In a sense, Heaven's Will was like a Wisdom Path great expert. Through the Earth Calamity, it had reshaped countless species and adjusted their relationships with one another, deducing the most suitable direction for the future development of the blessed land.
This also explained why Gu Immortals did not simply move all the resources of their blessed lands outside before undergoing tribulations. A tribulation was both a crisis and an opportunity. While it brought destruction, it could also reshape the blessed land and create new opportunities for growth.
Among all the resource points, the Provoke Fire Bamboo forest and the Fire Jujube Tree forest had suffered almost no damage. Protected by the Attract Fire Immortal Bamboo and Dry Yang Fire Jujube Tree, both forests had survived the Earth Calamity largely intact.
The Fire Scorpion population in the northern Flame Desert and the Lava Bird in the western Molten Flame Mountains had fared equally well. With Desolate Beasts protecting them, they had also escaped most of the destruction.
This was another important advantage of raising Desolate Beasts and Desolate Plants within a blessed land. Besides producing valuable resources, they could protect the species and resource points that depended on them during tribulations, greatly reducing the damage to the blessed land. If powerful enemies invaded, they could also serve as formidable combat forces.
Lin Yan was overjoyed. After a period of rest and recovery, the hundreds of beast groups and plant species within the Flame Sovereign Blessed Land were bound to enter a period of rapid growth.
The emergence of dozens of new species and the formation of a more complete ecological cycle seemed to be pushing the entire blessed land toward another transformation, as though something new was slowly being nurtured within it.
According to Lin Yan's estimation, it would take no more than one or two months for this transformation to fully take shape.
He then used large numbers of Self Dream Gu to cleanse the remaining Heaven's Will from himself and the Flame Sovereign Blessed Land. Only after confirming that none remained did he return Dream Derivation Gu to his immortal aperture.
As soon as he did, Lin Yan noticed Dream Derivation Gu trembling within the seven-colored auspicious light surrounding it. The brilliant clouds and mist gradually dispersed, revealing a small mirage dragon covered in crystal-clear, seven-colored scales. A pair of delicate crystal horns adorned its head, giving it an extraordinary appearance.
An Immortal Gu aura gradually spread from its body. Dream Derivation Gu had finally advanced to Rank 6!
Seeing this, Lin Yan was overjoyed. Although he was confident that after Immortal Ascension, he could achieve great accomplishments in Flame Path, his hopes of becoming a Venerable ultimately rested on Dream Path.
Obtaining a Rank 6 Dream Path Immortal Gu was a qualitative leap. With Dream Derivation Immortal Gu as his foundation, Lin Yan could finally begin developing Immortal killer moves to explore the invisible dream realms hidden throughout the Gu world.
In the original story, Dream Path truly flourished only after the arrival of the Great Era, when countless dream realms manifested across the five regions. However, those who had accumulated a foundation in Dream Path beforehand would naturally possess an enormous advantage, allowing them to seize opportunities and rise rapidly.
Dream realms were independent worlds formed from the experiences and memories of their original owners. By entering one and experiencing fragments of its original owner's life, a Gu Immortal could obtain various benefits. They might increase their attainment in a particular path, obtain Dream Path Gu worms and Gu materials, or even uncover ancient secrets buried in history.
For example, the Rank 1 killer move Sandstorm Blinds the Eyes, which Lin Yan had developed during his early cultivation, originated from a killer move used by Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable in his youth.
At present, dream realms had yet to manifest in the outside world, but that did not mean they did not exist.Since ancient times, countless heroes and powerful experts had risen and fallen, leaving behind countless dream realms scattered throughout the world, hidden throughout the five regions.
If Lin Yan could locate and explore these hidden dream realms, he could inherit the experiences and attainment accumulated by his predecessors, saving himself hundreds of years of arduous cultivation.
Furthermore, Lin Yan could use the accelerated time flow of Dream Derivation Immortal Gu to research killer moves, study inheritances, and establish enormous experimental fields to simulate the future development of the Flame Sovereign Blessed Land.
He could test which species to introduce, observe how different ecosystems interacted, and experiment with the construction of large and even super resource points.
These matters were far more complicated than ordinary killer moves. They involved countless species, environments, dao marks, and resource cycles, making real-world experimentation extremely costly and time-consuming.
"Unfortunately, Dream Derivation Immortal Gu ultimately relies on external dao marks. Its abilities are extraordinarily powerful, but I still lack a method to enter the hidden dream realms scattered throughout the world."
Lin Yan sighed. His thoughts turned to the Great Dream Immortal Venerable predicted by Fate Gu, who was destined to be a woman.
At present, there were two possible candidates. One was Feng Jin Huang of Central Continent. The other was Poison Scorpion Lady Zi Ran of Northern Plains.