The rag picking sister turned out to be a weapon refiner

"It's okay, senior sister. I still want to see third senior sister wake up. Then I can cut the medicine for her. None of you can do it, so I'd better do it myself." Tan Yuruo shook her head, collected the things, and sent a few people away before returning to the kitchen.

The pastries on the table were half-cooked, and my senior sister could eat them when she woke up. Thinking of this, my hands moved much faster.

This wait lasted half a year...

half year later……

Hu Xingtong slowly opened her eyes. The brightness in front of her eyes made her raise her hands to cover them. Looking at the familiar environment around her, Hu Xingtong sat up and looked around in a trance. She didn't know how long it had been since she came out of the gap in time. She only knew that she and Chen Wu had stayed in that place for about 350,000 days, which was about 900 years in total. It seemed like a long time.

Hu Xingtong looked out the window. The scenery of Fanyun Sect was still beautiful, fresh, elegant and quiet, much better than the desolation in the gap of time. From this perspective, it seemed that staying anywhere was much better than staying in the gap of time.

Hu Xingtong watched as firefly-sized starlight gathered in her palm, wondering if she could make something to detect gaps in time. She didn't want to go in there again.

"Senior Sister..." A choked cry came from above his head. Hu Xingtong looked up and saw a pair of tearful eyes looking at him, and then... he suddenly hugged her.

This time, Hu Xingtong was a little uncomfortable. She hadn't felt such a warm embrace for a long time.

"Senior Sister, you have been sleeping for a year. Where have you been?" Tan Yuruo asked in a hoarse voice.

Hu Xingtong felt as if there was a wet spot on his back. Judging from the noise, he must have been crying. He slowly searched for the memory of the person in front of him, and then carefully stretched out his hands, which he was not used to doing, to return the hug. But how should he respond?

"Ruoruo, don't cry, I'm back." Hu Xingtong finally spoke, burying her body in Tan Yuruo's arms, feeling the warmth from her body with all her heart and soul. This was also the warmth that she could not feel in the long years in the gap of time.

Sensing Hu Xingtong's strangeness, Tan Yuruo stopped crying, lowered her head and looked at the person in her arms and fell into deep thought. In the past, her senior sister would not be so close to her. She always had a hint of calm distance, and seemed to be polite and moderate with everyone, without any overly close behavior. Even with Gu Sihe, she only talked a little more and didn't seem to have such behavior.

But after this experience, Senior Sister seemed to be much gentler and more indifferent, with a hint of tenderness that she had never had before.

"Senior Sister, I made a lot of cakes and malt candy. Would you like to try some?" Tan Yuruo lowered her voice and whispered softly in Hu Xingtong's ear, as if she was afraid of waking her up.

Malt sugar...cakes...seems edible...

After a moment's reaction, Hu Xingtong slowly opened his mouth and replied, "Okay."

Helping Hu Xingtong to stand up, the two walked out of the room. Seeing this, Ling Xian raised his head and looked at the weak Hu Xingtong. He didn't say anything for a long time, but his head was held high for a long time.

Feeling the gaze from afar, Hu Xingtong looked over and happened to meet Lingxian's gaze. The scene before he entered the time gap immediately emerged in his mind. After a moment of hesitation, he asked Lingxian, "How do you feel about being here?"

Ling Xian also knew what she was asking. He looked her up and down for a long time, then moved forward and said, "You've become much stronger, but something is wrong. Where did your soul go that day?"

Hu Xingtong was unwilling to answer. Living in the gaps of time was something she couldn't accept. She could only lower her head and shook her head. "It's far away, it's not fun."

This made Tan Yuruo, who was watching nearby, feel distressed. What on earth had her senior sister been through? The senior sister who was once so high-spirited and high-spirited now looked so helpless. What had happened in the past year?

Tan Yuruo patted Hu Xingtong's back gently to offer comfort, her eyes hinting at Lingxian, as if blaming him for bringing up something irrelevant. Then, she turned gently to Hu Xingtong and said with a smile, "Sister, let's go get something to eat first. You've slept for so long, you must be hungry. Lingxian, come too."

Upon hearing this, Ling Xian was silent for a moment, staring at Hu Xingtong's departing back with his eyes for a long time, and finally nodded and followed him.

In the kitchen, Tan Yuruo laid out a table of delicious pastries and several plates of exquisite malt sugar. Hu Xingtong sat at the table, looking at these familiar yet unfamiliar foods, a complex wave of emotions welling up in her heart. She picked up a piece of pastry and took a gentle bite. The familiar taste instantly evoked memories of her past life. In that moment, she seemed to be back in those ordinary, warm days.

"It's delicious, Ruoruo, can I have another piece?" After finishing the pastry in his hand, the familiar taste made Hu Xingtong unable to stop, and he looked at Tan Yuruo and asked again.

However, after hearing this, the smile on Tan Yuruo's face froze in an instant. When did her senior sister become so cautious and polite to her as if she were an unfamiliar stranger?

At that moment, the heartache that had just disappeared surged up again. Holding back the strange feeling in her heart, Tan Yuruo forced a smile and replied, "Senior Sister, please eat as much as you can. These are all left for you. You can take them back and enjoy them slowly. I will make more delicious food for you in the future."

Ling Xian silently observed this strange scene from the side, sighing inwardly. Hu Xingtong must have suffered something in this short period of time, otherwise how could such a sense of alienation from those close to him cause Tan Yuruo's expression to change? It seemed that Hu Xingtong must have caused the others to feel distressed when they saw him like this.

After dinner, Hu Xingtong suggested taking a walk in the back mountain. Tan Yuruo and Ling Xian naturally followed. The three of them set out on the trail together. The scenery along the way remained the same, but everyone's mood was different.

In a quiet place in the back mountain, Hu Xingtong stopped, closed his eyes, and enjoyed the ordinary tranquility and beauty. He took a deep breath, as if to absorb all the tranquility and power of this land into his body.

"Chen Wu, are you awake?"

I called Chen Wu in my sea of ​​consciousness over and over again, but there was no response. I thought Chen Wu should still be asleep.

For some reason, Hu Xingtong wanted to cry at this moment. When she opened her eyes and saw Tan Yuruo for the first time, she was disappointed. She thought it might be her mother or her sister, but she never thought it might be a fellow disciple of Fanyun Sect.

She admitted that her faith in Taoism was not firm. She was greedy for the comfortable life in the world of immortal cultivation, but also greedy for the warmth of her family in the real world. She wanted to stay in this world but also wanted the care and companionship of her family.

During the long years in the gap between time, she struggled to control her emotions, relying solely on Chen Wu's words to comprehend the laws. Back then, she hoped that these laws could help her return to the real world. However, nothing happened! Ultimately, she returned here. Cultivating immortality and transcending dimensions were all she knew. She blindly practiced to improve her combat power, but she could never see the end.

Now she seemed to understand why the Tianhun Sect chose to do so after learning that there was no way to ascend. These long years were just for an idea. When the belief in the idea gradually collapsed, there was no end to the road ahead. Who could endure such a life?