Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme

Chapter 390: Chapter 254: Dream Again (Harvest Summary Transition Chapter)_3

Thus, faced with the major Immortal Sects, Sacred Places, Great Return to Void Cultivators, Integration Great Powers, and even Mahayana True Immortals of the Northern Domain, how was he going to preserve his life, and how would he free himself?

Perhaps he could feign compliance and join a faction; after all, he wasn’t the Void Spirit Monarch, and he had no particular interest in those so-called Immortal Mansion treasures.

But that was the least desirable option.

As a man born into this world, how could he be content to live under others’ shadows for long?

To live at others’ behest, subject to their whims, was not his desire.

If possible, it would be best to break free and distance himself from this vortex of power.

As for confronting them head-on… Xu Yang wasn’t foolish enough to pit a hundred years’ worth of effort from Fish and Dragon Island against the accumulations of the Immortal Sects and Sacred Places over tens of thousands of years.

Withdrawal was the optimal choice.

But how to withdraw?

Though Xu Yang had several plans in mind, he felt they were all somewhat impractical.

Therefore, Xu Yang decided to dream once more.

The real world?

Nothing much to say about that, just lay low and bide his time.

Only a little over twenty years had passed; the situation in the Void Spirit Cave Heaven and the Liang Kingdom Cultivation Realm hadn’t changed much, and the Tianshu Sect and other Immortal Gates had not opened their paths to enter and check again.

Only the cultivators of Liang Country were embroiled in chaotic strife, along with some remnants of Tianshu Sect that he deliberately let slip by, stirring in the dark, their strongest but Nascent Soul minnows; he truly had no interest in bothering with them.

Therefore, Xu Yang didn’t plan to return to reality this time; instead, he was preparing to embark directly on his next Zhuanzhou Mengdie journey.

Zhuanzhou Mengdie?

Indeed, Zhuanzhou Mengdie!

It wasn’t about sending out a Yang God avatar to explore the periphery of the World of Dao and Law, but to dream once again with Zhuanzhou Mengdie, Divine Travel Through Worlds.

The World of Dao and Law and the Primordial Spirit World weren’t much different; surrounding worlds were presumably similar, and except for the Upper Realm whose Ascension circumstances were unclear, none could satisfy his needs and provide a breakthrough for the reality he faced.

Hence, he could only dream, searching for worlds of higher tiers, preferably like Black Water World, where deities and buddhas filled the skies – only then would there be a chance for a breakthrough in reality.

But if one life in the World of Dao and Law hadn’t ended, how could he dream again?

Was he to abandon the World of Dao and Law, the Wandao School?

Of course not!

How could he easily discard such painstaking efforts, such achievements, and such infinite potential?

If he didn’t give up the Daoistic being, how could he dream again?

Simple, nested dolls!

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Li Liuxian (Xu Yang)

Cultivation: Primordial Spirit (Daoistic Yuan Spirit, Fifth Tier full circle)

Skills: Daily Living, Traveling, Alchemy, Artifact Refining, Beast Taming, Spirit Plant Cultivation, Formation, Taoism, Martial Training, Cultivation…

New: Dreaming (Zhuanzhou Mengdie)

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Xu Yang always had a bold idea, which was to dream within a dream, transferring the feature of Zhuanzhou Mengdie to an avatar, such as “Li Liuxian” from the World of Dao and Law, thus enabling dream within a dream and endlessly nesting, preserving the achievements and foundations of each world.

But this idea had always been difficult to achieve because the tier of the Zhuanzhou Mengdie feature was so high that neither the Daoistic avatar nor the real self had enough Divine Soul power to support the transfer.

Not until a breakthrough in cultivation, advancing to Divinity Transformation!

From Nascent Soul to Primordial Spirit, the power of the Divine Soul was greatly increased, so Xu Yang tried to use the Divine Soul power of the Daoistic avatar to channel the Zhuanzhou Mengdie feature from his real self.

And then… he succeeded.

Although it exhausted his Divine Soul, causing severe injury and required over three hundred years of recovery without full healing, he nevertheless succeeded.

Hence, he could dream within another dream, with “Li Liuxian” initiating the Zhuanzhou Mengdie journey.

Even though this seemed to overshadow the host, Xu Yang didn’t mind.

Whether it was the real self or the Daoistic avatar, both were him. It was just a matter of the left hand versus the right hand, the person was still one person, and the consciousness was the same; speaking of the main body and avatars was merely for differentiation, in reality, there was no primary or secondary distinction.

It was only because it was uncertain whether the Attribute Panel and the other avatars could continue after the real self perished, otherwise Xu Yang wouldn’t need to worry too much about the crisis of the Void Spirit Cave Heaven and could directly oppose all major Immortal Gates without problem.

Although this couldn’t be tried, dreaming within dreams was still possible.

So…

On Golden Turtle Island, Xu Yang smiled and closed his eyes to sleep.

In the realm of dreams, he entered yet another dream.