CHAPTER 908: THE GREEN MOONS? [NORTHERN REGION]

The Forgotten Domain was divided into five regions: Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western, and Central.

The Ember Dune Desert lay in the harsh Northern Region, a land of extremes, either gripped by unending frost or scorched beneath relentless heat. Towering mountains, tundra plains, and shifting sands shaped a realm of isolation and survival. Cultivators forged here were known for their resilience, and their silence.

Ancient ruins dotted the landscape, echoes of long-lost sects and divine wars. Among the most feared sites were the Ember Dune Desert, the God-Slaying Battlefield was a place strewn with weapons of fallen deities, and the Sacred Land of the Forgotten Immortal. Each place whispered secrets buried under centuries of silence and time.

"Master, do you recognize this place?" Xiao Yun asked as they arrived at a barren stretch of desert. The heat shimmered across the dunes, and not even a trace of water or vegetation remained.

Everyone stared blankly.

"There’s nothing here." Bing Xue frowned, scanning the wasteland with spiritual senses. Still, he felt nothing out of place.

Shenlian Yingyue shook her head. The oppressive heat bore down on them. Bu Si Shu, irritated, prepared to summon a cooling rain, only to be stopped by Xiong Zi Ying.

Though clearly annoyed, Bu Si Shu didn’t cause trouble. Not yet. He was curious enough to wait and see where this led. If it benefited him, he would follow along.

"Then let’s keep going," Xiao Yun said, hopping lightly onto Shenlian Yingyue’s left shoulder.

Though confused, the group followed his lead.

Days passed under the scorching sky, their feet dragging through blistering sand. While others fought for treasures, Scorched Divinity Bones, Emberheart Crystals, ancient relics, Shenlian Yingyue and her companions walked an endless, desolate path. It was as if this journey belonged to them alone, disconnected from the world’s competitions and chaos.

Strangely, no one truly complained, except one.

"Xiao Yun, what are we doing?" Bu Si Shu finally asked, panting. He was exhausted. His spirit, born of the tree, was used to cool forests and gentle climates. Never had he imagined walking barefoot through a scorching desert like this.

Xiao Yun’s enigmatic smile deepened. "You’ll know soon."

Though their history was complex, Bu Si Shu had come to respect this mysterious being. Perhaps it was Xiao Yun’s unfathomable power, or the fact he bore no grudge for past conflicts. After all, those trials had forged Shenlian Yingyue into what she was today.

The desert defied all natural laws they knew. Monsters here moved with primordial strength, their attacks leaving even seasoned warriors gasping. Without the Ethereal Small World’s endless springs, they would have been bones bleaching in the sun by now.

CRACK!

Shenlian Yingyue’s kick sent the Giant Desert Toad flying back into the skeletal forest. The barren trees stood like sentinels, their leafless branches clawing at a sky dominated by twin green, things. Moons? No, the Immortal Realm obeyed different rules.

But this wasn’t night yet. Why was the sky darkening?

These glowing orbs pulsed with ancient energy that made their skin prickle and their breath quicken.

Then Bing Xue was upon her.

"Yue, Master." His body pressed flush against hers, his usually cool skin burning. His blonde hair, normally like spun moonlight, clung damp to his flushed face. Those clear blue eyes had darkened to stormy seas, pupils blown wide with desperate need.

"A’Xue?" Her diagnostic touch found nothing amiss, yet his pulse raced like a cornered hare. Before she could react, Xiao Yun’s voice cut through the eerie silence.

"The rest of you, with me." His eyes reflected the green glow as he studied the entities above. Xiong Zi Ying and Bu Si Shu exchanged glances before vanishing with him.

"Master, this is my gift to you." Xiao Yun’s final words hung in the air as the forest swallowed them whole.

"Yunyun, you!!" Shenlian Yingyue’s words died on her lips as the space around her rippled. In the blink of an eye, Xiao Yun and the others vanished, leaving only his cryptic words hanging in the air like incense smoke.

Huh?

Her breath caught. A gift? What kind of.

The sudden rustle of Bing Xue’s robes snapped her attention back. She spun around, taking in their empty surroundings. The skeletal trees stood silent, their gnarled branches casting eerie shadows in the unnatural green light.

Then she looked up.

Her blood turned to ice. The sky, it wasn’t right. Where there had been two green orbs, now countless luminous eyes stared down at them, unblinking. They pulsed with an ancient rhythm that made her chest tighten.

"A’Xue, do you see?"

"Yue." His voice was ragged, his breath hot against her neck. Before she could react, his arms locked around her waist like iron bands. His usually cool body burned against hers, his nose tracing desperate lines along her throat.

"A’Xue!" She tried to push him back, but his grip was unyielding. His pulse hammered beneath her fingers, too fast, too strong. "Let me check your meridians!"

"I need you." His words came in broken gasps, his blue eyes dark with something primal. The scent of snow and pine that always clung to him had sharpened, tinged with something wild and unfamiliar.

Her own heart began to race as realization dawned. She hadn’t heard his last word. This wasn’t just disorientation. The forest, the desert, the time, the eyes, Bing Xue’s state, they were all connected.

A cold droplet landed on her cheek. Green rain? She glanced up at the watching eyes, now weeping streams of shimmering green light that twisted through the branches like living vines.

The forest seemed to breathe around them, the ground shifting subtly beneath her feet. Every instinct screamed that they weren’t just lost, they’d been brought here.

She believed that Xiao Yun would never harm her. But her heart raced uneasily. The green moons, this forest, Bing Xue’s sudden change.

And this place, it didn’t feel like it had an end.

"I, I want to." he whispered, lifting his flushed face to meet her eyes.

"You want to what?" she asked cautiously, scanning him carefully while also staying alert to their surroundings.

"Can’t, control." Bing Xue gasped against her shoulder.