Chapter 1596: Rubik's Cube Beauty (58)

The illusion before him shattered into countless fragments, crashing down with a loud clatter.

Yet Silver Ring Taoist felt a trace of melancholy.

He almost wished everything he had just experienced had been real.

Had the School Belle not arrived in this world and warned him and Piao Miao Fairy that a calamity awaited them, he might truly have become trapped.

Or rather, he would have willingly sunk into it.

He had simply remained in the Rubik's Cube World for too long.

Over a thousand years of wandering.

Cycle after cycle.

Every time he arrived at Trading City, he spent every last Rubik Coin he possessed and had acquired countless treasures.

Perhaps, in the beginning, obtaining those treasures had filled him with joy and satisfaction.

But human beings were never truly content.

Things that had once been rare and precious became commonplace and lost their value.

Material abundance.

Spiritual emptiness.

Longing buried deep in the heart.

Living numbly within the Rubik's Cube World.

Anxiety and disappointment had slowly created cracks in his state of mind.

The School Belle was a miraculous person.

Over the years, they had witnessed countless wonders through her.

She seemed to change fate itself.

She always saw through heavenly secrets and altered destinies in small worlds.

Her arrival alone had already given both him and Piao Miao Fairy hope.

And thus, the cracks in their hearts gradually healed.

Even after seeing his junior sister in the illusion, he no longer clung to her with desperate obsession.

He would not willingly sink into the illusion and lose his life.

Thinking this, Silver Ring Taoist's smile became calm and carefree.

Whether he left or not, when he left—it no longer mattered.

As long as he never gave up, one day he would leave.

He and Piao Miao were cultivators.

The road of cultivation was long and required steady progress.

Blind impatience would never lead to good results.

"Silver Ring, your state of mind has broken through?"

Piao Miao Fairy's voice rang out.

His vision blurred, and when it cleared, the woman sitting opposite him was none other than Piao Miao Fairy.

Like him, she wore a gentle smile as refreshing as spring.

Gone was all the previous anxiety.

"You've broken through too?" he asked.

Piao Miao Fairy nodded lightly, laughter dancing in her eyes.

"The Rubik's Cube World suppresses our cultivation. If we wish to advance further, we'd have to leave."

"But we've been looking at things the wrong way."

"If our cultivation cannot improve, why not seek another path through our state of mind?"

"Master once said that having a higher state of mind than cultivation brings tremendous benefits."

"When cultivation exceeds one's heart, the foundation becomes unstable."

"But when the heart surpasses cultivation, one can truly act freely and effortlessly."

Silver Ring Taoist smiled and nodded.

"You're right."

"Mirage City itself was never dangerous to us."

"Why, then, are powerful cultivators more likely to lose themselves?"

"Because the enemy we face is ourselves."

"Mirage City is merely a mirror."

"It reflects our hearts and makes us fight ourselves."

"Silver Ring," Piao Miao Fairy said softly, "we've waited for so long."

"More than a thousand years have passed."

"It no longer matters whether we leave sooner or later."

"That's right."

"So… let's take it slowly."

Silver Ring nodded.

"Very well. Slowly."

"You're right."

"A thousand years have already transformed seas into fields."

"Haste is useless."

Suddenly, Piao Miao Fairy's tone changed.

"When we get out, I'm buying hundreds—no, thousands—of pretty dresses!"

"And the School Belle still has those dazzling, jewel-like accessories, right?"

"I want them all!"

Silver Ring Taoist: ...

The sudden shift in Piao Miao Fairy's style left him utterly unable to keep up.