CH 75.2

Little Orchid peered at the sky. After that, lowered head to peer at the flower petals in the palm of her hand. Inside the head, there suddenly passed a scene. That scene she saw inside the dream before—in a simple courtyard, there was a male that kissed on the edge of female’s lips and whose face matched the owner of the demon market. Little Orchid rubbed forehead, so it was he from before.

So he was “A Hao” in the dream, but the bewildering inquisitive thing was that if he were A Hao, then the female that she saw inside his dream ought to be Chi De woman. Yet, the appearance of Chi De woman in the dream was different than the ice sculpture that she saw in Kunlun Mountain from before…

But…currently she should not care about these matters…

She was already a person that will not live long. Has to think how to live the remaining days. Thinking closely, can Dong Fang Qing Cang find her within this final period of time or not…

Little Orchid lowered head to peer at her hand. She moved the fingers and felt that her five fingers were strangely stiff.

In reality…in Little Orchid’s heart there suddenly surface a thought. If [she] had slept forever like before, it was not something bad. Secure and warm like that was better than worry and fear in this world.

Little Orchid sighed and tilted head to lie down. She peered one by one at the clouds floating by in the sky. The eyelids slowly grew heavy and consciousness did not stop reminding her. Don’t sleep. If continued sleeping, cannot know how many days have passed when woken up or that fundamentally, she did not have a day to wake up.

But when reasoning was disregarded, inside Little Orchid’s mind there was a voice that was whispering to her. Go sleep, it will be already be like that anyway.

In the end, Little Orchid closed eyes.

The darkness in the dream was still very warm. She drifted in this darkness and does not know how long as she suddenly saw a flickering rays of starlight. She then lifted head to examine and discovered that it was Chi De woman. She has appeared in her dream with a complete figure. Perhaps the soul of Chi De woman has almost been restored completely, while she [Little Orchid] right now…

Little Orchid spread out her fingers and peered at her hands that were crystal-clear and deep-blue* pale.

*Used same cang character 苍as the cang in DFQC’s name.

“You can see your disciple again.” Little Orchid said to Chi De woman this sentence, but saw that Chi De woman was furrowing her brows tighter. Little Orchid felt it was strange, “Previously, Chi Lin has said that you did not want to return to the three realms. It seemed that was true, how come?”

“I am still not done with predestined fate.”

“Predestinated fate?”

Chi De woman hesitated for a bit then recalled, “In the battle with the demon king during the ancient times, in order to win, I have used a secret spell formation to change the body. It caused the appearance and figure to change. This formation made my strength measurable to Dong Fang Qing Cang’s strength in a short period of time, but the cost was my life. In that battle, if not for A Hao ambushing Dong Fang Qing Cang, I was determined to die with Dong Fang Qing Cang, but A Hao came…” Chi De woman lowered her eyes, “A Hao ambushed Dong Fang Qing Cang successfully, but he was inflicted with heavy injuries. I do not have the heart to continue attacking and was able to rescue A Hao, but allowed Dong Fang Qing Cang to escape.”

The various things Chi De woman said to Little Orchid, she knew. She has saw in the hostile formation at Qian Yin Mountain when Chi De woman at that time stabbed Dong Fang Qing Cang and charged forward to follow after A Hao’s silhouette. While Dong Fang Qing Cang took the opportunity to escape. After that, the various bodhisattvas and deities used that time when he was injured to kill off…

“A Hao received one round of strike from Dong Fang Qing Cang and meridians in the entire body have snapped. The soul has slackened and was near the chance of the soul scattering. I tried to keep the destroyed soul in the body and used orchid to make medicine in order to mend A Hao’s soul. But orchids are scared of living energies. I have attempted many years, but there were no results. When I cannot keep the soul, then you have appeared.” Chi De woman said, “You are the only orchid that was not scared of living energies that I was able to plant. You can restore A Hao’s soul.”

Little Orchid was dazed.

“At that time I was still quite young and I did not dare to arbitrarily use. Thus, I nurtured you at the bedside of A Hao. This day would passed and then another. The soul of a Hao slowly restored and only waited for you to mature and will make you medicine for him to drink, but at this time, the Heavenly Emperor knew about my actions. He grew angry.

Little Orchid nodded, “I can also guess.” Remembering the scene at the heavenly palace, the heart of Little Orchid was still a little bit cold, “At that time, the Heavenly Emperor must have said that you have went against the natural order.”

Chi De woman nodded, “The Heavenly Emperor ordered me to immediately destroy you and at the same time, told me to scatter A Hao’s soul. But I have used so much effort so how can I… At that time, my body after I have transformed, endure through the battle with Dong Fang Qing Cang, and having to exhaust for many years, my strength that I have was not the same. If the Heavenly Emperor wanted to force then I fundamentally could not protect A Hao. Therefore, I hid you at a wilderness in the mortal realm and hid A Hao in an ice cave under Kunlun. Brought Shuo Feng sword besides him and let the sword energies protecting him eternally. After that… the Heavenly Emperor captured me. He ordered that I hand over A Hao and tell your whereabouts. I did not want to. The Heavenly emperor immediately punished me into experiencing thousand predestined fates and tribulations. Forced me in each life to be betrayed by the one I love.”

“Hah…” Little Orchid understood, “Therefore Xie Wanqing was killed by that male…”

Each life would be betrayed by the one I love, it was really… Little Orchid said, “From before and until now, the family of the Heavenly Emperor has been there never has been a good person.”

Chi De woman laughed but was not care much as she continued to speak, “Chi Lin was discontented when seeing the injustice of mine and grew angry. Forced to fall in the devil magic and ultimately was trapped in Hao Tian tower.”

Chi De woman talked about the past and even though the face did not display anything, but Little Orchid heard such and was startled. Even though it was a matter related to her, but currently she did not remember any at all.

Chi De woman has hid her at a wilderness in the mortal realm. She also did not know how coincidental that Siming found her and brought her to the heavenly realm. Therefore, Siming also did not know the real use of hers and it’s no wonder that with one bit, has threatened to pluck her for pigs to eat…

“If that is so.” Little Orchid peered at Chi De woman, “Then currently, A Hao has caused you to live again. You should be happy ah. How come you don’t want to carry your old memories to meet him?”

“Little Orchid, currently the period of time that separated the ancient times is quite long, long to the point of causing A Hao to wake up from the Kunlun ice cave and even he has lived alone in this world for so many years. The predestined fates that I have experienced cannot be counted on the amount and how much has remained. In a period of time like now, he still cannot find me, cannot probe my soul, and cannot find my whereabouts. Do you know why?”

Little Orchid shook her head.

“In truth, what the Heavenly Emperor said was not wrong. It’s true that I have gone against the Mandate of Heaven. Therefore, this was a heavenly punishment. Besides heaven’s and earth’s outlier like Dong Fang Qing Cang, there’s no one who can bring together again the fates of he and I. It’s due to the appearance of Dong Fang Qing Cang that he and I have this situation today.”

Little Orchid was silent.

“He and I were foreordain that life after life and fate after fate will miss out one another. Before I have experienced the thousands of life fates and tribulations, even if [we] met each other, also cannot be sure there is a good result. I have endured sufferings due to going against Mandate of Heaven. Truly, does not have the courage to face the result that one does not know ahead anymore. Can only continue like so—I reincarnating while he continues to find me in the mortal realm. Continuing to find, finding forever, and then inevitable there will be a day where he will give up, and there will be a day when he begins a new life. Unexpectedly, I do not want…to let him be in a dangerous situation anymore.”

“But he…has already provoked Dong Fang Qing Cang.”

What Chi De woman said was not wrong. Big devil was the heaven’s and earth’s outlier of the world. Can be said that his life will be in danger as he [DFQC] was precisely the representation of the word “danger”.*

*It’s two words in the original Chinese text, but I went with one word.

“You have disappeared at Qian Yin Mountain. At that time, the people of the demon realm who attacked from outside of Qian Yin Mountain, Dong Fang Qing Cang will not predict that A Hao made a move.”

Little Orchid briefly pondered as it seemed this was correct, “But if you take the xi rang body and then live again, at that time Dong Fang Qing Cang will finally know that the owner of the demon market has went behind his back…”

“Therefore.” The expression of Chi De woman became solemn, “I cannot live again.”

Little Orchid was silent. She pondered for a bit. How come [she] felt a bit peculiar as other people want to snatch the chance to live, yet how come at her place [situation] each person want to snatch the chance of dying…

Such feeling felt really subtle ah…