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Amu has indeed disappeared, but he has not completely disappeared.

Mu Bai's expression sometimes shows a resemblance to Amu, although most of the time he is closer to Abai.

At certain times, he would reveal a domineering side, his overwhelming possessiveness seemingly threatening to drown Jiang Huali.

But no matter what, Mu Bai would always put her feelings first. If she showed any discomfort, he would stop immediately and gently comfort her, as if he had turned back into the gentle Mu Bai.

Jiang Huali felt that Mu Bai's light and dark sides were reflected in both Amu and Abai, but Amu had more of a dark side, while Abai was the opposite.

Even when she was lying in Mu Bai's arms in a daze, she seemed to see a black-haired shadow beside her, bending down to hug her.

This often made her feel as if no one had ever left.

Spring came and autumn went, and Jiang Huali and Mu Bai spent a very ordinary period of time on Lingshan Mountain.

No more strangers have ever come down the mountain.

The flowers on the cliff bloomed and withered, withered and bloomed again, and that little red flower grew better and better.

"Mountain God, are you lying to me?" Yuanyuan swung on the swing under the tree, but she looked quite unhappy, and her voice became low.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Huali sat on a recliner, basking in the sun.

Yuanyuan jumped off the swing and walked to her side: "You said you would always protect us on Mount Ling."

Its eyes seemed to be overflowing with tears, about to roll out like soybeans from their sockets.

This was the first time Yuanyuan had brought up the fact that she was about to disappear to Jiang Huali.

Perhaps it also sensed that the moment of true parting was approaching.

Seeing its dejected look, Jiang Huali raised her hand and patted its head gently, saying, "I didn't lie."

Round mouth with downturned corners.

She sighed and closed her eyes to feel the autumn breeze.

“Look,” she opened her eyes, “Although you won’t be able to see me anymore, I will become a breeze, a ray of sunshine, or a light rain on Mount Ling. As long as you think of me, I will be there wherever you are.”

Yuanyuan clutched her clothes tightly.

"Perhaps one day, when you and Mouse go to dig for loaches and come back tired, I'll be right beside you listening to you talk?" Jiang Huali smiled slightly.

"You're a fairy, you know that, right?"

Upon hearing this, Yuanyuan finally burst into tears, but did not utter another word.

For Jiang Huali, parting is a common occurrence.

When she first bound herself to the system, she was all alone. But after traversing so many worlds, she seems to have gained many more bonds and warmth.

The real world she lived in before the binding system was like a glass dome, encasing her inside, preventing others from hearing her voice and preventing her from listening to the outside world.

Later, when she learned that she was not from that world, she actually felt a sense of relief.

It turns out that being alone is a predetermined fate.

As those forgotten memories resurfaced one by one, accompanied by the appearance of that person, she truly broke free from the glass dome and began to rediscover herself.

Coming to these worlds to complete missions is both fulfilling the original owner's wish and a process of reshaping her.

Finding her complete memories of the past was the last thing she wanted to do.

Hmm...maybe one of the last two things.

Yuanyuan has left and returned to her home at the foot of the mountain.

Jiang Huali watched Mu Bai tidying up the house. He could have used his spiritual power, but he did it himself, straightening up the messy places one by one.

After tidying up outside, he went into Jiang Huali's room.

As he wiped the wooden carvings placed by the bed, Jiang Huali sat on the edge of the bed and asked him with a smile what he felt when he gave her this flower.

Mu Bai avoided her smiling gaze, his ears turning slightly red.

"It's nothing," he said softly.

Jiang Huali tilted her head: "Really?"

She stared at him, her face seemingly saying, "I know everything."

Mu Bai suddenly smiled, poked her cheek, and decided not to hide it from her any longer: "Back then, I thought that I was just like it. As long as I'm by your side, it would be fine no matter where I'm placed."

But she placed it by her bedside.

It's a place you can see at a glance every time you wake up or fall asleep every night.

It was a place very close to her.

"That sounds so tragic," Jiang Huali said with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Mu Bai stopped what he was doing, leaned down and kissed her lips, his voice calm: "It's not tragic."

After kissing him, she continued tidying up.

Jiang Huali touched her lips: "Why?"

Mu Bai did not answer.

He looked down at the wooden flower carved in his hand, his eyes filled with a smile.

Jiang Huali did not ask any further questions.

“Yuanyuan cried a lot today. After I leave, you must take good care of them,” she said.

"What if I cry?" Mu Bai asked back.

Jiang Huali was stunned.

She suddenly remembered Meng Zhiling's expression when she left the first world.

When she said "I'm sorry" to him, their hands were clasped tightly, but he felt as if the whole world had abandoned him.

Later, when the staff at the management center were looking at the collected fragment, what did they say?

He said the fragment was found in a villa.

"When we found it, it was in fragments. The villa looked like it had been uninhabited for a long time and was covered in dust."

Jiang Huali couldn't help but wonder, what was his fate in that world?

Her thoughts were in disarray, like scattered petals, when a warm hand suddenly landed on her shoulder, and Mu Bai asked in her ear, "What are you thinking about?"

Jiang Huali shook her head.

Will you cry?

Upon hearing this, she realized she had asked a pointless question.

Mu Bai patted her head, his tone seemingly helpless: "I won't cry, okay?"

Jiang Huali's heart calmed down a little.

She nodded, hugged Mu Bai's waist, buried her head in his, and inhaled his faint scent.

Neither of them spoke, and the world fell silent, with only the two of them in it.

The power of the mountain god is waning and gradually dissipating.

When winter came, Jiang Huali made two grass wreaths for Yuanyuan and Shushu out of vines, which looked comical when worn on their heads.

Yuanyuan gripped the grass ring in her hand tightly, watching the sky darken as dusk approached.

"Can my mouse and I come to play with you again tomorrow?" it asked.

The little mouse was also looking at Jiang Huali hopefully from the side.

Jiang Huali patted their heads one by one and said, "It's going to snow heavily tomorrow, so stay home and behave yourself, okay?"

Round eyes darkened slightly, she hugged the grass tightly, and nodded: "Mm."

The mouse lowered its head, looking somewhat dejected.

"Alright, alright, I promise you, even though you can't come tomorrow, you'll definitely see me, okay?" Jiang Huali said with a smile.

"Alright then." Before leaving, Yuanyuan and Shushu stopped after walking a few meters, turned around and waved to Jiang Huali, "Goodbye."

Jiang Huali waved and said, "Goodbye."

Mu Bai came to her side, squatted down, put his hand on her knee, and looked up at her.

Jiang Huali's gaze fell on his face, and she asked, feigning ignorance, "What's wrong?"

Mu Bai held out his hand: "What about mine?"

Jiang Huali smiled mysteriously: "Close your eyes first."

Mu Bai closed his eyes.

His hand was gently taken, and something passed through his fingers and lingered at the base of his fingers.

He fluttered his eyelashes and opened his eyes.

He was wearing a ring made of vines on his hand.

Do you like it?

"like."

Mu Bai hugged Jiang Huali and rubbed against her knees.

"I really like it," he said.

Jiang Huali held out her hand: "I have one too."

She was also wearing a vine ring on her finger.

Mu Bai could no longer hold back. He got up and kissed her, placing his hand on her back, their hearts beating side by side.

The moonlight fell on them, as if illuminating a perfect couple who would never be apart again.

The next day, it snowed heavily.

Jiang Huali had just woken up, still wearing a shawl, with faint kiss marks on her neck, when Mu Bai carried her to the windowsill to watch the snow.

She slightly opened her eyes and looked out the window with him at the snow-covered landscape.

Time slips away, bit by bit.

At some point, Jiang Huali stroked Mu Bai's cheek and kissed him.

"Goodbye," she said to him.

Mu Bai trembled, realizing something, and after a few seconds, he stiffly lowered his head to look at the person in his arms.

She was smiling at him.

Mu Bai forced a smile.

Jiang Huali sighed softly and hugged him.

The two were so close that Mu Bai hugged him back tightly until, at a certain moment, the sensation in his arms became unreal.

He looked down, and all he had left in his arms was a snow-white shawl. Countless points of light emerged from it, crossed the windowsill, and drifted into the boundless world.

A tear rolled down his cheek and landed on the vine ring on his finger. A point of light did not fly into the sky, but instead landed on the ring, on the tear.

A small flower grows out from it.

"...Goodbye." Mu Bai closed his eyes and placed a gentle kiss on the little flower.

The world fell silent again, and this time he was all alone.

Yuan Yuan was sheltering from the wind and snow in its burrow. It had dug a hole in the ground at the foot of the mountain, which was its favorite place to stay.

The grass wreath Jiang Huali gave it was placed to the side, and it was dozing off when it suddenly woke up as if it had sensed something.

It emerged from the ground with a grass ring in its hand, looked at the snow falling all around, and suddenly froze.

Points of light floated in the air, surging toward the grass ring in its hand. The grass ring blossomed, forming a circle, and was no longer bare.

The mouse stayed in its burrow, staring blankly at the grass ring that had suddenly bloomed with small flowers, and hugged it to its chest.

"I assure you, you'll see me tomorrow too, okay?"

...

Lingshan has endured another winter, with the winds and frosts of nature sweeping over it countless times, yet it has always maintained its tranquil and peaceful appearance.

Rain nourishes all things. Yuanyuan and Shushu watch the rain and dig for earthworms at the foot of the mountain.

The barrier on Mount Ling became extremely weak on the day Jiang Huali left, but it only lasted for less than an hour before being enveloped by another spiritual force.

Two spiritual energies enveloped the sacred mountain together, one strong and one weak, yet they were tightly intertwined.

Yuanyuan recognized it; it was Mu Bai's spiritual power.

Mu Bai stood at the door of the cabin and took one last look at the place.

He closed the door and walked alone to the edge of the cliff covered with flowers.

The little red flower emitted a lustrous glow, and the spiritual energy from Mount Ling was slowly flowing towards it and being absorbed by it.

In a single instant, its accumulated power reached its peak, enveloping Mount Ling in a powerful force. The power belonging to Jiang Huali and Mu Bai was gently pushed aside and slowly merged into the world.

Jiang Huali's last wisp of consciousness seemed to have finally completed its mission and completely dissipated.

A new mountain god was born.

Mu Bai found a quiet place to sit down.

After Jiang Huali left, his world fell into a deep silence. Now the moment he had been waiting for had arrived, and it was time to end it.

His spiritual energy was consciously dissipating, and his life force was fading away. Mu Bai thought that he had finally broken his promise.

A hundred years is too short, yet too long.

Fairies have a lifespan much longer than a hundred years.

He could no longer stay here alone.

Those who were left behind endured much suffering.

In a daze, he seemed to hear a familiar voice: "Mu Bai?"

Mu Bai forced his eyes open; his figure was incredibly ethereal, as if it would vanish at the slightest touch.

He saw the person he had been longing for standing in front of him, with a blue orb of light floating beside him, reaching out to him.

"Why is it still like this?" he heard her complain softly.

But there was no blame or complaint in her words, only tenderness and helplessness when facing her lover.

Is it a dream?

His eyelids felt heavy, his thoughts struggled to sink into darkness, yet he still couldn't bear to close his eyes.

He wanted to take one last look, to look at it a little longer.

I wish time could stand still at this moment.

But the person in front of him hugged him, and everything came to fruition.

Mu Bai moved his lips, but didn't say a word.

He hugged her tightly, laughing as tears streamed down his face.

“You’ve come to see me,” he finally said.

Jiang Huali stroked his hair and replied, "I won't leave you this time."

"……good."

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[Data generation in progress—Dimensional mission completion 100%, points earned: 4000.]

[Instruction received. Next task not to be accepted.]

Jiang Huali woke up in the system space with a box beside her containing a fragment of a soul.

[Host, why did you end up collecting the fragments? Weren't you supposed to wait until his lifespan ended before collecting them?]

The system floated around in front of her, and she asked, puzzled.

Jiang Huali touched the box beside her: "I was just wondering if leaving him alone was a mistake?"

The system doesn't understand.

Jiang Huali smiled and asked, "Has the management center sent a message?"

The system checked the information and excitedly announced: [Yes! They sent a message saying there's been progress on your work regarding returning to your original world!]

"So fast?" Jiang Huali was somewhat surprised.

The system asked: "Shall we go to the management center now?"

“Go.” Jiang Huali nodded.

Management Center.

"...If you wish to perform a rewind immediately, we can arrange that for you as well."

The staff member standing next to Jiang Huali said.

It seems she was very lucky; in such a short time, the management center found her original world through the medium.

She had just stored the last soul fragment at the administration office when she was told that all the soul fragments had been collected and that she would awaken at the right time.

And now she can begin the process of regression.

The system said: [Host, you can only travel back in time by yourself; I can't accompany you.]

Jiang Huali took a deep breath and rubbed the small light sphere system.

She said to the staff, "Let's start the regression now."