The Endless Promise

95. Fate's Will 2

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"Certain individuals around 'Zhang Luoyin' in Yue City are tied to your Immortal past." Immortal Kai said, and the were a few seconds.

"Ei? Impossible!" Luoyin finally shook his head. "Apart from Yan Liwei, won't I remember their face?!"

"Oh?" Immortal Kai smirked. "What if they are wearing different faces as part of Fate's will? Friends and Foes alike?" He turned to Yin Xing.

"You've noticed one of them, haven't you? Your other half..."

"Immortal Kai! My chosen mate is Yan Linfeng!" Yin Xing protested. "Who is this 'other half'?!"

"Aaah?! You have a mate now?!" Luoyin had turned to him, and he flushed, looking away with a shy smile.

"Ehehe, elder brother, I've not said anything to her yet..."

"Idiot! He's speaking about the half you were born with!" Old man Bao put in shaking his head at Yin Xing, who looked even more confused than Luoyin.

"You're saying A-Yue is somewhere in Yue City?!" Yin Xing asked.

Yin Yue had been Yin Xing's *twin, and as Luoyin was already about two thousand years old before they were born, the two had been more like his children, than siblings!

(*Yue and Xing= Moon and Star)

So he leaned forward now. "Why won't I recognize A-Yue?!"

"Because no one is supposed to." Immortal Kai shrugged, still fanning himself. "But Xiaoxing is her twin. He should sense her no matter what or who she's reborn as."

"But I haven't sensed any-." Yin Xing stopped himself. "The mortal girl, Xu Lian?!!"

"Xu Lian?!" Luoyin also seemed surprised. "How is that possible?!"

"Did you forget?" Old man Bao was speaking again. "Yin Zhi tried to destroy their mother's pregnancy, and a single core was split, leading to twins born with incomplete cores, dependent on each other.

"So when Xiaoyue died, Xiaoxing nearly followed, and you struggled to preserve his life."

Luoyin remembered...

Nearly mad over Yin Yue's death, Bailong had fed his own qi into Yin Xing for almost five years, while he scoured the three realms for a solution.

Bailong had first sought out the previous Medicine Deity, but when the older immortal failed, it had pushed his own desire to create tonics and refine pills to the max, forcing him to carry out endless experiments with healing herbs and flowers from all three realms.

This of course led him to create the formation which could take him almost anywhere in the three realms, including the Shadow Realm, and then also create the reverse summoning talismans to pull him back to the Eastern Sea Palace whenever he fell into danger.

But while a few successes gave Yin Xing a breath of life, none were the permanent answer.

Finally, Bailong found a solution- a pill which could reform one's core, but no known furnace could refine that pill, which led him to scour every known or ancient record about furnaces, till he found Starlight Furnace, an ancient relic buried deep beneath Sky Palace.

He snuck in to steal the furnace, and that had led to meeting Zhurong Tianlong...

Luoyin grinned at present. "Fate is indeed a neatly interwoven mess.. I'm guessing Xu Lian was born as a twin again because of her incomplete core. The Sea of Fate latched her onto someone else so she could finally be reborn."

He and Yin Xing wore immensely happy smiles, knowing their dear one was living a full and happy mortal life, and being a mortal would grant her a clean start, as long as she wasn't evil.