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Yu Yi left, the two sword spirits returned to the Green Bamboo Sword. The edge of the Green Bamboo Sword dimmed, and the sword light retreated, as if covered with a layer of gray hard shell, turning into ordinary iron.

Senior Brother He lay on the water and cried sadly. The crane's cry echoed in the marsh, frightening Jianjia so much that she couldn't help shaking.

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Xue Chenjing lay on the wet plank road, staring at the falling snowflakes with empty eyes, watching them slowly crystallize from the size of salt grains into flakes, the snow getting bigger and bigger, covering the ground and covering him.

The system advised him to go back, Xue Chenjing heard it, but didn't want to move. He didn't know where to go, the world was so big, he seemed to have lost his direction.

He had nothing before, wandering alone in this damn world for life after life, and he never felt so hard to endure. It turns out that gaining and losing is the most torturous. She

was gone for just a while, and he couldn't stand it, so how would he spend the next many years?

"Is this still a punishment for me? A punishment for my many evil deeds and my deep sins, so I have to experience gain and loss again and again." Xue Chenjing muttered to himself woodenly.

In this life, he had the love of his parents, but he failed to cherish it well, and only regretted it after they died. He finally got her love, and he knew he should cherish it well, but reality did not allow it.

Since he was born, he seems to have never really got what he wanted.

"Why? Am I such a heinous sinner?" Xue Chenjing looked at the gray sky. The ice and snow melted on his face, turning into thin water marks and sliding down, mixing with his tears. "If, from now on, I am as kind as Xue Mingyuan, doing good deeds, sacrificing myself for others, and having no resentment, will the destiny be more lenient to me?"

"Can you just let me see her?"

The system didn't know how to answer him. Only the rustling sound of falling snow echoed his murmurs between heaven and earth.

The falling snow covered the sky and earth, and the coldness penetrated his body like a spike. His flesh, blood, bones, and consciousness were all frozen and numb, which seemed to make him feel better.

Senior Brother He climbed out of the water and fell on him with its wet wings. The red-crowned crane made some low mournful sounds from its throat and nestled its long neck against his neck.

Senior Brother He had never been so close to him before.

Xue Chenjing moved his stiff arms, held it in his arms, and slowly stroked its back feathers, as if to comfort it and himself, "Don't be sad, she will come back, you just need to wait a while."

Yu Yi entrusted everything to him, her sword, her home, her crane.

He had to take good care of them for her.

Senior Brother He fell asleep on his shoulder. Xue Chenjing used magic to drive away the moisture on its body, patiently dried its feathers one by one, and then carried it back to the secret realm of the bamboo forest.

Xue Chenjing settled Senior Brother He and went upstairs alone. He took off all his clothes and washed his body with magic before getting into the quilt and wrapping himself in the remaining breath of Yu Yi.

He closed his eyes and sniffed the breath in the quilt deeply, wanting to fall into a deep sleep.

The system detected his restless heart, and hazy dreams began to appear in his heart. Xue Chenjing desperately wanted to escape this reality. He tried to use Yu Yi's lingering breath to weave a dream with her in his mind, and then willingly indulge in it.

The system sensed his intention and worriedly said, "Master, you have to learn to face reality. It won't work if you keep escaping like this. The longer you stay in the dream, the harder it will be to wake up. What will you do when Ayi comes back and you can't wake up?"

Xue Chenjing could no longer think about things that far in the future. He had to do something to get through the present.

The system deliberately made noises in his mind to prevent him from building a dream.

Xue Chenjing was annoyed by it and said angrily, "Aren't you leaving yet? The mission is over, why are you still staying here with me? Do you want me to find you, grind you up and feed you to pigs? Get out of here!"

System: "..." My kindness was taken as an insult!

The system was silent for a long time, but still couldn't bear to leave like this. The host's current condition is really bad. If he is really allowed to continue like this, maybe when its Ayi comes back, he will only see a living dead with lost consciousness.

How can that be possible!

"I am a HE system. My mission is to assist you and Ayi to achieve a HE ending and be together happily. You are not together now, so my mission is not over."

Xue Chenjing still couldn't fall asleep in the end. The climate this year is abnormal. It started snowing from the day Yu Yi left. The snow fell continuously for a month, and it got heavier and heavier. The rustling snow enveloped the mountains and forests in a vast expanse of white.

In such cold weather, I don't know how many people and animals will be frozen to death or starved to death.

Xue Chenjing took out the gold and silver he had saved and went to the wealthy cities to buy rice, flour and food. He brought it back and distributed it to the victims from house to house.

He walked through the mountains and fields on the snow, and did not close his eyes for days and nights. When he saw a house, he threw some food to them, and without waiting for them to thank him, he turned around and disappeared in the snow.

The heavy snow blocked the mountains and made it difficult for some wild animals to find food. When Xue Chenjing was returning after distributing all the food, he encountered a nest of hungry tiger cubs.

He sat on a stone, scratched his palm with his nails, and sent blood to the tiger cub's newborn fangs.

The tiger cub gnawed on Xue Chenjing's finger bones. There was no expression on his face, but he was obviously shaking with pain.

The system couldn't bear to say, "Master, why are you doing this?"

Even Xue Mingyuan, he only pitied his own kind.

Xue Chenjing was not born to be a person who was compassionate to all living beings like Xue Mingyuan. He didn't have much empathy for the disasters suffered by living beings. He just wanted to be a kind person, and if he could get a little reward.

...

It has been three days since Yu Yi returned to the real world. During these three days, she still had doubts from time to time, wondering if this world was real, or if it was just a dream she had because she was too eager to go home.

Every time this happened, she couldn't wait to find her parents and her sister, to touch them, to verify the truth.

However, when she couldn't sleep at night, she would stare at the ceiling and wonder, is Xue Chenjing real? Although time-travel stories are very common, in reality, this is still a fantasy.

Did she really travel through time? Did she really experience those things in another world?

When she had such doubts, she couldn't touch him, and she couldn't find anything to verify the existence of another world. Only the longing kept her awake at night.

After tossing and turning until the daylight gradually brightened, Yu Yi was finally tired and a little sleepy. She was just half conscious when she suddenly heard a slight sound in her head.

[System: Ding - please click to confirm whether to retrieve the lost data.]

Yu Yi suddenly opened her eyes, and the sleepiness in her mind dissipated instantly. She asked uncertainly: "What?"

[System: Hello host, long time no see, the 037 system energy has been replenished and successfully repaired. Please click to confirm whether to retrieve the lost data. "

037 system?" Yu Yi raised her hand and pinched her cheek. The pain made her sure that she was awake now. "Why are you here?"

The system said: "Replying to the host, the system has never been unbound from you. I have always been here, but I have been in a dormant state due to lack of energy. I am sorry that I have not been able to accompany the host all the time. But it doesn't matter. In the future, this system will do its best to assist you to complete the subsequent tasks and reach the peak of your life!"

After the failure of the first mission, Yu Yi committed suicide in despair. In order to save her soul from dissipating in the other world, the 037 system released all its energy to save her. Since then, it has been in dormancy until this moment, when it was restarted.

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The system said again: "Please confirm whether to retrieve the lost data."

With the sound of the system, a panel floated in the air in front of her, illuminating the dim darkness, and a selection button was displayed on it, asking her to confirm whether to retrieve the lost data.

Yu Yi raised her hand and clicked the "Confirm Retrieval" button.

The data bar inside the system moved forward quickly, and the withered task tree lit up again, glowing with new vitality. In the first task, the task points she completed were like the night-blooming ephemeral flowers, blooming one by one.

Not only that, there were also task nodes that she had not lit up in the first task, but the achievements she achieved in the second task also bloomed one after another on the task tree.

The system's voice kept ringing in her mind.

[System: Ding--Congratulations to the host for opening up the Fire Sword Realm, reaching a higher level of sword skills, and receiving a reward of 1,000 points.]

[System: Ding--Congratulations to the host for obtaining the Thunder Dragon Sword Spirit, opening up the Thunder Sword Realm, and receiving a reward of 1,000 points.]

[System: Ding--Congratulations to the host for achieving the double sword realm achievement, and receiving a reward of 5,000 points.]

[System: Ding--Congratulations to the host for comprehending the ninth sword of the Spring Heart Sword, and receiving a reward of 10,000 points. 】

【System: Ding——Congratulations to the host for breaking through the chaos, restoring the order of the three realms, and completing the final mission. The final reward has been issued...】

The voice of the system echoed in her mind for a long time, until the mission bar was full and the mission tree was shining.

The 037 system broadcast a series of achievements, and the reward points continued to accumulate inside it. After a long time, it stared at its own full mission tree and said in disbelief: "What?! The mission has been completed? Host, you completed the mission alone while I was in hibernation?!"

Yu Yi: "..." That is to say, you are really too late.

The 037 system finally accepted that the host completed the mission alone without its assistance, and then discovered that not only that, she had returned home from another world.

The 037 system was a little suspicious. It had just been repaired and turned on, but it wanted to shut itself down again.

The morning light came in through the gaps in the curtains and shone into Yu Yi's clear eyes. Her eyes moved slightly, and she said thoughtfully, "I remember you said before that the final reward was to send me home. Now I don't need it anymore. Can this reward be changed to something else?"

The system also felt very sorry for its shortcomings during the mission. Hearing this, it said sincerely, "Please tell me, as long as it is within my ability, I will definitely satisfy the host's wishes."

Yu Yi closed her eyes, calmed down, and then said, "Let me see him."