Chapter 444 You Have the Wine, I Have the Story (1/2)

Zhao Xiaoyu suddenly smiled, her hair scattered like a waterfall. She walked to the middle of the white fog and the boiling water, and her body sank deeper. She actually could use the Godly body to enter the water boiled by star power, and not a bit of her supple skin was scalded by it.

She was like a mermaid now, clean drawn-out ripples, floating deep onto the waterbed. It was sand that shimmered, like a heap of snow powder. She did not care for her image and sat on the bed of sand, seeing everything inside the water.

Despite the white fog that spewed out from the boiling water, the waterbed showed a completely different scene. Layers and layers of waves rippled, and the water was filled with the star power. It was as if she placed herself in a star river, since it was already bright and beautiful. She also deeply felt the heat of the star power which constantly attempted to break through her skin, infesting her divine lights.

This type of environment gave people an unbearable suffering, yet was also as clear as colored glass. It made one feel as though one were immersed in a dream, with one's heart and soul set free with no limits, indeed forgetting all the obstruction caused by suffering.

During The Total Annihilation of the Dharma, demons surfaced, and as if there was no colored glass anywhere, an exotic fragrance filled the air, naturally there was no way to attract the falling of the Penitential Buddha.

All composed things are like a dream, a phantom, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning. That is how to meditate on them, like a lotus, to observe them.

Zhao XIaoyu gradually felt her divine powers weakening, a pristine lotus flower also grew out from her heart, and she felt happy and calm.

The Book of Nine Lotus had a certain mysteriousness, all the more without a doubt at this time. From Mount Jimo it obtained the heritage of the Meaning of Dharma from the founder of Luo Order. And at this time it was like the lotus seeds that were borne by the lotus flower, clear and capable of moving people, within easy reach.

All of The Total Annihilation of the Dharma, did not annihilate the heart and soul. When Zhao Xiaoyu's last strand of divine power was depleted, her whole being felt like it sunk into a vacuum, her spirit floating around, and the heart of the world in a flash.

The melodious lake water was all around, as was the heartfelt moonlight that rippled with the water, crystal and clear was the gleaming light of the waves. Just like a starry night sky, the scene was a moving one.

At this quiet place of heaven and earth, Zhao XIaoyu silently sat on a boat. Her finger plucked the strings of a Guqin, the sound of which elucidated her meditation, bright in the way the moonlight was cleansing.

It was in this poetic moment in heaven and earth that Shen Lian suddenly appeared. He came from out of nowhere, but when he appeared, it like the look of a painting, as if a splash of ink painting broke into the heaven and earth. With no discernible difference in ally, it impacted the calm and happy divine heart of Zhao Xiaoyu.

She quietly kept a close look on Shen Lian as he came nearer. Her mouth bore a shallow smile, and she seemed to have an endless amount of deep emotion.

Shen Lian moved like the fresh rain on an empty mountain, like the wind on an autumn's night. Surely not a girl in this world can ever resist such a man walking towards her.

Zhao Xiaoyu suddenly looked as if her young heart's desire sprouted, she smiled in flowers, and her whole body was enveloped in the midst of the emotion. But when Shen Lian stepped on the deck of the boat, her playing of Guqin suddenly became impatient, like a silver bottle that broke, armored horses pushing out, her sombre qi was like a knife and sword. Swiftly the sound took on shape, strangling the incoming Shen Lian without a moment's hesitation.

She slowly closed her eyes, and after a while opened them again. The surrounding water stopped moving, enabling her to see quite a distance. However she need not look that far, for Senior Apprentice-Sister was just nearby,

”If you had just hesitated to kill, you would have lost.” Zhou Ling felt disappointed and blank.

Zhao Xiaoyu rose up from the bed of shimmering sand and looked to Senior Apprentice-Sister. She plainly said, ”I knew it was fake, so why should I be so engrossed? Senior Apprentice-Sister it was real only to you, but you could not discern the real from the fake.”

She pointed with an empty hand and out grew a lotus flower. This was borne from the heart and soul, displaying its manners and beauty to the fullest.

Zhou Ling saw the lotus flower attacking her, and in the end could not dodge it one bit.

But the lotus flower leisurely rotated, stopping inches before the space between her eyebrows, and stayed stationary. But the pressure coming from the psyche power was imminent, if she moved slightly, that would spell the end with no hope of reprieve.

Zhou Ling's heart saddened. She spoke with slight resentment, ”In the end I am still inferior to you.”

The lotus flower dispersed like the waves of the water. Zhao Xiaoyu vanished in the water, but a faint voice sounded from the depths of Zhou Ling's heart, ”Senior Apprentice-Sister, not once have I thought of fighting with you for the sake of comparing strengths.”

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