"Senior Brother Li? Senior Brother Li?"

Bai Lingmiao called softly, and in front of her, Li Huowang was staring blankly at the cold soup that had been sitting there for a while, held between his chopsticks.

"Senior Brother Li, what's wrong with you?" It wasn't until Bai Lingmiao placed her hand on his back that Li Huowang suddenly snapped out of his daze.

"It's nothing, just thinking about the dream from yesterday." Li Huowang handed the bowl and chopsticks to her.

"The bad dream? It's okay, my mother said that dreams are the opposite of reality." Bai Lingmiao walked towards the river with the bowl and chopsticks in hand.

"The opposite?" Li Huowang stared silently at Zhuge Yuan in the distance.

When he saw Bai Lingmiao coming back with the washed bowl and chopsticks, Li Huowang shook his head and stood up. "Forget it, it's just a dream after all. Perhaps daydreams and night dreams are just natural."

Just as he was about to continue walking, Li Huowang suddenly realized that someone was missing. "Miao Miao, where's Li Sui?"

"He's playing by the water a dozen feet ahead."

Li Huowang shook his head helplessly. "He's no different from a little child." He lifted his foot and walked along the river to find him.

When he saw Li Sui's large raincoat, he didn't see him playing in the water.

At this moment, Li Sui was crouched by the river like a dog, watching the jumping fish.

"You caught the fish, why don't you eat them all?" Li Huowang asked as he approached.

"I ate my portion, this is Twin Soul's portion. I'm waiting for her." Li Sui's words made Li Huowang's hand, which was reaching out to pat her head, slowly retract.

Li Huowang looked at Li Sui with a complicated expression. Had she still not realized that Twin Soul had disappeared?

Suddenly, there was a rustling in the bushes to the left, and Li Sui abruptly straightened his thin body. But when a gray wild rabbit darted out from inside, he hung his head dejectedly, resting it on his crossed forelimbs.

"Li Sui, stop waiting. Twin Soul has left and won't be coming back."

For the first time, Li Sui didn't believe Li Huowang's words. "Twin Soul will definitely come back, she told me so."

"Li Sui!"

Li Huowang's reprimand made a look of grievance appear on Li Sui's face. "Why won't you let me wait for Twin Soul? She promised she would come back."

Li Huowang sighed deeply, reached out and embraced her as she lay on the ground, running his hand over the tentacles wriggling on her back. "It's all over, we need to look forward."

Just as he said that, Li Huowang felt a familiar chewing sound coming from behind him.

"Twin Soul!" Li Sui broke free from Li Huowang's embrace and rushed excitedly ahead. "I knew you would come back!"

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When Li Huowang turned around, he was shocked to see Twin Soul with a red veil continuously picking up the jumping fish and stuffing them into the red veil.

"This... this can't be possible! This is impossible!" Li Huowang rushed over and lifted the red veil off Twin Soul.

"Ah!" Li Huowang was suddenly awakened by the sight inside, and he sat up in the carriage, drenched in cold sweat, panting heavily.

Bai Lingmiao took out a white handkerchief and gently wiped the cold sweat from Li Huowang's forehead. "Senior Brother Li, it seems like you've been having bad dreams these past few days."

Li Huowang didn't respond immediately. He looked at her with unfamiliarity, then looked around at his surroundings with the same unfamiliarity.

He immediately took out a dagger from the hem of his clothes and plunged it into his left forearm.

The piercing pain made Li Huowang let out a trembling breath. That was just a dream, it wasn't real.

"Ah! Senior Brother Li, what are you doing!" Bai Lingmiao quickly knelt down and fumbled with the needle and thread to stitch up the wound.

"It's nothing, I'm fine. I just need to... wake up!" Li Huowang said as he slowly twisted the hand holding the dagger to the left.

"Senior Brother Li, why don't you stop practicing day and night like this, it's not urgent anyway."

"No! I only have two years, I must make every second count! And I feel like this has nothing to do with cultivation! I just feel like something is off about this dream!"

As Li Huowang said this, his expression became serious. "Could it be Dice? I never see anyone else, and he sees no crack in reality, so he simply sends dreams to deceive me?"

This might be a speculation, but Li Huowang had to be cautious. When facing Dice, it was never too much to be vigilant.

"Miao Miao, Li Sui, have you had any dreams these past few days?" Li Huowang asked the two who were with him.

"Senior Brother Li, I haven't."

"Dad, what's a dream?"

This made Li Huowang breathe a sigh of relief. At least this situation only appeared with him and didn't affect them.

Li Huowang pulled back the curtain and shouted loudly into the misty forest in the rain. "Dice! Stop playing around! I can't help you with this! Go find someone else!!"

The shouting pierced through the forest, but apart from startling a few birds, there was no other movement.

Li Huowang coldly closed the carriage curtain and said to Bai Lingmiao, who was still tending to his wound, "Let's not go any further. Let's find a place to settle down. We'll wait for a year or so before we go back. We'll continue to confront him!"

The carriage no longer aimlessly wandered on the road, but moved towards the distant mountains.

When they arrived at the foot of the mountain, Li Huowang found a sturdy rock wall and began to pick up the spine sword.

The hard rock from the Great Qi was sent over in a square shape, and in no time, a clean and tidy cave appeared in front of Li Huowang.

As the carriage sealed the entrance like a gate, the inside of the cave immediately quieted down.

A bonfire rose, and the orange firelight illuminated the rock wall, making the whole space much warmer.

After roasting the fragrant buns for dinner, it was time for Li Huowang to cultivate again.

He wasn't afraid that Dice would dare to do something while he was practicing. The mental state in cultivation, even he himself didn't dare to approach it.

Li Huowang stood guard at the entrance of the cave like a door god, sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed. With a deep breath, he used the "divine light" from his eyes to manipulate the innate qi in his body, moving it towards the second chakra among the seven chakras.Li Huowang gradually entered a world of self-forgetfulness, where he forgot the rain, forgot the Dice, forgot everything. In his mind, only two slowly approaching entities remained.

One was the ineffable, wrapped primordial qi, and the other was his own empty dantian.

Thus, Li Huowang cultivated in oblivion, unaware of the passage of time, until suddenly the primordial qi, as if attracted by something, began to move faster and faster.

When the primordial qi collided heavily with the dantian, it swiftly skimmed over it and eventually began to orbit the dantian at a leisurely pace.

A pale yellow light gradually seeped from the primordial qi into the dantian, and six petals of the same colored lotus began to appear and disappear around it.