Yi Ling sighed as she returned to her body. She waved her sleeve and summoned Tefei back to the Ring. She didn't summon Linyu, allowing him to stay in the Ring to tend to her garden and check on Mu Xin. She was worried about Mu Xin but didn't know anyone who knew about Deities. Unless she transcended to heaven herself, she might be able to find someone who could help Mu Xin.
She rubbed her forehead as she tried to think it through. To transcend, she needed to break through to Sainthood. Nobody had been able to do that in a million years. It was a daunting thought. She owed Mu Xin too much in this lifetime.
It was already getting dark by the time she got back to her body, and she was getting hungry. She decided to go out and look for some food. She wanted to take a bath later when she got back and sleep. She put on her mask and left her room. Yi Ling didn't bother with the Viridis; without Linyu around, she wouldn't be able to control him.
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Jin Minzhe was walking in the street. Aside from looking for his parents, he had a hobby of looking at unusual trinkets. He thought he got this from his father, who liked making trinkets. As he walked along the stalls, examining a specific item, his body froze. He felt a familiar aura pass by behind him. Jin Minzhe instantly turned around to look for it.
He was shocked beyond belief! He saw a young man wearing the exact same robe as his father: white and gold with specific heavenly designs. He knew his father's robes very well; he made them himself, so there wasn't another exactly like it. Plus, he had also seen the man wearing the Sapphire Jade Ring. But who could this young man be? He was wearing a mask. Was it that dumb old tree? he thought.
He followed the young man inside the restaurant. He didn't know why, but he felt like he had seen this young man before. As the young man was ushered to the second floor, he also got a waiter to place him next to the young man's room.
He couldn't see the young man, but he couldn't hear anything coming from the next room either. Jin Minzhe couldn't feel the young man's aura earlier. He was 90% sure that his father had something to do with it. As he pondered this, he heard his door open. He looked up and saw the same young masked man he was following. The young man didn't even bother knocking or saying anything but instead walked toward his table and sat in the chair in front of him.
"Why are you following me?" Yi Ling's manly voice permeated the air. She couldn't believe what she was seeing. It was the same man who called her his mother six years ago. The man looked like he was in his twenties compared to the teenage boy she saw years ago.
It was definitely a man, Jin Minzhe thought. He had a hunch earlier that it might be his mother, but now it was cleared up.
"My father should be able to answer that. Why? He isn't explaining that to you?" He knew that his father wasn't able to get out of the Ring, as his punishment. So it was impossible that his father was gone. A powerful Deity like him couldn't be easily taken over by this young man.
"Father? Who is your father?" Yi Ling's brows furrowed. This man dared to call her his mother; now there was a father as well?
"If Father is here, he should be able to see me right now through you. He would've already sent you running. That old man is crafty, I tell you! Tsk." He crossed his arms and sipped his wine. He couldn't understand his father's thoughts sometimes. Why did he choose this limpy-looking young man to hold on to the Sapphire Jade Ring? Unless something happened to his old man?! His eyes went wide.