While Happy trained, his mind was in a tense state. Every time he shifted and attacked, he had to pay full attention, and he had to be on high alert of the amount of qi he had left, along with the status of his body fortification. Also, he had to avoid fatal damage. Because of it, his grinding process was not relaxing in the slightest.
Hunter Clan can clearly see as the number of times Happy's body fortification was struck increased, its color gradually grew darker, as if it was getting sturdier, even though it swayed and looked as if it was about to shatter at any moment. Besides, the tremors on it also became much weaker when the subsequent attacks landed on it.
Furthermore, Happy's offense will increase by leaps and bounds once every few minutes. He will endure all damage to kill a cl.u.s.ter of spiders, and that will just be in time for him to kill all spiders before the Eight-eyed Parasitic Spider gave birth to a new cl.u.s.ter of spiders.
Half an hour earlier, his sword technique was light and fast, but it seemed to carry no power.
But half an hour later, the black flames on his black sword suddenly became prominent. Even if there was that grayish-black miasma covering it, it still released a faint heat and a bizarre sword glare. When it landed on the spiders, it would cause sizzling sounds to appear.
'When the sword technique is at the third realm, its speed and damage will gradually become obvious, but if I really want to use it in a fight with the effects from the black flames, I will need to push it to at least the seventh flame.
'But at least my Tendon Changing Classic developed quickly. With that Grieving Needle and the rapid attacks from these Inaction Realm enemy NPCs, the speed in which it leveled up is more than fifty percent faster than the other side! It has already surpassed the sixth realm… Indestructible Body is also pretty good. It already has its basic form, and I no longer have a problem in withstanding the nonstop attacks from this cl.u.s.ter of spiders. It's just a matter of time before I catch up to my other self.
'But I'm using up my medicinal pills really quickly…
"I basically don't need to use medicinal pills at the other side. But since I have Grieving Needle on me, it's worth it.'
While Happy thought about things as he observed himself and attacked, he did not dare to show any sign of idleness when he attacked.
It was no wonder why it became the best training spot for countless high-level players, and it was no wonder why Class One Hall's high-end members would form parties to train here.
Ghost's Domain lived up to its fame.
'Blood Robes and Dream Clouds… By the looks of it, I'll be able to train to my ideal level in at most half a month, but I have to think a little further.
'Will I be able to learn a few ultimate techniques while I'm at it?' Someone began daydreaming.
*****
It was incredibly good to train in Ghost's Domain. Happy and Hunter Clan discussed with each other about when they should log in and log off before they logged off the game to eat.
"Chen Kaixin, where in heavens did you go to?"
After he swiftly ate the food Xu Yao brought to him in the room, Happy locked himself up in the bathroom, sighed long and hard at the air, and headed to the other side.
He ate again.
Xu Xin ate with her head lowered, and she looked miserable. She just ate with her mind elsewhere, and she did not even add any other food into her own bowl. In fact, she seldom looked at Happy. Xu Yao just continued eating while she sneakily sized him up while he ate. When Happy caught her sneaking glances at him, she would pretend to be drinking water, and she looked like she was a thief.
"What on earth is wrong with you two?"
Happy had already forgotten that he just told the truth to Xu Yao just a few nights ago.
Xu Yao nearly choked on her water. She pushed down against her c.h.e.s.t while she turned her head to the side to cough nonstop. Meanwhile, she used a strange gaze to stare at Happy.
It was also at this moment that Xu Xin seemed to have returned to reality. She stared into Happy's eyes, and there was deep bafflement as well as uncertainty hidden in her eyes.
In actuality, after Happy said those words, he began regretting his actions.
At that moment, it was clear that slowly distancing himself from Xu Xin was the most logical choice. After all, the original owner of this body was not him, and this was something that Chen Kaixin told him a few days ago.
All that he was doing over here right now was for Xu Xin's good. He should let her go and let her slowly leave him once her feelings for him faded away.
However, when he saw Xu Xin's lost and frail gaze, Happy felt as if there was a sting in his heart, and his heart shuddered violently.
"Xu Yao!"
He cast a fierce gaze at Xu Yao.
Even though based on how things were supposed to develop, this Xu Yao was supposed to become this body's girlfriend. However, with Xu Xin in the play, he knew very clearly that Xu Yao was only a stranger to him.
When he saw Xu Xin's current expression, Happy naturally thought that Xu Yao had already told his greatest secret to Xu Xin, and his heart burned in anger.
Xu Yao had already been acting strangely since that night, and she also paid special attention to this amateur.
But now, no matter how slow she was, she managed to react to the situation. The person in front of her was not the amateur she thought him to be, but her real boss!
"You…" Xu Yao finally managed to recover after slapping her c.h.e.s.t a few times. She stared at Happy timidly and hunched her shoulders while shaking her head fervently to show that she did not reveal any information so that she could prove her innocence.
Xu Xin naturally noticed Xu Yao's silent message. Her gaze stayed for some time on Happy's face before she said, "I heard your conversation that night."
When she said those words, Happy felt his breath catch, and it was as if he was about to start suffocating.
When she noticed that the atmosphere between the two had become strange and grave, Xu Yao quickly put down the chopsticks in her hands gently so that she could get up to leave.
"Big Sis Yao, stay."
Xu Xin was always polite, and she would always attach the word "please" when she requested anyone of anything. But this time, her tone was firm.
As if she heard a sacred order, Xu Yao sat down once again with her head lowered. She did not even dare look at Xu Xin.
"Why did you come back? I thought that you won't be able to eat my cooking anymore."
As they expected, Xu Xin knew Happy's entire secret.
By the looks of it, she had not been sleeping well over the past few days because she was digesting the shocking news that Happy told Xu Yao.
"Xin'er, I'm sorry."
"You didn't do anything wrong to me."
While Xu Xin spoke, there was a light quiver in her voice. Her eyes were filled with tears.
"I'm happy that you're able to go back to your original world and be together with your girlfriend. I thought that you won't be coming back, and I had already decided to leave this place. Why did you come back?"
"Xin!" Xu Yao was finally unable to sit still.
Happy s.u.c.k.e.d in a deep breath and said, "I'm not trying to hide it from you. I never knew that there was another soul in my body, and I didn't know that I could return to the other world. Then, he appeared, and it's only then that I noticed that I didn't have the heart to tell you and make you sad."
"Then don't come back!" Xu Xin with her face full of tears. Her voice slowly turned louder. "I was already prepared to leave this place, so why did you come back and give me hope again?!"
Xu Yao quietly got up and gently hugged Xu Xin, who vented the unease and powerlessness in her heart, and she also looked at Happy with a puzzled gaze.
She remembered that Happy told her that he would only appear after midnight to settle certain problems for Chen Kaixin.
But Happy had appeared right now, and her heart was filled with questions.
Xu Xin
cried delicately and helplessly for a long time.
Then, while a grave atmosphere settled in the living room, Happy heaved a long sigh and said, "I don't know what happened, but he has not appeared for a few days."
Chapter 955 - The Three Wolves Appeared
"I don't know what happened, but he hasn't appeared for a few days.
"He seems to have fallen into deep sleep again. I don't know the specifics, but I'm guessing that it might have something to do with the strength of his mental strength."
Happy's words caused Xu Xin to look up with her teary eyes.
Xu Yao blinked, and she asked hesitantly, "The strength of his mental strength?"
"Yeah, I'm guessing that this is the only explanation that works."
With a grave tone, Happy repeated the words Chen Kaixin told him in the start. "When I first came over, Chen Kaixin's mind was very weak, and my d.e.s.i.r.e for revenge was very strong, and he has always been suppressed by me. That's why I was able to control his body at that time for one and a half years."
"But didn't you say that after you exacted revenge, you can never suppress him, and he's now the one who is dominant over the body?" Xu Xin wiped her tears and asked.
Happy put on a wan smile. Xu Xin had truly listened to the entire conversation that night. She might have been awakened because Xu Yao, the careless girl that she was, tripped over her own feet.
But this was good too.
Last time, he never knew how he should face her, but now that she knew, he might as well tell her everything, or else, every time he thought about it, he would feel a heavy feeling in his heart.
"I saw his progress in the game. His training progress in the branch prison was just miserable. He's just like a noob—no, he's worse than a noob. It must be because he never went through any sort of simple training and was forced straight into Moksha Realm, causing him to be unable to get used to the situation. Besides, he doesn't dare talk to you in reality, and it caused his mental strength to deplete."
When Happy said this, Xu Yao seemed to have thought of something. Her eyes lit up, and she said, "If the strength of his mental strength caused problems to occur to him, then, could it be that your mental strength also became stronger?"
Happy was stunned silent.
Xu Yao quickly explained, "What I'm saying that could it be that your reluctance to leave Xin'er caused you to be even more concerned with everything over here, and without your knowledge, it became an obsession that is similar to the d.e.s.i.r.e for revenge? Then, when he became weaker, you became stronger.
"But the only thing I don't understand is why you can move about while he can't…" Xu Yao's deductions caused Xu Yin to stop crying, and a hint of life shone in her eyes.
Happy also had a thought bloom in his mind.
Xu Yao's deductions did indeed make sense.
However, the fact that he could move between worlds was not something that this Chen Kaixin could control. Perhaps it was because he had spent time in both bodies before that they had formed some sort of magnetic properties with each other.
Xu Yao spoke again, "Hang on. Chen Kaixin—I'm talking about the other one—mentioned that once you exacted your revenge, your mental strength became weaker. Will there be a possibility that when you no longer care so much about Xin'er, will Chen Kaixin wake up again?"
Happy s.u.c.k.e.d in a sharp breath.
What Xu Yao said made sense! But to have him not care as much about Xu Xin as before… was a little hard…
Over the past one and a half years, Xu Xin had already turned into a gentle spot in his heart that was not to be harmed even in the slightest. She was also the love that had troubled him greatly and was unable to face over this period of time when Chen Kaixin reclaimed his body.
"...Let's eat." Xu Xin wiped away her tears and sat back down.
Happy's other body was still locked in the bathroom, and naturally, he cannot stay here for too long. When he saw Xu Xin and Xu Yao return to the kitchen, he sighed, went to the bedroom, entered the game, and continued to be in AFK.
Right now, in this world, Happy was the only person in Moksha Realm, and he stood above everyone else. His Indestructible Body and Tendon Changing Classic were improving steadily, his qi was increasing by leaps and bounds, and his attributes were also growing exponentially. He did not need to worry about being surpassed.
Besides, his other self was also practicing Tendon Changing Classic and Indestructible Body. The practical skills needed to use the techniques were in his head. He could pay attention to both sides, and he improved at an astonishing pace.
*****
"Why did you take such a long time?" When he came out of the bathroom, he was faced with Xu Yao's slightly puzzled and anxious gaze.
Happy could only shamelessly state that he had a stomach ache before he laid on the bed again.
*****
"You're all here?"
When he returned to the game, Hunter Clan also arrived one after another.
"Is Grieving Needle still on you?" When Mu Qi logged in, the first thing he did was to stare at Happy's c.h.e.s.t. When he saw that splotch of wet redness on his c.h.e.s.t, he could not help but frown.
The others also looked worried.
Only Happy sighed in relief.
When he logged in, Tendon Changing Classic began to circulate on its own, making it clear that the effects from Grieving Needle were still around. This meant that as long as he did not remove this item, Tendon Changing Classic will just continue leveling up on its own. Even though as its levels and realm increased, it will begin to level up slower, the truth was that this was still a treasure that could continuously stimulate Tendon Changing Classic to level up faster.
There was one phrase that was the epitome for Happy's current situation—Being happy despite suffering.
*****
When Happy entered the game, he did not know that someone looked in through the window of his hospital room. That person put on a complicated expression before he turned around and left.
There were two men with level-headed presences standing at the entrance of the hospital. They were frowning, and their gazes burned just like the ignited cigarettes they held between their fingers.
"How is he?"
Once they saw the man in black walk out, those two cast a wary glance at the young nurse who gave them guarded expressions not too far away from them. They went up to the man in black and asked, "How is he right now?'
The Three Lonely Wolves, Bai Lang, Qi Ci, and Chen Fan, who were once his dormmates, and appeared in the hospital where Happy recuperated. The only thing different about them was that the presence they gave off was different from the other Three Lonely Wolves, who were still university students.
The Three Lonely Wolves on the other side might have great power and were already rich people, but they were still students, and they still had not gone through various hardsh.i.p.s in society yet.
These three people had familiar features, but all of them had a level-headed look on them belonging to those who had gone through various ups and downs in life. The tone they employed when they spoke was also very different.
The person who headed into the hospital was Chen Fan. Once he cast a glance at the young nurse who warned him not to bring cigarettes inside, he smiled at her and arrived in front of his two friends.
"I spoke with his attending physician just now. Happy's currently pretty good. He's recovering very well, and in less than two months, he'll be able to walk on the ground normally."
Bai Lang looked as if a huge burden was released from his mind. "Then I can rest assured."
Qi Ci also exhaled long and hard. The frown between his eyebrows vanished.
"It has been one and a half years. I didn't expect that he'll be able to wake up on his own. It's not an easy feat… That woman is not a simple woman either."
When they heard Qi Ci mention Xu Yao, Chen Fan and Bai Lang nodded in silence.
Even though they never searched for Happy
over the past one and a half years, they paid attention to all information regarding Xu Yao and Happy's situation.
Naturally, they knew about the decision Xu Yao made in the past, along with all the effort she put in.
That was why they had simultaneously chosen to contact a number of ex-university mates who were rather close to them at that time and attack Class One Hall viciously for a few months regardless of whether it was night or day.
At that time, many of the students in the University of South China did not have great qi realms, and they could not compare to the high-end players, but all youngsters were very ambitious.
Regardless of whether they were the students from the same batch as Happy or were students who were still studying, all of them knew very clearly that there was a training maniac from their university known as Mad Shaolin Disciple. He challenged players from everywhere, and he was just like an ancient swordsman in terms of his mannerisms.
Even though they did not communicate much with each other, many of the students and alumni felt proud of Happy's successes.
After all, Happy came from the University of South China.
Even though Beautiful Robes Faction was destroyed and its members dispersed, thousands of them gathered together, and filled with righteous indignation, they launched a mission with only the goal of destruction in mind and no organization or plan whatsoever to back them up, and they dealt an immeasurably huge blow on Class One Hall.
Their mission succeeded especially well because they worked with people who had long since found Class One Hall's actions an eyesore.
At that time, Five Venoms was nearly destroyed.
This mission lasted for a few months, and regardless of whether it was Class One Hall's elites or normal disciples, Class One Hall lost tens of thousands of people. At that time, the famous and strongest sect had its development progress f.o.r.c.i.b.l.y delayed for a few months, and they were even forced to give up on a few branches from more than ten cities, causing Wind Assault Tower, who was originally at the same level as Class One Hall, to have the chance to surpass them and become the strongest sect in the Chinese server.
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