Kapitel 31: Chapter 31 History Lesson
He FeiQuan had taken the initiative and precaution, he gave a missive to one of his subordinates stationed at the mortal realm to pass the message to the Gold Peach Clan that their youngest member was in the mortal world and he would get her home safely on time before dinner time.
Gold Peach Clan was a prominent clan in Heavens and he did not want to slight them and get in bigger trouble. Telling the truth was always better in this case, and he wanted to be seen as an escort and not kidnaping a clueless fruit.
When He FeiQuan and LiHua had returned back to heavens, he politely sent her home and paid his respects to her Gold Peach clan, before heading back to his manor. He FeiQuan was considered a rare guest to the clan with LiHua kept sending him messages to visit her. Anyone would have thought that either one of them was interested with each other but the clan elders had already known that LiHua just needed a friend and He FeiQuan was one and he was merely a good friend of their youngest child.
After the mortal realm trip, LiHua could not stay still long, thinking of the fun things Kai Zong mentioned that he had in his house. Days passed and LiHua continued with her learning and training of martial arts, appreciating the new magical items and exploring the mountain.
One day when LiHua was moping around, her great-granduncle, Qiu MarKe, came and gave her a history lesson. She hardly met this mysterious great granduncle, as he was always busy doing mysterious work for the clan. Although he was a busy person, he still would bring her little trinkets, that the clan knew their youngest love to hoard her little treasures.
It was the first time he taught her and she had worried that it would be very lengthy, taking along her snacks and tea to ward off sleepiness. To her surprise, great grand uncle had missed his calling as a storyteller and LiHua was immersed listening to his lesson, hardly picking on her snacks and had filially poured tea for her elder to moisten his throat from his storytelling.
First Three Ancient Kings were the creators of what they knew now and the founders of the Heavenly Tribe, their disciples were known as the first levels immortals, whom all had great powers. Each first level immortals were also the High Gods and Goddesses, and had great responsibilities being delegated to. As time passed, the First Three Ancient Kings retreated for seclusion, letting their disciples work together to handle the affairs of court. It was during the absence of the First Three Ancient Kings rule, that a huge catastrophic event happened - Chaos War.
The Chaos War happened many eons ago, the true events or reasons could have been modified but according to the oldest records, it started when all races had first joined forces to defeat the legendary ancient evil race – the HunDun (混沌) also known as the Phantom race. This race was known to have caused infinite chaos and it was a necessary evil to defeat and eliminate to bring forth peace between the realms.
After the Phantom race was defeated and wiped out of the history, the partnership fractured and the celestials and the underworld turned against each other, using the opportunity to take each other down when they were at the weakest. The First Three Ancient Kings who had retreated to seclusion, they awoke from the tremors, the rift separating the sky and the lower realms widened and there was an imbalance of the realms. The First Three Ancient Kings set out to leave to repair the rifts but this time before the First Three Ancient Kings left, they had placed their beloved disciple, to become the Jade Emperor of the Heavenly Realm, to preside over Celestial and Mortal matters.
The war continued and different clans and tribes took to different sides, some neutral demon clans and mystic creatures chose to fight with the Celestials. Most devil clans and the monstrous mystic creatures chose to fight together with the Underworld, established a united and stronger force against the Celestials, whom they thought had been oppressing them.
The war went on for many years, some High Gods halted their participation, while others immortals had major casualties. there were many clans that perished, some also had their entire bloodlines wiped out during the Chaos War until both Celestials and the underworld agreed upon a peace treaty of not engaging war. Both sides needed to recuperate from their losses.
It was an era of peace, even though there were small battles that occurred from both parties, but those were taken as exercises to determine each other forces and strengths. Those demon clans that had sided with the celestials were given lofty titles of Celestial clans, such as the Esteemed Celestial Crane Clan and Dragon Clan, all based on their contribution during the Chaos Clan.
The Esteemed Celestial Crane had fighting alongside the Celestials, and the Heaven tribe recognized and raised them higher up in the Celestial ranks their clan. He FeiQuan was descendants of the King of Crane, who could become blue flame, and was instrumental in defeating the evil HunDun tribe. Their flames were used to be imbued into the cold steel swords that could cut through evil beings, and the birds were the first in line to be slain down too. Fighting with honor, the warrior birds persevered in the Chaos war, even though they watched their brother in arms fallen. It was until the King could no longer bear the loss of his beloved people, he decided to pull out right after the HunDun had fallen, and did not participate the aftermath to defeat the dark forces. After the Choas war, not many of the Crane clan were able to have the skills like their ancestors and the strongest one was their king.
Many Celestials were unhappy when the Crane Clan was invited into the Heavens tribe and was given a high rank, as they felt the Crane Clan did not continue the battle like the other heroic clans. It was reported King He FeiYang laughed replying to the petty Celestials, "You mentioned about those heroes, those heroes had their entire clans wiped out and not able to receive the glory."
Qiu MarKe was trying to teach his great-grandniece that not everything was black and white, or good and evil. It was the very reason why he and the rest of the elders believed and uphold for the Gold Peach Clan – stay neutral.
LiHua was excited about her history lesson, it was like a play with many different layers of drama and asked Qiu MarKe about how the HunDun looked like and where the war was. Qiu MarKe could only shake his head and told her this had happened even before him himself became an immortal, with all his efforts to learn more about the immortal realm's history, all the history he had studied seemed to be manipulated and was subjective to be interpreted for and benefit to the current monarch or clan leaders.
It was just as the saying "history is written by the victors." He had yet to collect real facts to have more insights towards many matters, and one of them was the HunDun race. It was unanimously agreed by all the races histories that the HunDun was the main initially enemy of the Chaos War and to which, had to be eliminated to the roots of evil.
LiHua found herself learning about immortality. So many immortals, and deities had perished in Choas War. Stronger cultivated Gods and High Gods, were able to retain their spirits, even after deaths, their spirit would not disintegrate but scattered. they had to collect fragments of their spirits over many years, spanning to even tens of thousand years, to gain back their forms. High God of North Sky was one of them, he returned back to his form, and decided to retired and have a child. During his eternal sleep to regain his spirit fragments, his love, the Goddess of Summer Flowers left him for another.
After the interesting tale of the mysterious legendary race, how clans were elevated and love stories of the Gods, LiHua took some time thinking about them until she was reminded that she had promised to attend some events. She had listened to He FeiQuan's comments and attended banquets and parties so she could make new friends, as he had become busy and could not accompany her. That scene also bored her to tears, even though she was wearing her veil, she could see how the other females behaved.
The fairies all acted more superior than the other, comparing their beauty with so and so, talking about upcoming parties, then gossiped about other female deities frolicking when, where and with whom. LiHua had lost tracked who was who, there were so many titles. Then there were the comments that she did not like such as how the females try to perceive and ask her to remove her veil. The veil was like a shield for those eyes trying to bore through, just to see her face. It's just a face, another face for them to talk about and find faults with.
During the last event she was in, she just quietly went to the corner and turned into a peach and rolled out of the party. The peach form was her stealth mode. She could not become invisible like her male elders but rolling out, was her best way of escape without much notice.
She felt so relieved when she floated back to her flying carriage that took her home. LiHua decided she had enough of pretentious fairies, she soon started to miss her old friends from the island and she also rather play in the mortal realm than spending time with the Celestial females. These fairies seemed to have lots of time in their hand, gossiping, and discussing about the bachelor of the eon - Yuan LeiFeng. Apparently, Yuan LeiFeng had taken over that title from her uncle-in-laws, XuanWu, the heir to the Black Tortoise Clan Leader, and YangFeng, King of the Phoenix Clan, before they met and married her aunts, ReXi and YeChun, thousands of years ago.
Her ears perked up at the mention of the illustrious Celestial figure, her first idol, considerably the most wanted unattached bachelor of the Heavens tribe, and the source of the female's adoration and male's envy. However instead of eavesdropping on the interesting titbits about the God of Lightning, LiHua prefer to see than to hear gossips. Before coming to Heaven realm, she used to excited to know about Yuan LeiFeng, but now she had broadened her horizons, there were so many more immortal figures that she wanted to know more.
Being bored with the Heavenly realm's activities, LiHua suddenly missed the island. Her great granduncle and granduncles had went to the island but they could not find any other leads on how LiHua came to the island. There were no historical records and all the older creatures and beings either had already ascended or that they had moved away. They deduced those were the reasons or there could be another mystery that they had yet to know. For the moment being, other than the time warp of how the island realm time moved much slower than the Heavenly realm, they found no reasons to stop LiHua from visiting the island.
DaShu, must be rustling around his branches, worried about her. He FeiQuan told her, island time, LiHua had been away for few days. LiHua had postponed her return to the island for quite sometime, and she wanted to let DaShu and the others know that she was alright and had ascended to Heavens. LiHua went to her Great grandparents' house to ask for permission to leave to the island and mortal realm. This she had learned to just plainly let her family know where she wanted to go and they were usually reasonable.
Her family agreed, they rather have their little girl happy, see the world was also a good thing for her development, choosing to be broad-minded. They had to stop her to give her instructions before she sprinted out to the carriage to go off on her little adventures. The first instruction was from her great grandparents, she had to ring the Magical Emergency Bell in any unknown emergencies.
Oh! She knew this bell, the bell that was supposed to save her mother from abduction. Her uncle, Wu ZhiYe, had upgraded the bell to be worn on her wrist, there was a button she could press discreetly, there would smoke to blind anyone in the premise, it would buy time for her to hide and it would send a signal to the clansmen to come to her immediately. Her grandparents wanted her to take extra precaution and used her martial skills to disable the attackers when they were blinded. She nodded gravely and took it seriously, especially when her grandparents looked stern and serious themselves.
Second instruction came from Qiu Marke, he ruffled her hair and gave her a small pendant. The small pendant could help her real face and impersonate or make a different face, it would also help to hide her spiritual Qi. She was to use this pendant for her travels, only immortals, with high cultivation could see her real self.
The third instruction, 'Wa…when can I leave already.', LiHua cried internally, while her aunt, YiXia, giggled looking at the little girl's hapless expression and waved her over.
"You are already almost leaving, cannot be rude and listen well," YiXia pinched her cheeks and handed her a mirror her husband, Wu ZhiYe had made. The magical Mirror of Communication could help the clan and LiHua communicate anytime. LiHua pouted and complained about the bruised skin. All the clan members laughed at her cute sulk and the females took turns to pinch her cheeks and hugged her.
'Aiya, this family, it's not like I'm going for a long trip, it's merely a short trip ah' LiHua thought but she warmly took in all the love the elders showered on her. Her pendant was on so she could do away the wretched head veil.
Her first stop would be the island, she smiled thinking how DaShu, would scold her for taking so long to return. Since she did not know the directions to go to the island, she had to persuade He FeiQuan to take her and then to the mortal realm again.
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