The little boat swayed with the wind,
Icy rain beat against its beams.
The Divine Soul longed to return,
Swallows carried spring home...
That alluring yet frail figure drifted onto the bow as though wreathed in boundless radiance.
Master Hui Kong, standing on the bow, suddenly caught sight of the "Great Calamity" and paled in shock. The golden light and Zen essence in his eyes seemed disturbed by some exceedingly strange and powerful Power of Rules, beginning to flicker unsteadily.
The "Great Calamity" merely glanced at Master Hui Kong, then slowly drifted into the cabin, terribly weak.
Upon entering, she saw Su Mo lying weakly asleep on the bed, while Little Girl silently watched him from beside it.
Looking at Su Mo, whose Divine Soul was damaged and whose vitality was all but exhausted, the "Great Calamity" walked feebly to his bedside. The Flower of the Other Shore in her hand shone with dazzling divine light.
Little Girl turned toward the "Great Calamity" and immediately saw the Flower of the Other Shore in her hand.
That Flower of the Other Shore seemed to have weathered endless wind and frost. Its dazzling divine light seemed tempered by ten thousand years, resilient and timeworn.
Under Little Girl's gaze, some awareness within the Flower of the Other Shore seemed suddenly awakened. An incomparably affectionate consciousness emerged, and a strand of flowing light flew out, slowly circling Little Girl.
"Flower... of the Other... Shore..." Little Girl stared blankly at the Flower of the Other Shore in the "Great Calamity's" hand, then slowly raised her head to look at her, murmuring, "How can this be? There's another Flower of the Other Shore?"
"You recognize the Flower of the Other Shore?" the Great Calamity asked in puzzlement at Little Girl's expression.
"How could I not..." Little