"Where am I?" a young boy asked, looking at the mythical world around him.
It was purple-crimson, without true shapes, as if he was in an endless expanse of it, yet it had clear borders.
As he looked around, the light gathered and formed an illusory body in the centre of the space –
The body was the same as him, only differentiating in size.
Just as he saw the body, he saw crystals appearing throughout the body.
They looked like stars, spread in a unique pattern.
From so far away, he could barely see...
Just then, he suddenly felt a twitch around his eyes, and somehow, he could now see the true shape of the body and the pattern of the stars.
The stars uniquely had a spread pattern going from his head, where most crystals were, to his bodies and extremities.
In total, the focus points were his Head, secondary were heart, his hands and feet, and tertiary was the rest of the body.
Right as he looked at it, he saw something weird happening – the crystals in the heart stirred and slowly, gaseous clouds of purple-crimson gathered from all around this weird realm, entering the body through the mouth and nose.
Once the gaseous energy entered, it split up. Half of it rose to the head, 10% to each of his hands and feet, and the final part revolved around the heart.
Every time his heart beat, 5% would enter the heart and the other 5% would spread across the body, settling in different parts.
Once it settled, it would slowly dissipate.
Looking at this whole cycle, Teigu was confused.
[Copy it] a thought stirred in his mind and he, too, breathing in and out.
Initially, the gaseous energy didn’t move at all. But at one point, his thinking accelerated and he suddenly understood that the key was the breathing of the illusory body, so he copied it wholeheartedly, and finally, a bit of gaseous energy entered his body.
It wasn’t even a fraction of the huge bodies’ consumption, but just this little energy was enough to invigorate him.
The energy entered his body, fifty percent rising, forty percent falling, and ten percent splitting up.
With each breath, his body seemed to gain more power.
Especially his thinking ability, it became better and better, and he felt like he was home in this place.
With a single thought, he was able to swirl the gaseous energy all around.
Although consumption was difficult, he could will it in his mind, and it would transform into different shapes.
Meanwhile, now, he could finally step into the land instead of being locked at place, and he could also touch the gaseous energy which was like illusion to him before.
While breathing, he kept moving around curiously.
[So this is the way this technique was passed down? But why? Yiyuan only gained a slight inspiration and changed the art he had, while this is directly passed on...
Wait, why can’t I feel the spiritual inspiration seed of Teigu?!]
He attempted once more until his vision settled on the figure in the middle of this illusory land.
[So it’s like this! Haha, who would’ve thought! The inspiration, combined with the art, directly created a dream realm based on the arts effects, and it presented itself to him!
Is it good? Is it bad?
Previously, the inspiration had potential for offense, now, it’s a foundational cultivation inspiration...]
Unsure, he didn’t command his clone to do anything, nor did he try to change things.
[Or maybe this is still the initial form of the inspiration? In the end, it does allow him to more easily absorb Dream Spiritual Power and it might even allow him to one day occupy it. At least, he has awakened his dream realm, which is extremely important in the further cultivation of this cultivation art, according to the notes of the art.]
While exploring the mystical realm, Teigu found two unique crystals!
In one crystal, the figure of a butterfly was depicted.
He could see it flying in the space, occasionally, bursts of purple-black energy would spread around it, before gathering back into the butterfly.
Fascinated, he touched it and was about to examine it.
Just then, with a single touch, he suddenly gained a new memory!
"Seven Nights Crimson Butterfly Gu?" he asked, his face full of shock "It, it can kill a person simply by absorbing their aura and putting them into a nightmare?"
Right then he remembered where he was. And, like a storm ceasing to exist, like a tornado dissipating in the wind, suddenly, the world around him disappeared!
"Hey! You monkey! Wake up! It’s time to work! There are new corpses, go clean them!" he heard a scream and suddenly fell down, his back aching because he was kicked.
Hiding the murderous intent in his e yes, he nodded as he stood up.
A thought struck him, moving his hand quickly, he saw something that wasn’t there before: a treak of purple-crimson energy moved with his hand!
Looking at the middle-aged guy who was still in bed, and the other who was moving out of the room, he suddenly had a thought!
He stood in front of the one in bed, his eyes gleaming with excitement and hope.
Then he stopped himself ’Wait, I need a nightmare to make it descend...’
Thinking back of his dreamy world and the huge giant, he suddenly had a thought.
What was scarier than a huge giant stomping on you?
With this thought, he summed his mind and depicted a huge giant stomping on someone.
Then he moved his hands above the middle-aged man.
He focused his mind and formed a seal with his hands, then moved them around circular and formed another seal.
This continued several times, the seals changing, but residual purple-crimson energy still hovering above the sleeping man.
The man seemed to feel something and his eyes moved, but he couldn’t open them.
With each seal, his struggle ceased a bit, until, with the final seal, he calmed down.
Teigu looked at the scene in front of him: the seals together formed a butterfly form above him, slowly flapping its wings.
Focusing his mind, he thought of the scene of the giant stomping.
With all his might, he pushed this thought into the butterfly.
The butterfly seemed to come to life.
It turned around and landed on the sleeping man’s head.
Slowly, it seeped into man’s head, like falling into quicksand.
Teigu, who looked at this, once again felt extreme excitement.
[So this is the full process? Interesting...] Fu Xian thought as he looked at this scene, then he shook his head [That ’nightmare’, at most it could kill a mortal like this guy. Not to mention, the Gu in him hasn’t even grown up, so it can’t fight back either... Next time, I will have to formulate a proper nightmare, especially when targeting that village chief.]
Inside the man’s dreams, he suddenly saw a huge giant foot emerge from the clouds.
His wonderful dreams full of lust and alcohol was suddenly endangered.
He panicked and tried to flee, but the foot covered his whole dream world...
Just as the foot descended, Teigu, who was looking at this scene, suddenly felt his mind steer again.
He fell down, back on his mat, and suddenly woke up in his dream world once more!
A huge giant foot was about to fall down...
But, as the foot descended, it actually shrunk and shrunk, as if its power couldn’t compare to the might of this dream world!
Finally, when it landed above Teigu, it barely gave him a slight kick, not even though to make him fall.
On the other hand, outside...
A different scene appeared.