After an unknown amount of time, Yun Che's consciousness slowly revived. All around him, there was a vast expanse of white. He could not see anything, nor could he feel his own existence.
Where is this...?
Am I still alive...
“Brother Yun Che…”
In the pale world, a girl's gentle voice called out. This voice made Yun Che's consciousness throb violently, and he shouted anxiously: "Ling'er? Ling'er, is that you... Where are you?"
He tried hard to look for her, looking around, but he couldn't see Ling'er. He could only hear her low sigh, which sounded like a dream: "Brother Yun Che, I have been waiting for you all these years. Although they all said that you would never come back, I believe that Brother Yun Che would not lie to me... I am already sixteen years old... But, Brother Yun Che, where are you... Why can't I wait for you all this time... Will I really... never see Brother Yun Che again..."
The soft whispers were already filled with deep melancholy and sadness.
"Ling'er, I'm here. I know you must be safe and sound, and you must still be waiting for me... Where are you? Tell me where you are..."
Yun Che shouted with all his might, desperately searching for Su Ling’er’s figure in the vast white world. Finally, a white fairy figure of the moon slowly appeared in front of him. Looking at the figure in front of him, Yun Che muttered in a daze: “Qing… Yue?”
The Xia Qingyue in front of him was still as beautiful as ever, but her temperament was very different from the Xia Qingyue in his mind. She was his legally married wife, but now that she was right in front of him, he felt ashamed as if he was looking up at a fairy in the moon.
“Yun Che…” Xia Qingyue whispered softly, “I found what I have always longed for, but why is it that everything is different from what I thought… My pursuits and wishes have all deviated from my expectations, and have trapped me in a seemingly beautiful cage…”
“Yun Che, am I wrong… What should I do…”
Xia Qingyue whispered something that Yun Che could not understand. Her celestial figure gradually became blurred. Yun Che subconsciously stretched out his hand to touch her, and suddenly saw another graceful figure in a fluttering snow-white dress emerging at the end of the pale world.
“Little…little fairy…” Yun Che murmured tremblingly.
“Yun Che,” Chu Yuechan said with her back to him, her cold voice yet warm and gentle: “Our daughter is already six years old. She looks like me and you, and is cuter than any star in the night sky. But, she has never been able to see her father…”
Ping...
The pale world suddenly fell apart.
“Little fairy!!”
Yun Che cried out urgently and sat up abruptly.
It’s a dream…
This kind of strange dream had happened once before... That time, it was also because I was possessed by the Netherworld Udumbara Flower.
Wait, I'm in...
The severe pain throughout his body made him regain consciousness quickly. Yun Che’s eyes opened suddenly, and before his eyes was the world before he lost consciousness. The dark world was filled with a strange purple light. When he immediately realized the source of the purple light, he quickly lowered his head.
Back then, an incomplete Netherworld Udumbara flower almost took my life. Why is it that there are thousands of them here, and I was seriously injured, but I actually woke up on my own?
And the injuries are surprisingly mostly healed... With my body's ability to heal itself, could it be that I have been in a coma for many days?
Although Yun Che did not touch the Netherworld Udumbara Flower with his eyes, his entire body was still bathed in the rich purple light. However, what puzzled Yun Che was that the feeling of being possessed was exceptionally mild.
What's going on?
Yun Che tentatively raised his head and looked in the direction of the Netherworld Flower Sea. His expression instantly became stunned.
The huge sea of flowers filled the sight, with no end in sight. But at this moment, all the purple demon flowers' petals had gathered up, turning into buds about to bloom. Although they were still radiant with purple light, their soul-sucking power had obviously weakened by dozens of times.
At the same time, what was even more different from the Netherworld Udumbara Flowers that Yun Che had seen last time was that this huge sea of Netherworld Flowers did not even emit a single sound of ghostly cries. They were all swaying quietly in the purple light, as if they were afraid of disturbing something.
What happened? How long have I been unconscious? Why did I wake up? Why did the Netherworld Udumbara flowers here undergo such strange changes...hiss...that figure!?
Yun Che suddenly remembered the figure that he vaguely saw walking out of the Netherworld Flower Sea before he passed out.
Yun Che finally realized something at this moment. He turned his head sharply, and his sight immediately met a pair of eyes emitting a bewitching light.
"..." Yun Che stood there in a daze.
Less than two steps to his right, a petite girl was floating quietly there. Her long silver hair, as bright as the Milky Way, surrounded her delicate body and hung down, dragging a long section on the cold ground. Her hair on her forehead danced in the wind, gently caressing her white jade-like face.
Her body was covered in a layer of bright white light, and she seemed to be wearing no clothes under the light. Her pair of slender white calves were not covered by the white light and were completely exposed. Her delicate pink feet like ice lotuses hung down, and each white toe was crystal clear, like a jade carving.
Except for her long silver hair, her whole body looks like a jade doll carved out of flawless white jade.
The most bizarre thing about her was her eyes… They were a pair of strange eyes that Yun Che had never seen before.
Her right pupil is light yellow in the upper part and gradually turns into dark green as it goes down.
Her left pupil is light blue in the upper part and gradually turns into deep purple as it goes down.
A pair of pupils, emitting four colors of light.
The colorful pupil light he caught before he fell into a coma was not an illusion!
Yun Che had seen many cases of heterochromia when he followed his master to practice medicine in Cangyun Continent. In medicine, heterochromia is called "heterochromia iris". But he had never seen or heard of someone with four-color pupils.
Yun Che was staring at the girl in a daze, and the girl was also staring at him quietly. She was completely silent, without any sound, expression, or even the slightest breath. If Yun Che closed his eyes at this moment, he would not be able to sense her presence at all.
Under the abyss, the dark world, the netherworld flower sea, four-colored pupils...
This girl who was right in front of Yun Che at this moment, exuded too much strangeness and illusion... No, it should be magical.
“You are…” Yun Che finally asked in a very gentle voice, but just as he opened his mouth, his voice suddenly froze, and his expression froze for a moment. Then, he couldn’t help but whisper a name: “Hong’er!?”
Mysterious girl: “…”
Yun Che was shocked to find that the strange girl in front of him, except for her hair color and eye color, her cheeks, facial features, and even body shape, were exactly the same as Hong Er! !
It’s just… a coincidence. Yun Che immediately thought to himself, after all, looking alike is a very common thing… although, she and Hong’er are a little too similar.
And their demeanor was completely different. Hong'er was always very cheerful, crying, laughing, and making noises. Her little face was almost never quiet, and she would talk in her sleep even when she was sound asleep. But the girl in front of him was so quiet and silent, as if she had no emotions.
Although the girl exuded too much strangeness and magic, at least Yun Che did not sense the slightest sense of danger from her.
“You… who are you?” Yun Che turned towards her and asked softly, “Did you save me?”
The girl's lips opened slightly, then closed slightly, then opened again, and closed again... She seemed to be trying to say something, but no sound came out.
“You… can’t speak?” Yun Che asked tentatively.
"..." The girl looked at him quietly, then nodded slightly.
“Then… can you understand what I say?” Yun Che asked again.
The girl nodded again, and the four-colored lights in her pupils kept falling on Yun Che's face.
Yun Che had a very powerful ability, which was that he could see through a person's intentions from his eyes, but he could not understand what was contained in the colorful light of this girl's pupils.
Yun Che stood up from the ground. The girl could understand his words, but she couldn't speak, so he couldn't ask her where this place was or who she was. But at least, she had no ill will towards him, and didn't seem to reject him. For Yun Che, this was already a bright light in the endless darkness.
Then, this mysterious girl... could only be the only reason why I woke up in front of the huge sea of Netherworld flowers! ?
The girl who survives in this dark abyss and dances in the sea of flowers... What kind of existence is she? Is she a human, or...
Looking at the sea of flowers in the distance, he suddenly had a strange idea in his mind, and asked directly: "Did you make those purple flowers close?"
The girl nodded gently, her eyes still fixed on him, never moving away for a moment.
“…” Yun Che was stunned for a moment. After hesitating for a while, he said boldly: “Since you can control these purple flowers, then can you… give me one? I really need it, just one will do, okay?”
He did not forget that what was currently supporting Jasmine's body and soul was only the incomplete power of the Netherworld, which could only last for twenty to thirty years. In order to perfectly fuse her body and soul, she would need a complete Netherworld Udumbara Flower.
The girl completely understood what he said. She turned around, stretched out her little hand, and gently tapped the sea of flowers in the underworld.
Suddenly, at the front of the sea of flowers, a closing Netherworld Udumbara flower bloomed gorgeously, releasing an even more dreamy purple light, and soon, all the petals and the flower body were completely separated from the branches, wrapped in a ball of light, and flew in front of the girl.
“…” Yun Che stared at all this in amazement.
Although the complete Netherworld Udumbara Flower was within reach, it was wrapped in a layer of mysterious light, so it could not sense any soul-sucking power. The girl held up the Netherworld Purple Flower, which was large for her, in her small hands and held it in front of Yun Che. The four-color light in her pupils was dreamlike and flawless.
Yun Che’s surprise and excitement were so intense that they could not be expressed in words. He carefully extended his hand and said gratefully, “Thank you. Not only did you save me, but you also gave me such a precious gift.”
He took the complete Netherworld Udumbara flower with both hands, and while holding it up, he touched the girl's hand... but there was no feeling of warmth, not even a touch. He subconsciously lowered his gaze and clearly saw his fingers passing through her small hand.
“You… are a spirit?” Yun Che asked in surprise.
"..." The girl looked at him quietly, and after a long while, she nodded gently.
Yun Che was shocked once again. The girl in front of him was just like Jasmine who had lost her body, a pure soul.
What surprised him even more was that Jasmine had once told him that the damage done by the dark power at a higher level to the soul was extremely terrible and almost impossible to recover from. Even someone as strong as Jasmine didn't dare to show up in the Moon Slaughter Devil Cave in her pure soul state.
But the girl in front of him, who was also a soul, existed in this dark world where the dark demonic energy was countless times more terrifying than that of the Moon-Slaying Demon Cave... and it felt like she had existed for a very, very long time.
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