Night of Despair

Yu Hong also smiled.

He wouldn't tell her that the land of vitality was something he had just conjured up ten minutes ago.

The real land of vitality never truly existed.

The hope of Wuji Heavenly Venerate was nothing but an illusion from start to finish.

But the difference now is that he has the ability to turn this illusion into reality.

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Ten years later.....

Above a vast emerald green grassland, a white jade floating platform with a diameter of a hundred meters hovered.

On the platform were several sun umbrellas, with fixed lounge chairs beneath them.

Quan He and Yiyi, both in swimsuits, lay back on the chairs, sipping juice and chatting leisurely.

Not far away on the platform, there was a sky-blue swimming pool, and in the pool, Ku Chan was carefully holding a little girl a few years old, helping her learn how to move in the water.

On the shore beside him, a beautiful woman with sharp features stood with her hands on her hips, holding a child's sippy cup, speaking spiritedly about something.

Swoosh!

Suddenly, a white light flashed, and Feng Xuezi, covered in black ash, appeared by the poolside.

"Where's Yu Hong!? That kid dumped the task of reconstructing the mountain gate on me and ran off. I've already said I'm still weak, haven't fully recovered, and yet he insists I exert myself! Now look, it blew up! The mountain gate array completely blew up!"

Feng Xuezi shouted furiously.

"Uncle-Master, this is not the Qinghe Mountain Universe of the past anymore. It'll take time for your cultivation to fully recover. Senior Brother asked you to help out, hoping to speed up your recovery." Quan He stood up, draped a towel over himself, and walked closer with a smile.

"I just can't adapt, can I?" Feng Xuezi said exasperatedly, "Anyway, you're his wife, you talk to him, I think detailed work like reconstruction is best suited for Fu Bai. I'm old and impatient; it's better for me to rest more."

"Senior Brother just went out to salvage old things again. You can speak to him when he gets back." Quan He smiled.

"You just tell him for me. By the way, over at Floating City, aren't Ku Chan's teachers very fast at rebuilding? Why not have your husband get them to help out? Also, can't he help out himself? Always running around salvaging, didn't they already bring everyone from Floating City and Wanxue Palace back? What's there left to salvage?"

"Husband said there are still a few seniors he admires that haven't been rescued." Yiyi approached from the other side.

"That kid just has a busy life by nature." Feng Xuezi was speechless. "You two better be careful, don't let him bring back a few pretty girls. I heard from Hope City that many young girls even formed a Golden Sparrow Tower, supposedly all fans of Zheng Rou, worshippers he rescued...."

"Thank you, Uncle-Master, don't worry, Yiyi and I will keep an eye on him...." Quan He laughed it off.

"Though remembering how I used to wander aimlessly during the Source Disaster, now that everything is stable and rebuilt, it all feels like a dream...." She smiled and sighed.

"I feel the same way too..." Feng Xuezi pondered and nodded slightly.

"But on second thought, if it's fake, why am I still getting pushed by that kid to rebuild Qinghe Mountain everywhere? Shouldn't illusions fulfill your desires, make you not want to wake up?"

"Alright, let's not talk about this. Last time Senior Brother went out, he said he found Yu Xuezi's masters. Maybe this time, he'll bring them back." Quan He smiled.

"Yu Xuezi..." Feng Xuezi's spirit lifted, just as he was about to say more, he suddenly looked up.

At this moment, everyone else, Quan He, Yiyi, Ku Chan's family, all looked up.

In the sky, a silver vortex slowly appeared.

From the center of the vortex, Black Black Spirit flew out, calm and slow.

As it flew out, a door on its side automatically opened.

Yu Xuezi, Bai Sheng, and Hei Ying slowly flew out, their faces dazed as they observed the surroundings.

Behind them, Yu Hong, clad in a floral shirt and beach shorts with sandals, also flew out, heading straight down to Quan He and Yiyi.

As soon as he flew out a few meters, he saw the blackened Feng Xuezi below.

"Uncle-Master, you're slacking off again!!" Yu Hong's expression became stern.

"What do you mean slacking off! I'm a Golden Immortal! Do you understand what a Golden Immortal is? It means today I need to rest, I can't rest and play all the time, why else did I cultivate immortality!?" Feng Xuezi was dissatisfied, "Since Junior Brother is here, let them take over! I'm leaving!"

"Senior Brother.... you're still the same..." Yu Xuezi laughed. "But it's okay, this time Zheng Rou has brought back most of our sect, the reconstruction will require much less effort."

Yu Hong shook his head speechlessly, letting the senior brothers reminisce, while he turned and flew toward Quan He and Yiyi.

He had already sensed some movement in their bellies.

If nothing unexpected happens, he could finally form his own family here.

As he flew closer, he was about to ask about the situation. But Quan He spoke first.

"By the way, Senior Brother, after you left this morning, the phone you left on the lab table suddenly rang. It seemed like you got a text message."

"Phone?" Yu Hong was taken aback.

He hadn't used a phone in a long time, and the one on the lab table, wasn't that the black phone he used in his past life!?

But that phone wasn't even connected to the internet, and it was inside an isolation array on the lab table, it shouldn't have received any messages!

"I'll go check it out." He said.

"Alright."

In the next moment, Yu Hong vanished, reappearing in a quiet white lab room.

On the chaotic circular lab table, a black phone was ringing with a text message notification sound.

Yu Hong was astonished by the timing.

He looked around to confirm there was nothing else amiss, and no presence of Heart Disaster.

Only then did he step forward and pick up the black phone.

He unlocked it and opened the screen, there was a list of unread messages in the inbox.

He casually opened one to read.

'Old Yu, are you coming to the gathering this weekend?' —— Chen Huiru.

His heart trembled, quickly opening other messages.

The rest were all carrier advertisements and scam messages.

'Seems like my reversal time-space processing on the phone worked....'

Holding the phone, countless black pupils with golden irises suddenly emerged densely on Yu Hong's face.

All the eyes looked at the phone screen, and immediately, everything around turned dark and black.

Time reversed again, and the phone began to rewind, displaying the entire process when he first came into this world.

Soon.... in the darkness, faint purple phosphorescence began to appear on the phone's surface.

The phosphorescence changed violently every moment, flashing through massive trajectories of light and shadow.

Hiss!

Suddenly, all the phosphorescence on the phone converged to a single point, shooting out a purple light.

The purple light entered the space, as if piercing into some unknown void.

Yu Hong gazed at that void, vaguely hearing countless chaotic noises from within.

He hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward.

The purple light in front of him, as if influenced by his mind, condensed into a purple portal.

He had a feeling that through the door, he might see the world he traversed before....