She raised her hand to wipe her tears, then dropped her gaze and whispered: “It's okay. Before Jiheng came to Taichen Palace, you had treated me very well. Only after she came did you start to treat me poorly. But you don't have to worry about this because I have long thought carefully about it. Jiheng is the one you love. I was only a pet in Taichen Palace. Since I scratched Jiheng, it wasn't wrong for you to punish me. It was fine too that you didn't come to visit me when I was locked up, because you were busy with your wedding preparations with Jiheng. There are many things to worry about in a wedding, there were many etiquettes to attend to, it was understandable that you would forget about me.”
She sniffed and tried to appear generous. “You don't have to worry about when the snow lion almost killed me either. I've already thought it through. On that day had I listened to Zhonglin and stay put, I wouldn't get into the troubles I encountered. I can't really blame anyone, after all, I can only blame my own bad luck.”
She raised her hands to wipe away her tears and said sincerely: “Since I suffered many hardships when I was at your palace, Heaven might be implying to me that you and I aren't fated, that's why I...”
Dijun's voice asked her from above: “That's why you...?”
Fengjiu raised her head in silence; unwiped tears rolled down her chin when Dijun distracted her with his question “That's why you...?” She wasn't sure herself. Dijun knitted his brow, his face suddenly became ice cold. Fengjiu felt Donghua's eyes had seemed sad when he looked at her.
Back then on Jiuchongtian, had he known his pet fox was the young queen from the Bai family in Qingqiu, what would he have done? Donghua thought about this and felt more likely than not he would return Fengjiu back to Qingqiu. The baby fox had saved him in the Wicked Lotus Sphere, he would gift her with some Heavenly treasure as a show of gratitude. He undeniably adored her, but it wasn't exactly convenient to keep the queen of an entire clan to raise as a pet.
There were many things that had happened to her that he did not know, and perhaps this ignorance was also a mistake in itself, yet he could not change what had already passed, regret would not help anything.
Fengjiu's face was showing fatigue, her eyes vaguely gazed to the moon hanging atop a branch. She had been awake for nearly half an hour. Time was running out.
Fengjiu's cultivation was depleted when she fell into Aranya's Dream, both her soul and body were injured. Throughout these three months, she had to rely on Donghua's blood three times a day to mend her soul and restore her 30,000 years of energy. But her body was still very weak, and she needed more time to recover.
Fairies usually look for places where dense mystical energy congregated to nurse their body back to health. But there was little mystical energy inside Fanyin Valley, there weren't too many sacred places either. Donghua used his own energy to create an enchantment field especially designed for Fengjiu's recuperation.
According to the rules of enchantment field sorcery, since it was created specifically for Fengjiu, when she woke up, dormant energy around her body would start to rise, the enchantment field would also spontaneously take effect, and her body would be encased in it for an hour. This is why he said time was running out.
However, although the enchantment was a good place to nurse an immortal body, it was not a good place for a soul to stay inside too long. It was best to place her elsewhere. In a case such as Fengjiu's current situation, it was best to keep her soul in a living person where she can have continuous life absorption. As for Aranya's Dream, there was no rush to leave yet.