"Did you have any dreams while you were asleep?" Naraku continued asking.
"Dreams? I dreamed that I went back to the modern world." The moment Xu Zhiqiu said it, the soft tentacles tightened around her. Was Naraku nervous?
Having guessed the reason, Xu Zhiqiu's lips curved into a faint smile. "I dreamed I went back to the modern world to get my Jade, but I woke up before I could get my hands on it. Why are you wrapping around me so tightly?"
Naraku's face, which had turned gloomy in an instant, immediately returned to normal. "Anything besides that?"
"No." Xu Zhiqiu tilted her head and gazed into the deep pit. "Naraku, if this keeps going, do you think one day I might fall asleep and never wake up? When that happens..."
Naraku interrupted her. "That day won't come. At least, you cannot die before I do." He would not allow such a thing to happen.
Hearing his words, Xu Zhiqiu smiled, reassured. "I'm only guessing. Look, I slept for fifty years, didn't I? When I woke up, I was full of energy, and I even had spiritual power inside me." She had gone straight from an ordinary person to someone with spiritual power.
"You slept for those fifty years because you were seriously injured. You were recovering all that time, and afterward, the spiritual power inside the Jade became yours. When you appeared, the Jade wasn't on you. On top of that, you would sleep for two or three days at a time and wake up weak. That made me think you had merged with the Jade, and that the Jade inside you was absorbing your spiritual power."
"But now, that seems implausible. If you had merged with it, how could you appear out of thin air, moving from