Chapter 43: Without Fear

Ji Yunhe ran through the forest and climbed to the top of a small hill. She stared into the distance while the sun sprinkled down all around her. When Changyi approached the hill, she called out to him like an excited child,

"Changyi! Changyi! Come up here!"

Changyi had never seen such a vibrant Ji Yunhe. She had always been calm and steady, both in the Demon Valley and inside the Ten Square Formation. Perhaps she revealed some capriciousness from time to time, but she never truly let herself go. But now she was actually jumping up and down on the hill.

"Look!"

She pointed to the distance. Changyi walked to her side. A vast view of endless rolling hills stretched out before his eyes, undulating for thousands of miles. In the far distant horizon, lofty mountains towered into the sky and pierced through the clouds. It was a sight of pure magnificence.

Under such splendor of heaven and earth, all the calculated gains and losses of human desires seemed unimportant. Ji Yunhe's lips trembled as she spoke.

"Isn't this world beautiful?"

It was not clear if she was asking Changyi or herself. He turned his head and looked at the side of her face. Although she was quietly staring into the distance, both her eyes and lips trembled, revealing an inner excitement that she could hardly keep under control.

Changyi said while still looking at her, "Beautiful."

"Yes," Ji Yunhe said.

"I don't like the human world, but it seems I do like this heaven and earth." Ji Yunhe seemed to suddenly remember something. She turned her head sideways and met Changyi's gaze, then took a few steps back and studied him from a distance. Changyi was puzzled.

"What is it?"

"You also."

"Also what?"

"You are also very likeable." Changyi stopped and glanced at her smiling eyes, then abruptly turned his head. For some reason, he felt it was difficult to face her right now, so he turned to the mountains and clouds instead.

But after a brief moment, he could not help but look at her again. "Can you stop talking like that?"

"Why?"

"It's too easy to misunderstand."

"Misunderstand what?" Ji Yunhe smiled, pressing him relentlessly.

And it was her oppressive attitude that made Changyi respond bluntly, "Misunderstand that you like me."

"That's not really a misunderstanding." Changyi stopped again.

"You do like me?"

"Yes, I like your beautiful face and your beautiful personality." Changyi pondered for a moment.

"So it is that kind of like. Makes logical sense." What a confident fish! Ji Yunhe laughed.

"Do you know what you look like, Changyi?" He lowered his head and looked at himself.

"Like a human."

From his standpoint, he was not wrong. The jiaoren Changyi really did look like a human right now…

Ji Yun shook her head and said, "You look like a story. All the beautiful things that humans dream of are in you. Honorable and unyielding, powerful yet gentle. You are like the stuff of legends."

Then she paused. Changyi waited a while before asking, "I'm like a story, and then what?"

The voice of the little armored general came from below the hillside,

"Hey, let's go."

Ji Yunhe looked down and saw Ji Chengyu and Zhu Ling heading over with a few soldiers following behind.

She looked at Changyi and said, "Let's go then." He nodded his head and walked down the hill, no longer dwelling on their topic just now.

Ji Yunhe watched Changyi's back as she followed him. They walked through the forest, stepped over the fence, and returned to the post. After exiting the main door, she paused for a moment and asked Ji Chengyu, "I want to ride your horse this afternoon, feasible?" Ji Chengyu smiled and nodded like always.

"Sure." Zhu Ling was not happy.

"Why did you agree?"

"It's not easy for a demon master to leave the valley. She just wants to switch the carriage for horseback, why not?" Zhu Ling frowned.

"Then you come and sit with me."

"Nah." Ji Chengyu ignored Zhu Ling's request and boarded Changyi's carriage. Changyi looked at Ji Yunhe then stepped in after him.

Ji Yunhe mounted Ji Chengyu's horse and walked with the caravan on the main road. Her eyes collected every distant view, and her lips smiled at every curious pedestrian who looked at them.

Her horse followed Changyi's carriage. Aside from looking at the views and the people passing by, she also checked on the situation inside the carriage from time to time.