The Fallen Consort

Yi Ling sighed as she got back to her body. She waived her sleeve and summoned Tefei back to the Ring. She didn't summoned Linyu and let him stayed in the Ring to tend to her garden as well as checking up on Mu Xin. She was worried about Mu Xin, yet she doesn't know anybody who knows about Deities. Unless she transcend to heaven herself. There, she might be able to find someone who can help Mu Xin.

She rubbed her forehead as she tries to think it through. To transcend, she needed to breakthrough to Sainthood. Nobody had been able to do it since a million years ago. It was a pain, she thought. She owed too much to Mu Xin in this lifetime.

It was already getting dark by the time she got back to her body and she was getting hungry. She decided to go out and look for some food. She wanted to take a bath later when she gets back and sleep. She put on her mask on and left her room. Yi Ling didn't bother with the Viridis, without Linyu around; she wouldn't be able to control him.

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Jin Minzhe was walking in the street. Aside from looking for his parents, he had the hobby of looking at any unusual trinkets. He thinks he got this from his father, his father likes making trinkets. He walked along the stalls that was selling it and found some interesting ones. As he was busy looking at a specific item, his body froze. He felt a familiar aura passed by behind him. Jin Minzhe instantly turned around to look for it.

He was shocked beyond belief! He saw a young man who was wearing exactly the same robe as his father. It was white and gold with specific heavenly designs. He knew his father's robes very well, he makes it himself so there isn't one exactly like it. Plus, he have also seen the man wearing the Sapphire Jade Ring. But who could this young man be? He was wearing a mask, it is that dumb old tree? he thought.

He followed the young man that went inside the restaurant. He didn't know why but he felt like he had seen this young man before. As the young man was ushered to the second floor, he also got a waiter to put him next to the young man's room.

He couldn't see the young man but he couldn't hear anything coming from the next room either. Jin Minzhe couldn't feel the young man's aura earlier. He was 90% sure that his father had something to do with it. As he was pondering this, he heard his door open. He looked up and saw the same young masked man that he was following. He didn't even bother knocking nor saying anything, but instead walked towards his table. The young man sat on a chair in front of him.

"Why are you following me?" Yi Ling's manly voice permitted the air. She couldn't believe what she was seeing. It was the same man who called her his mother, 6 years ago. The man looked like on his twenties compared to the teenage young man she saw years ago.

It was definitely a man, Jin Minzhe thought. He had a hunch earlier that it might be his mother but now it was cleared up.

"My father should be able to answer that. Why? he isn't explaining that to you?" He knew that his father wasn't able to get out of the Ring, as his punishment. So it was impossible that his father was gone. A powerful Deity like him cant be easily taken over by this young man.

"Father? who is your father?" Yi Ling's brows crossed. This man dared called her his mother , now there's a father as well?

"If father is here, he should be able to see me right now through you. He would've already sent you running. That old-man is crafty I tell you!. Tsk.. " He crossed his arms and sipped on his wine. He couldn't understand his father's thoughts sometimes. Why did he choose this limpy looking young man to hold on to the Sapphire Jade Ring? Unless something happened to his old man?! His eyes went wide.