I'll make you the furnace and the cauldron, so you can refine Yin and Yang and prove the Great

He had no doubt that the girl had carefully calculated that he would need these things, and that's why she had put them into the box one by one.

But then he suddenly stopped moving.

Girl.

The girl in the jade slip, as serene as an ancient well; the girl in my dream, sitting on a blue stone, swinging her legs.

The two girls are the same person, but separated by thousands of years.

If the one in my dream is her from thousands of years ago—the one who hadn't experienced the night of the sect's annihilation, hadn't yet traversed that long journey—

For her, the old man who suddenly appeared in her dream and kept calling her "girl"—did she even know when this person came from?

That pure and innocent girl from thousands of years ago probably still doesn't know.

But what about the girl in the jade slip who traveled for thousands of years?

Did she already guess it?

She guessed that the strange old man in her dream wasn't from her time at all—but someone from the future she would have to wait for thousands of years later.

"I've been waiting for this day ever since the Yaoguang Sect was destroyed."

Li Hanshan suddenly remembered this sentence in the jade slip.

If she really guessed it—then everything makes sense.

The more Li Hanshan thought about it, the more alarmed he became, and the more convinced he was of it. After a long while, he let out a long breath, shook his head, and chuckled.

"This girl... a dream from thousands of years ago, now being reclaimed thousands of years later."

After laughing, another thought popped into my head.

Since she arranged the ruins, left the jade slips, and prepared the treasure vault—

Where is she?

Where are the girls now?

After the Yaoguang Sect was destroyed, she traveled alone for thousands of years. She returned here, laid out all of this, and then left again.

Where did she go?

Could it be... that she is no longer in this world?

Li Hanshan's heart sank slowly.

If she really leaves this world—then if he wants to find her, wouldn't he also have to leave this world?

Even a Dao-merging powerhouse who manages to escape into the void faces a near-death experience; within the void, countless extraterrestrial demons still roam...

This is what it says——

Her later cultivation level had become so terrifying that she could ignore all of this.

Li Hanshan sat there in silence for a very long time.

In the end, he shook his head and suppressed these thoughts for the time being.

"Fourth level of Void Refinement." He chuckled self-deprecatingly. "Thinking about these things is too early."

The girl was waiting for him up ahead.

Then go ahead.

-

Before getting up, he glanced into the deepest part of the treasure vault.

There stood a light screen there, behind which were several faint auras, obscure, ancient, and unfathomable.

He walked over and reached out to touch it.

hum.

A faint light appeared on the screen, and a gentle yet undeniable force pushed him back.

It's as if to say—it's not the right time yet.

Li Hanshan smiled and did not insist.

The girl said he would come back to get it after he reached the Dao Integration Realm.

He took one last look around the treasure vault, which he had emptied most of, then stepped back three paces and solemnly bowed towards the depths of the vault.

"Girl!" "The seniors of the Yaoguang Sect."

"I'll accept the gifts first."

"The battles you haven't finished—" he straightened up, a glint of fire in his eyes, "I will fight them for you."

Having said that, he turned and stepped onto the jade steps.

Behind him, the portal that had separated them for eight thousand years slowly closed, and the runes of the Demon-Suppressing Array lit up one after another, then dimmed one after another.

It was as if an eight-thousand-year wait had finally come to an end.

As Li Hanshan stepped off the last jade staircase, he paused, turned back, and softly uttered a sentence towards the now-closed door:

"Girl."

"I appreciate your kind gesture."

"Your matter—" He paused, a glint of fire in his eyes, "...I've also taken care of the old man."