In the middle of a cloudy realm in the endless void, a woman dressed in green wandered longingly beside a lotus pond.
This lotus pond was different from an ordinary lotus pond, which was suspended in the void and appeared to be golden. The woman in green did not know how long the lotus pond was or how deep it was. She only knew that she had been wandering beside this lotus pond for thousands of years.
Ever since her master had brought her here back then, she had disappeared. Back then, Master had said that after she had her own domain, he would return to help her shape her dao.
And now, not only did she have her own domain, her cultivation level was also at Eternal Perfection, just one step short of shaping her dao. But Master had warned her that if he was not around, she could never shape her dao privately.
The woman in green sighed, but she had no idea how unbelievable her qualifications were. It had taken a few thousand years to cultivate from an ordinary woman with no foundation to the Eternal Realm of Perfection.
She felt the aura of the Great Dao, and even felt that she only needed to take one more step before she could transcend this ordinariness before her and truly step into a new realm.
But Master’s words hovered in her ears, that if she shaped the Dao when Master did not return, her realm would end here in this lifetime.
In fact, the fact that the realm ended here did not concern her. What she cared about was her memories of her past life, and Master had said that only if she followed a certain path to shape her dao would she be able to get all the memories of her past life.
The cultivation could be stopped, but she could not do without her memories.
The woman in green thought of this and looked slightly bewildered. She looked at the golden lotus pool in front of her and thought of that man. That man had carried her on his back as she ran through the curtain of light, that man had carried her to the morning sun. It was also that man who carried her into the ice forest, and then she never came out again.
If these were all dreams, that man himself saved her from the flames and then was consumed by the flames in her place, these were all her personal experiences.
He said his name was Ning Cheng, and he said he had come specifically to find her.
He also said that she had left ten ice walls at the Ice Cliff before she died, and that those ten ice walls recorded the words of her heart before she died.
Before she had time to speak to him carefully, the disaster came. He was consumed by the flames and she was taken away by her master. She had made a vow that her training was to retrieve her memories and then go to the spirit world to find the man’s soul and bring him back.
Someone had given his life to save her, so how could she, Yu Qing, not retrieve those memories left behind with her life?
Yu Qing’s gaze withdrew from the golden lotus pool and looked at a half-moon shaped purple jade talisman in her hand. The words on the talisman were protected by a ban, and even though she had been fondling it for ten thousand years, the words on it were still clear.
“I wanted to stay here with the Wanderer forever, I really didn’t want anyone to disturb me, but unfortunately I was disturbed after all. My body can no longer be touched by others, and when I do I will nirvana into nothingness. I don’t blame you, you were unintentional.
If you are willing, please help me deliver this half-moon jade talisman to the hands of my mother Shen Mengyan in Yu’s Corner City in the Central Heavenly Star Continent, my mother will definitely be grateful, and if you have any requests, just ask Yu’s Corner City, they will meet you. The word Yu Qing.”
Who Shen Mengyan was she did not know, but she wanted to see the ten icy walls again, wanted to retrieve the wanderer who had run through the twilight on her back, was it Ning Cheng who had been burnt by the flames in her place.
Whether it was or not, she also owed a debt of gratitude to the Wanderer and Ning Cheng.
No, what was owed to Ning Cheng was grace, what was owed to the Wanderer was love.
I really don’t want to wait any longer, Yu Qing gripped the jade talisman in her hand as her gaze moved to a small stone bridge at the edge of the Lotus Pond. Master had told her that if she cultivated too slowly, she would have the chance to step over the stone bridge, but she must not go before then.
Since her cultivation had reached Eternal Perfection, Yu Qing had always obeyed her master’s words and had not tried to shape her dao, nor had she crossed that stone bridge.
But having waited for thousands of years, this section of the path at the edge of the Lotus Pond had long been trodden by her countless times. There was suddenly some torment in her heart, she could continue to wait, but would Ning Cheng’s soul completely dissipate?
Yu Qing pursed her lips, and after thousands of years, for the first time, she arrived at the edge of that stone bridge and carefully took a step onto it.
It looked like a very short section of stone bridge, but when Yu Qing stepped onto it, it was as if she could not walk to the end. She walked for several days before she saw the scene on the other side of the stone bridge.
Surprisingly, it was a garden with all sorts of brightly coloured flowers and plants, some of which were immortal spirits and some of which were just ordinary things.
But whether they were immortal spirit things or ordinary things, they all had one characteristic in common, and that was beauty. Each and every flower was beautiful to the extreme.
Yu Qing stopped in delight, so good that she had never seen so many varieties of beautiful flowers before. Master was already a stunning beauty, and planting so many flowers should be a sign of love for beauty.
Thinking of this, Yu Qing subconsciously stroked her white, smooth cheeks. She suddenly winced. She remembered very clearly that once again, her master had suddenly told her that she was so beautiful that she might even surpass her.
At that time, when Master said that, it was as if there was a chill in her heart.
It was because Master never joked with her and always spoke without much expression.
There were so many flowers in this garden that Yu Qing could not help but view them all the way down until there was no way ahead.
At the end of the path, Yu Qing saw a grey wooden door, which carried an eerie aura. Yu Qing frowned slightly, it was too incongruous to have a grey wooden door in this place. Seeing this grey wooden door, Yu Qing then looked at the flowers and suddenly had a bleak feeling. The flowers were no longer the beautiful flowers they were before, but carried a sense of sadness.
Yu Qing shook her head, perhaps it was a useful place for the Master, and instead of advancing further, she turned around and prepared to go back.
Just as she turned around, a dull bang suddenly came from the wooden door and Yu Qing suddenly turned her head again to look at the grey wooden door. Her divine sense wanted to sweep in and take a look, but her divine sense was unable to penetrate even a fraction.
This?
Even if Yu Qing had cultivated to Eternity, the memories she had of the outside world were only from when she was in General Sand City. For the past 10,000 years or so, she had been in this White Mist Realm without leaving. The only memories she had here, apart from the cave she cultivated in, were the golden lotus pond and the section of road by the lotus pond. Even this place was the first time she had ever been here.
“Ah ……” A painful ** came out again, a painful ** that reminded Yu Qing of Ning Cheng who was wrapped in flames.
When Ning Cheng was wrapped in flames and struggling in the flames, was it the same kind of pain?
Yu Qing didn’t think about it anymore, and she pushed open the wooden door without hesitation. There were no prohibitions behind the wooden door, only an inclined grey ladder, and Yu Qing kept descending down the grey ladder.
She did not know how long she had been walking, but Yu Qing stopped.
In front of her was not a cell or a square, but two huge pillars.
These two pillars were surrounded by a heavenly aura of dao rhythm that seemed to stretch to infinity. A tumbling void aura roared in the middle of the two pillars.
A few dozen feet away from these two heavenly columns, there was a void restriction. Even though Yu Qing’s divine sense could not stretch into the middle of the prohibition, he felt the painful **sound** that came from this prohibition.
A shiver ran through Yu Qing’s heart, she could not have imagined that there would be such a prison in this kind of immortal’s cultivation place.
She moved over carefully, the powerful aura of Dao rhythm around her made her sway a little with every step she took. It seemed that if she wasn’t careful, she would be swept into the middle of the endless columns of heavenly rhythm by that dao-rhyme aura.
“Is there anyone inside, please?” Yu Qing finally arrived outside that forbidden system and she saw a temple nun-like building, only her divine sense still could not penetrate into it.
“Who are you?” A slightly hoarse query came from the temple nunnery, sounding very vicissitudes.
Hearing someone speak, Yu Qing finally felt a little more solid in her heart and said carefully, “I have been cultivating outside, but today I accidentally walked here and heard a sound inside, so I came to check.”
The voice in the temple nunnery fell silent for a while before saying, “That b*tch Xing Xi didn’t even come until now, it’s only logical that she would have known as soon as you crossed into the garden and immediately slapped you to death. Could it be that she is trapped somewhere?”
Yu Qing hurriedly said, “Xing Xi is my master’s name, please don’t talk nonsense, senior.”
“Hahahahaha ……” A wild laugh came, “Your master, hahaha …… this b*tch Xing Xi would be kind enough to take on a disciple? If I’m not wrong, when you create the realm, you will replace me, Ji Hoyi, and sacrifice to guard the Tongtian pillar ……”
Hahaha laughing with a hint of sadness.
Yu Qing’s heart sank, but this time she did not retort, she actually had a vague feeling deep inside that this person called Ji Huoyi was right. Because Master had indeed not been seen for over 10,000 years, and most likely given blocked somewhere.
Seeing Yu Qing fall silent, this wildly laughing voice collected itself and asked in a husky, low tone, “What kind of technique did she give you to cultivate? What realm are you at now?”
Yu Qing did not hide, “I cultivate my own gong method, and I am now at the Eternal Realm of Perfection ……”
“What? She would let you cultivate your own gong method? This is never possible ……” A voice of astonishment came from the temple nunnery.
Yu Qing hurriedly said, “Master must have wanted me to practice her gongfu at that time, only that I had already promised another person to practice the gongfu he gave me. Master did not oppress me and let me practise my own gong method, but when shaping the dao, I must wait for her to be around.”
Yu Qing was no fool, and by this time, she sensed that Master Xing Xi’s acceptance of her as a disciple did not seem to be so innocent. As for the time when she had chosen her gongfu, Master had indeed said that she would cultivate the gongfu she had given her. At that time, she had already made up her mind that even if she died, she would still cultivate the gongfu given by Ning Cheng. She valued affection, and she was going to take what Ning Cheng had left her before he died.