After clearing the level, the fairies were reborn!

Upon hearing this, Lin Yueyan's eyes lit up.

"Then I'll protect you!"

Xu Ze looked at her, his eyes full of doting affection.

"Okay, I'll wait."

The image freezes at this moment.

The girl's smile, the young man's gentleness, and that simple and pure promise.

Then, a tear slid down Lin Yueyan's cheek.

She is still smiling in the picture.

But that tear slowly slid down her cheek, dripping onto the ground and splashing up barely perceptible dust.

The screen began to shake violently.

Ten thousand years later.

It was still that quiet room, and it was still those two people.

But this time, what Xu Ze saw was...

Lin Yueyan stood alone in front of the enormous star map.

Her face was still young, but her eyes had lost the innocence and naivety of yesteryear.

Instead, there is a profound and unsettling tranquility.

She stood there, motionless, like a statue.

I don't know how much time passed.

She reached out and gently stroked a star on the star map.

That star, located at the very center of the star chart, emitted a faint golden light.

Beside it, close by, was another star, radiating a cool, silvery light.

Her finger lingered on that golden star.

a long time.

She spoke, her voice so soft it was almost inaudible:

"Senior brother..."

"You said you'd wait for me to come back."

"I've been waiting."

"I've been waiting for so long."

"So long that I forgot what happiness, sadness, and longing were."

"So long that I thought I had forgotten you."

Her fingers trembled slightly.

"But I didn't."

"I still remember the way you taught me swordsmanship, the way you ruffled my hair, and the smile on your face when you said 'I'm waiting'."

"I remember everything."

She closed her eyes.

Another tear slid down her cheek.

"You said you would come back..."

"fraud."

The scene froze completely at that moment.

The figure standing before the star map, the tear that slid down, the fingertips that trembled slightly.

Everything froze in that final moment.

Xu Ze watched this scene quietly, a bittersweet feeling welling up in his heart that he had never experienced before.

a thousand years.

She waited for him for ten thousand years.

From an innocent and carefree young girl to a ruthless Daoist cultivator with a heart as still as water.

From waiting with high expectations, to only remembering.

[The memory fragment 'It seems heartless, yet it is full of affection' has been fully integrated.]

[Obtained Spiritual Treasure: Primordial Cauldron - Part 3 (Fragment)]

Please proceed to the next dungeon as soon as possible: Savage Demon Realm.

……

Xu Ze woke up in the spacious bedroom of the villa.

Apart from the two even breaths beside me.

He could sense that there was another gaze fixed on him in the darkness.

She was the owner of that red thread, a fairy from the moon palace.

Xi Yue.

"What you just said... wasn't just a dream, was it?"

She was leaning over the bed.

She looked at Xu Ze with a pair of bright eyes, seemingly lost in thought.

Chapter 163 Senior Brother, You've Arrived

"It's really hard to imagine."

The moonlight, like water, poured in through the gaps in the curtains, spreading a silvery frost across the floor.

Xu Ze opened his eyes and turned to look.

A slender figure sat quietly on a chair by the window.

The moonlight cast a soft silver glow on her, outlining her gentle contours.

"You actually managed to do something like this in this world."

Xi Yue yawned.

The moonlight streaming in through the window was reflected in her bright eyes, like two dazzling stars.

"This red line...can it share perception?"

Xu Ze looked surprised at the expression on Xi Yue's face.

Did the girl in front of him know all about his emotions in the 'system instance' and the impact of those long-sealed fragments of memory?

"Yeah, I just found out too."

Xi Yue's gaze lingered on his face for a moment, then she lowered her eyes slightly.

Long eyelashes cast soft shadows in the moonlight, obscuring the fleeting stirring in her eyes.

"Just now, a very strong emotional fluctuation suddenly came from the other end of the red line."

"It's not just ordinary joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness, but something very complex, like sadness that has been suppressed for countless years, or like a kind of relief."

She looked up at him again.

“I thought something had happened to you, but your body was right here, your breathing was steady, and your heartbeat was normal, so I just kept waiting for you to wake up.”

Xu Ze remained silent for a moment.

He recalled the scenes he had just witnessed in the 'dungeon': the Xuanling Sect's mountain gate, the courtyard under the moonlight, that innocent and carefree girl, that single tear that slid down her cheek, and the words "liar"...

Those emotions were indeed far too intense.

It's so intense that I still can't fully digest it.

"No wonder."

Xi Yue suddenly spoke, her voice carrying a hint of realization.

"No wonder, when I first observed you, I felt that you had such a friendly aura about you."

"...If I'm not mistaken, you should have received the 'coronation' from the demon race, right?"

She seemed to have figured something out and couldn't wait to know the answer.

Xu Ze did not answer.

He didn't know what Xi Yue meant by 'coronation,' but he could vaguely guess.

This is the key to my fourth dungeon.

For a long time afterward, the two pairs of eyes remained locked in silent contemplation.

Something was flowing silently in the air.

Dawn is about to break.

"Um..."

A lazy murmur broke the silence beside me.

Bai Yuxi curled up in Xu Ze's arms, her nine fluffy tails spreading out like a soft velvet blanket covering the two of them.

Her head rested on Xu Ze's shoulder, the corners of her mouth slightly upturned, as if she were having a sweet dream.

The fluffiest tail would occasionally sway gently, brushing against Xu Ze's calves, bringing a ticklish, furry sensation.

"Even the bloodline of the nine-tailed fox has awakened..."

Xi Yue watched this scene, a complex emotion flashing in her eyes.