Reverend Insanity: Dream Gu

This Immortal Gu would be extremely useful in the future. He planned to cross the regional wall, travel to the Southern Border, and explore the inheritance of Fire Thunder Divine Lord.

Regional walls stood between the Five Regions, separating each land from the others. Because of this, the Heaven and Earth Qi in every region differed slightly.

If a Gu Master crossed a regional wall, their cultivation would be suppressed by an entire rank. Gu worms would be affected as well. The difference was that a Gu Master could gradually recover after adapting to the new environment, while Gu worms were far harder to restore.

For mortal Gu Masters, crossing a regional wall was dangerous, but still possible.

For Gu Immortals, however, the consequences were far more severe. Regional walls strongly repelled blessed lands, forcing a Gu Immortal to carve a path through by force. Once they entered another region, the differing Heaven and Earth Qi would clash within the blessed land itself.

That impact could easily shake the entire blessed land. Mountains could split apart, rivers could dry up, and countless resources could suffer damage. If the clash grew severe enough, everything inside could be ruined in an instant.

This was something no Gu Immortal could accept. A blessed land was the foundation of a Gu Immortal—the place where resources were nurtured and accumulated. It was also directly tied to one’s strength.

Fortunately, Rank 6 blessed lands were usually smaller and contained fewer dao marks, so the damage caused by crossing a regional wall was relatively limited. Because of this, Rank 6 Gu Immortals were the most likely to travel between different regions.

The higher one’s cultivation, the greater the difficulty becomes. Rank 8 Gu Immortals possessed foundations beyond imagination and often had methods to deal with this problem. Most relied on the Two Heavens to bypass the regional walls altogether. Rank 7 Gu Immortals, on the other hand, were in the most awkward position. Their blessed lands were already large enough to suffer serious damage, yet they lacked the methods available to Rank 8. Because of this, very few Rank 7 Gu Immortals were willing to cross between regions.

The regional wall surrounding Western Desert was the Raging Flame Regional Wall, belonging to Flame Path. If Lin Yan possessed Fire Escape Immortal Gu, together with Transform Fire and Control Flame, he might be able to create a method to pass through it far more easily.

Thoughts flashed through Lin Yan’s mind like sparks. Remaining within his state of natural inspiration, he turned his thoughts toward the final Immortal Gu recipe.

But this time, he hesitated. Logically, one slot should be reserved for Dream Derivation Immortal Gu. It had supported him from the very beginning until now and was the greatest reason his growth had been so rapid. If it could advance into an Immortal Gu, then even after becoming a Gu Immortal, he would still be able to maintain that advantage.

Yet after the thought surfaced, Lin Yan slowly dismissed it.

Lin Yan did not want Heaven’s Will to know too much about Dream Derivation Gu. The Gu world contained countless strange and unpredictable methods. Once Heavenly Dao became aware of something, traces would inevitably be left behind. Sooner or later, someone might follow those traces, investigate them, and uncover its secrets.

He also did not want to refine Dream Derivation Immortal Gu using Heaven and Earth Qi. If he did, it would become too deeply tied to Gu world itself, leaving behind Dream Path dao marks that others might one day study—or even imitate.

Lin Yan could not accept that. Dream Derivation Gu was one of his greatest secrets. The other was his transmigration. These were the two foundations he relied on most, and neither could be exposed.

If Dream Derivation Gu was compromised, then his greatest advantage after becoming a Gu Immortal would be weakened as well.

If he did not deduce Dream Derivation Immortal Gu... then what should his fourth Immortal Gu be?

Lin Yan’s gaze swept across the more than twenty Rank 5 Gu in his possession. After thinking it over carefully, he realized he lacked almost everything. Offense, movement, stealth, deduction, reconnaissance, support and resource management—every area still carried weaknesses. No matter which one he chose, it would be useful.

But his time to learn from nature was running out. Lin Yan narrowed his eyes and made his decision. Then he would choose another Flame Path Immortal Gu.

At the Immortal level, killer moves mattered most. Immortal Gu were important, but more often they served as the foundation of a Gu Immortal’s methods. Once combined with hundreds of mortal Gu and arranged into a suitable killer move, their effects could evolve into endless variations. The same Immortal Gu in different hands could display entirely different power.

As long as a Gu Immortal possessed enough talent and attainment, a single Immortal Gu was enough to branch into countless uses—combat, cultivation, movement, and even managing a blessed land.

Without wasting another moment, Lin Yan immersed himself in that state of Natural Inspiration, his thoughts moving faster than ever before.

Countless ideas flashed through his mind like sparks. Fire Spouting Ten Meters Gu, Sparks Gu, Intensifying Gu—one Gu recipe after another surfaced before him. He continuously dismantled them, recombined them, and deduced new possibilities.

After several breaths, a new Immortal Gu recipe took shape.

Rank 6 Oil Flame Immortal Gu.