A Girl Dies Every Day in Her Dream Life 215

Chapter 215: The Collapse of the Great Dao and His Existence

The “caged world,” the nine provinces and four domains, was formed from Nangong’s small world. Back then, to preserve the last embers of humanity, she severed its connection with the Great Thousand Worlds.

However, Nangong still left a small backdoor, known only to a few high-ranking members of the Nangong clan: this teleportation formation.

Unfortunately, the previous otherworldly demon disaster had damaged the formation, and it hadn’t been repaired to this day.

This had always been a lingering regret for Great-Grandmother. Like Dugu Di, she had been excited when she heard about the appearance of a formation genius in the barbarian lands.

But… the Nangong clan’s situation was similar to Dugu Di’s, closely watched by the other ancient clans.

Great-Grandmother was worried about the teleportation formation to the “cage” being exposed, so she hadn’t gone to the barbarian lands to invite the formation genius.

Now, with the otherworldly demon crisis resurfacing, the ancient clans were preoccupied and didn’t dare to offend the Nangong clan, so they had withdrawn their attention.

And thanks to a fortunate coincidence, she had met Luo Xue, which was why Great-Grandmother had this idea.

“So?”

Great-Grandmother looked at Luo Xue intently, apprehension in her heart.

“Of course, no problem.” Luo Xue nodded.

Even if Great-Grandmother hadn’t asked, she would have found a way to have Li Guijiao come here and repair the formation.

Li Guijiao had been working in the barbarian lands for a thousand years, just to find a way home.

She believed that there must be a “door” between the nine provinces and four domains and the Great Thousand Worlds. As long as she found this door, she could go home.

And after searching through all the ancient texts, Li Guijiao believed that the most likely place for this door to be was in the barbarian lands.

But who would have thought that the Nangong clan had moved the door long ago…

“Actually…”

Luo Xue hesitated. She wanted to reveal her identity to Great-Grandmother.

But Great-Grandmother seemed to see through her and shook her head, saying softly,

“Perhaps you have something you want to tell me, but this old woman… is already too old. I’ve known too many secrets in my life, and I don’t want to carry more to my grave. It’s a heavy burden.”

Having kept secrets for countless years, Great-Grandmother was exhausted.

Before her deadline, she had fulfilled her mission, and now, being able to mend this long-standing regret, Great-Grandmother felt that her life was complete.

“…Alright.”

Luo Xue nodded.

“Oh right, Ziluan wants to see you,” Great-Grandmother took out a purple feather and handed it to Luo Xue. “This is her token. Infuse it with spiritual power, and you can talk to her projection.”

“But it’s up to you. If you don’t want to see her, then don’t.”

“Ziluan? Who is that…”

Luo Xue took the feather and asked curiously.

She didn’t know anyone named Ziluan…

“Nangong Ziluan, oh, the little girl you call the Empress.” Great-Grandmother said slowly,

“She wants to see you because of Dugu Di. It seems you and Dugu Di reached some kind of agreement in the barbarian lands, which made her a bit nervous. When Ziluan came to see me yesterday, I thought the ancient clans were rebelling… I’ve never seen her with that kind of expression.”

“The… Empress?” Luo Xue rubbed the feather, her lips twitching. “Doesn’t she get along with the Immortal Emperor?”

“Something like that.”

Great-Grandmother’s answer was vague. There were some things she couldn’t say clearly, as it involved much more than just the Nangong clan.

“…I’ll think about it.”

Luo Xue put away the feather. She knew how beneficial her agreement with Dugu Di was to him…

Once Immortal Slaughter was repaired, Dugu Di would regain his peak combat power, enough to sweep through the Great Thousand Worlds, and the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty’s conquests would resume.

So… could it be that the Empress wanted to… reprimand her?

Although Luo Xue wasn’t afraid of the Empress, being targeted by a Sea Crossing Realm expert was still troublesome.

“It’s fine, you don’t have to do anything for the Nangong clan. Ziluan, in her position, represents more than just the Nangong clan.” Great-Grandmother shook her head. “And… I heard you and Xiao Mian are friends?”

“Yes, we went through a lot together in the Blood Sea Secret Realm.” Luo Xue nodded.

“She woke up from her Enlightenment Core Formation a few days ago and has been asking to see you, saying she’s sorry.” A smile appeared on Great-Grandmother’s wrinkled face. “If you have time, go see her.”

Normally, Nangong Mian wouldn’t be on Great-Grandmother’s radar, unless she reached the same level as her sister, Nangong Ling.

Great-Grandmother had seen countless geniuses like that in her long life, even personally sending many off.

But Nangong Mian’s Enlightenment Core Formation, mastering the Desolate Extinction Scripture, and the potential she displayed, even reaching the Sea Crossing Realm, had shocked the clan elders.

The Core Formation secret realms were no longer restricted to her, and the Nangong clan was willing to provide her with abundant resources, even several times, or even dozens of times, more than what was considered necessary.

Even just one more Sea Crossing Realm cultivator was a significant boost to the Nangong clan’s strength.

…It was just tough on the current Core Formation disciples. They could only hope that Nangong Mian would quickly advance and not stay at Core Formation for too long.

“This… alright, but it’s not her fault that my body and soul were destroyed.”

Luo Xue scratched the back of her head. She could imagine why Nangong Mian felt sorry.

When she touched the will of withering, her body and soul had started to be eroded, and Nangong Mian must have witnessed this and blamed herself.

It was actually Luo Xue’s own carelessness. Every time she used the will of withering, the price was heavy.

“But thinking about it, Luo Xue, you’re truly amazing.” Great-Grandmother smiled meaningfully. “Gaining our ancestor’s approval, making a deal with Dugu Di that even Ziluan is worried about, and even the arrogant Ling’er has high praise for you… Compared to this, even the little princess’s attention seems insignificant.”

“Not at all,” Luo Xue touched her nose awkwardly, embarrassed by the praise, “just a few fortunate coincidences…”

“The affairs of you young people, heh… I’m already old.” Great-Grandmother shook her head self-deprecatingly. “Go on, leave the Nangong Sacred Land. That little girl from the imperial family must be waiting anxiously. Don’t keep her waiting.”

Why did these words sound so strange?

But Great-Grandmother was right. She couldn’t leave Dugu Xue in the wilderness any longer. She was still sick.

It had been several months since Luo Xue left the imperial palace for the Nangong Sacred Land. She didn’t know how Dugu Xue was doing.

If Luo Xue hadn’t taught Dugu Xue the modified Xuanyin Phoenix Transformation Scripture, her illness would probably be incurable by now, even the Immortal Emperor couldn’t do anything.

But… how effective was the modified Xuanyin Phoenix Transformation Scripture? Luo Xue wasn’t sure. After all, it was just a temporary solution.

“In that case, Great-Grandmother, I’ll take my leave.” Luo Xue bowed. “As for this teleportation formation, when the time is right, I’ll invite a formation master to repair it.”

“No rush, this old woman can still live for a few hundred years.” Great-Grandmother said with a smile. “As long as I can see the formation reactivated before I die… I’ll be satisfied.”

“There’s no need to worry about that, it won’t take a few hundred years.”

Luo Xue replied. Even Li Guijiao probably didn’t want to wait that long. She would definitely find a way to repair it as soon as possible.

But there was another problem, the Gatekeeper, Phoenix Venerable…

Luo Xue wasn’t sure about her attitude. There had been some connection between the Great Thousand Worlds and the nine provinces and four domains back then, but after being severed for so long, if it was re-established… would Phoenix Venerable object?

“There’s one more thing, the recent otherworldly demon crisis.” Great-Grandmother’s tone turned serious when she mentioned the otherworldly demon. “This matter… I’m only telling you this, do not spread it around. The truth is too cruel, even the ancient clans would struggle to bear it.”

Luo Xue’s expression turned serious. Great-Grandmother was the closest to the ancient era. The secrets she knew… must be incredibly important.

“Please tell me.”

Luo Xue composed herself.

“Actually, the otherworldly demon crisis is just the beginning of a long calamity,” Great-Grandmother said slowly. “Even the otherworldly demon Great Emperor who ended the ancient era isn’t the true source of this disaster.”

“Our… the true enemy of the Great Thousand Worlds, shattered this world in the past, dividing it into different worlds, scattered throughout the Primordial Chaos, forming different civilizations.”

Great-Grandmother looked deeply at Luo Xue and said,

“Although I don’t know what kind of agreement you reached with Dugu Di, you should know that he is also an outsider. The only difference between him and the otherworldly demons… might be that he possesses ‘reason’.”

“…Yes, I know.”

Luo Xue nodded, thinking that she was also an outsider.

Unlike the nine provinces and four domains, which shared the same origin as the Great Thousand Worlds, outsiders like Dugu Di, from the Primordial Chaos civilization, and Luo Xue, a transmigrator from the post-apocalyptic world, came from different worlds.

Even to the post-apocalyptic world, Luo Xue was an outsider.

She was originally a high school girl who died in a car accident…

“However, the true enemy of civilization isn’t the otherworldly demons. Even Ancestor Nangong couldn’t uncover this truth.” Great-Grandmother continued. “But… at the end of the collapsing Great Dao, Ancestor Nangong vaguely saw a figure, and she called this figure…”

“—’God’.”

“‘God’?”

Luo Xue pondered this word, recalling the unusual power she discovered in the traces left by the otherworldly demon.

“That’s… all I know.” Great-Grandmother stopped, her cloudy eyes drooping slightly. “The rest… is up to you.”

She was the bridge between the ancient era and the current era, but eventually, this bridge would collapse.

Only the cultivators of this era could save it.

Luo Xue was silent for a moment, then bowed deeply to Great-Grandmother.

Not just to Great-Grandmother, but also to the ancient era behind her.

She knew that with the revival of the otherworldly demon disaster, the golden age of the Great Thousand Worlds was coming to an end.

What awaited them… was an insurmountable tribulation.

…

Meanwhile, within the Yudu Clan.

As the ancient clan most affected by the otherworldly demon disaster, the Yudu Clan had lost all of their ancestral land, and about 20% of their members had died, countless others injured.

Despair filled the Yudu Clan, and 30 to 40% of their disciples had left, defying clan orders.

But Yudu Cheng, the current Clan Leader, wasn’t panicked at all.

He spent all his time in the fallen ancestral land, alongside the otherworldly demon, completely cutting off contact with his clan since the disaster began.

The clan elders had tried to contact him many times, but he refused to see anyone, forcing the Yudu Clan to abandon him.

…But no one knew that Yudu Cheng, the current Clan Leader, was actually… the first Clan Leader of the Yudu Clan.

A contemporary of Nangong.

He had used the method of ancestral possession, cultivating a demonic heart within his Dao, taking over the bodies of countless descendants, finally regaining his position as Clan Leader in this era, to continue his plan.

And no one knew that this otherworldly demon crisis was actually instigated by Yudu Cheng.

In the dark, confined space, Yudu Cheng, in the appearance of a stern, middle-aged man, had his eyes closed. Beside him was a small piece of the otherworldly demon’s flesh, twisting and struggling, but firmly suppressed by a technique.

“Indeed… my guess was correct, this otherworldly demon… was left behind by ‘God’.”

Yudu Cheng opened his eyes, a look of excitement on his face.

He looked at the demonic remains with a burning gaze, filled with greed.

“Before ‘God,’ what are Saints, what are Great Emperors! This is true power… even the Great Dao can only crumble before Him, no one can resist!”

Nangong had seen a glimpse of “Him” at the end of the collapsing Great Dao, and Yudu Cheng, her contemporary and equal, had a similar experience.

But the difference was that Nangong saw someone else’s Dao collapsing, while Yudu Cheng, unfortunately, saw his own.

After the Dao collapsed, all cultivators who followed that path lost their cultivation, falling from Saint directly to Soul Transformation, like the White Tiger spirit.

How terrifying…