Great Xia, Imperial Capital.
After the turmoil at dusk, a courtyard in Earl Changyuan’s manor, known as Lang Huan Garden, was sealed off. The Female Emperor of Great Xia personally assigned people to guard Lang Huan Garden, preventing others from inadvertently disturbing this place of tranquility.
This matter became the talk of the upper echelons of the entire Imperial Capital; countless nobles were curious to witness the Lang Huan Garden.
Half a month ago, the long-sealed Lang Huan Garden was opened once again, and all the nobility in the Imperial Capital who had experienced the turmoil at dusk were aware that this meant the Supreme Taoist had returned.
Inside Lang Huan Garden, Shen Yuan sat cross-legged under a date tree holding a scroll, yet his eyes were slightly closed as if he was deep in sleep.
This moment was the time for a midday nap, and hundreds of thousands in the Imperial Capital were immersed in sleep.
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However, astonishingly, these slumbering hundreds of thousands were all experiencing the same dream.
In the dream, a White-robed Immortal was holding a chess piece under the date tree, playing chess with the people.
There were beginners who played with great interest, struggling on the chessboard only to ultimately lose miserably.
There were also chess masters deep in contemplation, stuck in the endlessly changing chess strategies.
And there were even na�ve children using the chessboard to play connect-five, winning a piece over the Immortal.
Their dreams varied infinitely, yet all converged to the same end.
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The next moment, Shen Yuan slowly opened his eyes, and the people who had been playing chess with the Immortal in their sleep also ended that dream.
To their surprise, they discovered that they had somehow lost the face of the White-robed Immortal from their minds, leaving only the Daoist scriptures etched in their memories.
It had been ten years since the return of the Spirit Energy Tidal Surge, and even ordinary people had come to understand the preciousness of the Daoist legacy.
And these Daoist scriptures imprinted in their memories were far more superior than any heritage they could access.
Many citizens woke up from their dream-like state and shouted loudly, extolling the name of the Great Dream Immortal.
Meanwhile, on the internet, the related information spread rapidly, and everyone in the Imperial Capital realized what kind of opportunity had descended upon them not long ago.
As for Shen Yuan, the source of this opportunity, he paid no attention to the various disturbances outside.
He slowly lifted his right hand, and the dreams woven by hundreds of thousands unfolded in his palm, creating a dream world distinct from the real one.
For Shen Yuan, with his Divine Skill cultivation, to enter dreams was a piece of cake, requiring no use of Divine Arts at all.
But to influence the dreams of hundreds of thousands to such a significant extent, there was only one Divine Skill in the entire lower realms that could achieve it, and that was the 31st Earthly Destroyer�s Dream Implanting Divine Power.
It lures all beings into a dream of delusion to alter their subconscious. At its Peak Stage, it can even create an entire dream world to interfere with the real one; it is a superior Divine Skill within the Dream Realm Path.
This Dream Implanting Divine Power was a reward Shen Yuan received for a hidden achievement triggered by the Artificial Intelligence System during his successive slaughters in the Demons’ Realm.
He also attained the 23rd Earthly Destroyer’s Immobilization Divine Power, but its source came from the conquest of Dongling True Sky.
Gathering the nascent dream world, Shen Yuan frowned slightly and muttered to himself,
"The Dream Implanting Divine Power ranks highly among the Earthly Destroyer Divine Powers, indeed decent.
However, compared to the continual slaughter of more than thirty Demons’ Realms, the killing of nearly a hundred Void Refining Demon Emperors, and six Tao Harmony Demon Saints, such a gain seems rather inconsequential."
Shen Yuan had triggered hidden achievements by killing the Candle Dragon Sword Master and suppressing Yunmeng Dragon Palace, but only once did he trigger a hidden achievement for the thirty-plus Demons’ Realms, which was far below Shen Yuan’s expectations.
Originally planning to exploit the opportunity of clearing Demons’ Realms to acquire more Earthly Destroyer Divine Powers to prepare for the subsequent evolution of the Great Tao Manifestation, Shen Yuan now felt quite disappointed.
Contemplative, Shen Yuan combined his past experiences of triggering hidden achievements and vaguely sorted out the rules behind them.
"In the past, though the triggering of hidden achievements was simple, it was always related to information from millennia ago, which enabled me to stumble upon the Heavenly General and Earthly Destroyer Divine Powers.
Although I have slain many Demons’ Realms, most of them grew up during the Spirit Energy Tidal Surges that occurred millennia later.
Only a few Demons’ Realms with Tao Harmony Demon Saints truly inherited from a millennia ago to the present.
It was precisely in those few Demons’ Realms with several Tao Harmony Demon Saints that I triggered the hidden achievement, confirming that information related to a millennia ago is a necessary condition for triggering hidden achievements."
With his right hand on the stone table, Shen Yuan tapped the surface lightly with his forefinger, his eyes twinkling with stars as his Star Astrology Divine Power began to perform deductions.
"However, major events from millennia ago alone are not enough. There is another crucial factor behind hidden achievements, which is that the Heavenly General and Earthly Destroyer Divine Powers earned upon completion of an achievement are not obtained out of thin air.
In the world, the combined number of Heavenly General and Earthly Destroyer Divine Powers is one hundred and eight, a fixed number by the system and cannot be altered. And how many significant events linked to millennia ago are there? Not every event can trigger a hidden achievement to gain divine powers.
Moreover, once divine powers are claimed, they possess the unique property of being the only one in this world or even in all worlds, even the system cannot forcibly take them away.
From the beginning, the majority of the one hundred and eight Heavenly General-Earthly Destroyer Divine Powers were unclaimed, increasing the likelihood of me attaining them when triggering hidden achievements.
But as more and more divine powers found their masters, especially after the last journey through time and space from millennia ago, I harnessed many Earthly Destroyer Divine Power Cultivation Methods to coalesce the Great Tao Manifestation, personally acquiring nearly one-third of the Heavenly General-Earthly Destroyer Divine Powers."