"Awake?" Little Grass's voice suddenly sounded beside Xiao Heng's ear.
"Mm!" Xiao Heng replied.
"How do you feel?" Little Grass asked again.
Still somewhat unaccustomed to it, Xiao Heng tapped his head and said, "My head hurts a little. I seem to have forgotten those things too."
"Of course!" Little Grass sneered and said matter-of-factly, "What you experienced during that time was really no different from a series of dreams. It felt real in the dream, but dreams and reality are still disconnected. Besides, it was such a long dream—it's normal to forget it. As long as you haven't forgotten the most important things, that's enough!"
"So, can you break through to Dou Sheng now?"
"I can!" Xiao Heng nodded. After thinking for a moment, he continued, "I can break through immediately. More precisely, I've already broken through, but I still need some time for my cultivation realm to catch up."
"That's good!" Little Grass nodded in satisfaction. "Then hurry up and break through! Once you become a Dou Sheng, you won't be such a weakling in this world anymore. And besides... forget it. Break through first! I'm going fishing."
As his words fell, Little Grass's voice disappeared from Xiao Heng's mind. Xiao Heng slowly exhaled a breath of stale air and sat quietly. His head still hurt a little, but it recovered quickly. Some images flashed through his mind before being forgotten again. Gradually, as Xiao Heng adjusted his condition, his cultivation realm began to rise naturally.
Everything went so smoothly, as naturally as eating and drinking, like assembling a puzzle when he already knew exactly how to put it together. He only had to proceed step by step, and then it was complete.
There was no great upheaval. After some time had passed, the final piece of the