道罗邪皇子 (邪神之道 B4)

自天

(Then... Where is father in that vision?)

(Ah...)

The question that Xiao Lian had raised to him on that day appears in Ye Gui Feng's head as he thought back to the answer that he had come up with in his mind at the time.

[...I finally know where my place is within the dream that your grandfather had seen.]

Opening his eyes Ye Gui Feng smiles in a bitter manner as peals of dark lightning continues to rain upon him.

Although his conscience has returned from the world of the scroll painting Ye Gui Feng continues to feel no sense of pain while being struck by lightning.

The dream that Miao Tian Huan had seen, that dream in which there is a field of numerous yellow chrysanthemums and red lotuses beneath a full moon night; within that dream the presence of Ye Gui Feng had been lacking for he is looking upon that scenery from a distance away.

The distance that separates Ye Gui Feng from that scenery is difficult to measure for it is something he might never be able to cross.

[...]

As Ye Gui Feng raises his head a faint black moon appears behind his back.

Although the white radiance of this dark moon is beautiful one would also feel that it is just as gloomy and perhaps even eerie.

*Thump... Thump... Thump... Thump...* with the manifestation of this dark moon the faint melodies of a zither's strings being plucked softly is transmitted into the ears of those that surrounds Ye Gui Feng.

(What kind of "qíng" would you pour into your music?)

Another question, the question that Bai Yuechu had asked him a few years back appears in Ye Gui Feng's head.

(What was my answer to that question...?)

No matter how much Ye Gui Feng tries to recall the answer that he had given to Bai Yuechu at the time he cannot seem to remember it.

(Oh well... I suppose I'll ask later...)

A sense of drowsiness overwhelms Ye Gui Feng as he suddenly feels like he is but a bystander to this battle and that the person fighting isn't really him.

[Within that dream I am the dark moon. I can only choose to look upon the eternity that is beneath me from a distance away. Regardless of how radiant I shine the night that is my shroud shall always obscure me from their eyes.]

As his mouth moves and speaks these words Ye Gui Feng inwardly sighs as he watches all of this from the perspectives of a third person. He should have already known about this matter but he had always thought that this is just his imaginations playing with his head.

However, there is no denying it now as Ye Gui Feng comes to accept the truth.

Although he had been desperate to buy time Ye Gui Feng now finds his rash idea of absorbing the Yaksha Monarch's blood to strengthen himself to have been the biggest mistake that he has ever made. But it is already too late to do anything about it for the tainted instincts within him has successfully taken over.

No, maybe it would be better to say that his instincts had already been tainted and the Yaksha Monarch's blood being added into the equation had only made it worse.

[But even so...]

A twisted smile appears on Ye Gui Feng's face as the pitch of his voice deepens while carrying with his speech a sense of regality and hidden madness.