Chapter 105: A New Threat
"The Linglong spear, it calls me."
Glowing in incandescence with a vibrating golden aura, the spear beckoned Xuanwu. As she was about to reach the spear with her hand, ShaoTian stopped her.
"Don't touch that. You told me that it can succumb anybody to greed right?"
"Y-Yes..."
Xuanwu nodded and then finally snapped out of her senses. The Linglong spear is indeed a powerful divine weapon that can make anybody lose their sense of right from wrong. Even a divine being such as herself was almost affected by the spear's corruption.
"Shaotian... I... Thank you..."
"What are you thanking me for? If you weren't here, I would have died just by fighting that big gorilla."
"Well, I guess we're even."
A smile curved from Shaotian's face turning away from Xuanwu. Eons pass but feelings never fell from the plum trees.
"What?"
"N-nothing! I just thought that... Of all the times we were apart, I still have.... Loved you."
Xuanwu turned red peppers and averted her eyes away from Shaotian.
"M-Mine didn't change too... However, y-you-"
The air from the ruins became dense as a strong gust of wind blew directly inside. Snow knocked over the dead sect members lying on the ground. Xuanwu looked antagonized. She felt a familiar aura surrounding the ruins.
"Fang Xuezhi... He's here."
Shaotian looked alert. Fang Xuezhi is a treacherous immortal. An elder like him should not be taken lightly. A while later, the dead sect members rose up one by one taking the weapons that they held in their hand charging towards Xuanwu and Shaotian.
"This sorcery. It is a forbidden magic... How could he!"
Summoning her divine weapon, Xuanwu transformed it into a fan glowing into a bright golden light. The light blinded the undead retreating into the darkness of the hall. Xuanwu then closed the fan as Fang Xuezhi revealed himself chuckling in amusement.
"How amusing. You are indeed the Goddess of light and war."
"Fang Xuezhi… How dare you show up here?"
"Ha! How dare you! Breaking the laws of heaven? Colluding with a mortal?"
"As seen by my own eyes, you practice forbidden art. Aren't you ashamed to call yourself an elder immortal?"
"You have a glib tongue indeed."
Xuanwu gritted her teeth. Fang Xuezhi then summoned his divine weapon that is made completely out of ice. The sword gleamed like a shimmering crystal consisted by a sheer blue ice that was beautifully carved with two dragons from its side.
Xuanwu summoned another weapon in a form of spear. It glowed into a golden yellow up to an orange ray as she rotated it and stuck its other end on the ground.
"I'm impressed. You are quite the skillful one."
"Summoning my weapon in style isn't my fighting skill yet."
"Ha! Then you should be prepared for I will…"
Fang Xuezhi didn't finish his words as Xuanwu charged at him with her golden spear continuously pointing its tip towards him. Every move of the spear became fast making Fang Xuezhi almost lose his face. Luckily with Xuanwu's last attack, he deflected the spear using his sword letting him off with a strip of wound on his face.
"Disrespectful little fox! I wasn't finished talking yet and you charge on me like this?"
"There is no need for us to talk. You have done too much damage and used many immortals only for you to dispose after you use them!"
"Then that is their fault! They trusted me."
"You should know better Fang Xuezhi. Greed will only bring you death."
"And you should know better too Jiutian Xuanwu… Righteous ones never win."
Charging off with his sword, Fang Xuezhi attacked Xuanwu using intricate moves however, she dodged every attack looking intensely at his moves. Training for millions of eons in the ninth heaven, Xuanwu has already mastered every technique of every immortal in the ninth heaven including Fang Xuezhi's moves.
"Ice cold mirage!"
Fang Xuezhi's swords mirage into replicas hovering in the air directly aiming towards Xuanwu however, Xuanwu took out her spear and rotated it in a rapid speed deflecting Fang Xuezhi's swords shattering the mirage ones in a heap.
"Are you done? Now is my turn. Sharp Golden Lotuses."
Xuanwu transformed her spear into a hidden weapon and using her hand, she aimed the weapon towards Fang Xuezhi releasing thousands of golden shards. The shards made its way to Fang Xuezhi making him cast a barrier of ice.
"Useless."
Xuanwu whispered internally as the shards multiplied even more piercing the thick ice that he casted.
Wounded by the shards, Fang Xuezhi staggered on the ground in pain.
"You! Impudent immortal! I won't let you get away with this! I will have my last laugh!"
"And what would you do against me huh?"
"I still have a trick up my sleeve."
Removing two small crystal balls from his sleeve, Xuanwu's eyes grew wide and realized something.
"Guan Yu? Wan Miansu… This is…"
"Yes, and you can go to the afterlife and meet your twin sister at the bridge!"
Fang Xuezhi slammed the crystals on the ground summoning two dragons in the process.
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Descending from the ninth heaven and into the kingdom of the Jade Phoenix, Xuanzheng tried to find Hua Feixian and Na Yingluo. She wanted to tell them about the bad news but then she halted.
'Na Yingluo is conceiving a child. If I tell them the bad news, then she won't be able to conceive the child out of anxiety.'
She decided that it's better if she would tell someone more capable and more adept. Finally, she thought up of someone.
"Na Moxiao… That child of my sister is a capable one. I must find him."
Xuanzheng traveled to the kingdom of Dragon Blade by transforming herself into a raven. As she landed in front of the palace, the guards then stopped her.
"Halt! You need permission from the emperor or else…"
"I don't need permission from humans."
Xuanzheng rolled her eyes and put the men to sleep with the black smoke from her hands.
She then ascended up to the throne room and then presented herself in front of his majesty.
"Emperor… I am Jiutian Xuanzheng, the Goddess of Death. I have a grave news to tell you but first, I need to speak with Na Moxiao."
"Moxiao is at the gardens. You can find him there."
"Thank you."
Xuanzheng excused herself and went directly towards the side of the palace leading to the gradens surrounded with flowers and plum trees. She did not like the bright place however she endured it all just to find Moxiao.
"Tell me, LanRong… Will you father approve of me if we ever get married?"
"He won't…"
Na Moxiao's face became contorted in sadness but LanRong cheered him up instead.
"He won't but I promise that we will still get married."
"Really? In that case I…"
Moxiao did not finish talking as Xuanzheng pulled him up using the sleeve from the back of his robe.
"Do you mind if I borrow my nephew for a while, LanRong?"
"Oh, I don't really mind ayi… Go ahead."
Dragging Moxiao towards a corner of a garden, Xuanzheng then seat him up at a nearby stone chairs inside an open air pavilion.
"Ayi… You're making me anxious. You have something important to tell me?"
"Yes. The whole realms are in danger."
"Danger? Why?"
"Two immortals had perished today."
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LuoNa Sorry it took a while to post. So busy with many things. Anyway, thank you for still supporting Warring Kingdoms. I'll be sure to update even more everyday.