The sky was as clear as a mirror, with no mountains or withered trees in sight. Immortal mist lingered, and even the ground seed to be covered with a thin layer of light. In the distant river flowed a deep blue, the land was flat and spacious, the houses orderly, and among the fields, one could see one ethereal and graceful immortal after another, as if they were in an exaggerated distant painting of an Immortal Mountain...
This place seems like Peach Blossom Spring... no, it's that Peach Blossom Spring seems like this place!
By his ear, the voice of the Old Saintess ca tily:
"Here, ah, if this old thing hasn't guessed wrong, it should be what the White Lotus Sect calls..."
"...Vacuum Ho!"
......
As this scene fell into his eyes, Chen Yi took a long ti to recover his senses. The gentle slope underfoot was like green silk folds, and upon a closer look, even the boulders on the slope were verdantly jade-like, as if pieces of erald had been planted in the ground.
They stood on this side of the gentle slope, and from a distance, they could see those ethereal and graceful figures moving about, draped in rainbow-colored silks, with their sashes floating as if immortals and fairy were walking together.
Chen Yi slowly questioned, "Is the Vacuum Ho... like this?"
He had originally thought it would be identical to the sight seen at the White Lotus Sect's main altar.
"What sect would portray such a place as bizarre and unrecognizable?" the Old Saintess chuckled, "Even the Buddhist Sect, which talks constantly of emptiness, has countless praises for the Pure Land, don't they?"
While Chen Yi was conversing with the Old Saintess, Yin Weiyin finally ca to her senses. The beauty of the scene before her, even a fairyland was no more than this, she looked around and saw so exotic flowers like red corals growing in the crevices of the stones, with a bird of white feathers and golden beak perched on the flower's stans.
She reached out her hand to touch it, but the bird was neither startled nor flew away, rely tilting its head to look at her with its glassy bead-like eyes, its cry clear like a chi.
"Is this... an Illusion Realm?" Yin Weiyin wondered aloud.
Throughout the journey, she had mastered the art of using this bewildered tone skillfully.
Chen Yi raised his eyes and glanced again, saying, "I don't know."
"How could it be an Illusion Realm?"
Suddenly, a third voice intruded, and Chen Yi's expression tightened. Looking down, he saw a dozen n and won walking across the grass, their voices not loud, yet it seed they had heard the conversation from afar.
Realizing this, Chen Yi lowered his eyes, planning to learn this "Donggong Ruoshu" secret transmission technique.
The n and won's faces seed to be carved from the sa mold: eyebrows like new moons, lips like cinnabar, even their heights were exactly the sa. Seeing them, they walked forward slowly, and the leading woman asked with a smile, "Outsiders?"
Donggong Ruoshu instinctively leaned behind Chen Yi, while he nodded slightly toward the group.
The blue-clothed woman leading them unfastened a bamboo tube from her waist, offering it with a smile, "Not much to offer, perhaps you could first have so Liquan."
It wasn't the ti to show hostility, and without revealing his intentions, Chen Yi reached out to take it but didn't rush to drink, instead asking, "Where... is this?"
"Oh, you don't know? It's fine, we'll tell you slowly. But first, I need to ask you both a question."
The leading blue-clothed woman smiled charmingly, her eyes flowing as she glanced over the two of them,
"Are you... a couple?"
Chen Yi didn't know why she asked this, only seeing the anticipation in the eyes of the n and won behind her, a few of whom were whispering to each other.
"Yes," Chen Yi did not deny it.
"Married?" the blue-clothed woman's eyes lit up, and the n and won behind her held their breath as if on cue.
"...Married."
"Wonderful!"
Soone among the group exclaid, and like the wind blowing through wheat, they all cheered in unison. Chen Yi was confused, only seeing them erupt with fervor, as if they had waited unknowingly for long for a couple to visit.
Yin Weiyin, puzzled, lowered her eyebrows, feeling sowhat lancholic.
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