Chapter 164: A Cause for Great Rejoicing

Li State, Yancheng.

When Song Yao and Pei Wangshu finished their escort mission and returned to Pear Blossom Alley, it was already noon.

The two of them happened to see several carpenters carrying a brand-new wooden bed into Song Ye's courtyard.

Song Ye smiled at them from the doorway, "You're back. Was the escort mission smooth? Oh, my old bed was too old, so I bought a new one. If you girls want new wooden beds for your room as well, I can buy them for you too."

When Song Yao walked into the courtyard, she saw that her brother's old bed was still left outside, but the entire bedboard was snapped right down the middle into two pieces.

Song Yao had no idea what her brother had been tinkering with last night, and she felt too embarrassed to ask.

Once the carpenters had moved the new bed into Song Ye's room and hauled away the old one from the courtyard, Song Yao turned to Song Ye and said,

"Brother, we searched Wengcheng for more than two hours and didn't spot any other players. Fearing we might miss the deadline to complete the escort mission, we had no choice but to head back to Yancheng first."

"I was thinking of making a trip to Xuancheng in a few days to see if we run into those four players from last time. Both Sister Wangshu and I have grown much stronger now. If we cross paths again, it'll be two against four, and we won't flinch at all."

Song Yao said through gritted teeth, "This time, we're definitely going to teach them a lesson, beat them black and blue, and then drag them back to Yancheng. By then, Brother, you can spar with them one by one, and once you're done sparring, you'll be able to leave this place."

Pei Wangshu, standing beside her, chimed in, "Actually, I feel it doesn't really matter whether your brother can leave this place or not. After all, there are less than two months left before this test login period ends. By that time, your brother should be able to leave this world together with us."

Song Yao nodded. "I think so too. But since my brother was forgotten by the game system here from the very beginning, it wouldn't be surprising if he's forgotten a second time. Brother, what do you think—Brother, are you daydreaming?"

Song Ye snapped back to his senses and said indifferently, "Whether I can return to the real world with you two in two months will just have to be left to fate."

What he was actually thinking just then was: if he returned to the real world and Qin Xuanxi gave birth to the child, brought the child to look for him, and could no longer find him anywhere, wouldn't that make him a scumbag who abandoned his wife and child?

...

Meanwhile, in the real world,

Su Quan, accompanied by five thugs, had been lingering for over two hours on a small path not far from the entrance of Star Priest Bar.

Su Quan hadn't expected that someone as clueless about games as Pei Wangshu could survive in the world of Xuanwin for such a long time.

Initially, he had assumed they would be kicked out of that world within an hour at most.

However, at most they only had to wait four more hours, and they would be able to catch them right here.

At that moment, a thug beside Su Quan said, "Brother Quan, the people are here!"

Su Quan looked up and saw a van parked on the roadside, from which five or six burly men stepped out.

To be safe, Su Quan had deliberately called in an extra vanload of thugs. "Go on, buy some cigarettes, alcohol, and late-night snacks for the brothers."

"Got it, Brother Quan," the thug nodded.

With nothing to do while waiting here, Su Quan took out his phone and opened the official website of the Xuanwin world.

Although he hadn't managed to secure a test login this time, he still needed to keep a close eye on all kinds of information and intelligence regarding the Xuanwin world.

After all, this test login was merely a small-scale trial conducted by the officials of the Xuanwin world, and they would certainly open up more test login qualifications in the future.

In other words, he still had a chance to log into the Xuanwin world, so he still needed to do his homework on intelligence gathering in advance.

Su Quan was also a fan of the Xuanwin Demonic Venerable, so every time he opened the official webpage of the Xuanwin world, he would always check the Xuanwin Demonic Venerable's character profile first, just to feast his eyes on her peerless beauty.

Soon, he noticed that the "Relationship History" section on the Xuanwin Demonic Venerable's character profile had been closed and removed.

A short line of red text underneath provided an explanation:

"Due to unforeseen events involving the Xuanwin Demonic Venerable within the Xuanwin world that caught even the game officials by surprise, after careful consideration, it has been decided to permanently close the 'Relationship History' section and cease updating the emotional status of the Xuanwin Demonic Venerable."

Su Quan was extremely surprised. What on earth had happened to this Xuanwin Demonic Venerable in the Xuanwin world? Could it be that she had broken up with that [???], and therefore she no longer had any so-called relationship history to speak of?

Su Quan immediately opened major media platforms, and sure enough, the internet was flooded with discussions about the matter.

"The game officials are so irresponsible! We don't even know who the Xuanwin Demonic Venerable's partner is, and they're going to stop updating her romantic progress?"

"So are they going to end up with a bad ending or a good ending? This is driving me crazy!"

"No need to guess, it's definitely a bad ending. You can check my past comments; I predicted it long ago. A female demon whose character setting is 'cold-blooded, ruthless, and slaughter-happy'—what could she possibly know about romance? Her partner was probably murdered by her own hands and used as material for alchemy."

"A female demon never needed things like romance and love in the first place. I love her even more without the emotional baggage!"

"Rejoice, everyone, us fellows have another chance!"

"Huh? How did you guys know that I already have a child with the Xuanwin Demonic Venerable?!"

"Can someone with yellow urine and no diabetes please come over and wake that guy up with a stream?!"

...

Xuanwin Continent, one month later, Xuyu Mountain, the Sacred Land of the Fanyuan Sect.

In the secret chamber within the Sect Master's Palace, Qin Xuanxi swallowed a fetal-protection pill she had refined herself, and then sat cross-legged to regulate the breath of her immortal cultivation avatar.

She was now completely certain that her immortal cultivation avatar had indeed conceived.

In the future, when the child was born and raised, everything must be kept in absolute secrecy; even her most trusted aides and disciples could not be told.

As for the question of whether the Wine Immortal was the reincarnation of Kui Win, she had pondered it endlessly over the past month, and it kept lingering in her mind, impossible to shake off.

She increasingly felt that her initial certainty about the Wine Immortal being the reincarnation of Kui Win was extremely rash, especially since there was fundamentally no actual evidence to prove it.

She couldn't even figure out why, a month ago, she had been so convinced that the Wine Immortal simply had to be the reincarnation of Kui Win.

Immediately afterward, she lowered her gaze to look at her own belly. The price paid for her rashness could only be described as enormous.

Regretting it now was already too late.

Having finished regulating her breath and switching back to her demonic cultivation avatar, Qin Xuanxi finally left the secret chamber.

If the Wine Immortal was not the reincarnation of Kui Win, then Qin Xuanxi still had to continue searching for more clues regarding the Wine Immortal's true identity.

Suddenly, Qin Xuanxi thought of the "Boundless One" mentioned by that voice within the hereditary stone of the Hongyang Ji clan last time.

However, not a single book in the Fanyuan Sect's Scripture Pavilion made any mention of this "Boundless One."

That being the case, it seemed she would have to make a personal trip to the Chunqiu Pavilion.