Chapter 524 - The Oldest Dragon (1/2)

Back in the Yun Zou Sect, Leng Jin Yu leaped up when he heard Jinde yell. His hand went for his sword but he couldn't discover anything. He lowered his weapon and turned to look at Jinde.

”What happened? Are you alright?”

Jinde sighed and brushed his hair back. ”I contacted Xin Lan just now. It seems like he got into trouble.”

Leng Jin Yu put his sword away and slid closer to Jinde again, pulling him into his embrace. ”It's alright. Didn't you say he was strong? I even saw him subdue the current Longjun. Shouldn't he be able to deal with whatever happened?”

Jinde furrowed his brows. It was almost impossible for anyone to get close to Xin Lan without him noticing. And if he hadn't seen wrong, then the person that had managed to do so had carried a black mark between his eyebrows. Wasn't that the distinctive mark of the fallen gods? If so … then even Xin Lan might be helpless.

”What is it? Are you that worried? Maybe I could help? I could go there and —”

”No.” Jinde grabbed his lover's hand and leaned his head against his shoulder. ”Xin Lan went to the demon realm. That isn't a place you should go.”

Leng Jin Yu gently stroked the back of Jinde's head. ”I'm not human anymore. Even though I came back here, I've already ascended. Going there wouldn't be too dangerous. If it can help him … He means a lot to you, doesn't he?”

Jinde looked up and cupped Leng Jin Yu's cheeks. ”Jin Yu. Regardless of how much Xin Lan means to me, you are the most important person to me. If something happened to Xin Lan, I would be very much heartbroken and I would love to kill whoever hurt him. But if something happened to you … I don't know if I could go on living.

”I held onto my life even after I found out that Chun Yin died just because I couldn't bear to let the memories between us vanish just like that. I wanted to hold onto them until you returned to me so that I could tell you about them or maybe even give them back to you if it's possible.”

Leng Jin Yu grabbed his hand and pressed it against his chest. ”Don't worry. I'm here. You won't lose me again. I'm not that weak.”

Jinde smiled. ”Chun Yin wasn't weak either and still …” He sighed. ”Anyway, there is nothing you could do now to help Xin Lan. If I saw correctly, then there was a fallen god around. That is nothing any of us can do anything about. And Xin Lan probably knows that best.”

Leng Jin Yu's brows drew together. ”Fallen god? I think I've heard of them before but I'm not too sure how to imagine them. Are they similar to cultivators suffering from a Qi deviation?”

Jinde looked up and smiled. ”Right, Xin Lan said you only ascended a few years ago. You probably haven't heard much about these things.” He sighed. ”I think your comparison isn't that far off the mark. The fallen gods, they indeed aren't a race of their own but rather former gods that … changed because of something. In the immortal realms, it is often said that demons can't feel, that dragons feel too much and that the gods symbolize something like an equilibrium where they feel but not too deeply. If this equilibrium is broken … a fallen god might emerge.”