Just as Jiayin was thinking about this, her father’s voice suddenly echoed in her mind!
“Jiayin, Daddy’s precious girl, can you hear me? Jiayin…”
Jiayin sat up abruptly and took a deep breath.
Fang Youwei, who was lying on the outer edge and hadn’t fallen asleep yet, heard the movement and turned to look at her. “Jiayin, what’s wrong?”
Jiayin’s eyes darted around. Pretending to be embarrassed, she said, “Uncle, I… I need to pee.”
Fang Youwei sat up, lifted her out of the shelter, and put her shoes on for her.
He instructed, “Then stay outside, don’t go far. Just stay by the cart.”
Jiayin nodded and ran off to the side, hiding behind the cart, and replied to her father in her mind: “Father, is that you?”
Ao Zhan was overjoyed to hear his daughter’s response. “Jiayin! Father has finally found you! Which world did you go to with that realm-breaking bead?”
He had discovered his daughter was missing that very night and had searched everywhere with his men but couldn’t find her.
Then he remembered the realm-breaking bead that his daughter had taken. She had asked him about its use before. He checked and found the bead missing as well, so he realized she might have gone to another world.
Hearing this, Jiayin nodded, then remembered her father probably couldn’t see her. She answered in her mind: “Father, I’ve come to a mortal world, a place called Qiyang County. I don’t know which world this is.
But when I arrived, this place was suffering a drought. After I came, I brought them rain, but it seems like I brought a bit too much. Now they’re dealing with a flood…”
Ao Zhan was speechless for a moment after hearing his daughter’s words. Well done! Are you trying to make them experience every kind of suffering—both drought and flood?
“Father, what should I do now? How do I get back?” Jiayin asked again when she didn’t hear her father’s reply.
“Jiayin, listen to your father. I tracked you through our bloodline connection. Right now, we’re talking through the realm-breaking bead. Inside the bead, there is a space. You can enter it at any time.
As long as you accumulate enough merit, you can come back anytime. On the space-time door inside the realm-breaking bead, there’s a line of characters that say ‘Immortal and Demon World.’ When you’re ready, just place your hand on it, and you can return.
Do you remember what your father told you? Benefit ten thousand people or save ten thousand people, and you’ll have enough merit.
You’ve already brought them rain, which counts as benefiting them. But because you brought too much rain, they haven’t yet felt grateful to you, so you haven’t received any merit yet.
Once the flood recedes and they can plant crops again, or if another drought comes and they pray for rain, if you bring rain again, you’ll definitely receive merit.”
Jiayin nodded and said okay to her father, indicating she understood. Then she remembered something else and said with a tearful voice, “Father, my space is gone. My personal spirit space is missing~ And all my shiny things are gone too. What should I do? Boohoo~”
Ao Zhan coaxed her with concern, “Jiayin, don’t cry. The space is still there. This is an agreement between the realm-breaking bead and the various worlds. Things from higher-level planes cannot be brought to lower-level planes, or the lower-level plane would collapse.
All the treasures in your space were immortal artifacts. Even the lowest-level one could cause this plane to fall apart. So your space is just sealed for now. It will be restored when you return.
You can use the space inside the realm-breaking bead, but it’s empty. You can only store things in it. Of course, if you ever find yourself in a life-or-death situation, you can also enter that space.”
What Ao Zhan didn’t say out loud was that with the dragon race’s thick skin and tough bodies, it would be very difficult for his little one to ever encounter a life-or-death crisis.
Jiayin sniffled in disappointment. “I understand, but Father, I really miss drinking my spiritual spring water. The water here is all bitter. My tongue feels uncomfortable after drinking it.”
Hearing this, Ao Zhan sighed. “Your father really can’t do anything about that. I can only talk to you; I can’t send you anything. Our two worlds aren’t connected right now… Huh? No, wait! I remember now!
It seems there’s a window inside the realm-breaking bead’s space. Go in and look for it. I think you can exchange merit for things—anything that doesn’t exceed this plane’s capacity to handle.
Once you have merit, you can go in and exchange for things. But the prerequisite is that you need to know how to read.
Find an opportunity to learn to read. Otherwise, you won’t even know what’s written there.”
Jiayin’s eyes had lit up at the mention of exchanging for things, but her expression immediately fell when she heard she needed merit. And when her father added that she couldn’t read, her face grew even more dejected.
Jiayin clenched her little fists to encourage herself and said, “Father, don’t worry. I will definitely learn to read well.”
Jiayin let out a long sigh in her heart. Even playing with a bead requires knowing how to read. My life is so hard…