Chapter 120: Return to the Extreme North

“Senior!”

“Lingqing heard your voice!”

Xu Lingqing’s lips curved into a faint, happy smile, her eyes filled with the image of the one she longed for.

Treasuring the rose petal within the Eternal Love, Xu Lingqing then wrapped a strand of her own green silk around the petal, storing them away together.

Outside the house.

The fragments of the rose petals were scattered in a mess. Xu Lingqing carefully and diligently buried them in the soil.

Just then, a sound of ghostly wails and wolf howls reached Xu Lingqing’s ears. The sound struck her eardrums, making her whole body tremble.

The Charm Souls are here!

Xu Lingqing flapped her violet-gold wings, rose into the sky, and surveyed the situation in Anjin City.

The city was already surrounded by Charm Souls. Gong Yue and Gong Zang had led the city’s residents to defend Anjin City, but they were soon swallowed up by the Charm Souls, becoming one of them.

Awooo… awooo…

One by one, familiar faces were reflected in Xu Lingqing’s mind. No matter how cold she was, she couldn’t maintain her composure in this situation.

“Senior Brother Gong…”

Xu Lingqing’s willow-like eyebrows stood up slightly. She darted through the crowd of Charm Souls and tied up Gong Yue and Gong Zang.

Immediately, she found an underground secret chamber in Anjin City and imprisoned the two of them inside, waiting to find a way to rescue them.

After doing all this, Xu Lingqing waved her hand, and a layer of violet-gold light enveloped the small house she lived in. Her gaze turned to the north.

That direction was the Extreme North.

As she looked, Xu Lingqing’s expression turned a little desolate, and she muttered to herself.

“Perhaps mother’s words were right…”

Only if a person is cold and emotionless, unaffected by feelings, can they step onto the very peak of the world.

…

“But if one is without feelings, what is the meaning of living in this world?”

Xiong Yangshuo leaned on Xu Bijie’s shoulder, whispering sweet words.

Xu Bijie gently tidied his messy hair and sighed helplessly, “To have feelings is a sin, but to be without feelings is also a sin!”

Xiong Yangshuo wrapped his arms around Xu Bijie’s waist, “Bijie, even if I become a sinner of the world, I will still love you…”

“Stop with the sweet talk. Why don’t you go help me find Lingqing and fulfill your master’s wish?”

Xiong Yangshuo’s expression stiffened, and he stammered, “I… I…”

Their conversation was unintentional, but in Hui Liyi’s ears, it was as piercing as a needle.

Feelings?

If I had been firm in my feelings back then, perhaps the Firo Continent wouldn’t have become like this. Perhaps Lingqing would have been fine, the Centipede Daoist wouldn’t have achieved the Divine Realm, and the Charm Souls wouldn’t have invaded the Firo Continent.

Hui Liyi buried her head in guilt and walked from the main hall to the side room.

In the room, Lei Mingde, lying on the bed, was drenched in sweat, his pupils constantly constricting as if he feared something.

He trembled and said, “Liyi… Liyi… Liyi…”

“Mingde, I’m here!”

Hui Liyi held Lei Mingde’s body with one hand and fed medicine into his mouth with the other.

“Cough, cough… How is the Beast Taming Sect?”

Hui Liyi pondered for a few breaths, wiped the sweat from his forehead with her finger, and smiled slightly.

“Mingde, I am a Divine Realm being. With me here, the Beast Taming Sect will be fine!”

Lei Mingde clutched his chest and roared hoarsely in agitation, “Liyi! Don’t lie to me. My heart has been so heavy lately. I’m afraid something big is about to happen to the Beast Taming Sect.”

“Don’t worry, I’m here!”

With that, Hui Liyi covered Lei Mingde’s heavy eyelids with her hand and held him as he fell asleep.

…

Silent Ridge.

After being injured by the Realgar, the Centipede Daoist returned to the cave behind the waterfall.

He tore off the rotten, charred piece of flesh from his tentacle, crushed it into powder, and stared at the sky with deep eyes.

The sky was cloudless for ten thousand miles. Under the clear sky, an invisible force seemed to be swirling around his body.

Huu…

The Centipede Daoist exhaled a turbid breath, tightly gripping the axe, a hint of madness appearing deep in his pupils.

The cave was completely silent, with only occasional ‘whimpering’ sounds echoing within.

Immediately, the Centipede Daoist prostrated himself on the ground, his forehead pressed tightly against the earth, praying like a priest.

“Lord Blood Nine Nether!”

…

Xu Lingqing flew aimlessly across the sky of the Firo Continent.

A pair of cold eyes gazed at this familiar continent. Once upon a time, how she had longed to be able to fly, to fly into the sky to find ‘Senior’.

But when she learned to fly, she discovered that this world was completely different from what she had imagined.

The price to pay to break through the shackles of the sky and go to another world was enormous, let alone going to the great thousand worlds to find ‘Senior’.

Xu Lingqing slowly flew over the Giant Min Canyon, looked around, and then headed for the Extreme North.

Before long, on the ten-thousand-mile glacier of the Extreme North, she came alone to that ice hole.

In this life, Xu Lingqing had been all alone. She had never had the care of her parents since she was a child, and she cherished the longing for family affection more than anyone else.

Did she hate her mother?

Xu Lingqing bit her lip and silently shook her head.

She squatted down, her jade hand scooping up a mass of extremely cold lake water from under the ice. The lake water triggered Xu Lingqing’s Extreme Ice Body.

In an instant, Xu Lingqing’s body turned an ice-clear color. The lake water solidified on her arm, embedding itself like a bracer.

A bone-tempering cold light emanated from her arm, and the ice hole instantly churned with waves of water.

As the waves leaped out of the ice layer, they froze into blocks of ice sculptures. The ice sculptures quickly merged into a single mass, forming the shape of a beautiful woman.

Xu Lingqing looked at the ice sculpture in astonishment and cried out, reaching out to grab it, “Mother…”

She hugged the ice sculpture tightly. The power of the Extreme Ice Body merged the ice sculpture with her.

At this moment, Xu Lingqing smiled warmly. She couldn’t feel the chill from the ice sculpture at all. Only endless warmth and happiness flowed into her body.

“Mother, is there something you want to tell me?”

As her voice fell, Xu Lingqing only felt all the ice in her arms tremble violently. The ice sculpture’s arms began to melt, and its limbs were annihilated at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Xu Lingqing stumbled back in panic, muttering to herself as she released her embrace.

“I’m sorry… I shouldn’t have hugged you!”

In a daze, the familiar voice seemed to echo in Xu Lingqing’s ear, “Occupied by emotions, you are not worthy to be my daughter!”

Xu Lingqing clutched her head in pain, her body trembling uncontrollably.

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry, I can’t do it, I can’t do it…”

“Since you can’t do it, then don’t come looking for mother in the future. Mother doesn’t want to see you either.”

“No… I don’t want that!”

Instantly, all the ice sculptures turned into water vapor and merged into the air.

Xu Lingqing’s face changed drastically, a look of desolation falling from the corners of her mouth.

The entire world seemed to collapse in her mind in an instant, turning into a cloud of dust and dissipating.

“Senior, am I doing the right thing?”

[End of Chapter]