"Even the sun in the Dream Realm has to climb up and down a mountain? That's so lame," Onion Lady said.
It was clearly a fantastical world, so why couldn't it take the dream all the way and turn everything on its head? For example, why not have a sun fairy running all over the world with Kuafu chasing her, going wherever her feet took her?
Or hang ten suns in the sky for everyone to shoot at, with prizes for anyone who hit one?
It could also become a handsome sun god driving a chariot, tall and powerfully built, handsome and clean-shaven, with sunlight shining wherever his chariot went.
Using myths from various countries as templates, Onion Lady let her imagination run wild, weaving one fantasy about the sun after another.
"You've been following Shuhang around, and of all the things you could have learned, you picked up his utterly useless habit of letting his thoughts run wild?" Senior Turtle said, exasperated at her lack of progress. He reached out and gently patted Onion Lady... and that gentle pat knocked loose the outer onion skin that had withered from the heat earlier.
Even Onion Lady herself hadn't noticed when she had shed a layer of onion skin.
With a deft hook of his claw, Senior Turtle quietly spirited the onion skin away without anyone noticing...
"But all those ideas Onion Lady mentioned sound much more fun than an ordinary sun climbing up and down a mountain," Soft Feather said with a giggle.
As they spoke, after harvesting a batch of leek-like heart demons, Senior Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword sealed the portions it had cut off and brought them back, handing them to Soft Feather to store in her Heaven-and-Earth Bag.
"Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword, we grew from the same