Heaven's Boundless Blue

Yes!

It really was?

Fish Xuanji stared in astonishment. Seeing her shocked expression, Verdant Green Maiden waved a hand. "What's so surprising? It's only a book!"

"Only a book?"

Hearing this, Fish Xuanji felt somewhat moved.

"Who knew how many people wished to write such a classic, perhaps yearning for it their entire lives without ever attaining it? True Person, you are so young, yet you have written so many. It truly inspires admiration!"

After Fish Xuanji said this, Verdant Green Maiden turned and gave her several more looks before asking, "You admire me?"

Fish Xuanji nodded.

"Yes!"

"There is nothing about me worth admiring."

"I have merely walked longer than others and seen a little more."

"Everyone has their own understanding."

"Different understanding brings different insight."

Fish Xuanji continued, "But your understanding must surely be far deeper than ours!"

"Not so."

Verdant Green Maiden shook her head.

"You have your understanding, and I have mine. Our understandings simply differ; there is no principle saying one must be deeper than another."

"If I went to farm the land, I certainly could not compare to those who labor in the fields!"

As Verdant Green Maiden spoke, Fish Xuanji listened quietly. When she had finished, Fish Xuanji nodded, seeming to understand yet not quite.

Verdant Green Maiden glanced at her and said with a smile, "Think it over slowly."

"There is no hurry."

Fish Xuanji answered softly.

Saying these things to Fish Xuanji had merely been a whim of the moment.

A few days later, Verdant Green Maiden was preparing to leave.

When Fish Xuanji heard of it, she hurried over to visit Verdant Green Maiden and asked, "True Person, are you leaving?"

"Yes."

Verdant Green Maiden nodded.

"Why?"

Fish Xuanji did not understand.

Verdant Green Maiden smiled. "I am not from