Smart Rikka

[Kashiwagi Eri: This kind of thing... how is it possible?]

[Kashiwagi Eri: Could it be that this kind of thing actually covers multiple worlds?]

[Tyrant's Eye User: Covers multiple worlds? Then what should we do? Can Toka still be saved? @Stumbled Into High-Tier Lobby]

At this moment, Takanashi Rikka's eyes were already filled with tears. Just early this morning, after accompanying her older sister Toka in cultivation for the whole night, Rikka suddenly noticed that her sister's expression had become somewhat sluggish. Following that, she found her saying things like "How is this possible?" and "Why can't I remember?".

Then she also felt a sudden surge of unfamiliar memories appearing in her own head, seemingly trying to squeeze out her original memories. As a veteran chuunibyou, she immediately prepared to ask the chat group members for help. As a result, she discovered that upon entering the chat group, those unfamiliar memories seemed to turn into a third-person movie, extremely far away from her, completely unable to touch her despite trying. However, upon exiting the chat group interface, they would forcefully barge into her mind again, trying to replace her memories.

So she immediately discovered the pattern, directly grabbed her sister, sent her as a red packet into the chat group, and then started asking the group members for help.

Finally, it was the scene that Eriri saw.

After Eriri finished reading the chat logs, her expression suddenly became anxious.

"Oh no! My parents!"

After Eriri exclaimed, she sprinted downstairs at lightning speed, then directly grabbed her parents, sent them as red packets to the chat group, and hastily reminded everyone in the group.

[Kashiwagi Eri: Everyone, these are my mom and dad, please don't claim them!]

[Stumbled Into High-Tier Lobby: Besides Brother Changsheng's red packets, who would claim anyone else's?]

[Yunlan Sect Master: That's right. Ever since the chat group updated, it actually reverse-optimized the red packet function. Now we can't even directly see what exactly is inside the red packets. Last time I claimed the monster Xiaoxiao sent, it almost destroyed the main hall of my Yunlan Sect.]

[Stumbled Into High-Tier Lobby: Stop talking about that! I clearly reminded everyone in the group not to claim it, who told you to claim it so fast!]

[Dual Cultivator of Buddha and Dao: Um, I think what's more important right now is how to help Miss Eriri and Miss Rikka, right?]

[Mortal Body Rivaling Gods: My suggestion is to @Innate Wife-Taking Physique, let Chen help.]

[Martial Arts King: Why bother our husband with such a trivial matter.]

[Martial Arts King claimed Tyrant's Eye User's red packet]

[Martial Arts King: I'll claim one first to see what's going on.]

Meanwhile, in the cultivation world, at the Chen family in Tianyun City, inside Chen Changsheng's room, Luo Hao, who was leaning in Chen Changsheng's embrace, glanced at Mu Qingling on the other side and claimed Rikka's red packet without hesitation.

The next moment, Toka's body, wearing only a three-point outfit, fell directly into Chen Changsheng's embrace.

Chen Changsheng: "?"

Chen Changsheng opened his eyes with a bewildered look, then looked at Toka in his arms, who was equally bewildered.

"Ahhhh..."

Toka screamed and prepared to slap Chen Changsheng's face. Fortunately, Chen Changsheng had already reacted at this moment and grabbed her wrist.

After doing all this, Chen Changsheng looked at the snow-white Toka in his arms, then looked at Luo Hao beside him, whose face was somewhat ugly, and asked in confusion, "What happened?"

In the first half of last night, he helped the sisters Bing'er and Xue'er, as well as Lu Ling'er, to cultivate. In the second half of the night, he had to help Mu Qingling and Luo Hao cultivate. Especially Luo Hao, who was particularly insatiable, until she was taught a lesson by Chen Changsheng and exhausted, only then did it become Mu Qingling's turn. This caused Chen Changsheng to not rest for the whole night. He had just dozed off for a while, only to suddenly find an extra Toka in his arms.

"Something happened on Rikka's side."

Although Luo Hao was a bit displeased in her heart, she still explained, then looked at Toka in Chen Changsheng's arms.

"Aren't you getting down!"

Hearing this, Toka was about to climb out of Chen Changsheng's embrace, but she felt an immense pain in her head, and couldn't help but cry out in pain as she fell back into Chen Changsheng's arms.

"Hmm? What's wrong with Miss Toka?"

After feeling the soft and delicate body in his arms, Chen Changsheng frowned and reached out to touch Toka's head. As his divine sense slowly probed into it, he felt that Toka's spirit was extremely chaotic. A strange spiritual power was frantically eroding her original spirit, as if forcefully merging with her spirit using heavy-handed methods.

Seeing this, Chen Changsheng didn't hesitate. The power of his divine sense transformed into countless tiny palms, capturing all of that strange energy, and then pulled it out in one go.

And as a ball of spiritual energy emerged in his hand, Toka directly tilted her head and went completely limp in his arms, as if she had suffered a heavy blow.

Gently holding Toka, Chen Changsheng looked at the spiritual energy in his hand, then felt Toka's spirit again, his frown deepening.

"How is it?"

Luo Hao looked at Chen Changsheng, a hint of curiosity flashing in her eyes.

She could feel that the energy Chen Changsheng was holding in his hand was extremely high-level, even a bit stronger than the mana she currently possessed.

Chen Changsheng shook his head.

"It's not very optimistic. This energy involves the level of the Dao, and it's a Dao I haven't come into contact with before. Furthermore, a portion of this energy has completely merged into Toka's spirit. With my current strength, it's impossible to strip it away."

"So what exactly happened?"

At this moment, Chen Changsheng still hadn't figured out what the situation was, and how Toka inexplicably got tainted with this strange power.

Hearing this, Luo Hao shook her head and said, "I can't explain it clearly either. Husband, you should go to the group and see for yourself."

Chen Changsheng immediately opened the chat group and started reading the chat logs.

After a short while, he withdrew his gaze and looked at Toka in his arms with a softened expression.

"Judging from the content in the group, modifying memories isn't targeted at a specific person. What Tony said isn't wrong either. Toka must have just merged memories and then stripped away a portion of memories that didn't belong to her, which consumed too much mental energy. She'll be fine after recovering a bit."

After he finished speaking, he reached out and gently pressed against Toka's forehead, starting to heal her.

Sure enough, after a short while, the unconscious Toka slowly woke up.

Chen Changsheng immediately looked over with concern.

"How is it? Feeling any better?"

Toka shook her head, feeling the two completely different sets of memories in her mind. One was her original memory, but this memory had already been completely replaced by another set of memories. It was so unfamiliar that just by comparing it with her original memories, she felt that this new memory was fake.

This feeling made Toka incredibly terrified, and her body couldn't help but shrink back. It wasn't until she felt that she was in a warm embrace that her heart finally felt much more at ease.

"Thank you."

Toka looked at Chen Changsheng with complex emotions in her beautiful eyes. Although she felt incredibly shy in her heart, she somewhat didn't want to leave the embrace of the man in front of her.

She didn't know how long it had been since she experienced this feeling of having someone to rely on.

It seemed that ever since her father passed away during her middle school years, she had never again known what it was like to have someone to rely on. She had been forced to carry every burden on her own shoulders, and suffer every grievance in silence.

Yet, in this moment, Chen Changsheng's embrace brought back that familiar feeling of leaning on her father from so many years ago.

Warm, safe, and at peace.

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