Mystic Hearts and Timeless Bonds – Part Two

In the peach blossom grove, the blossoms were in full bloom, competing in splendor. The pink flowers with their tender green leaves, the center of the five petals a light yellow, though not a rare variety, were a breathtaking sight in Tianya Valley. Originally named “Peach Blossom Valley,” it was famous for its peach blossoms. There were peach blossom formations, peach blossom tea, peach blossom honey… In the peach blossom village, there’s a peach blossom nunnery, and in the nunnery lives the peach blossom fairy; the fairy grows peach trees, selling their blossoms for wine money. Sober, he sits before the flowers; drunk, he sleeps beneath them; half-awake, half-drunk, day after day, year after year. He wishes to die amidst flowers and wine, not to bow before wealth and power; the dust of carriages and the tracks of horses are the interests of the rich, while wine cups and flower branches are the fate of the poor. If one compares wealth to poverty, one is on the ground, the other in the sky; if one compares poverty to the hustle of carriages and horses, one is at leisure while the other toils. Others laugh at me for being too crazy; I laugh at them for not seeing through. Don’t you see the tombs of the heroes of Wuling, without flowers or wine, now tilled as fields? Now, “Peach Blossom Valley” has become “Tianya Valley,” crafted by the heart and soul of Yue Lianyi. Tianya Valley, at the edge of the world, the corner of the sea, a place hard to find, yet the dreamlike paradise sought by all. Yue Lianyi still wore her pink gauze dress, sitting among the peach blossoms, sipping flower tea, immersed in the sea of flowers, feeling her mood lighten. Five days had passed since they returned from Mount Tianshan. Every day, she had been feeding him immortal herbs, consulting numerous medical books, and trying countless methods, but to no avail. That man, having left the thousand-year-old Xuan Ice Coffin, would decay and deform over time, so she could only keep him submerged in medicinal herbs.