"Ah, look, look! Even the meticulous Fan Daoyi has stumbled over such a trivial matter."
Dao Er continued talking, floating in the air, his tone playful.
Fan Daoyi lay on the bed, slightly turning his head to look at the surrounding scene. The hospital facilities were familiar; it seemed he had also been lying here after the last college entrance examination.
Waking up here again today, the plant in the clay pot on the windowsill has grown a little taller.
What's going on?
Based on Fan Daoyi's deduction, the strength of the Kan Water Fusion Realm is not enough to bring someone back to life. With his dagger and some deliberate manipulation, he shouldn't still be alive.
Dao Er chuckled, shifting from a lying position to a cross-legged sitting position. Looking down at Fan Daoyi lying on the bed, he vividly described the scene. "Isn't this just a coincidence? Just as your life was about to end, Kan Water, in the blink of an eye, unleashed a powerful surge of energy."
Whoosh—life flows around us, rivers and lakes rejoice, celebrating the supreme being of water.
Kan Water officially stepped from the Fusion Realm to the Governance Realm. The water source is gentle, bringing new life. Even the Yellow Springs, which send people to their deaths, is slightly controlled when entering this level.
And so, your body came back to life. What a pity!
"No, he shouldn't have crossed that threshold of the Governance Realm at this time." Fan Daoyi frowned slightly.
In Fan Daoyi's mind, Kan Water would never have stepped into the Governance Realm at that moment. But unexpectedly, he did, and even jumped a level directly.
Is human potential really that terrifying?
This inevitably reminded Fan Daoyi of the anime he watched with this group of people while lounging on the sofa, where the protagonist would shout for family and friends and suddenly unleash an unprecedentedly powerful force.
So this isn't fiction, it's reality!
"However, the key to his breakthrough isn't just this. Don't you want to guess?" Dao Er raised an eyebrow, speaking meaningfully.
Fan Daoyi knew himself well, and since Dao Er said so, he immediately thought of that place.
"It's the Azure Dragon. I know that Guixu controls the Azure Dragon. My interference in the story was limited to the phrase 'increase the intensity,' but that time was too short, and unleashing potential wouldn't be this rapid."
"The Illusion Realm was too real; even after returning to reality and learning the truth, I couldn't immediately discern the truth. To be hit twice in such a short time—wow, just thinking about it is thrilling."
Dao Er was so unreliable that Fan Daoyi was inexplicably speechless at himself.
Fan Daoyi propped himself up, rubbing his forehead. "What a coincidence. Because of my own words, I didn't die as planned."
"Yes, yes, what a coincidence! How could it be such a coincidence? Dao Yi, Guixu is preventing you from staying there for long. Who is on the same wavelength as you, using your thinking to guide their judgment?"
Apothecary? Flower Tender? Vase Woman? Or perhaps... Xuan Miao?
Haha, Dao Yi, look, there's no one behind you. They've all been hiding things from you, deceiving you. You're such a failure.
If all else fails, hand over control to me. I'll take your place, I'll replace you.
Dao Yi leaned against the headboard, watching Dao Er's exaggerated performance with a calm expression.
After his histrionic personality performance was over, he shook his head and said, "If you were me, you should understand that normally they couldn't do these things."
Because of your existence, they simply cannot resonate with my thinking and plans. In their understanding, there is only Fan Daoyi, but no so-called Dao Er, Dao San...
"Oh, and then?" Dao Er agreed with this view.
His words were meant to be sarcastic; as one of his own, he didn't believe that the group of Guixu guys could ruin Fan Daoyi's plans.
Moreover, he ruined his own death because of a single sentence he uttered.
"Then..." A flicker of confusion crossed Fan Daoyi's previously serious face. "Then, I don't know."
"I felt something was off from Azure Dragon. At first, I didn't notice anything wrong when I woke up, but now that I think about it more deeply, I can feel a subtle resistance from my consciousness."
We have some cognitive gaps, like a circle missing a corner, it's not complete.
Dao Er remained silent after hearing this.
"Dao Er." Fan Daoyi was pulled back from his thoughts. He raised his eyes and looked at Dao Er, who was sitting cross-legged in the air.
A smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, and he returned to normal.
"Let's put on a show."
They shared the same idea, Dao Er's relaxed expression instantly turned to surprise.
"Hey, hey, hey, that's not how you should think."
"Yes, I put myself in your shoes."
"No, no, no, that's insane. I would never think like that. This kind of cognitive deprivation shouldn't make you lose your mind."
Fan Daoyi chuckled lightly and casually waved his hand, Dao Er's figure disappeared before his eyes.
His gaze shifted to the window, watching birds fly by, and he pointed again.
Guixu.
A black-and-white boundary stands here, with a majestic gate reaching into the unknown sky, its end invisible as far as the eye can see.
Xuan Miao stretched out its paws and stretched comfortably, the movement causing ripples to spread across the ground.
"Look, the road is straight ahead, and everything is proceeding smoothly, meow."
Xuan Miao leaped forward lightly, glancing back at the magnificent and imposing gate.
"Your arrangements went very smoothly."
Then it left.
The Present World.
The sound of the door lock turning came from inside the ward, He Piaojian entered carrying a plate of dumplings.
He looked down at the dumplings. "Cabbage and pork filling, mushroom and chicken filling, lettuce and shrimp filling, and beef and scallion filling. So many kinds, tsk tsk tsk, delicious! It's a pity someone is still lying there, not awake."
Today they made dumplings inside the hospital. Given Fan Daoyi's love for food, and seeing that he hadn't woken up for a long time, the group came up with a ridiculous idea to use the dumplings they made to distract and tempt him from the outside world.
He Piaojian looked up and saw the empty bed. The blanket was lifted slightly, the window next to him was open, and he almost dropped the plate of dumplings in his hand.
"Holy crap, where is everyone? I'm such a big person, where am I?!"
Shocked and incredulous, He Piaojian quickly ran to the window to see what was wrong. He glanced down at the ground, but there was nothing there.
This is the sixth floor. Fan Daoyi wouldn't leave on his own, so it's only possible that he was taken away by someone else.
Who could it be? Could it be the Four Fiends Cult again?
He pressed the call button by the hospital bed. This ward was marked as a priority by Kan Water, and he would be connected to the ward immediately.
The bell had a call function, and He Piaojian didn't waste any words, directly telling Kan Water everything.
Upon hearing that Fan Daoyi had disappeared, Kan Water immediately retrieved the hospital's surveillance footage and informed the others in the [Eight Trigrams] group as well.
They rushed to the ward, and Kan Water also hurriedly brought the surveillance footage.
In the surveillance footage, Fan Daoyi lay peacefully on the bed, then sat up and looked out the window.
A gust of wind blew in through the window, Fan Daoyi slowly stood up and walked towards the window.
Then, to everyone's astonishment, he glanced back at the surveillance camera, sat on the windowsill, leaned back, and fell straight down.