"Hmm..."
Luo Xue rubbed her temples habitually, trying to ease the pain brought by the mottled fragments of memory in her mind, and soon she realized where she was.
"Ah, I think I'm back."
Luo Xue sat up and looked around.
This familiar environment and the thin spiritual power are extremely similar to the indelible part of her memory.
At this moment, she suddenly heard a delicate moan in her ear. When she turned her head to look, her pupils trembled violently, "Xiao, Xiaoyao?"
That’s right. The little girl rubbing her eyes with sleepy eyes next to her was Su Yiyao, who had experienced life and death with her in the four regions of Kyushu. Except for her short curly purple hair, she looked no different from the one in her memory.
"Ah Chou..."
Su Yiyao seemed not to be fully awake yet, but she felt safe being by Luo Xue's side. Her little nose moved slightly, as if she was sniffing Luo Xue's scent, and her little head rubbed against her arms.
"It really is...Xiaoyao."
Luo Xue stretched out her slightly trembling hands and gently touched Su Yiyao's cheek. The touch from her fingertips told her that this was not an illusion, Xiaoyao was real.
Xiaoyao really followed her to... the post-apocalyptic world.
What's going on
Luo Xue vaguely remembered that after she witnessed the truth about the Wandering Immortal Boat in Guixu, she fell into a coma. It seemed that she had not even entered the previous consciousness space and had returned to the post-apocalyptic world.
But...how did Xiaoyao follow here
Just when Luo Xue was confused, Su Yiyao finally woke up from her long trance.
She stood up slightly in Luo Xue's arms, stared at Luo Xue with her beautiful big eyes for a while, then reached out and pinched Luo Xue's face, and finally leaned back into Luo Xue's arms.
"... ..."
Luo Xue was stunned by this series of familiar operations. She quickly picked up Su Yiyao, who was still mumbling, "A Chou, don't move. If you move again, you will wake up... and I won't be able to see you anymore..."
Hearing this, Luo Xue didn't know whether to laugh or cry. It turned out that Xiaoyao thought it was just a dream. However, she felt a little emotional at the same time. How many times must Xiaoyao have experienced such dreams to be so skilled in it
"Don't sleep, Xiaoyao, this is not a dream..."
Luo Xue picked up Su Yiyao and rubbed her hair.
"Dream... "
Su Yiyao, who was in a trance, finally gradually reacted. After realizing what was going on, she almost jumped up and stared at Luo Xue with wide eyes.
"No, it's not a dream?"
Su Yiyao walked around Luo Xue in disbelief, tugged at her clothes, and then slapped herself.
After a crisp sound, she covered her face and was about to cry again, "Really... It's not a dream..."
"Okay, okay, why are you still acting like a little kid?" Luo Xue's expression flashed with helplessness, but her eyes were filled with a little doting. "But... we haven't seen each other for a long time, Xiaoyao."
"One thousand three hundred and sixty-six years and seven days." Su Yiyao sobbed, "I thought I would never see you again..."
A hundred years after Luo Xue's body sank into the depths of the Sea of Withering, Su Yiyao already knew that her Achou was dead and the consciousness within Wan Zai Withering's body had completely perished.
If it weren't for her previous experience that made her firmly believe that Luo Xue would be reincarnated in another place, and there was still a glimmer of hope, she would never have been able to persist for more than a thousand years.
But soon, Su Yiyao remembered everything that happened before she followed Luo Xue into this world. She hurriedly checked Luo Xue's current body and wanted to tear open her clothes to see the situation. Luo Xue was so scared that she quickly wrapped herself tightly.
"Xiaoyao, what do you want to do?"
"A Chou, do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?" Su Yiyao asked nervously, "For example, your soul is scattered, your consciousness is lost, etc."
"... If so, can I still talk to you normally like this?" Luo Xue curled the corners of her mouth. She really didn't know what Xiao Yao was worried about.
Su Yiyao was still worried. After checking several aspects, she frowned slightly and said,
"The situation was urgent at the time, so I directly merged my previous withered body with your soul..."
"ah?"
Luo Xue was stunned when she heard this, and even she began to check her own body.
I hadn't noticed it just now, but now I see that I'm still wearing a monk's robe, the same one I wore when I was sealed in the immortal coffin.
But the strange thing is that this should be the withered body of ten thousand years, but it does not show any characteristics of a withered body.
There was no emanating will of death to pollute the surroundings, nor was there any aura of death emerging. It seemed to be just an ordinary body.
When Luo Xue looked inward, she also did not notice anything unusual. Her soul was stable and her consciousness was clear.
But... there's still something strange.
Luo Xue now has no sea of consciousness, no spiritual orifice, and no Dan formation...
But his cultivation seemed to still be there, and he could exert great power with every move he made, as if he had embarked on another system of cultivation that could not be described simply by the state of mind.
Luo Xue wanted to open the panel to see what was going on, but something even stranger happened. The panel she saw was full of mottled and messy garbled characters, and she couldn't see the content clearly.
"broken... "
Luo Xue murmured.
"Is there really a problem?"
Su Yiyao became even more nervous after hearing that. She picked up Luo Xue on her back and planned to take her somewhere.
"No, no, put me down... It's not this that's broken, it's something else." Luo Xue quickly patted Su Yiyao's little head and said.
"oh."
Su Yiyao put Luo Xue down and lowered her head slightly, like a child who had done something wrong.
Luo Xue's sensitivity towards Su Yiyao was helpless but also a little touching. Fortunately, it now seemed that after the fusion of her eternal immortal soul and her withered body, they had accidentally reached a certain balance.
In other words, it is good news that the tragedy described by Huang Zun did not occur.
After calming herself down a little, Luo Xue looked at Su Yiyao, then looked at the surrounding environment, frowning slightly.
Now the question is...
Why did Su Yiyao follow me into this world
Since she had lost part of her memory, Luo Xue had to ask Su Yiyao what happened after she lost consciousness in Guixu.
After Su Yiyao recalled carefully for a while, she told Luo Xue everything she knew.
At that time, Luo Xue's soul and consciousness were about to be annihilated in the withered blood sea in Guixu. The purple bird transformed from Huang Zun's consciousness finally revived again and saw the scene of Luo Xue's death.
Without much hesitation, Huang Zun contacted Feng Zun who was far away in the four regions of Kyushu through the induction between the Withering Blood Sea, and met Su Yiyao who was drifting and meditating on the Blood Sea at that time.
After briefly explaining the problem, Feng Zun brought Su Yiyao through the Withered Sea and arrived at Guixu, where they finally met Luo Xue.
Feng Zun took action to retain Luo Xue's consciousness so that she was not immediately taken away by the consciousness space. This was why Luo Xue felt two forces pulling her at that time.
Then, Feng Zun placed Luo Xue's consciousness into Wanzai Withering's body and successfully stabilized Luo Xue's condition, but still could not change the outcome that she would be taken away by some force.
At this time, Su Yiyao, despite the dissuasion of Feng Zun and Huang Zun, personally stepped into Guixu, determined to live and die with Luo Xue.
Just then, Luo Xue woke up and the two of them met.
Finally, with Su Yiyao's insistence, they fell into the consciousness space together and finally came to this post-apocalyptic world together.
It's just... Su Yiyao wasn't very clear about the specific details. She just vaguely remembered that Feng Zun seemed to have insight into the truth of the consciousness space at the last moment, but didn't have time to tell her.
"Is this... okay?"
Luo Xue's eyelids twitched slightly. She didn't know whether this matter was worth celebrating. However, being able to be with Su Yiyao was not a bad thing after all.
"But Ah Chou, where is this?" Su Yiyao looked around in confusion, "The spiritual energy is very thin, and it feels very strange to me..."
"My hometown. I used to be here."
Luo Xue looked at the bitter cold around her with some nostalgia. When she was a mortal, such a disaster would undoubtedly be a catastrophe for her, but now... the so-called bitter cold was not worth mentioning at all.
"oh."
Su Yiyao nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
It doesn’t matter where Achou’s hometown is, what matters is... she is with Achou now.
Thinking of this, Su Yiyao hugged Luo Xue's arms tightly again.
"If I can enter Guixu, maybe I can return to the four regions of Jiuzhou through Guixu..." Luo Xue said in a low voice.
"What?" Su Yiyao tilted her head and asked in confusion, "Why can we go back through Guixu..."
"Don't you know?"
Luo Xue's expression was slightly surprised, and she told Su Yiyao the truth about the world.
After listening patiently, Su Yiyao said seriously,
“I know, Master has already told me these things.
"But... I can be sure that there is no way to go through Guixu to the four regions of Kyushu or the universe."
This time it was Luo Xue's turn to be confused. Since this was just a fragment of the world, why couldn't she go to another fragment of the world
"Because... it's not the same world." Su Yiyao said softly, "This place doesn't belong to the universe.
"This is another world, a world completely different from the world of the universe... Ah Chou, can't you feel it?"
She stretched out her hand and gathered some spiritual power from the natural disaster, "The spiritual energy here does not belong to this world, so it caused such a catastrophic storm.
"The whole world is rejecting these spiritual powers."
Luo Xue's pupils shrank slightly. She raised her head and looked around at these endless disasters, these natural calamities that brought suffering to human civilization.
It was not until now that she finally realized where all this came from.
"Yes, pre-civilization..."
It was a pre-civilization based on cultivating immortals. They brought suspended towers and natural disaster engines, but they also brought endless and ever-lasting natural disasters.
Luo Xue had not felt it before because her realm had not yet reached the level of resonance with heaven and earth. But now she cannot even be called an immortal cultivator, let alone detect this abnormality.
"A Chou, is your hometown really here?" Su Yiyao frowned slightly. She looked at Luo Xue and said softly, "I didn't feel it in your body..."
"Ah, of course, of course. Maybe I've been to the Great Thousand World, so there are some changes."
Luo Xue quickly laughed and changed the subject, "By the way, let's find a place to stay first. I have a few friends here, let me introduce them to you."
"Ah Chou's friend..."
Hearing Luo Xue mention this, Su Yiyao inexplicably became alert, and immediately put her previous doubts behind her, and nodded seriously, "Yes, Ah Chou's friends are my friends!"
"Haha, I hope you can get along well..."
Luo Xue said embarrassedly, secretly relieved in her heart.
Now Su Yiyao's realm has reached a level that she can't see through, and she is keenly aware that she is not a native of this world either...
This is even more difficult to explain, and Luo Xue doesn't want to go into it any further.
Looking up slightly in the direction where the light of eternal day was shining, Luo Xue quickly determined her location in the post-apocalyptic world and immediately locked onto the location of the suspended tower where she had been before she left, the tower that had fallen to the ground.
I don’t know... How many years have passed in this world
Ten years? Twenty years? Or even... a hundred years
She just hoped that what she would see would not be the white-haired Ling'er, or a desolate grave.
... ...
"Sister Ling, have you heard? The ground tower plan proposed by the Sage was rejected by the parliament again!" Celis lowered her voice and spoke carefully in Ling Ling's ear.
At the same time, she was looking around, afraid that others would hear her, even if it was in her room.
"I heard some rumors." Ling Ling nodded, thinking that she had just left the parliament, how could the news spread so quickly.
“Wow, Sister Ling, you got this news?” Celis’ eyes widened. “This is exclusive inside information that our editor-in-chief spent a lot of effort to get. I also heard it secretly.”
"Hehe... Even though you are a few years older than me, you will always have some special eyes and ears that belong to the elders." Ling Ling still maintained her unchanged smile.
"Hmm, you definitely don't know what's next."
Celis put her hands on her hips, looked around warily for a while, and whispered, "It is said that the parliament wants to force the wise man to step down!"
"oh?"
Ling Ling was slightly stunned when she heard this, and even the smile on her lips faded a little.
Seeing Ling Ling showing such a rare expression, Celis was even more proud and continued, "Sister Ling, do you want to know more? Come and ask me, come and ask me!"