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Spiritual energy gathered like a surging river, waiting to batter down the barrier to the Ninth Foundation Establishment Realm.

If she was disturbed at this critical moment, she risked Qi Deviation.

Even the system did not dare speak and disturb her.

Si Le's soul emerged once more.

He gazed at Li Zi as she cultivated, a trace of resentment in his deep eyes.

Perhaps she was treating him this way because he had interrupted her cultivation last time.

Outside, someone kicked the courtyard gate open.

Si Le frowned in displeasure.

He drifted over to block the entrance, hoping to buy Li Zi some time.

Ran Zirou stormed in. Just as she was about to barge into the Cave Abode where Li Zi was in seclusion, she saw the nearly transparent man.

She froze on the spot.

Looking at that incomparably handsome face felt like gazing across a lifetime.

Memories flooded back, every little moment she had spent with him.

His tenderness, his devotion, his proud, prickly ways...

But now Si Le stared at her with eyes so unfamiliar, with a hint of viciousness hidden in them, as though she were his mortal enemy.

That vicious look already bore traces of the ruthlessness he had shown after fully regaining his memories back then. It made her blood run cold.

"I remember you," Si Le suddenly said.

Ran Zirou's heart skipped a beat.

She stared at his face, unable to look away for a long time, as if she wanted to carve every contour into her memory.

The feelings they had shared over so many years were like the air she breathed: easy to take for granted while she had them, but losing them had left her in agony.

"You remember me?"

Joy lit up her face.

Ran Zirou stepped forward, then