A day later, we had entered the territory governed by the Sun-Moon Temple. Because of its location, two shining planets would appear simultaneously within sight for a long stretch of each day. That was also how the Sun-Moon Temple got its name.
Nanjin leaned against the edge of the flower basket, happily pointing at the area covered in dark clouds, which looked dimmer than the places around it. "Brother Dongren, look! The sun and moon are shining together!"
"Mm. This place is extremely close to the demonic aura of Heaven-Linking Mountain. The sky looks gloomy too. Looking toward Heaven-Linking Mountain, it resembles night, while the direction we came from looks like daytime. With one of these two celestial bodies bright and the other dim, it truly does look like the sun and moon converging." I sighed.
The scenery here was bleak beyond words. Blue stones floated everywhere around us, identical to the Azure Cloudstones the Sun-Moon Temple disciples had stood upon earlier. Of course, some of these stones lay completely exposed, while others were buried in soil or mixed into other rocks and metals. Most of them were not very pure.
"The earth-element aura here is astonishing. I came here once before, but even after adapting to it, I still felt terribly uncomfortable. I really wonder what those people with earth spiritual roots feel like. Could they like it so much that they grind all these Azure Cloudstones into powder to eat with their meals?" Nanjin giggled. After suppressing the Spiritfire Goddess yesterday, she had returned to her lively self, and her tone occasionally carried a teasing edge.
I smiled and said, "Don't forget that I have an earth spiritual root too, but I have no desire to eat dirt right now."
"Brother Dongren, I didn't mean it that way,