1245 A Calamity Began (1/2)
Chapter 1245: A Calamity Began
Translator: RITF_Rain Editor: Chrissy
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Because Ye Xiao was the brother of Yue Shuang and Yue Han, the two ladies treated Ye Nantian and Yue Gongxue intimately with respect. However, the respect was hidden deep inside their hearts, because they were senior to the couple in the martial world after all. If they acted too respectful, Ye Nantian and Yue Gongxue might panic. Aside from that, because of the two sisters' effort, the four of them got along well with each other like real families. Nobody felt overcautious anymore. Yue Gongxue felt the difference, so she implicitly asked the ladies about it, but Yue Shuang and Yue Han didn't mention a word about Ye Xiao.
They only answered with the same words.
”Your master would never set you up.”
”Just do as your master wants you to.”
”The only thing that matters is that you should work on your own happiness. That is the only thing you master wants.”
”As long as you are happy, your master will be happy too!”
”The relationship between you and Qiong-Hua Palace is over. You don't need to keep thinking much about it!”
”Just be a good wife in Ye Clan. That is all that matters for the rest of your life!”
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Sometimes, people are helpless facing their sentiments. There is always something unspeakable in people's hearts that make people feel heartbroken. Who could tell? Nobody could truly make it clear.
People couldn't even understand their own feelings… There must be a long list of people in the same situation…
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As they went farther on the way, Yue Gongxue was becoming happier. The Moon Queen's appearance had driven away most of the negative feelings in Yue Gongxue's heart. Besides, she got Ye Nantian, the man she loved on her side all along. She started to enjoy the pleasant views of the mountains and rivers along the way.
The spring wind breezed, and the soft sunshine splashed over the world. In her mind, even the grass and flowers on the roadsides were full of liveness and hope.
”Where is our son?”
”Why isn't Xiao Xiao with you?”
These are the two questions Yue Gongxue kept asking again and again.
After the sadness in the beginning, her role shifted from a daughter, a disciple, a wife to a mother. The love to her son that had been deeply hidden in her heart for eighteen years was now rising up.
”How does he look like? Does he look more like you or me? Is he handsome? Does he look well? How tall is he? Is he a bit overweighted or just slim?”
The questions made Ye Nantian feel awkward.
He had been loving his son, spoiling him like he was the most precious treasure in the world. For eighteen years, he had been working so hard to be an excellent parent to Ye Xiao. He absolutely had loads of compliments for him.
As he kept commending Ye Xiao again and again in all kinds of ways, Yue Gongxue became happier and happier until her eyes turned into two narrow lines because of her smile. She wished she could see her beloved son at once.
”He is tall, not overweighted or skinny, looks slim when the clothes are on, but muscular when clothes are off, with a strong back and a well-shaped waist. He is handsome, elegant, decent, and pretty. What a pretty young lord in the mortal world, an elegant and beautiful man!” Ye Nantian was also smiling with narrow eyes.
”Great.” Yue Gongxue kept nodding, with the eyes shining, ”What else?”
”He has a beautiful face, looks like you, but also a bit like me. His face looks like a warm jade, with two sharp eyebrows and two clear eyes, and a nose that stands high-bridged. His eyes are just like a pair of glaring stars in the night sky with a significant glow. When he smiles, the small dimples on his cheeks are adorable…” Ye Nantian just couldn't stop talking.
”Really?” Yue Gongxue's eyes were full of shining stars too.
Ye Nantian nodded against his conscience…”Of course! I raised him by myself. I know every single bit of him!”
Shuang and Han had been enjoying the compliments about Ye Xiao because he was their beloved brother after all. Although what Ye Nantian said was exaggerated, it was not too unreasonable. However, as Ye Nantian said more, the two ladies felt it become more irrational. They knew that their brother was a good man, but what Ye Nantian was describing just didn't sound real at all!
[Warm jade? His face? Come on! His eyes? Two glaring stars in the night sky with a significant glow? No way!] They just couldn't accept the lies. [Since when does our brother have dimples on his cheeks? That doesn't sound like a tough man! Come on! Uncle Ye, are you sure you are talking about our brother?]
However, the two ladies didn't know that what Ye Nantian was talking was the younger Ye Xiao—the seven or eight years old boy. When he was a child, he was indeed adorable with two dimples on the warm-jade-like cheeks.
As for the present… well… it was complicated. He definitely didn't have the cute dimples anyway…
”Is it true that he looks like both of us? He must be handsome. I am sure!” Yue Gangue sounded full of longingness and sighed emotionally, ”I must make it up for him after we are finally together… Poor son… He hasn't seen his mother for eighteen years…”
As she spoke, she started to sob.
Ye Nantian hurriedly stopped her. It was such a great day that he finally could bring her home, yet his wife just couldn't stop sobbing and feeling sad all the way along. They should be talking about something happy, yet she still wept. [Women are genuinely made of water!]
The two ladies had been staying with them all along and had seen how the couple act like crazy. Sometimes, they laughed like two blossoming flowers, yet sometimes, one was trying to stop the other from sobbing in tears…
They just kept doing it again and again… never stopped…
[For eighteen years…] The two ladies thought in the heart and sighed.
Thinking about how hard life must have been for the family in the eighteen years, the two ladies felt gloomy. That was why after being close to the couple at the beginning, they started to try to keep a distance so that Ye Nantian and Yue Gongxue could have enough private space…
They didn't move too slowly, but absolutely not fast either.
They never flew at all, just kept walking on the road, enjoying the views along the way, as if they were having a honeymoon.
After three days, they had only moved about four thousand miles.
During the three days, the entire Qing-Yun Realm fell into a real mess!
The reason was simple and violent… All the dominant powers in the world, including the dominant sects, had lost their people that had been sent to Heaven's Terrace… Every single one of them disappeared just like they hadn't been there before.
Even the Prime Master of West Hall, Zong Xingyu, was missing.
Zong Xingyu had led over a dozen good men including his two Prime Guardians and three elders to Heaven's Terrace. Even such a powerful group was missing.
The West Hall was in a mess because they had been leaderless for a long time.
The other people that were missing were not ordinary people either. There was the Second Prime Master of the East Hall, the Second Prime Master and the Prime Enforcer of Qiong-Hua Palace, the elders of Misty Cloud Palace, the Prime Guardian and Elders of Ice Cloud Palace… Yue Changtian of Cold Moon Palace, Wu Huitian of Saint Sunlight Sect, Yun Xiran of Saint Starlight Sect…
These were super influential figures in the realm that people could hardly see their faces in regular days, yet they were all gone missing at the moment!
Aside from these people, many leaders of other important sects were missing too…
All these people were traceless, like muds that sunk in the water.
Nobody saw them alive, but nobody saw their dead bodies either!
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The different sects had started to communicate with each other and sent out their men to search for the lost people. The sky of the realm was full of flying carrier birds that nearly covered the sun and the clouds.
Everybody was anxious.
[Where are they? Why can't we find them? Why isn't there even traces of them?]
[What is going on? How could it be so weird?]
[Qing-Yun Realm… is going to fall to a calamity…]
That was the common thought in people's minds.
Who was missing? The Prime Master of the West Hall, Prime Masters of Saint Sunlight Sect, Saint Starlight Sect, and Cold Moon Palace, elders of Misty Cloud Palace, Qiong-Hua Palace and Ice Cloud Palace… These people made the most powerful force in the entire Qing-Yun Realm. If any other force could defeat such a dominant team, it must be a force that nobody in Qing-Yun Realm could rival!
The power of the enemy might be horrible, but the mystery of the enemy was even more horrible!