Everyone felt their lost life force being restored at an unimaginable speed.
Lan Xuechen, however, was pale-faced and couldn’t hold back her tears.
“Yun Ye, save our daughter quickly! If we let her continue like this, she’ll die!”
“Demon King’s Decree!” Yun Ye, now recovered, immediately waved his hand, and a massive surge of dark energy began to coalesce in the air, joining Yun Qingxue in confronting Huan Tian.
“Dragon King’s Decree!” Jin Lin swiftly followed.
“God King’s Decree!” Huan Shi was next.
“Feather King’s Decree!” Feng Zihuang also joined in.
“Beast King’s Decree!”
“Underworld King’s Decree!”
Six decrees soared into the sky, merging with Yun Qingxue, who carried the Flower King’s Decree, forming a new and overwhelming force.
The power was majestic, radiating an inviolable divine pressure…
Huan Tian’s previously confident expression finally cracked. He desperately summoned all his magic to resist the combined might of the seven decrees…
But the force was too immense. Within moments, Huan Tian was struck by excruciating pain.
He didn’t even have time to utter a sound before his body disintegrated into countless specks of light, vanishing from the world.
With Huan Tian’s death, the decrees scattered from the sky, returning to their owners.
Yet, among them, Yun Qingxue was nowhere to be seen…
The green light she had transformed into still hovered in the air, growing increasingly dazzling until it bathed the entire world in an emerald glow.
Under its radiance, the devastated divine realm regained vitality, and the scorched earth was clothed in lush greenery…
In the light, the images reflected by the bronze mirror Chen Qing had dropped began to change…
The once desolate and suffering Xuanling Continent was restored to life. The gravely ill were instantly healed, and barren, cracked fields sprouted crops…
“Qingxue!!!” Lan Xuechen let out a heart-wrenching cry…
Something seemed to shatter in the air…
A delicate figure, like a butterfly with broken wings, fluttered down, and the green light enveloping the world faded away…
Jin Lin was the first to leap up, catching Yun Qingxue as she fell…
At this moment, Yun Qingxue was as pale as paper, so fragile it seemed a breeze could scatter her forever…
“Qingxue!” Mo Changxing, Huan Shi, Feng Zihuang, and the others quickly surrounded Jin Lin, who held Yun Qingxue in his arms…
But the person in Jin Lin’s embrace seemed lifeless, her breath gone…
Her body was gradually becoming transparent…
“Qingxue!” Xiao Xiaoxiao also rushed forward, panicked and helpless as she watched Yun Qingxue on the verge of vanishing.
“My daughter…” Lan Xuechen sobbed uncontrollably.
After waiting over a thousand years for their reunion, mother and daughter were now facing eternal separation…
“Xuexue, don’t scare me!” Jin Lin’s voice trembled as he tightened his grip on Yun Qingxue.
“Xuexue, wake up…” he murmured softly.
Yun Qingxue’s body grew increasingly transparent, nearing complete dissolution…
“Master! Save Qingxue! Please save her!” Jin Lin suddenly looked up at Zi Qu Shengjun, as if struck by inspiration.
Zi Qu Shengjun sighed deeply but remained motionless…
If he could save her, how could he not?
“Back then, Xuechen gave birth to Qingxue with an incomplete soul. To keep her alive, she fused the Flower King’s Decree into Qingxue’s fragmented soul, allowing it to mend her heart and spirit…
Over a thousand years… the Flower King’s Decree became one with her…
Her heart was the Flower King’s Decree!
Now, she forcibly unleashed the decree’s power to its limit—meaning she destroyed her own heart…
Without a heart…” Zi Qu Shengjun trailed off, unable to continue…
In Jin Lin’s arms, Yun Qingxue’s body slowly dissolved into countless specks of light, scattering from her nearly transparent form.
“My daughter…” Lan Xuechen clutched her chest, weeping uncontrollably.
She and Yun Ye had endured so much, done so much, all to save their daughter’s life…
Yet in the end, they were forced to witness their child’s departure…
“God King’s Decree!” Just as Yun Qingxue’s body was about to vanish, Huan Shi suddenly activated the God King’s Decree again.
A golden, sacred light enveloped Yun Qingxue, slowing her dissolution.
“Dragon King’s Decree!”
“Feather King’s Decree!”
…
Seeing a glimmer of hope, everyone poured their remaining magic into the effort…
Bai Ling of the beastkin hesitated but finally unleashed the Beast King’s Decree once more…
“Ming Di, use the Underworld King’s Decree to help Qingxue!” Xiao Xiaoxiao urged, glaring at the unmoving Ming Di.
Ming Di frowned deeply. “It’s useless… The Flower King’s soul has already scattered…”
As if to confirm his words, Yun Qingxue’s body, which had been stabilized by the combined decrees, suddenly wavered and dissolved into radiant motes of light, drifting into the distance…
“Qingxue…” Heartbroken cries followed the fading light.
Then, the decrees hovering in the sky seemed to sense their masters’ grief and erupted with an intense, dazzling brilliance.
The light slowly coalesced into a faint, nearly transparent blue aura…
A green speck appeared and swiftly landed in Lan Xuechen’s palm.
“The Flower King’s Decree!” Lan Xuechen gasped, instinctively looking up, as if hoping her daughter would miraculously descend from the heavens.
But the sky held only the pale blue aura.
“It’s the Flower King’s remnant soul!”
Xiao Xiaoxiao, still weeping, heard Ming Di speak beside her.
Without hesitation, he flung the Underworld King’s Decree into the air.
The decree absorbed the blue aura instantly…
All eyes turned to Ming Di.
His expression was calm as he addressed the crowd. “The combined power of the decrees preserved a fragment of the Flower King’s soul, preventing her immediate annihilation…
I’ve placed her soul within the Underworld King’s Decree to nurture it…
However, the Flower King’s Decree has separated from her soul…
This means the Flower King cannot be revived.”
“Underworld King!” Lan Xuechen suddenly knelt before Ming Di.
Ming Di quickly stepped aside. “Elder, such a gesture is too much for me…
If you have a request, speak plainly!”
“Underworld King, I have an impertinent plea…
For your great kindness today, the Flowerwood Clan will repay you in full!” Lan Xuechen’s gaze burned with determination.
Ming Di frowned, but before he could ask, she continued, “The Underworld has soul-mending techniques… I beg you to mend my daughter’s soul!”
“Ming Di!” Hearing that Yun Qingxue might still be saved, Xiao Xiaoxiao’s eyes lit up. “Qingxue is my best friend! If you don’t save her today, I’m divorcing you!”
Ming Di shot her a frosty glare…
Xiao Xiaoxiao shrank back…
“The Underworld does possess soul-mending techniques. However… the Flower King was born missing a soul fragment. To mend it, the Flower King’s Decree must be reintegrated into her body to nurture her soul.
Then, she must pass through the Reincarnation Hall of the Underworld…
After ten lifetimes, her missing soul fragment will be restored, and the decree can be separated from her…” Ming Di explained to Lan Xuechen.
“Please, Underworld King, mend my daughter’s soul!”
“Underworld King, we beg you to mend our king’s soul!”
“Underworld King, please mend Qingxue’s soul!”
Everyone bowed deeply, their voices united in plea.
“No need for this! Qingxue is my friend—if Ming Di can save her, he will!” Xiao Xiaoxiao stepped forward to support Yun Qingxue’s parents.
“The Flower King sacrificed herself to protect us and destroy the evil emperor Huan Tian. Saving her is my duty!” Ming Di nodded solemnly.
“Then let us act swiftly. Elder Lan, please reintegrate the Flower King’s Decree into her soul. I will take her to the Underworld for reincarnation.”
Following Ming Di’s instructions, Lan Xuechen stepped forward.
Ming Di raised the Underworld King’s Decree again, the pale blue aura shimmering upon it.
Lan Xuechen chanted an incantation, guiding the Flower King’s Decree toward the decree.
As soon as it neared, the Flower King’s Decree was absorbed by the blue aura.
Then, a faint golden glow merged with the blue light on the decree.
“What are you doing?!” Xiao Xiaoxiao whirled around, glaring at the source of the golden light.
Chen Qing hurriedly explained, ashamed. “In the past, my ignorance led me to misunderstand the Flower King. Now, I impart the Human Emperor’s Mark to her soul. This mark will ensure her prosperity for ten lifetimes and protect her three times in moments of peril!”
Xiao Xiaoxiao looked to Ming Di for confirmation. When he nodded, her expression softened.
Stripped of the Human Emperor’s Mark, Chen Qing was swiftly expelled from the divine realm, returning to the mortal world.
There, he reported everything he had witnessed to the human emperor.
The human realm had already regained its prosperity.
Upon learning the truth, the emperor ordered the construction of a Flower Goddess Temple in Yun Qingxue’s honor.
Ming Di carried Yun Qingxue’s soul to the Underworld, stopping at the Naihe Bridge.
The Lady Meng offered a bowl of soup, but Ming Di waved it away…
The Lady Meng withdrew the bowl, and Yun Qingxue, dazed, began to cross the bridge.
“Qingxue!”
Behind her stood Yun Ye, Lan Xuechen, Zi Qu Shengjun, Huan Shi, Mo Changxing, Jin Lin, and Feng Zihuang.
They watched from the bridge’s edge as Yun Qingxue stepped toward her next life.
A rich, haunting fragrance filled the air, and the banks of the Naihe Bridge burst into bloom with crimson spider lilies.
Amid the fragrance, Yun Qingxue, now on the bridge’s far side, suddenly paused and turned to the Stone of Three Lives at her feet.
She knelt, tracing her fingers over the stone, leaving behind two characters: “Jin Lin.”
After inscribing the name, she rose, casting one last smile over her shoulder.
A fiery light erupted into the sky, the flames of a phoenix’s rebirth illuminating the entire Underworld…
Jin Lin, standing among the others, shuddered—then stepped onto the Naihe Bridge, chasing after Yun Qingxue as both vanished into the distance…
On the Stone of Three Lives, beside “Jin Lin,” five more characters slowly appeared: “Cang Yan,” “Mo Changxing.”
Xiao Xiaoxiao blinked, turning to Ming Di. “Uh… did our Underworld’s Stone of Three Lives just… break?”
“It’s not broken!” Ming Di chuckled. “Cang Yan died for the Flower King, forging a karmic bond between them. Mo Changxing was fated to be her true love, but fate intervened…
As for Jin Lin…
The spider lilies stirred the fragmented memories of the Flower King’s soul, reminding her of the one she felt most indebted to—or longed for—aside from her parents…”
“So in her next life…” Xiao Xiaoxiao bit her lip. “Qingxue might face a love quadrangle?”
“Fate has already decided. Mortal efforts cannot change it…
Over ten lifetimes, whoever wins her heart will depend on their own merits…”
(The End)
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