As time flowed on, and as their comprehension of the Yin-Yang Dao Laws deepened, the Yin-Yang Fish artificially formed within the stone stele moved and began to rotate.
As it rotated, the two of them increasingly sensed that something was amiss.
Hu Ji in particular.
She was not like Lin Xiaose. For thousands of years, she had been an outlier among the fox clan, never approaching men. If a house that had stood for a thousand years caught fire, then truly nothing could put it out.
Yet Hu Ji's cultivation was incomparably profound, and she still issued a warning. "Young Master, do not let your Dao Heart fall into disorder!"
Amid this incomparably sensitive, incomparably mysterious comprehension of Dao Laws, amid the entwining Yin-Yang Fish, they struggled to hold fast to their Dao Hearts. One day, two days, three days!
On the third day!
They entered deep waters!
Hu Ji's entire body burned like fire, and even her Primordial Spirit seemed to faintly emit a red glow. She reminded him again, "Young Master, do not let your Dao Heart go astray."
This reminder appeared to be directed at Lin Xiaosu, but only she herself knew that it was a reminder to herself, because she could no longer endure it...
Lin Xiaosu answered her, "The Yin-Yang Path holds that following nature is the Dao. Fairy, I fear that we have... strayed into the wrong path."
"Following nature?" Even Hu Ji's Primordial Spirit seemed to tremble.
Lin Xiaosu said, "This... this is merely my own opinion. Fairy, your Dao Realm transcends the ordinary. You ought to know what is right and wrong."
The intertwining of their Yin-Yang Fish grew restless and turbulent, as though it had reached a critical point, or perhaps reflected Hu Ji's inner conflict and struggle.
At last, she