Guo Yunfeng's dream world.
"Going further back, that should be the youngest age that Grandpa Gu can remember."
Xu Ci yawned and stretched as if he was about to be released.
"As long as we instill the obsession with 'joining the Nine Heavens Sect' in him from the time he can remember, our mission will be complete~"
"Um."
Guo Yunfeng nodded, her tone completely flat.
At this moment, they are in the home of Gu Yun, who is about seven or eight years old, and have found the last fragment of memory: Cuju (ancient Chinese football).
More than an hour has passed.
In the memories shared by Guo Yunfeng and Xu Ci, apart from the necessary instructions for the main quest, Guo Yunfeng never interacted with Xu Ci once.
She felt that as long as she didn't talk to Xu Ci, the so-called "love" theme couldn't be developed.
It's only natural to give Lu Ze the lowest score later; no one can find fault with it.
To avoid this talkative {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} senior brother, Guo Yunfeng simply immersed herself in the story of Gu Yun and Lin Xi.
She also arrived at a logically clear conclusion.
They also had doubts about unusual clues such as paper rabbits, lighthouses, and platypus dolls.
Seeing that she had reached the end of the mission, Guo Yunfeng kept her many questions to herself and decided not to think about them anymore.
In her opinion, it was mostly because Lu Ze's story was written too hastily, and too many loopholes were accidentally left.
Guo Yunfeng glanced at Xu Ci with a confident look, then at Gu Yun, and shook her head with a smile.
"Is this what you call love? How ridiculous."
A talkative, silly senior brother who has absolutely no charm.
A loser who spent his whole life in a twisted love affair.
Guo Yunfeng felt that even if the Illusion Alliance didn't use its connections, she wouldn't let Lu Ze get away with it.
After thinking it over, she and Xu Ci performed one last memory jump.
...
After a brief period of darkness.
Where is this?
Xu Ci opened his eyes and exclaimed in shock.
Guo Yunfeng looked around and frowned.
This is a fragmented and chaotic space.
Not far away were vast abysses, and the dark room reeked of decay.
"What's going on?"
Guo Yunfeng asked a question for the first time ever.
"Amnesia..."
Xu Ci pinched his chin, his expression serious.
Although he seems carefree, he is actually quite reliable when faced with problems.
"Not everyone's memory is complete; this happens occasionally... but this is the first time I've ever seen such a horrific scene!"
Xu Ci looked at the darkness so close at hand with lingering fear, as if touching it would swallow her whole.
"On their wedding day, Gu Yun's mother said that a doctor had saved Gu Yun's life when he was a child...maybe?"
After careful consideration, Guo Yunfeng offered a conjecture.
To escape Xu Ci's harassment, she paid close attention to many details in the scene.
"Very likely!"
Xu Ci nodded, deeply agreeing.
"I'm afraid Mr. Gu suffered a serious illness when he was very young, so he doesn't remember those things."
"So what do we do now?"
Guo Yunfeng frowned.
She was already fed up with this incoherent and flawed story and didn't want to continue.
"Nothing much... Just plant the seed of 'joining the Nine Heavens Sect' in the previous memory."
Xu Ci sighed and replied.
"Kids like him want to join the Nine Heavens Sect, most of the time it's to become a cultivator... Don't forget, his favorite book is 'Battle Through the Heavens,' the reason is obvious."
"Although the effect of planting the seed at an earlier age would be better... my previous memory is not bad, so there shouldn't be any problems."
"should......"
...
【Act Two: Tens of thousands of lighthouses...piled up on the distant horizon】
Another string of unintelligible text.
Guo Yunfeng frowned.
She followed Xu Ci back to the very beginning of this memory space.
Beneath the lighthouse, Old Gu Yun stood quietly beside Lin Xi's grave, waiting for the two to return.
The process of sowing seeds is not complicated.
Using the final Gu Yun as the center, a causal array was set up, with memory fragments from each stage placed in sequence.
Then, dream power is injected to activate the causal array.
Finally, on the fragments of childhood memories, the cause of "joining the Nine Heavens Sect" was poured in.
Once the causal array is activated, the result projected onto the elderly Gu Yun will be the "arrival at the Moon Realm"!
...
...
At the same time.
Lakeside of Xianyun.
Hundreds of eyes were fixed on the shimmering, illusory image on the lake's surface.
To ensure fairness, Guo Yunfeng would project the images of each illusion onto the outside world while playing in it.
At this moment, the crowd watching from the lakeside, seeing the sect mission entering its final stage, guessed that the illusion was about to end.
The monks were discussing it animatedly.
"Tsk tsk, Elder Guo didn't even blink this time... It seems Old Demon Lu has messed up!"
"Who could be moved by this illusion? Xu Ci is like a complete fool, who would fall in love with someone like that?"
"You still have the mind to care about Xu Ci? I get so angry about Gu Yun and Lin Xi's story that my stomach hurts! I really don't know how Lu Laomo wrote such an awkward romance..."
"It's really awkward, and it's especially heartbreaking to watch. It's completely out of character for Lu Laomo!"
"Let's disperse... It seems that this Void Soul Crystal is destined to be unattainable for Old Demon Lu!"
...
Many of the cultivators watching the spectacle by the lake harbored a sense of schadenfreude, eager to witness the fall of a god.
In the illusory image above Xianyun Lake, Guo Yunfeng and Xu Ci had successfully begun to activate the causal array.
A golden stream of dream energy flowed into Old Gu Yun's body, and his memory space began to tear apart and recombine...
This scene made everyone present feel excited, as if they had already witnessed cracks appearing in Lu Ze's invincible body.
However, what happened next was something no one expected—
Old Gu Yun did not appear in the Moon Realm.
With the restart of his memory space, he was still that pitiful old man sitting on the bench, sometimes looking at the night sky, sometimes at the lonely grave.
...
...
Zhong Yi's Illusionary Space.
"how so!?"
Qin Li'en, who was in charge of the causal array, looked at everything in front of him with utter bewilderment.
The causal array was operating successfully, but Gu Yun's memories remained unchanged!
"Could it be... that he successfully went to the Moon Realm when he was young?"
Zhong Yi proposed a possibility.
"Hmm, that's certainly possible... Let's go take a look."
Qin Li'en raised an eyebrow, quite satisfied with Zhong Yi's deduction, and with a grin, pulled Zhong Yi to begin the memory journey.
Rainy day.
The elderly Gu Yun still held an umbrella, standing alone in front of Lin Xi's grave, choking with sobs.
Old house.
Lying in her hospital bed, Lin Xi once again refused Gu Yun's request to treat her illness. She then took out the yellow and blue paper rabbit again and asked Gu Yun to describe it over and over again.
Under the lighthouse.
Gu Yun married Lin Xi again, and during the wedding ceremony, his shy face was filled with a happy smile.
Inside the theater.
Gu Yun remained alone in the corner, watching a shadow puppet show from a great distance away from Lin Xi...
...
The more memories they traversed, the more serious Zhong Yi and Qin Li'en's expressions became.
because......
Gu Yun's past has not changed in the slightest!
"Where exactly did things go wrong..."
Qin Li'en bit her finger and fell into deep thought.
"Is the obsession with 'joining the Nine Heavens Sect' not strong enough? Therefore, the karmic connection is insufficient?"
Zhong Yi offered his opinion again.
"Perhaps..."
Qin Li'en nodded.
"Then let's try injecting causality into other memories as well!"
The two acted immediately, splitting up and making many imaginative attempts.
Qin Li'en changed the content of the shadow puppet show to "Thoughts of the Moon Realm" at the theater where Gu Yun and Lin Xi were watching the shadow puppet show.
During Gu Yun's youth, Zhong Yi disguised himself as the senior disciple of the Nine Heavens Sect to recruit on-site, pretending to be impressed by Gu Yun's aptitude at first glance.
The two even pretended to be elders of the Nine Heavens Sect and invited Gu Yun and Lin Xi to go to the Moon Realm for a relaxing trip...
...
They tried to infuse almost every memory with obsession, planting the seeds of their own destiny.
But no matter what they did, Gu Yun's memory remained unchanged.
Everything is as usual.
Gu Yun always falls in love with the aloof Lin Xi at first sight.
The two would always meet, fall in love, and then get married under the lighthouse.
Linxi always passed away from illness in his later years.
Gu Yun would always fulfill her vow under the lighthouse, growing old alone...
...
Zhong Yi and Qin Li'en tried countless times.
The ending is always the same.
It seems destined to be so.
"I'm tired... I need to rest for a while."
Qin Li'en pursed her pale lips.
She had been supporting the formation, and it was now nearing its limit.
"Go ahead... I'll think of something else."
Zhong Yi took over the authority of the dream-making array and continued to ponder deeply.
Just then, the main questline, which had been quiet for a long time, finally changed.
【Main quest updated:】
【Collect at least four illogical clues in Gu Yun's dream.】
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