Reverend Insanity’s Formation Venerable

Author's Question: To get around the ban, why doesn't Gu Zhen Ren just create a fanfic under a different name and email, some place like scribblehub, or royal road and use patreon to get money from fans. People would just think that he's a talented fan.

Wei Ru had been trekking across the desert along with Wei Su, although he looked fine, he was mentally fatigued, the instant he saw that oasis, what he was searching for akin to searching for a needle in a haystack, it caused his mind to relax, he had fainted.

As he fainted, Wei Su, in shock began to chirp rapidly, landing on Wei Ru's back and resting. 

While that was happening, Wei Ru was seeing an absolutely different sensation, "Dream Path?"

He saw giant yellow to the point of golden balls in the middle of the desert, dotted around like grave marks. 

"Could it be, I'm destined to be the Great Dream Venerable? Isn't the Dream Venerable Feng Jin Huang?"

Curiosity was a powerful emotion, human society was built up on the curiosity which lead to gradual advancement. 

Wei Ru, knowing the dangers that dream realms possessed to souls still approached. He entered one that was about the size of a small house, it completely enveloped him. 

"Master, master, the Demon Bandits are here, quickly use our formation prowess." A young man with a slightly handsome face panicked and shouted when he saw me wake up.

"What's the situation?" This was Wei Ru's first time in a Dream Realm, however, reading Reverend Insanity, he had some insights. 

"Master, the time you were fainted, the formation house you created with the ability to enter phantom had it's gu completely starve and died. We are now in the middle of a desert, the bandits are encroaching." The young man again spoke with fervent madness.

Wei Ru nodded, although this was his first time in a dream realm, he had formation path knowledge. 

"Let me see the all the replacement gu." The young man quickly brought out all the replacement gu and Wei Ru, using his knowledge managed to find the right one.

*Shoom

The mortal gu house vanished. The Demon Bandits in their Sand horse, the most common horse around these areas, were stunned, the leader of the bandits used his rank 3 tracking gu to find where they might be.

The gu managed to find the right position and all the bandits started attacking. 

The young man started screaming again. Wei Ru started thinking, "these bandits are truly formidable," he looked again at the replacement gu worms, "what if, instead of this being a phantom gu house, I change it to also help in attack, after all, gu houses are the peak of defense and offence and 1 special ability."

He rapidly started to think while the bombardment was still happening, he found a crucial gu worm in the gu house and took it out, then he put in a gu worm that looked like a mosquito, "this is one of the best attack gu worms I recognize, this must be a realistic dream realm."

He kept on replacing other gu worms until the gu house changed.

The bandits looked in confusion, "leader, what's happening?" 

The leader looked forward with keen eyes, he had a hardened body from all the battles he faced, "we were originally out of supplies, then we found this gu house, I thought that by attacking it we could pierce through it and get their supplies, although there are many flaws, it's the best we can do." The leader shook his head, being a bandit wasn't easy.

He suddenly noticed something, he felt like he was being attacked, "hmm, what's this, why is the sand shooting bullets at high speeds towards us, wasn't the special ability of that gu house the phantom invisibility?"

The bandits were already out of many supplies, they were dehydrated, and weakened, however this gu house was their hope, yet, even this hope was shattered. Their overused gu worms started to explode, the leader seeing the situation fled before everyone else, the Demon Bandits would be no more, the sand was filled with blood as the dream realm contracted and Wei Su was let out. 

"I seem to have gained peak master attainment in formation path, however, the blue luster around my soul is completely gone, it seems that this can't be done frequently," he nodded at this, if this could be done frequently, wouldn't he be the complete incarnation of Great Dream Venerable. 

He looked back at his body, he hadn't the slightest idea why his soul exited his body but he made a guess that it was due to the dream realm. "Whatever, I can't faint like this anymore, I will have to buy some soul path gu worms, and some gu to strengthen my body, he also felt a bit sad seeing Wei Su chirping frantically before putting his head near Wei Ru's heart to feel it beat. 

Wei Ru entered back to his body and started thinking again, "those dream realms where either the size of a small house or smaller, it seems that they can at most grant me master level attainment in any path, maybe this is the limit allowed by this special ability, it's not like I can find an immortal gravesite.

He looked at Wei Su, drank some gulps of water, readied himself, and walked towards the Oasis city.