"It's a long story. Yao Long answered the Buddhist sect's summons and left some time ago. I kept trying to recover, but there wasn't the slightest hope of getting better. In the end, I cast a divination for myself and discovered that my fate had changed. I was destined to face a great calamity of life and death. At first, I wanted to avoid it, but being half-dead and half-alive was pretty uncomfortable too, so I decided to leave it to fate and stop worrying about it. But guess what? Our master entered my dreams. Not only did he give me pointers, he also taught me a great many things. The strange thing was that he kept coming for several days in a row. The old man's gotten much more playful—he really hasn't lost his childlike innocence." Senior Brother Hai laughed cheerfully.
"Master entered your dreams?" I exclaimed in surprise. So Master hadn't borrowed a passage through the mortal world.
But after thinking about it, I understood. If it had been Zhou Xuan instead, this little cousin of mine wouldn't have cared about any of that. She would've borrowed a passage anyway. She'd come up to find me, gone to Feng Town to cause trouble, and even dragged Li Poxiao down to the underworld. She simply wouldn't obey any rules of the underworld or the mortal world.
Compared to Master, then, Zhou Xuan was far too cunning. Master had the ability, yet he refused to break the rules and borrow a passage up here. Such noble character truly belonged to a grandmaster.
"Exactly. He entered my dreams. He helped me build another bridge to communicate with the Great God. I've been communicating with Master in my dreams this whole time. Sigh, Junior Brother, you don't need to envy me too