"Squeak——"

When Yu Ling pushed open the door and entered, she suddenly felt dazed for a moment.

The room is decorated with light yellow lanterns, and the dimmed light creates a warm feeling. There are more than a dozen plates of home-cooked dishes and cakes placed on the long table, and a few cups of tea are slowly fragrant.

On one side of the long table, Bei Ran was next to Zi Chenruo, holding her hand and chattering to her, while Yun Mengdie looked on with a smile.

This scene seemed to suddenly bring Yuling back to the past, as if the years had never flowed and the world had never changed.

"Why are Ran'er here?"

Yu Ling closed the door and naturally pushed the dishes of snacks on the table in front of her.

"I've already eaten it, brother, you should try it too."

Beiran smiled sweetly and pushed the plate back, with a brisk and lively tone: "I'm in good condition these past few days. I heard that I won a big victory. I missed you a little, so I sneaked over here. Brother, please don't

Scold me."

Yu Ling pressed her pulse and found that the Taoist poison in Bei Ran's body was unexpectedly stable, seeming to maintain a delicate balance.

"I don't know what's going on. I haven't dared to practice recently. I eat and sleep all day long, but my cultivation keeps rising..."

Beiran shook his head in distress: "But fortunately there are no adverse effects. I even feel that maybe you don't need to help me find a solution. Maybe, maybe... I can get better by myself?"

Your words sound a bit like Versailles...

Yu Ling relaxed a little. As long as Ran'er's condition no longer worsened, it would be great news.

"Be careful. If you feel any discomfort, contact us immediately, okay?" Yu Qingxuan was still a little worried.

"I know, I know, the food is getting cold, and my chopsticks can no longer hold their strength." Bei Ran muttered.

Yu Ling took the opportunity to sit between her and Zi Chenruo. Before he could speak, Bei Ran winked at him with a smile and said, "Guess which dishes were cooked by Sister Chenruo? It's a time to test your relationship.

arrive!"

"Huh?" Yu Ling was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Zi Chenruo next to her. She didn't expect that she would cook in person today.

Zi Chenruo felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by him, and whispered: "Don't be so surprised. I traveled in the seventeen regions before, and most of the time I just cooked and ate by myself..."

Bei Ran continued to tease: "Mom made some of them, and dad also made a few dishes. Well... we are the only ones who don't know how to cook them. Brother, you can only eat them if you guess correctly."

"I guess? I guess it's because you've been so idle lately that you deliberately embarrass me here." Yu Ling said expressionlessly.

So the role of having a younger sister is to make things worse for him at critical moments?

Zichenruo pursed her lips and smiled: "I think it doesn't matter if I take a guess."

"Chen Ruo, you have changed..." Yu Ling looked around and saw that Yu Qingxuan and the two people opposite him were as steady as a rock and had no intention of rescuing them. He simply pointed casually and said: "Okay, this plate should be made by Chen Ruo.

."

"Ah? Why, brother, are you cheating, or are you being blind?" Bei Ran opened his eyes wide.

Yu Ling turned to look at Zi Chenruo, with a slight smile on her lips: "This is... sweet and sour pork?"

"Well... I want to make this, but I don't know if it meets your requirements. Because there are only some substitute seasonings, the taste will definitely be..."

While Zi Chenruo was talking, Yu Ling had already picked a piece and chewed it carefully for a while before swallowing it, as if she was recalling a certain taste.

"No, I think...this is the most delicious sweet and sour pork I have ever eaten." He stared at Zi Chenruo and smiled softly.

Zichenruo pursed her lips, and there seemed to be a thousand words hidden under her complicated expression, but in the end, she just looked at him steadily, and sighed with some relief: "As long as you like it... During this period, I almost never see him again."

I haven’t seen a smile on your face.”

"Really?" Yu Ling was stunned.

He moved his eyes away from Zi Chenruo, looked around slowly, and finally understood the purpose of today's dinner.

Beiran said softly: "Father, mother, and Sister Chenruo are all worried about you, and so am I. Since the beginning of this war, your communication with us has become less and less, especially after the abandonment of the southern border and the fall of the Great Wilderness Star.

You have become even more... difficult to approach."

She lowered her head and said sadly: "I don't know what to say, I just don't want to watch you getting further and further away from us."

Yu Ling listened quietly and said after a long time: "I ignored these, but this was not my original intention."

He seemed to have figured something out, raised his eyes to look at Yu Qingxuan, and lowered his voice and said: "Dad, you can tell what happens today."

"What's the matter?" Yun Mengdie was slightly startled, and her tone became a little more solemn.

"There's nothing much to say about today's battle. It's just that after Dao Lingling Emperor was defeated, he didn't leave immediately. Instead, he talked a lot with Ling'er..." Yu Qingxuan considered the words for a moment and put together today's conversation that concealed countless inside stories.

Paraphrased once.

During this process, Yu Qingxuan also reorganized his thoughts, which led to more doubts.

However, he didn't rush to ask because he knew that Yu Ling would soon explain the cause and effect.

After Yu Qingxuan finished speaking, Yun Mengdie and others were silent for a long time, as if they could not digest this huge amount of information for a moment.

On the contrary, it was Yu Ling who broke the silence: "You... are all the people closest to me. Now that we have reached the final stage of the war, I don't intend to hide these things from you. You can ask whatever you want."

What he didn't say was that if he didn't ask now, maybe in the future...he would never have the chance to answer them.

"We can talk about the rest later. The most important thing now is, to enter the realm of immortality, do we really need to give up all emotions?" Yun Mengdie's tone was heavier than ever before.

"Not sure, brother, that Dao Ling Ling Emperor has not entered immortality. That is just his guess, right?" Bei Ran asked cautiously.

Yu Ling faced her confused gaze, brewing for a few seconds, and then said: "I'm afraid... it's true. The changes you feel in me are not caused by me deliberately, but by the influence of divinity. I am now

, it’s already difficult to integrate into any emotion.”

He clearly realized that even if he laughed now, it was not because he really wanted to laugh, but because he felt he should do so.

The scary thing is that he knows that such changes will make him gradually lose the emotions that a human being should have, but it is difficult for him to resist and just let nature take its course indifferently.

For example, just now, he felt the restraint of Yan Suiyue and the others, so he had no intention of getting closer. Although he might be expecting them to stay in his heart, he finally found an excuse and left peacefully.

This is because his cultivation time is still short and he has not experienced the long years. Otherwise, he may be even more indifferent and ruthless than Dao Lingling Emperor and Wanfa Spirit Lord.

To put it simply, he is gradually losing his ability to "empathize".

Just like when reading a tragic story, some people will unconsciously take part in it and burst into tears, while some people will stay away from the perspective of God from beginning to end without any feeling.

After truly reaching the realm of immortality, this feeling of alienation will probably only become more serious.

"Then what should we do? Brother, after you ascended to immortality, will you never pay attention to us again?" Bei Ran pursed his lips and said wearily.

"So I will not take that step until the last moment. At least for now, I can barely maintain this state. If it is true as Dao Lingling Emperor said, I may not care about this war by then.

Regardless of victory or defeat, we don’t care how many people sacrificed their lives." Yu Ling said.

"I don't think so." Yu Qingxuan suddenly said.

Yu Ling subconsciously looked at him and found that his eyes were soft and filled with vicissitudes of life.

"The experience of wandering in a disorderly world is so monotonous and so boring that it makes people crazy. But even so, I didn't ask you to help erase those memories. Ling'er, do you know why?" Yu Qingxuan asked gently.

Yu Ling shook her head, feeling suddenly touched in her heart.

Unlike Yu Qingxuan, he had almost erased all the memories of his clone wandering outside the star mark of the barrier, leaving only some important fragments. Otherwise, he felt that he would not be able to bear the weight of those tens of thousands of years.

"That experience was of little value, but it was precisely because of their existence that I felt that I was continuous and how I got to where I am today step by step."

Yu Qingxuan smiled, and his smile was as warm as the sun: "Of course, it was also because you found me later. Every minute and every second after that, even if I just walked forward in silence with you, I couldn't bear to forget it.

."

He looked at Yu Ling who was stunned, and continued: "Ling'er, I have also reached the peak of leaving the Tao, and I naturally know your feelings clearly, but I believe that as long as you retain those trivial and precious memories, as long as you

You yourself are unwilling to give up your emotions as a human being, even if you step into the realm of God, your original intention will not be erased."

"No matter what, we will be with you." Although his voice was soft, it revealed unshakable determination.

"I……"

Yu Ling opened his mouth, but couldn't say a single word. He only felt a strange emotion surge in his heart, which caused tiny gaps to appear in his frozen state of mind.

It was as if the wandering mind was pulled by an irresistible force and finally fell back to the ground from a high altitude.

"I understand." Yu Ling slowly breathed a sigh of relief and said softly: "Do you have any other questions?"

Yunmengdie hesitated for a moment, and finally asked: "Ling'er, Dao Lingling Emperor said that you are a 'born immortal'? What does this mean? And why did they put all the hope of going to that new world to the end?

Place it on you?"

Yu Ling looked at the table full of exquisite dishes in silence and did not respond for a long time.

"If you can't answer this right now, then..." Yun Mengdie couldn't bear to see him in trouble, so she planned to skip this topic.

Yu Ling suddenly sighed deeply, as if she wanted to spit out all the worries in her heart.
Chapter completed!