Chapter 058

Chapter 58: I Deserve Your Bows

Ye Wan Wan said coldly: “Nonsense.”

Her Golden Core was here. She had to come back and take it. After speaking, the girl strode away, leaving only Shen Nan Zhou.

Dream Spirit tried to stir things up: “She just insulted you, are you not angry?”

Shen Nan Zhou frowned, asking in return: “Are you jealous that she cares about me?”

Dream Spirit fell silent: “…”

[How does that make any sense?]

Shen Nan Zhou looked around at the space locked by five Golden Cores and said in a low voice: “She left half her cultivation here.” As he spoke, he was smiling.

Dream Spirit looked blank, thinking: [Brother, are you still asleep inside that dream? She clearly wanted to trap the two of us so we would not run around making trouble. It is just a bigger cage instead of a small one.] Seeing that Shen Nan Zhou had no such awareness, Dream Spirit shut her mouth. [The aftereffects of that new dream are strong. He has not fully shaken it off. I do not even know what kind of dream that girl gave him to leave such a lasting punch.]

After stepping out of the Dream Realm, Ye Wan Wan walked into a dense forest. The soft earth under her feet and the fresh scent of grass and trees made her feel as if she had returned to the woods. She glanced up at the sky. The color was bright. There was no sun, yet there was light. She had really come out. The Dream Realm did not have a sky.

But the peaks of Cloud Mountain Cave had been leveled, and the cave dwelling was gone.

Ye Wan Wan thought to herself: [What was the treasure the Illusory Dream Elder talked about? Was it just the Dream Spirit? That does not sound like anything good.] [Somewhere, Dream Spirit grumbled: Are you looking down on spirits?]

From the ruins ahead came shouts: “If we all strike together, we can break this and wake them up!” Others answered: “Okay!” Their voices rose, followed by a huge rumbling.

Ye Wan Wan looked up. At the ruins, lights of many colors merged into one beam and shot into the sky, crashing into a gray vortex. The vortex was no longer large, only about one zhang wide, roughly three meters, and it was taking their attacks and breaking apart under the damage. The one leading them was Ji Chang Huai.

Star Marsh rode a pebble to hop onto Ye Wan Wan’s shoulder and commented: “This person does have some skill.”

They were striking the very center of the Dream Realm. Ye Wan Wan’s eyes held a hint of self mockery as she said: “Yes, he is the first disciple of Azure Cloud Peak.” Noticing her bad mood, Star Marsh did not dare make another sound.

Ye Wan Wan rode her sword and flew over. She searched their ranks for Bai Jian and the others. She found them standing outside the crowd as if everyone had pushed them away. Ye Wan Wan’s gaze sank.

Bai Jian, Fang He An, and Li Wan Zhi looked up at once and waved their arms in delight, calling out: “Senior sister!” Then they shouted even louder: “Junior sister! Over here, we are here!”

Ye Wan Wan landed and asked: “Are you three alright?”

Li Wan Zhi rushed to answer: “We are fine. Just now no one knew what was going on. It felt like we were yanked into a battlefield, and everyone started fighting. But a moment ago, we all snapped awake.”

He chuckled: “Good people are protected by fate. The three of us are all fine.” Bai Jian and Fang He An nodded and quickly asked: “And you, are you alright? Where did you go just now?”

Ye Wan Wan let out a breath. It seemed their problem had been solved. She began: “I just…”

Wang Niu spat and cut her off: “Please, you dare claim fate helped you? This is clearly Senior Brother Ji’s credit. If he had not broken the formation, we would be like those people, under someone else’s control.” He pointed at a dozen still sleeping disciples such as Li Yun. His face was gloomy, and he also looked at Ye Wan Wan without any kindness.

Ye Wan Wan studied the faces of the dozen sleeping people. Their expressions were calm, as if caught in a dream. She knew these were the unlucky ones.

Ji Chang Huai noticed Ye Wan Wan’s arrival too. He looked at her, his eyes sharp and cold, yet also a little complicated. He resented that Ye Wan Wan had trapped him in the passage, but the girl also felt strangely different to him.

Li Wan Zhi spat back loudly, even adding a real spit: “You say he broke the formation, so that makes it true? I say it was my junior sister. Do you even want your face?” He went on: “We all woke from the Dream Realm together, got tossed here together, and found the exit together. Now you tell me he is our great benefactor, our great savior. What kind of benefactor wakes up at the same time as us and looks totally fresh?” He pointed his thumb at Ye Wan Wan. “Look at my junior sister. She is covered in dust, her spiritual power is weak, and she looks like she just fought a huge battle. For all we know, she burned all her strength to shatter the Dream Realm and saved us.”

Bai Jian and Fang He An nodded hard: “Yes.”

Everyone fell silent: “…”

“You…” Wang Niu and the others could not even think of what to say.

Li Wan Zhi delivered another heavy blow: “Do not forget, my junior sister opened the third restriction of the cave dwelling. She entered Cloud Mountain Cave before your Young Master Ji did. My junior sister is the best!”

Bai Jian and Fang He An nodded again: “Yes!”

Even someone as steady as Ye Wan Wan coughed lightly, but when she met the bright, shining eyes of those two, the humble words at the tip of her tongue changed into: “Mm, I am the one who broke it.”

The crowd exploded. They thought the four were insane.

“I have seen shameless people, but never this shameless.”

“She grabs any credit she can. If it is yours, then do it now. Open the Dream Realm. Did you not say you broke it? Come on!”

“I want to see her accept that. We gathered the strength of so many people and still cannot fully break it. She is only at the Qi Refining Stage. That is a joke.”

“Wait, how did someone at the Qi Refining Stage even get in? I remember the lowest cultivation for entering the Illusory Dream Secret Realm is Foundation Establishment. How did she sneak inside?”

“She used a back door, or stole some poor disciple’s spot.”

“I hate people like that, taking up a spot and doing nothing.”

Li Wan Zhi shook with anger and rolled up his sleeves, ready to fight, but Ye Wan Wan held him back and stood in front of them. She said coldly: “If I open this thing, will you admit I am the one who broke the Dream Realm?”

Someone sneered: “Open it first if you can.”

Ye Wan Wan glanced at Ji Chang Huai and said clearly: “Spell it out. If I open it, each of you will slap your own face ten times, kneel and knock your heads three times, and call out great aunt three times while saying you were wrong. Then I will forgive you. Deal?”

They drew in sharp breaths and muttered: “What a huge ego.”

Ye Wan Wan’s sharp gaze swept over them. Wang Niu’s heart trembled, and he forgot what he meant to say.

Ye Wan Wan pressed them: “Agree or not.”

“If you do not dare agree, then apologize to my senior sister and senior brother.” She lifted her eyes and swept over every person there. Those eyes seemed to hold a kind of power. Everyone who met them felt their heart give a sudden jump. “Because I am the one who untied your dream threads. I am your lifesaving benefactor. I deserve your bows.”

Ji Chang Huai was about to speak, but Ye Wan Wan cut him off with a cold look and added: “Yours too, though I did not want to save you.”

The crowd almost choked with rage.

Fang He An thought: [My goodness, junior sister’s mouth is a weapon.] Li Wan Zhi thought with shining eyes: [I want to learn this.] Bai Jian thought with pride: [As expected of my junior sister.]