With Heaven Wuji

"Milord, forgive me for asking something presumptuous."

"Just who are you?"

The two brothers looked at Verdant Green Maiden and asked with curious faces.

Who was she?

Verdant Green Maiden chuckled softly, leaned back a little, and said, "I'm an immortal. Do you believe me?"

"We do! Of course we do! So you really are an immortal—no wonder you're so formidable! People have discovered us before, but we always managed to slip away in an instant. Today is the first time we've been caught! But... once we thought of how we'd been caught by an immortal, we felt much better about it."

The two brothers smiled as they spoke to Verdant Green Maiden.

Verdant Green Maiden gave another soft laugh.

"Can stones have hearts?"

"They can!"

The brothers nodded solemnly, then immediately got up to take Verdant Green Maiden to see their True Forms.

Verdant Green Maiden followed them. In the weed-choked rear courtyard of the mountain temple stood a stele, though it had already broken apart.

One piece was large, the other small.

"Milord, look!"

"These are our True Forms! Stones can have hearts too, and our hearts are beating as well!"

The two pointed at the jade marrow revealed in the stele's fracture as they spoke to Verdant Green Maiden.

The stele was concealed by weeds, and few people passed through this place, so no one had noticed it and carried it away.

"Jade within stone!"

Jade hidden inside stone truly was a fine treasure!

Verdant Green Maiden wanted it!

But...

She turned to look at the two brothers.

"Forget it!"

"I don't want it."

Hearing her mutter, the two brothers looked at her curiously and asked, "Milord, what did you say just now? What don't you want?"

After they asked that question, Verdant Green Maiden smiled. "You'd