The Clearly We Were All Slacking Off Together, Yet You Leveled Up on Your Own

"It really is a rather strange feeling..."

"It feels like something that's both similar and dissimilar, as if there's a layer of glass between us..."

That was Qian Shan Xuehui's assessment after carefully examining Xi Shenlian upon seeing him.

"You're not some kind of projection right now, are you?"

As the person most familiar with Xi Shenlian,

the moment she saw him,

she keenly sensed that something was off.

However,

since she had already learned through Mind Transmission that Xi Shenlian had advanced,

Qian Shan Xuehui wasn't overly surprised by this degree of change.

At most, she was merely a little amazed and puzzled.

To resolve her doubts, while continuing to speak and trying to understand what had changed, she immediately began groping all over Xi Shenlian like some lecher, attempting to find some strange change with her own hands.

Then.

She didn't find anything different.

"..."

She merely rendered the others, who were still watching, speechless.

As for Xi Shenlian, the one being groped, he remained quite calm, treating it as though Qian Shan Xuehui were giving him a massage.

While allowing Qian Shan Xuehui to feel him up, he calmly said:

"Although there are now some obstacles between me and the world—obstacles that are intangible and will weaken the influence I exert on the world—my body is still located inside the world. We're in a parallel state in a certain sense, so contact between us still isn't troublesome. Everything remains as usual..."

Upon hearing this,

Qian Shan Xuehui's probing hands paused slightly.

She cupped her chin with one hand and assumed a thoughtful pose.

"A parallel state?"

"I see..."

"We can interact with each other, but we don't completely overlap?"

"When I heard that something was separating you from the world, I thought your current body was some