"Mimi, Mimi, wake up." Sora Takenouchi and Palmon stood beside Mimi Tachikawa's bed, trying to wake her.
"Sora, stop moving. I want to sleep," Mimi murmured, then rolled over and went back to sleep.
After several attempts, Sora reluctantly stepped off the boat and said, "Brother Fan, Mimi's sleeping so soundly. Maybe we should leave her alone for now."
Things at sea could never be judged by ordinary standards. When they spotted land, everyone celebrated for an entire day and exhausted their food supplies. But a ring of reefs lined the coast of Server Continent, and even with Whamon guiding them, the detour took more than a day. Everyone else remained calm throughout, but Mimi stayed excited and went two full days without sleeping. Finally, on the very last stretch, Zheng Fan knocked her out with a slap.
There was nothing Zheng Fan could do about Mimi's condition. Seeing the exhaustion on everyone's faces, he could only nod.
The standards of cultivation were never fixed. Different experiences could bring people to different heights, and the stages of different cultivation methods were merely the most suitable paths their predecessors had discovered. Mimi, for instance, had honed her physical skills to their limit while adapting to the wind and waves at sea, but her strength and willpower were nowhere near adequate. Sora, the most outstanding of the children, had discovered the threshold of bone tempering herself, even though her raw strength fell slightly short of Tai's. Even if Zheng Fan never taught her the next cultivation method, she might feel her way into the next realm on her own.
Once Zheng Fan nodded, everyone happily began setting up camp. Izzy Izumi leaped onto Kabuterimon and went scouting.
Half an hour passed before Izzy finally returned.
"Brother Fan, I saw a Koromon settlement