A Girl Dies Every Day in Her Dream Life 252

Chapter 252: The Cultivator Who Brought the Apocalypse

The vast land was ravaged by endless natural disasters.

Amidst a blizzard, a silver-haired girl slowly opened her eyes. The freezing temperature didn’t bother her, but the familiar yet unfamiliar surroundings confused her.

“Ugh…”

Luo Xue rubbed her temples, trying to alleviate the pain from the fragmented memories, then realized where she was.

“Ah… I’m back.”

Luo Xue sat up and looked around. The familiar environment and thin spiritual energy were incredibly similar to a place etched in her memory.

Just then, she heard a soft moan, turned her head, and her eyes widened. “Xiao… Yao?”

Beside her, rubbing her eyes sleepily, was Su Yiyao, the girl she had shared life and death with in the nine provinces and four domains. Except for her short, curly, purplish-red hair, she looked exactly the same.

“Ah Chou…”

Su Yiyao, still half-asleep, snuggled closer to Luo Xue, nuzzling her face against her, as if seeking her scent.

“It really is… Xiao Yao.”

Luo Xue’s hands trembled slightly as she gently touched Su Yiyao’s cheek, the sensation confirming that this wasn’t an illusion.

Xiao Yao had actually followed her to… the post-apocalyptic world.

How…

Luo Xue vaguely remembered collapsing after witnessing the truth of the Wandering Celestial Ships, her consciousness returning to the post-apocalyptic world without even entering the intermediary space.

But… how did Xiao Yao come with her?

As Luo Xue pondered, Su Yiyao finally woke up.

She sat up slightly in Luo Xue’s arms, stared at her with her beautiful eyes, pinched Luo Xue’s cheek, then snuggled back into her embrace.

“…”

This familiar series of actions stunned Luo Xue, and she hugged Su Yiyao. Su Yiyao was still murmuring, “Ah Chou, don’t move, or I’ll wake up… and I won’t see you anymore…”

Luo Xue couldn’t help but smile wryly. So Xiao Yao still thought this was a dream. How many times had she dreamed of this, for her to be so familiar with it?

“Wake up, Xiao Yao, this isn’t a dream…”

Luo Xue hugged Su Yiyao and rubbed her hair.

“Dream…”

Su Yiyao gradually came to her senses, and realizing the situation, she almost jumped up, staring at Luo Xue with wide eyes.

“It’s… not a dream?”

Su Yiyao paced around Luo Xue, tugged on her clothes, then slapped herself. She covered her face, tears welling up. “It’s really… not a dream…”

“Alright, alright, why are you still acting like a child.” Luo Xue’s expression was helpless, but her eyes were filled with affection. “But… it has been a long time, Xiao Yao.”

“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 had known that her Ah Chou was dead, her consciousness within the Eternal Withering Body annihilated.

If not for her past experiences, the belief that Luo Xue would be reborn somewhere else, a sliver of hope, she wouldn’t have been able to endure these thousand years.

But Su Yiyao quickly recalled everything that happened before coming to this world. She checked Luo Xue’s body, even trying to pull open her clothes, making Luo Xue quickly cover herself.

“Xiao Yao, what are you doing?”

“Ah Chou, are you… feeling unwell?” Su Yiyao asked anxiously. “Like… your soul dissipating, or losing your consciousness…?”

“…If I was, would I be able to talk to you normally?” Luo Xue twitched her lips, not understanding Xiao Yao’s worries.

Su Yiyao, still not reassured, checked again, then frowned slightly.

“The situation was urgent, so I just… merged your soul with your previous Eternal Withering Body…”

“Huh?”

Luo Xue was stunned and checked her own body.

She hadn’t noticed it before, but she was wearing a cultivator’s robe, the same one she wore when she was placed in the immortal coffin.

But strangely, this should be her Eternal Withering Body, but it didn’t show any signs of withering.

There was no emanating will of withering, no aura of death and decay, just an ordinary body.

And when she looked within her soul, Luo Xue didn’t find anything unusual either, her soul stable, her consciousness clear.

But… there was something strange.

Luo Xue didn’t have a sea of consciousness, nor a spiritual aperture, nor a core…

But she still had her cultivation, able to exert great power, as if she had embarked on a different cultivation system, not measurable by ordinary realms.

Luo Xue wanted to open the panel, but it was filled with garbled characters, unreadable.

“This is bad…”

Luo Xue murmured.

“Is something wrong?”

Su Yiyao became even more anxious and was about to carry Luo Xue somewhere.

“No, no, put me down… not that kind of bad, it’s something else.” Luo Xue patted Su Yiyao’s head.

“Oh.”

Su Yiyao put Luo Xue down, her head lowered slightly, like a child who had done something wrong.

Luo Xue felt both helpless and touched by Su Yiyao’s concern. It seemed that after merging with her Eternal Withering Body, her Eternal Soul of Antiquity had somehow achieved a balance.

In other words, the tragic outcome described by the Phoenix Emperor hadn’t happened, which was good news.

Luo Xue composed herself, looked at Su Yiyao, then at her surroundings, and frowned slightly.

The question was…

Why did Su Yiyao follow her to this world?

Having lost some of her memories, Luo Xue could only ask Su Yiyao what had happened after she lost consciousness in the Primordial Chaos.

Su Yiyao, after recalling carefully, told Luo Xue everything she knew.

As Luo Xue’s soul and consciousness were about to be annihilated in the Sea of Withering, the Phoenix Emperor, in her purple bird form, had awakened and witnessed Luo Xue’s final moments.

Without hesitation, the Phoenix Emperor, through the connection between the Seas of Withering, contacted Phoenix Venerable, who was in the nine provinces and four domains, and met Su Yiyao, who was meditating on the Blood Sea.

After briefly explaining the situation, Phoenix Venerable brought Su Yiyao to the Primordial Chaos through the Sea of Withering and finally found Luo Xue.

Phoenix Venerable preserved Luo Xue’s consciousness, preventing it from being taken away immediately by the intermediary space. This was why Luo Xue had felt two forces pulling at her.

Then, Phoenix Venerable placed Luo Xue’s consciousness within her Eternal Withering Body, stabilizing her condition, but she couldn’t prevent Luo Xue from being taken away by some other force.

And at that moment, Su Yiyao, ignoring Phoenix Venerable and the Phoenix Emperor’s warnings, entered the Primordial Chaos, determined to be with Luo Xue.

Then, Luo Xue awakened, and they were reunited.

Finally, driven by Su Yiyao’s persistence, they entered the intermediary space together and arrived in this post-apocalyptic world.

However… Su Yiyao didn’t know the specifics. She only vaguely remembered that Phoenix Venerable, in her final moments, seemed to have grasped the true nature of the intermediary space, but didn’t have time to tell her.

“So… that’s how it is…”

Luo Xue’s eyelid twitched. She didn’t know whether to be happy or not. But being with Su Yiyao again wasn’t a bad thing.

“But Ah Chou, where are we?” Su Yiyao looked around, confused. “The spiritual energy is so thin, and this place… feels unfamiliar…”

“My hometown, I used to live here.”

Luo Xue looked at the surrounding extreme cold disaster with a hint of nostalgia. As a mortal, this disaster had been a nightmare to her, but now… this so-called extreme cold was nothing.

“Oh.”

Su Yiyao nodded, not asking further.

It didn’t matter where Ah Chou’s hometown was. What mattered was… she was with Ah Chou now.

Thinking of this, Su Yiyao hugged Luo Xue’s arm tighter.

“If we can enter the Primordial Chaos, perhaps we can return to the nine provinces and four domains through it…” Luo Xue murmured.

“What?” Su Yiyao tilted her head, puzzled. “Why… can we go back through the Primordial Chaos…”

“You don’t know?”

Luo Xue’s expression turned to surprise, and she told Su Yiyao about the truth of the Great Thousand Worlds.

After listening patiently, Su Yiyao said seriously,

“I know, Master has already told me all of this.”

“But… I can confirm that from this place, it’s impossible to go to the nine provinces and four domains, or the Great Thousand Worlds, through the Primordial Chaos.”

Now it was Luo Xue’s turn to be confused. If this was just a world fragment, why couldn’t they go to another world fragment?

“Because… it’s not the same world.” Su Yiyao said softly. “This place… doesn’t belong to the Great Thousand Worlds.”

“This is another world, a completely different world… Ah Chou, don’t you feel it?”

She extended her hand, gathering some of the disaster energy. “The spiritual energy here… doesn’t belong to this world, which is why it causes these disasters.”

“This world… is rejecting this spiritual energy.”

Luo Xue’s pupils constricted, and she looked up at the endless calamities, the natural disasters that plagued humanity.

Only now did she finally understand their origin.

“It’s… the previous civilization…”

It was the previous civilization, based on cultivation, that brought the Suspended High Towers and the disaster engines, but they also brought these endless natural disasters.

Luo Xue hadn’t sensed this before, because her cultivation level hadn’t reached the point where she could resonate with heaven and earth. And now, she couldn’t even be considered a cultivator, so she couldn’t detect this anomaly.

“Ah Chou, is your hometown really here?” Su Yiyao frowned slightly, looking at Luo Xue. “I don’t sense it within you…”

“Ah, of course, of course, perhaps… after going to the Great Thousand Worlds, there were some changes.”

Luo Xue quickly changed the subject. “By the way, let’s find a place to stay first. I have a few friends here, I’ll introduce you to them.”

“Ah Chou’s friends…”

Hearing this, Su Yiyao became inexplicably wary, immediately forgetting her earlier doubts, and nodded seriously. “Ah Chou’s friends are my friends!”

“Haha, I hope you can get along…”

Luo Xue said awkwardly, secretly relieved.

Su Yiyao’s current cultivation was beyond her ability to sense, and she had even noticed that Luo Xue wasn’t from this world…

Explaining this would be too troublesome.

Luo Xue looked up at the sunlight and quickly determined her location in the post-apocalyptic world, locking onto the fallen High Tower where she had been before.

She wondered… how much time had passed in this world?

Ten years? Twenty? Or even… a hundred?

She just hoped that when she returned, she wouldn’t see a gray-haired Ling’er, or… a lonely grave.

…

“Sister Ling, did you hear? The Great Sage’s Ground-Based Tower Project was rejected by the council again!” Ceres whispered in Ling Ling’s ear.

She looked around cautiously, even though they were in her room.

“I’ve heard some rumors.” Ling Ling nodded, thinking that she had just left the council hall, how did the news spread so quickly?

“Wow, Sister Ling, you’ve already heard?” Ceres’s eyes widened. “This is exclusive insider information obtained by our editor-in-chief, I only overheard it by chance.”

“Heh… I’m a bit older than you, I have my sources.” Ling Ling maintained her usual smile.

“Hmph, you definitely don’t know this.”

Ceres placed her hands on her hips, looked around cautiously, and whispered, “I heard that… the council wants to force the Great Sage to step down!”

“Oh?”

Ling Ling paused, the smile on her lips fading slightly.

Seeing Ling Ling’s rare change in expression, Ceres became even more smug.

“Sister Ling, do you want to know more? Ask me, ask me!”