An immortal official compiling the Immortal Court's historical records had once asked, "Your Majesty, why do you hang this sword in the main hall?"
Yun Huang had only answered indifferently, "An old possession."
Later, quite a few people had privately speculated whether it held some special significance.
Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang had scoffed.
As for the real reason... what, exactly, had he been hoping for back then?
Had he been waiting for an old acquaintance to return? Or had he merely been fulfilling his mother's last wish, as he stubbornly claimed?
His mother, Yun Si, refused to return, but surely the True Spirit she cared about would not have the same backbone.
Standing high in the heavens with his hands behind his back, Immortal Emperor Yun Huang had said:
"It was merely a passing effort. As for gathering someone's True Spirit,"
"If it actually works, he can count himself lucky."
And so Azure Jade had hung there for thousands upon thousands of years.
After living through ten thousand ages, the Immortal Emperor's state of mind had, in the end, quietly changed.
Heaven Beyond Heaven.
At this thought, Yun Huang fell silent. "..."
Enough. Truly, enough. I'm not lonely at all now! Not in the slightest!
Not only has that aggravating Yun Qing come back to life, he's doing very well, chattering endlessly around me every single day.
He even insisted on keeping a cat and a chick. Heaven Beyond Heaven is noisy enough already, so Mother, you can rest assured.
Really. Let me go down. Stop making me reflect on my life.
Yun Huang was already utterly exasperated inwardly, yet his expression remained calm. His white-dragon Emperor's Robe hung down, not a strand of his hair out of place.
As though the person just forced to revisit his emotional journey