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Chapter 223 "Having nothing to do, I sit idly facing my inkstone."

The site of the First Hospital of Cangnan City.

Liu Lang returned here after all, perhaps clinging to a sliver of hope...

Maybe the thing the captain gave us will come in handy?

But when Liu Lang stepped into this place again, the last glimmer of hope he had vanished.

What was once a bright and modern hospital has quietly transformed into an old hospital with a desolate and lifeless atmosphere.

"Although I knew long ago that the pocket watch was useless, I still held onto the last shred of hope..." Liu Lang muttered to himself, looking at this familiar yet unfamiliar place.

This place now resembles the Cangnan City First Hospital from ten years ago in his memory, and it looks like it has been abandoned for many years.

"Liu Lang..." Lei Yingdian's voice suddenly rang out from behind Liu Lang.

"Ying?" Liu Lang was shocked to see Lei Yingdian. "Why are you here? Weren't you with Nasida and the others...?"

"I noticed you seemed a bit off, so I secretly followed you," Lei Yingdian explained. Seeing Liu Lang's strange expression, he pressed further, "Are you still having trouble letting go?"

"It's nothing." Liu Lang didn't explain, and said as he turned to leave, "We should leave...we should say goodbye to Cangnan City. I probably won't be back for a long time."

As Lei watched Liu Lang's departing figure, his thoughts inevitably drifted back to his own sister.

"In the past, I spent most of my free time practicing martial arts and rarely had time to talk with my sister. Most of the time, it was my current body, the 'Thunder General' puppet you know, that was there to stay with my sister in my place."

My older sister loves drinking tea, but I rarely have the chance to drink it myself, so most of the time it's the dolls that make tea for her, Raiden Shin.

Liu Lang didn't stop walking, and Lei Yingdian continued, "When I was making this doll, I unintentionally copied this sentence into it—'Having nothing to do, I sit idly facing the inkstone.' The doll has all my memories from five hundred years ago, and while upholding 'eternity,' it unintentionally remembered this sentence."

Liu Lang's figure walked further and further away, but Lei Yingdian's words still echoed in Liu Lang's ears without missing a single one.

Lei, who has rarely spoken since arriving in this world, spoke the most words he had ever spoken since coming to the world of Godslayer.

"Back then, I was a shadow warrior obsessed with improving my martial arts skills, while the one in power was a person who often enjoyed tea and reading... Initially, I admired the 'moment' and despised the 'eternity' because of my origins, but it wasn't until Inazuma was deeply trapped in the cage of 'eternity' that I truly understood... the true meaning of 'moment' and 'eternity' being intertwined."

Hearing this, Liu Lang turned around and smiled at Lei Yingdian, "This is the most you've spoken since I summoned you..."

"Hmph." Lei Yingdong snorted coldly as a response, "Do you think I wanted to? I was just afraid that someone would do something rash. He kept saying that he had let go of it, but in the end he couldn't help but come looking for me."

"I know you're heartbroken because there were many misunderstandings between you and your mother... Although you cared about each other, you inadvertently neglected one another. And now, we're separated by death..."

"It's not exactly a separation between heaven and earth," Liu Lang said, then looked towards the old city area. "The souls of the people who disappeared in Cangnan City are still there, and hers is still there too... Maybe when my strength improves in the future, I can resurrect her?"

"So you're not going to be conflicted anymore?"

"I'm not going to dwell on it anymore. Dwelling on it is pointless. Like you said, 'Sitting idly by the inkstone with nothing to do.' People only wallow in self-pity like I do when they're in a state of leisure and idleness... But haven't I found something to do?"

"Huh? Really?"

After saying those things to Liu Lang, Lei Yingdian seemed to have let go of something, and the atmosphere between them seemed to have subtly changed.

"Can this be false?"

"That's not necessarily true..."

"I lied to you that I was a puppy."

"You said it yourself. You can't go back on your word."

"No regrets."

The two of them walked towards the direction of Shangjing City, talking back and forth.

The shadow stretched longer and longer in the afterglow of the setting sun...

Until it disappeared from sight.

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"No wonder the [Mortal God Realm] is famous for 'miracles'. A city... in the blink of an eye, it has turned into ruins."

"Just half a month ago, we were fighting to protect this place... but unexpectedly, half a month later, nothing happened, and the entire Cangnan City simply disappeared."

Xia Simeng frowned slightly as she looked at the now lifeless Cangnan City.

“Captain, we already knew this after we received the message from the higher-ups,” Kong Shang said from the side.

"It was a bit later than expected, but when this scene actually unfolded before my eyes, I still couldn't quite believe it." A complex expression appeared in Xia Simeng's eyes, then she slowly stood up. "[Phoenix] Squad!"

Upon hearing Xia Simeng's words, the members of the Phoenix team, including Kong Shang, all stood up.

"Begin escort mission!"

"Yes!"

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A horse-drawn carriage floated in the air above Cangnan City.

"Master, Master!" came the pageboy's voice from outside the carriage. "Cangnan City is gone! Such a big city like Cangnan... has vanished!"

"This day has finally come." Master Chen's face was extremely ugly. "I thought that once we drove away the gods of Cangnan City, everything would be fine. As expected, Ye Fan was right."

"Master, what exactly is going on?" the page asked in confusion. He had been with Master Chen the whole time.

The news that was spreading like wildfire among the Night's Watchmen was completely unknown to him, the young page.

"Has some deity struck against Cangnan City again?"

“No, that’s not it.” Master Chen shook his head.

Seeing that the page still looked confused, he casually waved his hand, and a cup of tea floated in front of him.

"Drink this cup of tea, and you will understand."

"Yes, Master." After drinking the tea, all the news about Cangnan City flooded into his mind.

Only three seconds had passed in the outside world by the time he figured out the relationship.

The pageboy gazed at the vanished city and sighed, "I never imagined things would turn out this way... I thought that just half a month ago, innocent aliens invaded. The residents of Cangnan City were wiped out in their ignorance, then resurrected, enjoyed ten years of life, and left behind their own offspring... Lin Qiye's merits are truly immense."

“But that’s not all…” Master Chen glanced out the window, “There was a man who should have died, but he survived because of him, bringing vitality to the Great Xia… He is perhaps the biggest beneficiary of this ‘miracle’.”

"It also brought new hope to the Great Xia... not a god, but better than a god."

“Master, you are right…” The pageboy immediately thought of someone.

"That's right, it's him," Master Chen admitted. "Perhaps he will rewrite the fate of our Great Xia..."

"But he's not just in the 'Chuan' realm, is he?" the page asked, puzzled.

“But it is because of him that Cangnan City has survived until now... So what if we are at the ‘Chuan’ realm?” Master Chen said slowly. “Like the few of us, strictly speaking, aren’t we only at the peak of the ‘Klein’ realm? But why do people call us the ‘ceiling of humanity’?”

“I understand, Master.” The page nodded, suddenly realizing.

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Volume One, "Sitting Idly with My Inkstone," is complete.

The next volume, "This is the Way of Heaven, Heaven Moves All Things".