The holiday after the college entrance exams seemed especially long. One chapter of life had ended, and looking back, faces and moments shone in memory.
Years later, when they had families and careers and were rushing through life, those three years of high school would have faded and blurred. They might no longer remember those faces clearly, but looking back would still stir something in them.
Strictly speaking, this was their last stretch of pure, carefree time.
Life after that three-month holiday would be different.
Ye Fan spent those three months having the time of his life. Every day, he immersed himself in the Dao Realm, drinking with people from ancient stars across the Universe and talking with cultivators from the Strange World.
He saw so much. The Ye Fan of the original story was probably still playing basketball at this point.
Now, though, he had already ventured beyond Earth Star, cast his gaze across the Universe, and begun friendly exchanges with beings from other worlds.
Ye Fan was only one among the countless Living Beings of the Dao Realm. It was not some privilege he enjoyed because he was special.
Everyone could experience these things in the Dao Realm.
Once, an ordinary man from a remote planet and a Supreme who had achieved Alternative Dao Attainment had talked freely in the Dao Realm, caring neither about background nor cultivation. They had even called each other brothers.
A hundred years later, the ordinary man had turned to yellow earth and slept beneath the ground. Before the Supreme journeyed into the Starry Sky, he poured a cup of rough wine over the man's grave.
There had also been a peerless fairy who was dazzled by the fleeting brilliance of an ordinary young man in the Dao Realm. They traveled together for