"Madam!" Senior Hui immediately exclaimed, then rushed towards Felicity.
But just as Felicity noticed how hysterically Senior Hui was acting, she immediately shifted her body to dodge Senior Hui’s embrace.
"What the... Why are you acting like that, Senior Hui?" Felicity asked.
"Madam! Welcome back!" Senior Hui cried, but before he could try to embrace Felicity again, she stood up and moved to the side.
She looked at Senior Hui with some disdain. Her face became dark.
"Why are you acting like that?" Felicity asked once again, as she thought that this was too weird.
"Madam! Why didn’t you bring me to Celestial Heaven?!"
"Hey. Can you please stop that noise? Your people might hear us." Felicity tried to hush him, but Senior Hui was just too noisy.
"They aren’t my people. They are your people!"
"Sush! Can you at least stay calm for the moment? I came here for an important thing." Felicity said, catching Senior Hui’s attention.
"What do you mean, an important thing? Isn’t it more important to have a reunion with me?" Senior Hui said as if devastated.
Felicity suddenly glared at him with some unwanted expression on her face.
"Sush with your trap, Senior Hui. I am here with an important matter. So can you please... keep quiet?"
Senior Hui seriously looked at Felicity’s face. And just after few seconds, he understood what she was remarking about. He sighed, then chose to sit straight.
"What is it, Madam? Please forgive me for the unsightly scene earlier." Senior Hui returned to static poise as Felicity also slowly sat down across from him.
"It’s okay. I understand that it has been a few thousand years. But this isn’t the right time for a reunion. The important matter I was talking about is finding the right treasure to go back to Mortal Heaven."
"Mortal Heaven? And go back? Does this mean that you came from there?" Senior Hui asked.
Felicity nodded as she slowly revealed everything.
"You see... I was betrayed."
Starting from the start, Felicity told Senior Hui about what happened. Of course, not only did she trust Senior Hui, but also Senior Hui was grateful to her. Enough not to betray her like others.
Senior Hui was saved by Felicity, and thus he wouldn’t dare to become a traitor. And just as he listened to her story, his eyes slowly flickered with excitement.
"Do you mean that you found someone deserving to follow? You mean, the greatest immortal of Immortal Heaven?"
Senior Hui didn’t know that Felicity came from the Zhu family. Because of her secret, she couldn’t reveal it to him. But still, the trust between them was unbelievably strong.
Felicity sighed as she looked up and noticed how excited Senior Hui was. Just like a child listening to their parents’ fairytales, Senior Hui was mesmerized by her stories.
The way Lucas handled things and the talent he had, Felicity didn’t miss one. And just after she told the story, both of them were silent.
"Master Lucas... I want to meet him. Can you bring me to the Mortal Heaven as well, Madam?" Senior Hui asked.
Felicity didn’t answer immediately. She then thought of it first, trying to assess if it would be beneficial for Lucas to have Senior Hui.
Well, technically, Senior Hui is strong and diligent. But she had a problem that came surface, it was the secret organization she created that she left to Senior Hui.
"What will happen to the pavilion? The treasure that we hid there." Felicity remarked, taking note and catching Senior Hui’s attention over the pavilion.
When he heard it, he suddenly became quiet.
"Now that you said it, Madam, I think it will be better to hide the pavilion. Those treasures were still valuable and also important to hide since they kept Immortal Heaven balanced."
What they were talking about were treasures that were made naturally. It was a product of nature that could give anyone talent and variety of effects could be get from these treasures.
Of course, they didn’t monopolize them. Instead, they just hid them, just to be sure that it wouldn’t disrupt the balance.
Additionally, since it was approved by the Divine Emperor of the Four Heavens and would only bring peace within the Immortal Heaven if it weren’t exposed, it was a huge responsibility to handle.
Felicity sighed.
"Forget about it. Those treasures were technically mine, but I can’t think of bringing everything with me."
"Bring? What do you mean, bring them, Madam?"
"Well, Master Lucas gave me this dimensional ring. And do you know what’s more amazing about this ring? It can carry even a living body."
Hearing that, Senior Hui couldn’t try to hide his expression. His eyes widened just as he thought that that kind of treasure was impossible to get or even encounter.
"You mean Master Lucas gave you that valuable treasure?"
"Yes. And not just gave it to me, he created it!"
Now, with that great news, Senior Hui couldn’t wait anymore. He wanted d to go to the Mortal Heaven soon with Felicity and meet Lucas, whom he admired now after Felicity.
"But what will happen if the Divine Emperor finds out about this?"
"Don’t worry. We can just give the properties to Master, and since he is someone who’s reasonable compared to the rest of the immortals, he’ll do a great job at it." Felicity proudly said.
"Wait. Are you saying that Master Lucas will take responsibility for it?"
"Of course not! The name will be his, but the responsibility will still be ours. Stop being a dumbass, Senior Hui."
"That doesn’t make sense, Madam."
"Just don’t talk about it anymore," Felicity said, then headed upstairs.
Senior Hui just didn’t reply. Instead, he followed Felicity.
"Madam. Why don’t you introduce yourself to the organization?" Senior Hui suddenly asked, and that made Felicity stop dead in her tracks.
"Why are you asking that? Isn’t the pavilion already in good hands with just you being the known owner of it?"
Senior Hui became voiceless as he reflected on what he had just said. Although the pavilion was already in a good state with just him being known as the owner of it, he couldn’t swallow it as his pride wanted to be at Felicity’s back
At the back... in terms, he wanted Felicity to earn the fame she deserved.
"Why don’t you like it, Madam? Isn’t it this way that you’ll gather more individuals on your back? You already said that Celestial Heaven is a scary place. That’s why you gather people from different branches of bloodlines in the Cloud Continent."
Those words were implored to Felicity while they walked on the second floor’s hallway. She just looked at the different paintings stuck on the wall, and as she listened to Senior Hui’s sentiments, she just sighed.
"You are right. That’s why I tried to gather allies in the Celestial Heaven as well. However, it didn’t work since Celestial Heaven is way scarier than I thought." Felicity merely said that made Senior Hui silent.
"What’s in the Celestial Heaven, Madam?"
"It’s a place where immortals like us don’t fight with each other. That’s what’s scary in that Heaven."
"I don’t understand." Senior Hui said.
Felicity stopped her walk and faced Senior Hui.
"You won’t get it because it can’t be explained in words. Think of it as a complex matter. If the time comes that I can welcome you to my home there in Celestial Heaven, I will surely guide you there, " she said.
"If you say so, Madam." Senior Hui replied and didn’t bother to ask more questions.
Felicity, on the other hand, was just looking at the treasure inside their display glasses. They were in a wide room, currently, checking for some valuable treasure that they could use.
Even though Felicity thought she could just bring it with her, she still wanted to check things out as it would be useful to use the time while they had it.
***
"The Madam is here?" one immortal asked a servant immortal.
In a dark room that embraced the comfort of this male immortal, he smiled as he was sitting on his throne-like chair.
The servant replied to his question in agreement with what he was anticipating.
"The Madam is finally here. Does this mean that the legacy continues?" He pondered, then looked at the ceiling-less room he had.
The starry night reached his sight, but for some reason, his room was still dark.
"The legacy must continue, but unfortunately, she has to ascend. But this time that she came back, does this mean that we can continue to do what we would like to achieve?"
As if a poetic tone smoothed his vocals as he pronounced those words. There was also a nostalgic feeling behind his voice that longed for something that lingered in his heart.
"The legacy. I want to continue it. Where is Madam?" he asked his servant.
The servant answered with the location of the ’Madam’ the immortal was talking about. And when he realized where the location truly was, he smiled.
"I see... So she wants to continue the legacy. Thus, I shall assist her at this time as well. I want to continue the legacy for the better future of the pavilion."
Pavilion... it was a building for some sort of purpose. However, what the immortal said was something untruthful in its words. The pavilion he was talking about was the organization that formed a true pavilion in Immortal Heaven.
"The Madam shall finish the legacy."
A/N:
You might get confused about what a "legacy" is, but in this world, the term "legacy" means a mission (some sort of that) to acquire the will and property that the creator of the legacy. Examples that they could get from a legacy are a title, honor, position, power, etc. However, please don’t get confused about the real meaning of legacy.
Read the sentences properly to discern the nature of the content. It wasn’t perfectly explained in the novel, with the intention of not putting it as a filler. But I know it was on my incompetence part to vaguely explain something which was important in the world building. So each time "legacy" is mentioned, the definition was already there. The dialogues were explaining the nature of "legacy". I just don’t know how some didn’t get it.