Reverend Insanity: Dream Gu

Lin Yan had long since stopped selling the blessed land’s beast groups and vegetation. After surviving nine Earth Calamities, Flame Sovereign Blessed Land’s ecosystem had become increasingly complete. The various beast groups and plants restrained one another, allowing their populations to multiply and recover naturally without his constant management.

Such a self-sustaining ecosystem was one of the defining features of a Rank Seven blessed land.

Of course, every Earth Calamity still inflicted heavy losses. Large numbers of beasts and plants perished with each tribulation, causing production to decline for a time before the ecosystem gradually restored itself.

Because of this, Lin Yan no longer regarded the beast groups and vegetation as goods for sale. His external trade now relied almost entirely on the Netherfire Dragon Python and Yi Huo Spider population, earning only a few hundred immortal essence stones each year.

Even so, immortal essence stones were no longer his greatest source of wealth. Instead, the blessed land now produced around four hundred beads of green grape immortal essence each year.

Over the past two years, Lin Yan had spent almost all his time cultivating in seclusion. Aside from hunting the Desolate Beasts beneath the Blazing Yellow Heaven Pit, he had rarely engaged in battle. His expenditure of immortal essence therefore remained relatively low. After meeting the needs of his cultivation and maintaining the blessed land, he had accumulated more than thirty thousand beads of green grape immortal essence.

With such reserves, even if Lin Yan were to fight a Gu Immortal now, he would be able to sustain over a hundred high-intensity blood battles.

Even by the standards of Rank Six Gu Immortals, such wealth was already extraordinary. Yet Lin Yan was never blinded by these achievements. Only after becoming a Gu Immortal did he truly understand how vast the gap between Gu Immortals could be. Every major realm was like a world apart, and even among those of the same rank, the difference in foundation could be as great as heaven and earth.

He recalled Chu Du from his previous life. As a peak Rank Seven Gu Immortal who would one day advance to Rank Eight, Chu Du had once kept a reserve of six hundred thousand immortal essence stones. When Fang Yuan needed immortal essence stones, he casually lent him one hundred and fifty thousand without a second thought.

Compared to someone like Chu Du, Lin Yan’s current wealth was still far from remarkable. The comparison also reminded him of his greatest regrets over the past two years.

Lin Yan sighed inwardly. ”The three methods are still beyond my reach.”

Whether it was increasing the blessed land’s time flow, preventing different dao marks from repelling one another, or increasing the dao marks gained from tribulations, every deduction had ended in failure.

He had spent countless years within the Dream Realm trying to solve these problems. Only in the end did he realize that the obstacle was not his attainment alone. The Immortal Gu in his possession were equally important. Without refining new Immortal Gu, those methods simply could not be completed.

Because of this, he ultimately failed to advance to Rank Seven before Fang Yuan’s rebirth. He was still a Rank Six Gu Immortal, waiting for his first Heavenly Tribulation.

Fortunately, his efforts had not been in vain. During these two years, he had deduced five new Flame Path Immortal Gu recipes, completed twenty-six Immortal Gu remnant recipes, and further perfected an entire series of Flame Path immortal killer moves.

As for Dream Path, Lin Yan’s progress was even more astonishing.

After spending more than two hundred years within the Dream Realm, Lin Yan had created dozens of Dream Path mortal Gu, deduced three Dream Path Immortal Gu recipes, and raised his Dream Path attainment to quasi-Grandmaster.

His current attainments were: Grandmaster in Flame Path; Quasi-Grandmaster in Dream Path and Refinement Path; Master in Flying Path and Lightning Path; and quasi-Master in Earth Path and Human Path.

His Dream Path research did not stop there. Using Dream Derivation Immortal Gu, he also created a fourth Dream Path immortal killer move, Dream Storage. It could preserve the dreams of deceased Gu Masters within Flame Sovereign Blessed Land, preventing them from fading away after death.

Thinking of this, Lin Yan could not help but recall Spectral Soul Demon Venerable. Despite researching Dream Path through Shadow Sect for countless years, he had created only two Dream Path immortal killer moves: Lead Soul Into Dream and Pure Dream Reality Seeker Transformation. Of course each was an unparalleled Killer move, capable of affecting even Rank Eight Gu Immortals.

As for Feng Jinhuang, the Great Dream seed, she was the most shameful. From the moment she obtained the Dream Path Immortal Gu, Dream Wings Gu, until the Fate War, it took her over ten years to develop a single Dream Path immortal killer move, even after excluding the time spent in the blessed land and Dream Realm.

The reason was simple. Dream Path was unlike other paths. There were no inheritances to inherit, no predecessors to follow, and no accumulated experience to draw upon. Every Gu worm, every Immortal Gu, every killer move, and every inheritance had to be created from nothing. Each step forward expanded the very foundation of Dream Path itself.

Lin Yan withdrew his thoughts. ”My first Heavenly Tribulation is drawing near. Once it is over, Fang Yuan will be reborn, and the timeline will finally return to its original course.”

”After that, it’s time to seize the opportunities that belong to me.”

His eyes gradually sharpened. Without those opportunities, relying only on secluded cultivation and occasional inspiration, his progress would remain far too slow.

He slowly raised his head. High above the endless sky, an immense pressure was quietly gathering beyond his sight.

Across Flame Sovereign Blessed Land, the countless beasts gradually fell silent. As though sensing the coming tribulation, they lowered their heads one after another and quietly retreated into their territories.