Returning to the normal timeline, one year later on Taiyin Star.
A year had passed since the grand event known as "Moon Fall."
Unnoticed, time had reached the 15th of August in the new year, with the almost perfect full moon hanging high in the night sky.
At this moment, Taiyin Star was farther from the earth than before the Moon Fall.
However, filled with the brilliance of the stars, Taiyin Star’s glow was more dazzling than ever.
It was a gentler light than that of the sun, making one feel at ease even when gazing directly at it.
"Is this what it feels like to have a body again?"
On the outermost edge of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, by a riverside with towering power towers.
A robust, brawny man cautiously spun around, his face full of the joy of rebirth.
Even though his body appeared to be covered in white hair and beard.
His skin was as pale as paper, much like an albino patient.
Yet the vigorous vitality contained within was undeniable, its health far beyond ordinary imagination.
"Your body is composed entirely of Flat Peach cells, so you now possess a half Undying Body."
Expressionless, Ling Guzi put away the various surgical tools and slowly stood up to speak.
"Also, your heart was made using the arrowhead of that Sun-Shooting Arrow."
"The remaining arrow shaft was reshaped into your bones, so you should now be considered half an Innate God."
"I don’t care who you are, nor do I want to know your background..."
"I saved you purely because of Li Jingshu, so you don’t need to thank me specially."
Before the man could react, Ling Guzi blew his Bone Whistle and then rode a Bronze Snake along the riverbank and gradually left.
"Thank you!"
Watching Ling Guzi’s departing figure, the man expressed his heartfelt gratitude.
However, after thanking him, the man felt confused by Ling Guzi’s last words.
Standing dazedly on the riverbank for a long time, the man remained motionless, but a very contradictory and complex expression surfaced on his new face.
"So, have you recognized your identity now?"
Silently, Li Boyang appeared, arms crossed in front of his chest.
Behind Li Boyang, Wang Shu stood with a stern face, leaning against the towering power tower, seeming indifferent.
"I don’t know who I am, but I know I’m definitely not Dayi."
Without turning his head, the man replied with a somewhat bitter smile.
"That Full Moon God has extraordinary methods but does not understand the human heart."
"Or rather, she doesn’t care whether I’m Dayi, she just wants to leave a thought for her sister."
The "Full Moon God" in the man’s words referred naturally to Heng’e, and he himself was the fragment of Dayi’s memory preserved by Heng’e using the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow.
"Undoubtedly, you are now alive."
With interest, Li Boyang assessed the man, stating a fact.
At Li Jingshu’s request, Li Boyang helped reshape the man’s soul, and Ling Guzi recreated his flesh.
Even due to the Six Paths of Reincarnation System, the man could entirely re-enter reincarnation, like an ordinary being, rather than being a mere fragment of memory.
"But I want more than just being alive..."
Images of moments spent with Chang’e flashed through his mind, and the man’s voice grew lower.
Li Xudou could easily escape the influence of those memories because he had a complete life trajectory and experiential cognition.
But the man couldn’t achieve that, he didn’t even have any memories beyond those of Dayi.
In fact, even the memories of Dayi he possessed were incomplete.
The man’s memories of Dayi stopped at the moment Dayi shot the Great Golden Crow; he knew nothing of what happened afterward.
"Actually, looking at it from another angle, maybe not having the follow-up memories isn’t such a bad thing."
With the man’s surprised gaze on him, Li Boyang remarked with a half-smile.
"Don’t forget who stayed by Dayi’s side after the sun-shooting was done."
"To both Chang’e and Heng’e, those memories hold a special meaning..."
"If you inherited even that memory, could you still be so sure you love Chang’e and not Heng’e?"
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Taiyin Star, under the Laurel Divine Tree in the Moon Palace.
At this moment, Taiyin Star still bore the damage and scars from the great battle.
Only the vast pit was covered by the reborn Laurel Divine Tree, becoming a major spectacle on Taiyin Star.
The entire Laurel Tree occupied nearly one-tenth of Taiyin Star’s land area.
The Taiyin Essence Qi, drooping like peach silk, resembled the fruit of this divine tree.
Bathed in this tangible Taiyin Essence Qi, Chang’e’s gaze appeared tense and timid, with a sense of apprehension about being near home.
"Can Big Sister really be resurrected?"
Faced with Chang’e’s question, Li Jingshu, who was supporting the tree root with one hand, rolled her eyes.
"You’ve asked me this question countless times, and I don’t know!"
"What I can do is use Flat Peach cells and Jade Pool Water to help you revive this Laurel Divine Tree again."
"As for whether your sister and mother can be reborn through this, you’ll have to ask Little Brother..."
At this point, Li Jingshu paused slightly.
"No, even Little Brother wouldn’t dare give you a hundred percent sure answer to such a thing."
"Proving the Dao has never been easy, let alone when they failed to prove it."
"In fact, I kind of wonder how this Laurel Tree managed to survive?"
Li Jingshu spoke the truth, as it seemingly shouldn’t have been possible for this Laurel Tree to survive from any perspective.
Having been interfered with by countless timelines...
And having been scorched by the True Sun Fire for an unknown number of years...
Finally, it bore and retained part of Heng’e’s Essence, Qi, and Spirit...
The survival of this Laurel Tree’s remnants is simply an unbelievable miracle.
"Perhaps because... Father God still remembers the past!"
In the eyes of Li Jingshu and the others, Celestial Emperor Hao was undoubtedly the ultimate big boss of the last era.
It seemed only natural for him to commit any heinous act.
However, in the real world, characters’ stances and arcs are not so rigid and fixed.
At least in Chang’e’s eyes, Celestial Emperor Hao might not be a qualified husband or father.
But his love for his wife and child was never false.
In fact, it was true; otherwise, Emperor Hao wouldn’t have allowed Heng’e to obstruct his path to Dao repeatedly, yet never truly harmed her.
"Tsk, that’s your dad. How you see him has nothing to do with me."
"I can only tell you that even with this Laurel Tree’s help, inheriting your mother and sister’s paths won’t be easy."
With a slight lift of the corners of her mouth, Chang’e murmured in an undeniable tone.
"Yes, I know, but it’s time for me to grow up, too."
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