Chapter 1256: What You Long for Will Echo

Early the next morning, as the sky brightened, Wen Yan opened the window and arrived at Fuyu Mountain.

The dawn at Fuyu Mountain comes slightly earlier than in Virtue City. At this time, the disciples had already begun their morning routines.

The younger ones focus primarily on exercising and building their foundation. Their studies still primarily revolve around schooling; after completing their morning routines, they head down the mountain to attend classes at nearby schools. Going up and down the mountain is also part of their training.

Usually, it’s only during weekends that they might study some classical texts, not aiming for deep understanding, but for gradual influence, to first get familiar with them.

It is the older disciples who continue to study the scriptures after completing their morning physical activities.

To prevent disciples from becoming disconnected from the real world, even those not leaving the mountain still need to do work.

Unless a disciple is expected to be imparted with teaching, at a certain point, they are all expected to leave the mountain.

Some leave to attend university, some to pursue other jobs. Fuyu Mountain never forces every disciple to follow the path of cultivation or martial training.

Within the school, the atmosphere encourages everyone to find their own preferred and suitable path.

Wen Yan arrived just in time to be caught by the leading senior brother, who immediately had him lead the younger disciples in practicing the Scorching Sun Fist as a foundation exercise.

After moving his body for half an hour, Wen Yan, feeling refreshed, strode over to the courtyard where the Fourth Great-uncle Master resided. The Fourth Great-uncle Master had already gotten up, completed his morning routine, and finished breakfast.

“Why are you here so early today?” the Fourth Great-uncle Master casually asked while looking at the book in his hand.

“There are some things I’d like to ask the Fourth Great-uncle Master about.”

“Go ahead.”

“It’s like this…”

Wen Yan recounted the events he encountered in a dream last night.

“I was disturbed in my sleep, and it felt very uncomfortable. Is there any way martial artists can defend against this?”

Wen Yan’s power isn’t afraid of direct confrontation. He is a martial artist, and his physical strength keeps increasing, with his bone density and muscle density both enhancing.

Although he appears slender, without particularly large muscles, when weighed, he already exceeds one hundred eighty pounds, which doesn’t quite match his physique.

The most effective way to counter him is through these unseen, unknown methods, where one can’t even use real-world tactics to trace back remotely.

After Wen Yan finished speaking, the Fourth Great-uncle Master set down the book in his hand.

“Indeed, you were disturbed in your sleep, but it wasn’t to take your life. Trying to take someone’s life in a dream and suppress them is an incredibly high challenge. Someone with such ability wouldn’t need to go through so much trouble. This just aimed to disturb you, or perhaps do something else.”

“What could it be?”

“That, I do not know. I’m not skilled in these matters. The Path of Dreams is inherently mysterious and bizarre, ever-changing. Many things within can completely overturn normal perceptions and lose many limitations. So, in today’s words, there’s no fixed Dharma or a way to directly copy answers. It’s all about how to derive the answers; when encountering issues, rely on oneself to utilize the methods in real-time to obtain answers. Len This cultivation is the same; there are no inherently profound fixed Dharma.”

Wen Yan was a bit stunned, recalling when Grandma taught him to enter the dream. It indeed seemed there was no cultivation Dharma. He met certain conditions, and with Grandma’s guidance, once he became proficient, he could enter dreams smoothly and awaken within them.

This is completely different from martial training or cultivation.

“Fourth Great-uncle Master, you tell me these things, but I still can’t guess what the other side might do. You’re experienced, give me some advice, not precise. Just the most common and uncommon, anything with a historical record will do.”

“The Path of Dreams isn’t skilled at the kind of slay you envision in dreams. The most typical example, so-called killing in a dream, merely turns the self in the dream into reality, killing people in the current world. Have you heard of the story of slaying a dragon in a dream?”

“I’ve heard of it.” Wen Yan nodded. Who hasn’t heard of Journey to the West? As a child, he wanted a uniform and straight stick, even eyeing the large rolling pin in the yard. He later heard that natural ones are best, and rolling pins were too low-level. So, he searched for years for a straight and uniform natural stick but has yet to find one.

“It seems similar, but there’s a significant difference in essence. In the story, the ability to slay a dragon comes from those who can quietly leave their bodies, possessing a keen sword, without needing to fight. But you directly interpreting it that way isn’t far off. Most actions in a dream likely aim to influence a person’s mind and thoughts.”

“Psychological therapy?” Wen Yan thought of Doctor Meng from Yu State, an expert in this field. He relies on his talent to treat insomnia and consumes while doing so.

“That’s used on the righteous path.”

“And on the evil path?”

“Since you know the righteous path, think backwards.”

“Imposing psychological suggestions, twisting the subconscious, conveying false information, altering perceptions of certain dangers, shaking resolve, modifying thoughts, changing views on someone?”

“…” The Fourth Great-uncle Master couldn’t help but lean back tactically. He looked at Wen Yan with changed eyes, surprised at how the deviant ways rolled off his tongue so easily when he initially claimed not to know.

Honestly, even the Fourth Great-uncle Master’s own studies and research hadn’t led to such a comprehensive list of methods.

But theoretically, everything Wen Yan listed is indeed possible.