Xia Qingyue’s lips parted as her gaze trembled.
“Two months after I returned to Asgard, I left again, and disappeared for five months. Those five months were spent with him, because I wanted to repay the favor by protecting him, but in the end, he was the one who saved my life instead. It was also because of him that I could break into the Emperor Profound Realm.”
“…” Xia Qingyue did not make a sound for a long time, for she was unable to believe everything she had heard.
Even Chu Yuechan herself wasn’t sure why she told these secrets, that she had planned to keep to herself for the rest of her life, to Xia Qingyue. Perhaps, it was because deep within her heart, she felt a type of indescribable inferiority to her… After all, Xia Qingyue was his legal and proper wife, but she as Xia Qingyue’s Senior Master, had…
“These words, cannot be repeated to anyone, including your master.”
“Yes.” Xia Qingyue nodded, her thoughts bewildered.
“As an exchange, can you answer a question?”
Today, Xia Qingyue had an unreal feeling, what with Chu Yuechan talking so much. She nodded: “Senior Master, please ask.”
Chu Yuechan glanced back, her cold voice carried some gentleness: “When I taught you Frozen Cloud Arts, I checked your awareness, and found out that you did not really like to train, but had a very strong desire to obtain greater power. Can you tell me the reason?”
Xia Qingyue was startled, and a deep sadness appeared in her eyes fleetingly. Her eyes became misty, and even the ice spirits around her calmed down and became quiet.
“Because of… my Mother…” After Chu Yuechan’s open-hearted words, she did not choose to hide, but very naturally, with words that flowed like the mist, she said: “Father and mother’s meeting was very magical… When father met mother outside of the city, she was in a coma and her entire body was covered with blood. After she woke up, she did not have any of her memories, and her body was extremely weak… Then, mother married father, and because her body was weak, giving birth to me was very difficult, and I narrowly escaped death…”
“When I was four years old, mother suddenly regained her memories… She left, like a fairy she flew away and left… When she left, she hugged me and my brother while crying pitifully, saying that if she didn’t leave, she would bring calamity to the whole family. She said that where she was going, was a place called the Domain of the Gods. It was a place that we could never get to… After that, even though father stayed strong, I often see him shed tears quietly when he was alone. After more than ten years, he never remarried… Brother was so young and ignorant, but when growing up, the thing that he envied the most, was that others people had mothers…”
“Domain of the Gods?” Chu Yuechan’s eyebrows tightened, because even with her experience, she had also never heard of this name, “Do you know what kind of place it is?”
Xia Qingyue absent-mindedly shook her head: “I don’t know. I have researched many ancient books, but I never encountered this name.”
“The reason you pursue profound power is so that you can reach a level high enough to learn this name, correct?”
“Mn…” Xia Qingyue nodded slightly before raising her snow white face to look at the waning moon in the sky: “I only want a reunited family. Even though this goal is very far, I believe that as I climb higher and higher, I will inevitably be able to see the silhouette of my mother one day…