Even though she had turned into a dragon in this life, Bai Ling's human habits and preferences were still deeply ingrained. After all, it's very difficult for an adult who is set in their ways to change.

So even though the Dragon Palace was very beautiful, she still wasn't used to resting at the bottom of the water. After strolling through the Dragon Palace treasury twice, she rode her exclusive black dragon mount back to the surface.

On this trip, Lu Linsheng obtained a giant golden pearl, Old Seashell got many precious medicines for healing, and Bai Ling took a weapon - the Great Treasure Blade. It was the kind that she always saw in trashy online game ads in her previous life, "click to get, dragon-slaying treasure blade".

Because its appearance was so familiar, she had a good impression of it. Plus, her hammers had been thrown away by the people of Mount Youfu, so she needed a new weapon. Therefore, she chose the most dazzling one in the Dragon Palace treasury.

It was truly the most dazzling. When Bai Ling saw it, this long blade even radiated light for a while, just as cool as a disco light ball.

"Ah, this is the Zhenmeng Treasure Blade!" Although Old Seashell said this, Bai Ling insisted on naming it the Dragon Slaying Treasure Blade. The black wool thread Lu Linsheng, even though he had become the black Demon Dragon Lu Linsheng, was still the same familiar simp, endlessly praising Bai Ling's trashy naming style.

Old Seashell could only look at the two dragons in front of him and the "Dragon Slaying Treasure Blade" in the little master's hand and fall into silence.

Bai Ling: "The 'dragon' in this 'dragon slaying' mainly refers to that turtle grandson dragon of Supreme God Xuan Cang."

The indifferent Old Seashell immediately jumped up and cheered. His initial reverence and flattery towards Supreme God Xuan Cang had turned into heartache and deep hatred after seeing the torment Bai Ling had suffered, completely viewing Supreme God Xuan Cang as an enemy.

"Little master, if you can subdue the Demon Dragon, what can't you do!" Old Seashell also became inflated. The Demon Dragon, that was the Dragon God. Even though he had turned into his current form after many years of sealing, he was still someone to look up to.

Now the Demon Dragon's shell had been replaced by someone else, and it was a demon who was completely obedient to the little master. How could Old Seashell not be inflated after coming back to his senses.

However, Bai Ling and Lu Linsheng, the two dragons, were currently in an injured state and couldn't go fight the final boss yet. They could only seize the time to heal their wounds in the sea within the sea first.

The two of them slept in a pile next to each other. Before going to sleep, Lu Linsheng even specifically took out the big golden pearl that Bai Ling had given him to sleep on. With such a big golden pearl, it couldn't withstand the dragon's larger form. As soon as he rested his head on it, the golden pearl was completely covered.

Bai Ling slept next to his head, with half of her head and dragon horns pressed against that golden pearl. Old Seashell was still surging with ambition and didn't notice their behavior.

So, after a black and a white dragon fell into deep sleep, the Dream Remembrance Pearl quietly exerted its function, providing the deepest memories in the hearts of the guests sleeping on it. Because there were currently two people sleeping on it, the memories were interactive.

In her sleep, Bai Ling arrived at a place that was unfamiliar yet familiar. It was familiar because she felt like she had seen the surroundings before, but it was unfamiliar because she thought for a long time and couldn't remember where exactly she had seen it.

Her current state was very strange. She had a clear mind and knew that everything in front of her wasn't real, but if this was said to be a dream, it was too clear and real.

She heard a string of curses, and several people suddenly appeared in the originally empty space in front of her. They were all dressed like ordinary villagers and were kicking and beating the dirty and tattered man in the middle. When that mud-like man occasionally raised his head, Bai Ling saw his face clearly and suddenly let out an "ah" sound.

She still remembered him. When she first left Luoshui and listened to Old Seashell's words to go find Mount Youfu, she got lost and was trapped in a forest for a long time, unable to get out.

It was this brother who led her out. Because he had a more distinctive appearance, Bai Ling still had an impression of him. It's just that she didn't know what this brother's name was. After all, they had only met by chance. She had casually helped him, and then never saw him again.

So why did she suddenly see him? While Bai Ling was thinking, she suddenly saw herself running over from a distance, kicking those villagers away one by one with each foot, and pulling up the brother who was eating dirt on the ground, dragging him back to his dilapidated house.

Yes, this was what happened at that time. Bai Ling slowly remembered and followed behind them, reliving that memory from back then.

Then this memory segment quickly jumped out. In the blink of an eye, Bai Ling found herself in a prison cell. The man who had been cherishing the golden pearl in the previous memory was now lying in a filthy prison, on the verge of death.

With a hint of madness, he swallowed that golden pearl. Bai Ling could almost feel the desperate pain and struggle in his heart.

His body was quickly eaten by a rat. It was a scene that would make people feel uncomfortable, but Bai Ling couldn't feel it because her consciousness had turned into that rat. Her originally clear thoughts became muddled. There were no various human thoughts in the rat's mind. It was only greedily obtaining energy, but too much energy made it suffer. Along with this pain, there was also a vague thought, a thought of seeking and pursuing something.

It ran tirelessly and finally one day caught the scent of what it wanted to find. It raised its head and saw a white figure, wanting to go forward, but they were so far apart. And it was also quickly killed by someone.

The pain of death jolted Bai Ling's consciousness free. She once again became a bystander, watching the rat's corpse left in the ruins. She lifted her head in astonishment and saw her "self" and the disciples of Guiyi Immortal Sect leaving without any awareness in the distance.

This was that time, the time she encountered the fox demon.

The memory and the current scene were two perspectives of each other. She didn't know what was going on. She watched a crow eat the rat's corpse, and then it turned into a small demon.

Bai Ling looked at the red-eyed crow crawling around on the ground. This crow also seemed familiar to her. There was something in her heart that seemed to be on the verge of coming out.

After this segment of a clear world, there was another period of confusion. Bai Ling's consciousness once again became that crow demon. She felt that she had flown for a very long time and far away, arriving at a place. Her body hurt a lot, but the scent she was pursuing in her heart was nearby, so this body struggled to get closer.

He saw a white dragon swimming in the lake, her scales and eyes glowing. The blue sky, green water, and yellow flowers, along with the carefree white dragon, all appeared tranquil and beautiful.

He turned into a red-eyed crow, then a red-eyed little mouse, his mind always in a daze, but as long as he saw the white dragon, he felt content.

This period of time passed in the blink of an eye. Before Bai Ling could even recover from the red-eyed crow's emotions, she found herself once again in a strange place. It was all dim here, with countless malicious, cold stares and ill intentions.

The process of being devoured was like a slow death, with suffocating pain lasting for a long time. This continuous devouring went on for a very long time, so long that Bai Ling felt a headache and discomfort before it slowly stopped.

This segment of images was chaotic and interwoven. At times, Bai Ling was a bystander, and at other times, she became the monster lost in devouring and being devoured. It was as if she was being pulled back and forth in a confusing, terrifying nightmare.

The moment the nightmare stopped, she saw herself again, and saw the monster devouring the corpse of a beggar. She watched as he followed the obsessive thought in his heart and walked up to her.

"I... am called... Lu... Linsheng..."

Lu Linsheng. He was indeed Lu Linsheng! He turned out to be Lu Linsheng?

Bai Ling was on the verge of going crazy, foolishly looking at the harmonious scene before her eyes. 'She' plucked a flower and threw it on Lu Linsheng. He picked it up and smiled at her.

Tears spilled from her eyes.

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Unlike Bai Ling's experience, what Lu Linsheng saw were some very pleasant scenes.

He saw a little girl with pigtails wearing a flowery jacket, holding the hands of two elderly people and swinging back and forth. She happily ate cold noodles from the shop at the end of the street, cold skin noodles from the shop at the other end, and hotpot from a street away. There were delicious foods everywhere.

The long, drawn-out hawking of hawthorn candy, the bubbling of chicken soup on the fire, the black box playing story scenes, the new floral dress the elderly made for her. A group of tadpoles in the jar in the yard turned into frogs and hopped away before her eyes. When the weather was hot, the yard was full of blooming hollyhocks. The slow, leisurely afternoon, the small bed emitting the scent of bamboo, the wind from the palm-leaf fan brushing against the face...

Although there were many things Lu Linsheng didn't recognize, he felt very comfortable. His whole body seemed to be drunk and soft, almost falling asleep together with the little girl missing a tooth.

But he suddenly felt a stinging pain in his eyelids and heard a loud cry and shout in his ears, pulling him out of this wonderful unfinished story.

When Lu Linsheng opened his eyes, he saw the white dragon crying and kicking his eyelids with her claws. "Wake up quickly! Wake up for a bit!"

Although Bai Ling really wanted to gently wake up Lu Linsheng and ask him clearly, the difference in body size made it impossible to wake him up gently, so she could only resort to kicking his eyelids.

Lu Linsheng's blood-red eyes stared at her. Although the color was frightening, they were full of affection and not at all scary. Bai Ling had always wondered why Lu Linsheng followed her and liked her so much. Now she had the answers, but she still lay on Lu Linsheng's nose and asked him, "Were you the big brother who led me out of the forest back then?!"

Lu Linsheng didn't know what she was talking about. He snorted and tilted his big head, questioningly grunting from his nose.

Bai Ling anxiously patted his nose. "That is, that is, I even gave you a golden pearl back then when you were ugly! Did you later turn into a mouse and a crow? I saw you, did you go to Guiyi Immortal Sect to find me?"

She asked in one breath, but didn't get an affirmative answer from Lu Linsheng. He shook his head and said, "I don't know."

Bai Ling: "How can you not know, you don't remember?"

Lu Linsheng: "I remember, but many things are fragmented. Those seem to be me, but also seem to not be me. The concept of 'I', I don't know how to define it. Now I haven't completely devoured the Demon Dragon, but is this current me really me? The crow and mouse, 'my' consciousness seems particularly vague, without so-called 'self-awareness'. Do they count as me? And that human at the very beginning, I'm completely different from him. Does he count as me?"

Bai Ling was stumped by Lu Linsheng's soul-searching questions. This 'who am I and who is me' issue made her head hurt.

"Then why did you say your name is Lu Linsheng? Whose name is this?"

Lu Linsheng: "It's the name my consciousness first remembers. I only have this one name. I remember I wanted to tell you my name, really wanting you to remember it. This is a kind of inherited consciousness."

The consciousness of liking and pursuing her, it's like the bones used to support the flesh and skin when shaping a person - the hardest thing. Just as his final form is a black wool monster, hollow inside without flesh, organs, let alone a heart. When it wraps around that flesh inside, it only absorbs their life.

Only Bai Ling can stay inside unscathed, because she is the 'bone' of that monstrous body.

Bai Ling thought for a good while, then suddenly turned into human form, tiny in size. She climbed onto the black dragon's nose and sprawled spread-eagle between his eyes, probably on his forehead.

The black dragon crossed his eyes to see her clearly.

"What's wrong?"

Bai Ling casually wiped her tears and wiped them on the black dragon's drooping whiskers. "My heart aches."

She finally understood where Lu Linsheng's obsession came from, but wasn't happy at all. Seeing her boyfriend in such a miserable state was heartbreaking.