"Jin'er?"
Su Hua's heart held far more astonishment than Gu Qingfeng's. She didn't know why Xiao Jinr's dream realm was completely empty, nor did she know where the little Jin'er who was calling her was at this moment.
"Jin'er, where are you?"
"Hehe...
Elder Sister Su Hua, I'm right here."
In an instant, a figure flashed into existence—a lovely, well-behaved young maiden. Who else could it be but Xiao Jinr?
"Elder Sister Su Hua, aren't you resting?"
Resting?
Could it be that Jin'er knew she had intruded into her dream?
Just as Su Hua was puzzling over this, Xiao Jinr giggled, "Hehe, Elder Sister Su Hua, Jin'er knew the moment you came in."
This truly shocked Su Hua. She had thought Xiao Jinr would believe she was dreaming of her, never expecting the girl had actually detected her presence. Typically, the person dreaming wouldn't know they were in a dream, even those with powerful spiritual strength were no exception. Although Xiao Jinr's existence was unusual, the fact that she had sensed Su Hua instantly left Su Hua somewhat baffled.
"Well...
Jin'er, I'm sorry for entering your dream without asking first. You won't blame your elder sister, will you?"
"How could I blame you? I'm more than happy to have you! Elder Sister Su Hua wants to see Elder Sister Dream, right?"
"Well...
Yes!"
"Ah...
But Elder Sister Dream never meets outsiders, and...
Elder Sister Dream isn't here today. How about I ask her for you when I see her another day?"
Su Hua nodded, then asked, "Jin'er, is this your dream?"
"Yes, yes!
Why do you ask?"
This was the first time Su Hua had encountered such a strange dream. She continued, "Jin'er, are you always clearly aware that you're dreaming?"
"Doesn't Elder Sister Su Hua know she's dreaming when she dreams?"
Xiao Jinr's counter-question left Su Hua at a loss for how to respond. Suppressing the myriad doubts in her heart, she asked, "Then what does Jin'er usually do in her dreams?"
Su Hua truly couldn't imagine why Xiao Jinr possessed such a bizarre dream realm, nor could she fathom what the little girl could possibly do in this utterly empty dream.
"When Elder Sister Dream is here, I chat with her. If Elder Sister Dream isn't here, I play by myself."
"Then...
what do you play by yourself?"
"I paint!"
"Paint?"
"Mhm, mhm!"
As she spoke, Xiao Jinr smiled. "If Jin'er wants to see Grandpa Sun, she just paints a Grandpa Sun."
With a wave of her hand, a sun instantly appeared in the sky.
It was truly a sun!
It felt incredibly real.
So real it seemed unlike a dream. Su Hua even noticed that when the sun appeared, not only was the dream realm illuminated, but the temperature also rose noticeably.
"If Jin'er wants to see Grandma Moon, she just paints a Grandma Moon."
Xiao Jinr waved her hand again, and a bright moon hung in the sky.
"Jin'er loves nature, loves towering mountains, loves magnificent rivers and mountains, loves flowers and plants even more, loves little birds even more..." Whoosh!
Towering mountains rose from the ground one after another, magnificent rivers and mountains flashed into wondrous existence, vast stretches of verdant forests, clusters of vibrant flowers, flocks of nimble little birds...
Everything appeared before their eyes in the blink of an eye, breathtakingly beautiful, dreamlike and illusory, leaving Su Hua dumbstruck and her mind profoundly shaken.
Creating everything within a dream might be a marvel to others.
But for Su Hua, it wasn't particularly difficult.
At the very least, she could do it too.
She could also act like a creator god in her own dream, fashioning everything.
What truly left her dumbfounded and utterly shaken was this sense of reality.
Every towering mountain, every magnificent river and mountain, even every forest, every flower brimmed with vitality. Even the lives of the birds and beasts felt so real, so real that Su Hua couldn't distinguish whether this was an illusory dream or a genuine, vast World.
Not only was she unable to tell.
Even Gu Qingfeng, hidden in the shadows here, was somewhat unable to distinguish.
Similarly.
Creating such things in a dream wasn't particularly strange to Gu Qingfeng either. But for Xiao Jinr to create everything not only brimming with vitality but also with such realistic life—this forced Gu Qingfeng to marvel in admiration and broadened his horizons.
Was this really just a dream?
Gu Qingfeng asked himself inwardly.
He somewhat doubted this was a dream.
But if it wasn't a dream, what could it be?
A secret realm?
An illusion realm?
A minor World?
A major World?
Or some peculiar spatial dimension?
No!
None of those.
Gu Qingfeng was certain that Xiao Jinr's dream realm here was neither a secret realm nor an illusion realm, nor was it any minor or major World, nor any peculiar spatial ruin.
As for what it actually was, Gu Qingfeng truly couldn't figure it out.
He had always known Xiao Jinr's existence was extraordinary, but he hadn't expected it to be this unbelievably bizarre.
Of course.
Not understanding was one thing, finding it unbelievable was another.
After investigating, Gu Qingfeng discovered that Xiao Jinr completely controlled this place, so he didn't dwell on it too much, figuring it was probably some kind of Fortune unique to Xiao Jinr.
The Fortunes between heaven and earth numbered in the billions, countless and endless.
Each person's karma differed, and thus their Fortune differed.
As for Xiao Jinr's peculiar and bizarre dream realm, Gu Qingfeng was no stranger to such things. In his five hundred years of cultivation, he had encountered countless strange and bizarre Fortunes along the way, all sorts of mysterious unknowns, all sorts of oddities—he was long accustomed to them.
Since beginning his cultivation, he had successively ascended to the peerless Immortal Monster King throne, then to the Nine Nethers Emperor's seal, and even dealt with the Three Thousand Great Daos. What struck him deepest was that between heaven and earth, there existed far too many mysterious, unknown, and bizarre existences. And when encountering such existences, the greatest taboo was to investigate them thoroughly.
Gu Qingfeng had suffered many losses from this in the past. Now he had learned his lesson. For such mysterious, unknown Fortunes, no matter how curious he was, he should not probe to the bottom.
This time, entering Xiao Jinr's dream realm was originally to meet that all-knowing, mysterious Elder Sister Dream. Since Elder Sister Dream wasn't here, Gu Qingfeng prepared to leave.
But just then, Xiao Jinr's voice suddenly came through.
"Big Brother, you...
are leaving, right?"
Hearing this, Gu Qingfeng's heart skipped a beat. Seeing earlier that Xiao Jinr could create everything in her dream, he had doubted whether his wisp of spiritual consciousness could escape her notice. After all, if Xiao Jinr could create everything in her dream, that meant she could completely control her dream realm. In other words, she knew everything within her dream realm clearly.
Now it seemed this was indeed the case.
"Big Brother, Jin'er, is Gu Qingfeng also in your dream?"
Su Hua looked utterly astonished, because within Xiao Jinr's dream realm, she had discovered nothing. Could Gu Qingfeng really be here too?
Just as she was wondering, a figure slowly materialized, formed from a wisp of Gu Qingfeng's spiritual intent.