A Trial by Halves

On Borrowed Time

Kunlun Mountain

"Mo Yuan.  Seventy Thousand years have passed, and do you know what happened in all that time?" Su Jins voice whispered quietly to the gathering soul as she sat beside the body that Zhe Yan was still guarding.  

Now and then she would see him lift his head and turn in all directions and though he could feel her presence, she knew he couldn't see her and nor could he hear her.  Qing Cangs energy ensured that, and she also came to realize that Mo Yuan was perhaps in posession of Qing Cangs energy having sealed him to the Bell so it was why she was able to connect so easily to him.

"Your little Disciple stole your body and hid you away only nobody knows where you have been all this time until now." she whispered at the soul she could feel constricting inside the body.

"Yet for thousands of years she kept you hidden and for what purpose I wonder.  It can't have been for love Hgh God Mo Yuan.  Because if she loved you, she would be here but she isn't.   I mean she kept you hidden away for so long, yet at the dawning of your resurrection, she is nowhere in sight.   Now I wonder why that is?" she asked her soft sing song voice which she knew he was listening to.

"Oh that's right!  Silly me, I forgot.  She went and married another man with your face and gave him a child.  I guess you never meant anything to her after all, so why bother coming back?  The world has survived seventy thousand years without you after all and it will continue to do so."

She could feel him struggling to maintain his hold on his body, but she was having so much fun with this God even though her mission was much more serious.  She could not allow him to return.  There was only two days left and she needed to prevent it and seeing as Zhe Yan was still clutching the lamp, she couldn't risk breaking it, because even though he couldn't see her, he was a Phoenix of the highest order, he could still throw his energy out and hurt her or worse.

"No one even mentions you anymore, and seeing as there are no wars and none looking likely, we don't even need a War God anymore.  Even if one was to erupt, Di Jun and Crown Prince Ye Hua are more than capable of dealing with it so returning really is a pointless endeavour.  Not to mention a sacrilege against nature High God Mo Yuan."

"You of all people know the rules that govern death.  You should have remained in the chaos, it was your fate to die.  Returning could have dire consequences for anyone associated with you now.  After all, you yourself taught your Disciples the laws of the Unirverse did you not?"

"Your return could see an unbalance of fate.  Those who should be doing other things, could change their fates by returning to you, and the consequences as you know, could be catastrophic to their spiritual growth and even lives High God Mo Yuan.  You need to leave before it is too late."  SuJins voice became more animated and as she talked Mo Yuans soul began to shake.

He could hear every word and having already steeled himself against a voice he did not recognize, he initially grew tired of listening to her because he sensed a much deeper agenda behind her words.  Only the longer and more persistent she became, the more she broke through his already weakened defences and without another voice present, he assumed he was alone with her and suddenly he began to take seriously what she was saying.

That Si Yin had married his likeness who he assumed was his twin he had left behind did give him pause to wonder, but if she was happy then he was happy for her.  But it was the voices final words that unsettled him.  Of course he knew there would be consequences for coming back and he might even have to pay a very high price for what was in effect a sacrilege against the laws of the Universe, so he didn't need her to tell him this, but he had not really considered what the affects of his resurrection might have on others.