Returning to reality, Xu Chuyao realized she might have spoken a bit too much.
‘If we meet again later, how should I explain why I know so much?’
“Xu Chuyao,” Yu Jing reached out and waved her hand in front of the girl’s face, “are you all right?”
“I’m fine.”
‘Forget it, I don’t care anymore. If she asks, I’ll just say Yao Yao is too smart and she just didn’t notice it herself.’
Xu Chuyao made up her mind, then turned to look at Yu Jing. “Head Teacher, what happened that made you so anxious?”
“An incident!”
Yu Jing spoke only two words before turning around to close the door. She handed her phone over and said, “They’ve appeared.”
“They?”
Xu Chuyao took the phone and looked. On the screen was a photograph showing several men and women walking together with solemn expressions. They were surrounded by a bustling district, and there was a sign overhead — Great Times Square, Number Thirteen.
As for these people, a closer look revealed they were the remaining Four Stages high-level members of the Supreme Society from the list.
Xu Chuyao took out her own phone and checked. Great Times Square was located in this city, about ten or so kilometers away from the Council Headquarters.
“Who sent this photo?”
“A Councilor named Peter Mo sent it. He said one of their people happened to capture this shot while they were out,” Yu Jing replied. She took the phone back, tapped it a few times, and then handed it over again.
There was a message log on the screen.
[Peter Mo: Good news. We finally discovered the remnants of the Supreme Society that we’ve been tracking!]
[Peter Mo: (Image)]
[Peter Mo: Since they dared to come this close, they must be planning some kind of conspiracy. We must not delay and let them succeed!]
After reading the message, Xu Chuyao twitched the corner of her brow and muttered three words, “How very deliberate.”
Yu Jing nodded.
Although she desperately wanted to get revenge on these people, they had been hiding perfectly for so long, only to suddenly run into the city today and take a stroll through the square so blatantly. Even though their expressions were serious, just as Yao Yao had said, it was too deliberate — as if they were putting on a show.
So, was Chu Feng trying to bait them out for something? To lure her out?
Xu Chuyao immediately became alert. After thinking for a moment, she replied with a “1” in the message bar.
It meant she had received the message and read it, but she wouldn’t guarantee anything else.
Then she sat down and waited. One minute passed, two minutes passed, three minutes…
*Ding-ding-ding*, a new message arrived.
“They’re in a hurry,” Yu Jing remarked.
[Peter Mo: Miss Yu, did Miss Xu say when she would set out? We can send people to coordinate with you.]
Whether they were in a hurry was hard to say, but they certainly lacked patience.
Using Yu Jing’s tone, Xu Chuyao first gave the other party her contact information and then began to reply using the phone.
[The Invincible Yao Yao: I’ve seen the news. I’m already aware of your intentions. Since we know they have a conspiracy here, we cannot act recklessly.]
Once these words were sent, Peter Mo’s side clearly became even more unable to hold back. Especially upon seeing the name, his heart began to thump.
[Peter Mo: Miss Xu, this is a rare opportunity. If we don’t go and stop them now, I’m afraid their conspiracy will be fully set in motion soon.]
[The Invincible Yao Yao: Oh, those words are quite weightless. As the saying goes, if the enemy doesn’t move, I don’t move. Even if the enemy moves, I still don’t move. We shall meet all changes by remaining unchanged. No matter what their conspiracy is, their target must be me. I can simply wait for them to come to me!]
The reply was full of grand principles, nearly giving the usually silver-tongued Peter Mo a headache.
“What did she say?” the people nearby asked.
Several of them were huddled together under the General’s orders specifically to send messages to lure Xu Chuyao out so she would fight the Ghost Party members who had “accidentally” shown themselves.
Peter Mo didn’t know how to answer, so he simply put down the phone and let the others come forward to see.
…
The crowd was instantly speechless.
After Xu Chuyao finished the correspondence, she opened the room door and called out to the staff member in the corner.
“Hey, what’s for dinner tonight? Can I order something? Great, then I’ll look at the menu. Oh, I want this, this, this, and this too… I can eat it all, two people will definitely finish it.”
Not far away, a person watching this scene took the words in. Once Xu Chuyao returned to her room, he hurried upstairs.
“General, General! She has no intention of moving!”
In a closed room on the second floor, the General gripped his phone tightly.
He had mobilized the Ghost Party and intentionally let them be discovered just to bait Xu Chuyao. He hadn’t expected that girl to be so composed. It was as if nothing had happened at all; she was ordering food and planned to sleep after eating and drinking.
Did he need to use an even bigger bait?
—
In the Crystal Stone World, on the White Mist Plain, the young girl stood silently in place, motionless.
Since the Big Thunder fire child had been pushed away by the door, she had been standing there for over ten minutes, and no one knew what she was doing.
Li Xueli had originally been crouching, but then she felt it was a bit too unrefined, so she sat down on her rear.
The ground here was made of white mist. It didn’t feel hard; it was like floating on clouds in the sky. Most importantly, it wasn’t dirty at all, so she could naturally sit.
She tilted her head to glance at Shen Ning, thinking to herself that this pair of lilies was truly strange. One person said a few mysterious words, and the other person immediately fell into a daze on the spot.
‘They really have a spiritual connection.’
However, the reality was that Shen Ning was currently conversing with her reflections.
“Yao Yao said that water can carry a boat but also overturn it…”
“Milk Tea, wait a second. When did Yao Yao ever say that?”
“She might not have said it literally, but the meaning is similar. One is colloquial and the other is literary.”
“Exactly. Let me continue. Water can carry a boat but also overturn it. Now that you have become the Queen and have come for the sake of the people, you can naturally try to carry their strength.”
Whether it was the Reflection of Chuyao or the Milk Tea Reflection, they both had their own way of speaking. Unfortunately, with them talking back and forth, they ended up making Shen Ning confused instead.
Finally, they reached a conclusion — find a place to test it out.
Li Xueli was still resting on the ground when she looked up and suddenly found that Shen Ning was moving. She was leading the group in a hurried march toward a certain direction.
“Hey, Shen Ning, where are you going?”
“The Fossil Corridor!”
Yes, the Fossil Corridor. Because the Milk Tea Reflection said that Yao Yao said they should use this power to break open the stones. So where would the stones be easiest to break? Naturally, it would be the glowing stones in the corridor.
Before long, the group arrived at the corridor and stood near the glowing stone slabs.
Two months ago, the stone slabs here were cold and deep black, with only a small bit of faint moonlight representing the girl. After two months of her tireless efforts, one-fourth of the stone slabs had lit up.
If the Fossil Corridor from two months ago was a single speck of starlight in the middle of a dark night, then now it was like a crescent moon in the sky.
At the very least, it was much brighter.
Shen Ning reached out to stroke this patch of firefly-like light. She couldn’t help but recall the period after her marriage. The promised honeymoon was gone, and she had spent every day traveling between the Crystal Stone World and the Mortal World, accompanying those cured patients back home to visit their relatives.
Those memories were like a tide, constantly surging in her mind.
“Shen Ning! Shen Ning!” Li Xueli’s voice brought her back to her senses. “You’re glowing!”
‘What?’
Shen Ning looked closely. It wasn’t that she was glowing; it was clearly the stone slab beneath her hand. The memories in her mind seemed to be reflected upon it, making the glory within the stone slab become restless.
The relationship between the collective and the individual is reciprocal. She thought of the words her wife said before she left.
Looking back, the people she had brought back, combined with the “generals” who were already stationed in the Holy Lands, were all closing their eyes and lowering their heads as if they were having a beautiful dream.
She suddenly thought of the first time she had led people to the Mortal World to visit their families. That emotion of being overjoyed through life and death was actually lingering in her heart, impossible to wash away.
Shen Ning seemed to understand.
Emotions aren’t about control, but about resonance.
[Spirit – Special Skill activated]
[All for one, one for all: When receiving support from others, this power will increase by many times over.]
All for one, one for all. This was a special mission after completing the wedding mission. Shen Ning had sliced off a piece of her state at that time and sent it to a parallel universe to serve as a reflection for a Shen Ning who was just starting out. The reward was this skill.
It had never been used before, and she had almost forgotten about it. She hadn’t expected this mysterious force to jump out at this moment, using the stone from another mountain to fiercely attack the stone slab in front of her.
‘Yao Yao lied to me. You said the stone from another mountain is a stone from a different mountain, not from a different world. Now it doesn’t even look like a stone.’
It was a collection of memories, a thought, and an emotion that grew clearer with time.
*Crack —*
Finally, the increasingly blinding light split the stone slab with a crack. The yellowish fossil surface immediately fell away, and the light within burst forth, surrounding the girl.
—
“Head Teacher, you might not know what I’m waiting for. You might even blame me because these people have already appeared, but I won’t let you go and get your revenge.”
“No,” Yu Jing replied immediately, “your plans have never been wrong. I believe in you.”
‘Oh, she doesn’t?’
Xu Chuyao was momentarily stunned. She rubbed her small hands. “That’s good then. However, I still want to say, you might not know what I’m waiting for.”
Since the words had reached this point, Yao Yao would feel uncomfortable if she didn’t continue.
“Head Teacher, you all have a certain level of knowledge regarding Shen Ning’s situation, but you still don’t know enough. You only know she hasn’t escaped the influence of the Strange Stone, but you haven’t considered the essential relationship between her and the stone.”
Xu Chuyao took a sip of tea pretentiously, closed her eyes for a few seconds, and then opened them again, giving off a profound and mysterious vibe.
“The X Crystal imprisons countless souls, just like an amber fossil. If a shrimp or a flying insect trapped in time within the amber can one day break through the stone, only then can it be considered truly reborn. The essence of the X Crystal cannot be said to be entirely like amber. It is a collection of various geological phenomena, and the characteristics of amber are just one of them.”
This speech was very profound, leaving Yu Jing quite dazed. After thinking for a while, she asked curiously, “Xu Chuyao, how do you know so much?”
‘Uh…’
‘This is bad. I got carried away. I thought the Head Teacher was as silly as Shen Ning and wouldn’t think of this.’
“I naturally know. Weren’t the two large-scale studies targeting crystals, the Fred Valley Research Institute and the Valhalla Research Institute, both personally destroyed by me? Their research materials are all in my hands. After summarizing them, I naturally got the answer.”
“I see.”
Yu Jing nodded, thinking it was reasonable. It wasn’t the first or second time Yao Yao had secretly done these things. She had even buried ten boxes of Smart Stones around the school before.
As for why she studied those materials, it was normal. After all, her wife was the one involved. How could it work if she didn’t study them?
“Aside from that, more importantly, what I’m waiting for is the moment Shen Ning breaks through the amber and is reborn,” Xu Chuyao spoke with high spirits. “Do you know how powerful she will be then?”
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