Time does not stop for anyone's reluctance, and in our reluctance, the time to leave has arrived.
I bid him farewell, and he once again promised that he would definitely come to the Azure Continent to find me. Xiao Luo'er and I left, she returned to the Sacred Domain, and I returned to the Azure Continent.
After Xiao Luo'er left, I immediately contacted the Domain Lord because there was something I wanted to ask. After resolving the matter of the extraterrestrial celestial demons, I discovered a very unusual wound on Xiao Luo'er.
I told the Domain Lord about it, and he informed me that it was caused by Xiao Luo'er's divine bone. I knew what it meant for a mortal to possess a divine bone – it meant she was about to die.
Knowing that Xiao Luo'er had a divine bone answered all my questions. Why did Xiao Luo'er often go into seclusion? Why was her spiritual energy unusual? Why did I not feel an immortal bone on her, yet she could continue cultivating?
It was just that I could not accept the fact that Xiao Luo'er was about to die, but I was powerless to stop it.
In the afternoon, the Sixth Elder asked me to take people to the Sacred Spirit Lake on Spiritual Transformation Island and told me that Xiao Luo'er would also be there. I took my people and went. This time, I sensed the familiar wound on Xiao Luo'er again, and her wounds had increased.
After emerging from the ancient ruins, we parted ways again. She went to patrol the lower realms, and I went to break off my engagement with my parents. I knew they would disagree, but the engagement had to be dissolved!
However, I didn't know why, but this time the matter of dissolving the engagement went so smoothly. They were not angry, and the Lei family readily accepted it. However, it wasn't a cancellation of the engagement, but rather a change of my engagement with the third young master of the Lei family to my seventh sister and the fifth young master of the Lei family.
After the matter was settled, I told Xiao Luo'er about it. Xiao Luo'er then told me that she had done it, and also explained the reason for the Lei family's dwindling offspring. However, the Lei family was a fire pit, and I did not want to implicate my sister, but she was deeply in love with the fifth young master of the Lei family! I could not continue to object, and felt guilty in my heart.
However, Xiao Luo'er told me that my seventh sister would live a very happy life, which put my mind at ease. The facts proved to be so. Although the fifth young master of the Lei family was not in good health, he treated my seventh sister exceptionally well, not taking concubines or having illegitimate children. However, because of him, my seventh sister had fewer descendants than my other sisters, but she was better off than my aunt, who was the wife of the Lei family's patriarch, and her children were much healthier.
Xiao Luo'er, upon returning from her inspection of the lower realms, suddenly began to research ancient texts, searching for something. After finding a clue, she returned to the Ancient Spirit Continent, but this time I was in seclusion and did not accompany her.
Xiao Luo'er returned a year later, and upon her return, due to the unrest in the outer regions, she was going to the outer regions. Before she left, she came to see me, gave me the key to enter the Ling family's small world, and spoke to me for a while as if saying goodbye.
I wanted to stop her, but looking at her unwilling eyes, I understood something. She was going to gamble again, and this time she was gambling with her life. I didn't know if she would win this gamble, but I knew that whether she won or lost, I might never see her again. But I wanted her to live, so I didn't stop her.
As expected, she died on the battlefield in the outer regions. Because she sacrificed her own life to activate a sacrificial array, not even her body remained. The Domain Lord only brought back her bracelet, and this bracelet was later taken back by the Demon Emperor Venerable.
I still didn't stop it, because this bracelet was originally given to Xiao Luo'er by the Demon Emperor Venerable, and each gemstone was carved by the Demon Emperor Venerable with great effort. However, the Demon Emperor Venerable did not take the key to enter the Ling family's small world, so I still had a memento.
Later, Xiao Luo'er's grandfather passed away from illness. His physical illness was curable, but his illness was of the heart. I didn't know why her grandfather suffered from a heart ailment, but I was powerless to save him and could only accompany him as he slowly approached death.
Xiao Luo'er did not attend her grandfather's funeral, which caused resentment towards her. I felt unbearable watching all this, but Xiao Luo'er had asked me not to tell them that she had died before she left, so I fled.
It wasn't until ten years later that Xiao Luo'er's eldest brother broke through the planes and came to the Azure Continent to find me, asking why Xiao Luo'er did not attend her grandfather's funeral. I could no longer bear it, so I told him that Xiao Luo'er had died long ago.
He was shocked and ran away as if escaping. After that, I never saw him again. I waited another ten years for him, but he never reappeared. I thought he blamed me and would never look for me again. Just then, the Domain Lord urged me to go to the Sacred Domain, so I went to the Sacred Domain and never left the Qingxin Hall.
Later, I saw Xiao Luo'er again. At that time, she had won her gamble and was resurrected, but she was no longer the same as before. But it didn't matter, she was still Xiao Luo'er anyway.
It was also at this time that I learned that Xiao Luo'er's eldest brother had not disappeared because he blamed me, but because he was missing. I was very worried, but I had a question: he could enter the small world at any time, so why would he go missing?
Later, Xiao Luo'er found him in the Demon Realm, and then he returned to the small world. I only then learned that his teleportation talisman had malfunctioned.
I also learned another thing: Xiao Luo'er was not his sister at all, but a lonely soul from another world who had made a deal with his sister and was reborn in her body. And he himself knew this. I felt very sorry for him, having lost his parents and sister in childhood, and then his grandfather, and now even this sister had to keep her distance from them.
At that time, I still didn't understand why Xiao Luo'er insisted on keeping her distance from the Ling family. Later, I understood her intention: she just didn't want the family of the real sister to forget her.
I resolved the misunderstanding with him. Although we had missed each other for over a hundred years, we still had feelings for each other. So, after attending Xiao Luo'er's wedding, he went to propose to my parents. My parents initially disagreed until they learned that he was the brother of the former Saintess of War whom they had been searching for, and then they reluctantly agreed.
Because his relatives, except for his second brother, could not yet come to the Azure Continent, his second brother and Xiao Luo'er's Saintess master came to help him propose. My parents were initially a little displeased, but after seeing Xiao Luo'er's Saintess master, their anger subsided.
Our wedding was first held at my home, and then again in the small world. However, the families of both sides could only meet through a stone mirror that could show their figures. Fortunately, the elders of the Ling family were not strict, and he had no direct elders, so my parents were somewhat relieved about my future life.
There was still a bit of regret for him: he regarded Xiao Luo'er as his own sister, but at his wedding, Xiao Luo'er could only attend as my friend. Even when she was with the Ling family in the small world, she could only attend as my friend, not as his sister.
However, I somehow felt that the Ling family already knew her identity, but they did not expose it. Later, I asked Xiao Luo'er if she regretted it, but she said that this was good enough. Because he had already told the Ling family that Xiao Luo'er was dead, she could only be a stranger with the same name.
However, Xiao Luo'er would still prepare some cultivation resources on time for me to bring into the small world to give to them. I could guess from their expressions that they knew these were not refined by me, but they did not expose it.
However, his younger brother's children all called Xiao Luo'er "Little Aunt," and his sister's children called her "Little Auntie," which could be considered an acknowledgment of her as a member of the Ling family.
This kind of life is actually not bad. As long as you know the other person is doing well, it doesn't matter if you see each other or not.
I'll stop here for now; my life is still going on.