I speedrunned the fairies' game!

Chapter 40: Clearing the Illusionary Realm, the Fairy Confesses Her Love! (6K-word chapter)
The moment palms touched.

The dark purple portal leading to the third floor was activated instantly.

"Tsk tsk, the skill ceiling in reality is definitely much higher than in games."

"Putting everything else aside, if Tang Haotian had been given twenty Swiftness Pills in the game, he would have died on the spot and had to reload the game."

Chen Ran felt content.

According to the game's setting, the one holding the six-sided vajra in his left hand is "Vajra of Anger," and the one holding the curved demon-slaying sword in his right hand is "Vajra of Wrath." As long as someone steps onto the altar in front of them, they will be forcibly dragged into a memory illusion, triggering the angrier memories of their past.

However, if one loses their composure and lets out even the slightest "anger," Vajra will instantly awaken, unleashing its blade and pestle to crush the person into mincemeat.

The only way for players to pass the level is to stabilize the protagonist Tang Haotian's state of mind through joystick operation.

But in this real-world timeline, Chen Ran decisively chose the legendary method—exploiting bugs.

He didn't step on the altar at all, but directly soared into the air along the boundary line between the two Vajra statues. Both Vajra statues could scan "living people", but neither detected "anger".

Their underlying logic is "if there is no anger, wait for the other deity to make the first move," resulting in "suppressing anger while waiting to extinguish anger, extinguishing anger while waiting to suppress anger," ultimately causing the code of Shishan to go mad.

Of course, the main reason for its perfect achievement is—

The operational memories he inherited from his previous life in this life are truly exceptional.

"Holy Maiden, Xi Yue, hurry up and get on, these two have crashed."

Chen Ran stood on the top of the stone statue's head and called out to the two fairies below.

He realized something as soon as he finished speaking!
Pei Jianxian has fallen into sword silence once again!

"Sigh, there's no other way. Even Aunt Luo couldn't break through the protective sword barrier around her, so I had to carry it myself."

At this moment, about one-third of the effects of the Divine Speed ​​Pill still remain.

Chen Ran dared not be negligent and used the 'Three Thousand Thunderclaps' again, transforming into a blazing bolt of lightning as he swooped down from the stone statue's shoulder!

In the blink of an eye.

They arrived at the side of the white-clad female swordswoman.

"Young Master, Senior Pei, she..." Xiao Xiyue greeted him with a worried expression.

“I know, she gave it to me.”

Chen Ran skillfully passed through Pei Jianxian's invisible sword realm, embraced her soft and graceful waist, and gave her a solid princess carry.

"The entrance to the next floor has appeared, let's go."

Nodding to Fairy Xiao, Chen Ran then looked at Luo Yuling, whose gaze was complicated, and asked, "Holy Maiden, is there anything else?"

"Are you really going to take her with you the whole time?" Luo Yuling's gaze swept over Pei Jianxian, who was motionless in Chen Ran's arms. "Those two stone statues were already at the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage. If the second level is like this, the subsequent levels will only be more dangerous."

"Don't worry, Holy Maiden. It'll be even easier later."

Chen Ran looked at the female sword immortal in his arms, who resembled a sleeping beauty, and said in a slightly somber tone: "Besides, I can't leave her here alone."

"Are you truly confused or just pretending?" Luo Yuling frowned slightly. "No one can approach her sword realm except you. We could easily clear the checkpoints and then turn back to find her. Why bother?"

"Holy Maiden."

Chen Ran gently interrupted, then gazed into the pair of cold and alluring peach blossom eyes before him, and said, word by word, "If it were you who fainted right now, I would do the same—protect you with my life and never leave your side."

Having said that, he noticed the forlorn look on Fairy Xiao's face out of the corner of his eye, and added, "If it were Xiyue, she would feel the same way. You three fairies, come with me into the secret realm, and I will definitely bring you all back safe and sound, not one of you can be missing!"

The young man's voice was firm and his gaze sincere.

The two fairies also pursed their lips, both with moved expressions.

After a moment of silence.

Luo Shenggu said softly, "Let's go."

The four of them had just stepped onto the platform in front of the stone statue.

A figure in a blue robe approached, smiling and cupping his hands in greeting, "Chief Ji'er, it's an honor to meet you. How about we form an alliance for the upcoming challenges?"

It was none other than Liu Mubai, the dashing swordsman of the Qinglan Immortal Sect.

"You scoundrel, you dare to presume?"

Chen Ran didn't even glance at the other person, and instead carried Pei Jianxian into the air, soaring towards the teleportation portal above.

"Son."

Fairy Xiyue used her sect's Lotus-Picking Steps to catch up and pressed close to the young man's back: "What you just said to me and Aunt Luo."

A faint blush rose to her cheeks, "which made Xiyue very happy."

"It's what I should do, no need to worry about it."

Chen Ran smiled faintly and his figure disappeared into the teleportation portal first.

"Alas, the young master is no longer as enthusiastic towards me as before."

Sensing the youth's distant politeness once again, Fairy Xiyue's cherry lips pursed, and she looked heartbroken.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

The portal flickered faintly.

Several people stepped inside one after another.

The scene before my eyes suddenly changed—

Before me lay a desolate, silent wasteland.

A cold wind blew by, swirling up the scraps of paper money on the ground, which then fell softly onto the dilapidated graves.

Chen Ran understood.

The third level of the Xuanfan Secret Realm—"The Realm of Obsession: The Realm of Red Beauty and Withered Bones"—has arrived.

This hurdle was no challenge for him at all.

because
The difficulty lies entirely with that holy maiden.

"Hey, where's the Holy Maiden?"

Chen Ran looked around, but couldn't find the black-robed saintess for a while.

At that moment, a melodious female voice rang in my ears:

"My love rode away on a white horse, but snow fell at the mountain gate, and he has no hope of returning."

"The red bridal chamber is cold, and my beloved has not yet lifted the veil."

"I kowtow a thousand times before the Buddha, waiting foolishly."

"In the end, I became a caged soul."

The sound didn't seem to come from any particular direction; rather, it was as if it were carried in the wind, filled with an unyielding resentment that sent chills down one's spine.

"Who is this woman?"

Xiao Xiyue was startled and looked up.

The plaintive singing abruptly stopped, replaced by a chilling, sinister laugh: "After waiting so long, finally someone has come to keep me company."

Before a solitary grave in the distance stood a woman in a crimson wedding dress, the hem of which trailed on the muddy ground stained with paper money, like a pool of congealed blood.

With laughter, countless eerie yellow paper figures emerged from the grave mound.

The next moment, the woman in the wedding dress floated over, surrounded by paper figures, finally revealing her face:

She looked to be only about thirty years old, with delicate features, but her skin was deathly pale, while her lips were as red as if stained with blood, and her eyes were so empty that they seemed to hold only resentment.

"Her appearance... I feel like I've seen her somewhere before."

Xiao Xiyue muttered to herself.

He seemed to be in a daze.

The next moment, a tall figure blocked her way: "Little kid, don't look, turn around."

"oh oh."

Upon seeing that familiar figure, Xiao Xiyue instantly regained her senses and obediently turned around.

However, her fingertips were still trembling.

The woman's features reminded her of the yellowed portrait in her father's study.
At this moment, Chen Ran finally located the location of the Holy Maiden of the Azure Sea and snapped his fingers: "Holy Maiden! Proceed according to the original plan!"

As soon as she finished speaking, a wisp of black mist suddenly rose in the night sky, and Luo Yuling, who blended into the dimness of the secret realm, suddenly appeared!

Her true energy erupted, her black robes fluttered without wind, and her five fingers formed claws. The "Netherworld Soul-Seizing Claw," radiating a chilling black aura, grabbed straight at the female ghost. "Hmph, she's just a late-stage Foundation Establishment vengeful spirit puppet."

The black mist instantly clung to the female ghost's spirit, and a sizzling sound of her soul burning filled the air.

Luo Yuling turned to Chen Ran and asked, "Should I do it or will you?"

"Let me do it," Chen Ran said. "If you take action, I'm afraid she will really die and her soul will be destroyed, unable to enter the cycle of reincarnation."

Having said that, he drew the gleaming short blade from his waist and looked at the woman in red before him with pity: "Madam, rest in peace."

"I will help you—sever your immortality!"

"Who are you all?! How dare you trespass into this secret realm! The World Honored One will not forgive you!" The red-clad female ghost was bound by the Netherworld Soul-Seizing Claws, her spirit struggling incessantly, her resentment surging even more fiercely.

"This vengeful spirit puppet is a soul slave from the Xuanfan Secret Realm. Can your mortal sword handle it?" Luo Yuling asked with a doubtful look, her gaze falling on Chen Ran's short blade.

“This is no ordinary sword,” Chen Ran said. “Has the Holy Maiden forgotten that I used this very sword to kill Lin Ke Ke?”

He abruptly stopped talking.

Xiao Xiyue had already heard something and turned around.

It was also a fleeting moment.

Her gaze met the ghost's gaze.

In an instant, Xiao Xiyue's beautiful eyes widened, her delicate body trembled violently, and her gaze slowly shifted from the woman's pale face to the jade pendant—

The patterns and wear on the edges of the jade pendant were exactly the same as the "rubbing of the Xiao family jade pendant" that his father had given him before his death!

This is none other than the emblem of the Xiao family's head!

"Yes! I saw you in my father's painting! You are..."

"grandmother!?"

Unable to contain her emotions any longer, Fairy Xiyue burst into tears and rushed to the white-clad female ghost: "This jade pendant on your body is the Xiao family's heirloom! My father said before he died that you, Grandmother, were wearing it when you went to find my grandfather, who was framed by Jia Zhengdao, exiled to the Chu Kingdom, and whose fate is unknown."

This sudden recognition of kinship between a human and a ghost caused Luo Shenggu's beautiful eyes to widen in surprise, and the murderous power in her palm involuntarily dissipated somewhat.

Chen Ran shook his head inwardly.

In the end, the grandfather and grandson did see each other.

It would be better not to meet at all.

"Xi Yue, calm down and don't move. She doesn't recognize you anymore. Apart from the husband she's been waiting for, she doesn't recognize anyone else."

Chen Ran temporarily sheathed his blade and stepped forward to embrace the Holy Maiden Cihang.

But I didn't expect——

"I'm sorry, young master, this time Xiyue really..."

Tears streamed down Xiao Xiyue's face. For the first time, she forcefully pushed the young man away and rushed towards the female ghost: "Grandmother! I am Xiyue! I am the thirty-seventh generation direct descendant of the Xiao family! I am also your own granddaughter! My father, until his last breath, kept murmuring, 'I want to see you alive or dead.' He so wanted to find you!"

In response to Fairy Xiao's call.

The female ghost howled shrilly, her pale face devoid of any emotion.

"Holy Maiden! Kill her!"

Chen Ran immediately replied, "This..."

A hint of hesitation flashed across Luo Yuling's usually decisive and beautiful eyes.

It was precisely this moment of hesitation!
"Click——"

The female ghost suddenly broke free from her restraints, her resentment growing even more rampant. She conjured a thorn of vengeful spirit in her palm and stabbed it towards her granddaughter!

"choke--"

Upon reaching Tiandang Peak, Young Master Chen, who had not drawn his sword again, now had eyes as cold and sharp as the Grim Reaper, and with a backhand strike—

"Crack!"

This slash actually left a solid, pale blue cut on the ghost's illusory neck.

The final moments of the spirit's collapse.

The female ghost seemed to have broken free from the control of some force. Her empty pupils gradually focused, blinking as she stared at this descendant of the Xiao family.

Suddenly, she raised her illusory finger to touch her cheek, but it passed right through her, and the tears in her eyes deepened.

"Young lady, are you Huaiqing's daughter?"

"Yes! That's me! Grandmother, my name is Xiao Xiyue!" Xiao Xiyue cried out.

"Ah." Illusory tears fell from the female ghost's eyes, dripping onto the ground and scattering. "Your appearance here means that my poor child Huaiqing is still thinking of his mother."

Xiao Xiyue knelt down, sobbing uncontrollably, and said, "Yes! Father... until his very last moment, he was thinking of you, Grandmother and Grandfather!"

"Oh, right, Grandma, and this too!"

Suddenly, Xiao Xiyue remembered something and abruptly pulled out the azure Heart of the East Sea from her sleeve: "Our Xiao family's heirloom, this young master Chen, he found it for our family!"

"Really? Really?" Xiao Liu's eyes widened in disbelief, until she saw the full view of the Heart of the East Sea.

Tears streamed down her face in an instant.

"This humble servant thanks you, young master!"

"Hey."

Chen Ran shook his head, feeling a pang of sadness.

According to the original storyline of the game, Xiao Xiyue will not appear until the Immortal Dao Tournament is held.

Therefore, it was natural that this grandmother of the Xiao family could not be seen.

Now, in this real-world timeline, the arrival of this time traveler has brought about this reunion between grandfather and grandson.

Perhaps there really is a divine will at play.

now.

The female ghost's spirit dissipated in the blink of an eye.

The grandfather and grandson tried to embrace, but being human and ghost, they missed each other.

"grandmother."

Fairy Xiyue was heartbroken. She hugged her knees and cried loudly like a little girl, her cries echoing through the desolate hills.

Even the naturally indifferent Luo Shenggu turned away, unable to bear watching any longer.

"Don't cry, don't cry, sweetie."

Looking at her granddaughter, whom she was meeting for the first time and for the last, Madam Xiao Liu forced a loving smile: "I am already content to see you again in this life. My child, you are just as beautiful as your mother."

"grandmother."

Xiao Xiyue was overwhelmed with grief and was sobbing uncontrollably.

The first time I met this woman was with my father, the beautiful and gentle grandmother he had described.
She really wanted to tell her that she had been self-disciplined and practiced swordsmanship every day from the hour of Yin (3-5 AM) over the years, and had never brought shame to the Xiao family.
She proudly said that she passed the "Lotus Platform Trial" of the Cihang Sect and became the Cihang Holy Maiden respected by everyone;
I even wanted to whisper to her that I felt like I had found someone I wanted to get close to.
But now.
I can't say anything anymore.

Father has no chance.

She is also about to lose her chance.

this moment.

She seemed to have returned to that desperate night once again.
That bitterly cold winter night when I witnessed my parents being killed by the imperial army.

The orphaned daughter of the Xiao family carried the corpses of her parents on her back, walking and walking, as if she were the only person left in the whole world.

This moment is no different.

Having finally seen her loved one, she was forced to watch helplessly as she vanished.

"Grandma, please don't go."

"Over the years, Xi Yue has truly..."

"I feel so lonely."

The Holy Maiden Cihang, who always presented a gentle and smiling face, broke down in tears, covering her face and sobbing.

Chen Ran no longer hesitated and didn't care about the chicken sauce method anymore.

He immediately pulled Xiao Xianzi's slender, fragrant body into his arms tightly!
"Madam, you... um, don't worry, I will take care of Xiyue." He said calmly but firmly.

"Thank you, young master, for helping me find peace. I am also grateful for your care for the descendants of the Xiao family." Xiao Liu's voice grew weaker and weaker, like a candle flickering in the wind, about to vanish completely in the next second. She took one last, reluctant look at her granddaughter: "In this way, I can depart in peace."

"Wait, Madam. There is one more thing I don't understand."

Chen Ran suddenly thought of a mystery about Xiao Liushi in the game, "You were the Holy Maiden of the Qionghua Sect back then, with a high level of cultivation. Logically, you should have been able to sense the evil in the secret realm. Why were you refined into a soul puppet and trapped here?"

Xiao Liu shook her head and said, "Because I believed His words. He said He could help me find my husband, even if he was just a pile of bones, He could bring him back to life."

Chen Ran gritted his teeth inwardly.

He knew, of course, that the "He" Xiao Liu was referring to was the mastermind behind this evil Buddhist secret realm.

"Sigh, so, if I had known it would end like this, was it all really worth it?"

Chen Ran sighed softly.

Having completed the main storyline multiple times, he knew very well how the Xiao family had fallen from being among the most powerful and influential in the empire to being raided and wiped out overnight.

King Xuan of Zhou, that stock-buying idiot, is purely a personification.

at this time.

It was as if I could hear his final sigh.

At the end of Xiao Liu's soul fire's disappearance, a faint yet firm voice came:
"It's worth it."

"He was so kind, and came from a poor background. I would wait for him in my next life too."

The voice of the matriarch of the Xiao family gradually faded into the distance, eventually disappearing completely in the wind.

Chen Ran held Xiao Xianzi tightly, who had stopped crying, and also felt a lump in his throat.

Fortunately.

Anyway.
I guess you could say I got through the game without any major incidents.

"call out."

The portal to the next level suddenly appeared in the distance.

The three sat on the desolate hill, silent and motionless.

All that could be heard was Pei Jianxian's indistinct, soft, dreamlike murmurs.

I do not know how long it has been.

Perhaps she was tired from crying.

Perhaps they had made up their minds.

Fairy Xiao raised her head, her beautiful, red eyes looking at Saintess Luo beside her. For the first time in her life, she spoke in a soft, respectful tone: "Saintess, may I ask you to move aside? I have something I wish to say to Young Master Chen in private."

"Oh."

Luo Shenggu gave a nonchalant reply, then flashed to Pei Jianxian's side.

Xiao Xiyue lowered her head, hesitating to speak: "Could it be a little further away?"

"you"

Luo Yuling looked displeased, but after taking a deep breath, she finally suppressed her temper, took a few steps back, and came to the teleportation portal.

"This girl is going too far!"

The Holy Maiden bit her lip lightly, her chest heaving with emotion. Her magnificent and full breasts rose and fell as she stole glances at the young man and woman nestled together in the distance, their beautiful faces making them a perfect couple.

A sudden, inexplicable sharp pain shot through my heart!
Never in her entire life had she felt so superfluous!
She doesn't seem to belong here; she should be...
"Please speak freely, fairy."

Chen Ran looked at the beautiful, tear-streaked fairy in front of him with gentle eyes.

"Furthermore, I want to tell you that your grandmother's revenge will be taken, and I will help you, right on the last floor."

"The last level?" Xiao Xiyue was about to say something, but upon hearing this, she paused, "Didn't you say earlier, young master, that this secret realm is based on the Buddhist concepts of greed, anger, ignorance, pride, and doubt? My grandmother's realm is the realm of ignorance, so the next level is..."

"The Slow Realm is the Realm of Doubt, and the Realm of Doubt is the Slow Realm." Chen Ran said with a deep gaze, "We've already cleared it—"

"Now comes the final battle with 'He.' But rest assured, this guy is like a skeleton in a tomb to me."

Xiao Xiyue was stunned for a moment, wanting to ask something else.

"Alright, let's get back to our business." Chen Ran looked at the other person sincerely: "I will not refuse anything you say at this moment."

“Really?”

Upon hearing this, Xiao Xiyue's dim eyes suddenly brightened, and her heart began to beat even faster!

"Then, young master."

She brushed a strand of hair behind her ear to cover her flushed cheeks, then for the first time, she rested her head on the young man's shoulder: "Before we leave the secret realm, could you please..."

"Should we not leave Xiyue for now? Even after leaving the secret realm?"

"What do you mean?" Chen Ran's heart skipped a beat, but he still calmly asked, "Why don't you explain yourself more clearly?"

"That's...that's it."

Under the young man's fiery gaze, even Xiao Xianzi's snow-white earlobes were tinged with a blush.

Suddenly, she tried to calm herself down and decided to do something impulsive that she had never dared to think of before!
"That's it."

As Fairy Xiyue spoke softly, suppressing the greatest shame and embarrassment she had felt in eighteen years, she guided Young Master Chen's large hand, stroking it along her slender, snow-white calves all the way to the soft base of her thighs.
"Ah~"

The pure and innocent, gentle and serene Fairy Xiyue led the young man as he gently stroked her jade-like legs, while she pouted her red lips and boldly let out a soft moan!

Suddenly, her cheeks turned increasingly red, and her breathing became more and more rapid.

Those delicate, fair feet, now free of their jade shoes, had their toes taut and straightened from some kind of touch.

Finally, she bit her lip, completely resigned herself to it, and slightly lifted the hem of her plain white fairy dress.

Chen Ran was shocked.

This verifies a previous judgment.

Just as I was surprised, a pair of pink and rosy lips came down to kiss me.

Chen Ran instinctively opened his eyes, and there was that beautiful little face, flushed red, right next to him!

"Young Master, it's actually Xi Yue..."

"There's a set of techniques that's perfect for two people to practice together."

Chen Ran: √√√
(End of this chapter)