Chapter 25: Dream Training, Sleep to Become Stronger!
The bl**d Spirit Sect has been obliterated. A river of bl**d flowed through the sect, and every disciple within met an unfortunate fate. This once-mighty sect, the number one in Azure Prefecture’s southern region, was wiped out without anyone seeing it coming.
The cause? A mere sentence from the Eternal Emperor’s diary.
It was at this moment that a few factions finally began to realize the significance of the upcoming reveal of the Emperor’s diary…
Some people and sects might find their seats quite uncomfortable very soon.
The Liyue Celestial Dynasty and the Jade Pool Sacred Land, among other top-notch factions, gradually vacated the territory of the bl**d Spirit Sect. For them, this minor sect held little value.
However, the same couldn’t be said for the Xuanqing Sect and a few other smaller sects. The resources left behind by the bl**d Spirit Sect were immensely significant—rare scriptures, elixirs, spirit herbs, you name it.
After all, they had dominated the southern regions of Azure Prefecture for tens of thousands of years; they had some treasures, albeit not many. The battlefield cleanup also left behind treasures like storage rings and broken magical artifacts, all worth a pretty penny.
Fortunately, those smaller sects cleaning up the battlefield were quite tactful. They understood what to take and what to leave behind, and most of the spoils were transparently gifted to the people of the Xuanqing Sect.
After this battle, the Xuanqing Sect was crowned the number one sect in the southern region of Azure Prefecture!
Yan Changkong certainly wasn’t going to be polite about it. He ordered the Grand Elder to stay behind and continuously deployed manpower, desperate to seize everything the bl**d Spirit Sect had left behind. They chopped down palaces and transported them back in batches. Some towering spirit trees, beneficial for cultivation, were uprooted and taken back to be planted in their own sect.
Even the odd-shaped mountains that were movable were taken back. Nothing was spared!
While other sects felt a little embarrassed about this, they weren’t overly surprised. The cultivation world worked this way: resources were everything. Whenever there was an opportunity, one had to use all means to fight for resources to survive better.
Otherwise, what was the point of all that time spent building a sect?
Don’t let those Liyue Celestial Dynasty folks fool you—they departed so effortlessly because they deemed these resources worthless to them. They would only become a burden.
If those were resources they wanted, they’d have stripped everything down to the bones!
After all, what gave the Celestial Dynasty its strength? Everything was fought for; there was nothing innate about it!
When Yan Changkong and the others returned to their sect, it was emptier than a ghost town. Most disciples were out gathering resources. He estimated that it would take at least ten days to bring everything back.
Soon, disciples from the Xuanqing Sect began pouring in with resources in hand. Ancestors were registering them, and they arranged them in batches for storage…
Yan Changkong felt exuberant, his face sporting a broad smile! It was truly a good time, full of splendid opportunities. However, he knew that the more splendid the moment, the more one had to stay composed!
Stability was key!
“Lin Feng Ancestor was right: Grit your teeth, survive, and that’s the way to go!” Yan Changkong murmured, looking back at the diary from the Eternal Emperor that he hadn’t finished yet.
In the projected light screen, the diary remained intact.
Eternal Emperor’s Diary, Page 15:
“Haha! I heard that that old rascal Yan Shan is going mad, hunting people down like a crazy beast!”
“Couldn’t find me? Looks like I’m safe!”
“By the way, I should hold off on opening Yan Yu’s storage ring for now, so I don’t get tracked.”
“Recently, the bl**d Spirit Sect has actually learned some basic alchemy skills.”
“Oh, and there’s this… I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but I’ve been feeling a bit out of it lately and can’t wake up from sleep!”
“Just weird.”
“In dreams, I enter a mysterious state where my cultivation skyrockets. It’s hard to believe…”
“My only concern is how long I’ll be stuck in this deep sleep before I wake up?”
“Ah, whatever! My mind’s getting hazier, and I need sleep!”
“Sleeping makes you stronger—sounds pretty good, right?”
“Ruo Yu, wait for me! When I wake up and my cultivation has skyrocketed, I’ll come find you in the Central State!”
“Hey, I promise you’ll be shocked!”
At this point, the diary entry ended, sending shockwaves through the cultivation world once more.
Countless sects, ancient families, and rogue cultivators were abuzz, discussing the contents disclosed in today’s diary entry.
Jade Pool Sacred Land.
Yuan Ruoyu was a bit stunned and slowly regained her composure, quietly exclaiming, “So he really wasn’t lying to me!”
“He can just sleep to get stronger! Each deep sleep boosts his cultivation dramatically!”
“So, this is the secret of dream training?”
Yuan Ruoyu couldn’t help but recall the first time Lin Feng came to find her in the Central State after their separation. Memories flooded back…
Back then, she was a little angry when she met Lin Feng, scolding him for taking decades to see her again. Lin Feng just shrugged, saying he’d taken a nap and suddenly woke up fifty years later.
How could she possibly believe that?
She even mocked him, saying he should at least come up with a reasonable excuse!
Yet Lin Feng’s strength had genuinely left her flabbergasted!
When they parted ways at the Yunluo Mountain Range, Lin Feng was still a Qi Refining stage cultivator, while she had already reached the Golden Core stage.
More than fifty years later, when they reunited, Lin Feng had already surpassed her, reaching the late Nascent Soul stage—it was incredible!
Initially, Yuan Ruoyu worried he had been cultivating some dark arts to achieve such swift progress.
But after examining him closely, she had to admit that Lin Feng didn’t practice dark magic. Each realm he had achieved was solid and far beyond that of ordinary cultivators.
Lin Feng had also not hidden it from her; he said he could enter a mysterious state while sleeping, which is why his cultivation advanced rapidly.
He often used this as an excuse to ask her to come down the mountain with him…
To see if they could put Yuan Ruoyu into that mysterious state too!
They tried countless techniques and methods, but no matter what they did, Yuan Ruoyu couldn’t enter that state Lin Feng described.
She had always thought he was just making excuses, trying to trick her!
But now, with today’s diary entry exposure, Yuan Ruoyu realized this might actually be true!
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Liyue Celestial Dynasty.
In her palace, Ye Qingge showed none of her usual regal presence or commanding aura. She was fiddling with a small leather doll, her pretty face blushing as she apologetically said, “I’m sorry!”
“I wrongly suspected you! It turns out that your dream training method is real!”
“I thought you were just intentionally deceiving me!”
Ye Qingge’s eyes sparkled; the Empress appeared charming and playful as she whispered, “Too bad I couldn’t learn it. You put in so much effort, and after so many tries, it didn’t work!”
“But!”
“Next time, I will definitely follow your instructions—whatever you want… I’ll do it!”
As she spoke, she bit her lip, her face turning even redder.
In her heart, she thought that Lin Feng had tried so many times without success at dream training. Was it because she was too dominant and didn’t cooperate enough?
But then, recalling those bizarre techniques…
Ye Qingge’s heart raced, her expression embarrassingly flustered.
But just think about Lin Feng’s genius of dream training, sleeping to become strong!
A determined glint sparkled in her eyes as she gritted her teeth and said, “Fine then! From now on, I’ll do whatever you say! I refuse to believe I can’t learn it!”
