I reign supreme in the Western fantasy world for eternity.

Lilith was awakened by her stomach rumbling.

She rolled over in Ji Tian's arms, first rubbing against him sleepily, and then her stomach let out a long gurgle.

She reluctantly opened her eyes, meeting Ji Tian's lowered gaze. Just as she was about to instinctively press Ji Tian's hand back to her abdomen to start another game, he pressed his hand on her shoulder.

"Go eat when you wake up; the fasting pill has its limitations."

She pouted, slowly sat up, and muttered while rubbing her eyes, "Couldn't you have just said 'good morning' first?"

"good afternoon."

"..."

When the two walked out of the room one after the other, the hallway was already brightly lit.

Lilith was still adjusting her collar when she looked up and saw Elena leaning against the window at the end of the corridor, reading a book. Elena also saw Lilith and teased her:

"Oh, you're out? I thought you were planning to stay for another two days."

Lilith's face flushed red, and she instinctively tried to deny it: "I...we just—"

"Just what?"

"We were just...discussing cultivation!"

"Discussing cultivation for days, until the sun is high in the sky before you know it's time to come out?" Elena slammed the book shut, her smile deepening. "Your cultivation method must be quite tiring."

Lilith was so embarrassed she couldn't speak. She stamped her foot, ran to Elena's side, hugged her arm, and rubbed against her.

"Sister Elena, please stop talking!"

Elena was jostled and swayed by her touch, but she couldn't stop laughing. She freed one hand and ruffled the top of her silver-white hair.

"Alright, alright, that's enough. Are you hungry? There's some hot porridge in the kitchen."

Lilith nodded repeatedly, then glanced back at Ji Tian, ​​made a face at him, and then let go of Elena's arm and ran towards the stairwell.

After Lilith left, Elena stopped smiling, walked up to Ji Tian, ​​grabbed his collar, and pulled him close to her.

"Staying indoors for three or four days straight, you're quite the troublemaker!"

Knowing he was in the wrong, Ji Tian gave a French military salute and said, "I can explain."

Elena carefully observed Ji Tian's expression, then released her grip. "I'll explain later tonight. You'd better be able to satisfy me."

Seeing Ji Tian nod repeatedly, Elena was finally satisfied and began to discuss serious matters.

"Mia and Xiaohua found Dean, the S-rank adventurer with healing abilities, in the abandoned laboratory outside the World Tree left by Evan."

"She discovered that he had been frozen by special means. The ice block was intact. She didn't dare to use magic to thaw him rashly, for fear of hurting him if she couldn't control the force. Now she is moving the ice block outside to sunbathe and let it melt slowly."

Ji Tian nodded, exchanged a few more words, and walked downstairs side by side.

The hotel restaurant looked very clean, with several wooden tables polished to a shine, and an unidentified green plant on the windowsill.

Lilith was already seated by the window, with a bowl of porridge and a small dish of side dishes in front of her, and she was blowing on the porridge with her head down.

She heard footsteps and looked up. Seeing Ji Tian and Elena walking over, she blushed as if she had remembered something, and then lowered her head to drink her porridge.

Ji Tian had just sat down at the table when Ophelia arrived.

Her short, silvery-white hair was neatly combed, her clothes were clean, and her complexion showed no abnormalities except for a very faint bluish-black tinge under her eyes.

"That shouldn't be the case. Even meditation shouldn't cause dark circles under the eyes."

Lilith felt somewhat uncomfortable in front of Elena, the official wife, but upon seeing her second senior sister approach, she put down her bowl as if granted a pardon and waved to her:

"Sister Ophelia! Over here! There's still porridge! Come and have some!"

Ophelia paused upon hearing this.

sister.

Not the second senior sister?

She walked over, sat down at the table, took the bowl Lilith offered, and lowered her gaze.

"Thanks."

Lilith smiled slightly and lowered her head to continue drinking her porridge.

After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Ji Tian told Lilith to stay at the hotel to rest, while Elena followed him, leading him through the main street of the town and onto a side road.

Mia was squatting on the open ground chatting with Xiaohua, her staff stuck in the soil at her feet, and in front of her was a giant block of ice that had been exposed to the sun for a long time.

A human figure was clearly visible inside the ice block, and water droplets were slowly sliding down the ice surface. However, due to the special nature of the freezing magic, the ice block melted very slowly.

Little Flower curled up in a ball to shield Mia from the sun, its tail tip occasionally brushing the ground and sending some pebbles flying.

Hearing footsteps, it looked up at the person and then put its head back on its paws.

Mia stood up, dusted off her clothes, and smiled at Ji Tian:

"You've arrived! I was going to visit you, but Elena said you just woke up and are still in seclusion consolidating your cultivation, so I didn't go over to disturb you."

Ji Tian paused slightly.

He went into seclusion to consolidate his spiritual realm.

I glanced at Elena beside me; she was standing a few steps away, smiling.

"...I guess so."

Mia, unaware of the brief pause, continued:

"Have you broken through? With such a big commotion at the World Tree, you should have overcome that hurdle by now, right?"

Ji Tian nodded: "Mm."

"That's good!"

Mia smiled sincerely, turned around and pointed to the block of ice on the ground, "You've come at the right time. This block of ice has been in the sun for two days, and the outer layer has melted quite a bit, but I'm afraid of hurting it by using too much force, so I haven't dared to use magic. Could you take a look?"

"I'll do it."

Ji Tian stepped forward without bending down or gathering strength. He raised his right hand and lightly pressed his fingertips two inches above the ice.

His spiritual power no longer needs deliberate guidance to flow on its own, silently seeping into the ice according to his will, dismantling, dispersing, and returning the ice crystal structure to the air layer by layer.

The ice melted extremely quickly, and the meltwater turned into mist in mid-air, evaporating and dissipating in the afternoon sun as if it had never existed.

The figure in the center of the ice block gradually became clear.

Dean remained in the same posture he had used to attack Evan, but his face was pale and his lips were purple due to being frozen for so long.

Finally, the ice had almost melted. His eyelids twitched, and a few ice crystals still clung to his eyelashes, shimmering faintly in the sunlight.

A moment later, he slowly opened his eyes.

The vision went from blurry to clear, from blank to focused.

He found himself lying on the wet ground, with the sky above him half-hidden by wisps of thin clouds, and a strange face looking down at him.

He opened his mouth, his throat tightening: "Who are you?"

Mia stepped forward and said, "Dean, it's me, Mia. Do you remember me?"

Dean's gaze slowly shifted to her, and after a long pause, he nodded slightly.

"...Mia, what are you doing here? No, this isn't the time for this! Evan is going to destroy the world, we need to find Ian and stop him!"

Mia gently shook her head.

"It's all over now... In short, the hero saved the world, and Evan and Ian are both dead."

Dean then turned his gaze to Ji Tian, ​​about to express his gratitude, but unexpectedly, the other party spoke first:

"How did you know Evan was going to destroy the world?"