"The village bells rang again and again."
"They had no need to cultivate, and no one could find them. Men and women, young and old, had all prepared breakfast in their own courtyards."
"They rolled up their sleeves and headed toward the golden wheat fields. Harvest season had arrived."
"Someone came running back from outside the village—not because of the scheming and deceit beyond it, but because they had found something fun."
"..."
Smoke, war, life and death.
Nothing on the battlefield affected the [Finality] Li Tianyi saw. The most peaceful, lilting voice drifted into the ears of the Azure Cloud Li Family members scattered across the battlefield, and deep within their souls, they saw this most beautiful scene.
The Immortal Domain battlefield.
Led by Li Yunbing, the largest gathering of Azure Cloud Li Family members stood within Green Lady's [Life World], facing three supreme Great Luo immortals beneath the Blood Moon. They all seemed to have forgotten that they were in the most dangerous place in the world.
Green Lady, too, stood frozen. Those voices that seemed to come from the future should never have affected her, for her target had been Gong Emperor from beginning to end. Yet these scenes had appeared again and again in the illusion into which Li Yaoqing had sunk.
But all beautiful things would, at some point, become bubbles that burst at a touch.
"Can you see hope, Green Lady?" the Heavenly Dao Prophet asked.
Green Lady looked up at the Heavenly Dao Prophet. This Heavenly Dao, cast down into the mortal world when heaven and earth first opened, had still left that lonely island. It was as though nothing had changed since those days of hiding while wounded. She asked in return, "Back then, you said becoming human wasn't so bad,