Although Xiao Jinr's words were incredibly bizarre, Gu Qingfeng did not doubt them. He knew and believed that Xiao Jinr would not lie to him, let alone deceive him. However, the existence of that 'Sister Dream' truly left him feeling incredulous. From Xiao Jinr's fragmented descriptions, it seemed this Sister Dream understood him even better than he understood himself. Gu Qingfeng racked his brains but couldn't figure out what kind of existence she could be.
"Big Brother is saying goodbye to Jin'er today because... because Big Brother knows he could face a tribulation at any moment, right?" Xiao Jinr's voice came again. Gu Qingfeng was at a loss for words. After a stunned moment, he cautiously inquired, "Jin'er, the tribulation you mentioned is..."
"Big Brother has many... many... countless terrifying existences on him... These existences make... make Old Heaven very... very wary... They... won't let Big Brother off easily."
Countless terrifying existences?
And a tribulation?
Old Heaven is wary?
Gu Qingfeng instantly thought of his body full of Taiji Golden Cores.
What in the world was the origin of that Sister Dream? How could she know about his Taiji Golden Cores so clearly? This wasn't just bizarre; it was... it was simply omniscient!
If Xiao Jinr's earlier words had made Gu Qingfeng feel something was off, then at this moment, he felt a chill run down his spine.
Who could that Sister Dream be?
Thinking carefully, aside from himself, the only one who knew about his Taiji Golden Cores was the old monk residing within the Nirvana Bone Jade. Old Heaven and the Three Thousand Great Daos might also know. As for others, it should be very difficult for them to detect. Gu Qingfeng's Taiji Golden Cores were all hidden within the various acupoints throughout his body. He was confident that his condition couldn't be probed by ordinary people.
But...
Gu Qingfeng raised his cup to drink, frowning in deep thought.
Beside him, Su Hua, Qian Shan, and the others also wore expressions of confusion and bewilderment, because they couldn't understand what Xiao Jinr meant. What tribulation? What countless terrifying existences? And making Old Heaven wary?
Su Hua's first thought also went to the Taiji Golden Cores.
However, she knew that Gu Qingfeng had personally destroyed one when he achieved his Taiji Golden Core. Now, after dying and reviving, his body showed no spiritual aura of any Taiji Golden Core.
And 'countless terrifying existences'—what did that mean? Could it be that Gu Qingfeng hadn't achieved just one or two Taiji Golden Cores, but an infinite number?
Was that even possible?
That was, after all, the Taiji Golden Core, which carried the mandate of the True Fate and qualified one to contend for the title of Human King. It wasn't some candy bean. No one had achieved it for millions of years. For Gu Qingfeng to achieve two was already stealing the work of heaven, rare since ancient times. How could he possibly possess an endless number?
No one could achieve that many Taiji Golden Cores.
Absolutely no one!
Not even a reincarnated deity could.
This was literally hundreds of millions of times harder to believe than Gu Qingfeng turning to dust and then reviving from death.
Su Hua would never believe such nonsense, even if beaten to death.
Was that Sister Dream exaggerating, or was it true?
If such a thing were true, and it wasn't Taiji Golden Cores, then what could it be?
Fortune?
Infinite Fortune?
And it even threatened Old Heaven?
That didn't make sense either!
Turning it over and over in her mind, Su Hua felt more and more that something was wrong. She tried to ask Xiao Jinr, hoping to find out what exactly was being referred to. Unfortunately, Xiao Jinr only knew that Gu Qingfeng had terrifying things on him that made Old Heaven wary, and that he would soon face a tribulation...
As for what those terrifying things were, why they made Old Heaven wary, and what kind of tribulation it was, Xiao Jinr did not know.
"Big Brother, Jin'er isn't saying these things to stop or persuade you. Jin'er is just worried about Big Brother..." Xiao Jinr seemed very reluctant to part with Gu Qingfeng. She walked over and buried her head in Gu Qingfeng's embrace, saying, "Big Brother, once you leave this time, Jin'er doesn't know when she'll see Big Brother again. Big Brother, today... can you stay with Jin'er a little longer? Wait... wait until Jin'er falls asleep before you leave, okay?"
"Silly girl..." Gu Qingfeng hugged Xiao Jinr, gently stroking her hair, but his mind kept turning over the matter of that Sister Dream. He pondered waiting until night when Xiao Jinr fell asleep, then entering her Dream Realm to investigate thoroughly.
The day passed rather slowly. Gu Qingfeng stayed with Xiao Jinr the entire time.
A day passed, and it wasn't until deep into the night that Xiao Jinr finally fell asleep.
Seizing this opportunity, Gu Qingfeng tried to enter Xiao Jinr's Dream Realm.
Entering dreams was a type of spiritual technique. This technique wasn't particularly profound; anyone with a bit of spiritual skill could enter dreams easily. The difficulty lay in doing so without being detected by the other party. Entering an ordinary person's dream was easy, but entering the dream of someone with powerful spiritual strength was much more difficult. Moreover, if discovered and the other party also knew spiritual techniques, they could trap your consciousness within the dream, which would be a huge problem.
Gu Qingfeng employed his methods, slipping silently into her Dream Realm after Xiao Jinr fell asleep.
Gu Qingfeng had entered others' dreams before.
The existence of dreams was like a spiritual world. Whatever the dream, such a spiritual world would appear. If the heart harbored lustful thoughts, the dream would inevitably be filled with depravity. If the heart held righteous energy, the dream would also be filled with vast, enduring righteous energy. As the saying goes, thoughts by day become dreams by night. Dreams filled with beauties, dreams filled with disasters, dreams filled with fine wine—Gu Qingfeng had seen them all.
But a Dream Realm like Xiao Jinr's, Gu Qingfeng was seeing for the first time.
Xiao Jinr's Dream Realm had nothing in it.
It was truly empty.
There was no heaven or earth, no sun or moon, no mountains or rivers, and no living beings of any kind. There wasn't even light or darkness.
At least, when Gu Qingfeng entered Xiao Jinr's Dream Realm, he couldn't sense anything.
No!
To be precise, he sensed a wisp of spiritual consciousness.
And this wisp of spiritual consciousness belonged to Su Hua.
Clearly, she had also entered Xiao Jinr's Dream Realm.
However, Gu Qingfeng had hidden his own spiritual consciousness very deeply, so Su Hua hadn't detected him.
And at this moment, he didn't have the leisure to tease Su Hua. He continued probing Xiao Jinr's Dream Realm.
He still found nothing.
Was this a dream?
Yes.
Gu Qingfeng was certain this was Xiao Jinr's Dream Realm, but why was it such a strange dream?
And what puzzled Gu Qingfeng even more was that there was no sign of Xiao Jinr herself within the dream.
Typically, the dreamer themselves would be present within their own dream. Otherwise, it couldn't really be called a dream.
But where was Xiao Jinr?
Gu Qingfeng continued his investigation. Suddenly, a voice came: "Is that Elder Sister Su Hua?"
It was Xiao Jinr's voice.
And this voice seemed to come from all directions. What was even stranger was that Gu Qingfeng still couldn't find Xiao Jinr's figure.