The dream realm here was not large in scale.
The reason Fang Yuan could locate this place precisely was because this dream realm was something he had personally discarded.
Back then, he had disguised himself as Wu Yi Hai, infiltrated the Righteous Path, and secretly entered dreams to advance his realm. Later, a great battle erupted, the Heavenly Court intervened, and Purple Mountain True Monarch perished. Fang Yuan inherited the Shadow Sect and embarked on a path of flight, carrying a large number of pure dream truth-seeking bodies with him.
Along the way, Fang Yuan repeatedly used these pure dream truth-seeking bodies to fend off powerful pursuers, finally managing to extricate himself from danger.
But all the pure dream truth-seeking bodies on his person had been completely spent in the process.
This location was precisely where Fang Yuan had clashed with the Wing Family Gu Immortal, detonating two pure dream truth-seeking bodies to forcefully drive back the Wing Family's Immortal Gu House, the Sea Corner Pavilion.
After the pure dream truth-seeking bodies self-destructed, they formed this dream realm. The Righteous Path Gu Immortals of the Southern Border naturally wouldn't let it go. After a round of competition, two families emerged victorious and jointly set up an Immortal Formation to study and develop it together.
Fang Yuan arrived using Fixed Star Travel. Without a word, he drove away all the Gu Immortals stationed here and shattered the Immortal Formation directly.
Using Great Robbery Ghost Hand at this point, while he could steal Gu, he couldn't specifically target and directly extract Immortal Gu. Mortal Gu made up the vast majority—it was far more likely that Great Robbery Ghost Hand would yield a handful of ordinary Gu.
To prevent the Immortal Formation from teleporting in reinforcements or triggering some self-destructive or other bizarre measures, Fang Yuan struck preemptively and destroyed the formation outright.
Even though each Immortal Gu was unique, for Fang Yuan, they were no longer particularly important.
He had plenty of Immortal Gu. After slaughtering the Stone People and Snow People Gu Immortals this time, he had obtained several sixth and seventh transformation Immortal Gu. He would still have a headache figuring out how to feed them later.
What Fang Yuan lacked were Immortal Gu suited to him. First, the Immortal Gu needed to be at least seventh transformation—sixth transformation Immortal Gu were a bit too low in tier. Second, the Immortal Gu's path had to fall within a certain range, preferably the paths Fang Yuan excelled in.
Moreover, Fang Yuan possessed the quasi-supreme grandmaster realm in the Refinement Path. Any Immortal Gu recipe could be deduced into an Immortal Path killing move. If he needed a specific Immortal Gu, he could derive a killing move from the recipe to serve as a substitute. (Of course, depending on the specifics, deduction varied in difficulty. Even with the Wisdom Halo, deducing killing moves from some Immortal Gu recipes required decades or even centuries—for Fang Yuan, that essentially meant giving up.)
"Hmm? The dream realm here has shrunk somewhat in scale." On his second glance, Fang Yuan noticed the discrepancy.
The original dream realm's scale had been equivalent to two pure dream truth-seeking bodies, but now it fell slightly short.
"Is this because others explored the dream realm, causing it to diminish..."
Although the other Gu Immortals lacked Fang Yuan's advanced methods, they could still explore. Their greatest gain was collecting Dream Path Gu materials from within the dreams.
This was actually something that could be harvested within one's own dream realm as well. The true treasure of these dream realms lay in the true intent of others they contained. The Southern Border Gu Immortals doing this were essentially buying the jewel case and returning the pearl. But they were enthusiastic about it nonetheless—all the major factions were scrambling to stockpile Dream Path Gu materials, and Treasure Yellow Heaven was purchasing them at steep prices as well.
"If I remember correctly, the dream realms here are one of the Ice and Snow Path and one of the Space Path."
These dream realms had originated from Demon Venerable Soul, who was a grandmaster of all paths. The dream realms he created were all-encompassing, covering every path under the heavens.
The pure dream truth-seeking bodies Fang Yuan carried had been specifically chosen by him. However, since this was the first battle site during his escape, the pure dream truth-seeking bodies he had shed first here weren't of much help to him.
Of course, that was judging by his past perspective. Looking at it now, they turned out to be somewhat useful.
Space Path realm—Fang Yuan needed this. Because centered on the seventh transformation Fixed Star Travel, he could fully develop an Immortal Path killing move to reduce the drawback of requiring travel time.
Ice and Snow Path realm—Fang Yuan needed this even more. He had just slaughtered many variant human Gu Immortals, and the immortal orifices left by the Snow People Gu Immortals all required a certain height in the Ice and Snow Path realm to successfully devour.
"Right now, among all my path realms, the Refinement Path is the highest, standing head and shoulders above the rest at the quasi-supreme grandmaster realm."
"Next is the Theft Path, following closely behind at the grandmaster realm."
"The third tier consists of the Strength Path, Wisdom Path, Star Path, Transformation Path, Blood Path, Dark Path, Formation Path, and Water Path—all at the master realm."
"The fourth tier is the Luck Path, Slave Path, and Earth Path at the expert realm."
"Then there are the Sword Path, Soul Path, Space Path, Time Path, Dream Path, Poison Path, Flame Path, Metal Path, and so on—all at ordinary levels."
"Finally, there are the Faith Path, Ice and Snow Path, Qi Path, Light Path, Sound Path, Void Path, Rule Path, and others, which I have rarely touched in both my previous life and my current one."
Of all the path realms, the one Fang Yuan most urgently needed to advance was the Time Path!