After clearing the level, the fairies were reborn!

But isn't this sleeping too soundly?

"Did he stay up all night yesterday?" Xu Ze noticed that his computer screen was still lit up and immediately guessed.

“Hmm.” Cheng Hao nodded. “He said he found a new place in the game and wanted to go in and explore it. We advised him to go to sleep early, but he wouldn’t listen and said he would come out right away… and this is what happened.”

"Where?"

"What was it called again..." Cheng Hao thought for a moment, "What academy?"

Xu Ze stopped moving.

Canghai Academy.

It's that same place again.

He suddenly stood up and looked at Li Wenxiu's computer screen.

The game screen freezes on a certain scene.

That magnificent complex of buildings, built against the mountain, rises in layers, with four large characters carved on the huge stone gate...

Xu Ze's pupils contracted slightly.

right here.

"Take the third son to the hospital first; he should wake up soon."

Xu Ze did not explain.

He sat directly in Li Wenxiu's seat and picked up the mouse.

"Row."

Cheng Hao and Jin Yu didn't ask any further questions; the trust and tacit understanding between them already spoke for itself.

After they left, the large room became quiet again.

Xu Ze took a deep breath, controlled his game character, and walked towards Canghai Academy.

The images on the screen slowly progressed.

Passing through the stone gate and along the passageway, we arrived at the huge square.

In the square, countless figures still sat cross-legged, oblivious to the world around them, engrossed in the books in their hands.

We crossed the square and arrived at the main hall.

The palace doors were open, and a faint light shone through from inside.

Xu Ze stepped into the main hall, where the furnishings remained simple.

It was exactly the same as what I had seen in the world of the Heavenly Book.

A huge star map, a desk, a futon, and several shelves of books.

The lamp on the desk glowed dimly.

Before the star chart, there was still a familiar figure, standing quietly.

A moon-white long dress, a slender back, and cascading black hair.

Lin Yueyan.

She stood there, motionless, as if she had been standing there for ten thousand years.

Xu Ze looked at that figure from behind, a complex emotion welling up inside him.

The scenes he saw in the game's 'dungeon', those memories of her, all flooded his mind at that moment.

That innocent and carefree girl, that diligent junior sister practicing swordsmanship, that girl who acted coquettishly in front of him, that woman who shed tears in front of the star map...

It's all her.

Xu Ze suppressed the turmoil in his heart, controlled his game character, and slowly walked forward.

Just as he walked a short distance behind Lin Yueyan.

The unchanging game character seemed to have undergone a slight change, its beautiful body slowly turning around to reveal a captivating face.

She suddenly spoke, laughing:

"Senior brother, you've arrived."

The voice was very soft and faint.

It seemed to come from a very far place.

Xu Ze was stunned.

Chapter 164 We Have Something to Tell You

Xu Ze stared blankly at the woman in the game screen before him.

What does she call herself?

Senior brother?

She recognized me, right across the game, across the screen, across two worlds?!

"you……"

Xu Ze spoke, his voice somewhat hoarse.

Lin Yueyan slowly turned around.

That stunningly beautiful face still didn't show much expression.

But those eyes were no longer calm as still water.

There was light flickering, emotions surging, and tears welling up.

“I knew it,” she whispered, “you would come.”

Lin Yueyan paused for a moment, then continued:

"I've been waiting for so long."

Xu Ze looked at her, at the face he had waited for for thousands of years, at those eyes that finally showed emotion.

All the words in the world can be summed up in one sentence:

"Yes, I'm here."

He guided his character to step forward and continued to ask:

"So, in the world of the Heavenly Book, what you said to me wasn't your true intention, right?"

Lin Yueyan nodded slightly.

"Yes."

Her voice returned to calm, but beneath that calm lay an indescribable heaviness.

"Even within my natal magical artifact, my every move is still under their surveillance."

Xu Ze's pupils contracted slightly.

"them?"

"The Heavenly Court".

Lin Yueyan uttered those two words, a hint of coldness flashing in her eyes.

"Only in the 'real world' where you are right now can you be completely isolated from the eyes and ears of the Heavenly Court."

Xu Ze remained silent.

He remembered the man in white, the words "Your soul was already thrown into the cauldron," and the scene of Mu Yan being bound by golden chains.

The Heavenly Court, a colossal entity that has existed for countless eras and is connected to heaven and earth.

That being who made Lin Yueyan pretend to be ruthless for ten thousand years.

Was everything I did simply to destroy them completely?

“So,” Xu Ze said slowly, “all those things you said to me in the Heavenly Book World, all those things you did, were for…”

"To confuse the issue," Lin Yueyan continued, "just to avoid alerting the enemy."

She turned around and looked at the huge star map.

“They have been monitoring me, monitoring this academy, monitoring my every move… Therefore, I have no choice but to cultivate the Path of Ruthlessness, to pretend to have forgotten you, and to drive you out.”

She raised her hand and gently stroked a star on the star map.

"But I haven't forgotten."

"there has never been."

Looking at her slender back, Xu Ze felt an indescribable pang of sorrow welling up in his heart.

a thousand years.

She pretended for a full ten thousand years; only Lin Yueyan herself knew the hardships and bitterness she endured.

"This academy," he began, "was it also you who led me here?"

Lin Yueyan turned around and looked at him.

"Correct."

"It took me a thousand years to find a path in the star chart that could bypass the Heavenly Court's surveillance. It took another three thousand years to gradually infiltrate the coordinates of this path into the rules of the Heavenly Book world."

Her voice was soft, but every word she spoke carried immense weight.

"I knew that one day you would come."

Xu Ze was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked:

"What about Mu Yan? Why was she captured by the Heavenly Court at the very end? Did you see it?"

A complex emotion flashed in Lin Yueyan's eyes.

"This... was an accident."

She paused, then continued: