Chapter 144: Fluctuating Lifespan

Since there are myriad worlds, could there be people with the same name? Whether this idea is right or not, it's worth trying. At worst, if the Extreme Dragon's golden halo appears again, I'll just run.

The more Yu Xian thought about it, the more he felt this idea had potential. With a flicker of his thought, he teleported back to his original world. He appeared on the outskirts of Zenith City, at the exact spot where he had left earlier. Sure enough, Eternal Purity also appeared beside him, less than three meters away.

The two of them stood there foolishly waiting. A full half an hour passed, but the Extreme Dragon's golden halo never appeared.

Yu Xian looked up at the sky and muttered to himself, "Strange. Could the Extreme Dragon be afraid, so it temporarily gave up on causing trouble for me?"

He looked at Eternal Purity. "Auntie, you really can't beat the Extreme Dragon?"

Eternal Purity simply smiled. "I am the embodiment of Impermanence's benevolent thoughts. Aside from doing good and accumulating virtue, I do not have a single evil thought in my heart. Even against you, I would not be able to win."

She did not kill, did not commit evil, did not feel greed, did not get angry, and did not feel jealousy. All negative and harmful thoughts simply did not exist in her.

To put it simply, she did not know how to fight at all. She was the type to take a beating without fighting back. In fact, if someone struck her left cheek, to let the other party vent their anger, she would even offer them her right cheek.

Yu Xian asked, "What if someone wants to kill you?"

Eternal Purity chuckled. "I would run away. I am not stupid."

She had no bad thoughts, but she still possessed a basic sense of self-preservation. Otherwise, she would not have hidden from Eternal Bliss.

Yu Xian looked up at the sky for quite a while longer, then changed the subject. "Auntie, do you think the Extreme Dragon's anger has faded?"

Just now, he had thought that the Extreme Dragon was afraid of Eternal Purity, which was why it had not come looking for him. But after learning that Eternal Purity did not know how to fight at all, he came up with a new reason.

Eternal Purity shook her head. "The dragon among dragons would not calm down that easily. However, with you and me together, you are concealing my fate, while I am also concealing your aura. The dragon among dragons in this world should not be able to find you."

Yu Xian froze for a moment, then looked at Eternal Purity, speechlessly. Why did she not say something so important earlier?

He confirmed with her. "Auntie, are you sure the Extreme Dragon won't be able to find me?"

She smiled. "As long as you don't go parading around right in front of it."

Yu Xian let out a huge sigh of relief. Sitting inside his spatial bubble, he could finally put down the heart that had been hanging in suspense. All this time, he had not relaxed his guard, his nerves tense the entire time. He had planned to teleport back to the other world the moment the Extreme Dragon's golden halo appeared.

Only now, after receiving Eternal Purity's definite answer, did he truly relax. The crisis was finally resolved.

Yu Xian immediately used Appraisal on himself, wanting to see whether the lifespan value that had previously turned into question marks had changed back to "5322." But the moment he opened his attribute panel, he saw that his lifespan value was "3,648,922,477 years, 3 months, 25 days, 6 hours, 1 minute, and 5 seconds."

He rubbed his eyes and looked again, but the number had not changed at all. Glancing at Eternal Purity in disbelief, he teleported back home.

Zhang Shou and Su Zhuo were in Yu Xian's living room, worried about his safety. When Yu Xian returned, they stood up at the same time and asked him what had happened.

Su Zhuo, in particular, was extremely uneasy. Yu Xian had changed too much, and the world he was coming into contact with was a world she knew absolutely nothing about. She did not know what she could still do for him.

Yu Xian smiled at them. "Auntie, Zhang Shou, I'm fine. This is Auntie Eternal Purity. Everything has been settled."

Su Zhuo and Zhang Shou both froze for a moment, then looked in the direction Yu Xian was gesturing. Zhang Shou blinked and stared at the vacant living room around them. "Salted Fish, are you sure you're really okay? This Auntie Eternal Purity you're talking about... why can't I see her?"

Su Zhuo looked to Yu Xian's right and confusedly asked, "That's right, Little Xian. Is there really someone there?"

Yu Xian frowned and looked toward Eternal Purity. She calmly explained, "The flow of your fate and mine are aligned, which is why you can see me. Their fates are vastly different from mine, so naturally, they cannot see me."

With a helpless shrug, he explained to the two of them, "There really is an auntie here, but you guys just can't see her."

Startled, Zhang Shou took two steps back. "She is not a ghost, is she?"

Yu Xian could not help roasting him. "You've killed who knows how many zombies, and you're still afraid of ghosts?"

Yu Xian came out of his spatial bubble and stepped forward to help Su Zhuo sit down on the sofa. He then sat down beside her and explained what had just happened.

After listening to his account, Su Zhuo and Zhang Shou took turns asking him questions. Su Zhuo, especially, was deeply concerned about everything that had happened to him over the past year. As a result, this back-and-forth of questions and answers took more than half a day.

With it all finally being clear, Zhang Shou yawned. "So everything's fine now?"

Yu Xian nodded. "Yeah, everything's fine now."

Zhang Shou stood up. "Then I'll head back first. I'm a little sleepy. I need to go home and catch up on some sleep."

Yu Xian chuckled. "I'll send you back."

He controlled a spatial bubble to land on Zhang Shou. Zhang Shou waved at Su Zhuo. "Auntie Su, I'll head back first. See you next time."

Su Zhuo nodded. "Mm. Be careful on the way back."

Zhang Shou instantly appeared in the living room of his home. He could not help but comment, "I wanted to be careful on the way too..."

Ever since Yu Xian awakened his spatial ability, Zhang Shou had grown used to being teleported here and there. However, since Yu Xian had already settled everything, that meant Yu Xian would definitely go to school tomorrow.

Zhang Shou immediately thought of a plan. This time, he would definitely give Yu Xian a surprise.

At home, Yu Xian chatted with Su Zhuo about amusing things from his childhood, while his Super Brain was also thinking about something else. Just now, he had appraised Zhang Shou in passing, and Zhang Shou's lifespan had likewise changed from 5322 to 3,648,922,477 years, 3 months, 25 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 12 seconds. This meant that their world's fate had changed.

Yu Xian was shocked. The fact that an encounter with a single individual could quietly change the fate of a whole world without warning was simply too exaggerated to believe.

The problem was, he still did not know exactly how Eternal Purity, who would not fight back when beaten or talk back when scolded, had changed this world's fate. However, he was not in a hurry. After Year 5,322, he would naturally know the answer. As long as he did not court death or provoke the Extreme Dragon, he really could live for a very, very, very long time.

Yu Xian and Su Zhuo stayed in the living room and kept chatting away. They talked about embarrassing stories from his childhood, like wetting his pants, then about his father's death from illness, how he had received a First-Class Merit, his promise to take the college entrance exam together with Nora, and how he had four hearts...

In the evening, Yu Xian teleported to Zenith City together with Su Zhuo, and the two of them packed her things. Since Yu Xian's spatial bubble was convenient, Su Zhuo decided to move to Silver City and live with him. She did not abandon her home in Zenith City, and she would stay there only if Yu Xian was too busy to come pick her up.

From now on, she would come to Zenith City for work only. Outside of work, she would spend most of her time in Silver City, taking care of Yu Xian's daily life.

This was something she had always wanted to do. It was just that before, she had wanted to bring Yu Xian to Zenith City. Now, she would be teleporting back and forth between Silver City and Zenith City instead.

After they finished packing, the two of them returned to Silver City. Su Zhuo chose a room in Yu Xian's villa, took her luggage inside, and sorted it out. Yu Xian ordered two servings of takeout, walked to the balcony, and sat down on the lounge chair.

Yu Xian watched the setting sun gradually disappear beyond the horizon and relaxed. He felt as if these two days had been very, very long. From the moment he had impulsively gone to the Red Planet to pan for gold to the moment everything ended, only one day and one night had actually passed. But too many things had happened in that span, leaving him exhausted in both body and mind. He planned to get a proper rest and absolutely stop courting death.

Yu Xian closed his eyes and suddenly felt a little excited for tomorrow. He could hardly wait to share with Nora the joy of having someone he could call a family member again.