Free Web NovelThe cold wind brushed against the straw curtain of the ancestral hall, making it play with the flickering moonlight.
In front of the back door of the ancestral hall, Xiao Li Mo looked up, watching Ying Bing, whose black flowing immortal dress and hair fluttered, and whose eyes were deep; she looked even more like a Fairy who had just descended from the bright moon.
Why did Ice Cube suddenly wake up? frёewebnoѵēl.com
But it's good that she woke up... Little Li hadn't even sighed in relief when he suddenly felt something was off.
Even when she was small, she was very cute....
Did she really just wake up? freeweɓnovel.cøm
Did she remember what happened before?
The Taiyin's clear radiance suddenly intensified at this moment, the pure silver light illuminating the ancestral hall as if it were a silver day, and wherever the moonlight passed, the menacing expressions of the tomb-guarding beasts were frozen and solidified.
Even that Year Beast was no exception, turning into a lifelike silver statue, the only difference being that its eyeballs could still move, but the sinister look in its eyes had turned into terror.
But Ying Bing did not look at it; instead, she turned her gaze back.
"Bing'er...."
Beside the ancestor's statue.
Ying Xu Liang and Ying Mother stared blankly at the graceful figure.
The girl in the painting, and their daughter's small figure, reality and dream seemed to slowly overlap at this moment.
Complex emotions appeared on the stunned faces of the couple, then turned into relief and contentment.
"So, we... are already dead, this is a dream, ah...."
"Our daughter has grown up healthy, hahaha, good, good... This is enough."
As their voices fell, silver light began to emanate from their bodies, and like the other Ying Family members, their figures seemed to be merging into the moonlight, disappearing.
Reality is the end of a dream.
They were about to vanish with the dream.
"You, you actually, woke up a long time ago?!"
"Only ten years, and you've reached this level! You..."
Cracks appeared in the clear light on the Black Nian Beast's body, and its head had broken free from it, exclaiming in disbelief.
Hmm?
Li Mo leaned back slightly at the words, then a small question mark appeared above his head.
Ten years?
He keenly caught these two words.
This Year Beast knew that Ice Cube was dreaming, and also knew that this was her from ten years later?
How could a Disaster Beast existing in a dream say such a thing?
Unless....
A flash of lightning went through Li Mo's mind, and he remembered Zou Yongfeng once saying that he had seen a black shadow in the Ying Family Old Residence.
This Year Beast was originally from the outside!?
So Fengzi wasn't mistaken that day!
This Year Beast, like himself, was an existence that could sneak into others' dreams through special means; no wonder its first reaction upon seeing him was shock, as if it never expected him to appear here!
The Year Beast did not begin to dissipate with the end of the dream.
This was the best evidence!
"Crack—"
Suddenly, the clear light on the Year Beast's body shattered, exploding into a sky full of crystal fragments.
It realized that the one before it was no longer the little girl from ten years ago, and even more than just her from ten years later.
This ability to control the Taiyin, even in a dream, was definitely not something a Guan Shen Realm could possess, otherwise it wouldn't be so weak even in someone else's dream.
Li Mo only saw the Black Nian Beast's figure transform into a black wind, rolling back towards the blank space of the dream.
Buzz—
A sword hum sounded.
A sword shadow suddenly emerged from the Taiyin; the Black Nian Beast was fast, but its speed was even faster.
Li Mo even felt it was ridiculously fast.
It was as if the sword had just appeared, and the next moment it had already struck out; this had clearly just happened, yet it also seemed to have happened long ago.
It had clearly only struck out one sword, yet it was as if thousands of strikes had all appeared in the same instant.
This sword was like a phantom emerging from the cracks of time.
"Ah ah ah!!"
The Year Beast shrieked, black Evil Qi surging around its body; the sword, like a shadow in the moon, fiercely pierced through its body.
"You were looking for me, and why was I not looking for you?"
Accompanied by the girl's voice.
Li Mo saw the sword light blooming amidst the black mist.
Beautiful, cold, and sharp.
"How could I perish in a dream!"
The Black Nian Beast's desperate roar echoed in the ancestral hall.
Black Evil Qi streamed from the wounds on its body, but when it met the sword light wrapped in moonlight, it was still swept away like withered leaves.
.....
Outside.
In reality.
The dark and windy night finally cleared up a bit, and the moon, hiding behind the clouds, slowly became clear.
Moonlight illuminated the dilapidated walls of the Ying Family Old Residence, and the broken ancestral hall.
A large black shadow was currently lying in the hall.
It was exactly like the Black Nian Beast in the dream, only not as large as in the dream.
"It hurts, it hurts so much....."
"Let me out... Let me out!"
The Year Beast rolled in pain, collapsing the broken wall next to it.
But even with such violent movements, it could not wake up from the dream.
Moreover, various gruesome wounds began to appear on its body, and black Evil Qi gushed out from the wounds, causing it to shrink rapidly as ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ if deflating, becoming smaller and smaller.
Gradually, it became only the size of a calf and stopped moving.
Black blood flowed all over the ground.
......
Inside the ancestral hall.
The Black Nian Beast, which had just been fierce and terrifying, was now lying on the ground, engulfed by the silver moonlight and disappearing.
Without its movements and those of the tomb-guarding beasts, the dream ancestral hall instantly became incredibly quiet.
"Dead?"
Li Mo had a premonition that this thing not only died in the dream, but its fate in reality would probably not be much better.
Hmm?
He suddenly found that his perspective of Ice Cube was no longer looking up; it had returned to how it was before.
Li Mo realized.
This dream was becoming more and more 'real'.
So he was no longer a child, but had returned to his youthful appearance.
The bustling and noisy New Year scene had disappeared, the Ying Family members were also gone, and the surrounding scenery was blurring and collapsing.
The only ones left were Ying Xu Liang and Ying Mother, clinging on, unwilling to leave.
The ones clinging on were not them, but.....
"Ice Cube...."
Li Mo looked at Ying Bing beside him and found that her complexion had paled a bit.
Ice Cube's Taiyin Divine Intent was related to time.
Now she was maintaining the dream, slowing its rapid descent into reality.
"Dad... Mom...."
The couple gazed at their grown daughter and the Li Family boy; their eyes held many unspoken words, but they only smiled:
"Daughter, the moon will set, and the sun will rise again; no matter how beautiful a dream, it will eventually end."
"When you wake up, it's good if it was a beautiful dream, a beautiful dream....."
Their figures were being decomposed into specks of silver light, dissipating into nothingness, and even their faces began to gradually blur.
But Li Mo distinctly felt that Ying Uncle and Aunt were looking at him.
"Thank you for coming into Bing'er's dream......"
......
More than ten years ago, an ordinary day.
The sun rose as usual, illuminating the waking moments of the Ying Family Compound.
Some Family members were doing morning exercises in the square in front of the ancestral hall, some were squatting on the doorstep slurping noodles, facing the morning sun, facing the new day.
The sunlight pierced through the bed in the wing room, and Ying Xu Liang woke up vaguely; he looked at the morning glow outside the window and murmured:
"Wife, I seem to have had a very long dream....."
"I dreamed that Bing'er fed me dumplings, I dreamed that she grew up, I dreamed that... she was standing with a boy, it seemed to be... the Li Family boy?"
"I... me too."
Ying Mother also woke up, wiping the corners of her eyes, finding that she had cried at some point.
"You dreamed of it too?"
"Mmm....."
"Haha, it seems our couple won't be having separate dreams in the same bed."
Ying Xu Liang laughed heartily.
"You rascal....." Ying Mother stopped her tears, amused by her husband, and gave him a sidelong glance.
"Wife, let's make some dumplings today and take them to Brother Li's house, to see his boy, to see if he's as clever and annoying as in the dream."
"I'll go ask Bing'er if she wants to go out."
....
PS: Dreams are the continuation of reality, reality is the end of dreams. This sentence has been in my mind for a long time.
Ice Cube's subsequent Divine Intention abilities are also related to this; even now, she is not in a fully recovered state, not just in terms of Realm.
Her Rebirth reason will not be glossed over by me; it will only be slowly revealed as the two of them gradually reach higher Realms, and telling it gradually will definitely be more interesting than revealing it outright.
I'm going out for dinner for the Mid-Autumn Festival, there will be two more chapters tonight, but they might not be on time.
Wishing all my esteemed readers a happy Mid-Autumn Festival in advance, may we all live long, and share the Communal Moon from a thousand miles away, 030.
