Chapter 80 Extra Chapter 1 [VIP]

On their first day back in the clothes, Yin Chu Jiu and Yue Ling discovered something that made them both laugh and cry – the clothes were too big.

The incident started like this: Yue Ling said he would take Yin Chu Jiu to see something, so Yin Chu Jiu quickly finished her breakfast. After finishing breakfast, Yue Ling brought over the clothes she needed to wear. Since Yin Chu Jiu knew how to wear the clothes of this world, there was no awkward situation of not knowing what to wear.

However, after Yin Chu Jiu put on the clothes, he realized that they were a size too big, and the hem was dragging on the ground. If he went out wearing these clothes, he might accidentally step on the hem and fall.

At this moment, Yin Chu Jiu remembered the height settings he had given to humans in this world. With martial arts as the highest virtue and the pursuit of perfect evolution, the average height of women was 168 cm, while the average height of men was 180 cm. The male protagonist was even more extraordinary, with a height of almost 190 cm. Yin Chu Jiu, as a modern person, although he did not hold back his fellow men in the modern world and was even above average, his height was a disadvantage in this world.

Standing at only 1.75 meters tall, the clothes Yue Ling made according to his height in the illusion immediately looked too big for him, by more than one size.

This painful fact left Yin Chu Jiu stunned on the spot.

He actually lowered the average height of men in the world!

Yue Ling was also taken aback, clearly not having noticed this small detail either. He walked up to Yin Chu Jiu, compared his head to hers, and found that Yin Chu Jiu was indeed a head shorter than him, while in the illusion, Yin Chu Jiu was only half a head shorter than him.

Not only is he short, but he's also become much thinner.

Holding the still-unresponsive boy in his arms, with his arm around his slender waist, Yue Ling whispered to comfort him, "I'll have them alter the clothes right away."

Yin Chu Jiu wiped her face, then neatly pulled up the overly long hem of her dress and tied it with her belt so that it wouldn't drag on the ground. "I'll leave this dress as is for now and wear it for the time being."

It's not that he's short, it's that people in this world are too tall.

Yue Ling chuckled twice, kissed the top of his head, and said, "Okay."

After they got dressed, they went out.

This is the headquarters of Lingyue Palace. There aren't many people coming and going; only a handful. It's quite deserted. Yin Chu Jiu tugged at Yue Ling's sleeve and asked, "Where are Zi Zhuo and the others?"

He knew why Lingyue Palace was so deserted, but he didn't want Yue Ling to live there alone. He hoped it would be more lively, so that Yue Ling might feel better.

Yue Ling ruffled Yin Chu Jiu's hair, pulled him into his arms, rested his chin on the top of his head, and said with a thud, "They're all here." As he spoke, he waved his hand, and the air vibrated, and three people appeared in the open space in front of him.

Zi Zhuo, Mo Ling, and Black Cat—all three are present.

"You're back." Zi Zhuo, Mo Ling, and Black Cat greeted each other at the same time.

Yin Chu Jiu smiled shyly, "Yes, I'm back."

Zi Zhuo and the other two carefully examined Yin Chu Jiu and breathed a sigh of relief, "It's good that you're back."

If he doesn't come back soon, the master might go mad.

Zi Zhuo coughed, opened her fan, waved it, and asked, "Where are you going?"

Yin Chu Jiu grabbed Yue Ling's arm from behind and said, "Yue Ling said he's going to take me to see something."

Mo Ling: "Things?... Oh, we know what they are. I'll go and have them prepare them."

Yin Chu Jiu was slightly puzzled. What exactly was this thing that required preparation?

Just then, Yue Ling spoke up and instructed the black cat, "Have someone alter Chu Jiu's clothes; they're too big for him."

Lingyue Palace only has one woman, Black Cat, and logistics and other such matters are all handled by her.

The black cat glanced at Yin Chu Jiu and hummed in agreement, "Okay, I'll go right now."

The three of them received their respective tasks and went downstairs.

Upon meeting, Yin Chu Jiu felt somewhat uncomfortable. Zi Zhuo and the others seemed to treat him differently, somewhat distant, even though their relationship hadn't been great since he regained his memories.

Yue Ling pulled Yin Chu Jiu's hand and walked forward, saying, "They haven't seen you for ten years, and you look a little different from the one in the illusion, so they're a bit unfamiliar with you. Don't worry, they'll get used to it in a couple of days."

Is that so? Yin Chu Jiu sighed inwardly and could only wait.

Speaking of appearance, Yin Chu Jiu suddenly remembered something: when Yue Ling first saw him, she didn't ask him what he looked like, as if she already knew what he looked like.

Moreover, he showed no surprise while in the passageway.

As the two were talking, Yue Ling led Yin Chu Jiu to a room. There was nothing in the room except for a huge array, which emitted a faint white light, clearly indicating that the array was in operation.

"What kind of formation is this?" Yin Chu Jiu didn't understand, but he inexplicably felt that this formation should be related to him.

Yue Ling walked to the array, raised his hand to touch the energy stone at its edge, and looked down with deep longing in his eyes. After a long while, he raised his head and smiled faintly at Yin Chu Jiu, "This is the array that maintains the illusion."

"An illusion?" Yin Chu Jiu was taken aback at first, then his expression immediately changed, becoming somewhat excited. "You mean the illusion still exists? Wasn't it already shattered? How can it still exist?"

As he spoke, he ran to the formation and touched it with trembling hands.

The world of the novel was unfamiliar to him, but the world of the illusion was the most familiar to him. In that illusion, he met Yue Ling, got to know her, fell in love with her, and then separated from her. All his joys and sorrows were there. He thought the illusion had shattered, but he didn't expect it to still exist.

Yue Ling hugged Yin Chu Jiu from behind, his voice low and filled with the same deep emotions as his own, and said, "Yes, it still exists."

Yin Chu Jiu only learned later that Yue Ling had actually spent a great deal of effort to restore this illusion. After he left, the illusion began to shatter; normally, the illusion would have completely collapsed after Yue Ling and the others left.

However, after Yue Ling emerged, he immediately sought out the array masters in the palace and instructed them to exert all their strength to restore the illusion. However, restoring the illusion was no easy task; it took five years to completely restore the illusion, preserving its appearance before it shattered.

Then, it took another five years and countless energy stones to maintain the illusion until now.

When Yue Ling couldn't hold on any longer, he would enter the illusion alone and stay inside, residing in the small, dilapidated house where the two of them used to live. He would only come out when he made progress in researching the formation.

In other words, ten years have passed outside, but more than ten years have passed in the illusion.

Yin Chu Jiu's heart trembled, aching and sore. Before he could shed a tear, Yue Ling grabbed his shoulders, turned him around, and hugged him. The handsome young man sighed and said, "Don't cry. It hurts me when you cry. I didn't bring you to see this formation so you could cry."

Yin Chu Jiu didn't want to cry either; he was holding back, but when he heard Yue Ling's words, he couldn't help but burst into tears. Actually, he wasn't a fragile person; it's just that his emotions had been fluctuating a lot lately.

He stopped after a while, rubbed his eyes sheepishly, and asked, "So, what do you want to show me?"

Yue Ling smiled and said, "Come with me."

Yin Chu Jiu was puzzled, and then he followed Yue Ling to the room next door. The room was empty except for a large bed and a simple array around it, which seemed to correspond with the array in the room next door.

Suddenly, Yin Chu Jiu realized something.

He looked up, staring at Yue Ling with surprise, "Can this formation allow us to enter an illusion?"

Yue Ling nodded and smiled, pursing her lips.

Yin Chu Jiu's sorrow was immediately washed away by joy; they could re-enter the illusion and return to that world. This time, there was no need to worry about the illusion shattering; they would be forcibly separated.

It can make up for past regrets; they can stay inside as long as they want.

Almost impatiently, Yin Chu Jiu wanted to enter the illusion, but he didn't know how to activate the formation or how to get in. The young man beside him understood his meaning; he clapped his hands, and someone walked in.

The person was slender and lively, and seemed to bring the scent of the forest with them as they entered. Moreover, Yin Chu Jiu recognized that person—Jing Yan!

It was Jing Yan!

How could it be Jing Yan!

Isn't she from the illusion? How come she's here?

Yin Chu Jiu was shocked on the spot, while Jing Yan seemed not to recognize him. After she came in, she only stared at Yue Ling, her eyes sparkling. The sparkling eyes stung Yin Chu Jiu's eyes. Remembering Jing Yan's lust for Yue Ling's beauty in the illusion, he quickly stepped forward and stood in front of Jing Yan.

Jing Yan raised an eyebrow and asked, "Who are you?"

Yin Chu Jiu wrapped her arms around Yue Ling's waist, declaring her ownership, "I am his partner."

"Partner?" Jing Yan frowned, looking Yin Chu Jiu up and down, as if judging whether he was worthy of Yue Ling. After a long while, she said, "So it's you."

What do you mean by "it was him all along"? Does she know him?

Yin Chu Jiu said, "You know me?"

Jing Yan shrugged. "How could I not know? Yue Ling brought the people from our village here just to bring you back."

What does this mean?

Yin Chu Jiu looked at Yue Ling beside her, but Yue Ling did not answer. He simply said, "Go and activate the formation next door. Chu Jiu and I are going to enter the illusion."

Jingyan stuck out her tongue and said reluctantly, drawing out her words, "Okay..."

Jing Yan went next door to activate the array, while Yue Ling pulled Yin Chu Jiu to lie down on the bed. Yin Chu Jiu remembered what Jing Yan had said, and couldn't sit still after lying down. Yue Ling held Yin Chu Jiu in his arms and patted his head.

"Yue Ling, what did Jing Yan mean just now?" Unable to hold back any longer, Yin Chu Jiu looked up at Yue Ling and asked.

Yue Ling kissed his forehead and said, "By building the teleportation array, we found their village. The purple star flowers in their village contain spacetime powder. Only by using spacetime powder can we connect space, stabilize the passage, and bring you from another world to this world."

The Purple Star Flower was the flower that healed Yue Ling when he was injured in the illusion. It was that flower that healed Yue Ling when he came out of the spatial rift.

However, no one knew that the flower contained spacetime powder that could connect passages, and how Yue Ling knew this. No, it shouldn't be "how he knew," but rather how much time he spent, how many times he experimented, before finally finding that village and confirming that the Purple Star Flower was useful for constructing the array.

Holding Yue Ling tightly, Yin Chu Jiu felt a sharp, piercing pain in her heart. "How many years did it take you to find them?"

Yue Ling said calmly, "Not long."

Only eight years.

In the eighth year, he finally set foot on the land surrounding the Moon Forest, where he found the secluded village and determined the effects of the Purple Star Flower.

"By the way, Yue Ling, why aren't you surprised that my appearance is different from before?" Yin Chu Jiu remembered this discovery.

Yue Ling patted his head and said, "You forgot?"

What have you forgotten?

"We've met before."

Have you seen it?

Seeing that Yin Chu Jiu still didn't understand, Yue Ling smiled, her eyes filled with soft starlight, and continued, "We've met before. I once went to your world, but because the passage was unstable, I came back quickly."

"He's been to his world..." Yin Chu Jiu murmured softly. When had Yue Ling ever been to his world? Then, he remembered something and froze. He rolled over and pinned Yue Ling down, urgently asking, "Are you talking about that class dinner?"

Yue Ling frowned slightly. "A get-together?" He said, "Do you mean a large group of people eating together?"

"Yes, that was the time." Yin Chu Jiu said even more urgently.

Yue Ling suddenly realized, and nodded with a smile, "Yes, it was that time."

It really was true... Yin Chu Jiu laughed, then cried, then laughed and cried at the same time.

“I saw you then, but you only appeared for a moment, and I thought it was a hallucination. I was sorry, I should have known sooner, I'm so sorry.”

"Did you appear again, but I didn't notice? Yue Ling, tell me more, I want to know. I'm sorry, I didn't even know you came to see me."

Yue Ling didn't want Yin Chu Jiu to cry, so she said, "No, only that one time. The teleportation channel was unstable at that time, and I could only go there once. Although the time was very short, it made me sure you were still alive. After I came back, we started to study how to stabilize the channel and which place had the weakest point. We experimented again and again, and it took many years before we finally made the channel work so that you could come over safely."

Yin Chu Jiu understood that the illusions he saw were not illusions at all, but rather Yue Ling and the others in the experimental passage, which was why he saw the scenery of this world again and again.

He was really stupid to think it was an illusion.

If he had known earlier that it wasn't a hallucination, he would have been certain that he could really come back.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't know." Yin Chu Jiu was overwhelmed with guilt.

Yue Ling hugged him, kissed his forehead tenderly, and sighed, "It's okay, as long as you're willing to come back, it's okay."

Author's Note:

Thank you to the little angel who watered my plants with nutrient solution!

29 bottles of jujube; 10 bottles of jujube; 1 bottle of fox spirit;

Thank you so much for your support, I will continue to work hard!