Chapter Thirty-six

XiaoBai


Comfort that's all that I felt at this silent moment but there was this burning sensation in my throat and I wanted to look at my husband's eyes, it felt like I hadn't seen him in decades but somehow the environment I was in had changed but I was too anxious to see him.


When I opened my eyes I was met with the ceiling of the crystal palace, I sat up as I heard movement by the main hall. "Hello." I called out and I heard quickened footsteps. "You're awake." Yang's Godfather said in a relief tone. "Why am I here? Where is my Dijiun." At the mention of Dijiun he dropped his eyes and turned away from me. "How do you feel?" He changed the subject. "Where is he?" I whispered softly but he wouldn't give me an answer.


I got off the bed and I was about to leave the room when something caught my eye, I caught my appearance in the crystal mirror and I didn't know whether to be happy or terrified. Firstly I looked healthy now like I wasn't sick to death, secondly my hair was the same colour as my husbands only mine had streaks of light purple and when I checked my magic it was mixed in colour of red and purple. "Please leave." I asked Yang's Godfather he gave a confused expression but he didn't fight me. "I'll be right outside." He said but I didn't answer him, as he left and closed the door behind him I immediately took off my robe, I was looking at myself naked looking for signs that my body still had poison but there was nothing my body rather looked healthy and strong. I put back my robe, as I felt bile coming up my throat as I was starting to feel nervous, I called my sword and made a small cut on my fingers instead of having black blood, red golden blood came out and my heartbeat slowed down. "What did you do?" I whispered to myself and I ran out of the crystal palace to heaven, Yang's Godfather called me but I didn't have time to listen and respond to him when I arrived in heaven I was heavily out of breath, I walked up to Dijiun's palace and he was there sitting in a lotus position with his eyes closed, he looked so tired and worn out I started fearing for his health. "What have you done?" I whispered softly and he opened his eyes, I was startled by the colour of his eyes, they were the colour of my spiritual power. "You're awake." His voice sounded musical. "How do you feel?" He asked with the most utter care in his voice. "You love the most don't you? You would risk it all for me wouldn't you? You'd rather lose your life than be without me? Dijiun how should I repay you for this." He caressed my face gently. "Don't cry XiaoBai, I needed a solution to keep you and I found it. It might not have been the easiest but I wasn't going to lose you, I love you too deeply to let you go." There was a huge lump on my throat. "Tell me what did you do? Why did I wake up in the Crystal palace at the Ice realm?" He smiled at me. "All of that doesn't matter." He whispered. "XiaoBai, I am tired." He whined making me laugh. "Let's go rest together then." I smiled at him but he made another whiney sound, I rolled my eyes and I pulled him up and he leaned all of his weight on me. "You're too heavy." I complained and he gave me a throaty laugh, when we got to the bed I placed him gently and covered him with a quilt and I slept besides. "I love you." I whispered and he smiled. "I know you do." I closed my eyes and I fell into a dreamless sleep.


When I woke up Dijiun wasn't next to me, it was rather awfully quiet not even the birds were singing.
I got of the bed going in search for my husband but I couldn't find him anywhere, one of the guards came running towards me. "Empress Bai Fengjiu, your husband is being attacked."  My heart dropped to my stomach. "Take me to him." I said in urgency, the guard led the way and led me to the forbidden realm. "Well, well, well look what we have here, see I told you it would be easier to lure her here." Wang Shu said softly, then Kai came from behind her. "You would really do anything for Dong Hua? Even follow him to death?" Kai said in a mocking tone. "Where is he?" My voice was quite and they both laughed. "We were hoping you would tell us, look at you so worried oh you poor thing." Wang Shu said and in great relief, I realized he wasn't here nor was he in danger. "Wan Xue betrayed you again." Kai laughed, I looked at the direction they were looking at and Wan Xue was there taking of his guard gear. "How does it feel?" Kai laughed. "I bet you wish you didn't save him." Wang Shu stated softly, I was so relieved about Dijiun not being here that I really didn't care about Wan Xue's betrayal. "I don't care, whether he betrays me, lives or dies it makes no difference to me." I looked at Wan Xue. "For someone who has such a burning fire for love you have greatly disappointed me, I thought that you were different from your brother but you're not, you're cut out from the same cloth as him. Maybe the love of your life did herself a favour by killing herself, I don't think she'd be happy about who you have become." Wang Shu snorted. "You are trying your hardest to get Dijiun's attention, are you not tired of trying to seek attention of a man who never spare you even two seconds of your time, I don't know what it is you think will happen." Out of nowhere I heard a very loud and sickening snap and I lost consciousness.


Dijiun


The desire I had to keep her alive was stronger than anything I have ever felt, but me wanting to keep her alive meant that she couldn't be sick at all. I went to the Ice realm to meet with Yang Yang's Godfather. "Dijiun, what s surprise." He said but I was impatient and not in the mood for small talk. "Can I bring XiaoBai here." He cocked his head to the side. "Anytime but why?" He asked curiously. "I will have to closed down heaven for a couple of hours, and I can't take a risk with XiaoBai's health, I will need to stay at the Ice spring when I am done." He looked at me. "What do you mean?" He asked but I wasn't going to tell him anything. "Wait for me at the gate at the third hour of the day I will bring her to you." He nodded his head and I left quietly and I went back to heaven, what I wanted to do was dangerous but I had no choice either this or I lost her for good. I went to collect her predominant spirit from the Purple Sea along with some foling flowers then I went to Qingqiu to ask for the blood of a fox heart which XiaoBai's father gave to me and then I went back to heaven, I sealed my palace and I made her unconscious just to make sure she doesn't wake up, I removed my spiritual power from her. I took a bowel and poured the fox heart blood and mixed it with my blood, I took the foling flowers and added them to the blood they got absorbed by the blood. I poured the blood in her mouth making sure that she swallowed it completely, then I open the box that was brought to me earlier inside was an ocre fruit used to suppress any kind of poison with a small silver stone used to cleanse a spirit tinted with evil, I crushed the ocre fruit along with the silver stone and I added my blood, along with the foling flowers again. I made her drink and once again making sure that it went down.


I waited for a few minutes as the purplish blue colour from her lips started to fade I knew that it was working, the poison and the dark energy would be out of her system soon. I waited for another couple of minutes then I passed her half of my breath while taking half of her spiritual power out, half of my breath fused with half her spiritual power then I took half of my predominant spirit and gave to her then I put half of her own spirit. I knew this was a dangerous method to try but I had no choice, I didn't want to completely damage her magic and the only way to prevent that was to give her half of my everything. When everything had settled perfectly in her body, I passed down half of my essence to her and just like I had thought her body started to heat up, I made her drink some more of my blood then I took her back to the Ice realm and just as promised he was waiting for me.


He looked at me horrified but didn't say a word. "Keep her at the Ice spring until her body cools down, don't try to wake her up she needs to wake up on her own." I sighed loudly. "Don't let anyone touch her, as I don't know how much of her magic she can control while unconscious somebody could get seriously injured, it must be completely quiet when you remove her from the spring to the room otherwise she will lose her soul to the chaos." He nodded his head in understanding. "Why did you do this?" He asked and for the first time I smiled a genuine smile. "I couldn't live my life with her, I'm too much in love with her to live without her." He frowned. "But... Dong Hua you're seriously injured, you might never be able to use your powers again." I shook my head. "I may be injured but I will have half of my powers along with half of hers, just like she will with mine." He blinked at me wide eyed. "You gave her half your essence!" He exclaimed in awe and I nodded my head. "I have to go now." He bowed and I went back to heaven to meditate, I needed to heal myself.


When I woke up she was still fast asleep, so I decided to go to the kitchen and make her some sweet and sour fish but when I arrived back at the palace she wasn't anywhere, I asked the guards around but no one had seen her. I did a locator spell since I had half of her predominant spirit I would find her wherever she was, I felt my blood freeze as I quickly went to the forbidden realm. "Took you long enough." I heard Wang Shu's mocking voice. "Where is XiaoBai?" She cocked her head to the side. "I'm greatly disappointed with you, I thought you were here for me." then she laughed. Kai come out holding XiaoBai her eyes were wide open but she was bleeding. "Seal your powers." Kai said as he pointed his sword against XiaoBai's through, she shook her head but I wasn't going to let anything happen to her so I sealed my powers. "Ahh you're obedient you must really love her." Wan Xue said from behind me. "You're the last to talk, after everything she has done for you this is how you thank her." He drew his sword but I dodged before he could attack me with it, then all three of them started attacking me. XiaoBai was watching me quietly, her eyes were following my every movement Kai lunged towards her but she didn't  move instead she used his sword to stab him then she fell to the ground. "Wan Xue get her!!" Wang Shu yelled he ran towards her but she put a blazing blue protective shield. "Didn't I tell you to seal her powers!!" Wang Shu yelled and I laughed. "You're not as smart as I thought." She turned to me as she lunged at me. "She sealed her powers but not mind." I tripped her and she fell and I placed my sword against her throat. "Dong Hua, do you think I will let you live happily with her!!!" She yelled. "Even if you don't I'm already apart of her." I said as I looked at XiaoBai's eyes, she pushed her protective shield in Wan Xue's direction blowing to the west wing. "Yo...y...ou...you gave me your essence." She said as she looked at her hands, as my powerlines ran through her veins. "Y..o...you gave me your magic." A foreign emotion settled in her eyes then her eyes dropped to Wang Shu. "Leave my husband alone, I am warning you." She grabbed my hand. "Come with me." She grabbed my hand then when we were a little further away she turned and looked at Wang Shu. "In fact, I dare you to come close to him again." We cloud jumped back to heaven and before I could close the door to my palace, she grabbed me and kissed me roughly biting my lower lip,  she kissed my neck and nipped at my ear. "XiaoBai." I called softly. "Make love to me, give me a baby." She said before pulling my robe off.


XiaoBai


Heaven,


I feel like I am heaven, the hands of my lover on my naked body feel like home.
His beautiful light brown eyes are on my mine filled with so much love, how did I get so lucky.


His touch so soft and delicate, how could such tenderness exist.
My soul wants to sing for him but no song is worthy, even if I lost my eyesight I would still see you with my soul because my soul is always next to yours. "XiaoBai, what are you thinking about?" He broke through my thoughts as he stood up from the bed. "I am thinking about how lucky I am to have you, where are you going come back." He smiled. "I have to clean you up." At hearing that I covered my face as my face flushed. "Don't say that out loud!!" I heard him chuckling, he cleaned me up and when he was done he came back and laid down next to me. "Promise to never leave me." He whispered and I pecked his lips. "I will never leave my life behind." I whispered right back and I fell asleep in the arms of the person I love more than anything in the world.

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