That Fair-Faced 'Sage' {Completed}

114. Aftermath

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It was cold...

LanFen opened her eyes to find herself lying on a cold, rocky floor.

'Shuǐ JunHo! I have to return and check on him!' She shot to her feet, then noticed her surroundings a bit more.

"Ei?"

There was fog all around, which looked like Clouds. The rocky ground beneath her feet had disappeared, and now resembled some sort of solid sky, complete with more clouds and even stars.

"Ei?!" LanFen swivelled around, looking here and there. "Did I really die?!"

"Zhao LanFen." Yin Long had appeared from the mist.

"Master! You're here?!" LanFen ran to him, then scowled. "Tch! Good for you, oh great and powerful Ancient Demon! How could you just jump in and sacrifice yourself?!"

"Are you angry with me?" He smirked. "You can even speak rudely now."

But LanFen just grabbed his sleeve. "Master. I will apologize for my disrespect later. For now, let's leave this place and find our way back to-." She realized she was clutching air, and Yin Long had reappeared a few feet away.

"Zhao LanFen. My foolish, yet kind hearted disciple. You decided to give up your life, just to save the world, but again, your kindness has saved you... The thing I talked about before. The 'Unique treasure' you inherited, was the spirit of the first Ancient Creature, Yi Wen."

One end of LanFen's lips lifted in amusement. "Master, are we really in the after life? Has the air here done something to you?

"I thought the unique thing you talked about, was Shushu and my other demons. Jun and Elder Xu are scary enough. What did you say I inherited?"

"Hmmmm." Yin Long sighed. "I'll begin from an interesting fact.

"In actuality, all the 'enlightened' Ancient Creatures, stemmed from Lien, which is the real reason they could sense each other.

"Originally, the Ancient creatures were like wild animals, with no sense of right and wrong, and they were far too powerful to dream of enlightenment.

"However, my intervention led to them getting enlightened."

LanFen gasped. "Old man Xu said something similar!" She recalled Elder Xu's discussion with Shuǐ YanXuan. "So you were the person who took their energy, but transferred yours to them?!"

Yin Long nodded. "But it was never deliberate, and it wasn't my energy...

"In the past, I transferred almost half my powers to Lien's Lily, and then I took it around, looking for energy that could fully bring her back.

"I searched for every ancient demon flower, or herb I could find. The Ancient Creatures were the most powerful Lesser demons, so they were a good place to start.

"I began with an ancient snake, right in this region, but while drawing part of her energy to Lien, Lien surprisingly shared part of her essence with the Snake, which made it intelligent.

"I noticed this happening, whenever I drew energy for Lien, and by the time I settled on Yun mountain, the ancient snake had already become enlightened.

"Naturally, as the years passed, the others followed as well."

"Ah! So all the enlightened Ancient creatures have Lady Lien's energy? Could that by why Yun Kept sensing her aura around me? Because I adopted Jun and Elder Xu?"

"Probably. However, not just two of them, but also Yi Wen, the ancient snake."

"But I've never met this Lady Yi Wen."