Beauties in Simulation Cross over into Reality

Chapter 111: Chapter 98: Then Let Me Hear You Say It

After obtaining the Dragon Scale Armor, Xiao Mo spent half a year completely refining it.

It was just as Ruxue had said.

Once he had refined it, he could see what the Dragon Scale Armor looked like.

But others still couldn’t see it.

This way, it could mislead his opponents in a fight.

Another year and a half passed.

By the time Xiao Mo was fifteen, he had already opened three Cave Mansions.

Bai Ruxue used the Water Dragon Pearl and the Vast Sea Wooden Sword to guard the three Cave Mansions inside Xiao Mo’s body.

In recent years, the relationship between the Human Race and the Demon Race seemed to have eased considerably.

At least, the atmosphere was no longer so tense and hostile.

However, the defenses in the North Sea had not been relaxed in the slightest.

Xiao Mo wasn’t sure if the relationship between the two races had genuinely improved, or if they were merely maintaining a superficial peace.

Xiao Mo leaned toward the latter.

But none of this seemed to have anything to do with a remote little fishing village in the Chu Kingdom.

Bai Ruxue often took Xiao Mo to the North Sea to hunt Magical Beasts. They also frequently visited the North Sea Dragon Palace, where the seven Dragon Kings of the North Sea took turns as his sparring partners.

Although the seven Dragon Kings didn’t have a good impression of the Human Race—and if not for Bai Ruxue holding them back, their hatred would have long since driven them to join the Demon Race’s World—they grew increasingly fond of the young Xiao Mo.

Once, after a training session with Xiao Mo, a female flood dragon named Liu Yue had a sudden whim. She had Xiao Mo climb onto her back and took him for a ride.

It wasn’t long, however, before Bai Ruxue found out.

Bai Ruxue stood before Liu Yue, her expression grim, her eyes as cold as the frost springs of the Nine Netherworld.

Startled, Liu Yue quickly shifted into her human form and begged for forgiveness from Her Majesty, even though she had no idea what she had done wrong.

After that, Liu Yue was rarely scheduled to train with Xiao Mo.

Even on the rare occasions she did get to spar with him, Bai Ruxue would stand nearby, watching their every move.

Liu Yue wasn’t sure if it was just her imagination.

But she always felt like Her Majesty was being possessive.

Bai Ruxue and Xiao Mo weaved through the heavy clouds.

They wandered from one island to another.

They searched for treasures in various parts of the North Sea.

For Bai Ruxue, days like these felt like a dream.

But Xiao Mo never forgot one thing: helping Ruxue transform into a dragon.

This wasn’t just for his own sake, but for Ruxue’s as well.

In this world, the Immortal Realm was powerful, but not powerful enough.

Only by reaching the Ascension Realm could one truly stand above the mortal world, where everyone had to tread carefully around you. Only then could one be considered truly safe.

As time passed, Xiao Mo’s Realm grew higher and higher, and so did his height.

Every year, a new notch would be carved higher up on the wooden door.

Before he knew it, the little boy who had barely reached Bai Ruxue’s thigh had grown into a young man standing five chi and three cun tall.

And Xiao Mo’s appearance was growing more and more similar to his past life, to the point where there was almost no difference.

Xiao Mo also noticed that Ruxue would sometimes stare at him in a daze, her peach-blossom eyes seemingly lost in reminiscence.

But Xiao Mo pretended not to know anything.

…

「On an evening in the middle of the seventh month, in the thirtieth year of Yongning of the Chu Kingdom.」

In a sea region three hundred li north of Huanyu Village, a man standing five chi and five cun tall stood on the surface of the water.

Before the man, a twenty-zhang-long, two-headed Sea-covering Snake opened its cavernous jaws and roared at him.

The man didn’t move, merely watching the Sea Serpent in silence.

He held a Wooden Sword in his hand.

“HISS!!!”

The Sea Serpent let out an enraged roar and lunged at the man.

Behind the man, inky Spiritual Power gradually coalesced into a long, ink-black dragon.

“ROAR!”

The ink-black dragon bit down on the torso of the two-headed Sea-covering Snake.

The next moment, the man stepped forward. A flash of inky sword light streaked past, and the two serpentine heads tumbled into the sea. The corpse sank to the seabed, where countless fish and Sea Beasts swarmed toward it, greedily devouring the flesh of the two-headed Sea-covering Snake.

’Early-stage Dragon Gate Realm… It seems I’ve really hit my limit…’

The man sighed as he sheathed his sword.

’It’s just as I thought. Even with all the resources Ruxue provides, if I’m to walk the path of Becoming a Saint of Confucianism, I must eventually go and study. Otherwise, it will be difficult to break through.’

’I’ve heard that the Bailu Academy is currently recruiting students in the North Sea State Capital. Maybe I should give it a try.’

“Xiao Mo!”

Just as these thoughts were running through Xiao Mo’s mind, a light, pleasant voice called out.

Xiao Mo turned to see a woman in a white dress waving her snow-white, slender arms at him. “Xiao Mo, it’s getting late! Time to come back for dinner!”

“Coming!”

Xiao Mo called back and flew toward the woman. The two of them flew back to the fishing village together.

Back in the courtyard, Bai Ruxue brought out platters of food.

There was Osmanthus Chicken, Tiger Skin Pork Knuckle, Braised Prawns, Garlic Lobster, Emerald Abalone Congee, and more…

“Sister Bai, what’s the occasion today? This is such a magnificent feast,” Xiao Mo asked with a smile.

“What do you think?” Bai Ruxue shot Xiao Mo a playful glare. “Today is your eighteenth birthday. After today, Xiao Mo, you’ll be an adult.”

“…”

Hearing Ruxue’s words, Xiao Mo froze for a moment.

’So many years have already passed in this second life, huh.’

“Xiao Qing will be here later, but before she arrives, I have a gift for you, Xiao Mo.” Bai Ruxue handed him a box. “Open it and see.”

Xiao Mo opened the box. Inside was a set of blue Confucian School robes.

“I made these robes myself. Quick, try them on and see if they fit,” Bai Ruxue said expectantly.

“Alright, I’ll try them on.”

Xiao Mo went into his room and changed into the blue robes.

A moment later, when Bai Ruxue saw Xiao Mo walking toward her in the blue robes, her eyes widened in a stunned gaze.

“Sister Bai, what’s wrong?” Xiao Mo asked as he came to a stop in front of her.

“It’s nothing.” After a long moment, the woman finally came to her senses. She shook her head, reached out to straighten his collar, and said in a gentle voice, “They fit you quite well.”

Xiao Mo smiled. “Of course they fit. Sister Bai made them, after all.”

“Um… Xiao Mo.”

“Hm?”

Bai Ruxue looked up at the young man before her. “Starting today, you’re a grown man. I have a request. Will you promise me you’ll grant it?”

“Anything you ask, Sister Bai,” Xiao Mo said with a nod.

“You’re not a child anymore, so I won’t call you ’Xiao Mo’ anymore. And you shouldn’t call me ’Sister’ anymore, either. How about it?”

“Then what should I call you?” Xiao Mo asked.

“Ruxue…” Bai Ruxue gazed adoringly at the young man before her. “From now on, let’s call each other by our names. I’ll call you Xiao Mo, and you’ll call me Ruxue.”

“That…”

“What’s wrong? Is… is that not okay?” Bai Ruxue’s expression grew slightly flustered.

“I can do that,” Xiao Mo agreed.

Bai Ruxue’s hands clenched tightly. “Then… then let me hear you say it.”

Xiao Mo looked directly into the woman’s eyes. “Ruxue…”

Hearing Xiao Mo say her name, Bai Ruxue’s heart quivered. She clasped her hands to her chest, her heartbeat quickening.

“Can… can you say it again…?”

“Of course. But it reminds me of a scene I once read in a storybook.”

Xiao Mo smiled, led Bai Ruxue by the hand to a stone bench, and then walked out of the courtyard himself.

Bai Ruxue blinked, wondering what Xiao Mo was up to.

She watched as he walked farther and farther away, until he disappeared at the end of the path.

Just as Bai Ruxue was about to stand up and look for him…

…she saw him reappear on the path, dressed in his blue robes, walking step by step toward the courtyard.

The sun was setting. Crimson evening clouds stained the horizon and cast their glow upon the earth, dressing the world in scarlet. It was as if a brush dipped in vermilion had faintly outlined the young man’s figure.

Bai Ruxue was in a daze, feeling as if she weren’t in the fishing village at all.

But rather, in that small courtyard in Shiqiao Village, three thousand years ago.

He was returning from his studies, just like he always used to…

“Ruxue,” Xiao Mo said softly from outside the courtyard gate, calling to the woman who had been waiting there for who knew how long. “I’m home.”

Bai Ruxue sat on the stone bench in the courtyard, tightly gripping the hem of her skirt. Her trembling eyes seemed to be veiled in a hazy mist.

After a long, long time, the woman stood up. Her eyes curved into a smile so radiant that the vast crimson clouds seemed to lose their color.

“You’re back.”