Ultimate Feel-Good Drama The Dao of the Bizarre Immortal: Dreamer

Seeing the name of this constitution, Chen Yu vaguely felt that something was wrong.

As everyone knew, anything with "demon" in its name was usually bad news.

Like succubi, anti-demon ninjas, magical girls, magical aunties, magical uncles, and the like.

And now there was another Heavenly Demon. There was even more bad stuff packed into that name.

"Is my low Morality because I have a Heavenly Demon Body? What did the Heavenly Demon do to my ancestors? Or what did my ancestors do to the Heavenly Demon?"

Chen Yu picked up his phone and looked up information on Heavenly Demons, only to furrow his brow again.

Heavenly Demons were ancient demonic creatures. Invisible and formless, their origins were unknown. They excelled at using all sorts of methods to toy with living beings, and their strength was unfathomable.

Very little information remained. All that was known was that they had once enslaved more than half of the cultivation world before being jointly exterminated by cultivators.

Something that terrifying was actually in his bloodline. This was just perfect.

Even being descended from a succubus would have been fine.

If it were a succubus, he would give up on studying and obediently join the Acacia Sect to become an idol.

A minotaur would have been fine too. He could obediently find someone else's wife and learn how to become a Body Cultivator from her.

But why did it have to be a Heavenly Demon?

Letting out a long breath, Chen Yu saw a translucent panel appear before him. His constitution was displayed before his eyes in the form of a panel, which was rather miraculous.

He waved his hand and found that the panel could be opened or closed at any time. It remained before his eyes, yet it was not physically real.

It seemed that because he was familiar with games, his constitution had presented itself in this form.

Below the constitution were its Traits.

Different constitutions had different Traits. Generally speaking, more ordinary constitutions were easier to understand, and their Traits were displayed more comprehensively.

The known Traits displayed by the "Heavenly Demon Body" were only two:

[1. The Heavenly Demon Body can absorb emotions as cultivation resources.]

[2. Both Positive Emotion and Negative Emotions work, but Negative Emotions are recommended. Positive Emotion is tiring.]

There was a whole list of other unknown Traits. Chen Yu knew he would have to explore them himself to figure out what they were.

Lying down on his bed, Chen Yu rested his head on his hands and stared at the ceiling, considering how to test his constitution's Traits.

(Heavenly Demon Body: it cultivates by absorbing other people's emotions, and both positive and negative emotions work.)

(Would distance affect it? If I anonymously beat someone up, would their Negative Emotions count toward me?)

(How would absorbing emotions feed back to me? Would it be immediate or periodic? Would there be a settlement?)

(Since emotions are positive and negative, would the two have different effects? If I absorbed both at once, would they cancel each other out or stack together?)

Habits from his previous life had followed him over, making him instinctively analyze the constitution's functions and requirements. Before long, he had laid out a large table in his mind.

Cultivators were powerful in every aspect. Their bodies were not merely stronger; their memory and stamina were also greatly enhanced.

Chen Yu was only at the First Level of Qi Refining, yet he already possessed the ability to remember everything at a glance. The ideas he had conceived were imprinted in his mind, allowing him to begin testing without paper or pen.

Having clarified what needed to be tested, Chen Yu began thinking about the next step: what to use for the test.

Cultivators had firm Dao Hearts, so ordinary methods would have a hard time provoking emotional fluctuations in them.

And the more test subjects, the better. That meant he needed something everyone could accept.

He also had to keep it secret. Otherwise, some guy might have a Sudden Inspiration to uphold justice on Heaven's behalf, and he might get logged out again.

Just as Chen Yu was thinking about how to begin, his phone vibrated lightly. His friend Big Zhuang had sent him a message:

[Brother Chen, a new Dreamscape is online! Lovely Catgirl, real-time interaction. Hurry up and dream with me.]

"What time do you think it is? Can't you just go study properly?"

Too lazy to talk to that guy who dumped all his points into physique, Chen Yu tossed his phone aside—then suddenly rolled over and picked it back up.

Right!

Dreamscapes!

Dreamscapes were an entertainment and learning method unique to cultivators.

As long as they downloaded the corresponding Dreamscape, they could use Primordial Spirit Projection to enter a dream, then roam through worlds woven by others and enjoy one different world after another.

Those who wove Dreamscapes were called Dream Makers. The truly skilled ones could even let people cultivate within Dreamscapes, granting them extremely high status in the cultivation world.

Of course, good Dreamscapes were expensive. Maintaining a Dreamscape required spiritual power, and Dream Makers had to pour their hearts into them, so naturally they could not be free.

Some outstanding Dreamscapes also spread widely, making them perfect for testing the effects of his constitution!

With that thought, Chen Yu picked up his jade slip, reopened the Dreamscape list, and examined it carefully.

There were many Dreamscapes on Heaven Origin, but most required payment. The free ones were not very interesting either.

After all, Dreamscapes required spiritual power to maintain. Even a small Dreamscape needed ten points of spiritual power per month, which came out to one hundred yuan.

That did not sound like much, but such Dreamscapes often could not support many functions and were quite monotonous to play.

The truly fun Dreamscapes all charged money, and their prices were steep. Ordinary people could not afford them.

But expensive things had their reasons. Ordinary Dreamscapes could at most let people see images and hear sounds. Better Dreamscapes could even simulate sensations, making users feel as though they were really there.

Even better ones contained Dao Resonance and the fundamental truths of Heaven and Earth. Dreamscapes made by Deity Transformation patriarchs could only be enjoyed by their personal disciples; others could not even touch them.

After browsing a few Dreamscapes and getting a sense of current trends, Chen Yu logged into the Dream Maker account he had registered before and familiarized himself with its functions again.

He had registered that account a year ago, right after awakening his Spiritual Root.

Back then, he had enthusiastically studied it for a while and discovered that its functions were simple. Even the many free resources could be used to make some decent things.

However, his cultivation had been too low and his spiritual power insufficient, so many functions had been unavailable to him. He had temporarily put it aside.

After that, he became busy with his studies and had long forgotten about it.

Now that he was at the First Level of Qi Refining, he could barely condense spiritual power and access more functions.

After reacquainting himself with the methods for constructing a Dreamscape, Chen Yu quickly regained mastery over its various functions. Then came deciding what to make.

Since this was a test, the sample size had to be large and the amount gathered had to be sufficient. Only then could he get better test results.

In plain terms, enough people had to experience the Dreamscape, and the emotional output had to be large enough.

His monthly allowance was five hundred yuan. At most, he could spend one hundred on spiritual power, which meant he could only use a small Dreamscape.

Opening the purchase page for small Dreamscapes, Chen Yu found that they had very few functions. That meant he could not make anything too complicated.

After doing some quick calculations, he found that a small Dreamscape was roughly equivalent to a five-hundred-megabyte game. At best, it could play some videos.

He could not make complicated functions, and even if he did, the Dreamscape would not be able to support them. He could only make a relatively simple video-style Dreamscape and let dreamers have a basic experience.

"A video-style Dreamscape..."

Biting his lip, Chen Yu began considering what kind of video to make.

Horror was definitely out. Cultivators had firm Dao Hearts. The ghosts and monsters in horror films were just pathetic little nobodies and could not scare anyone.

It would work if he found high-level cultivators to add some Dao Resonance, but hiring high-level cultivators would also cost money, and he could not afford it.

Besides, a small Dreamscape had limited capacity. He could not make anything too complicated, so he had to think of another method.

"Limited capacity, video... Hmm... The Dao of the Bizarre Immortal?"

At the thought of that title, Chen Yu had a Flash of Inspiration. The idea came to him just like that.

The Dao of the Bizarre Immortal was a phenomenon-level work. It had spawned countless famous memes, such as "Way of Sitting and Forgetting" and "mermaid." It was a masterpiece that drove everyone who read it mad.

He did not need to completely recreate its content. As long as he conveyed its confusion and the feeling of "not being able to tell," he could deliver a powerful mental impact and generate Negative Emotions.

Moreover, Dreamscapes had their own completion function that could turn text into images. The quality was worrying, though, and many parts would become distorted and warped.

But that perfectly suited the atmosphere of The Dao of the Bizarre Immortal. Its indescribable forms and casually shifting sense of displacement matched the game perfectly, making it especially suited to this style.

However, Li Huowang's experiences were too miserable. Fully recreating them would probably drive away a huge number of people, so it would be better to tone it down slightly and begin with a brand-new character.

With that thought, a Dreamscape gradually took shape. Chen Yu now knew what he needed to make.

"First, decide on the character, then build the free scenes. The opening scene will be a hospital, and closing the player's eyes will transfer them to another scene."

"I'll add a little game design. After death, they'll return to the starting point. Hiss, is the capacity already nearly gone? I still need to leave some space for images and voice lines."

"No, the first scene is already nearly out of capacity. I might as well make this a trial version. The first scene will end here, and I'll add more later depending on the situation."

After finally finishing the first version, Chen Yu raised his head and discovered that dawn had already arrived.

"I actually spent more than ten hours on this. Making games really is exhausting."

Yawning, Chen Yu hurriedly named his Dreamscape The Dao of the Bizarre Immortal: Dreamer, spent money to buy spiritual power, then painfully spent another hundred yuan on promotion and put it on the platform.

Although he had not slept all night, Chen Yu felt that his spirits were fine. He still had Awakening Pills left, so he took one and left the dormitory for class.

Having taken his money, the platform began randomly selecting a few lucky people based on the Dreamscape's tags and silently recommended The Dao of the Bizarre Immortal: Dreamer to them.

At the same time, the platform's intelligent spell thoughtfully wrote promotional copy based on the Dreamscape's content:

"An invincible young man travels between two worlds."

"Heaven and Earth within dreams, everything lies within your grasp!"

"The ultimate feel-good drama A Daoist Oddity's Dreamer awaits your arrival!"