Xingtie: Starting with an in-depth analysis of the Yellow Springs

[Fufu: I really wish Bai E could live this wonderful life forever, but unfortunately it's impossible. In every life, he will ultimately become a person who betrays the world.]

[Nicole: Sigh, what kind of world could drive a young person to this state? The future is truly cruel.]

[Robin: A happy little village, but sadly, the thought of him destroying it himself in every lifetime... it's so painful.]

[Feng Jin: I really miss the old Lord Bai E.]

[Bai E: Feng Jin, I am no different, but Onpharos needs someone to bear the burden.]

[Mimi: Xiaobai, Xing and I will help you.]

Not far away, under a large, fiery red tree, a pink-haired girl was leisurely swinging on a swing, the clear and beautiful melody captivating the heart with her simple humming.

If you listen carefully, you can tell it's "He Zhe".

Bai E put his left hand on his hip and chuckled, "Ha, so it was here after all."

Xing looked puzzled. She was...

On the gently swaying swing, Xi Lian turned her head and looked over, her gaze filled with surprise and an indescribable tenderness, as if she had seen the person she had been longing for.

She got up and walked to the two of them, giving them a playful smile.

"Oh! You came here in such a hurry that the little swing got scared and started swaying..."

"It's you!" Xing exclaimed in disbelief.

Xi Lian nodded slightly. "So it really was you?"

Bai E asked, puzzled, "What's wrong... what are you looking at?"

"Hmm~ It's nothing, it's just... I suddenly had a strange telepathic connection?" Xiao Xilian put her hands behind her back, gently swayed her body, and winked at Xing.

She looked at Bai'er, "Oh dear, why do you still have fallen leaves on your head? Were you sleeping in a tree again, or in a wheat field? Clean yourself up before you go out."

"I'm all grown up, but you still treat me like a child..."

Xi Lian adopted the air of an older sister, "Really? Although you are taller than me, I am far more mature than you."

"Imagining those heroic stories and imagining yourself as a character in them is not something an adult would do."

"You agree, right?" she said to Xing, "Since you're playing along with his nonsense again... what's your persona for today?"

Xing glanced at Bai E, put her hands on her hips, and confidently replied, "Hello, I am a Star Core Hunter."

Bai E rubbed his forehead, feeling a headache coming on.

"Ahem, okay. Today she's... a Star Core Hunter."

Xi Lian leaned forward slightly, revealing an adorable expression of confusion, "Heart and Hunter?? Whose heart are you planning to capture, hmm?"

[Silver Wolf: Hehe, Heart and Hunter, of course it's to capture our little firefly cutie! I wonder who in Pinocchio assumes they're part of the Starry Sky Train, right, @Firefly?]

[Firefly: Silver Wolf…! I don’t want to talk to you anymore. She needed my help back then…]

[Gui Naifen: Wow, little Xilian is so cute, she seems so well-behaved.]

[Bai E: Then you definitely haven't seen a side of Xi Lian that no one else knows. The children of Ai Li Mi Xie are even more enthusiastic about her than I am.]

Silver Wolf: Tsk tsk, Firefly, you've met your match.

[Star: Licun siblings, Bai'e, why don't you try dressing up as a woman?]

[Bai Er: Partner, you can't play like this.]

[Ling: I can't take it anymore, Xi Lian is so good at flirting, I'm completely captivated by the two siblings...]

Zhe: Really? Then I can finally be with Vivian, Jiayin, Trigger, Ambiya, Ya...

[Yi Xuan: Take care of yourself, and... don't bring Fu Fu with you.]

Her eyes crinkled into two crescent moons as she smiled.

"Why the change of identity again? Not long ago, you were the hero who drifted from a foreign land and made a sword-learning contract with you..."

Bai E wore a bitter expression. "...Spare me! Let's not talk about the past."

"Oh right, weren't we supposed to be looking at oracle cards? It's been so long since I played any divination games, why did I suddenly think of it today?"

Xi Lian gently propped her chin up with her hand. "I was just about to tell you: Not long ago, I was sleeping soundly on the swing and had a strange dream..."

"In that dream, there was always a vague voice, as if calling for something."

Bai E's gaze sharpened. "...You had a dream like that too?"

"Hmm...you too?"

A hint of worry appeared in Xi Lian's eyes. "No wonder I felt uneasy after waking up."

"Then I remembered the oracle cards I used to play with as a kid—even though the Oronis Oracle was always wrong."

Bai E had little interest in this, and even disliked it.

"If the kids draw a good card like a king or a warrior, they cheer with joy; if they draw a demon or a drunkard, they shout that this doesn't count, they want to play again..."

"If you want to regret it, then regret it... Can you tell the truth from the divination?"

Xi Lian was silent for a moment, then looked up and smiled, "Children are always happy, thinking that the gods don't notice the little corner of the Ai Li Secret Pavilion, and will turn a blind eye to us..."

"But... fate is always certain. After all, we don't know how far into the future the oracle speaks of."

Although Bai E didn't believe it, she didn't want to betray Xi Lian's decision.

"Anyway, let's go to our old secret hideout and find the oracle tablet—"

Chapter 500 Telepathy or Acting?

[Mimi: When Bai E was little...]

[Xianyun: Oh, so you also like to tell stories about their childhood. Then I must mention Gan Yu's childhood...]

[Bai E & Gan Yu: No!]

[Yae no Miko: Could this be the legendary collaboration?]

[Wan Di: Savior, you must have learned your infuriating talking skills from this girl.]

[Seele: What a mysterious girl. She seems to be able to see the stars.]

[Star: Huh? Didn't Lai Gushi say I was participating as a hero in Bai E's heart? It's impossible that I'm also a hero in Xi Lian's heart.]

[Mimi: Xing is someone else's hero too.]

[Fireworks: Isn't this a coincidence? The little gray-haired guy next to me is none other than the Demigod of Time. By the way, why does this little pink-haired guy also know about the oracle?]

[Tining: Xilian should have also studied priest-related knowledge.]

Bai E frowned, pondering where he had placed the oracle tablet in the first place.

"I can still remember a few places... Come on, let's go take a look?"

Xi Lian, with her hands behind her back, led the two forward slowly.

Arriving at a simple wooden dock, two children were arguing about something.

Livia retorted angrily, "It's mine! I caught it!"

“It’s clearly mine!” Pesso retorted; he was the hunter’s son.

Livia was overjoyed, as if she had seen a savior. "Brother Bai'er, Sister Xilian, come and see! I've fished up a huge and heavy glass bottle!"

Peso protested, "It's mine! The fishing rod is mine; I just lent it to you for a bit, so whatever you catch is mine too."

Bai Er became interested in the childish argument between the two children.

"Oh, what good stuff are you fighting over? Let me see..."

This is a message in a bottle that Bai Er made during his childhood; the writing has become somewhat blurred due to the erosion of time.

It was during the month of chance, and the village tradition was to leave something related to chance on the last day, which led to the creation of this message in a bottle.

He wrote down his ideals.

Because of their young age, they could even see some typos in it.

The content mainly consists of his daily anecdotes in the small village, such as: holding a celebration and shouting at the hole where a tooth was thrown in: Hey—come out—!

Once, when Xi Lian and his friends were drawing oracle cards, he drew the Savior card, which everyone liked, but he alone did not.

Behe prefers sojourners and scholars, believing that the savior is glorious and bears a heavy responsibility, which he himself lacks the ability to support.

He had never left the village since he was a child, and his greatest wish was simply to find the most skilled craftsman to make a sword to protect the village.

I hope that in the future, the world will not need a savior.

I think this is the best thing ever.

[Paimon: Hehe, so Bai'er also misspelled words and had some cringeworthy fantasies when he was little. His wish was... that the world didn't need a savior. Waaah, Bai'er, I really hope you're always happy.]

[Ju Fufu: I laughed and cried while watching this, Little Whitey is so cute.]

[Xia Die: Lord Bai'e's wish is to find the most skilled craftsman to forge a sword to protect the village. Lord Hattonus forged Dawn, but it is Onpharos that needs protection; the world needs a savior.]

[Bai'er: The cruel pursuit of fire has extinguished my former dreams. Now I will carry on the wishes of everyone and create a new world.]

[Fu Xuan: May the world not need a savior. Alas, Bai E, this is our inescapable fate; it was destined to come.]

[Jing Yuan: Fu Qing, don't talk so pessimistically. You are the future general of Luofu.]

Bai'er exclaimed in disbelief, "Uh, it's the wishing bottle I wrote on when I was a child... How could it be such a coincidence?"

The two children immediately shook hands and made up, clapping their hands. "Wow! I want to see Brother Bai'er's childhood wish!"

Bai E was embarrassed, his old face turning red. "Let's disperse, let's disperse, no one is allowed to look."

Just then, their parents called them to dinner, and the matter was dropped.

He gazed at the boundless sea in the distance and sighed, "I thought that the wishing bottles we threw into the sea could carry our wishes to the world outside of the Elegant Secret Pavilion, or at least bring back some echoes..."

"Unexpectedly... I was still pushed back by the waves."

Xing blinked her eyes. "I want to see too."

Bai E chuckled awkwardly, "Don't... it's just childish nonsense, nothing to see here."

[Star: Hehe, my dear friend, you wouldn't let me see, but now everyone's seen it!]

[Bai E: ...]

[Mimi: Why is Bai E's face so red? Let's take a picture.]

[Bai E: Hey, no...]

Wendy: The boomerang of her childhood has finally returned to her hands.

[Saifeier: Couldn't it have been pushed back by @LittleFishKnight?]

[Little Fish Knight: Little Cat Fish, do you think Little Golden Trout should listen to me or you?]

[Abao: Pfft~ Well, that depends on who I like more!]

[Aglaia: Suddenly I feel a little uncomfortable with this more human side of myself, but I'm still beautiful.]

Proceed to the next location to search for the Oracle Card.

Bai E looked at Xi Lian and smiled as he recalled the past: "When we were kids, there were only two places we agreed to meet: the statue in the middle of the village, and here."

"Yes! I remember... when you guys called me out to play, you never used the main gate, you always liked to climb over the wall, you were so naughty!"

Xi Lian said playfully, "Like someone else, you can't quite pinpoint when you'll appear, right?"

Xing frowned slightly. Was she talking to me?

"I'm just so unpredictable."

Xi Lian smiled and said, "Hehe! I guess she gave a mischievous answer."

[Xing: Xi Lian, you can see me!]

[Yae no Miko: Pink-haired girls are so mysterious, Kage, don't you think?]

[Shadow: Very smooth, very silky...]

[Yae no Miko: Stop! What are you saying? Is this something they can hear?]

Bai E scratched his head. "Well, anyway, I learned this from storybooks. Heroes don't follow the usual path."