Chapter 925 - 274: Changes in Mental Realm
Lu Xiuting paused for a moment, trying to say something, but Lu Sisi shook her head and continued, "However, I want to spend more time with my brother.
In the future, when I have time, I will come to see him or take him out to play."
Lu Xiuting was a bit surprised, "Huh? Why? How did your relationship with your brother suddenly..."
Lu Sisi sighed, "I was wrong before.
I was under the impression that I was the only victim in this family.
Only just now did I suddenly realize that my brother is also a victim.
The entanglement between you and dad, I really don’t care; you both are grown-ups, adults, handle your own conflicts.
But my brother and I, we can warm each other.
The warmth of familial bonds—this kind of thing, you can’t give me, nor can dad.
But I suddenly discovered that my brother and I can exchange it among ourselves."
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After returning from the Yang Family, Lu Sisi immediately called Gui Geng and took the puppy to a pet hospital.
Vaccinations, deworming, then bought a bunch of pet food.
Having done all this, Lu Sisi took a picture of the puppy eating and sent it to her brother.
"Give it a name when you have time."
·
Chen Yan opened his eyes.
Another new piece of memory had been consumed and integrated.
He exhaled a long breath.
This time, the digestion process took longer than the previous "Life of Ants," not just a day and night, but a full thirty hours.
He recalled the last image in his mind.
A diligent bee, while flying past the treetop, suddenly plunged into a spider web...
At this thought, Chen Yan couldn’t help but shiver.
This death experience made him feel somewhat terrifying upon reflection.
Entangled by cobwebs, watching the spider crawl towards him, wrapping him layer by layer in webbing, then his body began to feel paralyzed by some kind of toxin, finally, before he even died, starting to be consumed by the spider as food...
Chen Yan exhaled, slowly stood up, and quickly took a hot shower.
Under the wash of hot water, the chill in his body was driven away, and his skin no longer had that eerie goosebumps feeling.
He meditated again in the room, using the Techniques from the God-Hosting Chapter, carefully combing through his Divine Sense and Primordial Spirit, gradually feeling everything return to tranquility.
It seemed that nothing had changed, yet something seemed to have undergone a substantial transformation!
Not cultivation, not Primordial Qi, not spells, not Divine Techniques, not the strength level of divine sense.
But rather a sense of realization, about the world, about life, about the perception and attitude towards everything...
Twenty-two-year-old Chen Yan felt as though he were an old monster who had lived several lifetimes.
To people, forty means no longer confused, fifty to understand destiny.
Simply put, when a person reaches forty years of age, they’ve essentially completed all things in this lifetime, and witnessed all birth, aging, sickness, and death, joys, and sorrows.
They have seen through everything about the world and life, hence, there is no confusion, nothing that remains unclear, having mature judgment about everything.
Understanding destiny at fifty means a deeper realization about the meaning of life, a further enlightenment towards effort and fate.
But such a thing is absolutely impossible for a twenty-year-old.
A writer once said a sentence that is particularly reasonable: If you haven’t observed the world, what are you discussing about a worldview?
Some understanding, some enlightenment, must be accumulated with age and experience.
If age hasn’t reached, and the experience hasn’t been gained, everything is merely a child’s forced sorrow for new words.
It looks as childish and laughable as a teenager lamenting "I’m tired, I feel I can’t love again."
Yet now...
Although Chen Yan is only twenty-two, beneath the God-Hosting, having experienced two true life-and-death fates...
Unknowingly, his Mental Realm actually changed.
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The next morning, Chen Yan woke up and made a phone call back home.
When Lu Sisi answered the phone, Chen Yan could hear the faint, high-pitched sound of a puppy barking next to Lu Sisi.
"What’s that noise?"
Lu Sisi laughed over the phone and replied, "I adopted a puppy, it’s a stray from the neighborhood."
Chen Yan smiled, and then on the phone, Lu Sisi recounted the events of the past few days, finally saying to Chen Yan, "I know, mom was organizing those family gatherings because you requested it.
Chen Yan, I greatly appreciate you doing these things for me, but now I’ve realized, I don’t seem to enjoy being with mom and dad as much. However, my closeness with my brother grew, so..."
Although somewhat surprised, Chen Yan immediately said, "That’s okay, do what makes you happy, a brother is also family, since you like him, spend more time with him. Familial bonds don’t have to be obtained solely from parents.
Lu Sisi, I just hope you’re happy."
There was a moment of silence over the phone, then the girl’s voice seemed to choke slightly, quickly saying, "Come back early this time, okay?"
"Okay."
"Be safe, don’t let yourself get exhausted or injured again."
"Okay."
"You... I’ll miss you."
"I will too."
Chen Yan said, smiling faintly, "This trip is quite important... I’m going to find someone who’s very, very important to me; if I can meet her, perhaps many questions I’ve had could be answered.
If things go smoothly and answers are found, maybe I won’t have to travel so far so frequently anymore."
On the other end, Lu Sisi paused for a moment, her tone still was gentle, "I’ll be waiting for you to come home."