Chapter 1628: That Sea of Flowers
Editor: Atlas Studios
“Mother…”
Xu Qing looked at the desert in front of him and listened to Aurora Immortal Lord.
Perhaps it ca from the fluctuations in his body, or perhaps it was the aning behind this word.
Unknowingly, his consciousness rippled with mories.
Wanggu and Peerless City appeared in front of him.
The Peerless City and his parents in his mory.
The beauty in his mories and the blood rain that couldn’t be dispersed.
He recalled his parents.
Perhaps it was because he had traversed too many landscapes, or experienced too many events, that when Xu Qing now tried to recall his parents, he realized that all that remained were re outlines.
Yet, the tenderness emanating from those outlines was an indelible mark—one that no mountains, no experiences, and no mories could ever erase.
It was eternally imprinted on his heart.
Much like how people may not know who they would see in their final monts.
But when they first entered the world, their parents were always there, surrounding them.
“Mother…”
Xu Qing mumbled.
At the sa ti, the body in which Xu Qing’s consciousness resided instinctively brought forth mories from its original host.
In those mories, the image of the mother had also faded into a vague silhouette, blurred and indistinct… hard to recall clearly.
Just like Xu Qing’s mories.
The two of them resonated at this mont.
This resonance, like ripples, stirred the heart and consciousness, causing ti to waver and flow. It spread across the desert, rising and falling.
It had beco a part of the desert.
Aurora Immortal Lord’s voice slowly echoed in the Ti Desert.
“Your mother and I t in our hotown.”
“She was my junior apprentice sister and your grandfather’s seventh disciple.”
“Back then, the sky also had a sun and moon, but they were not as we see them today.”
Aurora Immortal Lord spoke softly as he moved forward.
He seed to be talking to Xu Qing and also seed to be reminiscing.
As his words echoed, the aura on his body beca more ancient and reminiscent.
“At that ti, my hotown was actually just one of the countless small worlds reared by the gods in the Fifth Star Ring.”
“Living there, we had to worship the gods, enslaved by Them, dwelling within a web of bones.”
“Therefore, even the sun and moon above our heads were naturally gods. To be precise, the light of that sun and moon invaded all the small worlds.”
“And the supre gods whose nas echoed across all the small worlds were Royin and ngni.”
“Those years were filled with suffering, but because of your mother’s presence, for , they were also filled with happiness.”
Aurora Immortal Lord’s voice was gentle.
Xu Qing followed behind and listened silently.
He knew that, in this mont, what the Aurora Immortal Lord needed was simply soone to listen.
“We cultivated together and grew up together. Later on, we t Nine Shores.”
Aurora Immortal Lord shook his head, and the reminiscence on his body intensified.
“Back then, Nine Shores’ personality wasn’t much different from what it is now. He liked silence, observation, and keeping records.”
“Your mother used to call him ‘the great historian,’ and he embraced the title. For many years after that, he referred to himself as the historian.”
“Foolish, really.”
Aurora chuckled.
“Just like that, ti passed…”
“What happened afterward, you already know from the historical records.”
“In the final days of the gods, under your grandfather’s leadership, all the small worlds of the Fifth Star Ring rose against the gods in a war of uprising.”
“That battle was unimaginably brutal…”
“You were born during that chaotic ti, but your mother and I didn’t want you to witness such a world.”
So we sealed you, with the promise that once the war was over, once this world beca beautiful, we would lift the seal. We wanted your first sight of the heavens and earth to be vibrant, peaceful, free of gods.”
“We wanted you to live in a beautiful world.”
Aurora’s voice echoed in the Ti Desert.
However, that voice was slowly tainted with sadness as he reminisced.
“And after many long years, that war finally ca to an end. We cultivators rose up completely and overthrew the gods who once stood so high above us.”
“The sun and moon in the sky fell as well, replaced by the Yin and Yang of our Dao.”
“But… there was one figure missing by my side.”
“Your mother… she had fallen.”
Xu Qing listened silently.
It was clearly soone else’s story but regardless of whether it was the waves caused by this body or the resonance in his consciousness, Xu Qing could sense this sadness from the host and Aurora.
“I fell into a deep sleep due to so special reasons.”
“This sleep lasted for ten thousand years.”
“When I awoke, everything had changed beyond alteration, and the Ordinance of space-ti had reached its ultimate limit…”
“3,333 years—that’s the space-ti boundary for all star rings in this universe.”
“So, when we sealed you, it was both your mother and I. But when the ti ca to break your seal, only I remained.”
A low voice drifted through the world and Aurora’s footsteps stopped.
A vast sea of flowers entered Xu Qing’s vision.
It was a dreamlike sea, filled with countless vibrant and colorful orchids blooming in the desert.
Stunningly beautiful.
It was hard to imagine such a spectacle—an ocean of orchids thriving in the heart of the barren desert.
At the very least, when Xu Qing ca here before, he hadn’t seen it.
It was as though this was a secret hidden in the depths of the desert.
As Xu Qing gazed out, he saw that the orchids took on a variety of beautiful forms and colors. So resembled butterflies gracefully dancing, while others looked like cranes spreading their wings. Each bloom exuded a unique fragrance.
At that mont, as Xu Qing and the Aurora Immortal Lord arrived, rays of sunlight broke through the scattered clouds, casting a golden glow over the orchid sea. The light added a touch of mystery and romance to the scene.
With a gentle breeze, the sea of flowers swayed like a dream.
In the hazy distance, it seed as if a celestial maiden stood in the flower sea, her gaze resting on the father and son.
A soft whisper echoed, and a tender smile appeared on her face.
Aurora Immortal Lord, seeing the flower sea and the familiar figure from his mory, also smiled.
As he smiled, he slowly walked to the edge of the flower sea, knelt down, and took out a handful of seeds from his pocket.
In this mont, he was not the future ruler of the Fifth Star Ring, nor the almighty Lord of Ten Thousand Immortals. He was simply a man lost in the mory of his late wife.
He planted those seeds in the desert.
They would definitely bloom.
“Your mother’s na has the word ‘Lan1’ in it, and she had a deep fondness for immortal orchids.”
“These flowers cannot bear the touch of divine aura. It causes them to wither quickly… Yet, in our small world, even though it was filled with anomalous substances, this flower never vanished.”
“Even when it wilted, it always blood again.”
“We once dread that when the war ended, when everything beca peaceful and beautiful, we would find a place to plant immortal orchids, until they covered the land like a sea, blooming year after year without end.”
“All these years, every ti I ca over, I would plant so.”
” Gradually, it truly beca a sea.”
Aurora Immortal Lord smiled and muttered. He gently patted the place where the seeds were buried.
After that, he sat at the side and looked at the sea of flowers without saying anything else.
However, the smile on his face beca even gentler.
Xu Qing looked at all of this and silently walked to the Aurora Immortal Lord’s side. He also sat down and accompanied him to look at the sea of flowers.
Ti slowly passed.
When the sun started setting, Aurora Immortal Lord spoke softly.
“You’ve grown up and are about to get married.”
“In the future, when I am busy, you must rember to co here each year and plant orchids for your mother.”
“Let there always be a sea of flowers here.”
Xu Qing had mixed feelings.
He knew that in a month, Aurora Immortal Lord wouldn’t be the only one to die. It would also include his host.
Hence, in the future, orchids were destined to not appear here.
Perhaps this was the reason why when he had traveled the desert before, he didn’t see any sea of flowers.
This sea of flowers had long withered with ti.
However, he still nodded.
Aurora smiled and stroked Xu Qing’s head.
“Rember this…”
“Parents cannot accompany you throughout your entire life, and your children will not always be by your side. Only your Dao companion… that person is the only one who can stay with you for a lifeti.”
“So, protect her well. Don’t end up like … losing the one you love.”
Aurora stood up and looked at Xu Qing.
“Do you rember the story I told you about the night when you were young?”
Xu Qing nodded and replied softly.
“When the night falls, I should not go to see you.”
This sentence was deeply engraved in the mories of this Young Lord.
In his mory, Aurora Immortal Lord had told him this more than once.
This reminded Xu Qing of the reflection under the ice lake…
In his mory, every ti Aurora Immortal Lord appeared, it would be around dawn.
Aurora smiled and nodded, looking at the setting sun.
“It’s getting dark. Let’s go back.”
As he spoke, Aurora took a step forward.
The world beca blurry.
At the next instant, the desert was gone, and the sea of flowers was gone.
Xu Qing’s figure appeared in the Junior Aurora Hall, in the exact spot where he had left earlier.
It was as if everything he had experienced along the way was nothing more than an illusion.
Aurora Immortal Lord was also gone.
Only the sky…
Previously, when Xu Qing left, it was the mont dawn broke.
Now, it was the mont night fell.
Night enveloped the land, and the bright moon rose into the sky.
…
At that mont, under the Immortal Palace, in a brightly lit mysterious catacomb.
Aurora Immortal Lord was moving forward step by step.
However, as he moved forward, the lights behind him would be extinguished one by one.
As night fell outside, the white clothes on his body were slowly invaded by the black color until they were completely dyed black.
The gentleness on his face was also replaced by malevolence and evil.
His body shook slightly but his footsteps were still very steady.
Finally, he walked step by step into the depths of the catacomb.
He stepped into a sealed cell.
The mont he entered, countless iron chains ford by runes appeared out of thin air and coiled around his entire body, sealing him.
Lights completely disappeared at this instant and the whole catacomb fell into darkness.
In this extrely dark space, only low groans and the intense pulling of the iron chains could be heard.
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