Sincerity in the Abyss
"Her Lord Honor has many matters to attend to, little matters such as a miss-step, naturally wouldn't have the time to take into account!" In a casual manner, saying it as if it was just a fall, just took a tumble that kind of petty thing. She turned around, raised her hand to feel the passage wall besides her, consciously or unconsciously passing over the dark patterns on it. "Go this way!"
This wasn't something that concerns having time or not. The Goddess Yan Xi is suppose to be her blood related elder sister! Although the God race itself is fallen to nearly obsolete, but on the Divine Mountain, where followers count to the thousands. Her going missing for an entire month, yet no one has realised it?
"After a lapse of 300 years, every forkstop in here, I can still remember clearly. Can this count as a strength?" She flashed a smile, following his steps. The path in the secret passageway isn't an easy walk. Throughout, there are rocks everywhere. Bai Zhu deliberately slowed down his pace, so she could still manage to catch up. "Pity, since it is purposeless remembering. I still end up walking into this secret passageway again. Thinking of this visit to the Jade Pool, it's really asking for trouble." She laughs at her current situation.
"Eh?" Yin Luo raised her head to see the virtuous expression pervading his face. He only wholeheartedly wants to save the assembly. Those from the Xian realm, do they also share the same great love? "Actually, I can't really remember everything. Gods have an undying body. I've been in this world for well over a thousand years. I can remember everything clearly, save for those 10 years after my birth, I have no mememories of. The God race has never bothered with the likes of love or feelings. Like right now, I don't really feel that saving those in the Jade Pool is necessary if not for...." In the middle of the sentence, she quietly took a glance at the pair of intertwined hands and changed her words, "Perhaps it's because of that, so I don't remember those ten years that hold the only impressions of my mother! Is this what the humans call....unfilial?"
"How much farther?"
"One mile." He frowned, pondering, "I'm afraid that once we reach the Jade Pool, there would be guards, so we must put away all energy shields. I fear that these negative energies will enter the body, will you be able to endure it?"
"No need to worry about me!" Bai Zhu lightly smiled, waving his hand and removing that force field that had been shielding them since entering the Abyss. Yin Luo now finally understands the notion of negative energy. Negative energy doesn't have a body, yet you're able to feel it coming at you in all directions. Through every pore on your body, it invades, carrying traces of bone-penetrating chill. That chill is not only in the body, it's as if even your soul is invaded.
"Yin Luo!" Bai Zhu quickly grabbed her hand, keeping her from falling down. "We can't stay here for too long, let's move quickly!"
Her mouth twitched, little stars igniting in front of her eyes. She wanted to ask, to make sure, but at the same time is afraid it would just be a foundationless happiness. In the end, she didn't dare to be rash.
"Has Gong Zi been a xian for a long time?" *Young Sir.*
"Have you ever...heard of Liu Hua? *Hua means flower, the name of this flower is Liu Hua.*
"Liu Hua is indeed the God's Flower, but to the God lineage, generally in one's lifetime it would only be used one time!"
"Liu Hua is colorless, completely transparent. Never wearing any color, only the blood of a God can allow it to bloom with color!" Taking a glance at him, Yin Luo touched the bag at her side. In the right corner of the budging bag, there is a raised object with six points. She held her hand tightly against it and takes a deep breath. "So, often those of the God's race would use it as a gift to someone they favor or respect."
Yin Luo still cannot help but feel joy. It wasn't an acceptance, but ultimately not a rejection. "Then in Gong Zi's heart, is there....someone important?" It's still proper to clarify.
Yin Luo's heart felt a sudden stuffiness, "Is that so? What kind of person could that be? Where would that person be now?"
"Huh?" Yin Luo was taken aback, staring up into his pale flawless face. For a moment, she spaced out. After a while she finally understands that he is meaning the assembly that is trapped here at the Jade Pool. For a moment, she felt slightly guilty. "Someone at the Jade pool is your close kin?"
"Then must be the person you love?" Her hand tightens into a fist.
Yin Luo understood that asking like this was quite rude. The road to becoming xian asks for many commitments, amongst is the need to cut off all affairs.
She just continues following him along the entire way like that, going through waves and waves of joy, wrestling with how she should ask him. Him though, after making a few turns, unexpectedly stops again, staring forward and unmoving.
"Don't move! It's the Tian Ling Zhen!" *A powerful array spell used to hold in powerful people.*
Bai Zhu seems to have noticed her confusion, bends over and picks up a rock and hurls it out ahead. Only seeing that rock souring through the air and suddenly a 'pang' sounds through the air , it at once crumbles into dust. Yin Luo finally understands how those numerous disembodied corpses north of the Jade Pool came to be. The stomach gives a churn, unable to restrain her urge and bends over to dry vomit.
"I....I'm fine." She tries to suppress that nauseous feel, waving her hand, "That tunnel opening ahead opens up to the center of the Jade Pool."
"I'm sorry!" Yin Luo suddenly feels guilty, this trip of theirs is probably in vain. "I didn't consider how powerful this Tian Ling Zhen can be!"
"You have a way?" Yin Luo brightens up with hope.
"You're saying to break into there?" This barrier, where one touch and the body will be smashed to pieces, can it really be broken into?
"I get it!" Yin Luo slowly smiled, yet took a step forward and planted herself in front of him, "I'll Go!"
"Don't argue with me!" Knowing what he wants to say, promptly cutting of his word, smiling brilliantly as she turned her head around, "I have the body of a God! A small Tian Ling Zhen can't do anything to me."
"Can you guarantee that you can come out in one piece?" Yin Luo questioned him back, "No mather what you say, you were still first a human. Although you've become a Xian, but you still can't compare with the body of a God, right? If you were to get close to this array, you'd definitely be like the rest of them, ending up being torn apart as a result."
He is a smart person, so naturally he should know that at this moment what should be the best decision. That's why Yin Luo isn't even a little worried that he would object. She took hold of the Jade Pendant at her front and then took a glance at the Tian Ling Zhen that she just can't seem to make out. To say she is not afraid, that's a lie, but standing by the fact that she possesses the body of a God, more or less it can be of some use!
"You're concerned for me?" Yin Luo asked.
Yin Luo's smile became even more radiant, slowly widening. Almost like a stolen aquisition, this kind of worry is not something she would dream of in the past. Today, in one day and from this person, she's able to see it this many times. Quietly inside her heart, it's dripping with honey, the slightest of sweet. Suddenly, that Tian Ling Zhen doesn't seem to be that scary. Perhaps right now, she could say it out loud.
"I know what others think about me. Usually, it's just disregard, but occasionally, there are some that are better tempered, yet come with ulterior motives. I don't have anything else to ask for, just hope that there would be someone who doesn't treat me as a God, just sincerely treat me like usual...that's all! But it's a pity that in all these years, there's only you....only you have treated me sincerely. Even after knowing my identity, you still didn't abandon me. So....today I'm breaking this Tian Ling Zhen, not for the assembly of the Xian realm.... I'm only....only...."
Gritting her teeth, she went forward and took his hand, tightly holding it in her palm. His hand still carried that faint body temperature, warm, like the first time she had held it. It's even able to warm up the heart.
He was slightly taken aback, starring at her with widened eyes.