[Main Quest:]
[Proceed to the target location and search for the quest item “Basement Key”]
“Do one thing, then get a reward for the next event… It’s just like a sect mission.”
Zhong Yi grumbled softly to himself as he headed downstairs toward the bookcase.
First, he had to find candy for two kids, and now he was searching the bookcase for a key.
What used to be routine RPG fetch quests for players in his past life were now things that cultivators in this world were slowly getting used to.
“’Twilight Town’? The love story between a girl and a zombie? Haha, the Old Master has some interesting taste.”
Zhong Yi chuckled as he retrieved the quest item from the pages of Twilight Town.
Following the children’s directions, he arrived at the door of the darkroom where Gu Yun often went.
“Creak—”
The old wooden door dragged a long, trailing sound.
Total darkness lay ahead.
“So dark!”
The moment he lit the candle in the room, the originally gentle, melodious background music suddenly turned eerie and oppressive.
Zhong Yi’s heart jolted, and he shivered.
“Damn, that scared me… I thought a great demon was about to spawn here!”
Zhong Yi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
In the dim room, there was no great demon.
Under the flickering candlelight, the entire space was crammed with countless origami rabbits, spreading from the floor all the way onto the bed.
Paired with the sudden shift in melody, the scene was indescribably eerie.
“Are these… origami? Rabbits?”
Zhong Yi picked up a few origami rabbits curiously and examined them.
Apart from their different colors, they seemed no different from one another.
[Origami Rabbit: Precise folds, meticulous workmanship, appears to be made by the same person]
Besides the floor covered in origami rabbits, there were two other items in the room that could be inspected.
[Music Box: A specialty toy from the Canglan Realm. Old and worn, barely functional]
[Platypus Plushie: A child’s doll. Covered in patches, seemingly quite old]
“Origami rabbits, a music box, a plushie…”
Zhong Yi pinched his chin and frowned, pondering the connection between the three.
“They’re all kids’ stuff? I can’t figure out anything special about them at all.”
In the end, Zhong Yi decided to give up.
“Huh? I can take this platypus? Might as well bring it along.”
After putting the platypus plushie into his backpack, Zhong Yi left the room.
The BGM at this point was still a bit tense, giving him a strong urge to explore further and uncover the truth.
“What? Are you saying there are paper rabbits in other places too?”
“Yeah, right in the lighthouse on the cliff. Grandpa goes there all the time!”
“Take me to see it, please!”
Hearing the children’s answers, Zhong Yi immediately felt that these paper rabbits were likely the key to solving the mystery.
Gu Yun’s old mansion was built on a steep cliffside.
The “lighthouse” the children mentioned was located on the cliff behind the mansion.
[Lighthouse: A special structure in the Canglan Realm. Its top is fitted with a strong-light stone that can pierce through darkness and thick fog, guiding ships at sea]
“Never heard of such a building… but it sounds pretty useful, huh? Maybe we could promote it in the mortal world.”
Zhong Yi looked up at the tower, over ten meters tall, and only noticed a modest, neatly kept grave at its base.
The tombstone read:
[Grave of Beloved Wife, Lin Xi]
“Huh? Is this the wife of Old Master Gu who passed away?”
Zhong Yi glanced at it twice, then, urged on by the children, climbed the lighthouse.
Just as the children had said, the top floor of the lighthouse was filled with colorful origami rabbits, just like the darkroom in the basement.
On a small table at the top floor, a single origami rabbit made of blue and yellow paper stood out prominently.
“Strange, that colorful rabbit wasn’t here the last time we came up to play…”
“Grandpa comes here to sit every day. He must have put it there!”
The two children were both curious and puzzled by this yellow-and-blue paper rabbit.
“The only rabbit with different colors… What could it mean?”
Zhong Yi held this special origami rabbit in his hands and examined it for a long time. Apart from the extra color, he couldn’t find any other distinctive feature.
“I can put this in my backpack too? Then it’s definitely a key clue! But what on earth does it mean…”
Just as he was perplexed, the sound-transmission jade tablet around his neck lit up.
It was Qin Li’en, the Senior Sister from the Dream-Making Sect.
The dream-creation array was ready. They just needed Zhong Yi to return for it to be activated.
“Understood. I’m heading back now.”
Zhong Yi cut off the transmission and put the special yellow-and-blue paper rabbit into his backpack before hurrying back to the old mansion.
All the way, he kept pondering the meaning of the paper rabbits, the plushie, and the music box.
Aside from being playthings that kids liked, he couldn’t find any other connection between them.
Let alone how they related to “going to the Lunar Realm.”
…
Back on the second floor of the old mansion.
Qin Li’en had already set up all the magical instruments.
Seeing Zhong Yi arriving late, Qin Li’en said, a bit annoyed, “You could have waited a little longer, until the Old Master kicked the bucket, and then come back.”
Zhong Yi waved his hand helplessly. “No choice… Going to the lighthouse meant climbing the cliff. It wore me out.”
“Next time you go that far, just jump down to save time,” Qin Li’en said, displeased.
“You think I didn’t try? I just died from the fall…”
Zhong Yi complained in his mind.
He had actually wanted to jump to save time, but it turned out the cultivators in the Canglan Realm were much weaker than he thought. He just ended up dying and restarting.
“After investigating so long, you must have gained something, right?”
“Reporting to Senior Sister, I got nothing at all!”
“…You sound pretty proud????”
Qin Li’en shook her head helplessly.
“Never mind. Since we can’t find anything, we’ll just go ask the client ourselves.”
With that, she sat cross-legged by the bed.
Following the quest’s guidance, Zhong Yi sat down on the other side of the bed.
As the two injected their spiritual power, the dream-creation array began to glow more and more brightly.
“Dream creation…”
“Begin!”
…
…
The scene plunged into brief darkness.
A very familiar sensation of sinking consciousness.
“Isn’t this just entering an illusion? Playing an illusion inside an illusion?”
Zhong Yi found it both amusing and exasperating.
The dream-creation art of the sect was to construct the target’s memories into an illusion.
The brilliance of this technique was that the people and objects in the illusion weren’t just acting out a script from memory—they could interact and even be changed.
In a way, it was like traveling back in time or entering another parallel world—except that all of this happened within an illusion.
“I see! So we could have just gone to ask the Old Master directly… Wait, no! If that’s the case, why did you make me run all over the old mansion investigating?”
After Qin Li’en reviewed the principles of the array with him, Zhong Yi couldn’t help complaining.
If the main subject possessed independent consciousness within the illusion, then why did he have to go through all that trouble investigating?
All that running around for nothing!
“Idiot… Your past lessons were all for nothing.”
Qin Li’en gave him an extremely dismissive eye roll, but patiently explained anyway.
“It’s simple, because memories can lie.”
Zhong Yi was taken aback. “Lie?”
“Exactly.”
Qin Li’en nodded.
“Memories can be jumbled or missing, or the other person’s character may have certain flaws, making them unwilling to tell the truth... In short, the human heart is far more complex than any magical art.”
“So that’s how it is...”
Zhong Yi suddenly understood, deeply resonating with Qin Li’en’s reasoning.
“Anyway, first we need to find Old Master and try to get to the bottom of things... He doesn’t have much time left.”
Qin Li’en hurriedly rose and walked out of the room.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
