"At first, I really was just tired of that world and wanted to find some fun somewhere else." Su Xuan spoke casually, as though discussing something utterly insignificant.
"Fun?" Though he had expected it, Su Bai still had mixed feelings about hearing someone's life described as entertainment.
"Yes, but for a wanderer who could no longer cross the Void Sea, reaching the Real World was practically impossible. So when I heard a rumor that an entity called the Ghost Shaman had a way to reach another world, I went to his territory. I stayed there for who knows how many years, pestering him relentlessly until he couldn't get a moment's peace or even a decent night's sleep."
"He must have a pretty good temper, then." Su Bai imagined having someone like that around him.
"Maybe it was because neither of us had followers or subordinates. Maybe beings like us... get lonely easily? Anyway, after I pestered him for ages, he finally agreed to help, taking the opportunity to send a huge nuisance like me far, far away." Su Xuan spread his hands, his voice tinged with resignation and amusement.
"That was when I learned the Ghost Shaman really did have other passages to the Real World hidden away. The trouble was, he said that passage could only accommodate a very small amount of power. So I had to become as weak as a human, or even weaker, before I could pass through it and reach the Real World."
"Judging by what happened afterward, he really pulled one over on me." Su Xuan frowned, an indescribable look on his face.
Su Bai thought of the Mist Shop.
The Mist Shop's very existence was peculiar: it could exist in both the Nightmare World and the Real World. Yet when Su Bai traveled