"Ruyan," Mang Qianjun called out to Baili Ruyan.
Baili Ruyan had already taken Dandan out and held it in her hands. Hearing Mang Qianjun call her, she threw Dandan towards Dugu Qianye’s soul. Dandan flew next to Dugu Qianye’s soul and stopped, then began to spin rapidly, instantly sucking in Dugu Qianye’s soul.
anwhile, Fu Shang’s soul slowly returned to its own egg.
Once everything was done, everyone stopped, and the room suddenly fell silent. Nearly half a minute of silence passed before they all burst into cheers. Xiaohuo and Qingluan hugged each other, tears glistening in the corners of their eyes as they said, "Qingluan, we did it, we succeeded!"
"After a thousand years, we’ve finally succeeded! Our master can be resurrected now!" Qingluan, too, couldn’t help but shed tears of joy.
"This is fantastic!" Xiaoyin wiped away the tears on her face and said excitedly.
Little Baiqiu threw herself into La Yun’s arms, excitedly screaming, "La Yun, La Yun, she might be resurrected! La Yun, we’ve succeeded! La Yun, I’m so happy right now!"
La Yun, holding the excitedly bouncing Little Baiqiu, said, "Yes, our efforts have finally paid off."
After the initial rush of excitent had subsided, Mang Qianjun approached the center of the room, wrapped Dandan, and said to Xiaohuo and the others, "Could you let spend so ti alone with Qianye?"
After a thousand years, they all knew of Mang Qianjun’s deep feelings for Dugu Qianye. Hearing his request, they silently left the room and waited outside.
Thinking about the news they heard about Zi Xiao, and about the person in the room who had silently waited for a thousand years, none of the beasts outside played around; they all waited quietly.
Three days later, Mang Qianjun opened the door of the room and, holding Dandan, said, "We’re going to the Nine Heavens Mystic Realm. Will you co with us?"
The beasts looked at each other and shook their heads. The master had said if they could survive, they would co to find them, so they would wait here for her!
"Then let’s go," Mang Qianjun said to Baili Ruyan. Baili Ruyan clasped her hands together, and the passage to the Nine Heavens Mystic Realm opened before them.
Mang Qianjun stood at the entrance of the passage, took a deep breath, and flew in. Baili Ruyan followed closely. The passage quickly closed, leaving behind a group of beasts and the room with the egg.
"Ah..." soone sighed, not known who it was.
"At least the master has returned..." Lan i said, her words tinged with a hint of lancholy.
"Let’s go in and see Fu Shang," Xiaohuo said, "and then we’ll wait here for our sister to co back and find us..."
In the Nine Heavens Mystic Realm, Zi Xiao was basking in the sun in the courtyard. His silver hair reflected light under the sunlight, casting a faint golden hue.
Little Douzi ca in and said, "Your Majesty, Princess Ruyan requests an audience."
Zi Xiao’s eyes were closed as he responded, "Why has she co? Let her in."
"Yes," Little Douzi answered and withdrew.
Soon, Baili Ruyan entered, holding Dandan, and, looking at the emaciated Zi Xiao, couldn’t help but sigh, "I’ve brought her back."
Zi Xiao’s feigned sleeping eyes suddenly snapped open, and the lifeless eyes ca alive at once...
Dugu Qianye felt that waking up to see Zi Xiao first was the happiest thing in the world.
But when she saw his head full of silver hair, her heart was filled with nothing but deep sorrow.
"Xiao, I’m back," she said to him with a smile, yet the brilliance of the silvery strands pricked at her desire to cry. If she wasn’t in a soul state without tears at this mont, perhaps she would already be weeping like rain.
Zi Xiao stared blankly at the transparent figure before him, dropping the Dandan he held in his hand, which rolled several tis on the ground and stopped under a peach tree nearby.
This peach tree was moved out from the Refining Demon Pot by Dugu Qianye while she was healing in the Nine Heavens Xuan Realm. After a thousand years, the trunk had thickened considerably, and the branches had grown much denser. However, in all those thousand years, it had never blossod or borne fruit.
"Ouch!" Dandan grunted as it landed on the ground. However, neither of the two locked in a deep gaze heard it, irritating it to draw circles in the stone and curse them both.
"If it weren’t for this young master, could you have co back? If it weren’t for this young master, could you have seen the woman you’ve pined for day and night? You two ungrateful things are going to be the death of !"
Dandan’s muttering went unheeded by Dugu Qianye and Zi Xiao. At this mont, their eyes saw only each other; everything else was as insignificant as passing clouds to them.
"Xiao, I’m sorry..." Zi Xiao walked over, and Dugu Qianye tried to touch his face with her hand, but she could only watch as her hand passed through without contact.
Sorry, for leaving you in grief for a thousand years...
Zi Xiao finally snapped out of it and saw the face before him filled with guilt and self-reproach. He cried, like a lost child finally finding his way ho. After crying for a while, he laughed, gazing steadily at Dugu Qianye and said, "You’re back, it’s wonderful."
"Little Yeye, I’ve missed you so much..."
Dugu Qianye smiled and said, "I’m back now, and I won’t ever leave again."
Compared to Zi Xiao, Dugu Qianye hadn’t experienced as much pain. After her death, her soul had always been unconscious, and although a thousand years had passed, to her it was rely the ti between closing and opening her eyes.
But it was different for Zi Xiao. Apart from the fifty years of deep sleep, every day was torture filled with longing. Every sunrise and moonset marked another cruel transition.
"I will also never let you leave again!" Zi Xiao said. Even if it cost him his own life, he would not let anything separate them again.
Dandan, listening on the ground to the two of them, couldn’t help but roll its eyes, muttering internally that it couldn’t stand the saccharine words and was on the verge of throwing up bubbles. Seeing soone co into the courtyard, it suddenly felt a savior had arrived!
"My lord, Princess Zhixin is here," a slender man entered the courtyard and spoke towards Zi Xiao’s back. At the sa ti, he wondered why his usually reclining master was standing up. He was a man who would lie down rather than stand up whenever possible, especially ever since Baili Ruyan had brought Dugu Qianye back, he had been lying in the courtyard cuddling that Dandan and never stood up.
Zi Xiao turned around and asked the newcor, "Why has Nian Zhixin co?"
Originally positioned between Dugu Qianye and the newcor, Zi Xiao stepped aside, allowing Dugu Qianye to see the person behind him. Recognizing the familiar face and slender body, Dugu Qianye uncertainly asked, "Xiao, is this..."
The sound of Dugu Qianye’s voice made the man shudder, and he looked up incredulously at Dugu Qianye, trembling as he said, "Ma’am, have you awakened?! It’s , Little Douzi!"
"Little Douzi?!" exclaid Dugu Qianye, astonished at the sight of Little Douzi’s grown-up appearance, "Little Douzi, you’ve grown so much?!"
"Yes, ever since that chunk of ice left my body, I began growing again. Now a thousand years have passed, of course, I’ve grown up. Ma’am, during the thousand years you weren’t here, we all missed you very much, especially our master. He truly suffered..." Little Douzi grew sadder as he spoke, knowing all too well how Zi Xiao had spent those thousand years. Before Dugu Qianye’s absence, they didn’t know how to comfort him, but now that she was back, he hoped she could bring so joy to his master.
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