"Who!?"
Zhong Yi raised his head warily.
A long-haired man wearing a mask and clad in a white robe descended slowly into the air, making his way unhurriedly to stand before Zhong Yi.
Flying!?
Zhong Yi furrowed his brow, stepping subtly to shield Qin Li'en.
Arts and techniques in this world were rather crude; he had never heard Qin Li'en mention any cultivators who could fly.
That meant the mysterious man's strength was unfathomable!
"Is it really that hard to understand for a disciple of the Dreamweaving Sect?"
The mysterious man shrugged helplessly, then snapped his fingers.
The Qin Li'en behind Zhong Yi vanished without a trace.
"!!!"
Zhong Yi was horrified.
This scene reminded him of the moment when he first revealed his identity to Old Gu Yun in Gu Yun's memory world—
"Freeze" and "Erase"!
In an instant, Zhong Yi understood his current predicament.
"You are..."
"Someone from the Dreamweaving Sect!?"
Seeing the man display that technique, he immediately grasped it.
A dream within a dream!
Just as he had entered Gu Yun's memories to help make up for the regret between him and Lin Xi.
Right now, where he stood was also inside the dream of his future self.
The entire illusion was not built around the memories of Gu Yun and Lin Xi...
But around Zhong Yi himself!
Clearly.
One day in the future, when this world's Zhong Yi was about to die, he too had asked someone else to come and help him fulfill his regrets.
And his regret was never truly being able to save Lin Xi and Gu Yun.
"Catching on pretty fast, huh?"
The mysterious man nodded, clearly pleased with Zhong Yi's response.
"That's right. I'm also from the Dreamweaving Sect."
"So, in your era, I'm about to die? And my regret is to genuinely redeem Lin Xi?"
Zhong Yi muttered to himself, analyzing the situation.
Once he accepted this premise, everything began to make perfect sense.
He felt a brief surge of excitement, but then his brows were again shadowed by regret.
"Forget it. You, this... junior brother. When I'm dying, someone should come to help me with my regret. You're probably a junior disciple, right?"
"This regret of mine... you can't fulfill it..."
"Because I know better than anyone that these are all false, carefully woven memories."
"And my wish..."
Zhong Yi looked toward the grave not far away.
"Is to let them truly and regretlessly be together."
As soon as he finished speaking, the mysterious man before him suddenly revealed a smile that felt strangely familiar.
"Who said I'm your junior disciple?"
The mask on the mysterious man's face shattered with a loud crack, revealing a countenance Zhong Yi knew all too well.
"I am the First Generation Dreamweaving Sect Master... Lu Ze."
"You should call me, Grand Master."
The moment Lu Ze finished speaking, Zhong Yi's fist uncontrollably shot straight for his face.
As expected, the punch never reached Lu Ze. Instead, it ended up swinging back and hitting Zhong Yi right in the eye.
"Dear young one, take it easy. This is a dream realm—you can't beat me here... although to be fair, you couldn't beat me in the real world either."
The Dreamweaving Sect Master's face was set in that aggravatingly smug expression that Zhong Yi knew all too well.
"Damn!! Are you mocking me?! I'm going to come find you and throw down when I get out!!"
Sporting a black eye, Zhong Yi gritted his teeth in fury.
To think that after enduring the heart-wrenching tragedy of "To the Lunar Realm," the very architect of all that suffering would appear right before him—how could he resist swinging?
Unfortunately, in this illusion, his power was pitifully weak; he was no match for "Lu Ze."
Reluctantly, Zhong Yi gave up on his plan to thrash Lu Ze in the dream.
After all, right now, Lu Ze was the key to solving everything.
"You are the First Generation Dreamweaving Sect Master... from that ancient era when spiritual energy was abundant and techniques could even reverse reality?"
"Yes."
"So, your dream-weaving arts... can turn dreams into reality?"
"Depends on the difficulty... For your world, which only has ordinary mortals, it's no big problem."
"Why are you helping me?"
"As the only junior of the Dreamweaving Sect in a thousand years to successfully enter the Forbidden Land of Reincarnation... I don't mind giving you a hand."
...
After a brief conversation, Zhong Yi roughly understood the situation.
It turned out that his future self had started researching how to restore the complete dream-weaving arts in order to truly redeem Lin Xi and Gu Yun, and he had kept cultivating relentlessly, even risking himself to break into the sect's forbidden areas in search of an opportunity...
Finally, upon the verge of death, he encountered Lu Ze, the ancient Grand Master always hidden within the Forbidden Land of Reincarnation.
Thus, this very scene came to be.
Meaning...
The Lu Ze before him could genuinely turn Gu Yun's fabricated dream into reality!
"Can it... really be done?"
Hope filled Zhong Yi's heart.
"Of course. I have the complete techniques here... What we are lacking is simply the spiritual energy to sustain them."
Lu Ze nodded slowly.
"What do I need to do?"
Zhong Yi suddenly became excited.
With the technique realized, it all came down to lacking spiritual energy.
In this age of scarce spiritual energy, at the end of the age of magic, that was no easy feat.
"It's simple, with the dream-weaving arts... You lay a 'cause' for the you of the past and reap the 'effect' you desire. In my terms, it's the butterfly effect."
Lu Ze smiled lightly. A butterfly appeared on the tip of his finger.
"When a butterfly in Huayue Province flaps its wings, it could cause a spiritual energy storm on the other side, in Cangfeng Province..."
"Now, the reason for the butterfly to flap its wings is in place. The result will only depend on how forcefully it flutters."
Saying this, he raised his hand, and the butterfly fluttered lightly over to rest on Zhong Yi's shoulder.
"So, just how strong is your determination?"
As his words fell,
a system prompt appeared in front of Zhong Yi:
[Please choose the amount of spiritual energy you wish to inject into the Canglan Realm!]
P.S. Alright, written to this point, all the foreshadowing has been resolved, and the entire story forms a closed loop.
First, let me say that this chapter is inseparable from the excellent script of the original story. All the author's adaptations and second creations stand on the shoulders of giants.
However, beyond the original plot, the way this new ending unfolds should be unexpected yet make perfect sense, right?
If you felt a shock when you read about the senior sister freezing in place and realized it was all a dream within a dream, then it means my clever trick has succeeded again.
Your author has many flaws. Slow writing speed, poor luck, a fragile heart…
But when it comes to game storylines, you can always trust Lao Jie.
It's been a while since I've asked for gifts. If you are fairly satisfied with this ending, please throw some gifts my way to support me.
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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!
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
iaobai: "Councilor Dad, front me some funds. I want to hire ten thousand professional miners for a project!" [Five-Star Mission Issued: Capture the leader of the Blood Heaven Pirate Gang, who is on the run in the Radiant Star Sector. It is said the gang has over a hundred members. Proceed with caution.] Lu Xiaobai: "Councilor Dad, lend me the family's hundred-thousand-strong Lu Army!" [Seven-Star Mission Issued: Subdue a juvenile Void Dragon Beast.] Lu Xiaobai: "Councilor Dad, I'm taking your tamed Void Dragon Beast King out for a family reunion!" I said, System, don't you have any slightly more challenging missions? You're just not up to par! [Nine-Star Mission Issued: Become the Human Councilor.] Lu Xiaobai: "Dad, there's a small matter I'd like to discuss with you..."
