Now that the rain of light has stopped, the world has returned to its peaceful state. Xi Heng also released the large umbrella formed by death energy and returned to the present.

Chen Fenghuo rested beside him, still recovering from the effects of his consciousness crossing levels.

Another young girl with long, fluffy brown-gray hair stood in front, wearing a rather large robe that reached the ground at the hem, completely disproportionate to her figure.

However, now is not the time to pay attention to this.

A sword had appeared in Xi Heng's palm, its cold light carrying an aura of death, pointing directly at the young woman.

"Wait, wait, wait! It's a misunderstanding! There's a misunderstanding!" The girl in the bright white dress waved her hands repeatedly, closed her eyes tightly, and shook her head.

His brown hair swayed wildly, his clothes fluttered, and his very bones and muscles trembled.

Because when that sword was revealed, a murderous aura emanated from it, making it impossible to tell whether Xi Heng was serious or joking.

An intense sense of death arose as the sword tip pushed forward; just being pointed at gave one the feeling that one was about to die.

"What misunderstanding?" Xi Heng tilted his head as if he hadn't thought of anything.

"That finger isn't inside my stomach, it's fused together!" the girl exclaimed. "If you cut open my skin, you'll only see blood and flesh, nothing you want inside, so don't point your sword at me!"

After waving his hand, the guy playfully covered his lower abdomen with both hands, as if afraid of being cut open by a sword.

"Aren't you a puppet created by that thing up there? How come you still have blood and flesh?" Xi Heng asked casually.

"It's not a doll, it's humanity!" The other party emphasized this point again and again: "Because it's humanity, it must be exactly the same as a human."

"In short, Su Xuanhua ate the Disaster Finger before, and now that finger, along with his humanity, has merged into your body?" Xi Heng guessed.

"Um... well, it might not be very complete."

The other party chuckled awkwardly, "When fighting against the filth, a lot of the power of the finger was used up, and I don't know how much is left."

"You can't just give me your fingers, and you don't have any power, so what are you doing here?" Xi Heng clicked his tongue.

Although the sharp blade was lowered, it still did not leave his palm.

Since the other party had some connection with the disaster, Xi Heng would not let his guard down because of their youthful appearance.

Perhaps in the next moment, this little girl will transform into a ferocious and powerful light-disaster monster, triggering a new apocalypse.

“Um…” The girl in white pointed to herself.

Pointing from left to right, then touching her cheek, she said, "I'll probably be able to use the power of the Disaster Finger in the future, or even extract it... So, can I go with you?"

"I don't want any kind of calamity following me around all the time," Xi Heng shook his head.

"We're not a disaster, we're people, humanity! There's no disaster here." The other person crossed their arms and emphasized, "We're already separated!"

"Really?"

"Really? Really!" This girl always liked to repeat herself.

After a moment's thought, Xi Heng asked the blonde woman beside him, "Feng Huo, what do you think?"

Chen Fenghuo was still tired and resting, so he only focused a small fraction of his attention on the subject before simply saying:

“She doesn’t have any sense of calamity. If you don’t plan to adopt her, you can stay with me.”

"Adoption...?"

The little girl opposite blinked, seemingly having some reservations about the word.

However, seeing this situation, he didn't say anything more.

He kept his words to himself and listened to the decision made by the two people in front of him.

The conversation passed easily, the tone remained unchanged, as if nothing had happened and nothing important had been said.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Xi Heng clapped his hands and turned around to say:

"Alright, then you can come with me."

"Hmm." The girl blinked, her gaze shifting between Xi Heng and Chen Fenghuo, and subconsciously said, "Actually, this one seems gentler, um, like this."

Her speech was not fluent, with pauses and pauses, and her tone was not quite right; her words were not complete.

However, Xi Heng still understood what the other party meant:

"You want to be with her?"

"After all, my predecessor was Su Xuanhua, so there's still a bit of a connection..." She scratched her head and chuckled awkwardly to ease the embarrassment.

“No, you are a disaster after all. Although you look like a child, you may be quite dangerous.” Xi Heng shook his head.

Chen Fenghu nodded in agreement. She had rested enough during the short conversation. She rubbed her temples, stood up, and changed the subject:

"Although the overall situation of the calamity has been settled, there are still too many details to deal with in this world. I should go."

"Let's go together." Xi Heng approached.

"Aren't you going back?"

"This is just an external avatar. Although it is directly controlled by the mind of the main body, it is still an avatar." The girl chuckled. "So it's okay for me to stay here and accompany you for a few more years."

Chen Fenghuo hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Then, could you help me build another large shelter?"

"Of course." Xi Heng turned around and saw the little girl spinning around in place to get used to her body. He said, "You must be very strong. Come and do some work."

"I'm weak." The other person stuck out his tongue as he held up his oversized long sleeves. "My body is just very ordinary, only slightly stronger than a typical Qi Refining Level 10 cultivator."

"No wonder they just threw you down there; you're pretty resilient to falls." The girl joked casually, "You're good enough for digging rocks."

"I don't want to work..." the little girl whimpered, her mood low.

“Everyone has to work. As the embodiment of humanity, of course you have to work.” Xi Heng leaned closer and ruffled the other’s hair.

"But we've only been born for one day."

Chen Fenghuo watched from the side, feeling somewhat calmer.

Just like the scene before us, the Xuanxiao Realm has finally found some peace amidst the countless chaotic noises.

The red mist dissipated, and the dark clouds in the sky slowly disappeared.

Looking up, a crack-like white light stretched high in the sky, gradually expanding.

The Relief of Light Calamity said it would no longer send down rain of light to invade this world, but its expansion in the void has not stopped in the slightest.

It will become a new color, spreading throughout the entire outer void.

……

Time flies, and March has passed in the blink of an eye.

"Whoosh—" With the special spiritual technique she had just mastered, Su Ziyuan once again constructed an elevator-like platform to move a large amount of supplies from underground to the surface and deliver them to the newly built Pure White City.

She was exceptionally talented, and in just three months, she progressed from Qi Refining to the late Foundation Establishment stage.

It's like a powerful cultivator being reborn through a secret technique; cultivation is simply a process of re-integrating everything that has been learned before.

During her cultivation, she did not encounter any bottlenecks or obstacles, and her cultivation level increased steadily, like water flowing into a bucket.

After achieving success in her cultivation, Su Ziyuan was assigned by Xi Heng to work here, connecting the underground and the surface.

Today, this newly built pure white city has taken in survivors from several large underground shelters, with a total population of over 30,000.

Every few days, one could hear news of the overflowing blood wells in that area being shut down, the opening of safe roads connecting to shelters elsewhere, and the arrival of new people.

In her eyes, Baicheng gradually transformed from an empty and desolate place when it was first built into a bustling city.

While it can hardly be called prosperous, it has at least become more human.

During this time, the hazy humanity within Su Ziyuan also slowly grew, the missing parts were filled, and the part that was originally disguised became reality.

However, a new question lingered in my mind:

"What is a human being?"

Su Ziyuan pondered for a long time but couldn't come up with an answer.

He simply continued with his work, just like the other monks.

Xi Heng and Chen Fenghuo, who built this surface white city, sometimes stayed in the city, and sometimes dealt with the remaining blood monsters in other places, established contact with other shelters that were struggling to survive, and opened up roads on the land using spatial methods or directly.

After several busy months, half of the survivor organizations that could be contacted in the entire Xuanxiao Realm have arrived in this newly built city.

The monks used their spiritual power to help mortals build homes, without oppression or exploitation. After the apocalypse, people lived together in a harmonious and beautiful way.

Xi Heng even saw a sense of 'equality' between mortals and cultivators for the first time.

This is truly strange; in other seemingly perfect worlds, 'equality' simply doesn't exist, yet it can be seen in places on the verge of apocalypse…

In short, the blood tide is being cleared away, and the world is gradually regaining its vitality and development.

Baicheng became the largest gathering place for survivors in the Xuanxiao Realm, and people's living area gradually expanded from then on, with resources more than enough for tens of thousands of people to live on.

……

By the time the city of Sanctuary was fully repaired and restored, two years had passed since the plague had subsided.

Chen Fenghuo still intends to stay here and manage this small world that can no longer do without her.

Xi Heng then led Su Ziyuan, who had been with him for several years without any danger or abnormality, back to his spiritual fire space and arrived at the central square of the new city built by the awakened spirit beings.

"Where...is this?"

Su Ziyuan thought she was going to leave Xuanxiao Realm by flying boat. After preparing her luggage, she did not expect that there would be a spatial fluctuation around her and she would suddenly be in a different world.

For a moment, I felt lost and confused.

"This is the Penglai world, which can be considered my own spatial transit station."

After Xi Heng finished speaking briefly, he walked to a nearby shop and bought some sweet pastries that the awakened spirit beings liked.

Pinch off a small round macaron shape and put it in your mouth.

The spiritual beings have developed for so long that not only has their productivity increased significantly, but their culture has also been refined step by step.

Even these desserts and pastries are made to be quite delicious and beautiful.

She picked up a small bag and handed it to Su Ziyuan, a little girl whose appearance and demeanor hadn't changed much in the past few years.

The other person's time seemed to be fixed, their appearance and figure remained unchanged from the beginning.

However, it was quite beautiful from the start...

As for the name 'Su Ziyuan', it was naturally chosen for her by Xi Heng.

In a story in a small book that Yin Wanluan had once shown her, there were two names: Xuanhua and Ziyuan. Xi Heng remembered this and used them directly.

It sounded quite nice, after all, so the little girl nodded in agreement.

Over the past few years, this name has become entirely the other person's possession. Every time Xi Heng calls out to it, only the image of the other person appears in his mind.

"What is this?"

"It's delicious," Xi Heng said, savoring the pastry.

So Su Ziyuan also took out a small round cake and, imitating Xi Heng, stuffed it into her mouth with a "whoosh".

She opened her eyes wide and said in a muffled voice, "This is the first time I've ever eaten something so good."

"What good food could there be in that nearly destroyed realm before?" Xi Heng patted her little head, watching her eat all the different colored round cakes one bite at a time, and repeatedly saying that this one tasted better than that one.

After Su Ziyuan emptied the entire bag, she said in a low voice, "Is this bag of food all the reward for two years of work?"

"The reward is—you can eat as much food as you want in this world, just don't eat the spirit beings out of house and home," Xi Heng said with a light smile.

"You can eat only once a day?!"

Su Ziyuan blinked, as if she were in a dream and couldn't believe it.

For ordinary people, one meal a day is already very little, but for cultivators, this is considered excessively frequent.

"Of course, the currency here can be exchanged for spirit stones. With the spirit stones you have, you should be able to buy anything you want." The girl said casually, "You can stay at this transit station for more than ten days. I will pick you up after I finish my cultivation on my main body."

"Okay, I'll stay for another year without any problem!" Su Ziyuan was already thinking about what to eat tomorrow.

"Well then, I'll be going now." Xi Heng waved his hand, letting his avatar open a portal to the Northern Continent of the Heavenly Realm on its own, and stepped inside.

In just a few seconds, he was back in the snowy wilderness he had marked, all alone.

With a change of mindset, I donned the white robe once more and continued walking slowly toward the place thick with deathly aura.

Invoke the dead and spread death and calamity.

Su Ziyuan was left wandering around in the Penglai world.

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