Flowers of Love c10

Note: I've changed Uncle Fu back to Fu Shu because the chinese term Shu for uncle and the english Uncle gives off a different feel. Uncle seems too chummy. Even it's told more from Yin Luo's side, referring him as Uncle Fu while Yin Luo's sister is in the scene gives a awkward feel. Makes him sound like Santa or something. lol

Yin Luo stubbornly climbed up from the ground, no longer able to support the injuries on the body, as if at any moment she will collapse. Yet she is managing with that thread of energy, standing straight as a pole. This kind of result, hadn't she been expecting it? But why was there that thread of uncanny hope in her heart, that the person sitting up there, if she spares so much as a compa.s.sion glance, it's still a luxurious wish of her's.


"I thank your Honor, Yin Luo should not have inturrupted this late. I will excuse myself!"


Her figure is unstable, as if about to fall, yet she is commanding herself to keep it up, only needing to reach the doorway, only need to keep going until reaching the doorway. In here, there is no one who can help her. Even those with the ability to help her will feel disgraced to help her.


"Hold it!" A cold voice sounded out from behind, like a rainbow cutting through the clouds, echoing sternly through the a.s.sembly hall. Yin Luo turned her head around in astonishment, meeting with her pair of ever cold eyes. There was a moment of trance, suspecting it was a hallucinations.


"Your Honor!" Fu Shu was quite surprised as well, turned around to ask, but was stopped by a glance from the Lord Honor.


Yan Xi looked towards the figure at the center of the room who is down to the last thread of life, but is stubbornly straightened to a standing position. A glimmer of something pa.s.sed through her eyes, but immediately reverted back into iciness. "The 'Soul Return', naturally can't be given to you, but..." She raised a hand. Something is thrown out, slowly flying towards Yin Luo, stopping in midair about a step away from her. It is a single black pill. "This is 'Cloud Disperse', it can temporarily preserve your life. Lest anyone says that the G.o.ds have no compa.s.sion."


Once she said this, every person in presence was shocked, slowly and speechlessly turning to look towards her.


Yue Ran who had been silently standing at the side, also became pale in the face, came forward with hands together, raised in a formal gesture, "Lord Honor, 'Soul Return' cannot be given, that's inevitable, but the 'Cloud Disperse'... although it does have some healing properties, but it in itself carries poison. Absolutely cannot have Second Master take it!"


"She is of my G.o.d race. If even this degree, she can't endure, then she is only possessing a G.o.d's body in vain! Moreover..." Yan Xi's eyes narrowed, directing a glance towards the tense Yue Ran, raising a sharp voice in reply "Since when has the things I do fallen to the point where you can have say?"


"You.." Yue Ran took a step forward, about to argue, but was interupted by Yin Luo.


"Yin Luo thanks her Lord Honor!" She grasped the pill in front, not even spending a thought on it and just swallowed it, bending over to give a formal thanking courtesy.


The G.o.dly visage finally returned to Yan Xi's features. This time looking at Yin Luo, the look in her eyes is accompanied with threads of scorn and disdain. No longer willing to linger any longer, with a wisk of the sleeve, she turned around, her red figure already disappeared above the the great hall.


With the master gone, the a.s.sembled peoples also dispersed in a similar manner. For a moment, the only ones remaining are Yin Luo and Yue Ran, the two of them. Her legs giving out, she can not longer keep up and falls over. Yue Ran conveniently catches her.


"Ya Tou!" Yue Ran clenches his teeth, a face full of anxiousness and rage "You did you take that remedy, you clearly know that you..."


"It's alright!" Yin Luo softly repled, breaths as weak as thin hair, but still habitually forcing out a smile "Don't worry, I not going... to die!"


"Ya Tou!"


As soon as the words are dropped, the speaker is already pa.s.sed out.


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It's night!


Yin Luo is awakened by a severe pain, reaches out her hand to tightly press against her chest, but no matter how much strength she puts, there it still feels as though going through a fire. The entire body, there is no part that feels like her own. It is like every little part is being cut apart. Although knowing that the Cloud Disperse has side effects, but she didn't think that when triggered it would be this intense.


It's alright, it's alright, she will get better. Hadn't she already taken the medicine? This kind of pain, she can endure it, she can get through it! She wants to live, must live.


Funny right? A person like her, there isn't even a need to exist, yet she's still wanting to live. Even though knowing that no one will care about her death, even though knowing that there is no meaning in living, but she still wants to live, with a reason to live that even she doesn't know.


She's lived for several thousand years and still hasn't gotten tired of it! Yet there just happens to be so many that are tired of her. Like those of the Divine Mountain, like those from all realms, like... her blood older sister.


On her spare time, she would always, via the water mirror, look at the many ways of the human realm, wanting to see the so called love of the human realm, to see if it's the same as here. The more seeing, the more thinking that this so called "love" is actually this unreachable. Sometimes she would rather herself be just a human. Better than on the Divine Mountain, these slow and long never-ending days.


The pain continues to increase. Yin Luo is pained to the point of becoming numb, with only a sliver of conciousness reminding herself, pull through, pull through, must live.


Not knowing where this thought came from, yet it is what gave Yin Luo reason to endure this pain, this reason without a reason!


"Your Honor!" Outside the door, came a respectful tone.


"Enter!" Inside the room, a red robed lady turned around, smoothly brus.h.i.+ng away the image from the water mirror. In front of her, comes an elderly, "What is it?"


The person who has come in is Fu Shu, he respectfully bends his body to make a formal bow, "Your Honor, the old man has something he doesn't understand?"


Yan Xi sits down on the designated seat, unhurriedly said, "Speak!"


"Your Honor does not want to bestow the 'Soul Return' andedote to the second master, so why go on to bestow the 'Cloud Disperse'?"


"You are so sure about me, that I will not consider our sisterhood, not caring for her life or death?" Her pair of eyes narrowed slightly.


"Your subject does not dare!"


"It's not untrue, I do not care whether or not that she is my sister!" Unexpectedly, Yan Xi openly admits, "The reason why I did not bestow her the 'Soul Return' andedote, that is punishment for her going to the Jade Pool on her own without permission. The current state of her injuries, that is also the consequence of her own doing. It cannot be blamed on anyone else.


"Then why...." Fu Shu becomes more confused.


"The 'Cloud Disperse'?" Yan Xi asked in return, seeing him nod as affirmation, slowly brought out a smile, yet still without warmth, "What the 'Cloud Disperse' is, you should be more knowledgeable that me. It is the 'Soul Return's prior (unevolved) form. Our G.o.d race has many times thought of reproducing the 'Soul Return', but never succeeded, the 'Cloud Disperse' is that failed attempt. Although effective, but it has side effects. Whether or not life-threatening, no one knows. Even more, is it's effect on a G.o.d, and having reached what degree of effectiveness. I let her take it, is also giving her a chance at redemption!"


The 'Cloud Disperse' is.....an experiment!


Fu Shu's eyes widen abruptly. Even though expecting it, he still received a shock. Her Lord Honor's words, indeed reasonable, but perhaps it is a little....cruel!


After a moment of pause, he raised both hands to salute, "Your Honor is clear with reward and punishment, it is the 6 realm's fortune. Your subordinate understands now! Will take leave now!" Seeing Yan Xi nod, he finally exits through the door.


Yan Xi stared at his figure disappear beyond the doorway. On her cold face, brows lightly furrowed. She turned her head to look towards the water mirror, and muttered, "Yan Fu.....meh?"


A white misty morning, Yue Ran in a robe of green, stands in front of a door. His thick eyebrows furrowed, glancing at a red painted door for a moment. He seems to have stood there for a long time, on the robe there are dewdrops. Afer awhile, he reached out a hand, paused, lightly placing it against the door.


But unable to hear any sound, the heart instantly sunk. He added more strength to knock. On the face now, there is a slight anxiety.


"Ya Tou, Ya Tou, answer me! Ya Tou...."


"Yue Ran? You're looking for me?" Unexpectedly, the replying voice came from behind.


Yue Ran abruptly turned around, looking towards that person behind. Indeed, it is that ashened white figure, that small head, looking at himself with a probing expression. The complexion, not known if frozen by cool air or what, is completely pale, shrouded by the light mist, as if it would disappear at any moment.


Yue Ran stared blankly, as long as a lifetime. On his face is still a wooden expression, as if unable to respond.


Yin Luo habitally pulled a smile, but not it does not reach the eyes. Her complexion is still pale, "Something so early?"


Yue Ran is dumbstruck, finally recalling his initial purpose, putting away that blunt expression, "I.....I came to see....see you!"


The eyes unconciously moving away, a s.h.i.+lver of bitterness pa.s.sed through Yin Luo's heart. On the face, there is still no wave of emotions crossing, "You're afraid I'll....just go like this?"


"Nonsense!" Yue Ran shot up sternly,suddenly on fire, "How could you die!"


Yin Luo lightly laughed, following his words, "Yah! I won't die....." slowly raising the hand, she gazed at the tranlucent flower in her hand. As if in a daze, she just stares unblinkingly at it.


Yue Ran only saw clearly now, that what she was holding in her hand was the Liu Hua Flower. It looks as if freshly picked, her sleeve is half soaked. His heart burned even more, "Since you are fine, you should just keep laying down, why come out so early?"


Yin Luo smiled indifferently, still looking at the flower in hand, her tone faint and without energy, "I just suddenly....feel like picking....picking ....flowers!"


"Those flowers, why can't you pick them another time? Why now?" Yue Ran frowned, walking towards her, "Come with me back to the room and rest there. This injury of yours still needs to rest and nurture a few more days!"


He extended his hands to grab her, yet she, as if spooked, hastenly moved away and dodged. A quiver of the hand, the flowers fell to the the ground. Upon contact with his robe, instantly dissolves into water, soaking half of his side. The Liu Hua Flower is untouched by worldly dust, only a G.o.d can touch it.


Yue Ran's hand just stays stranded in midair, unable to come back to his senses for a long time.


"I.....am fine!" Yin Luo, reflecting her own natural response, is a little guilty. Obviously, this person was only showing kindness, yet she.... sighs.


She took a glance at that wet stain on his robe, "You also know, I just needed to make it through last night, afterwards would no longer encounter any life threatening situation! Right now, it's only the body's weak condition, no need to worry!"


Yue Ran didn't say anything, hand extended in the air for awhile before gradually putting it back behind his body, tightly clenched.


"Yue Ran, you don't need to worry about me anymore. Coming out right now to get some fresh air is better than resting in the room!" She faintly smiled, trying to ease up the awkward atmosphere between the two of them, but it didn't have much of an effect.


Ironically, it's as if the more she says, the tighter Yue Ran's brows become.


Yin Luo sighed, lowered her head and slowly feeling the bag at her side that contains the perserved honey pieces, as if like that could lighten the bitterness in her heart, "The negative energy in my body is already gone, the wounds has already closed as well! Apart from feeling some fatigue, nothing else! You need only honestly report to her Honor and it'll be fine!"


Why he is like this, even without saying it, she would understand the purpose of his coming to find her this early. It must be her Honor's order, so how could she not cooperate? The Cloud Disperse has never been tried by any from the G.o.d Race. Her Honor wanting to know its effectiveness, that is natural. As for who it is sent to come see her, she doesn't mind, really, not even a little! Even if it's....Yue Ran.


"Yue Ran, do you have some Land Shrinking Talismans on you?" Yin Luo asked. "I have somewhere I want to go, and you also know, my Purple Jade Gourd broke!"


Yue Ran having heard, became silent for a moment, reached with his hand to take out two red talismans.


Yin Luo smiled as she took them, "One for going, one for coming back, thanks!"


Yue Ran's hand flinched again. To him, she is... expressing graditude!


"I'm in a hurry to go, so I'll say my farewell here!" Yin Luo bowed her head in gesture, turned around and headed into the back courtyard. The pacing of footsteps was slightly hurried, appearing to really want to get to that place.


"Yin Luo!" Yue Ran still could not resist opening his mouth, tightening his fist, "Are you....resenting me right now?"


Yin Luo's footstep halted, frozen on spot. After a long while, whipping her head around, on the face is a smile as radiant as spring, "Yue Ran, what nonsense are you saying? How could I resent you?" This kind of thing, she has long gotten used to it already. "I should go now, see you later!" After saying that, she entered into the adjacent courtyard, her figure becoming obscured.


At the center courtyard, only Yue Ran is left standing there, staring at the water stain on his robe, fixed on it for a long while.


"I'd actually rather.....you said you resented me!"