I Delight in Cultivating in Dreams (Third Update! Bonus Chapter—Please Vote and Follow!)

Streams of information flooded into his mind.

Li Xiuwen's gaze shifted from confusion to delight, then shock!

After [Beginner Martial Arts Knowledge] reached minor mastery, the incense burner gained a new function.

He could enter dreams through the incense smoke and step into the vast, mysterious Void Illusory Realm.

Practicing any combat technique within the Void Illusory Realm, including movement techniques, would yield twice the results with half the effort.

Suppose his current starting cultivation efficiency was 1 point.

Inside the Void Illusory Realm, it would become 2 points.

Once Martial Arts Knowledge reached major mastery and perfection, this efficiency would increase further.

Li Xiuwen murmured to himself, "Isn't this basically increasing my comprehension? Old Chen really didn't deceive me! Reading more really can change one's comprehension!"

For others, "comprehension was easy to understand but hard to improve."

Yet Li Xiuwen only needed to steadily raise [Martial Arts Knowledge], and his comprehension would improve dramatically along with it.

This was only Beginner Martial Arts Knowledge, corresponding only to the beginner-level Void Illusory Realm.

Following this pattern, there would surely be intermediate and advanced levels in the future... and their effects would only get better.

Combined with the incense burner's ability to confirm a breakthrough once and for all, without bottlenecks, the martial path was becoming increasingly promising.

He came back to his senses and looked at Old Chen on the bed, his eyes shining as though he had found a priceless treasure.

"Brother Li, what's wrong?" Old Chen asked, lowering his book.

"Nothing. See you tomorrow." Li Xiuwen left the martial arts hall and hurried home.

Chen's Rice Noodle Factory.

Li Xiuwen strode inside, shut the door, and wiped away his excited sweat.

"Awen, aren't you getting hammered today?" his aunt asked.

"Not for now. I'm taking a day off." Li Xiuwen smiled.

He returned to his room, lay down on the cot, and muttered, "It says I need to enter a dream to reach the Void Illusory Realm. I probably need to sleep."

The moment he fell asleep, Li Xiuwen's consciousness merged with the incense burner.

He transformed into a wisp of green smoke, passed through bizarre and dazzling scenes, and descended upon a familiar place.

Low buildings stood packed tightly together, crouching like beasts. It was the walled city.

The green smoke drifted through the streets and alleys, arriving at Chen's Rice Noodle Factory, where it saw his uncle and aunt.

Then it sank into the sewers, where it saw Brother Ji, Venomous Snake, and Third Master.

It emerged from the sewers and continued wandering until it reached Night Heron Martial Arts Hall, where it saw the familiar cross-eyed youth and the blond-haired punk who called him an old scallion.

In the end, the green smoke swept into the place where he had spent the most time since beginning martial arts training: Four Seas Martial Arts Hall.

Upon entering, he saw A Zhen, Silly Qiang, Liu Chun, and Liu Da standing silently on the training ground.

In the study, Huang Sihai was seated while Third Aunt kept watch nearby.

The scene looked like an ordinary day at Four Seas Martial Arts Hall.

Except everyone was frozen in time like wax figures, completely motionless.

Moreover, when Li Xiuwen carefully examined the buildings, the people, and the details of the sky...

He discovered that everything in the illusion seemed to be made up of countless tiny squares.

The edges were jagged and angular. It looked somewhat... pixelated.

For a moment, he thought he had entered a high-end version of Minecraft.

Passing through a gap between buildings, Li Xiuwen looked up at the sky.

A crimson incense stick that pierced heaven and earth burned rapidly, and a vast, ethereal voice echoed out.

[You may choose one person as an opponent in the Void Illusory Realm to hone your combat techniques (movement techniques).]

[The illusion will last for one shichen.]

[When the incense burns out, the illusion will shatter and the dream will end.]

[After entering a dream, you may enter another after an interval of twelve shichen.]

Information flooded into his mind, and Li Xiuwen instantly understood.

The Void Illusory Realm was not generated out of thin air.

At present, the area he could move within in the Void Illusory Realm was limited to the walled city.

More precisely, it covered Longjin Road and a certain area around Four Seas Martial Arts Hall, including the neighboring Night Heron Martial Arts Hall.

Whenever he tried to leave this range, he would run into an "invisible wall."

Li Xiuwen guessed that the Void Illusory Realm's range of activity reflected the area where he had spent extended periods in the real world.

After all, he had gone to the Central District Grand Arena and attended a hometown association gathering outside the walled city in recent days, yet neither place had appeared in the Void Illusory Realm.

In any case, within this designated range, anyone who had interacted with him to a certain extent could appear in the illusion as an opponent.

Having understood how the [Void Illusory Realm] was formed, Li Xiuwen could barely contain his delight.

"So that means I can practice combat techniques in my dreams now, and the results will be even better!"

As for the one-shichen limit, it barely counted as a restriction.

After all, he only practiced combat techniques for a little over one shichen each day. Most of the time, he trained stances and hard qigong.

Having figured out the Void Illusory Realm's function, Li Xiuwen stopped wasting time.

He first tried choosing Huang Sihai as his opponent.

Huang Sihai moved, like a game character under someone's control.

In an instant, he became an afterimage.

A blast erupted from Li Xiuwen's chest. It felt as though he had been struck by a locomotive, sent flying high into the air, and embedded in the ceiling.

Every tendon and muscle in his body snapped, his bones shattered, and his internal organs were pulverized into mush.

He had not even seen how Huang Sihai had attacked.

Li Xiuwen's body condensed again, and he muttered:

"Too strong. There's no sparring value at all."

"But after taking one palm strike, I at least know what level Master is at. Terrifying is the only way to describe him."

"Let's try A Zhen."

With a thought, Li Xiuwen selected the short-haired girl.

A Zhen moved and charged at him without a word.

Li Xiuwen shot forward and exchanged blows with her.

After trading more than a dozen palm strikes, he grew increasingly astonished. "The Void Illusory Realm has perfectly replicated A Zhen's current level of palm technique."

This "current stage" referred to the last time Li Xiuwen had been in close contact with A Zhen before entering the dream.

Therefore, the projections within the Void Illusory Realm needed to be refreshed through occasional real-world contact, like a "data update."

"Interesting. Through the Void Illusory Realm, as long as I make close contact, I can learn an enemy's strength for that day in advance. I'll have more confidence when I make a move."

Li Xiuwen quickly discovered another use for the Void Illusory Realm.

After exchanging several moves with A Zhen, his intangible understanding of [Sand-Turning Palm] increased a little more.

"It works. The effect is obvious."

"A Zhen is a little too weak. Silly Qiang it is."

Li Xiuwen chose Silly Qiang. After fighting for a while, neither could gain the upper hand.

Li Xiuwen had superior technique, while Silly Qiang was stronger.

The sparring effect was clearly better as well.

Before long, a prompt came from the incense burner.

[Your Sand-Turning Palm proficiency has increased by 1%...]

Li Xiuwen did the math. Compared to the time it had taken him to raise it by 1% before, it had indeed doubled.

"Roughly speaking, I can improve by around 4% in one shichen. At most, Sand-Turning Palm will reach major mastery in a month."

Li Xiuwen was overjoyed. According to Old Huang, his comprehension had not been inferior to Liu Chun's to begin with.

Didn't that mean he was now equivalent to two Liu Chuns?

Thinking of this, he tried Liu Chun as well.

The instant they clashed, Liu Chun's violent Waves Sifting Sand Palm forced him back step by step.

He instinctively wanted to test his hard qigong, only to discover he could not use it.

It turned out that Binding Armor Skill, like Sea-Sand Stance, belonged to training methods.

The Void Illusory Realm trained combat methods. The only things brought in were his basic cultivation and his realm in combat techniques and movement techniques.