GRMFBS CH201

Zhan Jinli helped Wan Yan restabilize his form as a small cat.

He didn’t leave, but sat cross-legged beside Wan Yan, his hand still resting on Wan Yan’s neck.

The small cat’s neck was slender, easily enveloped in his palm. Zhan Jinli looked down at him, checking to see if his condition had truly stabilized.

Wan Yan started purring from his throat.

Zhan Jinli subconsciously gave him a few strokes.

Zhan Jinli: …

These were all bad habits developed from raising Xingxing!

Wan Yan’s condition was fine now. That drop of Candle Dragon power was difficult to extract, so Zhan Jinli set a seal on it. This way, when Wan Yan recovered his memories because of the Candle Dragon power in the future, it wouldn’t trigger changes in his soul.

He withdrew his hand and prepared to leave.

Wan Yan turned his head and bit his wrist. He didn’t use any force; his small sharp teeth gently ground against his skin, and a purring sound emerged from his throat: “Fish… fish, ing…”

Zhan Jinli: …

What the hell was wrong with Wan Yan?!

He gently pried Wan Yan off his wrist, hesitated for a moment, picked up the cat, and placed him into the Ming He River, letting Ghost King Minghe take him back to Mount Chaofu.

He didn’t know when Wan Yan would wake up. Although he had set up an array formation, this place was still not as safe as Mount Chaofu.

The Ming He River gently rolled up a wave: “Are you still keeping him locked up?”

“Whatever he wants.” Zhan Jinli looked down at the cat sleeping in the waves. “If he focuses on searching for the past, he won’t have time to bother me either.”

In the Gossip System, Zhan Yan let out a sigh of relief upon seeing that Kitty Wan Yan was safe, and closed the gossip threads.

After dealing with several matters, it was already night time again.

It was all Infinite’s fault! His perfectly good weekend was wasted on these things, and he still had to get up early tomorrow for his internship at the veterinary station.

Zhan Yan yawned. He didn’t know if it was because of excessive consumption, but he felt sleepy exceptionally early today.

So he called Gu Jiancheng early to say goodnight.

Student Xiao Gu couldn’t wait: “Yan Yan, my internship here can end a few days earlier than yours. Is it okay if I come find you?”

Zhan Yan was also very much looking forward to it.

He was physically and mentally exhausted these past few days because of his family members’ personas, and really needed the comfort of the refreshing and simple Student Xiao Gu.

Before going to sleep, Zhan Yan poked Yang Ran’s little star one more time. It still couldn’t be opened. His consumption had indeed been too great; he dreamed all night, his brain was stuffed full of information, and it had only been a little over nine hours since he woke up. Relying on Bread Meatballs alone wasn’t enough; he needed to recover through sleep himself.

Zhan Yan looked at his sister’s and Yang Ran’s gossip threads again.

His lips were pressed tightly together. After a moment, Zhan Yan closed the system and went to sleep. Tomorrow, waiting for sleep to restore his energy, and waiting until he could continue eating the bread his brother made, he absolutely had to dig out a method to save Yang Ran!

The black market.

The fortress was once again hidden beneath the workshop. A simulated breeze blew through simulated windows, making the fine white gauze curtains billow with soft and graceful curves, just like the room atop the tall tower in the past.

Zhan Suiru stood with her back to the window, and outside there was only simulated sunlight.

The simulated sunlight fell on Xiao Ran in front of her, tracing exquisite light and shadows for the complex mechanical structure within his chest.

Zhan Suiru raised her hand. Her shadow climbed onto the secret box containing Xiao Ran’s supernatural power core a step faster than her fingers.

The secret box opened, and the bronze-colored supernatural power core floated quietly inside. Having lost the spiritual power she had previously filled it with, the fissures became even more glaring.

Pure white spiritual power flowed from her fingertips.

Snowflakes fell gently, covering every single wound.

The heavy snow washed away all impurities.

Zhan Suiru closed her eyes. Her will floated inside, riding on the snowflakes.

The maze-like fissures within the supernatural power core had all been filled. She slid forward across the snowy expanse and the bronze-colored ground.

The once faint echo had now become incredibly clear.

“Sister Sui Sui…”

Zhan Suiru followed the voice and arrived at the deepest part of the supernatural power core.

Yang Ran’s soul curled up there. His eyes were closed, and pitch-black patterns wrapped around his body like tattoos. These things swam through his soul like living creatures.

Zhan Suiru extended a bit of spiritual power, attempting to touch those patterns.

It didn’t work. They were already deeply intertwined with Yang Ran’s soul. If she used spiritual power to forcefully wash them away, it would inevitably injure Yang Ran’s soul.

She wasn’t confident she could preserve Yang Ran’s soul while forcibly peeling off the curse.

Zhan Suiru’s spiritual power and Infinite’s power were antagonistic in nature, but any struggle would injure the place used as the battlefield. To preserve Yang Ran’s soul, another type of power was needed—one that didn’t have strong antagonism against Infinite’s power, but could still clear it away.

But without an antagonistic nature, how could it be cleared? How does one ball of fire burn out another?

…

The sun set and the sun rose, shadows gradually shattered by the sunlight.

The earliest to wake up were the birds. Before the sky was fully bright, they started chirping and preening their feathers, shaking off every bit of moisture accumulated in the gaps of their feathers during the night.

The birds’ fragmented chatter was still separated by the window when the phone alarm first drilled into his dreams through his ears.

Zhan Yan opened his eyes groggily, felt for his phone, and swiped his finger.

The alarm stopped. He rolled over and fell asleep again.

A long, continuous dream captured him.

Zhan Yan was running in the dream. He ran through the mountain forest, lightly jumping onto rocks and leaping over rivers. Trees were left behind him, and the mountain wind supported his four running paws. So free, so…

Hmm?

Zhan Yan abruptly opened his eyes.

What four paws?

He blankly raised his hand and placed it before his eyes.

Opening his five fingers, curling his five fingers. One finger, a peace sign, an OK sign, four fingers, five fingers. That’s right, very obedient, this was his hand.

Zhan Yan confirmed that he was still a human.

After another moment, Zhan Yan was completely awake, starting to feel like a fool.

He was really confused from sleep. If he wasn’t human, what else could he be?

Zhan Yan rolled over and grabbed his phone to check the time.

Ah, ah, it was already past eight.

Zhan Yan quickly scrambled up to wash up.

As soon as he opened the door, Bao Qingshan, with a bun in his mouth, turned to look at him: “If you didn’t get up soon, I was going to knock on your door.”

Zhan Yan waved a hand at him and quickly finished washing up.

Bao Qingshan: “Did you stay up late watching dramas again last night?”

Zhan Yan shook his head: “What dramas? I just slept too much.”

He even had a dream where he turned into a dog or something, running through the woods on four legs. When he first woke up, he hadn’t yet recovered his senses and felt like he was the four-legged animal in his dream, much like Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly.

He tried poking the little star in the information drive. Still no response, so he took two pieces of bread from the fridge, preparing to have them for breakfast.

Bao Qingshan looked at him, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

Zhan Yan threatened: “Don’t you dare tattle on me!”

Thus, Bao Qingshan spent the entire morning wanting to say something but stopping himself.

Zhan Yan was almost freaked out by his staring.

During the lunch break at the veterinary station, Bao Qingshan seized a moment when no one was around and leaned in mysteriously.

Zhan Yan looked at him warily: “What are you doing?”

Bao Qingshan lowered his voice: “Did you know? A major event happened yesterday!”

Zhan Yan was just thinking about the Gossip System and didn’t react for a moment: “Ah?”

Bao Qingshan then proceeded to tell him the entire series of events, from the apocalyptic world suddenly approaching to its integration after coming into contact. There were many fragmented parts, and no shortage of plots he had imagined himself.

Their area happened to belong to the places where the projection of the apocalypse couldn’t be seen. Bao Qingshan’s cultivation wasn’t up to par; he was triggered by a spiritual premonition yesterday and even thought there was going to be a heavy downpour.

Zhan Yan listened while doubting his life. Old Bao was a direct disciple of Kushong Ravine; could it be that he had some unique information channels and knew some secrets that he himself hadn’t dug up?

Zhan Yan opened the gossip threads, preparing to check against what Bao Qingshan was saying. Maybe he could discover some key information he hadn’t noticed.

On this end, Bao Qingshan picked up a brush, slapped it down like a gavel, and began his performance with great longing:

“I heard this time it alarmed quite a few mysterious big shots.

“The Ming He River in the underworld acted up, monstrous bloody waves flooding half of Mount Chaofu; eight out of the Ten Great Demon Kings from the Wan Yao Alliance mobilized; all the top-ranked members in the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau made a move. Besides these large organizations, there were also many strange phenomena. I heard a certain coastline suddenly experienced a heavy snowfall, freezing three thousand miles along the coast! And some places suddenly turned into night, a pitch-black shadow where nothing could be seen…”

[Bao Qingshan shared with you a story he just made up from the chaofan forum.]

Zhan Yan: …

Old Bao was sharing so excitedly, he really felt too embarrassed to interrupt.

Zhan Yan started letting his mind wander while listening.

Yang Ran’s little star still couldn’t be poked. The other little stars were the same. Zhan Yan suspected this wasn’t a problem of whether his consumption was high or not, but that it required some other conditions.

He began searching through his gossip threads. His recent gossip threads were densely packed, all about the apocalyptic world’s connection. Zhan Yan flipped back to the time he was dreaming, brushed aside the content related to dreams, and finally found a key point.

[You gained an Omniscient Information Experience.]

Right, right, right, I know, but how did this experience come about?

Flip back, flip back.

After flipping through many more threads one by one, Zhan Yan found a gossip thread:

[You received a blessing from the Candle Dragon.]

It looked like it was because of this that he obtained that Omniscient Information Experience!

But why would the Candle Dragon give him a blessing? Because he helped look for the Candle Dragon power?

Zhan Yan changed his keywords and continued searching.

[The Candle Dragon has a very favorable impression of you in its dream, and decided to give you a blessing.]

Aiya! The Candle Dragon had a very favorable impression of him in its dream?

Zhan Yan instantly felt embarrassed. Could the Candle Dragon also sense the outside world while in its dream? Just because he investigated some information regarding the Candle Dragon power? He felt like he had done so little…

In the future, he definitely had to investigate more clues regarding the Candle Dragon power so the Candle Dragon could recover quickly!

So… could it give him another blessing, allowing him to poke Yang Ran’s little star and research how to save his brother-in-law?

However, this matter required his dad’s help. Zhan Yan clicked open his dad’s gossip threads, planning to first see what his dad was doing.

[The apocalyptic world connection event has concluded. Chongming Demon King Zhan Yunkai believed there was no longer a need to avoid damaging Xiang Liu’s combat strength. Thus, he sent a message to the Grand Musician: “Do you have time? I’d like to pay a visit to Xiang Liu.”]

[Grand Musician Lingzhou Wendi immediately replied to the message: “Yes!”]

[Chongming Demon King Zhan Yunkai and Grand Musician Lingzhou Wendi joined forces and beat up Xiang Liu.]