Qi Zhiheng had just woken up from the world created by the Enlightenment Tree when he inquired about Erbao's arrival.
Erbao had no idea what Qi Zhiheng meant: "I fell asleep and woke up here."
"You woke up while asleep? Did you have any dreams?" Qi Zhiheng asked.
Erbao thought for a moment and said, "Yes, I had a dream."
"What did you dream about?"
Erbao thought about his dream and immediately became quite happy: "I dreamt that I was a chivalrous hero in the cultivation world, killing everyone in my path! Everyone treated me with utmost respect, and I even received lots and lots of spirit stones!"
Qi Zhiheng: "..." As expected, it's a waste for children to enter the Enlightenment Tree; they can only play around with it.
"Father, I gained many followers in my dream, but they were all gone when I woke up." Erbao said, still feeling a little regretful, as those followers had contributed a lot of spirit stones to him.
Qi Zhiheng asked, "How did you wake up?"
"Just take a nap." Erbao touched his forehead, feeling that his father's question was a bit strange.
Qi Zhiheng probed indirectly, "Is there anything related to talismans?"
"Why would there be talismans in a dream?" Erbao thought his father was really stupid. "Of course you'd play in a dream, who would bother drawing talismans? Besides, I have a lot of spirit stones in my dream, I don't need to draw talismans to exchange for them."
Qi Zhiheng: "..." Sure enough, how could a child possibly understand anything? I was really overthinking it.
The two, one big and one small, searched for the others under the Enlightenment Tree. The child was the easiest to find, and Qi Zhiheng quickly spotted Da Bao, who was also awake. Together, they found several other members of the Qi family, but apart from a few children, everyone else was still asleep.
Even Sanbao hasn't woken up yet.
Qi Zhiheng circled around Sanbao and asked, "Could it be that Sanbao has actually come to some kind of enlightenment? Otherwise, why would he have stayed here for so long?"
Putting aside their doubts, they first went to confirm the locations of the Qi family members.
The Qi family members are too scattered to leave together all at once, and they cannot cultivate in this place either. Qi Zhiheng has already decided to take a few children out first.
Thinking that Sanbao might not know how to get out, Qi Zhiheng decided to wait for Sanbao before going out together.
However, Yang Yitian was the first to wake up.
Qi Zhiheng went up to inquire about the situation and learned that not everyone had seen the same scene. The previous children naturally couldn't explain what had happened, but Yang Yitian's experience was much clearer.
In Yang Yitian's world, he possesses spiritual power, but in his dream, he seems to be mistaken for someone else.
Qi Zhiheng asked, "What kind of person were you mistaken for?"
Yang Yitian said, "I don't know my name. I only know that everyone calls me Hanqing Immortal Lord. The world I live in seems to be the Immortal Realm. The weeds by the roadside are rare spiritual herbs in the cultivation world! It's such a pity. I wish I could bring them out with me."
Qi Zhiheng almost laughed. He could guess what Yang Yitian had done in which world in a flash: "Did you also go around pulling weeds?"
Yang Yitian blushed: "It's not that exaggerated. I just pulled a tiny bit out of there, not everywhere." He would never admit that after pulling out all the weeds in his yard, he also pulled out the weeds in his subordinates' yards. This action of his was astonishing, and many of his fellow cultivators in the immortal realm jokingly called him the Weed-Pulling Immortal Lord!
Seeing his somewhat evasive expression, Qi Zhiheng thought it would be a miracle if he believed him: "What have you figured out?"
Yang Yitian spoke of this with great pride: "In the cultivation world, I could turn the world upside down with a flick of my wrist, and I could master all kinds of spells with ease. I still remember how to cast those spells. Tsk tsk, that feeling was absolutely amazing!"
These words made Qi Zhiheng extremely envious. He himself had become an ordinary person, and if he wanted to comprehend anything, he would have to risk his life. Although he had grasped some of the rules of the Dao, he did not fully understand them. If he wanted to know whether he could use those spells after he came out, he would have to go out and try them out.
Yang Yitian said, "There are many people in the world I don't know, but when I meet them, it's as if I know them all."
Qi Zhiheng thought back and realized that he knew all the people in that world. However, some of them had become very blurry in his memory after going through a lifetime and all these years. He no longer cared about these fleeting passersby, which is why he was in such a situation. He knew that he knew some people, but he had forgotten their names.
After waiting for a while, Sanbao woke up, and Qi Zhiheng took him out first.
After playing there for free for a while, Erbao lost interest, and the group of them floated to the surface of the lake together.
After going up, Qi Zhiheng released his flying spirit boat, and after going up himself, he pulled everyone up with him.
After flying for half a day, they returned to shore.
By this time, there were already some people on the shore, and these were the people who woke up relatively quickly.
At this moment, two disciples from the Slaughtering God Sect came forward to speak with him. One of them said, "Junior Brother Qi, you're dead too?"
Qi Zhiheng didn't understand what they meant at first. After talking with the two disciples of the Slaughter God Sect, he learned that they had died in the world and returned after death.
Qi Zhiheng looked at the people around him and said, "Did they all come out after they died?"
"That's hard to say. Perhaps someone has already attained enlightenment and has come out," the taller of the two replied.
"I wonder how much time has passed now." Qi Zhiheng was genuinely curious about this.
The tall man shook his head and said, "I don't know, we'll only know once we go out."
Time inside the Enlightenment Tree is different from that outside; it's possible that a lifetime can pass inside while only a few days pass outside.
After resting by the lake for a while, the two disciples went to explore the secret realm. Qi Zhiheng knew that there was nothing good in the secret realm, so he stayed by the lake to wait for the others to come ashore.
According to the information obtained, those who stay inside for a long time either truly gain some understanding, or they waste their lives inside.
Some people are truly gaining insight, while others are just wasting their remaining years in it.
You can come out once you have comprehended the Great Dao or died inside it.
Qi Zhiheng has finally found a breakthrough opportunity.
He asked Yang Yitian to help look after the child while he sat down to meditate, focusing his inner vision on his own golden core.
Then, he tried to expand the area under his control. At first, it was a bit difficult to expand the area. The restrictions outside seemed to be greater than those in the Enlightenment Tree world. Qi Zhiheng originally thought this was a kind of magic, but it seems there are still some differences. It is impossible for the area to be expanded when he cannot use spiritual power to be more difficult than when he has recovered his spiritual power. So what exactly is limiting his ability?
He tried several more times and finally felt that he had managed to open up a certain area. He picked up a dry twig and imagined it sprouting. Then, just as he had imagined, the twig began to sprout.
After he withdrew the area he had extended, the leaves on the withered branch quickly withered again.
This ability might seem useless, but Qi Zhiheng knew it was unique to him. He picked up a stone, intending to turn it to dust. And just then, under his gaze, it shattered into a pile of powder. Once he withdrew the area he had created, the shattered stone wouldn't return to its original state.
He then expanded the area, trying to make the powder condense back into stone. So, under his gaze, the powder returned to its source and became a stone again.
Although Qi Zhiheng had mastered this ability, he still didn't understand its underlying principles. He wanted to ask the Moon Beast and Sun Beast, hoping that they might have seen this ability in their heritage and could offer him some guidance.
However, there are too many people around right now, so we'll have to wait until we leave the secret realm to discuss anything further.
Yang Yitian also tried the spells in the Enlightenment Tree, but the results were equally unsatisfactory. The reason was simple: he mostly used very powerful spells in that world, but his current cultivation level was not enough to support the casting of a spell. Therefore, with his current cultivation level, the spells he could use would drain all his spiritual power after just one use!
Yang Yitian had just cast a spell on a small, desolate mountain peak, freezing the entire peak into an iceberg, while he himself was reduced to a lifeless pile.
Qi Zhiheng didn't continue testing his abilities and simply held Yang Yitian in his arms.
Sanbao walked to the small hill that Yang Yitian had just frozen into. Qi Zhiheng was about to remind him to be careful when he saw Sanbao punch the small barren hill hard.
The crack spread outwards from Erbao's fist, and then the ice covering the entire mountain cracked and broke apart.
Sanbao slipped away as soon as the crack appeared, withdrew his little fist, and ran back to Qi Zhiheng's side.
Under their watchful eyes, the iceberg collapsed, with more than half of it crumbling away.
Yang Yitian's eyes widened! No! How could he feel that his son's strength was even greater than his own?
Qi Zhiheng was also very surprised: "Sanbao, come here quickly, let me see your fist."
Sanbao handed over his fist, and Qi Zhiheng examined it. There was only some redness at the knuckles, and the skin wasn't even broken!
He checked Sanbao's meridians again and confirmed that they were not damaged before he felt relieved.
Qi Zhiheng recalled that Sanbao had been asleep for quite a long time, and must have obtained some opportunities inside.
Erbao spent several years inside and woke up to find himself back. Dabao spent over a year inside and was beaten to death...
As for Sanbao, before Qi Zhiheng could even ask him anything, Sanbao woke up and Qi Zhiheng came out with his men. At this point, Qi Zhiheng became curious about what Sanbao had gone through.
Qi Zhiheng looked at Sanbao and noticed that Sanbao looked much more mature. He patted Sanbao's head and imagined how much suffering his son had endured in the Enlightenment Tree world.
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