As dinner drew to a close, the light screen on the wall suddenly lit up.
The evening news began to play.
Above Blue Star, the Purple Emperor Palace remained shrouded in endless starlight.
After briefly mentioning that the two Innate Divine Beings were still in seclusion, the broadcast shifted to the latest progress on the construction of the Primordial World Passage.
Qing Lian looked up.
On the screen, the gates of the Purple Emperor Palace were tightly shut. Her true body and Qing Xuan's sat deep within the palace, their Great Daos reflecting one another. No one could see what lay within.
Yet at this moment, she sat at the dining table of an ordinary Blue Star household as Qing Lian.
Aunt Su noticed where she was looking and said with a smile,
"Everyone on Blue Star is talking about the Primordial World now. That Qing Yi wears green clothes like you do. Looking closely, you two really do resemble each other a little."
Qing Yi blinked. "Do we?"
"Just a little."
The woman studied her seriously for a while longer. "But your temperaments are different. The one in the Firmament is clearly no ordinary person. She's far too distant from us."
Qing Yi turned to Qing Xuan with a faintly amused smile. "What do you think?"
Qing Xuan met her smiling gaze. "You really are different."
"How are we different?"
Qing Xuan answered seriously, "She is the Qing Yi fairy maiden in heaven, while you are the Qing Lian fairy maiden in the mortal world."
Perhaps because she truly wanted to experience the mortal world properly, Qing Yi now possessed less of the cool clarity and divinity innate to an Innate Divine Being, and more of a young girl's liveliness.
But Qing Xuan thought both sides of her were