The Return of Stars to the Jianghu

The sun reluctantly disappeared above the sea; so much had happened that day.

Qi Yuan and his group missed the battle between Xu Guan's son, Xu Xiaohong, and the Sword Immortal. Tang Clan's Song Han missed the best opportunity to kill Xu Xiaohong because of the Sword Immortal's disciple. Ji Mi learned on the fishing boat on Lai'an Island that she had put Qi Yuan and his group in danger because of the "Wind Meeting". Meanwhile, Li Hongbo, whom Dugu Xin was looking for, found the clues he was looking for on a small island in the southern sea.

All of this seemed to have nothing to do with Luo Yifei at this moment.

As darkness fell, Luo Yifei lay in his room at the Meng'an Inn in An Island Sword Immortal City, lost in a dream constructed from his memories.

……

In late August, in a classroom of Shenyun Middle School in Qianmo City, Yangtze River Basin, Mr. Zhang, the physics teacher, was explaining content that was absolutely not in the high school curriculum.

"Today we're learning the first section of the last chapter—the history of quantum mechanics. This chapter is self-study, but we've moved a little too fast, so I'll go ahead and give a lecture..." Teacher Zhang's voice echoed in Luo Yifei's mind like background noise.

"This is a bit too fast. It's only the beginning of the semester, and the second year of high school is already over," someone muttered below.

"We're forced to learn the university curriculum on our own, it's really too much!" another person complained.

"Teacher Zhang is talking, isn't he?" Shen Lixi replied softly to the blackboard without turning around.

"The Schrödinger equation is a wave function..." Teacher Zhang's voice continued.

"It's not on the college entrance exam, so what's the point of talking about it?" Luo Yifei finally recognized that the impatient voice was his own.

"Fine." Shen Lixi was speechless and too lazy to pay him any attention.

"The Hamiltonian on the right is an energy operator..." In reality, Luo Yifei rolled over in bed, trying to hear clearly what Teacher Zhang was saying.

"Alright, that's all for now since this is self-study material." Teacher Zhang raised her hand and looked at her watch. "You have forty minutes left. Finish the exercises that came with last lesson and hand them in before the end of get out of class."

By the time Luo Yifei could understand what Teacher Zhang was saying, Teacher Zhang had already finished his lecture on quantum mechanics.

Luo Yifei's mind was filled with a large number of unclear letters and symbols on the blackboard.

"I have something to do right now. You all do your homework. I'll collect it before get out of class ends." After saying this, Teacher Zhang left the classroom.

The physics teacher had already walked away. In the dream, Luo Yifei patted Shen Lixi on the shoulder, turned around, and said, "The physics teacher is really something else. He abandons his post whenever he gets the chance. Why doesn't the principal do anything about it?"

"There's nothing we can do about it. Teacher Zhang's class consistently gets the highest physics scores in the grade every semester. Even if the principal wanted to, it wouldn't be easy for him to manage it," Shen Lixi replied, tossing her pen into the air before it fell back into her hand.

"I'll choose, you fill in the blank, you know what I mean." Luo Yifei in the dream suddenly changed his tone completely.

"Okay, I understand." Shen Lixi turned around and started doing the fill-in-the-blank questions.

Occasionally, people would whisper among themselves in the classroom, but most were focused on doing their problems.

Luo Yifei's dream perspective shifted to Ren Changxi in the front row. She was Luo Yifei's physics class representative in Class 10 of the second year of high school. He saw the dense characters on Ren Changxi's test paper, which were as blurry and unclear as those on the blackboard.

This time, Luo Yifei realized he was dreaming. He knew that high school physics couldn't possibly be this difficult. He thought he had to get up quickly, or he would be late for school.

However, the dream continued. Although Luo Yifei knew he was dreaming in the dream, he did not know where he was dreaming and mistakenly thought he was still that high school student.

Shen Lixi turned around and asked Luo Yifei, "Okay, give me the answers to the multiple-choice questions."

"No, it's almost there," Luo Yifei replied to Shen Lixi.

Shen Lixi glanced at Luo Yifei's workbook and asked, "Really? You've only done two questions!"

"Hmm, the multiple-choice questions are a bit difficult. You do the short-answer questions first, I'll be right there." Luo Yifei heard his own answer and, thinking that his mother's milk was already warmed up, realized he needed to get up quickly.

“Okay…” Shen Lixi silently turned around.

The dream suddenly shifted, and Luo Yifei's view of Shen Lixi's back suddenly changed to that of a plane heading to the South China Sea.

"Shen Lixi." Luo Yifei realized that he was looking for Shen Lixi.

The scene in the dream changed again. Shen Lixi turned around and, wearing a diving suit, gestured to Luo Yifei to retract.

Then, Luo Yifei saw Shen Lixi disappear into the sea.

Luo Yifei also joined the seawater. In his dream, he looked up and saw the mouth of the well in the Phoenix Forest.

Along with the dream came a feeling of drowning; Luo Yifei was desperately swimming upwards in the dream.

Finally, Luo Yifei swam to the surface and found himself in the sea. Zhao Zhi was in front of him. As he swam forward, he saw more people. These were his teammates who had trained together for the triathlon in the South China Sea.

Suddenly, a plane with smoke trailing from its tail flew towards Luo Yifei's direction.

Startled, Luo Yifei jerked her eyes open, got up, and expertly washed up, preparing for her morning exercise. The coach's whistle was already ringing in her ears.

There was no escaping today's long-distance run, so Luo Yifei packed up and pushed open the door.

What came into view was the office of a game studio in Xiacheng, in the Yangtze River basin of Earth. Inside, someone turned to look at him.

Luo Yifei realized once again that he was still dreaming, and in front of him was the face of Mu Qing, a programmer from a game studio.

Suddenly, the face blurred, and the face of the strange man who called himself "Wen Bin" appeared before his eyes again. The scene changed once more to a coffee shop in a tourist area called Desert Island in the eastern part of the Earth.

"Luo Yifei, Luo Yifei..." Luo Yifei heard people calling his name repeatedly, and suddenly felt dizzy.

……

Luo Yifei slowly opened his eyes. Bili, who was next to him, said, "You're finally awake. I've called you countless times. It's time to get up and have dinner. If you're still not feeling well, eat something before you go back to sleep."