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"Let's go!"

Hawkins did not immediately enter the Lich's lair. Instead, he turned and headed in another direction.

"Wait."

Shabi immediately caught up with Hawkins and asked, "Hawkins, although you're far stronger than I am, I have to warn you: don't act recklessly in the Dream Realm. If you insist on doing whatever you please, I'll have to return to Infinite City. I can't go mad along with you. You're underestimating the dangers of the Dream Realm."

"Don't worry. I'm just going to get that Lich's phylactery. Otherwise, no matter how many times we kill him, he'll keep coming back to life," Hawkins explained with a smile.

Shabi froze for a moment, then asked, "You know where his phylactery is?"

"Of course," Hawkins said with a nod. Through the Eye of Time, he had personally watched the Lich become separated from his phylactery. The Lich had eventually landed in this area, while his phylactery had fallen into a patch of sea farther away.

Precisely because the Lich had become separated from his own phylactery, he had survived in the Dream Realm for so long. After all, the phylactery had fallen into the deep sea and long since been buried in the seabed's silt. As long as it remained intact, the Lich simply would not die.

Otherwise, how could a Lich who had lost his reason possibly have survived in the Dream Realm until now?

With the Eye of Time guiding them, the three encountered no other creatures along the way and soon reached a gray, misty expanse of sea.

This sea floated in the Dream Realm, constantly changing shape, yet strangely retaining a distinct top and bottom, with vast amounts of silt on its seabed.

"Let's head over!"

Hawkins had no intention of entering the sea. He flew beneath its