Everjoy Peak, the great hall.
"Time to retrieve the dream."
Chang Le murmured softly. With a flicker, she quietly appeared atop the Immortal Garden Inner Peak. She raised her eyes toward the woman who had long been waiting there and said softly:
"Martial Aunt Xi Shang, this disciple is ready."
The woman addressed as Xi Shang wore a sorrowful expression, as though steeped in grief. She looked at Chang Le, her voice seemingly choked with sobs. "Ooh... Junior Martial Niece, you must be careful. Don't lose your life and leave your martial aunt unable to ever see you again. Boo-hoo..."
Staring at her martial aunt, who was already mourning her before anything had even begun, Chang Le was unfazed. This martial aunt walked the Path of Sorrow and had delved deeply into it. Under its influence, she always behaved this way.
She merely nodded and said, "Thank you for protecting me, Martial Aunt."
Dao Lord Xi Shang gently wiped away her tears with the corner of her sleeve, then waved a hand, producing a white jade platform that landed on the ground, shimmering with precious light. Sorrowfully, she said, "Sniff... Junior Martial Niece, you really must be careful."
Chang Le assented, leaped onto the platform, and sat cross-legged. Closing her eyes in concentration, she gradually reined in her aura and sank her consciousness into her Golden Vault.
Unlike ordinary Heavenly Register cultivators claiming a Root Origin, Chang Le's breakthrough would bring no heavenly tribulation.
The Dream Origin was already within Fuli, having been brought there by a Rogue Cultivator many years ago. Later, that Rogue Cultivator died unexpectedly, and Tribulation Deliverance drew his True Realm and Root Origin into the region of the Spirit Realm under its control, leaving them for those who came after. This was the advantage of