Walnut used me to boost her sales performance.

Then, Ichidou felt that Xiao's gaze towards him became even more dangerous.

"Ren, stand behind me."

Ichito pulled Hisuki Shinobu along, trying to block the gaze that sent chills down his spine.

"What's wrong?" Hisaki Shinobu asked, puzzled.

I feel a chill down my spine...

Ye Lan's gaze swept over them subtly, focusing on Xiao and Zhong Li, but she said nothing.

"The door I found is right in front of me."

When she went to check earlier, she found a stone door, but she closed it the moment she opened it.

The stone gate soon came into view.

However, this stone door is quite different from the doors commonly used today. It is located on the diagonal line where the two walls intersect, an ancient architectural practice that has only appeared in very ancient ruins.

"This door can show you the things you least want to see," Ye Lan, who had opened the door before, said, offering her speculation.

"The thing I least want to see? I'll give it a try." Hisaki Shinobu felt there was nothing he didn't want to see.

Hisaki Shinobu pushed open the door, and her familiar mother's voice came from inside.

She closed the door after hearing just one sentence.

She thought there was nothing she didn't want to see, but she was wrong.

She felt suffocated whenever she heard her mother's self-righteous plans for her life.

"What was that just now?" Paimon asked, puzzled.

“That’s my mother’s voice. I’m sorry, I can’t get through this door.”

“To enter this door, you must confront your own fears,” Zhongli said softly.

Hu Tao bit her lower lip tightly.

Confront your fears, right?

Hu Tao closed her eyes briefly.

"I'll do it."

“Hu Tao…” Paimon said with a worried expression.

"Don't worry about me, I also want to know what is it that is making me so afraid."

Hu Tao reached out and pushed open the door.

She saw a figure, a figure that was both familiar and unfamiliar.

The figure stood in the vast, boundless starry sky, his back view lonely and desolate.

She walked over instinctively.

"Jiang Bai..." she called softly.

The figure in front of me turned around. It was a familiar face, but the eyes were completely unfamiliar.

"who are you?"

Hu Tao clutched her chest, feeling a deep emptiness within.

So this is what she was afraid of?

It's very upsetting, but it doesn't seem like there's anything I can't accept.

She forced a smile that was no different from usual, "You big idiot, you don't even recognize your own leader?"

"Hall Master? What Hall Master? What are you talking about?"

Jiang Bai's gaze remained unfamiliar, even carrying a hint of aversion.

Hu Tao froze, and the forced smile on her face vanished.

She paused for a moment, walked to Jiang Bai's side, and gazed at the boundless starry sky he had just been looking at.

"What are you looking at?"

Jiang Bai glanced at her, then continued gazing at the starry sky.

There once was a beautiful planet there, but now it has become a dim ashes in the universe that can no longer be lit.

"I'm looking at my hometown, but it's gone."

Why is it gone?

Jiang Bai's voice was mocking, "Because we destroyed it ourselves."

"why?"

"Because of desire."

"Human nature is always insatiable. Once people no longer have to worry about food, they start to want a better life. Once they have a better life, they start to want a higher status, fame, and fortune..."

"But nothing appears out of thin air. Resources are all allocated in shares. If you have more, someone else will have less."

"If everyone were just ordinary people, we could still maintain a semblance of peace, but unfortunately, we possess extraordinary power."

"If power is not restrained, it will become an even greater source of destruction. Our world is like a firework that has been lit and exploded with a bang."

Hu Tao looked at him, "And what about you?"

"Me? I'm just a snowflake in an avalanche, unable to go upstream and only able to drift downstream."

Do you want to go back?

“Go back? How can I go back? I’m a wanderer now, and I don’t know if I’ll ever find a place to stay in my lifetime.”

"Yes, it will, it definitely will," Hu Tao said with certainty.

Jiang Bai's interest was piqued by her words, and his expression became more animated.

"You're quite an interesting young lady. Well then, I'll accept your kind words."

Upon hearing this name and seeing the appearance that was extremely similar to her memory, Hu Tao puffed out her cheeks.

"I'm not a little girl."

Jiang Bai glanced at him, "So young, isn't she a little girl?"

Hu Tao retorted angrily, "You're not that much bigger, are you!"

Jiang Bai raised his chin without making any movement, but Hu Tao could still feel the pressure emanating from him.

Height is a disadvantage.

"I'm definitely older than you."

"So what if you're tall! Are you some kind of ancient monster who's thousands of years old?"

"Hey, hey, hey, how can you call me an old monster when I'm so young?" Jiang Bai objected.

With her hands behind her back, Hu Tao circled around him. "You spoke so arrogantly just now, and you still say you're not an old monster?"

"What's wrong with people not being allowed to be sad for a moment? What's wrong with being deep and thoughtful when talking about sad things!"

"Oh, you old monster!"

"Don't call me an old monster!"

"Tell me how old you are, and I won't call you an old monster."

"I'm only eighteen years old, can't you tell?"

"I didn't notice."

"Hmph, I am eighteen years old, believe it or not."

Hu Tao looked at Jiang Bai, who was jumping up and down with some affection, and said, "Alright, alright, you're eighteen, I believe you."

"What kind of look is that? I'm a magnanimous person, I won't hold it against you." Jiang Bai raised his chin, looking like he didn't want to talk to you.

Hu Tao looked at him with a smile, then suddenly asked, "Do you have someone you like?"

"Why are you asking this? You don't happen to like me, do you?" Jiang Bai hugged himself, looking at her warily.

Hu Tao smiled and said, "I was just asking, what, can't I tell you?"

"Judging from your posture, you're clearly planning something bad on me. Boys need to protect themselves when they're out and about. I'm not telling you that!"

Chapter 625 When will he wake up?

Hu Tao was pushed out through the door, and as soon as she came out, she was immediately surrounded by a crowd.

Paimon asked eagerly, "What did you see? The door just vanished in an instant."

Hu Tao didn't answer her immediately, still savoring her encounter with Jiang Bai.

"Facing your fears isn't that difficult."

The hardest part is getting over those hurdles, but once you get over them, it's not as difficult as you might imagine.

Moreover, Jiang Bai in that state was quite interesting.

It's a pity, though, that he's very tight-lipped and won't say anything.

Zhongli provided the answer: "It must be that the hall master confronted his fear, which is why that door disappeared."

"The talisman floated towards the gap that appeared after the door disappeared!" Ye Lan reminded everyone.

"Let's hurry and follow them!"

Hu Tao's intuition told her that Jiang Bai was behind this crevice.

Passing through the spatial rift, a completely new space appeared before them.

It was as if I had stepped out of a dark cave and into another world, where everything suddenly became bright.

A massive, upside-down palace is sealed by a thick layer of ice, reflecting a cold luster in the sunlight.

"What a huge palace, and it's frozen over!" Paimon exclaimed.

"It's upside down again..." Kong frowned.

Ever since they came into direct contact with that eerie upside-down statue, this type of inverted architecture has taken on a dark and mysterious aura.

"The talisman went inside, but how do we get in?"

The talisman pierced through the ice and entered the palace directly.

But they were blocked outside the thick layer of ice.

"I come."

Flames erupted around him, and Walnut forcefully melted open a passage.

Following Hu Tao, the group passed through a long ice cave and arrived at the main hall.

Inside the main hall, Jiang Bai lay quietly in the ice. The closer one got to him, the lower the temperature became.

"It's so cold..." Yidou's teeth chattered.

Even with the flames of walnuts floating around providing intense heat, the chill seemed to penetrate to the very bone.

Hu Tao's heart tightened, and ignoring the chill that seemed to freeze even the soul, she walked straight toward Jiang Bai.

Kong Xiang followed, but Zhong Li stopped him.

"The ice here is no ordinary ice. The more people we send over, the more the hall master will be drained."

Kong could only stop in his tracks, looking worriedly at Hu Tao and Jiang Bai as they walked into the solid ice.

Flames collided with ice, evaporating large plumes of white smoke.

Ice blocks kept melting into water droplets, only to be quickly re-frozen.

She moved forward inch by inch through the ice, the chill emanating from her very soul turning her lips white.

What can be done easily in the outside world becomes incredibly difficult in this space.

Finally, she touched Jiang Bai.

The ice surrounding him melted rapidly at the touch of warm fingers, and Hu Tao reached out and caught him before he fell.