The lake lay calm as a mirror, just as it always did, except that this time, a white-haired girl floated on its surface.
Then Huo Yuhao opened his eyes, gazing in some disbelief at the sun hanging high in the sky overhead.
The sunlight was so dazzling that it pulled Huo Yuhao back to reality from everything he had just experienced.
Huo Yuhao could not help taking a deep breath. After all, everything he had experienced in the illusion had been like a dream, leaving him unable to distinguish reality from illusion.
Huo Yuhao drifted across the lake like this, and even when his feet touched the ground, he still had not recovered his senses.
Huo Yuhao stood by the lake for quite some time before remembering something and hurriedly entering his Sea of Consciousness to check on Elder Yi.
"Elder Yi, are you all right?" Huo Yuhao called out in his Sea of Consciousness.
The gray orb of light trembled slightly, then took on Elder Yi's appearance.
Elder Yi examined his own condition and found that his aura was somewhat more stable than before. Then he asked Huo Yuhao, "Yuhao, what just happened? Why did a force suddenly put me to sleep?"
Huo Yuhao truthfully recounted his earlier experiences.
Afterward, Elder Yi said, "Yuhao, check your current condition first. This is my first time encountering something like this, too."
Hearing this, Huo Yuhao nodded, then left his Sea of Consciousness and returned to the real world.
Although all of this was real, Huo Yuhao still had a lingering sense of unreality.
Nevertheless, Huo Yuhao activated his Heavenly Snow Woman Martial Soul. Nine Soul Rings appeared behind him: seven red, one orange-gold, and one cherry-pink.
It was real. What happened before was not an illusory dream. Only as Huo Yuhao