Chapter 60

Beep... beep... beep...

"Hello?"

"My dear Mom! What are you doing?"

"Eh, it's me. Oh, I've just been busy with my studies and haven't called home in a while!"

"I was wrong, I was wrong, stop scolding me, please stop."

"Don't worry, the food here is great, I've gained weight, really!"

"Stop scolding, I'll come home during winter break, I promise!"

"What? Am I seeing anyone?"

"Not yet, I'm too busy studying."

"What, a blind date?!"

"No way, I'm only 21, I want to find love on my own!"

"I'll definitely bring back a tall, slim, and beautiful daughter-in-law for you."

"Inner beauty? Ah, I see, I understand!"

"Mom, how is Dad's health?"

"Oh, that's good, as long as he's fine."

"Alright, alright, go back to your mahjong, I'm going to sleep a bit more."

Beep... beep... beep.

He put down the phone.

Li Xiang sat in the room, leaning back gently against the chair.

He let out a long sigh.

The summer sunlight filtered through the window, spilling faintly onto his white shirt.

The cicadas in the trees were chirping endlessly.

On the computer screen, the LOL ranked queue was counting down.

On the table lay a thick stack of unfinished experimental logs.

A gentle breeze blew by, seemingly carrying the heart of a wanderer back into the dreams of his hometown.

Opening his eyes and looking around the familiar dormitory, Li Xiang's expression was very complex.

"Three years."

"I never thought I would be able to return here again."

He took a bottle of 'fatty happy water' from the drawer under the bed.

Ka-chi!

The canned soda opened, and a bit of the drink bubbled out.

He took a sip.

The familiar carbonated water stimulated his taste buds.

"This is happiness."

Holding the drink, Li Xiang leaned back on the dormitory sofa, letting the fan blow on him.

He opened Douyin; that familiar, colorful world had returned to his life.

The LOL queue on the screen was still running.

The sun was just right, and the breeze was not too harsh.

Returning to this comfortable environment gave Li Xiang an indescribable sense of relaxation.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"Open the door, open the door!"

"I answered the roll call for you again today, how do you plan to thank your daddy?"

As soon as the dormitory door opened.

Several sturdy young men walked in and returned casually to their respective beds.

They turned on their computers, complaining about the day's events while tossing a portion of green bean and pork rice onto Li Xiang's desk.

"Log in, log in! The League finals are tonight, EDG is going for the championship. Let's play a few games first, otherwise, there won't be time once the match starts."

He looked up.

This was the occupant of the first bed, Liang Zhiwei.

"We need one more for the group queue, what are you spacing out for, Li Xiang?"

"You didn't go to class today, why are you dressed so formally?"

"What's up? Did you take a fancy to a girl from some department? Send her WeChat to your brother, let me check her out for you."

"Let's grow strong together, I'll find you a sister-in-law next year!"

This was his roommate from the opposite bed, Du Yunlong.

"Ah, you guys play first, I'll eat my hot meal."

Before he could finish speaking, a pair of large hands "maliciously" locked Li Xiang's throat from behind.

It was his last roommate, Zhang Song.

"Don't talk nonsense!"

"Log in!"

"Just hang out under the tower and eat, the only reason we called you is to get five people to start the game."

Hearing this, Li Xiang cursed at him.

In an instant.

A long-lost sense of familiarity surged into his heart.

"Come on! Log in!"

"Your daddy Viktor is going to carry every game!"

In the dream, one forgets they are a guest; a moment of stolen joy.

Opening his eyes again, everything before him had changed.

His father's familiar snoring came from the other side of the bed.

Moonlight shone through the window, falling into the room, appearing quite bright.

There was a damp feeling by his pillow.

Li Xiang reached out to touch it, not knowing when he had cried.

"No wonder the teacher wanted Uncle's pen so much."

"Just to be able to see those familiar people and those familiar things in a dream."

"I suppose that is the greatest happiness in the human world."

For some reason, Li Xiang suddenly remembered a line from the *Records of the Grand Historian*.

Li Si, the Prime Minister of the Qin Dynasty, said to his son before his death: "I wish to go out of the East Gate of Shangcai with you again, leading our yellow dog to hunt for clever rabbits; can that ever be?"

The bone of the Ranyi can help one sleep peacefully, and the whiskers of the Ranyi can communicate with spirits.

A dream of yellow millet, a moment of stolen joy.

I wonder what regrets the teacher actually has.

To want to return to the dream so badly, just to take a look.

Outside the window, the bright moon shone clearly; Li Xiang lay on the bed, but he could not fall asleep no matter what.

He had been in this world for three years.

Sometimes he would wonder if everything was just a dream.

Being able to witness the extraordinary and master that mysterious power was naturally good.

But a wanderer unable to return home makes one's soul feel lonely.

If he hadn't seen it in a dream, perhaps it wouldn't have been so intense.

But after seeing it once, that longing for a wanderer to return home became even stronger.

This twenty-something-year-old soul suddenly felt an indescribable loneliness at this moment.

He put on his clothes quietly and sneaked out of bed.

He slid the bolt on the door.

Li Xiang sat on a stone in the courtyard and looked up at the moon.

Before the bed, the bright moonlight, suspected to be frost on the ground.

Raising his head to gaze at the bright moon, lowering his head to think of his hometown.

"Sigh~"

"System, do I still have a chance to return home?"

Silence.

The system did not provide a reply.

Sitting on the stone, looking up at the bright moon, Li Xiang enjoyed his loneliness alone.

"One day, I will find the way back."

Huh?

Just as he was missing his hometown.

He suddenly felt the stone beneath him begin to vibrate gently.

Jumping down, it seemed as if the entire ground was trembling slightly.

At the same time, the Demon Suppression Bell newly sent by the Demon Slaying Division in the village suddenly began to ring: clang, clang, clang.

"An earthquake, is it an earthquake?"

He said subconsciously.

Looking up, it seemed the whole village was swaying slightly, and some particularly dilapidated thatched huts had already collapsed halfway.

"Child, where is the child?"

While he was pondering, a hurried female voice suddenly came from the house behind him.

It was his mother and father, who had woken up from their dreams upon feeling the earthquake and were worried because they couldn't find Li Xiang.

"Dad, Mom! I'm here!"

Hearing his voice, the two immediately rushed out and shielded Li Xiang.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's an earthquake, it will pass soon, Mom is here."

Li Xiang didn't feel afraid.

However, he felt that this earthquake was strange.

It didn't feel like an earthquake.

It felt more like the aftermath of a battle...

Looking up into the distance, faint Haoran Righteous Qi flowed in his eyes.

Confucian Divine Ability - View Mountains and Rivers.

At the edge of his vision, he seemed to see pillars of light shooting into the sky.

There was vast Qi and blood like the firmament, and Haoran Righteous Qi that connected heaven and earth.

Even, he saw a giant sword that covered the sky and sun slowly descending from the firmament.

In the deepest part of the Southern Wilderness, a shocking battle seemed to be taking place.

If one could truly have a dream of yellow millet.

Who would you want to see?

(End of chapter)