Yin Chao nodded in agreement.
Perhaps if Xiao Xiao and the others were still alive and had never met Zhang San and Wang Daman, they would have gone on living with that same light in their eyes.
Just like Broken Jade in the mental world, running a little shop of her own.
Suddenly, a breeze carrying the scent of peach blossoms swept through the sky.
Passersby stopped in their tracks, looking up and murmuring among themselves.
A vast cloud of petals drifted toward the Capital.
As though some divine miracle had manifested once more, fluttering petals fell like rain over the entire Capital.
Yin Chao held out his right hand and caught a pink petal falling from the sky.
Just then, An Nian gently tugged his hanging sleeve. "Yin Chao, look..."
Yin Chao turned and looked in the direction she was pointing.
At first, only a scattering of people knelt in worship beneath the sky, murmuring prayers for the Peach Blossom Immortal's blessing.
Gradually, more and more people joined them.
Liang Chen was puzzled. "Wasn't the truth behind the Peach Blossom on a Human Face murders already revealed?
I remember Long Zang had the Court of Judicial Review put up notices yesterday.
Didn't those notices all say the Peach Blossom Immortal was an evil spirit...
So why are people still worshipping her?"
Long Zang sighed. "What was cleared up was the case, not the fear of the unknown in people's hearts."
The Peach Blossom Immortal was like that fear people carried within them.
It would never die out, nor would it disappear.
For a fleeting moment, Yin Chao heard a girl's laughter, clear as silver bells.
"I was born of desire and slaughter.
As long as desire persists, the slaughter will never stop..."
Yin Chao watched more and more people