As a father, I just want to quietly watch you live a long life Chapter 1626: 428: Taibai Enters Tribulation, Old Dragon God Bids Farewell, Dream Master Sheds Again as Dream Butterfly, Da Xixi Appears Once More [Monthly Ticket Requested]...
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Zhang Ya completely trusted Li Che's capabilities. Since her husband promised he could bring her to meet Xi Xi, she firmly believed it would come true.
Li Che guided Zhang Ya to the study, seating her on a chair.
Next, he clicked his fingers sharply.
Inside his chest, the [Dream Master] Dao Fruit started to throb.
Soon after, a haze of vibrant fumes twisted together, enveloping Zhang Ya and sending her straight into a profound slumber.
At the same time, in another location.
Xi Xi, perched inside the carriage, had sobbed endlessly, and worn out from the tears, she finally slipped into a heavy sleep.
Within her dream, Xi Xi reunited with her beloved father and mother!
Her mother dashed toward her, weeping nonstop. Xi Xi couldn't hold back her own floods of tears, her tiny heart quaking without end.
“Mother——!”
Xi Xi wailed, charging ahead and tumbling into Zhang Ya’s arms, the collision nearly toppling Zhang Ya.
Zhang Ya went ashen in the face, but as Xi Xi burrowed deeper into her hold, a gentle warmth filled her eyes unbidden.
Li Che lingered nearby, softly extending his arms.
He pulled his wife and daughter into a close hug.
As if cradling the one world that was entirely his own.
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He lifted his wife, now sleeping soundly and fully at ease, back to the bedroom, tucking her beneath the covers.
Li Che moved to the bedroom window, easing open the ornate wooden frame to uncover a crimson-lacquered desk. A biting gust swept inside, steadily honing the edge in Li Che’s stare.
Ahead of him, glowing threads drifted slowly, merging into a faint, surreal illusion.
[Dao Fruit: Dream Master (Lv4, 0%)]
Within his chest, the Dream Master Dao Fruit throbbed mildly, just like always, without vigor, but in a leisurely way.
Beneath Li Che’s watchful stare, rainbow tones slowly emerged, like shards of glass, mirroring fantastical shades beneath the sun, endlessly sparkling around Li Che while he rested in the courtyard.
Li Che’s breaths came steady and smooth.
In his chest, the [Dream Master] Dao Fruit beat with force, and every throb mimicked the flap of an unseen butterfly’s wings.
A well-known feeling washed over his mind.
Li Che sensed his spirit in that instant had gone entirely still.
Beyond the parted ornate wooden window.
A vivid butterfly, without notice, perched there, waving its wings.
Fragments of rainbow shimmer scattered upward.
As he drew in and let out each breath, Li Che partially shut his eyes, breathing in a measured and serene rhythm.
The butterfly’s wing movements sent echoes rippling far across time and space.
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Li Che slipped into a dream.
This was unlike using the Dream Master Dao Fruit to link his wife and Xi Xi for a dream encounter.
In the dream, a recognizable girl appeared, her hair long and straight black. She looked much more youthful than during their prior meeting, but her gaze carried an aged wisdom that contradicted her childlike look.
She appeared to have suffered through too many trials: treachery, betrayal, massacres, hunts…
She seemed long used to such hardships, and in the dream, her young features still held flickers of purity as she darted rapidly through the thick woods.
Chasers hurried after her from behind.
Li Che observed without a word, his forehead creasing at the horde of following silhouettes. Still, the girl traversed the forest with ease, rigging mechanical snares and even triggering arrays via Divine Talismans…
The girl’s expression stayed blank, drawing the hunting foes into her traps one after another.
Once the final pursuer got skewered by a mechanical secret device, fixed to the soil with blood surging out, she finally showed a flicker of dread and frenzy.
“Don’t kill me, we…we were teammates training together!”
“Don’t kill me…please don’t kill me…ahhhhh!”
Slice.
A keen dark-ink longsword arced through, and she cleaved away a head.
The foe’s head came loose, crimson blood gushing and staining the girl’s pure, composed, and pallid face.
The moonlight chilled everything, and the woods brimmed with the tang of gore.
The girl with long straight black hair flung the cut-off head to the earth, then punted it out of sight with her foot.
Afterward, with a light toe push, she bounded agilely, settling on a branch, tilting her head to the stars overhead.
“Father said…when people die, they turn into stars in the sky.”
The girl, forever aloof, revealed no stir in her eyes amid the killings.
But right then, her eyes trembled fiercely, as haze welled up inside.
“Father, mother, I miss you.”
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Buzz——!!!
A droning chant thundered close to his ears.
Li Che snapped his eyes open, noises seemingly pulling away fast from his hearing, only to surge back in haste.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh——
Beyond the window, pale snow swirled, whispering and howling.
Dao Fruit evolved, Dream Butterfly unfurled its wings…
Every flap from the Dream Butterfly’s wings granted access to a dream, unveiling scenes tied to Da Xixi.
Like a fleeting view through the veil of time and space.
Like celestial stars, keeping vigil over the ones yet bound to the mortal plane.
[Dao Fruit Level 4, Second Transformation, Prototype of Divine Powers “Dream Master·Dream Butterfly” promoted, Divine Skill “Nightmare”]
[Divine Skill (Nightmare): Born in dream, fear still when awake, Nightmare enters soul, never willing to wake]
[First Layer of Divine Skill: Formless Nightmare]
Li Che’s eyes betrayed no elation or grief, his mind still mulling the dream, a trace of mercy shining in his look.
Concerning the Dream Master Dao Fruit’s evolution, it struck Li Che at present as far less thrilling than he’d pictured.