Dimensional Store: Welcome to the Apocalypse Apartment - Chapter 292

Chapter 292

Of course Gu Changge would never bring up Ya Qianyu. Her sister had always shared good news and hidden the bad; with something this upsetting, there was no way she would mention even a word of it to Gu Huaiwei.

So Gu Huaiwei made something up for Gu Changge on the spot.

“My sister said you two never had to end up like this.”

Ya Qianyu’s eyes reddened instantly. He forced down the tremor in his voice. “Sister Changge… she really said that?”

Why was he getting this worked up?

Gu Huaiwei had been ready to make up a few more nice lines to soothe him, but she hadn’t expected Ya Qianyu to react so strongly.

When emotions ran high, flaws naturally appeared in the defenses around one’s divine sense.

She pressed her lips together. Hidden from sight, she used spiritual energy to activate the jade pendant and slowly invade Ya Qianyu’s divine sense.

“I never wanted to treat her that way either, but she was too stubborn. She wouldn’t give me any chance at all.”

“She was the one who picked me up and brought me back. How could she just throw me away again like this?”

“She could have chosen no one at all, but why did she have to choose that mongrel Daoist priest Xu Sanyuan?”

Ya Qianyu’s resentment ran deep.

To Gu Huaiwei, every word of it was unbearably irritating.

Her sister didn’t owe him anything.

Why did she have to like him?

Her sister could like whoever she wanted, and as many people as she wanted.

She could like this one today and that one tomorrow.

Or she could love no one at all.

Ya Qianyu didn’t get to control that.

“Wow. You’re really devoted.”

Through the jade pendant, Gu Huaiwei saw the life her sister had lived back then in Blood Flame Palace.

The more she saw, the angrier she got.

She saw her sister’s face covered in blood. She saw the humiliation her sister had suffered. She also saw that after defeating Ya Qianyu, her sister hadn’t killed him. She had only tossed the used-up Time Artifact back to him, then left without hesitation, never once looking back.

Ya Qianyu tried to make her stay in a frenzy.

And after realizing there was no hope, he fused the Time Artifact into his own body.

“No one can resist the power of time. In the end, time will bring you back to my side.”

Using the jade pendant, Gu Huaiwei restrained Ya Qianyu. She spread out a Formation and searched for the Time Artifact, but the whole thing still felt strangely unreal.

That feeling had been with her ever since she arrived in this Dimension.

But Gu Huaiwei had kept steadily upgrading Oasis Manor all the same. She founded a sect, recruited students, provided her disciples with high-level cultivation techniques and weapons, unlocked training grounds, organized martial tournaments… There had been setbacks along the way, but she had still reached the final step.

And yet throughout the entire process, Gu Huaiwei had always felt that something was off.

Vague and hard to grasp, like a tiny thorn lodged in a wound.

She couldn’t touch it. She only felt the occasional stab of pain.

Outside, Bai Miemie hummed as she checked the explosives.

“The sun is shining in the sky, the flowers smile at me, little Miemie says good morning, good morning, why are you carrying a pack of bombs on your back~

I’m gonna blow up the bad guys, and I won’t be late today, light the fuse and then I’ll run, boom goes the sound, and the bad guys are done for~”

“Is this it? Why is the residual power inside so weak?” Using memories of the past to stimulate Ya Qianyu, Gu Huaiwei finally found the Time Artifact he had buried in the deepest part of his memories.

But the Time Artifact seemed to be damaged already, and the remaining power inside it was extremely faint.

The Time Artifact was a tiny clock.

At that very moment, it lay in Gu Huaiwei’s palm.

Its hands were turning backward.

Very slowly.

“Found it?” He Xueyi walked in.

He glanced at Ya Qianyu, trapped inside the illusory world created by the jade pendant, and reminded her, “The other three are all ready.”

Gu Huaiwei tossed the clock in her hand to He Xueyi.

“Found it. This is the one, but the item is damaged, and the power left in it isn’t enough.

The power this Time Artifact can still exert now is negligible. There’s no way it can manipulate time reversal anymore.”
In this Dimension, every powerful magical artifact had something to do with time or space.

If this Time Artifact was still usable and in Ya Qianyu’s hands, then even after being defeated, he could rewind time again and again. He could also foresee Gu Huaiwei’s next moves, or compress time to raise his spiritual energy for a short period.

If necessary, he could even use the Time Artifact in a mutually destructive attack and destroy half of the small Dimension.

He Xueyi looked at the clock in his hand, nearly destroyed now, and found it somewhat familiar.

It seemed he had seen it on a certain person from Paradise before…

Seeing He Xueyi staring at the clock in silence, Gu Huaiwei asked, “What are you thinking about?”

“Nothing.” He Xueyi’s golden eyes flickered. “Our mission remains the same. We only wait for your word.”

Black-and-crimson blood flames coiled around Ya Qianyu’s body, making it impossible for Gu Huaiwei to get close. She tried using only ranged attacks to kill him within the illusion created by the jade pendant, but whenever her dagger neared the flames around him, it melted away.

“Can explosives really kill him?”

“Our mission is to wipe out Blood Flame Palace and erase the demonic cultivators’ sphere of influence in this Dimension. It never specifically says we have to kill Ya Qianyu.”

“But I want him dead.” Gu Huaiwei was hardly a benevolent person to begin with, and after seeing what he had done to her older sister back then, her desire to kill him rose to its peak.

She wanted to peel the skin off his face, break his knees, and make him suffer ten times over what her sister had suffered back then.

He Xueyi said teasingly, “These past two days, I thought the two of you had been getting along quite well.”

“That was just an act to keep him from noticing the jade pendant,” Gu Huaiwei said, rolling her eyes at him. “Don’t forget, you’re the one who told me to pretend.

If he was too clear-headed and too wary of me, the jade pendant you gave me wouldn’t be able to work to its fullest.”

“The killing intent in your eyes is getting hard to hide.” He Xueyi felt that killing one more person was troublesome; blood stained his white robes too easily. “It’s rare to see you do something outside of work.”

“This doesn’t count as something outside of work. The mission says to destroy Blood Flame Palace, but Ya Qianyu is its leader. If we don’t kill him, what if the mission isn’t judged a success?”

If a job was worth doing, then it had to be done as perfectly as possible.

“If Lin She were here, he would definitely strike right away and clear away every possible obstacle to completing the mission. Even if it were Miemie, it would obediently carry out the task without asking why…”

Compared to them, He Xueyi was much more laid-back.

Using the other Assistants to provoke He Xueyi might have been an old trick, but as long as it worked, that was enough.

“Since Shop Manager Miss has said so, I’ll give it a try.”

A white feather appeared at He Xueyi’s fingertip. With a turn of his wrist, he threw it like a sharp sword, but the moment it neared the flames around Ya Qianyu, it turned to ash.

“No use. You’ll still have to rely on someone from this Dimension to get rid of him.” He Xueyi had only made a casual attempt and had not used his full strength.

If he truly got serious, he would make Gu Huaiwei step back first.

When it came to using someone from this Dimension to kill Ya Qianyu, Gu Huaiwei thought of one person.

“Xu Sanyuan.”

“He’s a good choice.” He Xueyi lightly stroked the Time Artifact with his fingers. More than the other Assistants, he could sense changes in Gu Huaiwei’s emotions. “Shop Manager Miss, don’t let the flames of the mortal world burn you. We are not people of this small Dimension. The affairs of this world should be left for its own people to resolve.”

On that point, Gu Huaiwei had always done very well.

It was only this time, after seeing her sister humiliated, that she wanted to take action herself.