Xun'er: Is My Brother Xiao Ting Gone?

"Who is plotting against me?"

A Spatial Jade Slip appeared in Xun'er's hand, and she immediately mobilized the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame within her body.

The name she used in the Xiao Clan was "Xiao Xun'er." Aside from the few guards hidden in the shadows who were absolutely loyal to her, no outsiders knew that Gu was her true surname.

Whoever had created this book not only knew her real name, but had also included Brother Xiao Ting's name. It felt like a warning aimed at her.

But in the next instant, the book before her turned into a streak of light and entered her glabella, leaving her no time to react.

Immediately afterward, a flood of information surfaced in her mind, making her understand what this book was.

"Planes? Greater worlds?"

As the daughter of the Gu Clan's patriarch, Xun'er had read extensively since childhood and knew countless secrets of the Dou Qi Continent.

Many ancient texts mentioned a broader world beyond the Dou Qi Continent, but one needed to reach the Dou Di realm before being qualified to explore it.

As a descendant of a Dou God Clan, Xun'er naturally knew that Dou Di experts were not merely legends. There had even been quite a few of them tens of thousands of years ago.

But on the present-day Dou Qi Continent, no Dou Di expert had been born for at least ten thousand years.

"The plane should refer to the Dou Qi Continent."

"The greater world refers to the world beyond the Dou Qi Continent, and it should encompass the Dou Qi Continent."

"If there is a chance to transcend the greater world, then becoming a Dou Sheng should be no problem for Brother Xiao Ting, right?"

A cultured, top-tier rich young lady was completely different from some snakefolk queen from a small tribe. Her horizons were broader, and her thoughts ran deeper.

"This is a heaven-defying opportunity Brother Xiao Ting obtained. What I received is a copy that lets me view what Brother Xiao Ting writes. As long as he mentions me in the Notes, I can receive blessings from the plane and world. I am basically benefiting from his opportunity."

After only a moment of thought, Xun'er had defined the nature of the Notebook Copy.

Yet she did not feel delighted. Instead, her lovely willow-leaf brows furrowed.

"The one-billionth projection of the one-billionth phantom of the Great Dao Notes... there should be many of them. In other words, Brother Xiao Ting may not be the only one who has one."

"Even the original copy Brother Xiao Ting possesses is not unique, so the copy I possess is likely not unique either."

"On the Dou Qi Continent, or throughout the greater world, others may also possess copies."

"Those people can also see what Brother Xiao Ting writes in the Notes."

"They can receive blessings as well, provided Brother Xiao Ting mentions them in the Notes."

At that thought, Xun'er abruptly stood up, carrying the various exotic flowers floating in the wooden tub out with her.

She stepped from the tub, took out a bathrobe from her Storage Ring, and dried her perfect body before preparing to seek out Xiao Ting immediately.

She wanted to tell Xiao Ting that others could see what he wrote through their copies, so he had to think carefully before recording anything.

But the moment that thought arose, Xun'er staggered and nearly fell to the floor. Her right hand instinctively pressed against her budding chest as her face turned pale and cold sweat covered her body.

For that instant, she felt as though a hand had seized her heart. Her soul seemed to have entered an ancient, silent darkness where time did not flow, where she would be exiled forever.

It was a warning, warning her that she was forbidden from actively revealing the existence of the copy to Xiao Ting or any outsider in any form.

At the same time, another piece of information appeared, telling her that she could not actively harm Xiao Ting in any way either, or she would also be punished.

"Phew!"

After a long while, Xun'er let out a breath.

The deadly warning brought by the Notebook Copy made her happy instead of upset.

The copy did not allow her to actively disclose the Notebook Copy or its contents to anyone, nor did it allow her to actively harm Xiao Ting, the owner of the Notes, in any way.

Then if other copy holders truly existed, they would surely be subject to the same restrictions.

That meant she did not need to worry about Xiao Ting being used or harmed.

Anyone who knew what Xiao Ting wrote in the Notes could not harm him. The Notebook Copy instead seemed like a form of protection.

"If only everyone in the Gu Clan—no, everyone on the entire continent—could have a Notebook Copy." A wild thought suddenly came to Xun'er.

Then no one on the Dou Qi Continent would be able to harm Brother Xiao Ting.

Even if his own father and Hun Tiandi, the Hun Clan patriarch—two Nine-Star Dou Sheng—came for him, they could only stare helplessly.

"Then let me see what Brother Xiao Ting has written in the Notes."

[The youth of Wutan possessed shocking talent, condensing a Dou Qi Cyclone at eleven.]

Xun'er: "This was talking about Cousin Xiao Yan, wasn't it?"

[His cultivation vanished in a day; three years of scorn tempered his mind.]

Xun'er: "It really was talking about Cousin Xiao Yan."

[His fiancée came to break off the engagement; enduring humiliation, he swore a three-year vow.]

Xun'er: This Nalan Yanran would definitely regret it in the future.

[The remnant soul within the ring, Yao Lao, appeared; both the source of misfortune and a benevolent master.]

"Yao Lao, a remnant soul." Wearing her bathrobe, Xun'er sat on the large bed and propped up her delicate chin as she pondered.

To survive in soul form, one's soul realm had to be at least at the Spirit Realm level.

A Spirit Realm soul was a prerequisite for an alchemist to refine eighth-rank pills.

The Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid that had recently spread from Wutan City was likely Yao Lao's handiwork. He was very likely an Eighth-Rank Alchemist.

An Eighth-Rank Alchemist with the surname Yao was very likely from the Yao Clan. Yet he could not contact the Yao Clan to save himself, making it highly likely that he was an abandoned child of the Yao Clan.

"An Eighth-Rank Alchemist is an exceptionally rare existence across the entire Dou Qi Continent. Even my clan would treat one with courtesy."

"This Yao Lao's identity will not be difficult to investigate."

Xun'er decided that after finishing what Xiao Ting had written, she would have someone look into it.

She did not care what effect the remnant soul of a suspected Eighth-Rank Alchemist would have on Xiao Yan, but if there was any chance he could threaten Brother Xiao Ting's safety, she would have to issue a warning.

[Fen Jue and Heavenly Flames opened the path of conquest; after three ascents of Yun Lan, great vengeance was repaid.]

[Yao Lao was captured while fighting Soul Hall; alone, he wandered the continent.]

"Hm!?"

Seeing those two lines, Xun'er's pupils constricted as she realized something.

[After countless perils, he finally became a Dou Di; the battle of two Dou Dis decided heaven and earth.]

[Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river; never mock a poor young man's ambition.]

"As expected."

Xun'er confirmed her judgment.

Everything written afterward concerned events that had yet to happen.

If all of it was true, then Brother Xiao Ting knew the future.

"But how could that be?"

Even her old man, a Nine-Star Dou Sheng, claimed that he could not glimpse the past or future, nor could he touch the power of time.

How did Brother Xiao Ting know what would happen in the future?

But the content below answered her doubts.

[One-third of the three-year agreement has already passed.]

[Today, I saw my cousin Xiao Yan raise his Dou Qi by five stages in a year, dazzling everyone as he proved himself again.]

[At this moment, I also obtained the Notes and recovered my memories of a past life.]

Xun'er subconsciously clenched the bath towel in her hand, her beautiful lashes trembling. "Recovered... memories of a past life?"

Then was Brother Xiao Ting now still the Brother Xiao Ting she knew?