Protected by the Crimson Moon Hook, Illusion Dream Fairy and the Nightmare Beast left through the Teleportation Formation. Knowing there was no longer anything they could do to the two of them, Ling Tian decisively gave up and started back. As he traveled, he worried about Fairy Meng Shang and the others. After all, the illusionary world they'd fallen into was far too real, and he didn't know whether he could wake them.
"If only Poqiong were awake. He's seen and heard so much..." Ling Tian murmured, then his eyes suddenly lit up. Excitement surged through him. "That's right! I can wake Poqiong first. Maybe he can help me. After all, he's my Natal Dan Artifact, and he still retains a trace of consciousness. It should be easier to wake him."
Lian Xin's Nine-Colored Ice Lotus body seemed to be Ling Tian's Natal Dan Artifact, making them cultivators whose lives and cultivation were bound together. When Lian Xin called out to him, it was like calling to him from deep within his soul. It worked the same way in reverse. If Lian Xin could wake him, then he could surely wake Poqiong and the others.
With that in mind, Ling Tian began to act, using his Mental Power to call out to Poqiong again and again.
As he called, Poqiong's dormant Artifact Spirit gradually responded. Its soul fluctuations grew stronger, and the more insistently Ling Tian called, the stronger they became. Seeing this, Ling Tian was overjoyed. He knew his guess had been right.
Time drifted by. In the blink of an eye, an incense stick's worth of time had passed.
After all that time, Ling Tian's Nascent Soul had completely broken free of the illusionary world's restraints and returned to its peak. To his delight, Poqiong had also escaped