As a father, I just want to quietly watch you live a long life

Chapter 1626: Chapter 428: Taibai Enters Tribulation, Old Dragon God Bids Farewell, Dream Master Sheds Again as Dream Butterfly, Da Xixi Appears Once More [Monthly Ticket Requested]

Zhang Ya had absolute faith in Li Che’s abilities. If her husband said he could take her to see Xi Xi, then she was sure it could happen.

Li Che led Zhang Ya into the study and had her sit in a chair.

Then, he snapped his fingers.

In his chest, the [Dream Master] Dao Fruit began to pulse.

Then, a mist of colorful smoke interwove and surrounded Zhang Ya, causing her to immediately fall into a deep sleep.

Meanwhile, elsewhere.

Xi Xi, seated in the carriage, had been crying for a long time, and perhaps tired from crying, she too fell into a deep sleep.

In her dreams, Xi Xi saw her long-missed father and mother!

Her mother ran to her, crying all the while. Xi Xi couldn’t help but burst into tears as well, her small heart trembling incessantly.

“Mother——!”

Xi Xi cried out, sprinting forward and crashing into Zhang Ya’s embrace, her impact making Zhang Ya stagger.

Zhang Ya’s face turned pale, but seeing Xi Xi nuzzling persistently in her arms, the light in her eyes softened involuntarily.

Li Che stood to the side, gently spreading his arms.

He embraced his wife and daughter.

As though he was embracing the world that belonged solely to him.

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He carried his peacefully sleeping and utterly relaxed wife back to the bedroom and covered her with a blanket.

Li Che walked over to the bedroom window, opening the carved wooden window, revealing a red lacquered desk. The chill wind blew in, sharpening Li Che’s gaze bit by bit.

Before him, radiant streams slowly flickered by, weaving into a suggestion, dreamlike and illusory.

[Dao Fruit: Dream Master (Lv4, 0%)]

In his chest, the Dream Master Dao Fruit gently pulsated, as usual, not intensely, but lazily.

Under Li Che’s gaze, hues of rainbow gradually bloomed, akin to glass, reflecting dreamlike colors in the sunlight, constantly glowing around Li Che who was seated in the courtyard.

Li Che’s breathing was calm and even.

In his chest, the [Dream Master] Dao Fruit pulsated vigorously, and with each pulse, it was as if an invisible butterfly flapped its wings.

A familiar sensation immersed his heart.

Li Che felt his soul at this moment seemed completely frozen.

Outside the opened carved wooden window.

A colorful butterfly, unknowingly, rested there, flapping its wings.

Specks of rainbow light danced into the air.

With each inhale and exhale, Li Che closed his eyes slightly, inhaling evenly and calmly.

The fluttering wings of the butterfly echoed ripples at the other end of time and space.

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Li Che dreamed.

It was different from guiding his wife and Xi Xi to meet in dreams through the Dream Master Dao Fruit.

In his dream, he saw a familiar girl with long black straight hair. Compared to the last time they met, she seemed far younger, yet despite her youthful appearance, there was a maturity in her eyes that belied her age.

She seemed to have experienced far too much: betrayal, backstabbing, slaughter, pursuit…

She was as if she had long been accustomed to these things, just as seen in the dream, her youthful face carrying residual innocence as she fled swiftly through the dense forest.

Behind her, figures were quickly chasing her down.

Li Che watched silently, his brow furrowing at the sheer number of pursuing shadows. Yet, the girl navigated the forest with familiarity, setting up mechanical traps, and even deploying formations with Divine Talismans…

The girl’s face remained expressionless, leading the pursuing enemies, one by one, to fall into her traps.

When the last enemy was pierced through by a mechanical hidden weapon, pinned to the ground, blood flowing wildly, only then did she exhibit a hint of fear and madness.

“Don’t kill me, we…we were teammates training together!”

“Don’t kill me…please don’t kill me…ahhhhh!”

Slice.

A sharp ink-colored longsword swept by, and she sliced off a head.

The enemy’s head was severed, the spraying scarlet blood splashing onto the girl’s innocent yet cool and pale face.

Moonlight was cold and the forest was full of the scent of blood.

The girl with long black straight hair threw the severed head onto the ground, kicking it far away with a foot.

Then, with a tip of her toe, she leaped nimbly, resting on a tree branch, looking up at the stars in the sky.

“Father said…when people die, they turn into stars in the sky.”

The girl, always indifferent, never showing any ripple in her eyes when killing.

Yet at this moment, her eyes shook intensely, as a misty vapor surged up.

“Father, mother, I miss you.”

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Buzz——!!!

A buzzing hymn resonated violently by his ears.

Li Che suddenly opened his eyes, all sounds seemed to rapidly retreat from his ears, then quickly return.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh——

Outside the window, white snow flew, rustling and whistling.

Dao Fruit transformed, Dream Butterfly spread its wings…

With each flap of the Dream Butterfly’s wings, entering a dream, seeing matters related to Da Xixi.

Like a glimpse across time and space.

Like stars in the sky, watching over those lingering in the human world.

[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 showed no joy or sorrow, still pondering the dream, revealing a hint of compassion in his gaze.

As for the transformation of the Dream Master Dao Fruit, to Li Che now, it seemed less exciting than imagined.