"fake."

"So what exactly do you want to do?" The white-haired girl was puzzled.

"I want to go home," the other person said softly while watching a movie.

"Well?"

"Don't you want to?" She turned her head.

“Hmm…” Xi Heng pondered for a while: “I’ve thought about it too, but we have to take some action first. We can’t just keep thinking about it. So let’s try to climb to a higher cultivation level and see if there’s a way.”

"What if there isn't one?" the man asked again.

“If there really isn’t one…” Xi Heng appeared more open-minded: “There are modern ones in this world, so if all else fails, we can build one ourselves.”

“This will be much worse. Compared to home, there will always be many things that are not right.” The other person shook their head.

"That's true. Then let's think of more ways to find our way home," the girl said casually.

"You don't seem to care much, do you?" The other person turned around and snatched the lemon cola back from Xi Heng's hand.

"How could that be?" Xi Heng said with a slight smile.

"Let me ask you a question: If you could only choose one—this world or your home—and never be able to return, which would you choose?"

"Um……"

"Including all the people you know in this world, you will never be able to meet them again," the black-haired girl said.

Xi Heng thought for a moment, then clicked his tongue and said, "Now that things have come to this point, who wouldn't choose this world?"

She couldn't bring herself to abandon those people she knew.

"So, you don't really miss it." The other person shook their head.

“If you were really me, you would have made the same choice,” Xi Heng reassured him.

One hand reached out to pat the other's head, but was stopped by the other's hand.

"I will choose to go home," the black-haired girl simply said.

"So you are the inner demon. This kind of extreme obsession is completely unreasonable." The white-haired girl poked her inner demon's shoulder with her finger.

"Say what you will," the other person said lazily, continuing to eat popcorn and watch the movie.

"Alright, that's the end of our chat. You can take a sword and kill me to get through this inner demon, or you can eat me, it's up to you."

"Do I look like such a cruel person?" She pressed her temples.

"Isn't that right?" The other person tilted their head.

“Absolutely not!” Xi Heng retorted.

……

Volume 1: Chapter 337, Divine Firmament Heavenly Tribulation

In the dimly lit movie theater, the giant screen still flickered with animation.

Character interactions, story development, close-up shots, and a subtle sense of fantasy all come together in the performance.

The sound was turned up very high, landing on the uneven sound-absorbing walls of the cinema, making it exceptionally clear.

Even so, Xi Heng could still hear the sound of the woman next to him biting into popcorn.

So she reached out and picked up a few, then put them to her lips.

After checking it a couple more times, I discovered that even though the popcorn bucket had been used for so long, its abundance hadn't decreased at all.

This bucket looks like it can scoop out an endless amount of popcorn.

The same goes for the bottle of cola next to it.

Xi Heng inexplicably felt an urge to save and collect it...

After their conversation, seeing that Xi Heng was hesitant to make a move, the inner demon lady gradually pretended that he didn't exist and continued watching the movie in front of her.

Xi Heng also took the opportunity to relax for a while and stayed a little longer in the not-so-quiet movie theater.

I sat in the soft chair, sinking into it.

Her light red eyes were easily fixed on the flickering screen in front of her as she watched with the person next to her.

After a long, long time, the white-haired girl, having finished another small handful of popcorn, suddenly said:

Don't you get tired of it?

"It's become a habit." The black-haired girl gulped down her cola.

"It feels like you've seen this movie countless times. You just watch it without any emotional reaction," the white-haired girl noticed. "Could it be that for the two or three hundred years since I started cultivating, ever since you, this inner demon, appeared, you've been sitting here watching movies?"

"..."

Previously, the other party would have reacted more or less, but this time I was stumped by the question.

"Really?" She blinked.

"No," the black-haired girl turned her head and softly retorted.

Xi Heng could tell she didn't want to say more, so he grabbed a few more popcorns and ate them slowly.

The other person didn't seem to feel anything anymore, but she herself quite liked the sweet scent.

Without disturbing the other person, they quietly watched the 75-minute animated film.

Soon after, the film ended, and the final blackout sequence appeared.

The orange-yellow lights in the theater suddenly turned on, and the doors with the word "Exit" on them opened on their own.

Miss Heart Demon skillfully picked up her snacks and cola and walked over there.

Xi Heng also got up and followed.

As the elegant melody of the ending credits plays, the two girls leave this scene, walking down a red-carpeted corridor, and led by a blurry-faced waiter into another similarly decorated scene.

They took their seats, the film started playing, and apart from the two of them, the hundreds of seats around them were completely empty.

Xi Heng leaned against the armrest, propped his chin up with one hand, and slowly ate the popcorn in the other person's arms.

During a break in the film, the other party suddenly said:

"You really don't intend to kill me?"

“I’ve already said I’m not that cruel.” Xi Heng believes that even if it’s an inner demon, it’s just another part of himself: “It’s better for everyone to get along amicably.”

"You cannot leave without killing me," the other party said calmly.

"Let's stay here for a while, maybe there's another way," the girl said casually.

"Whatever you like." The other person continued watching the movie.

During his leisure time, Xi Heng casually began to speak:

"Perhaps the home we long to return to, the home we had before we traveled through time, also exists in the boundless void..."

"The void and the universe are not the same thing at all. All these worlds are not planets, but rifts in the void... Each rift is just a portal leading to a different realm." The other person's voice remained calm.

“Maybe a rift leads to the universe, and then I can send you home,” she said optimistically.

"Keep going, take your time looking."

"So you're sending me back?" The girl casually revealed her true intentions.

"It can't be done."

"Please help me out. You are me and I am you. Make way for yourself," Xi Heng simply advised.

"..."

After a moment of silence, the other party slowly opened his mouth: "If you don't want to kill me, then stay here and keep me company for a year."

"One year?"

Xi Heng felt that the time was too short and subconsciously wanted to nod in agreement.

But then I remembered: "But I'm still getting promoted outside."

"There is no time here," the black-haired girl said calmly.

"Oh." The white-haired girl nodded and watched the movie for a while. After a few minutes, she looked at the other person again and suddenly said, "Speaking of which, I still think you don't seem like a demon at all."

"Think what you want." This phrase seems to be the other person's verbal tic, always lingering on their tongue.

In short, they say this without actually providing any answer.

Xi Heng tilted his head, then turned his gaze to the screen.

The sense of time becomes blurred; once you've seen one show, you move on to the next.

I don't know how much time has passed, or how many good and bad movies I've watched.

But one time when the movie ended, my vision was suddenly shrouded in darkness, and I felt disoriented.

At the same time, she felt the black-haired figure beside her turn to look at her.

The world began to turn, and clusters of flames burned around me, as if I were in a movie theater, but I didn't feel any burning smell or heat.

As Xi Heng's consciousness gradually cleared and she realized that the flames around her were actually spiritual fires used to assist her during her ascension—she had inexplicably overcome the so-called tribulation of inner demons and returned to the ascension platform in the canopy of the divine tree.

Although she didn't know why this inner demon tribulation was completely different from what was recorded in the Taoist books, or whether her situation could be considered a successful one... she didn't have time to think too much. After the inner demon tribulation ended, the sky suddenly darkened and exploded with a loud bang.

Purple lightning danced wildly, illuminating the world, and grew ever stronger.

When the might of the heavens descended, even though Xi Heng was already considered a half-Nascent Soul expert, he couldn't help but tremble.

She quickly calmed herself, glanced at the appearance of the lightning tribulation, and first used spiritual fire, death energy, mental power and other energies to create a pyramid-like layered spiritual light shield to cover her entire body.

He then gathered the previously severed spirit souls and manipulated their power to expand, blocking the Heavenly Tribulation and Xi Heng.

Xi Heng had no powerful magical artifacts or weapons that accompanied him through the tribulations. Most of the magical artifacts in his inventory were obtained from the Hellfire, and he did not have any of the natal magical artifacts that people often talked about.

If I had to name it, her natal magic weapon would be the White Phoenix Spirit Fire.

After being nurtured and cultivated through the process of "adding firewood," the intensity of the red and white spiritual fire has now completely caught up with her cultivation level.

By fighting the tribulation lightning together with the spiritual fire, we can be further tempered after success, making us even better.

As Xi Heng formed a Dao finger, the spiritual fire around him immediately adhered to his body and clothing, causing scales and feathers to adorn the surface of his red robe, making it resemble armor.

At the same time, the White Phoenix bloodline within his body was also activated by the spiritual fire, and five enormous phoenix tail domains materialized with the flames, their phantoms resembling five giant pillars surrounding him.

The protective barrier has been completed, with layers of light curtains gathering and enveloping the area.

The lightning in the sky danced more and more violently, and then suddenly a huge bolt of lightning exploded—

With a deafening roar, purple and gold lightning surged down, shaking the light barrier and causing it to tremble and become unstable.

The thunderous sound was deafening, and after the intense light, countless flashes of light appeared before my eyes.

No sooner had the tremor subsided than another bolt of lightning crashed down.

Apart from the spiritual fire, all other protective measures were destroyed when the fourth bolt of heavenly lightning struck, and before they could be replenished, an even more rapid and violent fifth bolt followed.

Even the protection of the spirit fire was shaken, and the surrounding phoenix tail phantoms fluctuated.

Xi Heng tried his best to activate more spiritual fire to protect himself, barely filling the empty space above that had been struck by lightning.

A fierce wind howled, its roar echoing through the heavens and earth like the wailing of evil spirits.

Thunderclouds gathered in the sky, on a level where clouds should not exist.

The purple and gold lightning flashed violently, gradually coalescing into a blurry sword shape.

Xi Heng frowned as she looked at the lightning tribulation she was facing. Only now did she finally realize the type of tribulation she was facing – the Divine Firmament Tribulation.

This tribulation is quite rare in the Nascent Soul stage. Each bolt of heavenly lightning can simultaneously attack the soul and body, possessing great power and varied forms. However, the number of lightning tribulations is relatively small, with only eight bolts.

Compared to the other eighteen or thirty-six heavenly tribulations, the Divine Firmament Tribulation is much more direct.

But overall, its power is by no means weak.

The fourth path is before us—

Sword-shaped lightning bolts coalesced, and a strong sense of threat was imprinted on Xi Heng's heart.

Even though it hadn't been severed yet, her body already felt like it was being torn to pieces.

Once the young girl's mind was focused, she used her Nascent Soul True Power to mobilize the spiritual energy of heaven and earth around her to amplify her protective technique.

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