Emperor Jingtai summoning the four of them to study dream arts was by no means information the consorts of the imperial harem should have known.
That Consort Nian could name all four of their foundations outright, and even knew of the Dream Pool Essays and the Yinghuo Grand Void Dream Seal, was enough to show how formidable her methods were.
"An ancestor of the Nian Household obtained this jade slip in an ancient fallen-star ruin."
Consort Nian continued, "The method recorded within is called the Yinghuo Illumination-of-the-World Dream Scripture. According to deductions made by generations of Nian Household cultivators, it should likewise have come from the Main Stars Yinghuo beyond this realm, and be connected to the Grand Void Profound Venerable who left those Yinghuo dream seals."
"Unfortunately, this scripture has only its first volume. It allows a cultivator to begin by entering dreams with their divine soul and cultivate all the way to the late Nascent Soul stage. The whereabouts of the second volume are unknown."
"Even so, the principles and resonance of its methods contained in the first volume are immensely valuable, at least on par with a supreme-grade Heaven Grade dream cultivation method."
As Consort Nian spoke, she actually tossed the jade slip straight to him.
Qing Chen reached out and caught it. A wisp of dream mist immediately flowed along his arm into his sea of consciousness.
In a daze, he seemed to see a boundless sea of crimson stars.
Countless trillions of living beings slept beneath the starlight, each dream a flickering point of light.
Some lived a hundred years in a single dream, some attained the Dao within their dreams, and some mighty beings experienced thousands of lives and deaths in dreams while only a brief instant passed outside.
At the far more distant