Chapter 7: The Nanke Dream
Dream Dao Attainment, Opening Scheme Against Cultivators
Dream-Making Expert
“The Great Dream of Many Autumns.”
“What year is it tonight?”
…
When the sky was just beginning to brighten, Lin Qi sighed and opened his eyes, somewhat delighted, somewhat regretful.
“Immortal Talisman. What a fine Immortal Talisman.”
“I never imagined the difference between immortal and mortal lay in such a tiny talisman.”
Lin Qi focused his breath and reached out to trace the void.
In but a moment, a talisman radiating silver-white radiance appeared in midair, clear qi rising, turbid qi sinking.
It was identical to the Immortal Talisman Zhao Zijing had casually condensed in the dream.
That’s right. Zhao Zijing believed he had long since left the Dao Comprehension Pool and obtained a fortuitous encounter.
But in reality, Zhao Zijing had been in a dream the entire time.
The twenty-year stint as Transmission Elder was nothing but a single dream of Zhao Zijing’s.
And within that twenty-year dream, Lin Qi, in the role of an entry-level disciple, had Zhao Zijing guide him hand-in-hand through the first six levels of Qi Refinement Realm cultivation.
Unfortunately, I was too greedy. I tried to grasp every spell and talisman Zhao Zijing commanded, but I failed to obtain the cultivation methods for the last three levels of the Qi Refinement Realm.
Lin Qi waved his hand, erasing the casually condensed Immortal Talisman. This was not the place to attempt Qi Refinement Realm cultivation.
If Zhao Zijing woke up and discovered everything was but the Nanke Dream, who knew how he might react.
To formally begin Qi Refinement Realm cultivation, he would still have to wait until he left Luojing.
The main issue is still that I know far too little about cultivators.
Lin Qi sorted through the gains and losses of this dream.
Through this dream, he had basically grasped every spell and talisman Zhao Zijing commanded.
Yet he still failed to obtain the complete Qi Refinement Realm cultivation method.
But there was nothing to be done about it. He knew nothing about cultivation. Using the identity of a new disciple to learn from Zhao Zijing was the best and most reasonable approach.
And the genius Zhao Zijing could imagine would need at least thirty to forty years to cultivate to Qi Refinement perfection.
Given the time within the dream, there was absolutely no way Lin Qi could break through to the sixth level of Qi Refinement and ask Zhao Zijing to teach him the last three levels.
Originally, he had planned to switch identities and fabricate for Zhao Zijing an assistant at the sixth level of Qi Refinement dispatched by the Immortal Academy.
That way, he could have continued to consult Zhao Zijing on the last three levels.
But man proposes, heaven disposes.
Who could have imagined Zhao Zijing would choose a death seclusion to break through to Foundation Establishment, and in the end even fucking fail and die?
This caused the dream to collapse, preventing Lin Qi from obtaining the cultivation methods for the last three levels of the Qi Refinement Realm.
Of course, the main reason is still that a cultivator’s dream differs from a mortal’s dream.
Even within a dream, a cultivator maintains their vigilance.