Chapter 2452 The Beginning Of The Greatest Era

[1] A correction needs to be made, after some helpful feedback, I agree that Wind makes more sense than Metal, to be the inversion of Earth.

But I will keep Metal uninverted as I think it should be the one Element that does not have an inversion, due to the fact that creating Metal requires Earth, tempering and working with it requires Wind, Water and Fire. Thus, with the 4 Elements as the base of Metal, it is uninvertable, also the math works better since there is an odd number of Elements, currently.

Oh and it seems I didn't make it clear, but Great Dream is able to use Gu and Immortal Essence that she doesn't have physically but has in her Dreams, I never really used this plot point but it was mentioned in the OG and Wiki how Great Dream was able to use Gu and Immortal Essence that was illusory so I wanted to pay homage to that but never ended up using it, oh well.

With the terrain being flipped on its head, the skies became the earth, and the earth became the skies, the terrain of the Southern Border was changed as well, its mountains were shifted and its terrain altered.

"This bastard actually touches upon the Dao of Creation as well." Genesis Lotus was biting his lips.

Just like Immortal Gu, every Dao is unique and can only be obtained by 1 person.

Various Paths make up a Dao, but there can only be 1 of any Dao.

If Fang Yuan manages to acquire the Great Dao of Creation, then it would mean that Genesis Lotus's life work would be rendered obsolete.

"Calm down," Star Constellation consoled: "Fang Yuan is able to display some of the powers of the Dao of Creation, only because he possesses the Dao of Elements, one of the bases of Creation, but you are much closer to unravelling its mysteries as you create and possess your own world."

Indeed, Fang Yuan was able to manipulate what was already Created, when he produces Fire, he does not create Permanent Fire Path Dao Marks from thin air, rather he uses the already existing Permeant Dao Marks, to create Temporary Dao Marks of Fire Path.

Producing the effect of Fire.

These Temporary Fire Path Dao Marks, draw strength from the Permanent Fire Path Dao Marks, in Fang Yuan and in the surroundings, especially if they were refined by Fang Yuan.

But the Great Dao of Creation was extremely unique and profound, after all, it was the Dao that represented all of Creation, the Dao Marks created from the Dao of Creation were permeant!

They would be indistinguishable from the Dao Marks of the world.

This was the step that Genesis Lotus was struggling in, right now he had basic knowledge on how to convert Energy into Dao Marks, but he didn't have a way to make the Dao Marks Permanent.

"The answer is close I can feel it…" Genesis Lotus felt like the answer was at the tip of his tongue.

Heaven scoffed, thinking to herself: "Mortals who dare touch upon boundaries beyond their knowledge."

The Dao Emperor realm was already like reaching for the stars, yet all the mortals in this era were seemingly gunning for the Great Daos.

In just these few months, the Great Daos of Spacetime and Destiny were appearing in the Gu World.

And the shadows of the Great Dao of Creation could be seen in 2 people.

Heaven worried: "What if this is the beginning of the end?"

"It seems I need to work on this form as well…"

But everyone realized they had a more pressing issue…

"Damnit!" Red Lotus cursed.

His swords, Swirling Galaxy and Time Dissolution Saber were losing stability and on the verge of exploding.

"Dismiss your move Red Lotus," Heaven shouted, she was scared that if the blades exploded her Rank 8 Cultivation might not be able to survive

Red Lotus nodded and dispelled the swords.

Heaven quickly explained: "Because the Elements have been inverted that means the control and interference of the various Elements have also been changed, this results in your Killer Moves going haywire as the finesse in your control makes them unstable."

The Venerables were still a bit confused, it was understandable after all nothing on this scale has ever happened before.

Heaven sighed: "Imagine how you lived your whole life with the gravity you have now, if 1 day the strength of the gravity is changed, it would affect your running, walking and everything you considered normal, even mundane and easy tasks would be affected."

"I see," Star Constellation pondered: "You're saying the natural restrictions the Elemental Dao Marks placed on us, are already accounted for in our normal Killer Moves, but when the balance of that obstruction is changed, our moves become unstable as there is no longer a resistance to balance it out."

Indeed, Star Constellation wasn't a Wisdom Path cultivator for show, she understood the crux of the issue immediately after it was explained.

Even Heaven was impressed.

"But it seems there are certain Paths that are not affected, primarily my Wisdom Path and,"

At that moment Killer Moves began to cascade down upon the, currently, helpless Venerables."

"Shit!" Heaven immediately went to take cover, after all with only Rank 8 Cultivation she was nothing but an ant before these Killer Moves.

However, before the moves could hit.

A pink barrier dome appeared over all the Venerables, protecting them.

"and Dream Path." Star Constellation finished a sentence with a grin.

Indeed, Dream Path was immune to the effects as it already faced little to no interference from any Dao Marks, besides its own, thus the new balance of Elemental Dao Marks did not affect Great Dream much, if at all.

Up in the sky.

"Tch," Fang Yuan tsked after seeing his surprise attack fail: "Dream Path is certainly the most annoying."

He had no way to break through Great Dream's barrier directly, so he continued raining down Killer Moves, hoping to wear her out.

"I can't hold him forever, and with how things are looking it seems that all the Venerables are sitting ducks, so it seems like its time to activate the plan."

The Heavenly Court members looked at her in shock:

"Now? Are you sure?"

"But will it even work?"

Genesis Lotus and Red Lotus were full of doubt, but Great Dream ignored them and looked directly at Star Constellation.

At that moment a million different thoughts were clashing in Star Constellation's mind, trying to deduce the best outcome for Heavenly Court…

"Do it." Those two words silenced Red Lotus and Genesis Lotus.

Great Dream smiled: "Okay."

In a separate part of the battlefield,

Giant Sun was finding his way back, after getting the world turned on its head, even he was lost as the once dense mountains of the Southern Border had turned inside out, making the terrain unrecognizable.

"I should take this time to recuperate," Giant Sun was in no rush to help Fang Yuan, after all, Fang Yuan did little to help him and in fact caused him more problems than help.

As he traversed a bit further, he managed to see Fang Yuan floating in the sky, bombarding an area with Killer Moves, the Heptagram still surrounding him.

"This Fang Yuan is truly too strong," Giant Sun shook his head and sighed: "I must comprehend my Dao of Karma further before…"

Giant Sun's mouth dropped to the floor as he witnessed Fang Yuan getting ambushed!

But before he could fly over and help, an even more startling scene occurred…

In the skies,

Fang Yuan was still bombarding the Dream Barrier, when suddenly the Dream Barrier exploded outwards, dispelling his Killer Moves.

"Oh?" Fang Yuan immediately noticed that Red Lotus and Great Dream was not amongst the group, but before he could react a fist punched him.

It didn't do much damage, but it did catch Fang Yuan off guard and knock him into a portal.

Fang Yuan's face turned before he entered the portal and instantly recognized that it was Red Lotus but before he could charge out, Red Lotus closed the Portal.

Fang Yuan was still falling backwards when he felt a soft sensation from his back.

"You!" before he could turn around and act, he immediately felt his conscience go hazy, "Dream Rea…"

"Ssssh go to sleep," was the last thing he heard.

A pink fog began emanating, with Fang Yuan at its centre.

A massive Dream Realm was rapidly expanding, swallowing Fang Yuan first, then the other Venerables, Heaven and lastly Giant Sun before spreading throughout the world!

The Greatest Era had begun!

Earlier, in the Dream Barrier.

"What plan are you all speaking off?" Heaven asked, not one bit happy to be excluded.

"Simple we're bringing forth the Greatest Era," Great Dream teasingly responded.

Heaven nodded: "Oh, the Greatest Era…THE GREATEST ERA!?"

"H-h-how do you know that? No. More importantly…what do you mean by 'bring forth'?"

Great Dream's grin was incredibly teasing, which infuriated Heaven, but she was more concerned over the Greatest Era.

"I know your plan Heaven, you originally wanted Great Dream Immortal Venerable to be your obedient puppet and once you plunged the world into a Dream, she would easily rule over all beings as they would be helplessly asleep,"

Great Dream continued: "The Greatest Era is also an Era to end all Eras, as there would never be another time that the living beings in the world could rise up. With everyone in a Dream, they would be able to live their lives growing the Heavenly Dao, yet that would not have any impact or detriment to you in the real world. It was the perfect plan to raise all Living Beings as cattle for you."

"Even Primordial and Reckless did not see this coming, but too bad, you never got to enact your plan." Great Dream chuckled at the shock expression of Heaven.

"I will end your great dream." Her smile turned sinister.

With that, the plan that Great Dream had with Heavenly Court was enacted.

Great Dream Immortal Venerable would activate the Dream Realms to swallow the world, putting every living being in a Dream.

In this Dream, they would live through countless lifetimes, and gain the attainment and knowledge of the people of the past.

This Dream had no attainment limitations and would allow people to reach Supreme Grandmaster if they were talented enough to.

But Heaven's original Plan was to siphon the harvest of these Dreams to Great Dream, however since there was no Great Dream in this timeline, everyone gets to keep their attainment.

Which means…

"We can finally raise up Ma Hong Yun," Red Lotus sighed.

Their greatest worry was Ma Hong Yun's lack of experience and attainment.

But the Dream Realms solved all their problems.

Except…

"Fang Yuan possess Dream Armor Gu which would allow him to walk around while everyone is asleep, this would be unstoppable and incredibly dangerous." Genesis Lotus objected.

"Then our plan has to revolve around putting Fang Yuan in the Dream as well," Great Dream proposed: "Since you don't want Fang Yuan to obtain the Great Dao of Destiny and I don't want Fang Yuan to obtain the Great Dao of Destiny, why don't we work together towards it?"

Thus, Great Dream and Heavenly Court came to an agreement.

And they enacted their plan.

Using the fact that Fang Yuan assumed they would be unable to use Killer Moves, Red Lotus gave up the complete knowledge of his Portal Creation Killer Moves, so that Star Constellation could derive a Portal Killer Move that Red Lotus could use in this distorted Element environment.

After which, Red Lotus teleported Great Dream a distance away from them, to give them time to bring out and prep Ma Hong Yun, while Red Lotus sneak attacked Fang Yuan, using the brief gap in his awareness once the Dream Barrier exploded to sucker punch him!

And as you can see the plan went without a hitch!

Fang Yuan was sound asleep, his body lay there defenceless.

"Sleep tight," Great Dream said with a smile, whispering something before fading away, "...you."

Activating the Dream Realm that covered the world drained all her strength, and since no Killer Moves could be used within the Dream Realm anyway, the other Venerables didn't try for an ambush either, as the Dream Realm would have made them fall asleep next to Fang Yuan.

Thus, the whole 5 Regions entered a Deep slumber.