Neither Ning Que nor Sangsang closed their eyes . They became increasingly closer to each other and almost melted into one .
Starlights vanished and reappeared in Sangsang's eyes, then turned into frustration .
Although everything was going according to her plan, she could not help but feel frustrated at the moment because she did not resentful towards Ning Que for being intimate . It was a very annoying fact . She clenched her fists, looked at Ning Que and felt the disgusting moisture coming from his lips . Her divine body tightened as rock, and started trembling .
Ning Que woke up from the mysterious state of mind . When he was sober, he realized what he had been doing — he was kissing her . That was because he saw her as Sangsang, but now he was afraid . The fear made him rigid and tremble .
They were cuddling and kissing in bed . Their trembling lips consistently rubbed against one another . Even their teeth slightly bumped together and made some clicking sounds .
That was the quake .
Ning Que cuddled Sangsang and trembled even more violently . His bones and joints were clapping, and she trembled until her green flowery dress started to rip . It sounded like something was about to collapse while their trembling intensified . Then, bang .
The bed beneath them collapsed .
Ning Que and Sangsang fell, holding each other, to the solid ground of the Divine Hall . The ground quaked and spread waves of vibration that cracked the pillars of the Divine Hall .
The solid walls of the Divine Hall looked like they were eroded by biting winds through tens of thousands of years . The coat of the walls cracked down together with stone chips and hit the ground . It sounded like someone was clapping, or something similar .
The unimaginable quake spread immediately from the Divine Hall of Light toward every direction in the world . The accumulated snow in the terrain was shook off into delicate snow falls . The frozen peach blossoms burst from the frost and swung in the biting winds .
Along the coastline of the Song Kingdom, the grotesque rock drums by the thousand mile long dam started jumping up and down, smashed countless reefs and splashed a mass of black sea mud . The black sea water was boiling . The darkest clouds were rolling above as if they were being wrung by some massive angry god .
In the Mogan Mountain at the Great River Kingdom, water splashed from the Ink Fountain . Mo Shanshan watched the restless water and wondered what was happening . She felt lost . Looking back at the celebrating lanterns along the foot of the mountain and around their cottage, she could not help but grieve and started to weep .
The Great Swamp was also shocked . The white reeds seemed helpless in the wind . The water from the lakes flew backward to rivers, and flooded the City of Linkang . Ye Su gathered hundreds of poor men to rebuild the waterways . Seeing that the dirty water had brimmed over their feet, he looked to the Divine Halls of West Hill far away and mused .
In Ye Su's shabby cottage, Tang Xiaotang sat at the edge of the bed and was about to deliver some well-cooked chicken soup into Cheng Pipi's mouth . The soup started to ripple on the spoon .
The entire human world quaked . Several waves of quakes took place in Haotian's realm . They did not destroy many houses or kill many people, but everyone felt them .
Being in the center, people in the Divine Halls of West Hill in Peach Mountain experienced the quake most distinctively . Thousands of divine priests and deacons rushed out of their residences in nightgowns, and looked at the Divine Hall of Light with dread . Tens of thousands of followers in the villages at the foot of the mountain were awoken by the quake . They rubbed their eyes, held each other's hands and came out of their houses . They felt confused as they looked at the Divine Halls .
The Hierarch, Ye Hongyu, Zhao Nanhai and some others came to the front of the Divine Hall of Light . They looked serious but no one dared to step into the Divine Hall .
The worldwide quake vanished gradually . The eaves of the Divine Hall of Light collapsed . The pillars cracked and seemed shaky but held on . It looked like a havoc after a hurricane .
Inside the Divine Hall of Light, silence took over again .
Ning Que lay in the debris of the bed cuddling Sangsang . Their lips and bodies were not trembling like they had previously and turned into a tender breeze that lingered around each other .
Like embracing a comforting and refreshing breeze, Ning Que felt increasing peace in his mind, while Sangsang's eyes became more yielding . He found himself indulging in the most desirable warmth, like drifting on a summer sea . She felt that she was embracing the most genuine warmth, like the sea enfolding the glory of the sun .
When Ning Que reached his Initial Awareness State, he saw an ocean . Now he realized that when he meditated and felt the ocean, it was because he was holding the infant Sangsang .
Now that he had regained the embrace of that warm ocean, he would never leave again . He held his arms around her, kissed her lips tenderly and did nothing else .
The two of them were cuddling . Cold winter winds came from her lips into his lips because they breathed each other's breaths . The warmth of life passed from her body onto his, thus they felt each other's heart beats . He had no one but her in his world, and likewise for her .
Ning Que and Sangsang entered a wonderful state of mind for an uncertain amount of time . She shuddered and so did he . No one had won in this battle between Heaven and human, woman and man . After rounds of caressing and torturing, they finally reached a harmonious state of life .
The front part of Divine Hall of Light crashed . Dust surged up towards the night sky and covered the bright moon .
The divine priests and deacons of the Divine Halls of West Hill turned extremely pale upon the loud crash . Thousands of people rushed towards the Divine Hall of Light, and stopped anxiously in front . The Hierarch looked more severe, but he did not dare to do anything . It seemed profane to even to try to figure out what was happening .
At dawn, Ning Que finally woke up from that mysteriously wonderful state of mind . He realized what had happened over the night, looked at Sangsang's face in front of him, and kept silent .
The reason for his silence was a bit different from that of when a man woke up from a sexual intercourse . He was rather precautious than embarrassed . He was not sure what to expect after this, since there had been rounds of caressing and torturing previously .
Suddenly he heard beautiful sounds from within his body . They were sounds of melting-snow water flowing over rocks and clouds floating over mountains . It was the most beautiful sound in nature . Then he realized that his Mountain of Snow and Ocean of Qi were finally released after last night!
A night with Haotian came with such a rewarding consequence! He looked at Sangsang's face and could not stop smiling . It must be the best deal in the world to be married to such a wife, he thought .
Sangsang was still sleeping, like a real human with her eyes closed and her breath profound and subtle . One would have mistaken her to be breathless if one had not observed very closely .
Then her profound and subtle breath suddenly became rapid .
She opened her eyes and stared at Ning Que . Roaring waves occurred in the ocean of innumerable starlights deep down in her eyes, where endless and everlasting divine power was stored .
"You can coun…"
Ning Que was after all an ordinary human . He could not stop feeling worried about what he had done to Haotian . He tried to find some excuse but could not even finish the first few words .
A furious yell bursted from Sangsang's throat that sounded like the most horrifying wind whistling through a dead bull's bones in the Wilderness .
Ning Que's arms were immediately broken into twenty pieces, representing the twenty years they went through together . By destroying those twenty years, she slipped them from her memories and he could never hold her again with those arms .
A bout of horrifying power swirled throughout the Divine Hall like a tornado . Before he could even react, Ning Que was hurled away dozens of meters and plonked onto the wall of the Divine Hall .
The walls used to have paintings of ancient legends that were passed on in the teachings of Divine Halls of West Hill . After the quake last night, the paintings were severely damaged and paled . Upon Ning Que's plonking onto the wall, pieces of the paintings fell over and became stained with blood . The legends became sanguinary .
Ning Que sat by the wall with his legs reaching out, coughing blood and looking wretched .
Sangsang drifted to him, revealed no emotions but looked extremely pale .
Ning Que beamed at her, with blood over his teeth . It seemed as if he had taken a good bite out of her plump figure, yet he looked frustrated and disappointed .
Chilling winds swirled in the Divine Hall of Light . He sensed a distinctive ruling power penetrating his body with those winds as if they were trying to lock up his Mountain of Snow and Ocean of Qi again .
So nothing has changed after all?
Ning Que finally understood what the empress went through during the last few minutes of her life . He stared at the pale Sangsang, with his frustration and disappointment replaced by extreme tranquility and determination .
"You were my handmaiden, but I never enslaved you . " He stood up slowly and smiled at her . "Therefore I am your slave no more . "
With another blast of wind, he erupted the Haoran Qi and transformed his distorted body into a wretched shadow, then rushed toward the terrace of the Divine Hall that faced the cliff, leaving a distinctive line of blood behind .
His steps on the terrace smashed the newly accumulated snow in the morning . He rushed to the edge and pounded on the handrail to leap over .
With that pound, he cut off his journey to the Heaven .
With that pound, he cut off his journey with Sangsang .
He jumped over the handrail and off the cliff .
At the same time, Sangsang came to the terrace .
She was not able to stop him from jumping off, as she did not predict that . The Heaven could not predict his actions because he was never her disciple or her slave .
She stood by the handrail and looked at him falling through the clouds . He looked back at her through the fog . They stared at each other with life and death in between . Time seized at that moment .
"You just couldn't wait to kill me?"
Sangsang looked at the falling Ning Que and felt a pain in her chest .
She thought it was an injury from last night . However, it was not .
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Chapter end
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