In the following days, Daughter Country held a grand celebration feast.
Ling Yuan, Jun Xiaoyao, and others received the most honorable reception.
The entire city was brightly lit, with brilliant lights, like a dreamlike city that never sleeps.
Lu Fugui and the others were all drunk and very relaxed.
After the banquet, Daughter Queen invited Jun Xiaoyao alone to rest in the quiet imperial garden behind.
This made Ling Yuan feel another surge of jealousy.
Inside the quiet imperial garden, there were small bridges over flowing water.
Green pines and cypresses, jade-like grass, and exotic flowers adorned the area.
Harmless, rare, and exotic beasts occasionally leaped through the forest.
Lanterns, one after another, decorated the place, adding to its dreamlike quality.
Daughter Queen and Jun Xiaoyao arrived at an open-air pavilion within the courtyard.
"This time, I still have to thank Young Master."
Daughter Queen smiled slightly.
Her demeanor was graceful and noble, but at this moment, she seemed no different from an ordinary woman.
"It was merely a small effort, and besides, I was also doing it for myself," Jun Xiaoyao said.
"Your Majesty, I toast to Young Master."
Daughter Queen personally poured the wine, inviting Jun Xiaoyao to drink with her.
Jun Xiaoyao took the wine glass, smiled faintly, and drank it.
"By the way, I wonder if I might be so fortunate as to see Young Master's true appearance?" Daughter Queen suddenly asked curiously.
Jun Xiaoyao smiled, not minding, and untied his cloak.
Daughter Queen looked at him and immediately froze.
"The distant green mountains lack splendid beauty, yet there is a banished immortal in the human world…"
Daughter Queen murmured in a daze.
Under the moonlight of the yinghuo demon star, a handsome Young Master in white robes held a white jade wine cup and sipped.
What an astonishing sight this was!
Daughter Queen seemed to want to engrave this scene deeply into her heart.
Her heart fluttered for the first time.
Jun Xiaoyao took a sip of wine and said with a faint smile, "I have already revealed my true appearance to Your Majesty, but I do not know your real name."
Hearing Jun Xiaoyao's words, Daughter Queen finally came back to her senses, her face slightly flushed.
"Since I can remember, everyone has called me Daughter Queen; I do not have a name," Daughter Queen said.
"Is that so?" Jun Xiaoyao looked at the wine glass in his hand.
He thought to himself, it was indeed as he suspected.
"How about this, if you don't mind, I'll give you a name?" Jun Xiaoyao suddenly became interested.
"Give me a name?" Daughter Queen was momentarily confused.
"Zhuang Sheng Xiaomeng Mi Hu Die (Zhuangzi dreamed of being a butterfly), how about the name Zhuang Xiaomeng?" Jun Xiaoyao said meaningfully.
"Zhuang Xiaomeng…" Daughter Queen murmured to herself, then looked at Jun Xiaoyao, her eyes bright.
"Zhuang Xiaomeng, this name is indeed beautiful."
"Actually, this name also has an allusion," Jun Xiaoyao said, swirling the wine in his cup.
"Oh?" At this moment, Daughter Queen seemed to turn into a curious baby, blinking her Phoenix eyes and looking at Jun Xiaoyao.
"Once upon a time, a person fell asleep and had a dream."
"In the dream, he transformed into a butterfly, fluttering and flying, carefree and without worries."
"And just as he was so happy that he almost forgot himself, he suddenly woke up."
"It turned out that it was just a dream, and the butterfly was merely his Incarnation in the dream."
"But that person then thought, perhaps he was truly a butterfly, and his current self was merely a dream had by the butterfly."
Jun Xiaoyao finished speaking.
Daughter Queen fell into deep thought.
Jun Xiaoyao drained the wine in his cup in one gulp.
Then he said, "Your Majesty, we are also about to leave."
Daughter Queen, however, shook her head and said, "I am not called Daughter Queen."
Jun Xiaoyao smiled, "Xiaomeng."
"Can… can you not stay?"
Daughter Queen, no, it should be Zhuang Xiaomeng, her tone carried a hint of reluctance at this moment.
Jun Xiaoyao remained silent, looking at the yinghuo demon star in the sky.
Originally, the yinghuo demon star, when viewed from the Forgotten Land, was only crescent-shaped.
But now, it was almost a full moon.
"If we don't leave now, I'm afraid we'll become like those walking corpses."
Jun Xiaoyao looked at the almost full yinghuo demon star and said.
After his Primordial Spirit Rank broke through to Constant Sand Level.
Jun Xiaoyao finally understood everything.
The reason for the formation of those walking corpses was not merely due to the Past Life Flower.
It also involved the yinghuo demon star.
He could now feel that the yinghuo demon star possessed a terrifying Soul Power.
This Soul Power, as if it had absorbed the Primordial Spirits of countless people, was incomparably vast.
Ordinary people would absolutely not be able to resist the allure of the yinghuo demon star.
Even Jun Xiaoyao, who had broken through to the Constant Sand Level Primordial Spirit, could not guarantee it.
And Jun Xiaoyao initially judged that when the yinghuo demon star reached its full moon, that terrifying Soul Power would reach its peak.
All external beings remaining in this Forgotten Land would become like those walking corpses, forever wandering in this land.
This was the most terrifying killing move of the Lost Land.
Zhuang Xiaomeng's face was as pale as paper.
Jun Xiaoyao looked at Zhuang Xiaomeng and said with a faint smile, "I know you mean well."
"I…" Zhuang Xiaomeng was speechless.
After a moment of silence, Zhuang Xiaomeng softly said, "Leave this place, keep heading west, and you can enter the God Forsaken Land."
"What you mentioned earlier, the Ancient Immortal Court Ruins, should be in the God Forsaken Land."
"Thank you." Jun Xiaoyao stood up.
"Wait…" Zhuang Xiaomeng bit her lip, wanting to speak but hesitating.
Jun Xiaoyao looked at Zhuang Xiaomeng.
"Can… can you hug me?" Zhuang Xiaomeng said softly.
Jun Xiaoyao chuckled, gently hugged Zhuang Xiaomeng for a moment, then turned and left.
"Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of Zhuang Zhou, the Forgotten Country is indeed very interesting."
The next day.
Jun Xiaoyao, Ling Yuan, and the others left Daughter Country.
Zhuang Xiaomeng stood on the city wall, watching Jun Xiaoyao and the others leave.
A tear streamed down her cheek.
"Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly…" Zhuang Xiaomeng murmured to herself.
Her figure gradually became ethereal.
Meanwhile, Lu Fugui and the others looked back and suddenly cried out in surprise.
"Where's that Daughter Country city? It's gone?"
Although they had already traveled some distance, they should still have been able to see the city.
"Haven't you noticed yet?"
Jun Xiaoyao said calmly.
"Bro, what do you mean?" Lu Fugui was still utterly bewildered.
Mo Yanyu was also puzzled.
Only Ling Yuan seemed to suddenly realize something, a faint hint of astonishment flashing in her beautiful eyes.
"Everything was just a dream, an illusion," Jun Xiaoyao said.
"What?!" Lu Fugui shrieked, disbelieving.
"How can that be? Are you saying everything we experienced was illusory?" Qin Yuanqing also refused to believe it.
They were all outstanding Prodigies; if it were just a crude illusion or illusion formation, they should have been able to see through it directly.
Jun Xiaoyao directly told them some things.
"What, all Nine Great Nations are some kind of dream illusion?"
"The true killing move of the Forgotten Land is the yinghuo demon star, and the previous walking corpses were also related to that?"
Hearing Jun Xiaoyao's explanation, all the Prodigies present felt it was incredible.
This was truly too miraculous.
They felt as if they had taken a trip into a dream country.
"Otherwise, how could the Forgotten Country be one of the seven wonders?" Jun Xiaoyao said faintly.
The indescribable strangeness he felt when he first entered Daughter Country.
It actually stemmed from this.
It was just that at that time, his Primordial Spirit Rank had not yet reached Constant Sand Level, so he couldn't confirm it.
"Of course, the Opportunities in the three Secret Realms are all real; this is also the greatest Opportunity in the Lost Land, the outer area of the Forgotten Country."
"But that's not right. If it's dream Soul Power, how could we be harmed by the people of those nations?" Lu Fugui asked in confusion.
Earlier, Qin Yuanqing was injured by the Demon Prince of the Demon World.
"Although they are dream illusions, they are formed by incredibly terrifying Soul Power."
"To know the true reason, one must completely unravel the secret of the Forgotten Country," Jun Xiaoyao said.
This was also why Jun Xiaoyao said that the Forgotten Country was very interesting.
Because perhaps his initial guess when he entered was true.
The Forgotten Country was truly alive!