Courtyard House: My Long and Hard Body Makes Me Play with All the Women in the Courtyard

boom--! !

The ruins of the entire city began to collapse, and thunder roared across the sky.

The group stumbled and retreated.

Su Ting looked up and shouted, "Hey! What do you mean? What do you mean by 'the final battle'? Can't someone speak like a normal person?!"

However, all they received in response were increasingly violent energy tides and portal storms that were about to engulf everything.

And in the deepest part of that storm—a brand new figure is slowly emerging!

His face was hidden behind the light, he held a sword in his hand, and his steps were heavy and powerful.

"Long time no see." The voice came through clearly. "In this life... it's my turn to protect all of you."

A fierce wind tore through the sky, and pebbles fell like meteors. Su Ting's pupils suddenly contracted; his hand gripped his weapon tightly, yet he felt no weight at all.

"Let me protect all of you."

These words sounded like some ancient call, echoing in my ears.

"Who...are you?" Chenxi asked with difficulty, his body still aching from the energy shock just now.

The figure slowly stepped out of the storm of light, the pace unhurried yet exuding determination and composure.

The light gradually faded.

A familiar yet unfamiliar face appeared before everyone's eyes—

Lin Ruoyu suddenly opened her eyes wide, her breath catching for a moment.

It's him, yet it doesn't seem like him.

The girl had a gentler face than Lin Ruoyu now, yet there was no trace of aloofness between her brows. He wore a long robe interwoven with black and white, with a metal pendant hanging on his back that seemed to symbolize his status; his eyes were gentle yet carried an undeniable sharpness.

He stood there, saying nothing, only smiling slightly.

"...It's you? No, you're not..." Lin Ruoyu's voice trembled slightly, "How did you get here?"

Chapter 1117 Stop Talking Nonsense

The woman stepped forward and gently brushed Lin Ruoyu's hair: "I am your original name, the purest part of you. Your hopes and your obsessions have shaped them into who they are today—and have also shaped the shape of this whole world."

“I don’t understand…” Su Ting frowned at him, “If this is part of the ‘Old Era Plan,’ then are we still… ourselves?”

The woman in black shook her head, her smile still gentle: "Of course you are himself. But as fate keeps repeating itself, everything you experience changes. Just like I am standing in front of you now because each and every one of you has reached this point."

"Stop talking nonsense!" Su Ting roared through gritted teeth. "We're not facing a philosophical problem anymore; the whole world is being destroyed!!"

Before the words were even finished, the ruins of the entire city trembled once more, and the distant horizon began to crumble into data fragments.

The woman in black robes raised her head, gazing at the ever-expanding void: "The final battle is a trial against the system. Its starting point is that each of you must confront your own past."

He paused, his tone becoming heavy: "And I—am the ultimate balancer of all this."

"Balance?!" Su Ting demanded angrily. "You want us to trust someone who doesn't even have a name? You want us to believe you'll protect the world we're risking our lives to safeguard?!"

The woman in black robes gazed at him, then slowly removed the pendant from behind her neck—it fell to the ground with a dull thud, and a ring of ancient runes appeared on the metal.

“My name is Su Ting,” he said. “I am the earliest core consciousness to be born. I am the only true soul that survived the first failed experiment. The system later erased me, but it could not completely destroy me, so I waited for this life, until you are finally ready to see the essence of everything.”

"So you are... the earliest version of Lin Ruoyu?"

He smiled: "To be precise, I created Lin Ruoyu, and I also shaped the meaning of all your existence."

Chu Mo's face turned pale: "Wait...you mean, you've been controlling our lives from beginning to end?"

The woman in black robes gently closed her eyes: "I've said it before. Every choice you make is your own decision, but... I've laid the path out before you."

Su Ting suddenly fell silent.

The wind howled, blowing their clothes and hair, as if time was relentlessly flowing by.

After a long while, Lin Ruoyu suddenly took a step forward, her voice trembling slightly:

"Then why do you make us suffer? Why do you make them repeat themselves again and again? Aren't you a guardian? Or is all of this just a game to you?"

"If you are the real 'me,' then why are you hiding?! Why are you watching them suffer, watching me become this fading shadow?!"

“Because I cannot interfere,” Su Ting sighed, his tone gentle to the point of pity. “I can only appear when you reach the finish line yourselves.”

Su Ting clenched his fists, his eyes burning with fire.

“But I don’t care about your reasons,” he growled in a low voice. “I didn’t come here to listen to your reasoning! I’m here to keep Lin Ruoyu alive! To keep all of us alive! I won’t let you push me into the abyss again!”

"Then pick up the sword." Su Ting glanced at the black blade stuck upside down in the ground behind him and said calmly, "This is the first step towards the truth."

Chapter 1118 Then Kill Enough

Without hesitation, Su Ting stepped forward and drew his sword.

Thunder roared overhead!

An ancient command seemed to resound between heaven and earth.

"Ready?" Su Ting looked at all the standing soldiers.

"Let's start the fight." Chenxi grinned, a bloodthirsty smile spreading across his face, as the energy weapon in his hand glowed red.

Su Ting sneered: "Since we can't avoid it, let's kill to our hearts' content."

Lin Ruoyu, however, kept her eyes fixed on the woman in black robes—

That true origin that he himself had sealed away, that being that had always been waiting in the depths of darkness.

He whispered, "You...you've been waiting for me to come back, haven't you?"

“You never need to go back.” Su Ting’s gaze was incredibly gentle. “You are already whole. And now… all we need to do is work together to win the future.”

The next moment, countless cracks appeared in the void.

The shadows surged in like a tidal wave—they had no shape, but were a pure, destructive consciousness, like a force at the edge of the universe about to devour everything.

Fighting breaks out again.

The sword's edge pierced the void, its energy surging through heaven and earth. Shouts mingled with wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, causing every inch of land to tremble.

Su Ting's figure was the most dazzling at the front, and the sharp sword in his hand seemed to be burning, cutting through the layers of oppressive data storm.

Behind the crowd, Su Ting slowly raised his palm.

"It's time to awaken the real key."

"Where is he?" Lin Ruoyu asked urgently.

The woman in black robes said softly, "It's right in the eye of the storm. Only you can awaken him."

"But if I go... they'll be in even more danger! They're still fighting for us!"

“It is precisely because they are there giving their all that you must go and fulfill your mission.” He looked into the girl’s eyes. “He is our last key—and you are the reason for him to awaken.”

Lin Ruoyu was stunned for a moment, then nodded sharply and rushed into the eye of the storm.

Su Ting's voice came from afar: "Ruoyu! Come back! I haven't... finished saying what I wanted to say!!"

Lin Ruoyu did not turn around.

But he left behind a message with the sand and dust blown in by the wind:

This time, don't wait for me. Let's walk together.

Deep within the storm, the little girl stood quietly atop the suspended data platform. Her eyes were no longer childish, but held a wisdom beyond her years.

Behind him, a silhouette of a city made of light appeared.

Beneath the city lies a vast emptiness.

The little girl lowered her head and murmured:

"Mom...I'm sorry."

His hands rested on the platform, and his eyes gradually turned silvery-white.

Let me tell you what the new rules are.

The next second, his figure soared into the air, like the rising sun, heading straight for the top of the sky.

At that moment, the entire world seemed to fall silent.

The wind stopped.

Lei Jing.

Only Su Ting looked up in his direction, his eyes burning with determination, reluctance, and... hope.

He shouted a sentence in the middle of the storm—

"Ruoyu!! We're waiting for you to come home!"

His response came from the horizon:

"Then—give me a win, give me a way home."

"System startup, restart countdown begins."