"Uh," Si Qing paused, unsure how to tell Qi Yu about this.
Because when Qi Yu sat up just now, the amethyst necklace had stopped reacting again.
"Si Qing?" Qi Yu asked, confused. "What are you thinking about to yourself?"
"It's just, the amethyst lit up just now," Si Qing said dryly.
Qi Yu: ???!!!
"When? Where? For whom did it light up?" Qi Yu shot up, completely shocked. "Why didn't you tell me something so important earlier? Was it when I was dozing off?"
That couldn't be right. She had only dozed off for a short while, how could that happen?
"You..." Si Qing slowly recounted the entire event from beginning to end, and then held up the necklace in his hand. "Didn't you ask me why I was holding that pose just now? I was just trying to test why this amethyst was reacting to you. But I never expected it to go out the moment you opened your eyes. I don't understand what's going on."
As he said this, he suddenly remembered what Wang Lanqing had said about the original novel.
In the original novel, after his sister died, she became the new Heavenly Dao.
Si Qing's hand slowly clenched.
Originally, he had always thought that since things had deviated from the original plot, his sister's fate should be different from that in the novel. Why was the amethyst lighting up for his sister again now?
What did this mean?
Could it mean that his sister was going to repeat the original plot, sacrifice herself, and become the new Heavenly Dao?
Si Qing's mood visibly plummeted.
"You're saying that the moment I opened my eyes, the crystal went out." Qi Yu picked up the necklace from her neck, took it off, and examined it carefully.
Si Qing propped his chin with one hand, closed his eyes, and tapped his fingers rhythmically on the bench, lost in thought.
Qi Yu brought her necklace close to him.
The next moment, the necklace actually lit up.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey!" Qi Yu was ecstatic and patted Si Qing repeatedly. "Look, look, it lit up when I pointed it at you too."
Si Qing opened his eyes in surprise upon hearing this.
As if playing a trick, the amethyst necklace in Qi Yu's hand instantly extinguished.
Si Qing's face darkened.
To prove herself, Qi Yu tossed the necklace back and forth. "Really, it lit up just now, but the moment you opened your eyes, it went out. Is this thing from the Law broken? Is there something wrong with it?"
Si Qing thought this possibility unlikely. "Setting aside whether the Law is good or bad for now, it's so insistent on us finding the new Heavenly Dao and keeps urging us. How could it give us a faulty tool? Besides, this thing has never lit up before."
"But now this thing has lit up, and it's lit up for two people," Qi Yu emphasized. "This makes no sense at all, unless there are two new Heavenly Daos, but how is that possible?"
She had never heard of there being two new Heavenly Daos.
"So what should we do now? Should we tell Master and the others about this?" Si Qing fiddled with the necklace. "I'm just afraid that in front of them, both these necklaces won't light up, making it seem like we're overthinking things."
"Regarding Master, let's not say anything for now, okay?" Qi Yu pouted. "There are plenty of amethyst necklaces, and others have them too. If our necklaces light up when we go back, then we can mention it."
Si Qing nodded.
Qi Yu rolled off the bench and took Si Qing back to the South Sea.
Meanwhile.
Within the Thirteenth Heaven.
The Law sat on a bench, looking at the black and white chess pieces on the table, and gently massaged her temples.
The hand she used to massage her temples already showed faint cracks.
The cracks had spread to her elbow, looking like shattered glass, as if a light squeeze would cause her skin to flake off.
Beside her, the Heavenly Dao's legs had turned to dust and were slowly, bit by bit, dissipating.
The Law glanced back and used the spirit stones of the Thirteenth Heaven to continuously replenish the Heavenly Dao with spiritual energy, hoping to preserve its physical form.
But this spiritual energy entered the Heavenly Dao's body like a bottomless pit, showing no reaction at all.
The Heavenly Dao slowly opened its eyes, its voice calm and indifferent. "Stop making futile efforts. The new Heavenly Dao and the new Law are about to be born. You can't delay it for much longer."
"Even if I can't delay it, I must," the Law slowly clenched her five fingers, her eyes darkening. "Because I don't want to leave yet."
"Have you found the new Heavenly Dao?" the Heavenly Dao looked at the Law.
"The soul fragment Qi Yu and the others gave me is fake," the Law pursed her lips, looking at the cracks on her fingertips. "I suspect they might already know my purpose in finding the new Heavenly Dao."
The Heavenly Dao lowered its gaze. "It was my lack of resolve that allowed the Blood Demon Evil and Rakshasa Heavenly Venerate to exploit the loopholes. My divine power is now depleted, and I can't hold on much longer. If you continue like this, you'll only create more bloodshed. Instead of giving me all your remaining spiritual energy, it would be better to use it to capture Rakshasa Heavenly Venerate."
"Capturing Rakshasa Heavenly Venerate is the task of the new Heavenly Dao," the Law pulled the quilt over the Heavenly Dao, tucking it in for him. "And my task is to never let the new Heavenly Dao be born, even if I die."
"Since Qi Yu and the others are unreliable, I will find it myself. Wait for me. I will definitely find the nascent spirit of the new Heavenly Dao. As long as I sacrifice this nascent spirit to you, you will return to normal."