After saying that, Jiang Jing walked over and picked up the white cat as it struggled slightly.

At first, Xiao Guanghai was a little fussy, but after Jiang Jing put his hand on its back and stroked it a couple of times to comfort it, it obediently lay in Jiang Jing's arms, with a look of enjoyment on its little face.

An hour later, while Jiang Jing was out preparing dinner, Ayano Iida and Eriri said goodbye and left.

After dinner, Jiang Jing and Zhenbai returned to their room. One of them used his mental power to control the keyboard and draw the EVA manuscript, while the other started drawing the third volume of the Toradora! manga. They were both busy with their own tasks.

Similarly, after asking Jiang Jing a few questions during her meal, Misaki Kamijou from upstairs hurriedly went upstairs after finishing her meal. Her passion for this new work was even greater than Jiang Jing had imagined.

Standing in the empty living room, Chihiro Sengoku noticed that everyone in Sakura-sou seemed to have suddenly become very busy, except for her.

……

On the grassy shore of a forest lake, exuding a primeval atmosphere, a barefoot girl, wearing only a long white silk dress that covered her perfect, delicate body, with her black hair flowing down her shoulders, and radiating a charm that could eclipse the heavens and earth, squatted beside a boy.

Looking at the boy lying on the ground, the girl tilted her head and asked curiously, "What are you doing at my doorstep?"

At this moment, the boy, who had been gazing up at the clear blue sky with a bewildered look in his eyes, twitched his eyelids and asked the girl who had suddenly appeared, "Me?"

"Correct."

The boy shook his head, looking bewildered. "I don't know?"

"How did you end up in the Misty Forest without even knowing?" The girl was taken aback.

The boy shook his head blankly: "I don't know, I woke up here."

At this moment, the girl noticed that the human in front of her did not seem to be bewitched by her aura. Her beautiful eyes lit up, and she asked with even greater curiosity, "Then where do you live?"

"Home? What is that?"

"This is the place where you humans live together. Don't you have a home?" the girl asked curiously.

"No."

"Then who are you? What's your name?"

"What's my name?" The boy asked thoughtfully.

Just as the girl thought the strange human in front of her didn't know either, the boy hesitated for a moment and said, "I...I think my name is Jiang...Jing..."

"Jiang Jing, what a strange name," the girl murmured to herself.

"What's your name?" Jiang Jing asked, sitting up from his lying position and looking curiously at the beautiful, elfin-like girl in front of him.

His mind was completely blank, so when he looked at the girl who had suddenly appeared out of the void, a look of affection appeared in his eyes.

"Me?" The black-haired girl tilted her head, her beautiful eyes thinking for a moment. "I don't have a name, but after I went out and traveled around the world a few years ago, everyone called me Daji."

"Daji."

"Yes, Daji, but I don't like this name. Why don't you help me come up with a different one?" the girl said nonchalantly, seemingly unconcerned about what her name was.

"I'll get one for you." Jiang Jing was taken aback.

"Just pick one, a name is just a code name anyway. Of course, you can call me Daji if you want." As she spoke, the black-haired girl sat on the ground, looking at the river scene in front of her with more interest.

"Hmm... how about calling her Consort?" Jiang Jing asked hesitantly.

"The concubine... is alright." The black-haired girl nodded casually.

"Jiang Jing, it's so boring sitting here. Let me take you to play." Without waiting for the boy's reply, the black-haired girl pulled him and ran into the forest.

"Wow, this tastes delicious! Jiang Jing, how did you make it?"

"Hahahaha... Jiang Jing, come and chase me..."

"Hey Jiang Jing, didn't you say you had no memories of the past? How do you know what this is?"

"Jiang Jing, didn't you say you'd stay with me forever? Don't go..."

Bang! !

The boy's figure, like a bubble, suddenly burst before the girl's eyes, turning into specks of light and disappearing without a trace...

In the bedroom on the second floor of the villa, the fox demon queen sat quietly on the bed in the darkness, her black hair spread out on the bed like a blanket. Looking at the bright moon outside the window, which had not changed for thousands of years, her eyes revealed a complex look as if she were in another world.

After an unknown amount of time, the fox demon queen's lips moved slightly: "You liar."

Night fell. Above the villa on the back mountain of Mizutaka, a dark crack appeared silently, and then the white-haired girl and Yukari Yakumo emerged from it.

Just as the white-haired girl and Yukari Yakumo flew down from the sky, a soft, hollow, and eerie voice rang out in the night sky, whispering.

“You’re back.”

On the edge of the villa's open-air rooftop, a fox spirit princess in a gorgeous Hanfu, with her black hair flowing down her shoulders, sat on the balcony, hugging her knees and looking up at the round, bright moon in the night sky. Her stunningly beautiful face revealed a touch of ethereal loneliness.

Compared to before, the fox demon queen now gives off an otherworldly aura, like a celestial maiden descending to earth. The pure and profound aura emanating from the depths of her soul even suppresses her own seductive charm.

The white-haired girl looked at the fox demon queen, who seemed a bit off today, and said calmly with her eyes slightly narrowed, "You have broken the seal deep within your memories."

Looking at the bright moon in the sky, the fox demon queen shook her head slightly: "After sleeping for two days after returning, those memories naturally reappeared. It should be because my soul underwent a transformation after breaking through and shaping my true form."

Yukari Yakumo, holding a parasol late at night, asked curiously, "Strange, is human love really that hard to forget? It's been over three thousand years, hasn't it? You still haven't forgotten? You need to rely on sealing your memories and going into a deep sleep to get through it."

The fox demon queen sighed softly and said quietly, "Some things cannot be measured by time. I will not forget, nor do I want to forget, because that is the only proof that he ever existed."

After saying that, the fox demon queen turned to look at the white-haired girl, a glimmer of hope in her eyes: "Little Yan, is there not a single one of you awakened ones who has remembered your past memories?"

The white-haired girl shook her head slightly as she walked to the edge of the rooftop, looking down at the brightly lit city below: "We have no memories anymore, we are no longer even ourselves. We are a completely new version of ourselves now."

"According to the information carried in my original Great Dao, in the ancient civilization era, countless years ago, when the entire universe was shattered by that great war, we, the strongest humans who had condensed our true names, joined forces to become the rules of the Great Dao, separating the main material universe from the infinite void abyss, and becoming a supreme order that eternally suppresses."

Hearing these secrets from the white-haired girl for the first time, both Yakumo Yukari and the fox demon princess couldn't help but take a serious look in their eyes.

"Over the years, under the impact of the great power of the two realms, the true names of many supreme beings have been shattered and annihilated, not to mention so-called memory information."

“We Awakeners are said to be born from the origin of the ancient and strongest human race, but in fact we can say that we are already completely new ourselves. Apart from the Great Dao rules left by the soul rebirth of a fragment of true name, we are no different from those superpowered individuals.”

"The seal that existed three hundred years ago was said to have been broken by that battle, but in reality, it had reached its limit under the erosion of the Void Abyss. The seventy-nine Great Dao rules that formed the seal had long been assimilated by the universe, leaving only thirty-nine with traces of broken true names to maintain the integrity of the seal."

"Moreover, over a long period of time, the seal was assimilated by the Great Dao rules of the seal, and loopholes kept appearing, allowing the polluted demonic energy from the Void Abyss to leak up, which was also the main reason for the destruction of the previous seven ancient civilizations."

"Fortunately, every era has its own destined individuals who emerge to suppress the world's loopholes, but these heroes have been corrupted by the infinite abyss and turned into its minions."

“Those ancient evil gods.” Yakumo Yukari was taken aback.

The white-haired girl nodded: "Yes, these are them."

Yukari Yakumo gave the white-haired girl a deep look, her brows furrowing slightly: "Why does that so-called Infinite Abyss want to erode our world? You Awakened Ones should know the reason, right?"

"I don't know," the white-haired girl said calmly.

"...?" Yakumo Yukari.

“I’ve already said I have no memory of that time. The great war that destroyed the universe broke out inexplicably. This information is all based on our deductions over the years from a lot of information,” the white-haired girl said calmly.

"Is that so?" Yukari Yakumo nodded.

It was rare to see a white-haired girl say such things today. Yakumo Yukari pondered for a moment and then asked, "Then the thirty-nine rules that are still maintaining the seal must correspond to the thirty-nine Awakeners, right?"

"Mmm." The white-haired girl nodded and hummed in agreement.

Yakumo Yukari was immediately moved and said, "Kanda is now the thirty-sixth in three hundred years, which means that three more awakened beings will be born among you humans."

"Since you Awakened Ones were born in accordance with those Great Dao Rules, then the dozen or so Awakened Ones who died before you didn't die either? They will be reincarnated again?"

At this point, Yukari Yakumo was shocked by her own speculation.

The white-haired girl shook her head slightly: "Not necessarily. Perhaps no more Awakened Ones will be born in the future."

"Why?" Yakumo Yukari and the fox demon queen were both taken aback.

"The later the remaining traces appear, the more incomplete they are, or they may have even disappeared."

"As for those awakened ones who died, the last connection between them and the Great Dao Rules that had become part of the universe completely dissipated after their souls were annihilated."

The white-haired girl looked at the bustling city below and said calmly, "Our birth was formed after the seal began to collapse. Some fragments of the remaining true name traces gathered together in the dark. The cultivation of other awakened ones is actually a process of absorbing the traces of their past true names from the rules of the universe to repair themselves."

"Therefore, after their deaths, the connection between them and the Great Dao rules, which could only be touched by souls of the same origin, also dissipated, and they perished completely."

"Of course, we don't necessarily have to follow the same path. For example, Kanda and I took the path of building a new road based on the old one."

"This is also why your combat power has exceeded the realm."

“That’s right.” The white-haired girl had no intention of hiding this information from her team, as it didn’t involve core details.

"Xiao Yan, do you think there are any awakened beings who awakened thousands of years ago, but whose souls are incomplete, whose spirits suddenly collapse and forget everything, and then suddenly reappear after a few hundred or one or two thousand years and are reincarnated again?" Just then, the fox demon queen suddenly asked.

"Soul collapse and reincarnation?"

The white-haired girl looked at the fox demon queen strangely: "Impossible. Because we once possessed true essence, our souls remain intact. Unless we perish, we will not collapse."

"And there is no such thing as reincarnation after we fall, because our traces have completely disappeared, unlike ordinary people whose souls still have a chance to reincarnate."

"Yeah."

Suppressing her doubts, the fox demon stood up: "Xiao Yan, I have to go somewhere, and I will officially break through there before coming back."

The white-haired girl nodded: "The Wilderness Demon Realm, huh? Good."

……

"Ah, do you think our boss would like this if we took it to see him?"

Early in the morning, Texas walked down a quiet street with Exusiai, carrying a box. They were talking, but their eyes were curiously taking in their surroundings.

Exusiai hesitated for a moment, then said uncertainly, "Probably. Didn't Crimson say that the boss loves cooking the most? These delicious ingredients were all collected by Chen in dangerous areas and brought out for the boss."

"Wow, Ah Neng, the peaceful atmosphere of this world is so comfortable. There's no smell of gunpowder in the air, nor any restless emotions." Texas greedily breathed in the fresh morning air of this peaceful world.

"Yes, it's very comfortable." Exusiai smiled as well.

Both women wore a shapeshifting bracelet on their wrists, which concealed their unusual features, so to passersby, they were just overly beautiful young girls.

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P.S.: Damn it, the power outage this morning was so annoying, it was awful.

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