The wind master and the mage

"My word!", The head cultivator gasped," Y-you.. Miss Mage you have the great wind master's blessing!"

The head cultivator's words echoed through the walls of the Wing shrine.The cultivators around snapped their eyes towards one person.

It was Ye lian,The head mage of the Yin empire.Currently in disguise she was dragged here by the crown princess Yin lushi.

Yin lushi and Ye lian had always felt their spiritual energy knotting towards the wind shrines,this time,on a certain holiday they decided to visit a wind shrine anyways.

In this world the people strictly believed in the masters of the upper heaven,Who controlled each elements and gave out cultivating powers,elemental powers the ones with cultivating powers and the ones became cultivators and the ones with elemental powers became mages,In every empire they had they had their own divine masters to worship.For the Yin empire ot was the divine wind master.

Back to where we were,Ye lian wishpered to the youngest princess yin lushi sitting besides her,"Lushi.. Mind explaining what exactly is she spouting?".

Despite all the great deeds known for the wind master without the forbidden knowledge a mage borrows from their master Ye lian had no interest in the divine masters nor the upper heavens.

"Calm down,Xiao-lian.", Lushi spoke with calmness,with almost silent voice," Dont take her words in seriousness,Its only a coutryside shrine.Maybe they just lack donation.Though I might say you?and having the wind master's blessings?quiet amusing."

Lushi spoke to the head cultivator with a impressed voice,Rubbing the head cultivator with compliments to get more information about the shrine and donation lacking to nag the prime minister later.

It was a widely known fact around the whole Yin empire that the wind master's elements and the head mage never got along.

After tricking the head cultivator into spitting the information lushi truthfully needed Ye lian and her escaped the shrine.

"On to our next destination then!", Lushi spoke with a satisfied voice.

" speak the truth lushi,you dragged me out of my research quarters just to roam around the city and to prepare information to humilate the prime minister in the court room next morning,Am I right?",Ye lian counter attacked lushi.Both of them were childhood friends;There was no way Ye lian didnt know what lushi had planed.

"Come on Xiao-lian,yeah,Your right on the half part.. But still I want spend some time with you in the market!lets go before xianyun comes to find us!",Lushi exclaimed as she patted Ye lian's back.

Ye lian sighed at lushi's stubborness but agreed anyway.

Feng Xianyun was the education minister's daughter and Yin Lushi's fiancee.The three of them were inseperable as childhood friends.But there was one golden secret they swore to take to their grave that from body all of them were still 20 but in mind all of them had lived two lives.

As lushi dragged Ye lian through the markets still midnight,Roaming around going to brothels where ye lian strictly stayed outside and lushi just had teatime with the maidens in there.

Ye lian never found any specific interest in those things but lushi sure never said no to a eye candy.But for some reason where their were high chances that the shrine was rigged;Ye lian still felt like that the wind master's blessings had something to do with her.

Soon Ye lian and Lushi seperated paths.

Ye lian went back to the mage towers as she just simply nodded at the greeting junior mages she went to her their it was standing attached to the very wall of her quater the gate to the succesion crown of the mage tower,wich was sealed in place and the one who was supposed to open this was none other than Ye lian.Ye lian walked closer to it,Laying her slender fingers on it;A sting of familiar dissapointment hit her.Of all the elements this seal could have been unlocked by,It was the wind element.The only element the perfect head mage could never occure,And without the crown?she was the 'perfect head mage' in name only.At least thats what Ye lian like to believe.

Why?,Ye lian thought,Why did you have to do this to me master?

Ye lian's knees grew weaker in hopelessness as she stumbled on the wooden floor.Her mind helplessly searched for a single clue in the candles of her memories with her master,the previouse head mage.

You never answered my questions.. Those dreams.. That day why did you look so surprised when I finally described those 'nightmares' to you?You said you knew what they were..,Ye lian thought as tears involuntarily streamed down her face,You told me you'd tell me about those dreams when on my 18th birthday... Why did you go off and die that day?

"Why..?", Ye lian cried silently.

She had so many questions left for her master,the one who raised her,about the woman from her dreams,about why did her master seal the gate with the wind element even after knowing Ye lian couldnt control it?why?

With the un-answered question the head mage lying on the floor finally drifted into the quiet sleep of the night.

With a small determination that this upcoming full moon she was going to earn the wind master's favour.

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Calm streets,elegant figures walking on the clean streets,full of palaces,some dueling on the grounds other enjoying tea as they enjoy the scenery of the rising sun.Some still trapped with work in their own heavely quaters.

Yes,you guessed it right,It is the great upper heavens.

" Wind master,"the great heaven's servant Wen jiangxi spoke up,"How long are you going to sulk here?Not once have I seen you go somewhere other than the courts even in the full moons while the divine masters visit the mortal realm you only work when you get there or just stare endlessly at the mage tower,I have asked a thousand times,I'll ask once again why?are you never going to answer the mage tower's prayers?"

There sat,The wind master in her robes,nothing extra-ordinary;Just normal white robes her head resting on the wooden shoulder of the chair,her eyes?Looking like they don thave any life.

"Jianxi?Has the.. Head mage of the...", Her voice shaked," Have prayed for my presence..?atleast once..?".

Jianxi moved with effortless grace as she tidied through the papers lying on the floor and opened the curtains,the sun shining brutually on the awakened white hair of the divine master laying motionless on the chair.

"Not even once,divine master," Jianxi answered,"I have said it a thousand time the head mage does not prefer things such as praying if today,your still hoping in this full moon the head mage will suddenly stat praying then.. Keep hoping for the miracle.".

The divine master burried her face in her hands even tears wont dome down,how long does she have to yearn for that woman?she never once asked that question;She was ready wait a enternity but she couldnt ignore the fact because every time that overly-talented mortal cried it would hurt the godess in the upper heavens she had vowed to carry all her pain in every life but she couldnt take away the pain,If only that mortal prayed for the wind master once the wind master wouldnt bait an eye before anouncing the mortal as her favourite.

Jiangxi sighed before kneeling infront of the divine master to anchor her as she pulled the godess into her arms,"You've been waitting many years.. You've cleared crisises flawlessly.. This time,Its been 1200 years,As said the great four pillars.. Of the Yin empire will try and summon you.. So the head mage has to pray for you too.. Now get up,This time your not going to the mortal realm alone I'll have to go to,And face that presistent imperial princess surely it will be a mess but you'll meet her again,"Jianxi paused,"Only if the prayer comes from the head mage's heart,I am hoping for that too,Xuanmo."

And before putting the divine godess to sleep with one tap,The divine servant called her by her real name,as she walked out of the quarters the the servants around murmured.

Before every full moon,In the day,Xuan-mo would merge with her childish self which was brutually teared apart by the previous godess of wind when xuan-mo was just a cultivator,it was teared for loving someone other than the godess.and later one xuan-mo merged the childish self with her divine fan giving it its own emotions,But at the daytime of every full moon before descending upon the mortal realm xuan-mo would give herself a generouse break by merging herself with her fan which was ultimately name Ruo.And by when the day ended xuan-mo would be back to herself at that time the only one who was allowed to see her was jiangxi.

And just like the culture that has been passed down,this night in the Yin empire,after another 800 years the emperial family will try to summon the wind master permenantly with the wind master will come her trusted ally.If the four pillars of the empire suceeded the divine wind master would choose one of them as her favourite mortal and will officially lead the emperial family through the path with her choosen mortal.