Chapter 66: The Grand Wedding · Lou Hu World

Sacrificing to Heaven and ancestors, taking oaths before the palace.

A good union is forged, a single paper a permanent contract.

Dragons and phoenixes bring auspiciousness, descendants flourish and thrive,

Wishing to be joined as branches, never to part through the years.

Su Xi wears the empress's crown and phoenix robes, supreme in her elegance, standing before Zhou Chuchen, placing her hand in his burning palm.

"Your Majesty, please treat me well for the rest of our lives."

"Empress, having you for the rest of my life is the best thing of all."

"The ceremony—is—complete!" the ceremonial official chants!

As the words fell, the winds and clouds in the sky suddenly shifted, blotting out the sun.

A beam of nine-colored divine light descended abruptly, enveloping Zhou Chuchen!

【Er Miao, what is happening?】

【Host! Zhou Chuchen's energy is increasing a hundredfold! No... it is immeasurable!】

Su Xi looks at Zhou Chuchen in shock.

Below the jade steps, the civil and military officials also gaze up at the sudden change in celestial phenomena, discussing it in confusion.

Cui Tongling reacts the fastest, immediately summoning the Imperial Guards to protect the Emperor and Empress.

"Is His Majesty about to ascend?" Su Xi can only think of this one possibility.

Zhou Chuchen lowers his eyes, his long, thick eyelashes as perfect as butterfly wings, and a complex golden mark gradually emerges on his smooth forehead.

Suddenly, his eyelashes flutter gently... and as they slowly open, the time around them stops.

Except for Su Xi, everyone else turns into fine dust!

"Zhou Chuchen" raises a hand to touch the side of his neck, the sigh of the Nether Lord appearing, but the next instant, that blooming rose withers away with a rustle, and the entwined snake also fades and vanishes.

"Still alive?" "Zhou Chuchen" looks at Su Xi, a question of extreme coldness, devoid of even a shred of emotion, let alone the tenderness of the past.

"You! Who are you?" Su Xi takes a step back; she knows this is absolutely not Zhou Chuchen.

"Zhou Chuchen" smiles.

It is clearly him, but this smile is not one he could ever make. It is extremely distant and divine, as if from a deity beyond the nine heavens.

"No wonder, you carry the blessing left by Xiao Mi. How naughty and mischievous!" "Zhou Chuchen's" hand moves lightly, and the Resurrection Card Xiao Mi gave to Su Xi lands in his palm, turning into crystalline starlight and dissipating.

【Er Miao!】

Er Miao shows no movement.

Su Xi tries to activate the Reversal System, but there is no response, as if the Reversal System had never existed at all.

"Zhou Chuchen" says to Su Xi: "This world is fake. 'Yuan Jun Zhuan' is a little game my playful younger sister made up on a whim and tossed into the Lou Hu World. The so-called Lou Hu World is a broken world, a broken civilization, fallen into the long river of time. Some mutate, deriving void time, or even restoring parts of their former civilization. And all of you are fictional beings from 'Yuan Jun Zhuan'."

Su Xi does not understand at all.

"This world will eventually be destroyed. Look at that World Tree; it has never sprouted." "Zhou Chuchen" plucks it with a casual gesture, and the massive Jianshan tree flies across the air, gradually transforming into a pentagonal seed.

【... Huh? There is a World Tree seedling here.

... The World Tree is the origin of the world. The ability of all living things in a world to continue, to breed and multiply, is all thanks to the World Tree. But if this World Tree seedling goes into hibernation, that would be bad.... Bad means the living things in this world will encounter disaster, and if the situation is serious, it might be destroyed, oh~】

Words Xiao Mi once said suddenly flash through Su Xi's mind.

She had paid no attention to them at the time!

Her face full of disbelief, "Xiao Mi... did Xiao Mi know all along?!"

"Zhou Chuchen" smiles: "She might have known, or she might not have. She is just a newly born, playful little cub."

All the knowledge in Su Xi's mind collapses and rebuilds, rebuilds and collapses...

"Who exactly are you? Where is Zhou Chuchen?"

"He has vanished, just like your Nether Lord's sigh." "Zhou Chuchen" tears open space, revealing an abyss of stars.

"After I leave, this Lou Hu World will turn into sand. You have Xiao Mi's blessing and are now a real life; will you leave with me?" "Zhou Chuchen" looks at Su Xi.

Su Xi remains motionless, "I would rather turn into sand."

"Zhou Chuchen" looks at her, his thin lips curling slightly, and he steps into the starry abyss.

Su Xi watches as the world she is in cracks rapidly.

【Host—】 Er Miao's voice suddenly sounds.

Su Xi thinks she is hallucinating and remains frozen.

【Host—】 Er Miao calls her again.

【Er Miao!!! You... you are still here!?】

【Yes, Host.】

Su Xi's legs go weak, and she collapses to the ground, "I thought... I thought you were gone too."

Er Miao replies: 【I hid on the Resurrection Card. When the Resurrection Card resurrected the Host, I was restored as well; this is what Xiao Mi taught me.】

【Did Xiao Mi know all along?】

【She would not let me tell the Host, saying that if the heavenly secrets changed, the Host would have no chance of survival.】

【Heavenly secrets?】

【Yes! Xiao Mi predicted that the Host would die and that Er Miao would also disappear. But she likes the Host very much and did not want you to disappear, so she also copied Er Miao's data source code onto the Resurrection Card. As long as the Host is resurrected, Er Miao can be resurrected along with you. It is just that all the points the Host accumulated before are gone; what a pity!】

【As long as you are back, nothing else matters.】 Su Xi's eyes fill with hot tears; the despair of the world collapsing and being left all alone gains a glimmer of hope.

【He said 'Yuan Jun Zhuan' is just a fictional game, and Yunze Dalu is a Lou Hu World.】

【It is not just a Lou Hu World.】 Er Miao replies, 【This world is not that simple, but Er Miao cannot calculate what the truth is.】

The sky turns into sand, and the ground beneath Su Xi's feet turns into a bottomless abyss!

【What do we do, Er Miao?】

"Host, do you still remember that Di Wang Ling Game Treasure Box you bought? You can enter that game now. And then, through the game, enter other worlds."

Su Xi took one last look at the world filled with nothing but gravel, "Let's go!"

Amidst the lush, verdant beast forest—

Xiao Mi was riding on the back of a half-grown little black panther, holding a large baby bottle in her hand.

She drank while patting the little black panther's back, "Brother, shall we play hide-and-seek?"

"Okay." The little black panther jumped happily.

Xiao Mi giggled, "Then Brother, count to one hundred, and then you can come find Xiao Mi, okay?"

"Mm! One, two, three, four, five..." The little black panther lay down on the ground, even covering its eyes with its front paws.

Xiao Mi climbed down from the little black panther's back, walked a few steps, and then vanished from sight.

A tall, phantom figure gradually emerged, his long white hair hanging almost to the ground; he kicked the little black panther, "Where is Xiao Mi?"

The little black panther shook its head and stood up straight, "Brother, Xiao Mi is playing hide-and-seek with me, she hid first. I have to count to one hundred before I can find her."

"... She never gets tired of this game." The white-haired man raised his hand to touch the side of his neck, where a mark had reappeared!