be more careful and frugal going forward."
"It's a pity that based on the intelligence from Mo Yao's will, I went to find that Spring Dream Fruit Tree. But half a year ago, the tree had just been cut down by ignorant mortals. Otherwise, relying on that tree, I would have had at least ten times more Dream Path Mortal Gu in my hands right now!"
"The first act was likely derived from Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's childhood memories. Perhaps it was a regret that lingered throughout her entire life. By saving all the children, I made up for that regret, and so successfully passed the first act."
"Then what kind of situation awaits in the second act?"
Fang Yuan suppressed his churning thoughts and surveyed the surrounding dream realm.
This was a mountain.
In the lonely night sky, sparse points of starlight flickered.
It seemed to be summertime, with warm breezes blowing gently, carrying the lush fragrance of the mountain forest.