216 If There Is to Be a Next Life, Let Us Not Part! (1/2)
The old woman murmured softly, ”Thank you.”
”There is no need,” Yun Yang replied prudently.
The elderly woman hugged the crescent shaped jade pendant in contentment and continued softly, ”This isn’t actually valuable but it’s our token of our love… He’s actually been wearing it all these years…”
Putting the pendant near her cheek and slowly rubbing against it, the affection in her gaze was deep as the ocean. Finally, she sobbed softly, ”I’ve never hated him… I’ve been waiting for him… Why didn’t he come back and tell me himself…”
”There’s also his letter.” Yun Yang said, ”He seemed to have written this letter long ago, like… he has long known that this day would come…”
The old woman smiled contently and replied, ”Thank you… Although I shouldn’t do this, and I don’t have any right to ask, this old one wishes to ask a favor from respectable one.”
”Do speak,” Yun Yang replied after being quiet for a bit.
The old woman asked, ”Can you… use the weapon you’ve killed him with… to kill me?”
Yun Yang was dumbfounded when he heard her words.
”If I could die from the same weapon that killed him, perhaps I can catch up to him faster. This is my last wish.” The woman’s voice was soft. ”Please grant it.”
Yun Yang took in a deep breath and said, ”I’m sorry, I can’t do this. I really can’t.”
Killing an innocent old lady for no apparent reason was even harder than battling He Hanqing himself!
The elderly lady was understanding and did not press on, only speaking, ”Mi Kongqun said he was regretful and sorry… Actually, he’s never known what it is that he’s sorry about since we were young…”
”All the more he doesn’t know what it is that I ask for…”
The aged lady smiled gently. ”Thank you. I won’t be reading this letter.”
Her stare was set on Yun Yang as she murmured, ”Thank you, for completing a wish for me and Brother Qun… As a token of gratitude, if respectable one is free, do go have a look at the Seven Star Lake.”
”Seven Star Lake?” Yun Yang was confused.
The old woman did not answer. Lowering her head to look at the jade pendant quietly, she suddenly grabbed the crescent jade to kiss it and mumbled, ”Brother Qun, if there is a next life, will you still marry me? Will you still have done me wrong?”
Suddenly, the jade pendant glowed with a radiant luster – it was the look of being infused with mystical Qi.
Seeing it, Yun Yang was shocked. ”Don’t…”
He had realized it too late. The old woman erupted her mystical Qi and with a jerk, the crescent-shaped jade pendant stabbed right into her chest like a sharp knife, embedding itself deep into her heart!
Yun Yang felt his head buzz; he had not expected the old woman to be so resolutely seeking death – dying just as she wished without hesitation!
In addition, the old lady actually had the mystical Qi cultivation base of fourth peak; she had even self-destructed in the most extreme way possible, erupting her entire cultivation base and terminating any chance of her rescuscitating her vitality. If she had not done so, Yun Yang could still save her, despite the unforeseen action.
Filled with shock and vexation, Yun Yang watched the dying woman rustle the jade pendant in her chest determinedly as if she did not feel any pain.
A genuine ghost of a smile surfaced. ”Actually, he doesn’t know… that I was also cultivating earnestly after he left… Although it was a bit too late, I still want to keep up the fruitless effort. Even if I can’t catch up to him, I can be closer…”
The old woman chuckled sadly. ”Even when I knew later that he would never return, and this bit of cultivation base I have can’t be used to fight the enemy, it’s enough to use it on myself…”
”It’s enough to have heard those last words of yours in this lifetime…”
Yun Yang sighed, not knowing what to say for a moment.
The woman’s eyes danced with a bright glow, delighted as if she saw something that no one else could see and said, ”Brother Qun, go slower… Wait for me, I – I can’t keep up…”
Suddenly, her voice ceased altogether.
Delight still shone in her eyes, it was the radiance of love, like she had met her lover once again in another world.
She was, however, no longer breathing and had no pulse; she was making her way to the underworld.
Yun Yang felt his heart weighed down; the initial shock replaced by the sentiment of this genuine love.
The moon was still as bright and as cold in the sky when he raised his head to look at it; perhaps, the moon tonight was like the one Mi Kongqun and his wife had watched together all those years ago… unchanging.
The moon remained the same but everything else had not.
The noise the encounter had made finally alarmed the people below as panicked voices drifted up.
”Who is it?”
”Is old mistress still up there?”
”Go have a look.”
Yun Yang sighed softly as his body dematerialized slowly, turning into the chilling wind that billowed in the air.
”I hope there’s a next life for the both of you; may you never part, staying together for as long as the moon shines.”
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Yun Yang returned quietly holding the five receptacles of Luminary Paste; he dared not keep any more precious gems or rare medicine in his embrace. Emmie would not care where the items came from nor what they were used for; as long as they were useful to it, it would absorb it directly. After several pained lessons, Yun Yang finally etched that reminder into his memory.