The building blocks

The Eternal Duality Valley entered a period of heightened activity, as all training areas and fields were filled with people honing their skills.

Wu Long's Dao Family, Frozen Garden Palace, as well as select people from Wu Long's subordinates like Butler Bang and General Feng mainly trained within Fen Baihu's Dream Realm.

The trick was that much like a dream, anyone who went inside this realm lost their perception of what was real.

The sequence of events leading up to the current time, as well as any questioning of the current reality, was lost as the events happening to them became prevalent in their minds.

That happened even if one consciously tried to keep track of entering an illusion.

Thus any danger, any battle within it, felt completely real, raising the stakes high and keeping the tension throughout.

All the attacks of the enemies carried real weight and danger, and thus felt incredibly genuine.