Abundant Martial Arts Virtue
Chapter 302 - 268: Sister Lan and Little Wu

Chapter 302: Chapter 268: Sister Lan and Little Wu

Wu Xiaode felt he was a very candid person.

Originally—

Xia Huilan was the sister he had grown up with, depending on each other for survival.

He could tell her many things, there was nothing to be embarrassed about—no, this had nothing to do with embarrassment.

Mainly, for safety reasons, he had not told her too much.

It must be so.

Wu Xiaode thought through the events he had experienced and selectively shared some of them.

He could say anything.

Except for awakening the Power of Death.

After all, every prisoner and Demon God was searching for someone who had awakened the Power of Death.

He couldn’t let Xia Huilan know about this.

To her, this very matter signified danger.

As for the other matters—

The event at Death Demon Cave, he simply said it was Nina’s Demon Armor that saved the day.

The things he had experienced afterward, omitting the Death Trial, all made sense now.

Xia Huilan listened intently until Wu Xiaode had finished speaking, then she reached out to push aside the collar of his shirt, looking inside.

"It really is Elf Battle Armor..."

She carefully caressed the Battle Armor on Wu Xiaode, suddenly becoming very enthusiastic.

"Little Wu, this Battle Armor is forged from two different casting techniques by demons and elves. Take it off, and let me study it a bit, maybe I can replicate the power from it."

"Okay."

Without hesitation, Wu Xiaode took off the Elf Battle Armor and handed it over to Xia Huilan.

Xia Huilan held it, admired it a bit more, and then said:

"In many civilizations, beings think fairies are unreliable, but everyone doesn’t realize that they are actually the favorites of mysteries."

"So this Battle Armor can still revert to the fairy aspect?" Wu Xiaode asked.

"I’ll try," said Xia Huilan.

She put the Battle Armor behind her and looked at Wu Xiaode anew, softly saying:

"Little Wu, I can create a Biological Mecha like Xia Ni, don’t you find that curious?"

"Because I have had my own extraordinary experiences, I guessed Sister Lan also has some secrets, but since Sister Lan didn’t say, I wouldn’t ask," said Wu Xiaode.

Xia Huilan laughed.

She laughed very happily, as if for the first time in many days she was truly delighted.

"Little Wu, there is something I’ve been keeping from you."

"The day before yesterday, I actually felt that I had already died, and you had died too, but somehow, I came back to life again, and you were also alright."

"It was like a dream—"

"That day when I was going home from work, some thugs were bothering me, and then you came up and intervened."

"I remember clearly, at that moment you were stabbed to death, and my purse was snatched, then someone also stabbed me in the back, so I died as well."

"But in a blink of an eye—"

"Everything seemed like just a premonition, a dream, thoughts in my mind that hadn’t actually happened."

"But the moment I actually reached the mouth of the alley, it all happened again."

"This time—when it really happened in reality, you drove away those thugs, completely different from what I remembered in my mind."

Xia Huilan sighed, her eyes filled with perplexity.

Wu Xiaode lowered his eyelids.

Actually, according to the trend of events, it was basically destined—

Both Xia Huilan and he would die.

But he had won a glimmer of chance in Death Demon Cave.

With this glimmer of chance, he returned to the human world and achieved a turnaround.

So, that dark and deadly outcome was changed.

In the words of the Divine Beast of Law—

"Time is like a blooming lotus, with both flower and fruit, thus past and future exist simultaneously, and that’s why when the past changes, the future immediately shifts; and if there’s a change in the future, it will also alter the past."

From this, it seems that time is a state and record.

It reveals the record of events under a certain state measurement.

Put another way—

Everything can be changed!

Wu Xiaode clenched his fist and softly asked, "Sister Lan, what happened after that?"

"Later... I don’t know why, but I remembered many things, and with each passing hour, more and more memories came to me."

"I suddenly remembered that on my first day at the company, I blacked out the whole company’s system and looked through all the Mecha data."

"An hour later when I thought about this matter again, I suddenly recalled that the reason I looked at those Mecha data was merely out of interest."

"I remembered many achievements in Mecha production."

"I even recalled who I was before entering the prison, the powerful being I was in the outside world, and the earth-shattering deeds I had done."

"—Many things are rapidly changing and surfacing in my memory."

"The more I know, the more things accumulate, until just now, everything gradually came to a halt."

Wu Xiaode was taken aback.

By now, he had experienced many things, seen numerous monsters, and witnessed various grand scenes. Thus, as Huilan recounted her story, he gradually realized something.

——Huilan had awakened.

Events that were bound to happen in history had changed, and people who were destined to die had not died.

So, she had awakened.

But her awakening was somewhat strange.

Wu Xiaode gently grabbed Huilan’s hand, ignoring the blush on her face, and seriously asked,

"Sister Lan, do you have Soul Power now?"

"I don’t have Soul Power, Xia Ni does," Huilan shook her head and said.

"That’s really strange... Why are you different from others?" Wu Xiaode said, puzzled.

A deep sense emanated from Huilan’s gaze.

She gripped Wu Xiaode’s hand tightly and quickly said,

"My power has not fully recovered. There’s still much I haven’t recalled. I can vaguely sense countless things in the Void. They seem to be waiting for me, hoping I regain my power once more."

"Until this moment, have new memories surfaced in your mind?" Wu Xiaode asked.

"No more, Little Wu. I feel like everything has come to a standstill. Perhaps this world needs more changes for me to remember more things," Huilan said.

She snapped her fingers.

The door of the private room opened.

A young-looking Xia Ni, carrying a bag, walked in.

"Brother Wu, we meet again."

Xia Ni smiled and opened the long bag, aiming it towards Wu Xiaode.

Inside the bag lay a long saber, white as ivory.

Wu Xiaode said, "This is..."

Huilan explained,

"In the memories of my awakening, this saber is the strongest. It is made of an extremely durable alloy, and I engraved runes from the Heaven and Earth Laws on its surface."

"When you swing this saber, the runes on its body friction against the Void and emit a whistling sound, summoning the power of thunder and lightning to adhere to it."

"I’ve come this time to put it in your hands."

Huilan slightly tilted her chin, gesturing for Wu Xiaode to pick up the long saber.

Wu Xiaode held the saber, gently waved it, and immediately a burst of thunder and lightning appeared in the Void, swirling around the blade endlessly.

Two lines of ice crystal small script suddenly appeared on the Book of the Dead:

"Summoning of Thunder Radiance successful."

"This manifests the ancient Ying Yuan Thunder Light, expels demons, extirpates evil, invincible in its path."

"What a great saber!" Wu Xiaode couldn’t help but praise, "Does this saber have a name?"

"Yes, this saber is called Ying Yuan," Huilan said.

"Ying Yuan?" Wu Xiaode echoed.

"Right, this word seems to come from a very distant memory... I can’t recall anymore," Huilan showed a bewildered expression.

Suddenly.

She shook her head, dispelling her thoughts, and said, "Tonight’s battle, I’m letting Xia Ni participate."

Wu Xiaode looked towards Xia Ni.

The little girl smiled sweetly, as though she had just heard she was going to a theme park.

"The opponents are all Demon Gods, her combat experience isn’t much, won’t she be at a big disadvantage?" Wu Xiaode hesitated.

"It’s okay."

Huilan stood up, continuing, "I’m going to take Xia Ni back now to add some more weapons and functions to her, then she’ll fight alongside you."

"But it’s very dangerous, she’s your personal protector, Sister Lan, you can’t let her leave you!" Wu Xiaode firmly said.

"Little Wu," Huilan smiled, "According to your browsing history, you seem to have some misconceptions."

"Huh? Ha?"

Wu Xiaode shrank like a quail, with an obedient and perplexed expression on his face.

Huilan pinched his cheek, whispering,

"Girls are not so fragile and obedient—"

"Often, they pretend to be, but in reality, they can stand on their own and even take control of situations."

"See you tonight."

With that, she walked away with Xia Ni.

Xia Ni followed behind, looking back at Wu Xiaode with a teasing gaze and sticking out her tongue.

The door closed.

Wu Xiaode said nothing, simply standing stunned in the private room.

After a while.

A slap on the table resonated in the room.

"My laptop was clearly burned in that big fire!"

"Why would she look at my browsing history!"

"That’s really too much!"

He said, utterly annoyed.