Chapter 1487 - 433: Yaoyao Really, Really Can’t Bear to Leave You All

"Uncle! Shen Yunzhou—" she anxiously shouted towards the door.

All around remained silent.

After her right arm solidified again, she trembled as she took out the Three-color Jade Scroll personally crafted by Zhou Qing from the Storage Bag, gathering Spiritual Power to hurriedly write a message.

As time ticked by, the Jade Scroll remained unresponsive.

Lu Yaoyao looked at her gradually transparent body and suddenly fell silent.

It seemed she understood something, and a bitter smile crept up her lips.

"So... it’s this moment after all..."

She didn’t know how long she had been asleep, but she clearly realized that on this timeline, she was being born.

"I wonder what they... have changed..." she murmured softly, smiling until she suddenly curled up, burying her face in her arms, and sobbed silently.

Tears soaked her sleeves.

She hated herself for falling asleep at such a critical moment, when there were still so many mysteries unsolved, so many unfinished matters.

She came alone, and she was leaving just as lonely.

Like an absurd dream, circling back to the starting point.

She raised her head, her tear-blurred vision seeing her legs gradually turning transparent.

This time the change was slow, yet carried a certain irreversible determination.

"Heh..." Lu Yaoyao suddenly let out a laugh, with an unspeakable desolation in her voice.

She reached out to touch her disappearing toes, but her fingers passed through the apparition.

"Looks like this time... it’s really time to go."

She looked at the empty room, remembering her father who always tousled her hair, remembering her mother, whose complete face she never saw even at the last moment.

The truth she pursued for years ultimately remained unanswered.

Then, she hurriedly rummaged through her Storage Bag to take out a blank Imaging Stone, only to pause before activating it.

"No... I can’t meet them like this..."

She forcefully wiped the tears from her face, even pinched a cleansing spell to tidy up her messy hair.

Dragging her now semi-transparent lower half to the table, she sat upright.

"Dad, Mom—" the moment the Imaging Stone lit up, her voice unconsciously rose, carrying a hint of playfulness as it did when she acted spoiled before.

"Is the little me born yet? She must be adorable, right?"

She rested her chin on her hands, deliberately blinking her bright eyes, her lips curving into a perfect arc.

But before she could finish speaking, her throat seemed to choke on something, and she quickly turned her head, pretending to fix her actually neat bangs.

"I originally wanted to see myself as a child..." her voice gradually faded but she immediately forced a smile.

"But it’s okay! I don’t know if you have changed the course of history, if you succeed, the future me won’t feel so insecure."

"Maybe when I return, I’ll be able to see Mom, and our family can be reunited."

Lu Yaoyao spoke, a look of longing appearing in her eyes.

Suddenly thinking of something, she crossed her hands on her hips, but stumbled due to the disappearance of her right hand.

Unaware, she continued: "Mom, they say Dad brings up children well, from now on you have to keep him in check."

"That time when the Demon Emperor was chasing us, he stuffed the little me into a dark, narrow mountain crevice, and I stayed there for three whole days, surviving on moss and dew..."

"Since then, I’ve been extremely afraid of the dark, especially in enclosed spaces; it always feels like I can’t breathe."

But then, she laughed again: "But this time with Mom here, I definitely won’t be scared after returning."

Lu Yaoyao grinned, her body suddenly sinking again, leaving only her upper half still visible.

She simply jumped onto the table, stopped speaking, and looked at the Imaging Stone, her facade of nonchalance finally collapsing as tears twirled in her eyes.

Then, she forced a smile, her voice quivering:

"Dad, when you were young... you were so handsome."

"And Mom, you’re beautiful, the most beautiful woman Yaoyao has ever seen in her life."

As soon as she finished speaking, her body turned a bit more transparent, almost allowing the wall behind to be seen through her.

She paused, seeming to suppress a sob with all her might, then pretended to casually smile again:

"I hope history doesn’t repeat itself, I really don’t want to experience time travel again... if I can actually come back, I wonder if you would still recognize me by then?"

"Haha, I might be thinking too far ahead."

Before she could finish speaking, the remaining half of her body had already begun to blur, its outline indistinct.

Lu Yaoyao’s lips trembled, the last hint of mirth finally shattered.

Crystal tears silently slipped down her cheeks, paused momentarily at her chin, and finally fell.

"Dad... Mom..."

Her voice was so faint it was nearly inaudible, yet every word dripped with deep longing.

"Yaoyao... has to leave."

The tip of her remaining finger turned into starlight first, then her arms, shoulders...

She tried her best to lift her face, wanting her father and mother to remember her final visage.

"In this lifetime... to be your daughter..."

"Was wonderful..."

With the last word whispered, her figure crumbled like drifting sand.

Small glittering light particles floated momentarily in the air, then ultimately faded into nothingness.

On the tabletop, the Imaging Stone still emitted a faint Spiritual Light, quietly recording the final scene...

...

"Ah!!!"

A heart-wrenching scream exploded inside the cave.

Shen Hanyi’s whole body tensed like a pulled bowstring, veins bulging on his neck.

The cave resonated with his labored breathing.

The thick scent of blood mingled with the woodsy fragrance unique to Wood Attribute Spirit Stones, fermenting a suffocating atmosphere in the enclosed space.