Of everyone here apart from Yi Shuyuan, Stoneborn was actually the most at ease. Everything could be false, but his happiness was real.
The same held true for Yi Shuyuan. He did not even dwell on whether his surroundings were real or false, but accepted them as he would the mortal world, treating everything around him as a precious opportunity.
Yi Shuyuan had already gained some insight into the demonic path outside. In this environment, he had begun to understand it, and could even influence it to some degree.
After all, although this was Gongsun Yin's tribulation, it was essentially aimed more at Yi Shuyuan. Even with one tribulation nested inside another, how could the person facing it have no opportunities at all?
The rain kept falling, and Stoneborn ran out wearing a bellyband, his little bottom bare.
"Senior Hui, where's the little fish I caught?"
Hui Mian, lying on Yi Shuyuan's shoulder, immediately flared with rage, rearing upright with paws on hips and turning toward Stoneborn.
"You little brat, what's that supposed to mean?"
"Huh? You didn't eat it? But the little fish in the washbasin is gone!"
Stoneborn eyed Senior Hui on his master's shoulder suspiciously, clearly not entirely convinced by the answer.
Feeling deeply insulted, Hui Mian sprang onto Stoneborn's head and furiously slapped it with a tail, leaving him hurting and ticklish all at once.
"Stop hitting me, stop hitting me, Senior Hui..."
"It's here with me!"
Yi Shuyuan spoke, then bent down and tugged his cuff lower. A ball of water was actually held within his sleeve, and a little fish swam out of it.
Not only did Xu Zichang see this, but Cao Yugao and Zheng Ying, who had just come outside, saw it too.
Something of this level would ordinarily have been nothing