Ye Jing and Fan Yuqing were both quietly looking at the starry heavens that were above them. They were alone in the back mountains of the Unmoving Mountains and were lying on the grassy patch.
Somehow tonight, they felt like talking to each other before the forces of the Devil Isle approached. According to updates, it would take no more than three days before the arrival of the Devil Isle.
There were many reports of casualties and every day, hundreds of wounded celestials would be carted into the fortress of the Ancient Ascension Sect for treatment. Most of the fighting was conducted between the fighters of the righteous celestial clans and the dark celestial clans. The Devil Isle rarely intervened except for once when it looked like they were not advancing.
Ye Jing laughed softly, "Tomorrow, Sister Danfeng will be back with her clan forces. Hopefully, she will be alright. What about your Minyue?"
For the past week, Xuan Danfeng had been mobilizing her clan forces to aid the hasty retreat of the righteous celestial clans to the Ancient Ascension Sect. At the same time, she was giving her forces some field experiences and exposure to the melee."
Fan Yuqing said casually. "She is already back. I've told her that I will be here. She will be here to look for us later."
Ye Jing nodded as she smiled, "It seems that Mu Huiyin is going to be greatly disappointed. She is expecting the Goddess Envoy or the Goddess Devil to confront her but her stupid plot did not succeed."
Fan Yuqing smiled with a tiny chuckle sound, "I don't think she is expecting her plans to succeed anyway. If there are spies of the Devil Goddess or the Goddess Envoy at the banquet then they would already have known of her schemes. Rather, she is trying to be the center of the targets. Although I don't wish to admit it, she is a true heroine. I feel a little bad toward her."
Ye Jing giggled softly, "Which part did you feel bad toward her? Seducing Liang Ni?"
Fan Yuqing turned and smiled at her, "The part about asking Xiaofang to put poop on her bed."
Ye Jing: …
Ye Jing said, "You seem to be more popular than me. Liang Ni, Lin Wucheng, Yun Xinghe and so many others…"
Fan Yuqing frowned lightly, "That is because I don't hole up like you do. If you were to make a few appearances then you will have plenty of suitors behind your tail."
Ye Jing laughed softly, "You mean plenty of haters and people that want me dead?"
Then she asked, "Say, do you really have anyone that you really like?"
Fan Yuqing looked at her coldly, "Why are you such a gossiper?"
But as she turned her head away, she said quietly. "A long time ago, yes. There is one…"
Ye Jing was thinking, "Was he the one that her elders did not want her to be with? The one that has no cultivation future?"
Fan Yuqing heaved a soft sigh as her eyes seemed to be in a distant place, "He is a good man. Better than anyone else in the world."
Ye Jing was smiling as she asked curiously, "Such a good man, you must surely introduce him to me. What is his name and where is he from?" She was thinking. If this man could catch her eyes then surely he must be an extraordinary person.
Fan Yuqing chuckled softly, "You won't know him."
Ye Jing frowned softly, "C'mon!"
Fan Yuqing looked up to the heavens, "I wonder how he is now? It has been more than two hundred years. I've first met him in Tranquil City that day. He is actually just an ordinary celestial with no extraordinary background. In fact, his cultivation level is quite low and is only at the master practitioner level. At that time, I was already a saintess. So you can imagine the gap that is between us. But he is a knowledgeable scholar and I've already fallen in love with him. I don't think in my entire life, I will love another as much as I love him. Dongfang Jun, I wonder what you're doing now? Are you well?"
When Ye Jing heard his name, she was suddenly startled and there was a weird expression on her. She had married Dongfang Jun in his dying days and she was his widow…
Ye Jing miserably thought, "Surely not. I hope that they are not the same person. If not, Fan Yuqing will surely kill me…"
She felt really guilty as though she had just taken Fan Yuqing's toys and she quickly said, "Well, things may change after two hundred years. After all, two hundreds is actually a long time. Maybe he has already gotten married and has kids. So you should try to forget him."
Fan Yuqing looked away and Ye Jing was startled to see that her body was trembling lightly, "I can't. I can never forget him. I don't care if his cultivation level is low or if he can never become a golden celestial…"
Ye Jing tried to comfort her, "Did you try to look for him? And how did you separate?" She obviously knew that it was her elders that had separated them but she was asking to mask her guilt and to disguise the fact that she had already known…
Fan Yuqing replied slowly, "I think that is enough already. This is too personal already. What about you? When are you going to get marry to Xiaofang?"
Ye Jing said coyly, "We are not an item and he hasn't proved himself worthy yet."
Fan Yuqing: …
Fan Yuqing looked at her and said, "You are just a kid. Just like him. So I think that the two of you will be the best match. If you give him up then he is going to be with Gong Nanyan in the future. This, you ought to be wary."
Ye Jing smiled with a light flush on her face, "Then let him marry Gong Nanyan then. I will not care less."
Fan Yuqing frowned at her, "Sometimes I think that you deserve a spanking on your butt. You doesn't seem too worry that your position as number one will be taken or is it because you have a special hold on Xiaofang?"
Ye Jing giggled, "I'm not telling you. Why don't you tell me if you like Xiaofang or not? Be honest with me!"
Fan Yuqing blew a gust of wind on her face, "You are too sly. If you are not honest with me, why should I be honest with you? Do you really think that this entire fraternity is your playground?"
Ye Jing heaved a soft sigh as she grew solemn, "Do you really think that I want to be the Goddess Envoy? I am really afraid of my future. Or rather, I am afraid that I will have no future…to be with Xiaofang. So it is better that he has someone to take care of him in the future. His greatest mistake is to look for me…"
Fan Yuqing: …
Ye Jing continued as she looked up the starry heavens, "I have a strange premonition that we may be fighting against each other. Will you kill me, Sister Yuqing?"
Fan Yuqing: …
Ye Jing smiled weakly, "I am just an ordinary celestial that is thrown into the samsara sea of destiny. But you are different. You are born with a special destiny as well as the daughter of the heavens."
Fan Yuqing sighed softly, "I guess that your godparents have already shared with you this much. Then I want to tell you that I want to have nothing to do with my special destiny because in my entire life, they do not want me to take any risks. I feel unworthy of my special destiny. Even my Sister Yi Si will rather give her Eternal Lotus to you than to me. You have no idea how I feel…"
Ye Jing looked at her and for a while, the two of them were looking at each other as though they had a new understanding of each other…
Finally Ye Jing spoke, "You really don't look like a villainess at all."
Fan Yuqing smiled, "You don't look like one either. But I am better than you because I have probably killed more than what you can possibly count them and before you say anything, I am totally serious. That is why I am no longer the daughter of the heavens but a really nasty villainess."
Ye Jing smiled as she cuddled in Yuqing's arm before falling asleep…
Fan Yuqing frowned lightly, "Hey, don't fall asleep here. Or I will really strip you naked here…"
Ye Jing opened her eyes and said gently, "I really wish that I got a real sister like you. It is like I have finally blurted out what is in my mind and now I feel much better…"
Fan Yuqing did not say anything. It was because in her heart she had already regarded Ye Jing as her half-sister…
At this moment, Feng Minyue had just arrived as she called out. "Sister Yuqing, Sister Ye Jing. Haven't you chat enough? Let's go back."
Fan Yuqing smiled as she floated gently to her feet as she reached her hand for Ye Jing, "Come. It is getting late. We should go back and have a good rest."
Ye Jing nodded and gave a smile at Fan Yuqing and Feng Minyue, "Then I make a move first. Our guest palaces are at two different mountain peaks of the Ancient Ascension Sect's premises. " With that, she had flashed down the mountains…
Feng Minyue smiled gently as she watched her disappeared down the mountains, "I can't believe that she is now an intermediate saintess. Her advancement has been so rapid. Among the four of us, she used to have the lowest cultivation level. Now she is ahead of Danfeng and I."
Fan Yuqing nodded but she soon smiled, "So how is your trip?"
Feng Minyue said gently, "The dark celestials are more numerous than I've expected. On average, their fighting skills are better than the fighters that are from my domain."
Fan Yuqing nodded, "That is because their dark celestial fraternity is more ruthless than the righteous celestial fraternity. Although their average fighters are much better but they do not have many high level fighters due to their ruthless attrition rates. You didn't encounter the fighters from the Devil Isle?"
Feng Minyue shook her head, "We have a glimpse of the Sword Centipede once and we quickly stay steer of it."
Fan Yuqing smiled, "Lucky you did. That is a ninth rank desolate monster. Even a peak saint may find it hard to beat. Is there anything else?"
Feng Minyue smiled weakly, "I have heard many gossips of you."
Fan Yuqing frowned lightly, "Hurry and tell me. I am keen to know my own gossips."
Feng Minyue hesitated for a while before saying, "There are rumors about you, mostly regarding Yun Xinghe and Liang Ni. They say that the reason why Mu Huiyin and you have fought so openly is because of Liang Ni. By now, everyone had known that Liang Ni had been expelled from the Listening Rhythm Pavilion. Also, they…are discussing your dazzling body during the fight with Mu Huiyin…"
Fan Yuqing smiled, "What's wrong with that? Why is your voice faltering all of a sudden?"
Feng Minyue sighed softly before continuing, "I think that some of them have wild imaginations after you have torn off your long skirt. They are discussing that you may not have worn any panties."
Fan Yuqing had suddenly turned a little ashen as she said in a low voice, "They really have sharp eyes…"
"Huh?"
"'Cos, I didn't wear any on that day…"
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