Chapter 16

Handing over Dong Hua into si ming's capable hands, feng jiu disappeared in search of mo yuan. Since, she did not know the location of the ancient demon burial site or the black sea, she first went to the immortal realms. Back in the immortal realms, she had full access and control of her powers, thus making it easier for her to find him. She accessed mo yuan's cultivation through her training ground and put a trace on it. She followed the trace to mo yuan at the infamous demon burial site.


As she appeared at the site, she had changed back to her immortal form. Her long black hair flowed behind her, her forehead held the red unfurled phoenix flower birthmark that she was renowned for and her body covered in a long red robe made especially for her. If anyone would have been there to witness that vision, they would have been enamored by the enchanting beauty exuded by the queen of qingqui.


Feng jiu scanned the grounds for mo yuan and found him sitting in the lotus position inside a golden orb of his cultivation atop the burial site. From the spell and energy emanating from him, fengjiu deduced that he was completing the seal. Feng jiu decided to wait for him and not interfere with the process.


It took him a long while to complete the seal and as the spell was completed, his cultivation rescinded within himself and he started to fall from the sky. Feng jiu immediately channeled her magic towards him and created a protective bubble around him to slow down his fall. She took hold of the bubble and disappeared from there.


Back at zhe yan's peach blossom woods, she appeared with mo yuan and settled him at zhe yan's place. She gave him water and waited for his instructions.


"feng jiu, I have drained most of my cultivation on sealing that site. But before I could trap the rising demons inside, one of them escaped. All my powers were focused on the seal and I couldn't stop him from escaping. Now, you need to find zhe yan and bai zhi. They are probably the only ones left who can contain this demon that had escaped. Go find and inform them now."


"tell me about the demon, mo yuan."


"his name is hei an, a demon of shadows and darkness. Hei an is an ancient demon, from the time when I was just a little kit. Heavenly Father had a very hard time fighting him. One of hei an's main strength is his power of invisibility. He can become invisible at will which makes it nearly impossible to kill him. Last time, only dong hua had been able to do that. Only true spirit fire can hurt him. To kill him, donghua had to burn him to his very core and even after that his ashes had remained. And now, that I think about it, his body must have rebuilt itself from those ashes. And since, donghua is in no state to fight him right this moment, only zhe yan can help you with it. The fire of the old phoenix should be enough to burn his core or at least bind him long enough, I hope. Still, zhe yan can't control that bull-headed demon alone, to defeat a bullhead you need another bullhead in this scenario. And this is where your grandfather, bai zhi comes in. Go now, feng jiu. You need to find bai zhi and zhe yan before that hei an destroys the heaven realm and all other realms with it. Hurry now."


Mo yuan was ordering her to leave but seeing his state she couldn't just leave him like that. Moving to zhe yan's work station, she searched around for a moment before she found what she was looking for. It was a reservation serum that zhe yan had invented. This serum lets the body reserve whatever cultivation is left, in a part of the owner's spirit so both can heal themselves together. Coupled with the basic healing medicines, it lets the body recover while the spirit and cultivation heal each other. Kneeling at mo yuans' side, she said, "take this serum first and this medicine five minutes after it. It will heal your spirit, cultivation, and body all at the same time. I will see you later." With that she left in search of zhe yan and her grandfather.


She searched everywhere she could think of and tried to reach their minds to send a message but she couldn't even locate their presence. A couple of hours had passed, but she couldn't find them anywhere. With no time left to waste, she had no option but to go to the sky kingdom by herself.


What feng jiu had not known then was at that moment, zhe yan and bai zhi were already fighting two of the ancient demons. But the demons had pulled them into a very deep corner of the demon realm where no one could trace their magic.


Feng jiu hadn't even reached the sky kingdom when she saw the massacre that was happening at its borders. Demons of all shapes and sizes were heavily attacking the immortals and sadly they were winning by a huge margin. It was a blood bath on the borders of the sky kingdom. There were only 100 or so demons but the celestial army and their protections were getting shredded to pieces. The outer shield that protected the boundaries of the sky kingdom was down to tatters and the internal shield that protected the imperial city was not faring very well either. If it hadn't been for the lines of immortals behind it channeling their powers into the internal shield, it would have crumbled down hours earlier. As for the celestial army, more than half of them were dead and the remaining looked like they were about to die any minute now.


Dodging the fights around her, she jumped up in the air and pulled up one of her golden shields over their internal one. Then in a cold, hard voice of a ruler she called out, "everyone inside the shield now".


The celestial soldiers that were fighting on the ground knew they were getting crushed very badly. It had been a very sudden attack and one that had never happened in front of them before. They had not been ready for a war and especially not with these ancient demons. When the war had initially started, it had taken them a little while to get their legs under them but under the leadership of crown prince ye hua and crown princess bai qian, they had finally got a good start. Slowly, word had spread and other high gods like zhe yan, bai zhi, lian song, bai zhen, bai yi and various other high immortals had joined in. At that point, it had looked like an easy win but things had started going downhill from then on. The demons had started attaching the high gods in groups of twos and threes. For every high god there were two or three powerful demons and they had not only tagged the high gods, they had slowly pulled them away from the borders. Suddenly every high god was gone and they were left weak and without leadership. Struggling to keep up the battle and the shields at the same time, they had been forced to divide into groups of two. The celestial army was to keep battling it out with the demons while the high immortals had to retreat behind the internal shield to maintain the protection of the city. They had fought with everything they had but the demons had overpowered them rapidly. Before feng jiu had appeared, they had been praying to the heavens for a boon or a sign to help them. The moment they heard her cold voice, they didn't wait to see who it was, they just held onto their faiths tightly and ran for cover under the golden shield behind them. It was after they had started coming in, that they saw, only the immortals were able to enter, not the demons. A few of them looked up at the red-robed beauty floating in the air not knowing who it was.


As soon as the soldiers were inside the golden shield, she sealed it shut. With her seal, the shield had turned red. She knew that her shields will swallow every demon that came near it and soak up all its powers, so the sky kingdom was safe for now. But she can't let this demonic army run away, she had to trap them in her shields. Again, there was a little problem of hei an that was running towards her at this point. From what mo yuan had told her, she deduced that her shields won't be able to kill him or even hold him and her powers were no match for his. So, she will have to separate him from the demonic army and as to how to kill him......ah.. What had mo yuan said..... To defeat a bull head, you need a bull head...well, she didn't exactly agree with that statement. From what she had learned from seeing dijun these many years was that it was better to trick the other party into a trap of his own making. With that she knew what to do.

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