"Unwilling?"
Her hesitation gave me room to press closer again, but Cang Yao no longer retreated. She had once been an empress, after all, and when there was nowhere left to retreat, her choices seemed to come effortlessly.
"I want to try, but... definitely not here. It has to be in the Azure Illuminating Sea. I also want to ask you for a chance to return everything to its original course." Cang Yao spoke with an earnest expression.
I furrowed my brow slightly and thought, So this is what she was waiting for me here.
She intended to act as a mediator for what the Mystic Ancestor had done. If she ended up at odds with me and no solution could be found, the Heaven Clan would surely suffer the Earth Clan's suppression for a long time—perhaps all the way to the World-Ending War. Or, if I seized the position of Great Luotian, it would mark the beginning of the Heaven Clan's ruin beyond redemption.
"I can give you this chance, but I hope you won't disappoint me." I released Cang Yao.
"Cang Yao will do everything in her power." She did not relax. Instead, the thoughts stirring within her seemed to have grown even more complicated.
I quickly withdrew my true self's consciousness and returned to Xia Ye's consciousness.
At the same time, Cang Yao's eyes remained tightly shut. She apparently had not received Di Bi's permission to lift the restriction and could not regain freedom of consciousness.
"How did it go?!" Di Bi clung to me without letting go, her curiosity instantly reaching its peak.
"She agreed. I also obtained the recording projection you wanted. The former has to take place in the Azure Illuminating Sea; the latter can be given to you right now." I formed a