After examining the improvements to her body and abilities, Xu Zhi finally began recalling what she had experienced in the Great Dream.
Now that she had "awakened," she naturally realized that everything she had encountered in the Great Dream during her advancement to [Named One] had seemed to reenact her past in a peculiar way.
No, perhaps it could not be called a reenactment. It was a "test," testing whether she had ever felt regret, hesitation, or wavering along this path.
If there had been even the slightest trace of it, she would have faced failure.
That was probably one reason why advancing to a Named One was so difficult.
How could anyone go through life without ever experiencing such emotions?
Especially Transcendents. With lifespans longer than ordinary people's and far more important decisions to make, they had hesitated countless times. In the dead of night, they might even regret why they had made the wrong choice in the first place.
That was why this hurdle was especially difficult to overcome.
In reality, those who became [Named One] were either inherently strong-willed, clear-minded, or had seen through their obsessions and discarded unnecessary things after repeated failures, thus becoming Named Ones.
But that did not mean the Great Dream required Named Ones to discard those emotions.
Rather, to become a Named One, one had to "face" one's past, wholly accept and affirm the path one was walking, and accept every mistake, confusion, wrong deed, and regretted choice one had ever made.
Xu Zhi felt that it resembled a kind of "cleansing."
But for her, this trial had not been difficult at all. Unlike other Transcendents, who could only passively learn what attributes they possessed, leading to countless conflicts, she had not grown up being instilled with endless notions of how a