“Wow.” Stepping onto the blackish-red soil, Danqing looked at the endless wasteland, unable to help herself. “It’s so hot here.” Lan Wu agreed, wiping the sweat from her forehead. She turned and waved to the giant whale submerged in the sea before following the increasingly active black butterfly. The girl beside her transformed into a white bird, flapping her wings…
“Fifteen years,” she repeated blankly, then suddenly remembered something. “Where’s Ah Yue? Where is she?” Lan Yuan hesitated. “In the Flame Lands.” “The Flame Lands? Why? Why would she be in the Flame Lands?” A wave of unease washed over her. Lan Wu was about to ask for more details when a black butterfly fluttered into view, landing on her…
The sky was high and clear, a few white cranes flying through the clouds, creating waves of white. A woman with hair reaching her waist sat motionless at the highest point of Qianyun Peak, her eyes closed peacefully as if asleep. After a while, a bluebird flew from the clouds, landing on her shoulder. Lan Wu’s long lashes fluttered, and…
MoondayWeather: ClearMood: I woke up early to practice my sword, slashing at a piece of Cangxuan stone eight hundred times. Maybe the noise was too loud, as it attracted Yu Shanye. She asked me why I was hacking at the stone. I sneered, pointed to the two words “Lan Wu” carved on top of the stone, and walked away without…
“In the human realm, it was the fourteenth year of the Xuande era. In the history of the four seas, it was the year one thousand two hundred and twenty-three. A flower bud from Guanyin Mountain bloomed within the Sea Palace, giving birth to an inseparable pair of twin mermaids.” It was only much, much later that Lan Yuan learned…