Chapter 407: Yin Bing, The World Serpent (1/2)
”Yes, Xiu Luo Yang, the one you call Dragon of the Sun, is my younger cousin. Then again, they're all younger cousins to me.”
The serpent chuckled as she looked at Xue Yue curiously. The pressure lessened as she restrained her aura.
”Say, you have another voice within you, how peculiar. I wonder whom I am speaking to.”
She looked back at the creature, trying to speak under this pressure.
”It doesn't matter to you, does it? She woke up recently and our body is weak. Whether or not, you want to speak with the other voice, you can only speak with me, the current owner”, she replied.
”I see, I see. Well then, you've met my younger cousin then. How is he doing? Ever since the three continents were broken, I haven't seen him at all. I've been too focused on my own recovery”, the serpent asked.
Xue Yue then explained quickly of what had happened between her and Xiu Luo Yang only to get a wistful stare from the serpent.
”Is that so? That is... sad to hear. Then again, it is always sad to see those of the younger generation die before you. A shame but three thousand years, that's quite good for being a Dragon Emperor. I should thank you then, for helping my kin.”
The serpent looked at her before straightening herself.
”I am Yin Bing, the World Serpent. Xiu Luo Yang may have thanked you before but I will thank you as well. Even a favor is not so unreachable, he was one of my more cherished cousins.”
She lowered her head just a bit but that simple act gave the two commanders even greater shock.
”Who is that girl?” they thought.
Shen Varuna gasped as she watched the exchange.
Xue Yue looked at the World Serpent in surprise.
”The World Serpent?”
Yin Bing looked up before laughing.
”Ahahaha, yes, yes, I forget you're a human and I have yet to appear in some several hundred years! Yes, I am the World Serpent, a being that has been alive for over ten thousand years. You could consider me... a god perhaps.”
”A... a god? Then what are you doing here?” Xue Yue asked.
”Perhaps, deity or something like that. In any case, wherever I am, life will bloom. When the world was destroyed by the Heaven's Anger or the Calamity as some may call it, I am here to revive it. That is my purpose as the World Serpent, I am a healer.”
”Then this lake? The fact that you're in the Demon Continent...”
”Of the three lands, this one was in the worst state. You've seen it, haven't you? The destruction laid upon it. This lake used to have nothing, it was only a quarter of its size and so cramped to rest in. But now, you've seen it, the World's Energy is coming back, returning and coalescing into this lake. And after another thousand years, it will burst out and rejuvenate the rest of this land.”
”A thousand years?!”
This time Ming Yue spoke out.
”That would be too long, by then the war would be over”, she said.
”You're correct”, the serpent answered.
Suddenly, both Xue Yue and Ming Yue felt shocked.
”If I can see that there are two of you, it is quite obvious that I can also hear both of you. In any case, that would be good, wouldn't it? The land would be healed once again and that war would be long finished.”
Yin Bing looked at them nonchalantly.
”But tha- so many more demons will die. By then, there might be no one.”
Ming Yue looked at the serpent from within her own mind, trying to reason with her. However, Ying Bing only spoke in a calm and unconcerned manner.
”What of it? Even if there are no demons, there will always be life. Perhaps, there will no longer be demons but there are other beings. Flora and fauna, ores, gems, so long as the land is flourishing, that is all I care about. I've been alive for over ten thousand years, little child, I have seen races spring forth and recede to nothingness. One more will only be replaced by another, that is life, an endless cycle.”