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Chapter 4023 The Song of the Purple Moon (74) - Willpower Cube

Ah... no, I just can't calm my mind.

Even with meditation techniques ingrained in her very being, the witch ultimately failed—the magical farming tools, instead of becoming lighter, grew even heavier, to the point that she almost couldn't lift them.

But [Xiang Feihu] has already turned over all the rented vegetable plots and is now sowing seeds in an orderly and tidy manner—he's doing it with great enthusiasm.
Moreover, they have been in this state for seven days.

That's right... right here in this yard surrounded by a broken fence, the two of them have already spent what feels like seven days, and the actual time is probably about the same?

The witch, feeling helpless and sullen, propped her chin up with her hand and looked at Li Huamei with curiosity, asking, "...[Xiang Feihu] Lady, do you feel anything special when you hold these farm tools?"

"Feelings?" Li Huamei stopped what she was doing and thought about the question seriously. "I don't feel anything special... Perhaps it's because you're too concerned about their status as divine artifacts?"

"They were originally divine artifacts, weren't they?" The witch shook her head.

[Xiang Feihu] smiled slightly and said, "But farm tools are still farm tools, aren't they?"

“Uh…” The witch shook her head again.

There's really no way to communicate with her; we're not on the same wavelength at all. Someone as bland and uninteresting as [Xiang Feihu] would never become a casual sex partner... or a female friend.

"I'm hungry." The witch sighed heavily, looked in the direction of the house, and thought for a moment before saying, "I'll go see if I can get some food from that old man's house... In this wretched place, even an immortal would go hungry?"

[Xiang Feihu] couldn't help but smile.

For some reason, she felt that the "black cat" lady seemed particularly real at this moment—it was just an intuition.

Ignoring Ms. Black Cat, Li Huamei quickly focused on the vegetable garden in front of her, sowing seeds, covering the soil, watering... meticulously.

She was so focused that she was unaware of something subtly flowing through her body.

……

"Senior Yuga, are you home?"

Knocking was out of the question, so he simply pushed the door open and peeked inside, striking a cute pose—there he saw the goblin-like Yuga lying on a rocking chair.

The chair was against the fireplace, where a small campfire was burning... and a few sweet potatoes were being roasted.

The aroma was enticing, and the sweetness was just right. The hungry witch couldn't help but swallow.

Is the old man asleep?
Miss Witch frowned, tiptoed into the house, and seeing that Old Man Yuga still did not react, she assumed that he had tacitly allowed her to enter.

The room was quite simple, with little furnishing, except for an old picture frame on the table above the fireplace.

These are not the kind of photos you see everywhere, but very detailed hand-drawn portraits, so lifelike that they fully capture the person's state at the time.

This is a group photo of four people, one of whom is clearly old man Yuga... and he looks relatively young.

The other two men and one woman.

The four people were all wearing the same style of light armor and holding different weapons, probably a combat squad or something... They seemed to have a very good relationship, and each of them had a happy smile on their face.

Miss Witch instinctively picked up the photo frame, wanting to examine it more closely.

"what are you up to."

"...Well, I just felt that this picture frame would easily get dusty if placed on the stove!" Miss Witch said instantly, "So I wanted to wipe it clean for you, sir, hahaha... Elder, your floor hasn't been cleaned in a long time, has it? Let me help you?"

"Don't do anything unnecessary, just focus on growing your vegetables," Yuga said calmly. "Once the sweet potatoes are roasted, you can eat them whenever you're hungry. I'll deduct the amount from your harvest."

—This old man is actually a pretty nice guy, isn't he?

The witch had a sudden thought and decided to take the initiative—she could have used her beauty to win him over, but unfortunately her talent didn't allow it… Yuga was just too ugly.

"Senior, I've come to ask for your guidance." The witch said seriously, "Please teach me how to use farm tools. Why can she use them freely, while I find it increasingly difficult? I've tried to calm my mind and empty my thoughts, but it still doesn't work... Is there some trick to it?"

Yuga said calmly, "So that after I teach you, you'll be able to steal all my farm tools?"

—Holy crap, how did this old guy know... how did he think of this?
She really did have that plan, and any hesitation would be disrespectful to this extraordinary encounter!

"Senior!!" The witch suddenly screamed in surprise.

The decibel level is extremely high.

Yuga seemed to have his blood pressure spiked from the sudden shrill sound, and sat bolt upright. "If you're not going to eat, then get out!"

The witch's eyes instantly welled up with tears, and she knelt down in a dramatic gesture. "To tell you the truth, I have a terrifying enemy outside! Over the years, I've been hiding here and there, living a life of constant fear... To survive, I've done almost anything and endured unbearable weight and pressure!"

"...What do you want to say?" Yuga frowned.

"I want to become your disciple!" The witch's gaze was resolute. "I know you must be a reclusive master with extraordinary strength! I want to gain power from you to change my miserable life!"

"If I don't agree, are you prepared to kneel here forever?" Yuga said calmly, "Like that little brat outside?"

The witch shook her head. "Then I'll just have to go back to growing vegetables, make sure I don't starve, and then slowly figure out a way to please you and win you over until you agree, or until I find a way to leave."

“Not sincere at all.” Yuga couldn’t help but sneer.

The witch said softly, "It's not that I'm not sincere, but that's exactly what I've always thought. I'm telling you the truth now just to show that I have no intention of hiding anything from you, senior... Sincerity is the ultimate weapon!"

Yuga squinted as he sized up the witch.

The witch stared at him without any hesitation... just as she had when she had once entered the magic tower, revealing her selfish and self-serving thoughts without any attempt to conceal them.

After a long while, Yuga slowly closed his eyes.

Miss Witch shrugged helplessly and stood up... Just as she was about to turn and leave, Yuga suddenly threw something out.

The witch instinctively took it and discovered it was a cube made of colored crystal—a fifth-order crystal Rubik's Cube.

"Senior, what's wrong?"

"A little gadget." Yuga didn't even open his eyes and said indifferently, "We'll talk about the next thing after you've restored it."

……

"What is this... a Rubik's Cube?"

Li Huamei looked at the woman with the black cat in surprise as she walked out of the house, looking preoccupied—for an immortal, solving this fifth-order Rubik's Cube was far too easy.

Even more complex orders of 20 or 30 are not a problem.

"Hmm, it looks like a Rubik's Cube, and it is essentially a Rubik's Cube." The witch nodded subconsciously. "But I can't solve it... Lord [Shohiko], would you like to give it a try?"

Li Huamei didn't ask why, and just took it—she thought it wouldn't be too difficult, but she couldn't even twist it.

"I can't do it." She gave up immediately.

Miss Witch frowned. Li Huamei used these farm tools with almost no effort, but she was powerless to turn the Rubik's Cube—she could easily turn the Rubik's Cube, but she could never find the pattern to solve it.

Yes, she discovered that the colors of the squares on the Rubik's Cube changed with each twist, and the changes were completely random—following this pattern, the changes would be infinite with each subsequent twist.

If you're bad at math, you absolutely shouldn't touch this stuff.

What if we could create a "Star Creation" feature on it?
"It's alright, I'll study it some more." The witch shook her head. "Oh, by the way, this is for you."

"Roasted sweet potatoes?" [Xiang Feihu]'s eyes suddenly lit up, and he smiled. "Thank you, Black Cat!"

—Don't act like you can confide in me just because I've shown you a little kindness... You're really bland and uninteresting, okay?!

Just then, the door to the house was suddenly opened, and Yuga walked out with a slightly somber expression.

"Senior, I didn't slack off!" the witch said quickly.

But Yuga ignored her completely, only glancing at the dreamy crimson sky in the courtyard with a puzzled look... The sky seemed to dim for a moment before returning to its original brightness.

Yuga frowned, and without saying a word, walked straight out of the fence.

Upon seeing this, the witch and [Xiang Feihu] exchanged bewildered glances.

"How about we go and take a look?"

“This…” Li Huamei hesitated immediately.

"Relax, the old man didn't say we couldn't follow." The witch didn't care about any of that and directly encouraged, "Perhaps there's news about the [King]?"

……

Yuga was fast, but fortunately, it didn't travel far, and the two witches quickly caught up—panting.

Yuga was standing in front of a flowerbed, his gaze seemingly turning somber.

Looking at the plants in the flowerbed, [Xiang Feihu] said in surprise, "Huh, the flowers here seem a bit withered?"

From the moment she entered, everything in this "sea of ​​flowers" maintained its most vibrant state. Li Huamei had never seen a flower that was withered, or even one that was drooping naturally.

“Some of the power of the courtyard has been lost,” Yuga said thoughtfully. “So it will be directly reflected in these flowers, because it is the edge of the outermost ordinary area, so it will be very obvious.”

The witch thought for a moment and said, "It has indeed withered a bit, but there doesn't seem to be any sign of it spreading... Is it just the garden's own power naturally waning?"

This sea of ​​flowers is so vast, it's just that some of it has dried up. It looks like it's only about ten square meters, which is really not even a drop in the ocean.

“The power of the courtyard is eternal and will never diminish,” Yuga said calmly. “Everything here is in a constant cycle, and this phenomenon can only occur if the cycle is broken.”

"A cycle?" The witch was taken aback upon hearing this, and subconsciously asked, "Man-made?"

"It's coming from outside." Yuga's gaze narrowed slightly. "Someone is stealing the power of the courtyard... How dare they!"

Yuga's shout instantly made Li Huamei and the witch's ears ache and their hearts pound. It was as if the person standing in front of them was not a cute little green goblin, but a terrifying killing god who had emerged from a battle!
[Xiang Feihu]'s feeling was even more intuitive - this senior Yuga must have been on the battlefield, and it was an extremely brutal battlefield!
The next moment, as Yuga raised his hand, a portal of light appeared, and he walked straight into it!
The witch shuddered – her home was said to be from outside, which meant it was going out… was there any need to hesitate?
……

……

"This is... the treasure of [Purple Moon]."

Deep within the core of [Purple Moon], there is no scorching magma, but only a dreamlike, enormous sphere of light—the sphere radiates a purplish-red glow, and the ultimate life force contained within it is enough to make even a top-tier magic creator like Lady [Shinone] tremble with awe!
“Such a vast, almost limitless life force…” Lady Xinone took a deep breath instinctively. “No, perhaps it is already ‘limitless’ in itself!”

“Shocked, teacher!” Raizo opened his arms as if to embrace the sphere of light that was comparable to the sun. “When I and the Sea God discovered it, we were just as surprised as you are.”

Lady Xinone pondered, "If it is such a vast source of life, there is indeed a slight possibility that it could cause the labyrinth to undergo another qualitative change and evolve into the [Artifact of the Other Shore]."

Not a single thread is missing.

The rarity of this trace is enough to make powerful individuals fight tooth and nail for it—even the immortals of the [Sun]!

At this moment, under Raizo's control, countless black roots that grew from the labyrinth began to pierce the ground and then quickly spread to the purple orb of light—absorbing the orb of light as if it were a source of nourishment!

The moment it climbed onto the purple sphere of light, the maze's roots grew several times thicker—its growth rate was even faster than the maze's reflection of the entire [Freedom and Wildness] Gorge!
Raizo chuckled softly, "It's a pity that [Sea God] didn't even make it to the completion of the labyrinth before being driven mad by the Darkest Fate. Otherwise, perhaps she could have survived the Great Cataclysm... Hmm?"

Suddenly, Raizo frowned.

Lady Shinone had always been very attentive to Raizo's expression, and at that moment she instantly pinpointed the spot that had caused the change in Raizo's expression.

On the purple sphere of light, there was an area where the maze's roots had been severed—and on the sphere of light stood a figure.

The true dragon of China, Long Xiruo!

She wielded a sword formed from "dragon energy," severing black roots with each swing—at the same time, Ah Xi Ruo also noticed the gazes of Raizo and Lady [Shinone].

Huh, is it that woman with the amazing figure again?
Ah Xiruo narrowed her eyes. Lady Xinonie was eight feet tall, which was truly enormous. She also had a feeling that the other party's... thing would really explode.

Also, these roots clearly grew from the maze... What exactly is that little [Mimi] doing? Could this be something the dead ghost made?
Filled with doubt, Shenzhou Zhenlong instantly shot out, subconsciously ignoring Lei Zang's presence, and coldly stared at Lady Xinone, "Didn't you run away with your students?"

"Student?" Madame Xinone said with a half-smile, "I'm afraid not anymore."

"Hmm?" Ah Xiruo frowned, finally noticing something was amiss.

This shirtless, violent student... doesn't seem to be ruled by maze phobia—he seems pretty normal?
"【Mimi】, what are you doing?" Ah Xiruo suddenly shouted in a deep voice.

The next moment, a dark green arrow of light shot out from behind Ah Xiruo!

Crisis awareness!

The "Dragon Qi" sword light slashed backhand, shattering the dark light arrow... The true dragon of Shenzhou's face turned gloomy at this moment—because the one who shot the cold arrow was none other than the [Radiant King] whom they had seen before!
……

From the sphere of light on the surface of the courtyard, another light gate emerged.

Yuga walked out slowly with a sullen face, and the next moment he saw the courtyard surface entangled by black roots.

"Hey, isn't that... Lady [Shinone]?" The witch's first glance also fell upon Lady [Shinone], whose figure was absolutely stunning.

—Hurry up and explode! Water bag!
"Xi Ruo!"

[Xiang Feihu] exclaimed in surprise and delight.