The outcome of that night had been no different from the first time. After the thunderbolt, the woman vanished without a trace. This time, however, Fu Zhiwen had been more cautious and sent out his divine sense to follow her. Yet the moment it was released, it was struck apart by the lightning. Not only did Fu Zhiwen fail to find the woman's whereabouts, but he himself was injured as well.
Unwilling to accept defeat, Fu Zhiwen immediately racked his brains. Using the Heavenly Book Runes in his chest as a guide, he sealed off the areas around the cave one by one and investigated them individually. Heaven rewarded the diligent. After nearly half a year of hardship, Fu Zhiwen finally found an area deep within the mountain where faint lightning flickered, and there he discovered this Heavenly Punishment Prisoner Crystal.
Although Fu Zhiwen did not know what this object was, an inexplicable spiritual understanding told him that the woman named Youtan was inside it! Whenever lightning emerged from the void at intervals and struck the Heavenly Punishment Prisoner Crystal, its flashing radiance caused a dull ache in his heart. He could imagine the suffering his beloved endured within!
Sure enough, on the same day of the second year, dazzling clouds of light shimmered atop the Heavenly Punishment Prisoner Crystal. The inscriptional characters binding it broke apart character by character, transforming into strokes of ink, and Youtan flew out from the glowing clouds.
Youtan looked at Fu Zhiwen, then at the Heavenly Punishment Prisoner Crystal before him, and sighed softly. She never spoke another harsh word. Holding Fu Zhiwen's hand, she gazed at the crescent moon in the night sky from afar and whispered of the longing of the past year at close range. The two remained entwined in tenderness