GRMFBS CH232

Since Xiao Gu was working so hard, Zhan Yan had to work hard too.

First, he needed to figure out how to heal Wanyan Cat’s soul.

Zhan Yan opened Little Encyclopedia Search and typed in:

“How do you heal Wanyan Cat’s soul?”

The little watermelon icon spun twice and displayed:

[Did you mean to search for “Ghost King Wan Yan”?]

Zhan Yan: Ah… sorry. I’m just too used to calling him Cat.

He retyped:

“How do you heal Ghost King Wan Yan’s soul?”

The little watermelon started spinning again.

[Prerequisite conditions insufficient.]

He kept searching:

“What are the prerequisite conditions for healing Ghost King Wan Yan’s soul?”

The little watermelon spun and spun:

[A single horn containing the divine ability of Diting.]

That’s right! Zhan Yan immediately perked up. Di Ting’s horn—how had he forgotten that?

Before, when Wan Yan Cat had swallowed the power of the Candle Dragon and his brother had gone to save him, Wanyan Cat’s soul had been unable to restore itself into its Diting state precisely because it lacked the missing horn.

The spirit-souls of this world were different from the souls of the apocalypse world. Yang Ran had to wait until his soul recovered before he could bear his own Chaofan ability, but Di Ting needed to recover its lost divine ability before its soul could heal.

Ah, wait. If it was because of the missing horn, then his brother and the Minghe Ghost King should have known that already. He himself only understood a bit about cultivation and souls because of the gossip system, but these big shots had lived who knew how many times longer than him, and had also cultivated all their lives. Ghost cultivators in particular should understand souls best—so how could they not have thought of it?

Was there some problem? Or had they concluded that Diting’s horn simply could not be found again? Could it be that Di Ting’s horn had already been destroyed? Then what would happen to Wan Yan Cat?

He kept using Little Encyclopedia Search.

“Was Diting’s horn destroyed?”

The little watermelon spun out an answer.

[No.]

“Where is Diting’s horn?”

[The known conditions for your search are insufficient. Please search again.]

Just insufficient conditions, huh. Heh. Then he’d just use the little candle the Candle Dragon gave him and go brush Wanyan’s little star.

Zhan Yan had just been about to lie down when he heard his dad coming home downstairs.

Ahhh, he had almost forgotten. Right now, it wasn’t suitable for him to brush little stars. When he used the power of the Candle Dragon to brush a little star, on the outside it looked exactly like he had fallen asleep—and no one could wake him. The first time he brushed his sister’s little star, he had directly slept until noon the next day.

If he did that at home, Dad, Mom, Brother, and Sister would all notice. Better wait until tonight.

During the day, he could go into the Dawn World and brush information tags instead. Anyway, the Dawn World could be exited at any time, and at worst his family would only think he was dozing off.

In the afternoon, Mom and Brother and Sister also came home.

After Mom came back, Dad became happy. The two of them sat in the yard trying to figure out how to remodel the little courtyard. Even under the blazing summer sun they didn’t think it was hot, nor were they afraid of mosquito bites.

Taking a look at the gossip feed, Yang Ran had already woken up. His soul had already undergone its preliminary healing. The dull little star in the information panel had lit back up, and at present it was flashing with a bluish-violet glow—coming from the super-strong puppet butler body his sister had made for him. Once his sister returned Yang Ran’s manufacturing ability to him, his little star would probably level up too.

How nice, how nice~

[With Gu Jiancheng’s support, Zhan Suiru played her games very smoothly. She believes that someone who can keep up with her pace in games is probably not an ordinary person, and suspects that the “friend” using your game account is Gu Jiancheng.]

…

[Zhan Suiru has resolved one major concern and feels she now has time to pay attention to her younger brother’s love life. She is preparing to probe you indirectly.]

Zhan Yan: …Sis, how can you do this!

His sister was already knocking on his door.

“Yan Yan? I—”

Zhan Yan flung the door open at top speed. “Sis, you’re back! Are Mom and Dad in the yard? Let’s go downstairs together!”

The information Wan Yan brought was different again from what his sister and Yang Ran had brought.

Zhan Suiru: “What?”

Zhan Yan: “Let’s go down and take a look together.”

He swiftly dragged his sister downstairs. She definitely couldn’t probe him in front of their parents.

Dad and Mom were sitting inside the little pavilion, and on the table were three fruit platters already cut up. The husband and wife were eating and chatting, wrapped in that sweet old-married-couple atmosphere—when their younger son suddenly barged in dragging their daughter behind him:

“Dad, Mom, are you discussing how to arrange the yard?”

Zhan Yunkai, whose private world with his wife had been interrupted: …

Ji Yueming made room for the two of them. “That’s right. Do you two have any ideas?”

Zhan Yan: “Let’s set up an outdoor cat climbing frame for Xingxing.”

Xingxing was currently squatting in front of the large glass window on the first floor, looking over at them.

When Zhan Yan had dragged his sister out just now, Xingxing had followed them outside too. After walking ten-odd steps, he ran back to the door, meowing and scratching at it until Zhan Yan opened it and let him back in.

Why was the ground heated by the sun so hot on the paws!

Ji Yueming thought that was a good idea and started discussing the position and design of the cat climbing frame.

Zhan Yunkai kept waiting for these two children, who clearly had no sense for the atmosphere, to finish talking, but after Zhan Yan finished discussing the climbing frame, he moved on to flowerbeds; after the flowerbeds, he moved on to a flower wall with climbing plants; after the flower wall, he started discussing whether they should dig a small pond for aquatic plants.

Zhan Yan wasn’t leaving, and Zhan Suiru wasn’t leaving either.

Zhan Yunkai gently said to Ji Yueming, “It’s too hot outside. Let’s go back in and enjoy the air-conditioning, okay?”

He might as well leave these two rotten kids in the yard.

Ji Yueming agreed and asked her two younger ones, “Do you want to come back inside too?”

Ah, she hadn’t experienced the children being clingy with her in so long. So happy.

Zhan Yunkai: …

Zhan Yan stuck to Dad and Mom all the way until evening. At last, his sister gave up trying to pry information out of him. Oh yeah!

After dinner, once he returned to his room, Zhan Yan ate his brother’s sweet bread first to refill his energy, then lay on the bed with his eyes closed, opened the information panel in the gossip system, and found Wan Yan Cat’s little star.

Wan Yan Cat’s little star was purple, pressed tightly against his brother’s star. The two purple stars’ light intermingled, probably because his brother’s demon core and half of his divine abilities were with Wan Yan Cat.

Zhan Yan touched the Candle Dragon’s little candle and only made his move after carefully confirming which star belonged to Wanyan Cat—the little candle from the Candle Dragon was very precious and couldn’t be wasted.

When looking at his sister’s star, he had used a higher-dimensional “knowing” perspective and understood everything in the past related to his sister. Probably because that was his first time using this power and he didn’t yet know how to control it, and because the Candle Dragon’s blessing had also been given as a whole package, he had consumed the entire blessing in one go.

When he looked at Yang Ran’s information, he had already been prepared. What he wanted to know was specifically about Yang Ran’s soul problem, and the little candle from the Candle Dragon could be extinguished at any time. So, following the principle of minimum consumption, he had only learned information related to Yang Ran’s soul.

But this time, he felt that everything he saw was blurry, as though he were looking at the bottom of the water through a current.

Zhan Yan instinctively turned his head to glance at the little candle floating beside him.

The tiny flame on the candle flickered.

What? Hadn’t the accumulated time-dust already been lit through by you? If you can’t see clearly, that’s your own problem!

Zhan Yan tried hard to keep looking. He discovered that it wasn’t that he couldn’t see anything clearly. Some parts of Di Ting’s past he could see very clearly, but another portion was extremely fuzzy. A layer of ripples in time blurred the information. Was it because of that drop of Candle Dragon power that Wanyan Cat had swallowed before?

He tried pressing the little candle against it. The little flame lit up the ripples of time, but there seemed to be some other kind of force hidden inside them, and no matter what, the little candle couldn’t burn through it.

Zhan Yan studied it for a long time. He felt that the things hidden in those ripples of time seemed to follow some kind of pattern, almost like… looking at a painting through spiraling waves. The lines were warped and distorted by the waves, but as long as the ripples themselves were clear, it should be possible to restore them according to their pattern.

The flame on the little candle kept burning and burning, and the candle itself was getting shorter and shorter. Zhan Yan decided to temporarily withdraw. The candles the Candle Dragon had given him were limited and couldn’t be wasted.

After exiting the information panel, Zhan Yan opened the system backup function. Every image he had just seen had been stored in there.

Zhan Yan began trying to sort through those images and restore the distorted patterns to what they had originally looked like.

Very strange. If those vortex-like ripples of time came from the drop of Candle Dragon power Wanyan had swallowed, then why had the Candle Dragon power not caused this kind of effect in the other images? And what exactly were those things hidden inside the ripples of time?

Zhan Yan had a feeling that Di Ting’s horn had been hidden away. Hidden by whom, and why?

He was still sorting through the images when his phone suddenly rang.

Ah, it was time for Student Xiao Gu’s nightly goodnight-kiss phone call.

Zhan Yan exited the gossip system and answered the call.

There was joy in Gu Jiancheng’s voice all the way through.

Hehe, he had healed Yang Ran, and he had even discussed with Zhan Suiru how to make those chuuni-style big toys into real things. Now that they had a common topic, and he had even played games with Zhan Suiru using his ordinary-person identity, very soon he would overcome the biggest obstacle to meeting the parents~

Once things stabilized a bit more and he was sure Zhan Suiru’s favorability toward him was high enough, he could officially meet the parents! And after that, he’d be able to come see Yan Yan even during holidays.

Marriage! Honeymoon! Traveling everywhere!

Zhan Yan couldn’t help being happy along with him. “What are you thinking about that has you so happy?”

Gu Jiancheng: “I’m thinking about where we can go together in the future.”

Zhan Yan didn’t want to ruin his happiness, so he chatted along with him for a long time. Even after the phone call ended, Gu Jiancheng was still extremely excited.

Ah… soon everything would be fine. There wouldn’t be any more troubl—oh right, no, there was still that hateful Infinite, and that troublesome Monster Doctor.

Just wait, he was going to continue hunting down those disgusting things right now! Once he took care of all of them, there really wouldn’t be any more trouble!

Gu Jiancheng immediately logged onto the Chaofan forum and started squeezing Approaching Science for information. Approaching Science still owed him a favor!

[I Just Saved the World!]: “Any news about Monster Doctor?”

“Also any other information at all related to Infinite.”

[Gu Jiancheng believes that you’re also very eager to go traveling with him, and he can’t wait to wipe out every Infinite anomaly.]

Zhan Yan: …

Xiao Gu was way too excited. He had already gone nearly forty hours without sleep, and in the middle of that he had also intensely concentrated on treating Yang Ran.

Approaching Science: “Big shot, you worked all night yesterday. Aren’t you tired?”

“Get some rest first.”

[I Saved the World!]: “Heh, what is there to rest over with a little task like that?”

“If you can’t find Monster Doctor, then investigate some other anomalies first.”

“Maybe one of them will contain clues related to Infinite.”

Alright then, he was getting wild again.

He still had to persuade him to sleep.

Approaching Science: “Big shot, if you’re not sleeping, I still need to sleep.”

“We’ll talk tomorrow, we’ll talk tomorrow.”

[I Just Saved the World!]: “You’re an information-type ability user. If you don’t stay up late, does that even make sense?”

Zhan Yan: …

Heh!

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