"So, you're really at ease letting him go alone?"
"He's not a child. He can't be so hopeless that he can't figure out even this much."
Yao Wan then turned to look at her Progenitor. After understanding the whole cause and effect behind what had happened to her, she was no longer as quick to question her choices as before.
... After all, someone had plotted against her for tens of thousands of years after her death. Naturally, the blame could not be laid at her feet.
"The Fire Spirit Clan? He says he's going, and he just goes."
"It's not as if this is the first time he's done something like this. Let him do as he pleases."
Feeling the warm spring breeze of the Sumeru Realm at that moment, she then rose to her feet.
"Oh, right. Perfect timing."
"Mm-hm?"
"Since you have nothing to do now, and the long-cherished wish of this life of yours can be considered fulfilled, there happens to be something I'd like to entrust to you."
"You're as good as ever at ordering people around. Go on, what do you want me to do?"
Facing Yao Wan, the Medicine Emperor gave a shrug. She said that, but in truth, she did not resist Yao Wan arranging things for her to do. Rather, precisely because of that, the guilt in her heart could ease a little.
Although Yao Wan had said nothing, and the Buddha Lord had not blamed her either, the fact remained that she had actually been used by her inner demon. Even her longing to return to the Buddha Sect itself had been a planted seed. Naturally, there was no way she could accept such a thing.
She had nearly caused everyone's death, and that sense of guilt very naturally pressed