Nagazora City felt a bit hot as noon approached. The midday sun had risen to its zenith, recklessly spilling its light upon this sparsely populated city.Among the plants that had been awakened by the six-star material 'Familiar Egg' from Li Xuan's last wish, many had withered again due to the Honkai energy. However, many other plants had instead broken through and thrived, growing even faster as they adapted to the high-concentration Honkai energy environment, flourishing like canopies...
A small tree next to Li Xuan's base, which had seemed withered, had now grown in just a few days into a large tree that looked as if it had been growing for decades.
This is Honkai energy... It reaps the lives of creatures, bringing death, yet it also contains the miracle of life... It is a paradoxical energy, or perhaps, a will...
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"Squeak~" Li Xuan gently opened the door to the room. To prevent attacks from large Honkai Beasts, he, Sakura, and Liv lived on a floor near the top of this tall building. As for which floor it was, he hadn't counted carefully. Anyway, every time he passed the room door, the one with a red 'Fu' (luck) character on it was his.
Having lived in this strange world for so long, Li Xuan had come to understand this world... no, at least the common script in this place, Nagazora City, was Chinese characters... though they were traditional characters. But... for Li Xuan, who had always been good at Chinese, even if he couldn't write them well, he could still recognize them.
After all, in the China of his previous life, simplified characters had evolved from traditional ones... As long as you knew simplified characters, recognizing traditional ones wasn't difficult.
Opening the door, Li Xuan looked into the living room. Liv was tidying up the room, while Yae Sakura was sitting on the sofa, engrossed in a book, occasionally taking a snack from a bag next to her and putting it into her cherry-like mouth.
He had given that to her before. Li Xuan's spatial ring was arguably the best place for preservation, as any item placed inside would be in a state of suspended time, so snacks and such wouldn't get moldy or expire...
"..." Li Xuan's mind drifted for a moment. He had a feeling of being back in his original world, with his mother cleaning the house and his sister sitting on the sofa eating snacks and watching TV....
"Ah, Master, you're back~" Liv noticed Li Xuan standing by the door in a daze and said with a sweet smile.
"Mmph!~" With her cheeks stuffed full, Yae Sakura put down the "Complete Collection of Chinese Recipes" in her hands, turned her head, and made an unintelligible greeting sound, her azure eyes happily fixed on Li Xuan.
"Yeah, I'm back~" Li Xuan came back to his senses and said with a smile, looking at the two in the room.
"Master, Liv will have lunch ready in a moment, please wait a little." Liv walked forward, intimately reached out to smooth the wrinkles on Li Xuan's clothes, and looked at Li Xuan with her beautiful dark red eyes, a smile in them.
'Too, too close...' Li Xuan was a bit unused to Liv's pretty face suddenly getting so close, and his old face reddened slightly.
"Ahem..." He coughed lightly to cover his embarrassment, turned his head to look at Yae Sakura who was also staring at him, and said, "Let's not worry about lunch for now, we have other things to do..."
"Li Xuan-kun, what is it?" Yae Sakura asked, hugging her snack bag and curiously raising her hand.
"..." A slight smile appeared on Li Xuan's face as he said,
"Hatch the Familiar Egg!"
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"The Familiar Egg is truly amazing..." Yae Sakura said, circling the golden Familiar Egg on the wooden table, which was as large as a bucket.
"Isn't it... To shape an intangible soul into a familiar, allowing the dead to descend upon the world once more in another form..." Li Xuan smiled and said to himself, continuously placing Honkai energy crystals on the shell of the Familiar Egg, then watching with his own eyes as the crystals were quickly absorbed by the egg and vanished into nothingness...
"I hope it's Miss Yaoye..." Liv said with some worry from the side. She had learned about Li Xuan's past with that Yaoye-hime.
"Mmm..." Li Xuan's hand trembled slightly then quickly recovered as he continued to place his accumulated Honkai energy crystals onto the Familiar Egg.
"It's about time..." Li Xuan said softly as he gently placed the last crystal he had calculated beforehand onto the Familiar Egg. After nearly half a month, the ten thousand Honkai energy crystals were finally gathered at this moment.
"A huge amount of Honkai energy is gathering!" Liv said in shock as she looked at the Familiar Egg. An immense Honkai energy reaction that shocked and terrified her emerged from within the not-so-large Familiar Egg.
"...." Everyone involuntarily held their breath, watching the Familiar Egg before them, afraid to miss the slightest change.
The next moment, as if in response to everyone's anticipation, the golden Familiar Egg suddenly burst forth with a dazzling golden brilliance. The Honkai energy, which seemed capable of twisting the rules of the world, underwent a chemical-like reaction within the small egg.
As a power that could twist rules, the Honkai energy, guided by the patterns within the Familiar Egg, was like a god turning the wheel of fate, creating a new life!
"Kacha!~" A crack appeared on the indestructible eggshell...
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At the same time, everything that was happening in Li Xuan's room was also continuously affecting the Honkai energy in Nagazora City...
As if awakened, the Honkai energy in Nagazora City began to gather unconsciously, spurred by the massive amount of Honkai energy generated by Li Xuan hatching the Familiar Egg.
In a certain classroom, amidst the entwining vines, the long eyelashes of a seemingly sleeping girl trembled slightly...
(End of Chapter)