A Girl Dies Every Day in Her Dream Life 279

Chapter 279: The Tombstone

Luo Huaxin had repeatedly advised Luo Xue not to return to this world, and now, the scene she least wanted to see was unfolding before her.

However, even with her cultivation, she couldn’t see through Luo Xue’s current strength.

Not only that, but besides Su Yiyao, she couldn’t gauge Ling Ling’s strength either.

…Was it because they were using the power of another world?

But even so… what use were a few juniors, at most Sea Crossing Realm, probably only Soul Transformation or Tribulation Immortal, against the otherworldly demon invasion that even Saints couldn’t withstand?

It would only bring unnecessary sorrow.

Luo Huaxin looked at Luo Xue with a complicated expression, then after a long silence, she sighed and asked,

“Did Xiao Yingzi bring you back?”

“Yes.”

Luo Xue nodded.

“Trying to surprise me?” Luo Huaxin snorted. “Knowing that we couldn’t sense your auras…”

Luo Xue was also surprised by this.

Ling Ling’s case was understandable, but since Su Yiyao and she herself were cultivators of this world, how could their auras be concealed?

But she recalled the similar situation at the Ground-Based Tower City 1 ruins. Ling Ling had said she hadn’t used any abilities, just stood there.

It seemed… this was a passive, area-of-effect ability.

“Senior Sister told me everything that happened, but the one thing she didn’t know…”

Luo Xue started to ask, but Luo Huaxin interrupted.

“It’s about that mysterious, silver-haired figure, right? This matter is very important, only Phoenix Venerable, the Phoenix Emperor, and I know about it, not even Ziluan… Oh right, and also Li Guijiao, since she had to appear to help you with the celestial ship’s formations.”

Phoenix Venerable and the Phoenix Emperor were currently the only ones in the remnants of the Great Thousand Worlds who could suppress Dugu Di. Although unwilling to take the final step and become Great Emperors, together, they could still rival one.

Dugu Di, no matter how strong, could only reach the Great Emperor Realm. The Great Thousand Worlds, like the nine provinces and four domains back then, had a limit: the Great Emperor Realm, mastering a complete Great Dao.

The reason they called that figure who shattered countless Great Daos “God” was because He truly surpassed the Great Emperor Realm, a terrifying existence beyond the comprehension of the Great Thousand Worlds.

Phoenix Venerable suspected that the silver-haired figure was related to “God” and tried to prevent others from contacting it.

If not for Luo Huaxin being the first to encounter this figure… she wouldn’t even know about it.

“Where is it?”

Luo Xue asked in a deep voice.

“I placed it in a separate world fragment. You can come with me.” Luo Huaxin said, then looked at Ling Ling and Su Yiyao, who were sitting quietly beside her. “But you two can’t.”

“Why?”

Ling Ling and Su Yiyao asked simultaneously, surprised.

Luo Xue also looked at Luo Huaxin questioningly, but Luo Huaxin shook her head.

“Even if you’re both my daughters-in-law, I can’t allow it. That place… even I can’t casually approach it. You, Xiao Xue, can go… because you’re different.”

“…Alright.”

Luo Xue frowned slightly, but she looked at Ling Ling and Su Yiyao reassuringly, worried they would be upset about this separation.

But the two blushed upon hearing Luo Huaxin’s words.

Su Yiyao lowered her head shyly, while Ling Ling looked at Luo Huaxin.

“We understand, Auntie Luo, we’ll wait here for Sister Xue’er.”

“Yes.” Su Yiyao nodded.

This was Ah Chou’s mother! Even her mother had admitted it!

Luo Xue completely ignored the earlier part, thinking it was just Luo Huaxin teasing her. After all, she had tried to pair her with Senior Sister before…

“Still calling me Auntie?”

Luo Huaxin feigned anger, and the two quickly corrected themselves.

“Yes, Mother, we’ll be good.”

Luo Huaxin nodded with satisfaction, a familiar mischievous glint in her eyes as she looked at Luo Xue.

See, just a few words, and everything was settled.

Luo Xue was speechless. Even now, convenient Mother still liked to joke.

“Is this trip dangerous?” Su Yiyao asked worriedly.

“Not dangerous,” Luo Huaxin shook her head, then her expression turned complicated. “Because that world fragment is… never mind, you’ll know when we get there.”

“…We?”

Ling Ling frowned slightly.

“Although you can’t contact the ‘Silver Shadow,’ you can still see it from the outside.” Luo Huaxin said, then stood up. “Let’s go, shall we?”

“Okay.”

Luo Xue nodded, her expression slightly serious.

…

On Xuangu Ship.

Luo Huaxin looked around the celestial ship, and after a long silence, said with emotion, “So this is… a celestial ship.”

“It’s just a part of it. We dismantled Xuangu Ship, keeping only the core.” Luo Xue said. “A real celestial ship is much larger than this.”

“I know.” Luo Huaxin nodded and said softly, “Dugu Di controls five giant, living celestial ships, transformed into otherworldly demons. I… witnessed them crushing the nine provinces and four domains.”

Luo Xue was silent for a moment. When she was lost in the Primordial Chaos, she had seen the gradually transforming celestial ships, but she hadn’t been able to send this information back before falling into her slumber.

Wei’s desperate efforts had been useful, delaying the exposure of Dugu Di’s plan.

If Luo Xue had escaped, those incomplete, living celestial ships wouldn’t have been completed.

Unfortunately, there were no “ifs.” The disaster had already happened.

“But… I feel something strange about this ship…”

Luo Huaxin reached out, touching the wall of Xuangu Ship, then looked at its core, frowning slightly.

“What’s wrong?” Luo Xue asked.

“Nothing, perhaps it’s just my imagination.” Luo Huaxin chuckled. “It feels… familiar, but I’ve never been on Xuangu Ship… not even a normal celestial ship.”

“You also feel that?” Ling Ling said in surprise. “I had a similar feeling many years ago, during my first exploration…”

“So… A’Ling, is that your name? Did you find anything?” Luo Huaxin asked, looking interested.

Ling Ling shook her head regretfully. “Unfortunately, no.”

“I don’t feel anything…”

Luo Xue muttered.

She even had full access to Xuangu Ship, yet she didn’t feel anything like Luo Huaxin and Ling Ling did.

“It’s probably nothing, just a sense of familiarity.” Luo Huaxin smiled, then looked at the navigation beacon, her expression turning serious. “We’ve arrived. It’s just ahead.”

Xuangu Ship stopped in the Primordial Chaos, hovering above a world fragment.

They looked at the image transmitted from the monitoring formation and saw a barely perceptible darkness in the desolate Primordial Chaos, a deep abyss filling a certain area, as if a piece had been scooped out.

“This is… the world fragment you mentioned?”

Luo Xue, instead of relying on the monitoring formation, used her Divine Sense to touch this world fragment.

It wasn’t just a world fragment, but… a black hole, a collapsed world.

Anything within it would be devoured, its time flow incredibly slow, almost frozen.

One second inside, perhaps an entire era outside.

If Luo Xue had to guess its purpose, it could only be one thing:

—A cage.

Could this be a cage specifically for imprisoning something… “god-like”?

Luo Huaxin, seeing the doubt in Luo Xue’s eyes, said softly,

“It wasn’t created just for imprisoning the ‘Silver Shadow.’ Actually… the ‘Silver Shadow’ being placed here was just incidental. Its true purpose… is a ‘tombstone’.”

She lowered her eyelids slightly and continued,

“Our ‘tombstone’.”

A tombstone.

Such a simple word, yet carrying the weight of an entire world.

Luo Xue didn’t speak, sensing the sadness and heaviness in Luo Huaxin’s voice.

“I’ve always… not wanted you to return to this world, because whether it’s me, or the Twin Phoenixes, we all know that this world will eventually… be destroyed, consumed by the otherworldly demon.”

“In other words, this is a world of despair, a world without a future, only chaos and destruction.”

Luo Huaxin looked at the “tombstone” world fragment, her gaze distant.

“We will die, everyone will die, the Great Thousand Worlds will be gone, but… at least, we want other possible worlds to know… that we once existed.”

“This tombstone can preserve anything almost eternally. We placed things, and our wills, within it, to be released at the moment of the Great Thousand Worlds’ destruction, to drift through the Primordial Chaos, until it encounters someone who can understand it… or to wander forever.”

She turned to Luo Xue and smiled faintly. “Actually, Xiao Xue, the idea for the ‘tombstone’ came from you.”

“Me?” Luo Xue was surprised.

“If not for you, we wouldn’t have realized that besides the Great Thousand Worlds, there are other worlds out there.” Luo Huaxin looked at Ling Ling, her gaze softening slightly. “Although small, they still exist.”

Ling Ling, sitting properly, straightened up slightly upon hearing these words, a similar light in her eyes.

Indeed, it was also on Xuangu Ship that she had heard Luo Xue’s communication with Luo Huaxin, finally accepting the existence of another world.

“Anyway, let’s not talk about this, it’s a bit depressing. Although destruction is inevitable, we can still delay it for a few thousand years.” Luo Huaxin chuckled, then continued,

“The reason we placed the ‘Silver Shadow’ there is because it kept moving around. It would be disastrous if ordinary cultivators encountered it, so we had no choice but to choose such a place.”

The near-eternal time freeze of the “tombstone” would trap the “Silver Shadow” forever, and even if it escaped, countless years would have passed in the outside world.

However…

“If that’s the case, how can I contact it?” Luo Xue asked, troubled. “I don’t want to come out and find that the world has already ended.”

“That wouldn’t be so bad.”

Luo Huaxin touched her chin, a thoughtful expression on her face.

“No, Mother!” Luo Xue was startled, and so were Ling Ling and Su Yiyao.

“Ahahaha, just kidding.” Luo Huaxin slapped her forehead and chuckled. “If that were possible, we would have sent everyone there. Unfortunately, it won’t work.”

“Although the ‘tombstone’s’ time is almost frozen, it can’t accommodate living beings. Anyone who enters will be instantly annihilated… without exception.”

“…I also don’t want to die like that.” Luo Xue’s eyelids twitched.

“I’m not asking you to die.” Luo Huaxin shrugged. “If people can’t enter, can’t we just… take things out?”

“We can do that?”

Luo Xue’s eyes widened.

“Of course, why else would we put the ‘Silver Shadow’ there?” Luo Huaxin said matter-of-factly.

“We retrieve it every once in a while to see if there are any messages—the messages you sent are all stored inside. Even after the connection is lost, we can still listen to the recordings.”

“…It has that function?”

Luo Xue was truly shocked. What kind of… sentient, automatic communication device was this?

“Anyway, I don’t really understand it either. I wanted to ask you, why did you send such a thing, but you didn’t know anything either.” Luo Huaxin pouted. “I’ve already taken the ‘Silver Shadow’ out of the ‘tombstone.’ It will appear in the Primordial Chaos soon, you can go and see.”

Luo Huaxin had learned that Luo Xue could enter the Primordial Chaos directly with her physical body. Honestly, when Luo Xue told her this, she almost thought Luo Xue was an illusion.

Luo Xue nodded and entered the Primordial Chaos through Xuangu Ship’s hatch.

Ling Ling and Su Yiyao stared intently at the monitoring screen, while Luo Huaxin waved her hand.

“Don’t bother looking, you won’t see anything. The ‘Silver Shadow’ is similar to an illusion to the formation, it will be filtered out. Just wait for Xiao Xue’s news.”