Chapter 1359
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Chapter 1359 Accelerated Awakening
Upper Capital.
The golden fallen leaves swept across the new brick ground with the cool autumn breeze.
In the courtyard house, Li Zhenzhen held a large broom, sweeping the golden leaves to one side, making rhythmic rustling sounds.
Knock knock knock—!
The sudden knocking sound startled Li Zhenzhen. She put down the broom and quickly walked to the vermilion main door to open it.
On the leaf-covered steps stood a familiar young man, smiling at her. Behind him was a petite girl with two colorful braids, curiously looking around.
“Instructor Lin?!”
Seeing who was at the door, Li Zhenzhen was first stunned, then delighted. “Why are you here?!”
Li Zhenzhen quickly pushed the door open. Lin Qiye led the girl behind him across the threshold, blinked, and said loudly:
“Li Zhenzhen! Speak louder!”
After returning to Great Xia, Sun Wukong immediately went to the Celestial Court to get medicinal herbs for Lin Qiye to repair his damaged hearing. However, the sound that had ruptured his eardrums was so strange that the medicine’s effectiveness was greatly reduced. His eardrums were healing much slower than expected, and now he could only faintly hear sounds.
Since conventional medicine didn’t work, Sun Wukong and Yang Jian went directly to the Supreme Virtue Celestial Lord to ask him to prepare medicine. However, medicine preparation takes time, so now Lin Qiye could only lean in and barely converse with others.
Seeing Lin Qiye suddenly shout, Li Zhenzhen was startled. She looked oddly at Lin Qiye’s ears, seeming to understand something, and shouted back:
“Instructor Lin! Why have you come?!?!”
“No need to be so loud! I’m not deaf!” Lin Qiye rubbed his ears and said helplessly, “I just completed a mission in the Mist and was passing through Upper Capital, so I came to visit… Also, I’m taking Jialan with me.”
“Instructor Jialan? Have you found a way to wake her up?” Li Zhenzhen asked excitedly.
“Sort of.”
Lin Qiye turned to Skadi, who was curiously looking around, and smiled, “Let’s go. The person I need your help to save is inside.”
Lin Qiye led Skadi through the center of the courtyard house, walking straight to one of the rooms. When he pushed open the door, a subtle fragrance greeted them.
On the bed lay a young woman in a blue Han robe, resting quietly. Her silky black hair cascaded down the edge of the bed like a waterfall.
Skadi’s gaze fell on that beautiful face with closed eyes, and her mouth opened slightly:
“This sister is so beautiful…”
Lin Qiye stepped to the sleeping Jialan’s side, gazing at her jade-like delicate face with complex emotions.
It had been over half a year since the battle at Takamagahara, and Jialan still showed no signs of waking. Time had not left any trace on her face. At this rate, she might sleep until the end of time…
“So, can you speed up her awakening?” Lin Qiye looked at Skadi and asked urgently.
Skadi frowned slightly. She raised her fingertip and made a small gesture toward Jialan’s body. Time suddenly accelerated on the bed.
After thinking for a moment, she said uncertainly:
“This sister’s body… seems to be consuming time?”
“More or less.” Lin Qiye recalled Ji Nian’s description of her condition and nodded. “She’s using time to complete the ‘Immortality’ within her body to break through to the Divine Realm… but this process takes too long. I hope you can accelerate it so she can wake up sooner.”
Jialan needed time to break through to the Divine Realm, while Skadi was a deity who controlled the flow of time. Having her accelerate this process was like a form of “feeding,” which theoretically could wake Jialan up in a short time.
“It’s possible,” Skadi sensed carefully for a moment, “however…”
“However what?”
“However, she needs too much time. At the natural flow of time, she would need at least several hundred years to complete this process. Even I can’t compress that time too much.”
“How long can you make it?”
“Accounting for the time needed to recover my divine power, this process would still take at least two years.”
“Two years?” Lin Qiye frowned. Compared to hundreds of years, this was much shorter, but still seemed too long. “What if we solve the divine power consumption problem?”
Lin Qiye remembered Yang Jian telling him about a spring in the Celestial Court that could greatly accelerate divine power recovery. If they placed Skadi by this spring, it should solve the problem of rapid divine power consumption… Since he had done undercover work for Great Xia in Asgard and opened the Rainbow Bridge for them, such a great achievement should make borrowing the sacred spring no difficult matter.
“If I don’t have to worry about divine power consumption and can accelerate from morning to night…” Skadi tilted her head and thought carefully.
“Three months… no, two months would be enough!”
Two months…
Hearing this answer, Lin Qiye’s eyes quickly brightened. “Great! I’ll handle this. Thank you for your help with the rest.”
Lin Qiye asked Li Zhenzhen to take care of Skadi and left the courtyard house alone. Although he had promised Skadi she wouldn’t need to worry about divine power, he currently had no direct way to contact the Celestial Court. After hesitating for a moment, he dialed a phone number.
After a brief dial tone, Left Qing’s voice came from the other end.
“Hello?”
“Hello? Commander Left, I have something…”
…
“Pair of Kings.”
“Pair of 2s.”
“Bomb!”
An Qingyu lightly tossed his last two cards onto the table, smiling at Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan, whose faces were already covered with paper strips. He raised his eyebrows slightly, “Sorry, I won again.”
“Tsk, I told you we shouldn’t play cards with Qingyu. His calculating ability is too abnormal!” Baili Pangpang threw his large handful of cards on the table, somewhat frustrated.
“Are you sure it’s about calculating ability?” Cao Yuan glanced behind him at Jiang Er, who was floating in mid-air. “I feel like the two of them might have seen all our cards…”
Jiang Er blinked innocently and turned her head away as if nothing had happened.
Creak—!
As they were chatting, the door opened, and Lin Qiye walked in from outside.
“How did it go, Qiye? Can Jialan wake up?” An Qingyu stood up and asked.
“Yes.” Lin Qiye nodded. “I’ve asked Commander Left for help. He will contact the Celestial Court for us. If all goes well, Jialan should wake up in two months.”
Hearing this, everyone’s faces lit up with joy.
“What do we do next? Did Commander Left give us any assignments?”
“…Not yet.” Lin Qiye seemed to recall something, his expression a bit strange. “I also asked Commander Left on the phone, and he just told us to stand by… It feels very mysterious.”
“Isn’t that a good thing?” Cao Yuan lazily sprawled on the sofa. “Sun City and Northern Europe have been destroyed, and Olympus just failed in their attack on Great Xia a few days ago. They won’t return anytime soon. Only the Temple of Gods in India remains.
Great Xia is very safe now, and war won’t break out in the short term. We also have time to enjoy our vacation…”
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