Chapter 90: Am I Causing My Own Disability?

About Cressa’s behavior.

Xu Xi was puzzled.

He didn’t quite understand why the usually emotionally detached Cressa had specifically adjusted the positions of the sugar jar and the magic staff. Was it simply because she found them displeasing to the eye?

Xu Xi didn’t pay much attention to it, just swapped their order, and the sugar jar was still there.

He believed that even if Mo Li were here, she wouldn’t say anything about it.

“Let’s go, Cressa, it’s time to prepare dinner.”

“Yes, Mentor.”

The autumn sun was setting noticeably faster.

The sky outside was dark and heavy, sporadically dotted with the orange hues of the setting sun, the last remnants of sunlight gently and slowly brushing the ground like a paintbrush.

Perfectly so.

Passing through the tall vertical window of the kitchen, it illuminated the indifferent face of the witch.

The golden sunset not only did not erase the snow-white complexion but instead highlighted its details, making every tiny hair clearly visible.

“Mentor, please let me do it.”

“No, Cressa, I’ll handle it.”

Xu Xi felt that reuniting with Cressa in reality was something worth celebrating, and he intended to cook personally.

But the witch seemed to share the same sentiment.

In the end, the dinner was a collaborative effort between the two.

Charcoal-grilled spirit chicken, stewed dragon beast meat, ginseng and vermilion fruit soup, stir-fried necromantic mushrooms.

The large, flat dining table was filled with steaming supernatural dishes, and under the entanglement of their heat, the chill of autumn was somewhat dispelled.

“Click—”

Xu Xi turned on the bright ceiling light.

After cooking, the sunlight grew dimmer, and the moon began to hang high in the sky. Only by turning on the lights could the room remain bright.

“I didn’t expect to reunite with Cressa in the real world. This feeling seems…”

Xu Xi pulled out a dining chair and sat down.

Looking at the witch across from him, who met his gaze with hollow eyes.

Involuntarily, the corners of Xu Xi’s mouth lifted slightly: “It’s quite nice.”

The return of the gray-haired witch added a sense of home’s liveliness and warmth to the spacious new courtyard, even though the witch wasn’t the cheerful and lively type.

“Let’s eat, Cressa.”

“Yes, Mentor.”

Xu Xi started eating first, and then Cressa picked up her bowl and chopsticks, also taking some food.

When did the witch learn to use chopsticks?

Xu Xi remembered that before the end of the second simulation, chopsticks were still the witch’s lifelong enemy.

That is to say.

Did she learn it on her own during the time after his death?

The relentless passage of time eventually forces people to grow, to learn things they couldn’t before.

“Cressa,” Xu Xi suddenly spoke, picking up a piece of tender stewed meat and placing it in the witch’s bowl.

“What is it, Mentor?” Cressa looked somewhat confused.

“Nothing, just want you to eat more,” Xu Xi’s tone was gentle, watching the immortal witch open her small mouth and slowly bite off a piece of the stewed meat to chew.

The dinner was plain, without any so-called surprises.

But in the light clinking of bowls and chopsticks, there was an indescribable clarity.

It was the one thing the witch had longed for, strived for, and shed tears for.

“Great…”

Halfway through the meal.

Cressa suddenly spoke such words, her voice very soft, but Xu Xi’s current hearing clearly caught it.

“What’s great?”

“It’s great to see you again…”

Hearing Cressa’s response, Xu Xi smiled.

“Speaking of which, Cressa, have you thought about what you want to do after coming to this world?”

“Accompany you.”

A familiar response.

Once again passed from the witch’s mouth to Xu Xi.

“Accompany you tomorrow, accompany you the day after, and the next year will still be the same, and the next ten years will remain so.”

A few strands of gray-silver hair fell from Cressa’s forehead.

Strand by strand.

A small amount, not much, but just enough to obscure the shimmering fluctuations in those brilliant eyes, making it impossible for Xu Xi to see what was hidden deep within those eyes.

Only vaguely able to make out his own reflection.

“Is that so…” Hearing Cressa’s plain voice, feeling the simple and clumsy words again, Xu Xi was stunned for a moment, his expression soft yet helpless.

“That’s indeed something you would say, Cressa.”

“I understand, since it’s your choice, I won’t stop you.”

The witch had already become a deity.

Xu Xi himself was also a Saint Magister.

As long as the witch was willing, she could stay in the courtyard for as long as she wanted. So-called finances, so-called food and shelter, were not issues for the two of them.

Dinner ended.

Just like in the magical world.

Cressa voluntarily cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks, even though for her now, it was something that could be solved with just a thought, but she still chose to control magic, cleaning them bit by bit.

In her words, it was a sense of ritual in serving her master.

Looking at such a Cressa.

Looking at such a busy Cressa, who seemed to have found a new meaning in life, shining in her own unique way.

Xu Xi felt that life in the real world seemed to have become more interesting, no longer dull.

“It’s just a pity…”

Xu Xi murmured: “What appeared here was not Cressa’s true body, but a thought, a projection.”

For the supreme witch.

Even a single thought, the effect of the projection was the same as a real living being.

But humans are like this.

Once they know it’s fake, they can’t help but want to touch the real thing.

“You don’t need to worry,” the witch heard Xu Xi’s words, she walked over with a cup of post-dinner hot tea, placed it flat on the table, and said so.

“I will accelerate the ascension of this world until it can withstand the descent of my true body.”

Xu Xi subconsciously said “Oh”: “Quite capable, Cressa.”

He sipped the hot tea.

But then, he coughed violently.

“Cough cough cough! Cough cough!”

Xu Xi pounded his chest with his fist, looking up with an incredulous gaze at the obediently standing 17-year-old witch: “Cressa, what did you just say?”

Xu Xi felt like he had heard something incredible.

Cressa: “Accelerate the ascension of this world.”

So he didn’t mishear?

Xu Xi’s expression became uncertain.

He had thought that the girl overthrowing the Chaos Deities was already shocking enough, but now it seemed that the Spiritual Energy Revival on Earth was also related to Cressa?

Cressa came to Earth because he was on Earth.

Cressa ascended Earth to bring her true body to see him.

Rounding it off…

Xu Xi’s eyes widened, realizing that the one who caused the Spiritual Energy Revival on Earth and severed his legs back then was actually himself???

“I crippled myself?”

“There’s such an operation!”

Facing the shocked and gasping Xu Xi, the witch shook her head slightly.

The witch stated that before she ascended Earth, there had already been signs of supernatural revival on Earth, and she didn’t intend to bear the blame for crippling her mentor.