Chapter 1238: Taoist of Sleep
The Taoist of Sleep hailed from the True Martial Sect of the Three Temples of Dao. Specifically, he inherited his skills from the Jade Leisure Mountain of True Martial Sect.
His main cultivation art was called the “Hidden Dragon Art of Sleep and Dreams”. A powerful Sage-stage martial art, it taught its practitioners to practice by sleeping and slay their enemies by dreaming. It taught them how to remain in a half-asleep, half-awake state at all times.
The Taoist of Sleep had been practicing the “Hidden Dragon Art of Sleep and Dreams” since he was a child. He was the type to lie low until it was time to enter the limelight and astound the audience. Once, he slept for three decades under a pine tree. When he awoke, he broke three stages in one go and became a Trueman, shocking the entire world.
The sect master of the True Martial Sect once said this:
“He lies under a pine tree when he sleeps.
He stands above the clouds when he awakens.
He slumbers as a nobody for ten years.
He awakens as a star now and forever more.”
Unfortunately, despite his extraordinary talent and Taoist background, the Taoist of Sleep believed in the poor becoming poorer, and the rich becoming richer. A selfish man who would do anything to achieve his goals, he once unleashed his dream Magia and plunged a commandery with tens of thousands people into an eternal slumber for practice. It was the crime that saw him exiled from the True Martial Sect.
However, the Taoist of Sleep did not repent despite his exile. On the contrary, he became even less scrupulous than before. He often chose innocent people as the targets of his practice, planting countless dream seeds to steal their minds and generally wreaking all sorts of havoc. Such was his crimes that both the orthodox and the unorthodox sought to hunt him down.
Unfortunately, their efforts did not just end in failure, it resulted in many losses as well. The problem was that the Taois of Sleep’s “Hidden Dragon Art of Sleep and Dreams” was too anomalous and unknown. If someone fell asleep, the Taoist of Sleep would be able to enter their dreams and spy on their thoughts and memories without a trace. He could also plant a dream seed to take control of them or kill them outright.