Near the cliff Zhao Li Xin awakes from his long meditation, he lifts his head and saw Huo Long lean on the boulder with a teasing smile "What's wrong, you seem you just awoke from a dream?"

Zhao Li Xin gives no reply, he raised from lotus position, this time he had no breakthrough but his cultivation become more stable and profound still he feel slightly disappointed.

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Although is hard for other people to read Zhao Li Xin expression but not for Huo Long, the truth is Zhao Li Xin has become more expressive since he met Lory "Don't be upset, it does take longer for you to have a breakthrough after you reach the sage level, and it becomes difficult for you to passed every level" Huo Long comfort him.

Zhao Li Xin rubbed her wrist and check his own pulse to make sure his condition is on top-notch, sometime cultivation could damage the veins if the cultivator is not careful or impatient and lately he becomes impatient. Zhao Li Xin let out a long exhale after he found nothing wrong with himself, he glances at Huo Long "How long it would take?"

"For other people, it would be decades but for you…not that long, a year or two perhaps" Huo Long gives a dismissive shrug.

"Do I have a year or two?" he stared at Huo long in doubt.

Huo long clicks his tongue, he understands what Zhao Li Xin means "I don't know, maybe not…"

"Now you understand why am I being persistent" he looks away then patted his robes, he walks to the end of the cliff with his hands clasped behind his back, his back is straight as a pole, and his eyes gaze to the erupted mountain on the horizon.

"How much you know about Lory's situation, and don't try to dodged the question" he gives Huo Long a warning gaze.

Huo long sigh as he stands next to him "I know about her for a long time because her connection with the Black Serpent"

Zhao Li Xin glance at him "Lazarus?"

Huo Long stifles there something flash in his eyes but it too fast not even Zhao Li Xin could catch it "Yes…" he replied briefly.

"Everyone seems to know about this Serpent and Lory, what I mean everyone is you and Huwang Shen Zi, both of you seem to know more than you show it, Huo long are you also the first kind?"

He raised his chin proudly "I'm not…but my blood is the closer with the first kind"

Zhao Li Xin turns quiet as he contemplates for a seconds "How much everyone knows about me, Lory and that Demon"

Huo's long face scrunched up he crossed his arms over his chest as he gazes to the horizon "It starts with a simple story about a lonely God who is bored to death by his own immortality than he accidentally opens the door to a place he should never be. And there he found something unexpected, something he never prepared to face it before….a tiny little spark called…love" he curled his mouth as if he was joking.

Zhao Li Xin's eyebrows furrow "You don't try to make fun of me, don't you" he looks at Huo long with annoyance.

"Of course not!" he puffed his chest "Do you thing something cheesy like love is a laughing matter, love is the powerful forces who moves everything in the world, where do you think the root of sadness coming from? Anger, envy, jealousy, hatred, revenged, everything coming from the same roots and it is love….and love is a double edge sword, it could set you free or drag you to bottomless hell" Huo Long let out a long heaved.

He shifts his glance at Zhao Li Xin "You should know better than anyone how love transforms you from ashes to blazing fire as you are right now"

Zhao Li Xin can't deny it, because he never felt so alive ever since she met Lory, he has to admit that everything he worked for is because he is driven by his feeling towards her.

"And what this has to do with her…us?"

Huo Long smiles and brought his hands together in front of his mouth as he forming steeple with his long fingers "The Gods cannot interfere mortal word and the first kind had no ability to stopped what may come so we all make a bet, a bet that was initiated by Queen Lorenna herself"

"Lory's mother?" Zhao Li Xin who used to calmed can't help to feel shocked.

"She had seen the destruction of this world, the calamity of verrion, the end is coming for this world and the end of the Lucient line, like a snowball every incident lead to another and is escalated, bigger and bigger until no one can't stop it but Lorenna seen the opportunity, I don't know what or how but she saw it, then she comes to us, she uses the Seeress as the medium, she proposed a plan that would make things right again, and that plan is you and Lory"

"Two people from two different worlds, the descendant of the first king of their world without any correlation between the two of you, one cannot win without the other, you need each other, you have to work with each other only then we would have the chance to win its gamble"

Zhao Li Xin pinches his glabella, the plan leaves too many loopholes "What if Lory didn't save me that day, what if I never search for her, what if we never have a harmonious relationship, then what happened? WHAT HAPPEN WITH HER?!" he shouted furiously, he doesn't care about the world but lory well being is another matters, did they treat Lory life like a game?

Huo Long shrugged nonchalant "Then the world will end, Lucient line will perish from the face of the world and princess Lorient would be.....no more"

"That is One sick plan!" He gritted his teeth as boiling fury swelled inside of him.

"Is a sick situation!" Huo Long roar in anger "Can you see we running out of option, everything had preordained long before you and I exist, what we are doing is trying to change the fated of the universe, two worlds, and everything live inside it is on the line, you think is easy? Do you think there would be some guarantee? Do you think we know what we are doing? NO, WE DON'T!"

"We all shooting in a dark boy!even the seeress couldn't see the future again because too much possibility, we can only hope…we pray that somehow we hit the marks! this is a lousy plan, but this is the only lousy plan we got…" Huo Long gaze to the sky with a tired look "That's why we called this a bet because we don't know whether we win or lose, still we make a bet…." Huo Long sigh tiredly "That both of you will find a way..."

Zhao Li Xin look down, he shut his eyes, and the turmoil inside him gradually calm down, he lifts his head and stares at Huo long with a determined look "I don't care about the rest of the world but I will never let anything happen to her, she is my world"

"I know, and that's good enough for me" Huo Long snickered.

"I already tell everything I can, I can't say more than this if not I would change the coursed of faith but I give you one more warning" Huo Long raised his index finger "Lazarus target not only Lory's soul he also targeting you"

"Zhao Li Xin neck shrunk "My soul?" he doesn't believe it, who the heck wants a soul like him?

"No fool!" Huo Long moves closer towards Zhao Li Xin then he whispers on Zhao Li Xin ear "He wants something else and he used that Lao Min Na to get what he wants"

"What is it?" Zhao Li Xin grabs Huo Long arms.

Huo long wanted to say something but he noticed a slight crack on the sky of his mystique realm, he becomes stiffed then swallows his words, Huo Long shakes his head "I better not say anything further or someone would be fried me"