After showing Bai Jue the phoenix dream pearl, Er'Xi returned to her physical body.
"Thank you for letting me know about the dream pearl." Bai Jue said to her and she nodded
"The dream pearl can show you the dream of Hou Chi but only if she permits it, only the people that she permits to enter the dream with her can see the dream, but I will tell you this first; to you, it might just be looking at it but to her, it would be like she's reliving the life if she has any before now." Er'Xi said to him and Bai Jue nodded, but Hou Chi interrupted them as he was about to say something else.
"I'm okay with that." Hou Chi said to them and Bai Jue turned to look at her
"A'Chi." Er'Xi called out to her and she smiled as she bows
"Hou Chi greet true god Bai Jue and true god Tian Qi." Hou Chi said to them
"No need to be so formal, come join us." Tian Qi said to her and she walked over slowly towards the table, Bai Jue never took his eyes off of her as she made her way over to them.
"Ahem!" Tian Qi said and Bai Jue snapped back to reality, he looked away from her and Hou Chi focused on Er'Xi
"I would like to also know about before I came to the nine heavens as well and also if this can help true god Bai Jue come to terms with whatever he has been dealing with over all these thousands of years, I am willing to help out." Hou Chi said to her and she nodded
"Very well. We will proceed once night falls in the nine heavens." Er'Xi said to them and Hou Chi nodded as she stood up and walked away from them and Bai Jue did the same once she was out of sight.
"Will you really do it for the two of them?" Tian Qi asked his wife and she nodded
"It is true that the phoenix dream pearl is precious to each phoenix but it will bring me no harm to just have a look at her past life through the pearl. It also seems like it meant a lot to Bai Jue, currying favor from a true god is worth a try." Er'Xi said to her husband who shook his head at her
"But you have a true god all to yourself, you even have his offspring." Tian Qi reminded her and she chuckled
"Yes. Yes, I do but this one is so hard to please to earn a favor." Er'Xi teased her husband, the pair looked at each other and shared a laugh before kissing
"You both are doing it again! A'Qi also wants to kiss!" the little child said to his parents who chuckled at him and each pecked him on his chubby cheeks.
The following Evening
The four true gods gathered at the four-season palace with the four season-goddesses in the main hall of the four-season palace. The lounge room now has a bed in it
"Are you ready?" Er'Xi asked Hou Chi and she nodded
"You all will be here?" Hou Chi asked them and they nodded
"We're here to guard and to assist if anything were to happen to you or to Er'Xi." Shang Gu said to her and the young goddess nodded as she climbed into the bed that was now out in the open lounge room.
"I leave my work to you all if this goes on for more than one night." Hou Chi said to them as she lay her head down and closed her eyes.
"I'm ready." Hou Chi said
"Let me also get ready as well." Er'Xi said as she also climbed into the bed and lay beside Hou Chi, once both of their breath were steady, Er'Xi emerged from her physical form and took out the dream pearl from her forehead.
"Phoenix Dream Pearl, I've heard that it is extremely rare even among phoenixes." Shang Gu commented and Er'Xi nodded
"As I'm the long-awaited phoenix, I was able to cultivate it with the help from Tian Qi but this does not mean that it can always be used. There are conditions to be met; the person must be aware that the dream pearl is being used and accept that fact, and the person must stay calm at all times or it will wake the person up from the dream and it can only be used once on one person." Er'Xi said to them
"Now Let's see what the goddess's history was." Er'Xi said to them as she moved the pearl over towards Hou Chi, she left it hovering over Hou Chi's body and it glowed even more than it already was.
It all started in the nine-heaven realm, beside the forefather of the nine-heaven was his wife, and the two of them were walking around in the nine-heaven garden. The wife was well along the way, they all can tell how worried the husband was
"A winter flower in the spring, how odd." the fairy had said to her husband
"Shu Ling, it is the nine-heaven realm. What can be more odd than this?" the forefather asked his wife who chuckled
"I feel bad for the poor thing." Shu-Ling said to her husband who sighed and with his magic made the flower disappear, the wife smiled at him
"Now where did you send it?" Shu-Ling asked her husband
"To the mortal realm, it showed up in the nine-heaven realm during this time. It must've been cultivating to become a celestial being, I've sent it down with some of my powers infused to it. If it does well with its trial, it can become a fairy or even a goddess." the forefather said to his wife
But little did they know that the little flower did not become a mortal until millions of years later, the little flower was all alone in a big field in the mortal realm weathering all kinds of weather. It did its best to live but during the war that the forefathers fought against the demons, the flower didn't just wilt but it was completely destroyed by the war.
The flower was in the middle of the path of the war, thus it was tainted by the blood of both demons and gods not only it was stepped on and flattened many times; leaving it no way to come back to life.