Chapter 1548: Dominating the Inner Realm, Life is Like a Play, Who Am I?

The woman in purple nodded gently, rose, and with a flicker of movement alongside the young girl, prepared to leave the boat.

Before leaving, she turned and took a deep look at Wang Lin, as if wanting to imprint his appearance into her heart.

Just as they were about to leave, the woman in purple hesitated for a moment; the young girl in the emerald green dress had already left the boat and leaped into mid-air, flying using a Gravity Spell.

"Senior Sister, let's go." The young girl's voice drifted over through the rain.

Hesitating, the woman in purple looked back at Wang Lin, whose body was curled up in the corner of the covered boat, trembling slightly from the cold.

She walked over with light steps, tapped her Storage Pouch with a jade hand, and a thicker coat appeared in her hand.

After gently covering Wang Lin with it, she murmured in a faint voice.

"Is it truly… a past life…" The woman sighed softly and turned to leave.

The rain grew heavier and heavier.

Rainwater splashed on the river, and in that pitch-black world, this covered boat drifted lonely, exuding an indescribable feeling—it was the aura of loneliness…

Ripples on the water surface disturbed the waves created by the drifting boat.

Within the curtain of rain, the boat drifted further and further away, finally, amidst the lingering loneliness, gradually fading into the place where the rain and sky met.

Only the faint light emanating from the boat continued to flicker vaguely in the darkness.

From afar, the flickering of this firelight made the covered boat seem like a lonely leaf drifting in a dream, slowly sailing toward the end of the dream amidst the enduring light…

The sound of rain hitting the boat continued incessantly, yet Wang Lin, inside the covered boat, was sleeping very soundly.

The coat on his body had a faint, refreshing fragrance that drifted into his nose and was carried by him into his dream.

"Xu Fei… Senior Sister Zhou… Wang Zhuo… Wang Hao… Zhang Hu…" Wang Lin murmured in his sleep.

If those two women had not left, they would surely have been greatly shocked to hear these words!

But at this moment, they could no longer hear them.

Wang Lin's dream seemed like another life.

In that dream, he saw Xu Fei at the Hengyue School, saw that Senior Sister surnamed Zhou… On that Hengyue Mountain, there was also a white bird that flashed through the dream…

For a long time, the faint, enduring candlelight in the dark night became a shadow, gradually extinguishing and merging with the night.

Early morning, the rain stopped.

The horizon gradually brightened, but it had not yet completely dispelled the darkness, leaving the world somewhat dim, which seemed to make one's mood darken as well.

The night's rain seemed to have raised the river level slightly.

Although it was hard to detect with the naked eye, it was clearly visible on the riverbanks.

Rainwater washed into the soil, forming large patches of mud.

In the distance on the river, a boat drifted slowly, carried by the current, gradually approaching the bank.

Before long, it was getting closer and closer.

Finally, with a bang, the boat sank into the mud on the bank, as if it had run aground, and stopped moving.

Inside the covered boat, the moment the boat stopped, Wang Lin's head bumped against the side wall.

Awakening in pain, he opened his eyes, looked around with confusion, and only then slowly remembered the events of last night.

But upon looking, those two women were already long gone.

Recalling last night, it felt just like a dream; the figures of those two incomparably beautiful women lingered in Wang Lin's mind for a long time.

"Was it a hallucination…" Wang Lin was somewhat unable to tell.

Looking down, he saw the coat he was covered with, which was clearly worn by a woman, and gradually became fully awake.

However, in his mind, besides the images of the two women from last night, there was also that extremely realistic dream.

In the dream, he had returned to the Hengyue School, and surprisingly, he had seen those two women there.

All of this left Wang Lin very confused.

The candlestick nearby had long since lost its flame, having extinguished at some unknown time, making the interior of the covered boat only dimly visible.

After a long while, Wang Lin silently leaned out of the covered boat, gazing at the dim world and the hazy surroundings.

He could not see very far, but as the wind blew, while feeling the chill after the rain, he also smelled the fragrance of the soil and exhaled a long breath.

"Could it really be that what one thinks about by day, one dreams of by night…"

Wang Lin stood at the bow of the boat.

After the rain stopped, at this dawn break, the surroundings were completely silent.

This silence had no sound at all, as if in this world, only Wang Lin remained at this moment.

As he gazed, a feeling of loneliness, for reasons even Wang Lin himself did not know, permeated from his body in this silence and spread throughout him.

He stared blankly at the dim sky ahead, and that feeling of loneliness grew stronger and stronger.

The wind blew gently, stirring his black hair, which fluttered behind him.

His green clothes were somewhat wrinkled, and the wind blowing over them could not smooth out the creases.

"It's a bit cold…" Wang Lin lowered his head.

He himself did not understand why, at this moment, that feeling of loneliness was so intense, making him vaguely miss home, miss his parents, miss everything.

And miss a woman he seemed unable to remember…

It seemed that in the darkness, an invisible force condensed within this world and merged into his body, causing two lines of tears to slowly flow from his eyes.

"How could I… be crying…"

Wang Lin raised his hand, wiped away a tear, and gazed at the tear in his hand that resembled a raindrop.

In Wang Lin's eyes, without him noticing, an endless sorrow and grief welled up…

"What has happened to me…"

Wang Lin lowered his head, ignoring the water stains on the boat behind him, and sat down.

In the tranquility before dawn, tears fell drop by drop, landing in the boat and merging with those water stains.

This feeling of being the only person left in the world gave him a very familiar impression, as if he had often been like this—alone, silently walking through the world, silently savoring all of this, and in that loneliness, looking back at his own solitude.

Slowly, a trance appeared before Wang Lin's eyes.

He vaguely seemed to see a ten-thousand-foot abyss, where the bottom was filled with endless suction.

This suction was so strong that it seemed capable of pulling down the sky.

Within the cliff wall, there was a Rift, and inside the Rift sat a lonely figure.

There, it was equally quiet, with only the wailing of the suction permeating.

That lonely figure had its back to him, and he could not see its face, but Wang Lin could feel the loneliness and sorrow from that back.

In his trance, he even saw a young man dressed in white, with white hair scattered over his shoulders, silently walking forward in a starry sky, his back also carrying loneliness.

He saw many things.

The tears in his eyes fell gradually.

That sorrow seemed to come from within his soul, seemed to come from this world, as if this world was his soul, his dream.

At this moment, in this dream, amidst this familiar silence and loneliness, he found a trace of the pain that remained here.

Under the dim sky, Wang Lin, in the covered boat, gazed at the water surface alone for a long time, a very long time…

Until another cold wind blew, making his body very cold, he subconsciously raised his left hand and pointed at the candlestick not far away.

The flame of the candlestick flickered and slowly ignited.

Wang Lin himself did not even notice this scene.

With confusion in his eyes, and carrying that sorrow from an unknown source, he gazed at the water surface, as if for eternity.

In this silence, under this dimness, the burning flame slowly formed a candlelight, gradually enveloping the surroundings, flickering on and off.

Although the candlelight was weak, it exuded a warmth, struggling to burn within this world.

Looking from afar, the figure on the covered boat, under this candlelight, gradually revealed a sense of desolation.

As time passed, the sky gradually brightened.

The darkness dissipated from the sky, the ground, the river, and the boat.

Everything around slowly became clear, and the hazy black mountains in the distance gradually took on a greenish hue.

Only the rolling dark clouds in the sky continued to move slowly.

A bird, like an ink dot, flew up from the mountains.

With a cry that seemed audible, it rushed into the rolling dark clouds, piercing directly through them, flapping its wings, flying above the cloud layer.

After circling a few times, it actually flew toward Wang Lin's direction.

Soon the bird approached.

Borrowing the brightening daylight, Wang Lin slowly raised his head and saw the white bird.

It whizzed past Wang Lin, seemingly looking down at Wang Lin.

In that gaze, it revealed a sorrow that Wang Lin could perceive.

While he was stunned, the bird gradually disappeared into the distance.

With its departure, the sorrow in Wang Lin's heart also slowly dissipated, and the candlelight inside the covered boat also slowly extinguished, returning to its original state.

"What has… happened to me."

Wang Lin seemed to wake up, looking down at the tear he had wiped away that was still hanging on his finger and had not yet fallen.

Under his gaze, the crystalline tear slowly fell from his finger.

After a long while, Wang Lin stood up, carrying that confusion and the inexplicable sorrow remaining in his heart.

He packed his belongings, folded the coat of the woman in purple and put it into his book box, carried it on his back, and walked out of the covered boat.

The moment he stepped off the boat, he looked back at the boat once, then turned and walked forward, step by step.

But just at this moment, suddenly in the sky, at the end of the rolling dark clouds, a whistling sound rumbled into existence.

This sound was earth-shattering.

The moment it arrived, Wang Lin subconsciously looked up, and he saw a scene that left him unable to believe.

Within the cloud layer, two long rainbows seemed capable of parting heaven and earth, flashing through the clouds.

One of the long rainbows exuded ripples like water waves.

The moment it passed through the Void Realm above Wang Lin, it suddenly paused, the long rainbow dissipated, and a woman dressed in blue clothes looked down at the ground below, at Wang Lin who was looking up at the sky.

"Eh…" The woman's eyes revealed confusion.

"What is it, Junior Sister Liu?"

The other long rainbow dissipated, and a handsome young man walked out from within.

He looked gently at the woman and asked softly.

"It's nothing, I think I have seen that scholar somewhere before…"

The woman shook her head gently and turned into a long rainbow, leaving.

"He is just a Mortal; we should hurry to rendezvous with our sect and go to the place where the golden light is emitting."

The young man looked down at Wang Lin below, withdrew his gaze, and followed the woman into the distance.