"Went back to sleep?"
Li Luo looked astonished:
"Then hasn't the danger been resolved?"
"Yes." Mite nodded, then added:
"Temporarily resolved."
"No one knows when that primordial creation will awaken again."
"Perhaps in the next moment, perhaps it will remain asleep forever."
"Like a sword hanging over our heads, liable to fall at any moment and take everyone's lives?" Li Luo added.
"Allow me to point out that while your metaphor is vivid, it is not quite appropriate." Mite replied gently:
"The relationship between primordial creations and us is actually more like that between sea monsters and waves."
"Sea monsters and waves?" The astonishment that had just faded from Li Luo's face resurfaced:
"Why that kind of relationship? It doesn't sound as though the two are closely connected."
Mite did not explain directly, instead continuing with a chuckle:
"Sea monsters possess unimaginably enormous bodies. They lurk beneath the sea, and their full forms cannot be seen."
"And the reality we inhabit—the countless realms and billions of living beings—is like the bubbles atop the crests of waves."
"When a massive sea monster sleeps quietly, the sea remains calm, allowing the bubbles atop the wave crests a brief moment of peace."
"But once the sea monster awakens and stirs its enormous body..."
Hearing this, Li Luo immediately understood.
Yet the incomparably heavy atmosphere made her swallow the words that had reached her lips.
Mite merely continued:
"...the sea will no longer be calm, and the bubbles atop the wave crests will cease to exist as well."
After those words, both Mite and Li Luo remained silent for a long time.
Only after a while did the woman break the silence:
"So the awakening that triggered the Great Revival of the real world was actually just an extremely minor movement from that primordial