Faced with Fairy Yudie's question, Li Ping could only remain silent.
The city lord of Yanshan, the Dream Butterfly-he knew nothing about any of them.
Still, he had picked out some useful information from her words.
For instance, he should now be in a place called Yanshan City, which was probably somewhere within the Southern Splendor Illusory Realm. The Dream Butterfly, meanwhile, was likely the key to entering this realm.
And when someone purchased a Dream Butterfly, the seller would provide instructions for using the illusory realm.
Yet he had no Dream Butterfly. He had merely summoned his illusory body and inexplicably appeared here.
He guessed that his situation was uncommon. It was like getting online without paying for internet access-he was an unregistered user.
Thus, facing Yudie, he dared not say much, lest she notice something amiss.
Seeing Li Ping remain silent, the female cultivator who called herself Yudie looked somewhat helpless. She shook her head. "Never mind. Please follow me, fellow Daoist."
With a slight wave of her hand, Li Ping felt his body sink, as though he had suddenly lost his footing and begun falling in a dream. Multicolored scenes flashed past all around him.
When he could make out his surroundings again, he found himself standing in a simple black-and-white courtyard.
The courtyard covered roughly one mu. Aside from the enclosing walls and a gray stone gate, there was nothing there-only a broad expanse of empty gray ground.
Li Ping looked up and saw blazing sunlight spilling down from above.
Only then did he realize that, despite the strangeness permeating this illusory realm, its time of day matched that of the place he had come from.
Compared with before he entered, the sun's position had barely changed.
Yudie smiled. "The purchase price of a Dream Butterfly