Is... is he concerned about me?
As soon as this thought surfaced, Ah Yin's heart inexplicably tightened.
[Li Yifei: If you have nowhere to go, you can come to Heaven Dou City to find me.]
[Li Yifei: Perhaps, I can help you.]
Help you.
These two words, light and airy, were like a beam of light piercing through endless darkness, shining directly into Ah Yin's heart, which was already riddled with holes, cold, and dead silent.
She looked at the words on the screen, motionless for a long time.
Her fingertips hovered in the Void Realm, trembling, as if she had to use all her strength to touch the illusory keyboard.
After a long while, she finally typed out one word.
[Wind Blows and Rain Beats: Okay.]
One word exhausted all her courage.
But after sending it, a more realistic and cruel question presented itself before her.
What was her current state?
A Blue Silver Grass, stripped of its spirit ring and spirit bone, barely able to maintain a life form, rooted in an unknown cave, struggling to survive.
Forget going to Heaven Dou City; she couldn't even move an inch.
The flame of hope had just ignited, only to be mercilessly extinguished by the ice water of reality.
She opened her mouth, wanting to ask for help, but the mixed emotions of pride and inferiority prevented her from typing a second word, no matter what.
She had already troubled him too much.
...
Inside the cave.
Watching Xiao Wu's crying in his arms gradually subside, leaving only light sobs, Li Yifei reached out and gently stroked her fluffy rabbit ears.
"It's okay now. With me here from now on, no one can bully you again."
His voice was not loud, very flat, yet it carried a power that calmed people's hearts.
Warm, large hands, gentle movements, and words that were plain yet incomparably powerful.
The last bit of fear and unease in Xiao Wu's heart was completely smoothed away at this moment.
She raised her head, her eyes red and swollen from crying, looking at the man before her. Her eyes instantly grew hot, and she suddenly threw herself into his arms again, burying her head deep in his chest, and burst into loud sobs.
This time, the crying was no longer despair and fear.
There was the relief of surviving a catastrophe, the panic from the uncertainty of the future, but more so, it was the grievance she dared to vent completely after finding a solid reliance.
Li Yifei said nothing, merely patted her back lightly, allowing her tears to soak his lapel.
In the Chat Group, the girls watching this tender scene in the live broadcast all maintained a tacit silence.
After a long time, someone finally broke the tranquility.
[Little Ice Cube: How nice...]
Shui Binger's sigh carried a hint of envy that even she herself didn't notice.
[Worlds Number One Princess: Wuwuwu, I want Brother Yi Fei to hug me too. My heart is melting.]
[Little Fox Demon: +1]
[Is Jade Not Jade: Sigh, youth is truly wonderful.]
In Blue Tyrant Academy, Liu Erlong let out a soft sigh, picked up her teacup, and took a sip. Her gaze, however, was somewhat distant, unsure if she was thinking of the youth she had misplaced or something else.
Inside the luxurious carriage of Spirit Hall.
Bibi Dong quietly watched the embracing pair on the screen. On her exquisitely beautiful and flawless face, her expression was dark and unreadable.
She thought of herself.
If back then, when she was defiled by that beast and was at her most desperate and helpless, there had been such a man who could stand before her without asking for reasons or counting the consequences, shielding her from everything.
Then, would her life have taken a different course?
But alas, there is no 'if'.
The person she met was Yu Xiaogang, who only knew how to say, "For the sake of our future, you must endure a little longer."
And Ah Yin met Tang Hao, who could personally push his beloved into the abyss to return to his Clan.
Thinking of this, Bibi Dong's gaze turned icy cold again, hard as iron.
Men, as expected, were the most unreliable things in this world.
Everything she wanted, she ultimately had to seize with her own hands.
Li Yifei was strong, but the world he displayed was what she truly should pursue.
Li Yifei held the gradually quieting Xiao Wu in his arms, but his thoughts had long drifted far away as he began to construct blueprints for the future in his mind.
He had seen Ah Yin's private message and guessed her predicament.
But there was no rush. Once he reached Heaven Dou City, he would directly use a Teleportation Scroll to dig out her main body and take her away.
Now, what was more important was planning the layout of the entire continent.
With Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue, and Hu Liena, the future power holders of Spirit Hall, present.
As long as they still needed the Gene Primal Energy cultivation method dangling like a carrot, then Spirit Hall would not become an obstacle; it would even become his sharpest blade.
For the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, with Ning Rongrong there, plus the Qiluo Camellia in his hand, which was enough to evolve her Spirit into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
Ning Fengzhi was a smart man; he knew how to choose. Winning over this number one auxiliary Sect in Douluo would not be a big problem.
As for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan...
Liu Erlong's status was ultimately a bit lacking.
This Family was stubborn and arrogant. Forcing them to submit would probably be difficult.
Then, he would have to subdue them by force, or... erase them directly from the continent.
Of course, if they were sensible enough, it wasn't impossible to give them a chance.
As for the remaining Clear Sky Sect, there was nothing more to say.
As the force behind Tang San, the spokesperson for the Asura God, this Sect was destined to be an irreconcilable enemy from the start.
As a stumbling block on the road to unifying the Douluo Continent, annihilation was their only outcome.
As for the Spirit Beast Clan, with Xiao Wu, the Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast Soft Bone Rabbit, and Ah Yin, the former Blue Silver Emperor, there should be room for negotiation.
As long as enough space for their survival and proliferation was demarcated, they probably wouldn't refuse an opportunity for peaceful coexistence.
As for whether there would be backlash in the future?
Li Yifei let out a disdainful laugh.
In the Swallowed Star world, the Human Race also had countless vassal alien races under its banner.
As long as one's own strength was sufficiently powerful, powerful enough that everyone could only look up to it, then the problem of backlash would not exist.
All conspiracies and tricks were jokes in the face of absolute strength.
Finally, Sea God Island remained.
Theoretically, Sea God Island never interfered with continental affairs.
But don't forget, Tang San was the future inheritor of the Sea God.
As long as he lived for one day, Sea God Island was a bomb that could detonate at any moment.
It seemed that after unifying the continent, he would need to organize an expedition as soon as possible to erase that so-called Sea God, along with his island, from the map.
A clear and grand plan slowly took shape in Li Yifei's mind.
Xiao Wu in his arms seemed to sense the fleeting cold aura emanating from him and instinctively shrank back slightly.
Li Yifei snapped back to reality, looked down at the tear-streaked girl in his embrace, and the aura around him instantly softened.
He gently stroked Xiao Wu's back and said in a gentle voice,
"It's over now. We should set off for Heaven Dou City."