Pillowside Tales: Cultivating the Spirit Through Lucid Dreams

Name: Pillowside Tales: Cultivating the Spirit Through Lucid Dreams
Author: Yu Yu Loves to Dream

枕中奇妙物语：从清明梦开始修灵

by Yu Yu Loves to Dream (余鱼爱做梦)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 198k Words
Genre: Suspense Mystery
Subgenre: Wondrous World
Updated: 8mo ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

In the real world, Xu Xiaoxiao is an ordinary wage slave working in Japan. One day, a chatty blue fish called Ren-chan yanks her into the spirit world in a dream, launching her into a fantastic life of cultivating spiritual power while she sleeps!

She works by day and cultivates by night. Under Ren-chan’s “guidance,” Xu Xiaoxiao gradually awakens her spiritual powers, unlocks the body’s seven magnetic fields, and masters a whole range of spirit-world skills, including astral projection, spirit-beast summoning, and healing injuries.

In her dreams, she fights alongside a kappa squad, brews medicine, tackles dungeons, and takes on trials. She matches wits with monsters and spirit beasts from China and Japan, with no shortage of laughs. In the real world, she helps friends drive away evil spirits and heads out to explore the spirit world with a group. As her abilities grow, she gradually sees where fate is leading her and reconsiders her choices.

When her cultivation reaches its end and she faces the ultimate choice of “ascending as a soul,” she doesn’t leave. Instead, she stays behind, carves out a place to call home in the spirit world, builds a “village of spirits” to shelter lost souls, and becomes its village chief herself.

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