My Virtual Immortal Girlfriend Came to Life from a Mobile Game-Chapter 54 – Dispersing energy
"Senior, have you been to Sky Spring City before?"
"Senior, look at this, it's so interesting. My parents bought it for me when I was little..."
"Senior, do you have any favorite foods? I know a great restaurant here... Sorry, I forgot you've already stopped eating."
"Senior, this road leads to Flying Dragon Pass. My parents used to say that those who leave by this road probably never come back..."
Li Qingran turned to face Chen Huaian, but she only lowered her head, fiddling with the corner of her clothes. The wind played with the strands of hair on her forehead, and her eyelashes fluttered, hiding emotions she couldn't express.
Sky Spring City, Li Qingran's former hometown.
Now, it had long changed hands, and the city lord had been replaced twice.
Standing at the city gate, watching the bustling traffic.
Li Qingran's voice was tinged with sadness.
"Senior, you..."
She dared not look up.
Afraid the senior would see her reddened eyes.
"I... sigh—"
Chen Huaian was at a loss. His actions now were no different from parents who drop their kids at daycare just to have some peace.
The daycare, in reality, was the sect.
Li Qingran no longer had a sect, and according to the plot, she needed one for protection. At first, Chen Huaian didn't understand, until he saw his experience card time gradually running out.
He understood.
In this world where everyone was superhuman.
Li Qingran, with her Superior Grade Dantian, Taiyin Dao Physique, and single Water Spiritual Root, was like a walking treasure chest.
As soon as her unique traits were discovered by someone with ill intentions, she would immediately be in danger, and her pitiful Qi Refining Great Perfection level offered no self-defense. A rogue cultivator with no power but full of treasures had no way to survive in this world!
He couldn't watch his phone 24/7; he still needed to participate in shows to earn money. So, a sect to temporarily shelter Qingran was absolutely necessary.
And as her cyber boyfriend and guardian.
His job was to help Li Qingran establish herself in a new sect.
So he brought Li Qingran to Sky Spring City.
Flying from the upper left of the map's center to just a bit right of the center.
This was a mortal city far enough from the Azure Cloud Sect, away from the dense spiritual energy zones filled with cultivators. The spiritual energy here was very thin, which also meant it was relatively safe.
"I am only leaving temporarily."
In truth, he wouldn't leave at all.
It was just that his avatar's time was running out, and it was hard to explain.
"Senior..."
Li Qingran saw the difficulty on Chen Huaian's face.
Her fingers, which were clutching the corner of her clothes, slowly relaxed.
What was wrong with her?
She shouldn't trouble the senior any further.
The senior had his own matters to attend to, with a hundred female disciples waiting for him.
The senior had already given her so much support, what more could she be dissatisfied with?
"I understand, I will find a place to stay quietly."
Chen Huaian glanced at Li Qingran in surprise.
He thought she had come to terms with it, that the conversation was over, but her lowered eyes were red, like a little kitten about to be abandoned, pitiful.
She had been so valiant when dueling with Lu Changtian before.
"Forget it, let me explain to you!"
Standing here wasn't going to solve anything.
Chen Huaian took Li Qingran into a restaurant, casually ordered some food from the nervous waiter, and then seriously explained to Li Qingran, "I... ahem, I am very busy, with many things to do, no time to take care of you."
Upon hearing this, Li Qingran's lips immediately pouted.
Chen Huaian quickly abandoned his cool way of speaking, ruffling Li Qingran's hair as he added, "You see, I can't touch you, I am an avatar, because my main body is fighting a super monster!"
Li Qingran's expression immediately turned tense upon hearing this, "Will you be in danger? Is it a very troublesome monster?"
Well, that's not wrong, cancer is indeed troublesome.
Chen Huaian nodded, helplessly saying, "Very troublesome, I've been poisoned by that monster, it's hard to cure, my life might be at risk."
He thought, how much could a game character understand? What good would it do to tell her about cancer? Although this game was very free, and the characters were AI intelligent, they probably couldn't reflect real human emotions, right? That's the biggest shortcoming of AI.
Li Qingran's face turned pale, her ears buzzing, her mind in chaos. Her heart tightened sharply, as if a hot iron had pierced a hole in it, her fingers clutching the corner of her clothes turned white.
The senior's cultivation level was sky-high, yet he couldn't detoxify, how fierce must that monster be?
As she thought, the senior was a great hero, always fighting to protect the Azure Cloud Realm. Even though he was so busy, he still took time to accompany her to the Azure Cloud Sect, yet now she was still clinging, not wanting him to leave.
"Senior, I was wrong." Li Qingran, with tears streaming down her face, knelt in front of Chen Huaian with a thud, startling him.
"What are you doing?" Chen Huaian's hands hovered in the air.
Even though Li Qingran was lifted by a force, she stubbornly knelt in mid-air.
She was 'lifted' by Chen Huaian, and the two of them looked at each other in a strange way.
"Senior, I have a single Water Spiritual Root, suitable for cultivating Pill Dao, and there are so many pill recipes in the Azure Cloud Realm. No matter what, I will definitely refine a pill that can detoxify for you!"
Li Qingran's tone was firm.
Her idea was naive and laughable, yet she still held onto a glimmer of hope.
She thought that although the senior's cultivation level was sky-high, the methods he sought must be those precious recipes circulating in the market, but sometimes the solution to a problem lay quietly in the scriptures of some ordinary sects.
The senior would look for big solutions, she would do her best to find small ones.
This way, they could cover everything, ensuring nothing was missed.
Seeing Li Qingran's reaction, Chen Huaian couldn't help but feel touched.
He even suspected that Li Qingran wasn't an AI character at all, but rather a GM specifically playing this role, handling everything from voice acting to expression capture, serving only him.
He could see the unbreakable sadness and reluctance in Li Qingran's eyes.
More than that, fear and terror.
The girl in front of him was afraid of him leaving, terrified that he would die.
Eyes don't lie.
He didn't know how strong an acting skill it would take to act out such eyes.
Three hundred thousand, truly worth it.
As he was about to leave this world.
He could truly feel his heart warming again.
He smiled, unable to resist comforting the girl in front of him, "Don't worry, I'm a Great Cultivator in the Body Fusion Realm, how could I be so easily poisoned to death by a mere monster? Train well, and becoming the strongest cultivator in the Azure Cloud Realm would be the greatest comfort to me."
Li Qingran noticed that the senior no longer referred to himself as "I."
But she felt it was more intimate this way.
The senior, high above the clouds, seemed within reach.
Even though, she couldn't touch him.
"Senior, I want to become a Pill Master, I, must become a Pill Master, I have a single Water Spiritual Root, Spiritual Insight Valley will accept me."
Spiritual Insight Valley was a famous Pill Dao sect in the Azure Cloud Realm, also known as Holy Medicine Valley.
It was full of Pill Cultivators and Healing Cultivators who could bring the dead back to life.
At this moment, a major sect was holding a Dao-seeking conference in Sky Spring City, selecting talented individuals with Spiritual Roots from among mortals to join their sect, including Spiritual Insight Valley. However, considering that Li Qingran had already cultivated the Crimson Cloud Art, which was contrary to the Pill Dao, he hadn't considered Spiritual Insight Valley as Li Qingran's future 'daycare' affiliation.
"Qingran, I understand your intentions, but you've already cultivated the Crimson Cloud Art..."
Chen Huaian paused mid-sentence.
Because he saw the determination and resolve in Li Qingran's eyes.
He was suddenly startled, and something came to mind.
"You..."
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"Senior, the Crimson Cloud Art is fire-based, focused on killing, contrary to the Pill Dao, I am aware."
Li Qingran cupped her hands in a salute, then looked up to meet Chen Huaian's gaze.
"After all, the Water Spiritual Root and Crimson Cloud Art don't match."
Her lips curved into a warm, sunny smile,
as if the one being comforted wasn't her,
but rather Chen Huaian.
"In that case...
I will disperse my cultivation."
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