After the time travel, my cheat program disappeared.

Shi Yan suddenly felt so helpless.

A sense of powerlessness washed over me.

I have made a terrible mistake, but... I am completely powerless to do anything about it.

Shi Yan vaguely realized why, in the game, after he entered the Love Sea Demon Sect, Wen Gu Jun didn't mention a word about Wen Ru Mu or Shi Min Mo.

Why couldn't I see Wen Wan at the Love Sea Demon Sect back then?

Why was the Love Sea Demon Sect so destitute back then that even a demon sect with only the cultivation of the Nascent Soul Realm dared to send people to hunt down Wen Ruya?

Because...it's very likely that during that tribulation of lightning...

My own parents, my own ancestors, all... have perished.

Just thinking about it made Shi Yan feel like she couldn't breathe.

Wenwan sensed the girl's nervousness.

Looking down at the shattered array beneath Tianwen Peak, where demonic forces surged and chills emanated, she gently embraced Shi Yan.

There was no sense of frivolity.

Wen Wan simply offered Shi Yan warmth, holding her tightly in her arms.

Beside her, the little girl Ba also sensibly had her hand held by Wen Ruya.

Feng Manlou, meanwhile, watched anxiously as the dark clouds in the sky grew ever darker and heavier.

As a girl who had been transformed from a mythical beast of heaven and earth, she instinctively felt fear.

"Don't be afraid~~~" Wen Wan gently stroked the bracelet she had personally placed on Shi Yan's hand, "I will protect little Shi Yan."

“No…no…” Shi Yan, who had read the script, knew.

Wenwan's so-called protection will most likely only lead to her death as well.

"This bracelet... is very important to me." Wen Wan stroked the thin chain and the ring attached to it.

The ring face is a symbol of the sun. "She will protect Xiao Shiyan for me."

"but--"

"Little Master, remember this..."

"I owe the owner of this jewelry a debt of gratitude... a debt I can never repay."

"If one day, Xiao Shiyan meets another girl wearing this bracelet, you must protect her for me."

“Our ancestor could have protected himself.” Shi Yan gripped Wen Wan’s arm tightly.

To her, Wen Wan's words sounded like a suicide note.

Wen Wan gently stroked Shi Yan's face.

The great calamity of saints will only stop when all saints are cleaved apart, or when one saint is killed.

The same applies to "Heaven and Earth Tribulation - Life and Death".

The attack will only stop when all the cultivators have been cleaved, or when one of them has been killed and is at the Enlightenment Realm, a cultivator attempting to break through the life-or-death barrier.

Therefore, both she and Shi Minmo must die.

Moreover, Wen Wan must take Shi Minmo away from the territory of the Love Sea Demon Sect as soon as possible.

Just then, tap-tap—

A soft, clear sound of high heels tapping on the brick surface rang out, and everyone present turned their gaze toward the direction from which the sound came.

A woman in a plain white dress, her shoulders bare, slowly stepped out, lifting her skirt.

The dress looked strange, but Shi Yan could tell at a glance that it was... a Western-style wedding dress.

"Lord Tianji???"

"Cloud Dream Machine?"

"Why are you still here???"

What are you doing here!?

Everyone looked at Yunmengji.

Yun Mengji gazed at Shi Yan with a sorrowful yet tender expression as she slowly approached.

Wenwan subconsciously loosened her grip on Shiyan.

There was no embrace; Yun Mengji simply stood still in front of Shi Yan.

She inappropriately handed the mechanical beast named Xiaxia from her storage ring to Shi Yan, Yun Mengji's voice clear and gentle, "The mistake I made..."

"nature..."

"It should be my responsibility to make up for it."

She gave Shi Yan a gentle smile, "I've disrupted the heavenly secrets..."

Yunmengji's lip color is captivating; it's the kind of gradient lip look that's trendy even in modern times.

But Shi Yan knew.

What adorns Yunmengji's alluring lips isn't lip gloss or lip balm, but... blood.

If Yunmengji's mere leaking of heavenly secrets would severely shorten one's lifespan, then... what kind of punishment would be inflicted by direct intervention?

Shi Yan seemed to have already foreseen the outcome of the Cloud Dream Machine.

Dao vanishes...body perishes...

"Hmm—" Yun Mengji wiped his mouth.

The bright red blood on the white gloves was glaringly bright, but Yunmengji seemed not to see anything at all.

Also.

Because she was trying to glean secrets from the heavens, she could no longer see anything.

Apart from--

The girl in front of me.

Even though it couldn't focus properly, Yunmengji still looked at Shiyan very seriously.

Just like wanting to keep the teacher's words in one's heart forever.

"nature..."

"It is my own responsibility to rectify this."

Even if—

“It’s heading towards the direction that even the Heavenly Secrets don’t approve of… ugh…” She frantically wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth.

With trembling hands, Yunmengji pulled out a ring box.

"Sister Shiyan..."

"You should be able to see it, right—"

"I am a dying man."

"I am a man who is already nearing the end of his life."

"No matter what, no one..." Probably no one. The reduction of lifespan is not as simple as Shi Yan imagined, that it can be worn down by grinding.

The lifespan that is reduced is the upper limit.

The grinding... could only keep her alive, barely clinging to life, "a person no one could save."

“So it’s perfect that I’m the one to break this deadlock!” Yun Mengji gave Shi Yan an especially bright smile.

But... Yun Mengji's smile broke Shi Yan's heart.

How could this be?

The secrets of heaven?

What secret is it?

It's just a script.

I wish I could just tear up the script myself.

Shi Yan wanted to take a gamble and wanted to bring out Yu Yuan.

but--

That thought was ruthlessly extinguished by Shi Yan.

What if even Yunyi and Yunshang can't withstand this heavenly tribulation?

They certainly wouldn't want to see me sad and in tears, and they would definitely do everything they could to protect me, just like the women around me right now.

No need—

I can't keep ruining Yunyi and Yunshang.

"So..." Her voice was so low it was almost a gasp. Holding Shi Yan's shoulder, Yun Mengji handed the ring box to him and unfolded it.

"Could you help me put this ring on?"

"I don't want any regrets." Yun Mengji extended the ring finger of her left hand to Shi Yan. "I should be the first one, right?"

Wen Ruya remained silent on the side.

Far away, in a very, very far place.

Xiaxia looked at the little girl in front of her and suddenly sneezed, "Achoo!!!"

Part 236 "Heaven and Earth" [Phoenix Feather] [3K Chapters]

Looking at the ring box in her hand, and... Yun Mengji's left hand reaching out to her.

The first one?

Perhaps... that's not the case.