abnabooks Chapter 28 Not for becoming an immortal, but only to wait for you in the mortal world!
Chapter 28 Not for becoming an immortal, but only to wait for you in the mortal world!
The Empress was still shrouded in chaos.
Her face was not clearly visible, but her simple white dress was spotless.
She stood barefoot in the void, the seemingly heavy golden chains around her ankles feeling as light as nothing.
She did nothing.
He just stood there quietly.
She seemed to be the center of the entire world, with all things bowing down to her and time itself freezing beneath her feet.
She wasn't wearing the iconic ghost mask, but Ye Chen could feel her gaze piercing through the void, firmly fixed on him.
That gaze was incredibly complex, piercing through more than two hundred thousand years of time.
It contains endless longing, vicissitudes, and a weary sense of relief.
And a hint of disbelief, a cautious exploration.
"I am coming."
Ye Chen spoke first.
His voice was soft, yet it clearly penetrated the abyss, breaking the eternal silence.
The figure in the abyss moved slightly.
It was a heartbreaking silence.
"Brother, is that really you?"
A clear, ethereal voice seemed to echo from the very end of time.
It resonated in Ye Chen's heart, and also in this independent space and time.
These six short words seemed to have used up all their strength.
She trembled almost imperceptibly, her emotions, buried for countless epochs, almost overflowing.
"It's me!"
"But it's not entirely me either."
Ye Chen treated him with sincerity.
He knew that in front of the Ruthless Great Emperor, any pretense or concealment was meaningless.
"This is one of my Daoist spiritual bodies; my true body is the Kunlun Immortal Land on the ancient star of the primordial era."
Ye Chen stared at the Empress with a smile on his face.
It was as if they had returned to their old mountain village, where the two shared only the purest and most sincere feelings.
Beneath the abyss, the chaotic mist surrounding that figure seemed to be disturbed by invisible ripples, and gently rolled.
The immortal gold chains made an almost inaudible tinkling sound as she moved slightly.
The Empress's silence was like frozen ice, yet it contained a waiting more intense than flames.
"It is indeed your soul imprint!"
"Even if it's just a spiritual body, I won't mistake that wisp of aura originating from the source!"
A moment later.
That clear, cold voice rang out again.
Her voice carried a hint of barely perceptible urgency, yet it also sounded as if she feared this was all a dream.
"For over two hundred thousand years, I've deduced this again and again, and I've seen many similar flowers, but none of them are you."
The Empress's voice was soft and slow, yet it possessed a penetrating power that went straight to the soul.
Every word she spoke seemed to strike fragments of bygone years.
"sorry!"
"I've kept you waiting for so long."
Ye Chen felt an indescribable sense of guilt.
In those ancient times, their brief yet profound companionship meant that his passing was not simply a farewell for her.
This was the starting point of her lifelong obsession, the only spark that pierced through more than 200,000 years of solitude.
No need to apologize.
The Empress's voice suddenly became clearer, less ethereal, and more human.
"This is the path I chose myself."
"Not for immortality, but simply to wait for you to return in this mortal world!"
The Empress paused for a moment.
That simple second half of the sentence,
That was her truest feeling at that moment.
At that moment, the wind seemed to stir again, dispersing the thinnest layer of mist at the edge of the abyss.
The empress's figure seemed to have moved forward a little more, but it remained deep in the mist and had not yet fully appeared.
That hesitant feeling, like the fear of returning home, seemed all the more heart-wrenching when it appeared in this woman who had fought her way to the point where no one in the world dared to claim supremacy.
"I come from a primordial ancient star in the future, and I once traveled to the ancient era through some kind of opportunity."
"For me, it was a real experience not long ago; for you, it was something that happened more than 200,000 years ago."
Ye Chen chose to be honest.
After another long silence.
The Empress let out a barely perceptible sigh, a sigh that seemed to echo from the end of time, gently dissipating.
"I see."
"Thank goodness it's always been you!"
The Empress's voice trembled uncontrollably.
She finally met the brother she had been longing for!
It's him!
It was him all along!
"Little girl, your brother is late."
Ye Chen's voice was unusually firm.
He took a step forward, his tone gentle yet firm, just as he had back in the small mountain village.
The time spent with the Empress and the lessons Ye Chen taught her have long become an inseparable part of her.
"Little girl..."
The figure in the abyss trembled slightly.
This nickname, buried deep within her memory, has been unmentioned and unheard of for countless millennia.
The chaotic energy showed obvious fluctuations.
They began to converge inwards, seemingly because their minds were in turmoil and they were temporarily unable to maintain that protective barrier that isolated them from everything.
As the fog gradually thinned, the true face of that peerless beauty slowly appeared before Ye Chen's eyes.
It was still the same face Ye Chen remembered, so perfect it seemed otherworldly, yet it had shed its childish innocence and gained an ancient majesty and composure.
Her skin was as white as jade, and her eyes were as deep as an abyss, as if reflecting the cycle of birth and death of the stars in the heavens.
At this moment, the indifference and sharpness in the Empress's eyes had vanished.
All that remained was pure, suppressed sorrow that had lasted for countless years, and the bewilderment of reunion.
She looked at Ye Chen quietly.
Or rather, looking at his spiritual body, which carried the aura she knew best.
Time seemed to materialize in her gaze, stretching out a distance of more than 200,000 years, only to be burned away inch by inch by the barely suppressed glimmer in her eyes.
"You mean, on a primordial ancient planet?"
The Empress's voice finally calmed down.
It wasn't a cold calm, but rather a sense of relief after unloading a massive burden.
"My true form of Chaos is currently undergoing arduous cultivation in the Kunlun Secret Realm."
Ye Chen looked at her, a warm smile appearing on his lips.
"So, are you coming back with me?"
Ye Chen extended his sincerest invitation to him.
The Dao Palace spirit body is ultimately just a spirit body; it is not the real Ye Chen.
"good--"
The Empress has only one character.
It seemed as light as a feather, yet it was as if the last shackle binding her soul had snapped.
The confusion in her eyes gradually faded, replaced by a new light—a light that had found its direction again after endless years of silence.
She glanced at the abyss below her feet, then at Ye Chen's outstretched hand.
It was the hand that, in her memory, had led her out of poverty, held her as she learned to read and write, and personally put a ghost mask on her.
She raised her slender arm, which was bound by celestial gold chains, her movements still somewhat hesitant, as if this simple action was more difficult than breaking the shackles of time and space.
"I have prepared many things for you that can accelerate your path to becoming an emperor."
The Empress's voice, though still cold and clear, was no longer ethereal.
As soon as she finished speaking, the seemingly heavy golden chains silently slipped off her ankles, as if they were just a few wisps of light gauze.
She lightly touched the ground with her bare feet, without any fluctuation of magical power, yet her figure rose from the abyss, like a white lotus, drifting down to Ye Chen untouched by dust.
The two were very close.
Ye Chen could clearly see the lingering weariness of the mortal world deep in her eyes.
And after meeting Ye Chen, a new, faint yet tenacious vitality emerged.
"Little sister, let's go home!"
Without hesitation, Ye Chen reached out and gently grasped the Empress's slightly cool hand.
Just like in ancient times, he took the hand of that little girl who was trembling with fear.
The next moment, the endless starry sky between the Big Dipper Starfield and the Primordial Ancient Star was gently folded like a piece of paper.
The unique terrain and atmosphere of the Kunlun Mountains are now right before our eyes.
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