1834 The Demon Within (1/2)

The weather was unbearably cold. The children were only wearing thin clothes. Before they could get out of the wind, one of the children fell. Another child tried to pull him up but failed, so they both fell to the ground and could not stand up anymore.

Gu Xijiu was moved. She raised her hand, and two coats could be seen drifting through the air. The coats then wrapped around the children to keep them warm.

The children became warm very quickly as they muffled up in the coats. Immediately, they kneeled and bowed towards the sky as a token of gratitude to The Lord.

Gu Xijiu never appeared, nor had the children ever seen her. They only knew they had to bow and offer their hearty thanks to their only guardian, The Lord.

The children then proceeded to grill the rabbit.

The Firmament Stone sighed. ”Master, under the miserable circumstance, out of so many lives, how many people can you possibly help?”

Gu Xijiu did not respond. She seldom talked or even thought about worldly matters, so the Firmament Stone could not understand what she was thinking.

After a long, quiet pause, she finally answered, ”What do you want me to do?”

”Cheer up! You have to be happy! You need to feel alive. Master, the land requires a Lord who is lively. You can cry or even be angry; at least some emotions are better than deathly stillness.”

Gu Xijiu hesitated. ”I cannot do it.”

She had tried, but she really could not do it.

The Firmament Stone did not know what to do. It was really worried.

She could not go on being so miserable, but it did not know what it could do to cheer her up.

Honestly, it started to reminisce the days when Di Fuyi was still The Lord. The world was blossoming in colors. Although there would be wars now and then, the land was always bustling with life.

Now, the world was merely a land of ice.

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Gu Xijiu returned to the Crystal Palace in the sea. She saw the poems that were engraved all over the floor.