Against The Heavens 120 The Arrival Of The Third.

Since he was already in this position, he decided to take a deep breath and bury his head deeper into Fang Ying's lap, contently closing his eyes. But sadly, it seemed like Fang Ying had no intentions of just letting him do as he pleased, pinching his cheek pulling on it.

"Oh no you don't. You've already slept for almost a month, do you really think I'll let you sleep any more? Now get up before you drool any more on my lap."

Li Yang clicked his tongue, but with Fang Ying stretching out his cheek, there was nothing he could do. He straightened up his body and stood up, stretching his body and cracking his knuckles and neck. His joints released popping sounds after not having been used for a while and his bones still ached somewhat from being overloaded, but other than that he felt completely fine. After he finished stretching his body, he sat down on the couch where he had just been laying, rubbing his face slightly while talking.

"I would never drool in my sleep, that's slander I won't stand for."

He a.s.sessed the current situation while talking, sweeping the cave around them with a quick glance. They were clearly in a cave that Fang Ying had made, they had probably been here ever since he fell unconscious. He expected that he would be unconscious for around two or three months, but since Fang Ying said that he had only been asleep for a single month he guessed that she had likely tinkered around with his injuries.

He gave the insides of his body a quick check just to be certain, and sure enough, the tears in his lungs had completely vanished. Li Yang retracted his vision, casting a sideways glance at Fang Ying, his lips curling up slightly as she started to talk.

"Heh, how would you even kno...!"

Li Yang stretched out his arms as fast as lightning, interrupting Fang Ying before she got to finish her sentence. His left arm wrapped around her waist from behind and pulled her onto his lap, his right arm also wrapping around her and embracing her in a hug. He leaned his head against hers, burying his nose in her hair and greedily absorbing her fragrance. No matter how many times he smelled it, this was one fragrance he would never tire of.

"Really, did I ever mention that I love you?"

Just like he rarely used his law of destruction, Fang Ying rarely used her law of creation. Not only did they both require a ma.s.sive amount of energy and concentration, but they both also had to be kept in perfect balance, otherwise there was no telling what might happen. Before they were truly confident in their strength, each usage of these laws was wrought with danger. Fang Ying didn't try to escape from Li Yang's embrace, leaning into him while smiling.

"Quite often, but you should keep saying it, I never tire of hearing it."

In both their past lives and in this one, there had never been a single day when they were together where either of them had forgotten to speak those words, making sure to engrave them into the minds of their counterpart. Li Yang let out a light laugh, kissing the back of Fang Ying's head.

"I love you. And seeing as you let me sleep on your lap, I'll even avoid mentioning that there was no breakfast for me when I woke up."

Li Yang's lips curled up faintly, a slightly teasing smile creeping up on his lips. Of course, Fang Ying was not someone who would shy away from retaliating in kind. She loosened Li Yang's grip on her and spun her body around so that she was face to face with Li Yang while still sitting on his lap, pinching both his cheeks when she finished turning her body around.

"Heh, you think a reckless person like you deserves my breakfast? Perhaps I'll make you breakfast if you ever learn to fight in a less reckless way. But until then, I'll leave the cooking to you."

Fang Ying continued to treat Li Yang's cheeks like rubber, stretching and pulling on them as she pleased. Li Yang didn't stop her, a bitter expression as if the entire world was collapsing appearing on his face as he spoke out in a grandiose voice and let out a mournful sigh.

"Ai, what cruel words I receive right after waking up from my wound-induced coma. Love truly is th.o.r.n.y like a rose."

Fang Ying didn't fall for his theatrics for even a single second, heavily rolling her eyes and stretching out Li Yang's cheeks as far as she could, quickly removing his bitter expression.

"You're an overdramatic idiot."

Fang Ying was stretching out Li Yang's cheeks, but thanks to the skillful control she had over her strength, he wasn't able to feel the slightest amount of pain. Li Yang's lips cracked into a smile as he let out a laugh, not denying Fang Ying's words.

"Yup, but I'm you're overdramatic idiot."

Li Yang moved his arms away from Fang Ying's waist, grabbing onto her wrists and pulling her hands away from his face. With his cheeks finally free, he leaned forward and planted a kiss on her lips, contently enjoying the peace he had finally reclaimed. Fang Ying ended the kiss after a little over a minute, her lips curling up slightly as she seemed to remember something.

"Hey, remember the bet we made about who could kill the most panthers? I told you I would ask for my prize when we were alone, didn't I?"

It had taken place a mere month ago, so how could Li Yang possibly forget? Fang Ying let herself fall to the side and onto the couch, quickly turning her body so that her head was resting on Li Yang's lap. She swiped her interspatial ring and brought out a wooden comb, holding it up to Li Yang's face while making her request.

"Lull me to sleep, just like you did in the past."

Li Yang nearly broke out into laughter when he heard her simple request, pushing back Fang Ying's comb. He swiped his interspatial ring and took out a wooden comb of his own, one he had personally carved in his spare time. He raised her head slightly so that he could organize all her hair, chuckling lightly all the while.

"All you had to do was ask. Really, what a waste of a prize."

Just as she requested, he started to lull her to sleep just as he had done to her and their daughter in the past. He gently brushed her hair and sung the only lullaby that he knew by heart, the one his mother had sung for him when he was a child in his previous life.

The lullaby was, in fact, a story, the ancient tale of a hunter whose wife was kidnapped and taken to the moon to serve as fertilizer for a legendary tree said to reside on the moon. The hunter abandoned his bow and picked up an axe, chopping down tree after tree so that he could stack them together to form a bridge between the earth and the moon. But his bridge collapsed when he got close to the moon, his body scattering to the spatial winds and joining the stars, his wife following him once she became fertilizer for the tree.

It was a rather depressing tale, to the point where Li Yang sometimes wondered why his mother had chosen it to be his lullaby. As such, when Li Yang sang the lullaby for his own daughter, he had changed the ending to a happier one. The hunter completed his bridge and reached the moon before his wife became fertilizer, using his axe and strong body to cut down the legendary tree, using the sap to make both him and his wife immortal. It was a bit uninspired and sappy, but it was a far better ending to a children's lullaby than the original.

Li Yang continued to brush Fang Ying's hair and sing the lullaby, both of them completely shutting out the outside world, focusing entirely on the present time shared between the two of them.

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While Li Yang was lulling Fang Ying to sleep, someone appeared in the sky above the Ocean G.o.d's Graveyard, arriving through the maelstrom that was the entrance. The man who arrived was a handsome youth with a burly body and chiseled features, his long silver hair was tied into a neat bun and his golden eyes were sweeping over the land beneath him with a gaze so excited that it was nearly burning.

"Well then, Brother Yang and Sister Ying, there's no way that the two of you haven't come here, is there? Let's see if I can still use the tracking technique we had in the past, follow the chaos."

The handsome youth, The Silver Dragon Prince Zhao Feng, wore an incandescent grin, his eyes rapidly moving and looking for any signs of chaos. It was time for the three of them to meet up again and cause chaos together, just like they had in that glorious past.