The entire West territory started shaking after Xing Gui’s death; mist started rising from the ground, filling the whole sky and earth. The enchantment was going to disappear; these were the signs of the crumbling of the illusions in the West territory. The moment the mortal world collapsed, the G.o.d realm appeared before my eyes once again.
I have never seen such huge and majestic realm before. I turned back to see Yue Shen and Chao Ya’s astonished gasp.
There was a flight of stairs in front of us; it just led up to the sky infinitely. Amidst the mist, there seemed to have a glowing palace behind it.
I heard a voice; that voice sounded cold and arrogant. “Come up, Ka Suo.”
The stairs seemed to be leading to infinity, we almost felt like giving up as we walked on it because we didn’t seem to be get nearer to the palace at all.
No one talked and the surrounding was so quiet that it made one feel scared.
I knew I could see Yuan Ji right at the end of the stairs, that legendary G.o.d who was above everyone.
When we’ve finally stood at the tallest point of the stairs, the mist dispersed away and a majestic palace came into view. As compared to this palace, the one in Ren Xue Cheng was like a sandcastle built by kids. Energy glows were flowing around the palace and Yue Shen told me those were spiritual powers just like those on my phoenix robe. The music from the palace was much melodious than the one that Chao Ya played at the wall of sigh.
A huge face appeared in the sky, above the palace, covering the whole sky. The face looked exceptionally blurry on the sky, and I just have this feeling that I have seen it before. “Come on in, Ka Suo.” A creepy smile appeared on the face.
The palace was much bigger than we had expected and the feeling was like climbing the long flight of stairs as well. At the end of the palace, there was a courtyard and a lotus pond was situated in the middle of the courtyard; I knew the lotus that I have been looking for was in that pond. Looking upwards, there was a person lying on the couch and that must be Yuan Ji.
But when I advanced to the middle of the courtyard, I felt my legs wobbling because I saw Lian Ji’s smile.
Her smile was so alluring and attractive.
“You are Yuan Ji?”
“Yes, I am Yuan Ji.” I could hear her voice clearly even though I didn’t see Lian Ji’s lips moving.
“My king, you know her?” I heard Yue Shen asking me.
“Yes, I know her. She is my father’s concubine, Lian Ji.”
After that I heard their astonished gasps.
“Ka Suo, you have surprised me but if not because of Feng Tian and your brother’s powers, you would have died halfway.” Lian Ji said.
“I want to revive, Shi, Li Luo and Lan Sang.”
“You want, but do you know if I want or not?”
“You definitely want.”
And then I heard Lian Ji’s eerie laughter. “Ka Suo, no one dare to talk to me like this. Don’t even think that you can be so rude to me in front of these few useless people here. I can crush you to death anytime I want.”
“Isn’t Shi your son? Don’t you love him?” I asked Yuan Ji.
“Your father is just an ordinary king, he isn’t eligible for me to bear a son for him. I only created Ying Kong Shi with a cherry blossom petal, a red lotus petal and a feather of the snow sleet bird. So why should I be upset over his death?”
Suddenly I remembered Lian Ji’s eerie smile when Shi was fighting for the throne with me. I’ve finally understood everything; she has been watching this game silently because she was the one controlling it.
“Ka Suo, you are right. This is a game I played. I am the one who manipulated the star sign and created the link between your brother and you. Do you know what star staff I used? I am using the Dan Xing staff, I create all stars and the problems in the world are games in my hands.”
I didn’t want to say anything and I just told her my request. “Please let me revive them.”
Lian Ji smiled at me and that smile looked exceptionally despising.
I attacked all of a sudden and I gathered the spiritual power from my robe to my left hand to summon the snow while the right to summon the fire; at that moment, I used all my spiritual powers to attack Lian Ji.
Just when I first started my attack, Ye Shen was already one step ahead of me and her moonlight was now glowing in blue; Chao Ya had already seated on the floor with her Wu Yin Qin activated when countless of chords went flying towards Lian Ji, and Huang Tuo had already casted a perfect enchantment to protect us while he stood there like a defenseless child.
This was the last battle without any leeway.
But Lian Ji only needed to move her index finger and the protection enchantment over us was shattered. All our attacks were shot back to ourselves with blood gushing out our mouth.
When the four of us had fallen to the floor, Lian Ji was lying on her couch leisurely. I have finally understood what granny said was true: Yuan Ji was invincible.
She walked to me and looked down at me. Chao Ya, Yue Shen and Huang Tuo were already unconscious and they were lying in their own blood.
“Ka Suo, have you realized how tiny are you now?” She said to me.
I didn’t say anything but despairs were filling my heart and I could see was a black rushing river.
“Ka Suo, don’t feel so hopeless. I can help to revive them.”
“Why?”
“Because my game isn’t going to end soon.” She looked down at me and smiled.
And then when she swung her sleeve, countless of red lotuses started blooming out from the pond.
I’ve finally seen the invisible lotus.
Lian Ji told me the invisible lotus was able to revive a person but it could restore the memories of his past life. The invisible lotus was the most powerful plant in the G.o.d realm because you could revive a person to the one you wanted him or her to be and when the revived person met the one who revived him or her, the memories would be restored at that time. Before the memories got restored, the person would have vague feeling that he or she had come to the place before or did certain thing before and this would lead to the person meeting the one who revived him or her.
“Can I know how will they become after they are revived?”
“No, only when they see you, then their memories will be restored and then they will tell you who they really are.” And then Lian Ji smiled. “Ka Suo, this is only the beginning of the game.” With that she disappeared into thin air before me.
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When I left Yuan Ji’s palace, I stood at the stairs and looked up at the sky. I saw Shi, Lan Sang and Li Luo’s faces appearing in the sky and disappearing after a while.
I knew this world has three newborns and they were my younger brother and the persons I loved. They were living innocently in one corner of the world.
I just didn’t know whether I still have the chance to hear Shi calling me ‘ge’.
