Returning to the Dragon Palace Together

Shen Luo had agreed so readily because he did not want Ao Hong to return alone and risk his life. He also wanted to see whether he could meet the East Sea Dragon King again and learn more about Chi You from him.

Only by gathering more information about Chi You or his soul fragments could he use those clues, once he awoke from the dream and returned to the present world, to find the five people in whom those fragments had reincarnated. Perhaps then he would have a chance to prevent the Demonic Calamity from descending and stop the devastation of all living beings a thousand years later from happening again.

Besides that, Shen Luo wanted to take the opportunity to ask how to advance from Soul Condensation to the Out-of-Body Stage, paving the way for his cultivation in reality. After all, his earlier breakthrough to the Out-of-Body Stage in the dream had come merely from hearing a few lines of a lecture at Fangcun Mountain. He had no experience he could draw upon.

Ao Hong was delighted to hear this. He clapped Shen Luo on the shoulder and said, "It would be wonderful to have you with me. There's no time to lose. Let's set off now."

"Hold on. I need to find something first," Shen Luo said with a smile.

With that, he walked to the other end of the island and began searching through a heap of scattered white Kunpeng bones.

As he moved aside a thick section of tailbone, a glimmer of golden light suddenly shone through a gap in the jumble of bones. Delighted, Shen Luo immediately moved more bones aside, reached into the gap, and felt around.

When he withdrew his arm, he held two Kunpeng feathers, each about two feet long. One