How come the celestial technique I stole is so powerful?!

However, at Qianlong Headquarters, Miao Yin Heavenly King's heart was as tumultuous as a summer storm. Her cheeks were red as fire, and her eyes shone like stars as she stared at the dust-covered Blue Demon who appeared in front of her. Her voice lost its usual composure, "You... are you saying... you've opened the Gate of Creation, your genetic rejection has completely disappeared, and... you've achieved Nirvana?"

"Watch!" Blue Demon slowly extended her hand!

This hand was normal at first, quickly shrank, then grew larger, writing down the miraculous genetic creation in front of Miao Yin.

Miao Yin Heavenly King stared at this hand, taking a deep breath, "Is this the result of you sleeping with him?"

"What are you thinking? We didn't sleep together!" Blue Demon shot her a glance.

"He was exploring your body for half the night, searching high and low for your Gate of Creation, but in the end, he didn't... what?"

"..." Blue Demon's face turned red, "Can you not focus so much on that stupid detail? Can't you see how important this is?"

"I can see! Let's go find the Old Man right now!" Miao Yin said, "We'll immediately get you on the operating table, for dissection and study. Don't worry, I'll be the project leader this time, and besides Lin Xiaose, I won't allow any man to explore your body..."

"Good sister, you're such a good sister, how can you know exactly what I want? Let's go!"

The two Heavenly Kings departed together.

Upon hearing this news, even Chief Long, who had weathered countless storms, was completely shocked...

Immediately launching a top-secret project.

Miao Yin Heavenly King and Blue Demon jointly took charge of this project.

This project was named: The Sky-Lifting Project.

The Sky-Lifting Project, to lift the sky!

The meaning of standing against the heavens...

The great Qianlong project was urgently launched during this New Year's period.

Needless to say, the entire world was unaware, even at Qianlong Headquarters, only seven or eight people knew, and each of them was so excited...

Because if this project succeeded, all one hundred thousand elite of Qianlong could potentially become Nirvana.

Even when faced with the might of the heavens, I still have a sky-lifting sword!

Time rapidly approached New Year's Eve amidst the busy preparations.

In the blink of an eye, it was New Year's Eve.

At Wushen Mountain, the elementary school was already on holiday.

The ancient mountain village, like other villages, also welcomed its annual returning home wave.

The small village's inn, only had one and a half guests, Hu Die counted as one, Little Moon shyly, bullied you're young, counted as half.

The inn was actually out of service, the inn owner and his wife, along with their son and daughter-in-law who had just returned from afar for the New Year, joined to celebrate, bringing Hu Die and Little Moon to share this New Year's Eve dinner.

Midway through the meal, the inn owner's wife asked Hu Die a question, "Teacher Hu, are you going back to your hometown this year?"

At these words, Hu Die fell silent.

Going back home or not?

She truly wanted to return, but she was waiting for a piece of news.

This news hadn't come, and she didn't know how to tell her mother...

Brother, just what step are you on your journey?

With these thoughts, she returned to the top floor.

Suddenly, she stopped at the entrance to the floor.

Her gaze was drawn to the coffee table in front...

On the coffee table, beside the teapot, a small horse quietly leaned.

This small horse was the one she had folded back then...

Hu Die's heart rippled like the waters of the three rivers...

A voice called from the darkness, "Sister!"

With that word, Hu Die suddenly turned her head.

In the darkness, a shadow slowly emerged, silent.

Gu She, he had come!

On this New Year's Eve, he had finally come to his sister's side.

His arm, having been repaired in the just-past fourth Nirvana, his face no longer bore years of malice and murder, replaced by a mélange of emotions from a wanderer in a strange realm seeing family.

Hu Die's tears flowed like water from a burst dam, pouring down as her hand lightly reached out to touch that face in the cold wind, the familiar silhouette in her memory, gradually returning in front of her.

"Brother!" The two words were as light as a sigh.

"Sister!" Gu She opened his arms and hugged her tightly.

The brother and sister embraced for a long time on this strange land rooftop, in the cold wind, on this New Year's Eve night.

"You've finally returned! I've prayed to the heavens, to all the gods and Buddhas in the sky for a full thirteen years, brother, you've finally returned..." Hu Die cried.

Tears Gu She had never shed silently seeped from his eyes, "Sister, I actually came to see you two months ago, but at that time, I didn't dare to meet you."

"And now? Why do you dare now?" Hu Die trembled as she spoke.

"Because together with Lin Xiaosu, I destroyed the Nine-headed Snake Headquarters and because I fought for the nation in the Southwest Border City, I lost an arm! That was the arm of my evil deeds, losing this arm, I gained a new life."

Hu Die's hand gently stroked the arm: "Is this the one from your Nirvana rebirth?"

"Yes, I have been through Nirvana four times now. The first three were just physical and bloodline rebirths, but this time, it's a rebirth of the spirit! I'm back, and I'm back as a combat hero!"

Hu Die's smile was accompanied by tears: "Tomorrow, you, me, and Little Moon, we will go back to our old home in West River and tell Mom the news she has been waiting for thirteen years..."

Almost simultaneously, on the side of East Lake in Jiangcheng, a villa also saw a dusty traveler return.

This person was none other than the once-declared-dead Jiangcheng's first detective, He Jiang.

He Jiang stood in the dark of the villa, watching the lights go out one by one inside, his heart filled with mixed emotions.

Many times at night returning home, whenever he saw the light on the top floor of the villa, he could always feel his wife's concern.

Tonight, that light wasn't on.

Just because, in his wife's heart, he was already dead.

And yet, on this New Year's Eve night, on this reunion night when families gather together, he had to tell his wife that he had returned!

With his body moving in unison, he climbed to the rooftop. The next moment, he appeared in the corridor where the light used to be on, gently knocking on the corridor door.

The wife inside was startled, stretched out her hand, and touched the dagger under the pillow: "Who is it?"

After her husband's accident, she vaguely knew the crimes her husband had committed were severe. Therefore, she had been reclusive for more than a year, going out only when necessary. Although no one came to trouble her, and none of the bad things she anticipated happened, she was still worried. From that time on, she developed the habit of keeping a dagger under the pillow.

Tonight, someone was actually knocking on the balcony door.

This balcony was on the fourth floor!

Under normal circumstances, who could go up there?

"Hong'er, it's me!"

The four words from outside made her hand tremble, and her face turned pale.

Her husband!

Her husband had come back!

He had avoided the Qianlong pursuit that day, fled overseas, and today he returned.

"You must leave quickly! Don't implicate Qing'er, let him complete his studies normally..." The wife came to the door, leaning against it with her back, her voice very light but firm.

"Hong'er, I'm okay now! Really!"

"How could it be possible? You..."

"Before I fled abroad, Lin Xiaosu had already found me, and together we devised a plan. I infiltrated the upper echelons of Utopia, just now coordinated with Qianlong to take down the Utopia headquarters, all my crimes were pardoned, and I even received the Qianlong second-level medal!"

With a swish, the door opened.

The wife's face flushed as red as blood in the cold wind, and she trembled all over: "Are you telling the truth?"

"Look!" He Jiang raised his hand, a medal held in his palm.

The medal had a golden dragon on the front, and two words on the back: second-level.

A second-level medal, almost equivalent to a heroic medal.

The wife held onto the medal, tears streaming like rain.

He Jiang gently caressed his wife's shoulder: "Lin Xiaosu, though in my heart is still a bastard, I must admit, he changed my fate trajectory, and the fate before me is what I want!"

"This Spring Festival, you and I, together with our Qing'er, will go visit him for the New Year!" The wife slowly lifted her head.

"Let's skip visiting for New Year, for me to visit him? At most, I'll withdraw the curse I originally made and let Heaven know that if he has a son in the future, he can fart for a long time..." He Jiang said hatefully.

In the same Jiangcheng, in another lakeside villa.

Mrs. Ding and Ding Ruoshui had a mother-daughter conversation: "Didn't you ask when Xiaosu would come over?"

"Mom, do you want to experience your son-in-law bringing big and small bags for the mother-in-law during New Year?" Ding Ruoshui retorted.

Mrs. Ding extended her hand, intending to give her a flick on the forehead but decided against it considering the good progress between her and her son-in-law, and she behaved well. Instead, she gave her a sideways glance: "Am I expecting gifts from him? Am I such a shallow mother-in-law?"

"He also said you're different from his other mothers-in-law... Oh no, different from all mothers-in-law around the world!" Ding Ruoshui said, "You're the most open-minded, you're also the richest, you don't even know how to spend your money. Oh, Mom, deposit another tens of millions into my account, I'm going out to play with him during the Spring Festival."

Mrs. Ding immediately became alert: "Trying to swindle your mom's pocket money again?"

"How could it be, we have already agreed, on the eighth day of the first lunar month, I'm leaving with him, you don't want your daughter to suffer from exposure and hunger, right?"

"Really?"

"Absolutely true!"

"Where to?"

"Northwest! The time might be long..."

"Longer is better! The longer the better!" Mrs. Ding was delighted: "I'll transfer a million to you, more is really unnecessary..."

Ding Ruoshui was so happy she jumped, a million smoothly arrived in her account.

Mrs. Ding looked at her little expression and sighed deeply: "What do I have? Others have sons and daughters, and they're all at the age of branching out and spreading. The Spring Festival is very lively for them, but my family? The son-in-law doesn't come over, the daughter plays the generous role, and that rogue son has run away again, not even coming back for the New Year's Eve dinner."

"Mom, think about it this way, after all, your rogue son, causes trouble for many girls at home, but following a white-haired woman out only causes trouble for one person, there is some progress. And your son-in-law, didn't you always say he's someone doing great things? People doing great things have no time to play the drama of dutiful son-in-law or virtuous mother-in-law, and your daughter is still by your side. Otherwise, you can give me the New Year's money you planned to give to brother and Xiaosu."

The topic turned several times and ended up on money again.

Mrs. Ding glared at her fiercely: "If you love money so much, why don't you give me a grandson early, if you dare to have one, I'll dare to give. One hundred million for each grandson! Do you dare?"

"Deal!" Ding Ruoshui raised her hand, clapping.