Chapter 656 The building blocks

Chapter 656 The building blocks

The Eternal Duality Valley entered a period of heightened activity, as all training areas and fields were filled with people honing their skills.

Wu Long's Dao Family, Frozen Garden Palace, as well as select people from Wu Long's subordinates like Butler Bang and General Feng mainly trained within Fen Baihu's Dream Realm.

The trick was that much like a dream, anyone who went inside this realm lost their perception of what was real.

The sequence of events leading up to the current time, as well as any questioning of the current reality, was lost as the events happening to them became prevalent in their minds.

That happened even if one consciously tried to keep track of entering an illusion.

Thus any danger, any battle within it, felt completely real, raising the stakes high and keeping the tension throughout.

All the attacks of the enemies carried real weight and danger, and thus felt incredibly genuine.

For all intents and purposes, this was a real battle.

What's more, as a Celestial Fox, Fen Baihu had access to people's memories through their dreams, fantasies and imagination, and the less powerful was the Soul, the more she could learn.

Wu Long allowed her to read part of his memories that he selected for this combat training, so what they actually faced were his past enemies.

Her mysterious power allowed her to recreate those enemies as if they truly came to life, doing actions that Wu Long did not even see them do, and that could not be found in his memories, and yet that belonged to those people.

She was not actively controlling those illusions, since as soon as she manifested them they came to life and acted on their own.

This was an absolutely insane ability, one that allowed Wu Long to break the norms of what training could be in the Seven Boundless Worlds, effectively cheating and creating true combat experience in a safe and controlled environment.

And it was possible only due to Fen Baihu's identity.

Of course, it required quite a fine control to not actually kill them within that Realm, but Fen Baihu was a Mythical Beast with profound power over her abilities.

It was not linked to her learned skill but innate ability, much like simply moving a finger for an average human, and thus such things were very easy for her. The multiple Illusion Arrays made by the combined efforts of Lian Zhiqiu and Liang Yuhan, however, were a slightly rougher and less sophisticated version of this training, used by all other members of the Eternal Duality Valley.

To truly become immersed, he would need to drop his defenses, but he was not naive to do that with Fen Baihu, as he was the only one keeping her in check.

Thus, during this time, Wu Long concentrated on other tasks. He was constantly working on his cultivation, as well as improving his control and understanding over his Dao Runes.

The most recent Sound Rune puzzled him, as he acquired it the most easily. It could be said that it appeared on its own, and thus he did not have as much understanding of it as he did at least partially other Dao Runes.

Though, in truth, the only Dao Rune that he truly had somewhat an understanding of was the Water Rune.

And at the same time it was the one which powers he wielded the most freely. And thus he knew that the key to expanding his power was understanding them.

Apart from working on his own strength, Wu Long also spent a significant portion of his time with Xia Jung and Feng Huan, directly mentoring them in both battle and knowledge they might need.

It was during one of such trainings that Xia Jung mentioned that Bahshi Assassins might become a problem if he encountered them outside of this Fractured World when it eventually reconnected with the world outside.

It was not that there were no other powers on the same level, it was just one of the organizations he knew was quite troublesome to deal with.

"Hmm, that is a valid point", Wu Long nodded, though his mind went to the other possibility.

'If he could turn every Bahshi Assassination Group's branch into allies instead, it would instantly jumpstart his ability to deal with any issues...', Wu Long thought weighing this idea.

After all, the techniques had multiple levels of control, and thus imparting a technique that would allow Xia Jung to control the assassins was not impossible.

There were only two reservations he had with this method.

First, that he could not give Xia Jung the highest level of the technique, only an intermediary at best which would open him up to possible manipulation in the future.

And second was that the technique and the assassination group currently belonged to someone he knew, and using both for personal purposes without first discussing it was something he felt at least a slight aversion to.

She did, in fact tell him that he could use her assassins however he liked if he needed in the past.

But at the same time, using her assassins and giving an outsider like Xia Jung the power to do so was not the same.

At that moment, a face came to his mind, a face uncovered under the mask, one of thousands like it, and a light smile touched his lips.

'Hmm, that may be cheating, but that would technically be a good option', he thought as he wrapped up the training session and headed out of the Sect for a bit.