After the time travel, my cheat program disappeared.

Looking at the tavern owner's languid, expectant expression, her eyes slightly narrowed in a smile, as if she were anticipating his surprised reaction and his questioning of what had happened...

Shi Yan simply hugged Xia Xia tightly in his arms.

Lowering his head, under the tavern owner's twitching gaze, Shi Yan gently nuzzled Xia Xia in his arms with his cheek.

"Accident?"

"What's so surprising..."

"Sister Hongjian said that she can transform into thousands of forms and is the strongest cultivator in the Nine Provinces and Ten Lands."

"From Frost Rainbow Valley back then, to the Corpse Demons later... the Love Sea Demon Sect..."

"Which event can you say you weren't involved in?"

"They only know about the Jade Palace Realm, so why am I surprised?"

The tavern owner's enthusiasm seemed to vanish instantly.

She looked at Shi Yan in front of her, "This is boring..."

Holding a small round fan in her hand, the tavern owner leaned back slightly, the fan half-covering her face, revealing only a glimpse of her bright red lips.

"The method of the Purple Palace Jade Palace is not a product of this generation."

"For the cultivators of this generation..."

"Of course I wouldn't recognize it."

"but……"

"If you've seen another cultivator practicing the Purple Mansion Jade Palace Technique..." Reaching out, under Shi Yan's somewhat evasive gaze, the tavern proprietress's slender, jade-white fingertips gently traced the area below her Purple Mansion on her lower abdomen...

The fragrance, like that of a sweet, juicy grape being peeled, squeezed, and crushed, wafted past my ears.

"It's not that hard to recognize."

Because he was holding Xiaxia, Shi Yan could only let the landlady gradually press against the edge of his inner shame, letting her repeatedly oscillate between actively bullying and actively teasing him.

Besides... I really can't beat her.

"Fairy of the Jade Terrace?" Shi Yan focused all his attention on Xia Xia in his arms, gently soothing her body.

The girl's internal organs seemed to be unharmed, but she just couldn't wake up.

The tavern owner smiled, "Yes..."

"When Venerable Lingyao was alive, she was the strongest descendant of the previous generation of cultivators, and also a direct ancestor of the 'Heaven and Earth' family."

"Together with Loulan?"

The tavern owner's small hand, which was waving a fan, suddenly froze. "When Venerable Lingyao was alive, Loulan hadn't even been born yet."

“Hmm…” Shi Yan revealed a strange expression.

However, she still caught the tavern owner's description of the appearance of Loulan—

Descending into the world...

"What are you thinking about?" It was as if she could see right through Shi Yan's thoughts.

The tavern owner reached out and gently pressed on Shi Yan's lower abdomen. The already scattered spiritual energy almost shrank back after she pressed on it.

"Even without a Daoist partner..."

"Have you already forgotten about the palace master of the Wen family?"

"What a heartless bastard."

"And... how did your Lady Wen Wan manage to ensure the Wen family's continued prosperity..."

"Open your mind"

"This is a world of cultivation."

"Reincarnation Lotus, Dao-merging Jade, even the inspiration of Heaven and Earth..."

When the topic of the conception of heaven and earth came up, the tavern owner's expression suddenly became very strange, as if... she had thought of some annoying person.

"Isn't anything possible?"

Holding Xiaxia in his arms, Shi Yan didn't dare to argue with the tavern owner.

He couldn't beat her, and Xiaxia hadn't woken up yet.

She's right about everything.

But... she's studied these things so deeply, what exactly is she trying to do?

Waving her round fan, the tavern proprietress looked at Shi Yan and said, "A thousand years ago, I served the Fairy of Yaotai, who was also one of the people beside the Venerable Lingyao..."

"I have some knowledge of the Purple Mansion Jade Palace method."

"but--"

"Teacher's words..."

"Hmm?" Shi Yan looked up at the woman in front of him.

"The Purple Mansion Jade Palace method doesn't contain anything about the beginning of heaven and earth." The tavern owner stared at Shi Yan. "At the end of the Purple Mansion Jade Palace..."

"It is a celestial palace."

"Ascending to heaven in broad daylight".

"Isn't the end of cultivation the ascension to immortality in broad daylight?" Shi Yan was somewhat puzzled. Even in the game... after the Nascent Soul Realm, Tribulation Realm, and Enlightenment Realm... there is the Feathered Realm, the Ascension Realm, and finally, ascension to immortality in broad daylight.

Although the expansion pack for the Celestial Realm hasn't been released yet...

However, judging from the storyline of Fairy Yaotai, the celestial realm should still exist.

But... upon hearing Shi Yan's words, the tavern proprietress's expression suddenly seemed to turn contemptuous and resentful. "Ascend to immortality?"

"What's so great about being an immortal?"

"Not concerned with worldly affairs, and unaware of the seven emotions and six desires."

"If I make you remember Xiaxia, but you never cherish her again, she's just a... young dragon named Xiaxia, and your relationship with her is at most that of master and servant..."

"Are you willing?"

Shi Yan was stunned.

The immortals in this world... their art style seems a little different from what she imagined.

“But…” she recalled the scenes she had witnessed during her repeated encounters with the three corpses of Loulan, “between the Fairy of Yaotai and Loulan…”

"So even after the Fairy of Yaotai perished, she didn't return to the celestial realm." The tavern owner looked at Shi Yan. "She killed him with her own hands, and finally buried the person she loved most..."

"Do you understand?"

He froze, feeling as if a cultivator had discovered that the end of cultivation was not what he had imagined, and was completely lost and confused.

If it were an ordinary cultivator, at this moment, their inner demons would probably take advantage of their vulnerability.

But... no inner demons could arise in Shi Yan's heart.

She is the most heartless person in the world.

Because... everything in this world was just a game to her.

At the same time, she is a saint with an innate, immortal Dao heart, and also a witch personally chosen by the Heavenly Demon of the Outer Heavens.

She's the one who chases after her inner demons, and they all end up being bullied to tears by her.

Shi Yan suddenly realized... that he seemed to have fallen into a strange cycle.

Even though Mo Shu told her that the end of ascension was flying out of the atmosphere, where there was no air, and that the predecessors who had ascended to immortality had all frozen to death in outer space.

If his teachings had been true, he might not be as at a loss as he is now.

"So you..."

"Has the mortal world been sealed off?"

The tavern owner was truly stunned.

She suddenly sat up straight and looked at Shi Yan in front of her. "Who told you this?"

"I guessed..."

"A guess?" The tavern owner was even a little incredulous.

"Sister Hongjian said you have countless forms, each emanating from a different Dao..." Shi Yan recounted her initial guess, "and then—"

"All the cultivators I know who have reached the Enlightenment Realm have some connection to you, whether deep or shallow."

"Lord Dongjun only broke through to the Enlightenment Realm under your coercion." As he spoke, Shi Yan took out a carrot-shaped bottle with Dongjun's bunny girl portrait printed on it from his storage ring.

"That's because your good-for-nothing ancestor couldn't win over that little rabbit even after half a year."

"What if we make a mistake..." The tavern owner suddenly fell silent.

"What did you miss?" Shi Yan asked the tavern owner.

"No...it's nothing." She couldn't very well say, "What if we missed the right time for you to be born?"

Actually, we made a mistake back then.

By the time the tavern owner was practically forcing Dongjun to enter the Enlightenment Realm, and was preparing to make Wenwan realize that if she didn't get on board soon, it would be too late... it was already too late.

The world line has shifted.

Fortunately... the blind girl, who could see through all the secrets of the world, managed to forcefully reverse the timeline.

When Yun Mengji forcibly left the valley to experience the mortal world, she coincidentally met Shi Minmo, and coincidentally met Wen Rumu.

And then, incredibly helpfully, he brought the two together.

The purpose was to ensure that the teacher's words were not missed.

Although she couldn't resist in the end.

He appeared in that city in the last moments before his life was extinguished.

Shi Yan looked intently at the tavern owner.

The tavern proprietress showed no sign of being a senior cultivator, and instead gave her a big smile.