Tian Jing did not return to reality, nor to the first life she had shared with her husband, but instead tumbled down in front of the private vault.
Three figures were already there.
"What the heck!"
Wasn't Chen Leilei with her? How did she fall down first?
Hearing the commotion, Chen Yao Shi, who was observing the nine palace grid in front of the stone door, turned around. "Chen Jing, I don't have nine lives."
Tian Jing was bewildered.
"Then what do you have?"
"I've returned to my past lives eight times with Shao Wen."
"Then why aren't you crazy?"
"Because I know I can be reborn, and it's not worth getting angry with those ignorant people. Tell me quickly, how should I press this?"
"I think it's eight ones, plus my two, or Chen Leilei's zero. You decide, I'm going to hide far away."
Tian Jing ignored Chen Yao Shi's reaction and first retreated from the main door, shielding herself with her ability shield.
Then, she used vines to sweep back and forth several times, messing up the tracks where she had just fallen.
Chen Leilei glanced at her, then obediently stood beside Chen Yao Shi.
Tian Jing shook her head and sighed, both children were taught by Chen Yao Shi to be like puppets.
Chen Yao Shi chose to press eight ones and one zero. The stone door slid open swiftly to both sides.
Chen Yao Shi was overjoyed. "The protagonist's luck is not for nothing."
Tian Jing also had some doubts. Was she a supporting character?
Peh, peh, peh, she lived in the real world, not a fictional one.
Still the same golden and shining mountains of gold and silver, Chen Yao Shi rushed towards the mountains of gold, only to bite into a mouthful of dirt.
"Pfft, pfft, pfft."
He forcefully spat out the dust in his mouth, and only then did he see that there was nothing in front of him, only boxes by the cave wall.
Visually, there were indeed thousands of them.
"Jing Jing, hurry in! Didn't you say there was a formation inside? Come and solve it quickly."
Tian Jing shrunk her ability shield to fit closely to her body and entered with the golden lock holding the key. "These three formations all require items from our Chen family."
Chen Yao Shi very cooperatively spilled a bottle of blood. Tian Jing leaned the golden lock against the exposed, ultra-thin object.
The object shattered like broken glass, and a cracking sound came from some of the boxes.
Tian Jing knew that this formation could not be completely restored.
Chen Yao Shi also heard it. "What broke?"
"Open it and you'll know, won't you?"
Tian Jing said, while backing out of the private vault's stone door.
Chen Yao Shi thought he couldn't move the large boxes and used great force.
As a result, the box was thrown backward from above his head, dragging Chen Yao Shi down with it as he fell backward.
The boxes shattered, scattering a substance resembling dust after the energy had completely dissipated.
Chen Yao Shi got up, kicked aside the box, and continued to move it.
This time, with the previous lesson learned, he only stepped back a few paces.
After opening the box, he kicked it apart.
He refused to believe it and moved it, kicked it, and scattered it again.
A cloud of dust filled the vault.
"Cough, cough, cough."
The father and two sons all started coughing.
Tian Jing, who was lowering her head to wipe fingerprints off her gun with a handkerchief, saw it clearly.
She suspected that even the boxes had their energy absorbed by the formation, otherwise, they wouldn't have been so easily kicked apart by Chen Yao Shi.
In ancient times, boxes used to store treasures were made of good timber.
"No!"
A roar from Chen Yao Shi echoed from the dust-filled vault.
"Jing Jing, where is the big surprise you mentioned?"
Tian Jing replied loudly, "What you see now is the big surprise I mentioned."
"Because, after looking at just a few boxes, I understood. The formation just now was supported by the wealth and treasures inside the boxes."
Chen Yao Shi refused to believe it. "Nonsense, you're spouting nonsense. Our ancestors wouldn't do something so harmful to others."
"You must have replaced all the treasures. Hurry and return them, hurry and return them."
Listening to Chen Yao Shi's hysterical outburst, Tian Jing added fuel to the fire.
"I'll kindly tell you, we live in a real world."
"When you entered the maze, you were already confused. There is no book world or male protagonist."
"Your ancestor was confused, that's why he used treasures to support the formation."
"Impossible!" Chen Yao Shi still didn't believe it. "Who could confuse me? Is it that eight trigrams in the middle of the maze?"
"Actually, I've suspected it for a long time. I always wondered why I was reborn, and it was only after I knew I was the male protagonist that I understood."
"Why was there pain in my previous life? Why was there rebirth in this life? It's all because I am the unrecognized male protagonist!"
Alright, Tian Jing decided not to argue with this stubborn person any longer.
"Then you look slowly, I'm leaving."
Tian Jing, with extreme speed, pressed the two conspicuous dots on the side of the opened stone door. The stone door slowly slid towards the center.
"Chen Jing, what are you doing? I am the male protagonist."
Hearing Chen Yao Shi's footsteps moving towards the exit, Tian Jing flicked her vines, pushing Chen Yao Shi back.
The gun, sheathed on the vine, was also sent in.
"Leilei, Shao Wen, quickly call out to big sister, ask big sister to spare us."
"Big sister, save us."
"Big sister, please spare us."
The one calling for help was Chen Leilei. Only a few seconds had passed in reality, but months had gone by in the dream.
It would be a lie to say there were no feelings.
However, she couldn't.
Let alone a half-sister, even a full sister, she couldn't risk the lives of her own family of six for a sliver of kindness that someone might possess.
Listening to the pleas for help, Tian Jing's eyes filled with tears.
However, the vine in her hand remained firm, blocking the gap of the slowly closing stone door.
The stone door closed, and she could still hear Chen Leilei calling out to big sister.
She turned around, her ability shield still active, and walked towards the hidden exit of the private vault.
After leaving the private vault, the sky had darkened, and outside the maze was mist. The maze itself was not a good place either.
Was she supposed to get along with Chen Leilei to test her heart's ruthlessness?
She admitted that after experiencing the apocalypse, her heart was still not hardened enough.
Therefore, she was now very sad, very sad.
So sad she wanted to destroy everything.
Ah ~~~
Just as Tian Jing was about to detonate her ability crystal core, a trace of divine consciousness that had been hidden all along timely enveloped her crystal core.
Tian Jing, who had regained her senses, broke out in a cold sweat. She had been exploited by the rules of heaven and earth again.
Her ability shield was still active, yet she was exploited. This showed how unstable her emotions were.
Using the golden lock to open the formation on the maze, Tian Jing stood at the edge of the maze.
She added a few more strands of divine consciousness to her ability crystal core and did not dare to remove her ability shield.
She stood at the edge of the maze like this for a whole night.
Daybreak arrived.
Tian Jing looked up at the dense fog outside the maze, then casually took a few steps towards the forest and sat down to cultivate.
Previously, she thought her abilities here could only be used for farming, and her ability shield could only withstand bullets and block wind and rain.
Now, she believed her abilities were her life-saving trump card.
So, she hardened her heart and exchanged and absorbed the plant energy from the forest outside the maze.
Soon, her abilities, from intermediate level four, surged towards high level, and then towards great perfection.
She could still feel the abundant plant energy, so she seized the opportunity to break through to level five.
Having experienced it once in reality and once in a dream, breaking through the barrier to level five abilities was not easy.
One impact after another, one circulation and exchange after another.
After countless cycles, with a 'chi' sound, a crack finally appeared in the level five barrier.
With a crack, it became much easier.
Accelerating her ability circulation, accelerating energy exchange, accelerate, accelerate, accelerate.
Bang!
A loud bang echoed in her ears, the barrier was broken, and she reached low level five!
Tian Jing did not stop. She slowly circulated her abilities to stabilize the low level five state before slowly opening her eyes.