Part 20: Origin of dreams

At the end of The Legends of Ren Zu, it said — Ren Zu's ten children died one after another. Even Ren Zu himself was going to die of old age; he was at the end of his life. Before dying, Ren Zu retrieved the corpses of his ten children and sacrificed himself, sending them all into Derivation Gu's stomach, eaten by it. Large amounts of Dream Realms also followed the smell of the delicious food, going into Derivation Gu's mouth along with them. Derivation Gu's stomach burst open as countless lights of life shone on the lands, creating the first batch of mortals. Because the dream realms was involved in the derivation, the first batch of mor57

tals would experience dreams when they slept at night. Humans often sink deep into dreams, like Northern Dark Ice Soul, and are unable to free themselves from it.