The dream and the illusion shattered and vanished with that soft murmur.
Only then did the memories that had truly been sealed away awaken.
The boy who had stepped into the Nothingness Pavilion looked at the girl beside him, her entire body glowing gold, and asked, "Was this why you pulled my consciousness here to perform Coffin-Pushing ahead of time?"
Bathed in golden light, Xu Yue seemed to have become the element of light itself. She nodded gently and said, "Back in the Yin-Yang Soul-Refining Abyss, I saw the captain being killed, so I made a deal with a certain existence. I would take the attack that would have killed him, and the price was losing every memory related to it."
Dai Yunze fell silent for a moment, then asked her, "Was it worth it?"
Xu Yue smiled, her gaze clear now that she remembered everything. "The captain saved my life. If I saved him in return, wouldn't that be the perfect way to repay him?"
She looked at the wooden box inside the Nothingness Pavilion, engraved with the words "Radiant Light Shines Across Realms, Light Shadow Douluo." A complicated yet beautiful light shone in her eyes. "The dungeon was so, so dark... Thank goodness the light the captain brought was bright enough..."
Light flashed, and Qingya appeared before the Nothingness Pavilion, his eyes red. He raised a hand and rested it on Dai Yunze's shoulder.
Xu Yue noticed him as well, and the two nodded to each other in greeting.
"Thank you for helping me remember all this. You just saw the rest of the story too, so once I get out, I won't tell it to you again." She smiled and thanked the boy beside Qingya, then her form dissolved and merged into the wooden box.
After that,