“Infuse it with spiritual energy?”
Zhong Yi’s breath caught for a moment, then his heart leaped with wild joy.
It was just like the final choice in This Demon Cultivator Isn’t That Cold—the classic Lu-style ending.
Use real-world cultivation to change the outcome of the illusion!
Zhong Yi’s choice was as unwavering as ever.
“All in!!!”
He instinctively shouted the term he’d learned from The King of Bidding, then poured all his spiritual energy into it.
This move sent the livestream’s comments into utter shock.
[All his spiritual energy?]
[Is he crazy?]
[You can tell he’s new… back when he fought Stanley, Zhong directly transferred his full cultivation to bully a Foundation Establishment cultivator…]
[Was it worth it? It’s just an illusion.]
[To make up for a regret, how could it not be worth it?]
[If it were someone else’s illusion, definitely not. But Going to the Moon Realm… all I can say is, when Gu Yun and Lin Xi step onto the Heavenly Stairway, art is complete. It’s absolutely worth it!]
…
As Zhong Yi poured in all his spiritual energy,
Lu Ze’s face broke into a playful smile.
Centered on him, a vast and overwhelming dream-weaving formation abruptly unfurled, enveloping the entire dream world within its grasp.
Countless streams of spiritual energy surged from Zhong Yi’s body toward the formation, the light growing brighter and brighter.
“Go and see… the new world you’re about to reach.”
With that,
the dream world began to collapse.
The illusion fell into a brief darkness.
…
The violent sensation of jolting.
“Ah… ahhh!!!”
The familiar scream stirred Zhong Yi, and he groggily opened his eyes.
“We’re going to crash… we’re going to crash! Help me stop it, Junior Brother Zhong!!!”
“???”
Bewildered, he tumbled off the Earth Dragon.
This familiar start almost made Zhong Yi think he’d accidentally started a third playthrough of Going to the Moon Realm.
“I know—the disciple in charge of procurement didn’t inspect it properly. This Earth Dragon should have three holes beneath its horns; it’s a defective breed prone to going berserk.”
Zhong Yi preempted the words Qin Li’en was about to speak, leaving her utterly baffled.
He looked around, his heart sinking like a stone.
It was that same familiar hilltop. Looking up, he could see the old mansion and the tall, straight lighthouse.
This was Gu Yun’s residence.
Aside from the fact that evening was falling, nothing in the storyline had changed!
“What are you standing around for? Let’s go? The client is waiting for us.”
Qin Li’en shot him a puzzled look and urged him on.
Zhong Yi took a deep breath. “Is the client’s surname Gu?”
“Of course.”
Qin Li’en rolled her eyes and walked ahead of him.
Zhong Yi felt a hollow emptiness in his chest, following her with a numb expression.
“How can this be? Where did things go wrong…”
Zhong Yi racked his brain but came up with no answers.
“Could it be that even Nascent Soul-level spiritual energy isn’t enough? That doesn’t make sense…”
The more he thought about it, the more impossible it seemed.
Though Lu Ze’s methods were unconventional, he would never overlook a low-level cultivator’s experience.
“Then where’s the problem?”
Frowning, Zhong Yi turned to Qin Li’en.
“Senior Sister, has the Nine Heavens Sect activated the Nine Heavens Formation in the last hundred years to ascend to the Moon Realm?”
“Huh???”
Qin Li’en turned her head and stared at Zhong Yi as if he were an idiot.
“Do you have any idea what kind of strength it takes to climb the Heavenly Stairway to the Moon Realm…? The Nine Heavens Sect is a bunch of fools—where would they find a genius like that?”
“Oh…”
Zhong Yi nodded silently.
That meant.
The false memories he’d created for Gu Yun in the dream hadn’t come true.
It seemed Lu Ze had tricked him.
“Junior Brother Lu!”
Zhong Yi gritted his teeth in fury, tempted to go find Lu Ze in person for a little chat.
“Phew… finally here.”
Qin Li’en wiped the sweat from her brow and knocked on the door.
No one answered.
Just as Zhong Yi was about to leave the illusion, he stopped his movements.
A glimmer of stubbornness remained.
“I think I know where he might be.”
With that, Zhong Yi led Qin Li’en to the hill behind the old mansion.
There, beneath the lighthouse, he indeed saw that familiar white-haired old man sitting alone on a bench.
It was Gu Yun.
His eyes were vacant, fixed on the grave beneath the lighthouse.
Zhong Yi’s hope shattered like glass.
Everything was the same as in his previous memory—nothing had changed.
Even though he’d given it his all, he still couldn’t save Lin Xi and Gu Yun’s fate.
“Are you Master Gu? I’m a disciple of the Dream Creation Sect…”
Qin Li’en wasted no time, walking forward to introduce herself.
Their pleasantries drifted past Zhong Yi without registering a single word.
He casually plucked a handful of wildflowers and walked to the grave.
“If I’m not mistaken, this must be your late wife’s grave, right?”
Zhong Yi crouched down, placing the wildflowers in front of the grave, his voice tinged with sorrow.
“It is… how do you know?”
The old man looked at Zhong Yi with curiosity.
“Not only that, but I also know that your wish is to go to the Moon Realm… but your true wish isn’t to go to the Moon Realm—it’s to go to Lin… uh???”
Zhong Yi stopped mid-sentence, frozen in place.
Because the name on the grave wasn't Lin Xi, but someone called Chen Yue.
"What are you talking about? Going to the moon realm or something… nonsense."
The old man looked at Zhong Yi with a baffled expression.
"Junior Brother, did you misread the spirit contract? Old Master Gu Feng's wish… was to write a poem for his late wife…"
Qin Li'en whispered into Zhong Yi's ear.
"Gu… Gu Feng!?"
Zhong Yi's breath caught in his throat, and then a surge of joy filled his heart.
Just then, a streak of silvery moonlight fell upon Zhong Yi's face.
A sudden commotion came from above.
"You're both grown-ups, but you still can't let go of these childish things…"
Gu Feng laughed and scolded, shaking his cane as he shouted toward the sky.
"Brother Yun, you two quiet down! I have something to say to the immortal master!!"
"No, no… it's fine."
Zhong Yi quickly stopped Gu Feng, his eyes red as he looked up.
Gu Yun, with snow-white hair, and Lin Xi stood on the lighthouse's top platform, pointing at the bright moon and the stars in the sky.
"Yun, did you find it?"
"I did. What about you?"
"Yeah, but I was a bit faster than you."
"But I bet the rabbit I found is bigger!"
"I don't believe you. Count it out for me."
"Fine! Look, here, here, and over here…"
……
The corners of Zhong Yi's eyes grew moist again.
"Junior Brother, what's wrong?"
Qin Li'en asked with concern.
"Nothing, it's nothing."
Zhong Yi wiped the corner of his eyes, but couldn't dry them. He laughed and cried all at once, gazing for a long time at the two people searching for shapes of a rabbit on the lighthouse.
The lingering regret in his heart finally dissolved like smoke.
"By the way, Old Master. Your poem… have you settled on it?"
Zhong Yi asked.
"Of course I have! I'll read it to you, you tell me what you think… Huh? Wait, what did I write back then??"
Gu Feng fumbled awkwardly through the little notes in his pocket, looking embarrassed.
"Old Master Gu has a poor memory. Seems he wrote a poem for his wife but recited it wrong at the time, and he's held a grudge ever since… It's a strange regret to have, don't you think?"
Qin Li'en whispered in Zhong Yi's ear.
"Old Master Gu, I happen to have a poem here. May I offer it to you instead?"
"Please, Immortal Master, go ahead!"
"Men have their joys and sorrows, the moon has its wax and wane. Since ancient times, this is hard to perfect…"
Zhong Yi looked up at the full moon in the sky, reciting with a smile:
"But may we live long and share this moonlight, though thousands of miles apart!"
[Sprinkling sweetness! A game ending that reality can't change gets rewritten in another world! The last three chapters are all the author's own take—only this novel writes the tribute to the To the Moon in this way!]
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!
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
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..."
