"What happened?"
"Why did he suddenly collapse?"
"Was his soul attacked?"
Everyone around them stared in shock.
After all, the gray-robed elder was a Mid-Heaven-Questioning Stage cultivator.
Yet he had lost consciousness before he even got close to the Dreamshade Flower.
"That's the Dreamshade Flower's Dream-Entry Domain!"
At that moment, an elder of the Dao-Proving Realm spoke up.
"Dream-Entry Domain?"
Many cultivators turned to look at him.
The elder stared at the ten Dreamshade Flowers in the garden and said gravely, "Dreamshade Flowers constantly release pollen invisible to the naked eye!"
"That pollen forms a Dream-Entry Domain extending ten zhang around each flower!"
"The moment someone steps within ten zhang, the pollen invades their soul, plunging them into a dream!"
One cultivator could not help asking, "Then how can we pick a Dreamshade Flower?"
"Break free of the dream!"
The elder explained slowly, "At ten zhang from the flower, you enter the first dream. If you break free and advance another zhang, you enter the second!"
"Nine zhang, the second dream!"
"Eight zhang, the third!"
"And so on!"
"To reach a Dreamshade Flower, you must break free of ten dreams in succession!"
"The closer you get, the deeper and more real the dreams become!"
"By the final few, you may even forget reality entirely and believe that everything in the dream truly happened!"
"What if someone can't break free?"
Someone asked.
The elder's expression turned grave. "Then they'll sink into the dream forever, unable to wake!"
Everyone sucked in a cold breath.
Failure could mean never waking again.
The price was terrifying.
The elder continued, "Breaking free of a Dreamshade Flower's dreams has little to do with cultivation!"
"The true tests are the strength of your soul, your talent, and your Dao heart!"
The crowd looked at the ten flowers