After clearing the level, the fairies were reborn!

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At the entrance of the courtyard, a person was standing there, staring blankly at him.

He was a young man, dressed in a gray robe, with delicate features but somewhat unfocused eyes. He stood there, as if trying to recall something, or as if he couldn't remember anything at all.

Xu Ze was stunned.

"Li...Li Wenxiu?!"

That person was his roommate, Li Wenxiu. At the time, during the closed beta of the game, he said that once he entered the academy, he couldn't get out.

Now that he has appeared in this Heavenly Book world, could it be that his divine soul projection has also been preserved by the 'Heavenly Book'?

Li Wenxiu looked at him, his eyes filled with confusion.

"You...know me?" he asked, his voice hoarse and slow.

Xu Ze strode forward.

"Li Wenxiu, it's me! Xu Ze!"

Li Wenxiu frowned, trying hard to recall.

“Xu…Xu Ze…” he murmured, a struggle flashing in his eyes, “Such a familiar name…but…but I can’t remember…”

Xu Ze was startled.

He carefully observed Li Wenxiu's condition. His eyes were unfocused, his breathing was disordered, and a faint chill emanated from his body, which was a sign of cultivating the Path of Ruthlessness.

"You've cultivated the Path of Ruthlessness?" he asked.

Li Wenxiu nodded blankly.

"It was...it was that senior who taught me...She said that practicing this path can make one forget pain..."

What have you forgotten?

“I’ve forgotten…” Li Wenxiu tried hard to recall, his face suddenly turning pained. “I’ve forgotten… so many people… so many things… there was one person… a very important person… but I can’t remember them…”

He clutched his head, squatted on the ground, and trembled all over.

Xu Ze looked at him, a complex emotion welling up inside him.

Is this the price of cultivating the Path of Ruthlessness?

Forget everything, including yourself.

He crouched down and gently pressed down on Li Wenxiu's shoulder.

"Don't think about it," he said. "If you can't remember, then don't think about it."

Li Wenxiu raised his head and looked at him.

Those eyes were filled with pain and confusion.

"You...you really know me?" he asked.

Xu Ze nodded.

"Yes, we know each other, we're friends."

Li Wenxiu stared at him blankly, then suddenly smiled.

That smile was bitter and sorrowful.

“Friends…” he murmured, “It seems like I haven’t had any friends in a long time…”

Xu Ze remained silent.

He didn't know how Li Wenxiu got here, how long he had cultivated the Path of Ruthlessness, or what he had forgotten.

But he knew that things couldn't continue like this.

If Li Wenxiu continues to cultivate like this, he will completely lose himself.

It becomes an "empty shell" without emotions, memories, or a sense of self.

“Li Wenxiu,” he said in a deep voice, “you can no longer cultivate the Path of Ruthlessness.”

Li Wenxiu shook his head.

"No... that senior said... only by cultivating the Path of Ruthlessness... can one survive..."

"Survive?" Xu Ze frowned. "What do you mean?"

Li Wenxiu lowered his head and stopped speaking.

Xu Ze looked at him, a sense of foreboding rising in his heart.

Over the next few days, Xu Ze cultivated in the courtyard while observing the surrounding situation.

He discovered that the courtyard was firmly trapped by an array, making it impossible to leave. He tried various methods.

Lin Yueyan never appeared again.

Li Wenxiu would come to the courtyard to sit for a while every day. He would always sit blankly under the flowering tree, gazing at the sky, lost in thought.

Xu Ze tried to chat with him, hoping to get more information about the academy and Lin Yueyan from him.

But Li Wenxiu's condition is getting worse and worse.

His eyes became increasingly unfocused, his memory increasingly blurred, and sometimes he would even forget Xu Ze's name.

"This can't go on," Xu Ze made up his mind.

He must leave this place.

We must take Li Wenxiu with us.

But how do I leave?

He looked up at the curtain of light in the sky, his brows furrowed.

Just then.

He suddenly remembered something.

Mu Yan is still outside.

Although the formation isolated him from the outside world, there was still a faint connection between Mu Yan and him—the mark left by the Primordial Divine Fire.

He closed his eyes and focused his attention on sensing.

really.

That connection still exists.

Though faint, it truly exists.

Xu Ze took a deep breath and focused all his attention on that one connection.

"Mu Yan," he called in his heart, "Can you hear me?"

silence.

a long time.

"Xu Ze?!"

Mu Yan's voice suddenly rang in his mind, filled with surprise and anxiety, "Are you alright?! Did that crazy woman do anything to you?!"

Xu Ze was certain.

“I’m fine,” he said, “but I’m trapped here. Can you break the formation?”

Mu Yan remained silent for a moment.

“This formation… is very strong,” she said. “Even I would have a hard time breaking through a first-tier formation by force. However…”

"But what?"

"If we cooperate from the inside, perhaps it will work," Mu Yan said. "You find the core of the formation inside, and I attack from the outside, working together from within and without."

Xu Ze nodded.

Where is the core of the formation?

“The key to this kind of formation is usually located in the place that is most important to the cultivator,” Mu Yan said. “For Lin Yueyan, the most important place… should be that main hall, that star map.”

Xu Ze seemed to be deep in thought.

"I understand."

He opened his eyes and looked towards the courtyard gate.

Li Wenxiu sat there blankly, staring at the sky.

“Li Wenxiu,” he walked over, “I’ll take you away from here.”

Li Wenxiu turned his head and looked at him blankly.

"Leave...where to go?"

“Go outside,” Xu Ze said, “to find your memories.”

Li Wenxiu remained silent for a moment, then suddenly shook his head.

"I...can't leave."

"why?"

“That senior said…” Li Wenxiu murmured, “I can only survive if I stay here…”