Capítulo 28: Ch. 28 - The Secret of the Poisonous Cherry Blossoms
They fell from the sky and landed on a bed of beautiful flowers.
"Where is he?", Tian Xin asked her mother.
Xiao Huoyan were nowhere to be seen.
Tian Mei and Tian Xin began to worry.
"What are you doing just sitting there?"
"Little bro!"
Tian Xin was overjoyed to see that her brother was fine. Tian Mei on the other hand, had been silent since they arrived.
"Little bro! Y-you are flying… again…"
"Yes, I am flying… again. Would you like to try?"
"But I can not fly! My cultivation is still too low…"
"In this space, anyone can fly!"
"Wha-! H-how?!"
"Just imagine yourself lifting from the ground. It is easier than you think, haha!"
"O-ok!"
She closed her eyes while imagining herself jumping high and then not falling back down. Then she jumped! She then stopped in mid-air. As she felt how she stood still instead of falling, she slowly opened her eyes. She looked down, but she could not see her mother nor her brother anymore.
"Hey? Where are you? Where did you go?", she asked as she felt slightly panicked, she began to look around frantically.
"We are up here, sweetie!"
Tian Xin looked up and saw her mother as well as her brother in the sky, above her.
"When did you get there?"
She was so confused. It did not take long for her to get where she was, but they were already up there. She even jumped before them!
"Stop worrying already. I helped her up", Xiao Huoyan said with a proud smile.
"You read my thoughts.. again?!"
"Hehe, sorry!"
"You! You! YOU!!"
"Hahahah! Catch me if you can!"
Right after saying that he began to fly upwards. Then he began to fly around in circles with his hands on his back. It did not seem like someone trying to get away, but more like someone taking a leisurely stroll.
"Are you mocking me?!"
"Definitely!"
"You do not even deny it?!"
"Nope!"
"YOU!!"
"Hm? Me?"
Tian Xin was so enraged; she began to fly upwards at a rapid speed. Then she began to chase Xiao Huoyan in circles.
"Quit escaping and face me head on if you dare!", Tian Xin shouted at Xiao Huoyan while chasing him.
"Fine."
Xiao Huoyan suddenly stopped flying and began to fall towards the ground. Just as he was about to hit the ground, a bed of purple feathers caught him.
Then he used Vines of Judgement to instantly build up a maze. He was in the centre of the maze waiting on top of his bed of purple phoenix feathers.
Tian Xin tried to fly directly towards him, but then as soon as she came close, she began to feel a scorching heat emitting from an invisible barrier above the maze.
"What is this?!", she shouted hysterically.
"It is a barrier I made with my demonic flame. I advise you not to get closer. Just use the entrance and work your way through the maze like a normal person."
"... Fine."
As soon as she entered the maze, the entrance disappeared. Now it was just a dead end. She immediately tried to use her Poisonous Cherry Blossoms to force her way out, but as soon as she tried, she felt her spirit essence being sucked away. It transformed into a glowing pink orb twice as big as her fist and then it flew away.
"W-wait!"
She began to run after it, but she soon lost sight of it.
"If you want it back, you will have to work your way through the maze. It is in the centre of the maze."
She suddenly heard Xiao Huoyan's voice, but she could not see him.
"Where are you?"
"Oh, I am still in the centre of the maze."
Although she could not see him, she felt his smile through his words.
"Just you wait until I get there!"
"Hahaha, I will be waiting!"
She began to run around inside the maze, but every few turns she just met a dead end. What seemed so easy before, was in fact much harder than she had thought.
As she felt anxious, she began to recall how things looked from above. Then she used the picture inside her head to find her way to the centre.
Two hours later, she finally saw her brother sit on his bed of feathers, while staring at the glowing pink orb that was her spirit essence.
"Your spirit essence is truly beautiful, sis!"
"How did you know I was here."
"I can sense you from miles away, so this should not be too surprising."
"Oh… I guess you are right."
"What did you think about the maze?"
"Hehe, nothing is too hard for your big sister!"
She smiled proudly.
"It is good that you got through, but next time please be a little faster. It was quite unpleasant to sit here for so long."
"You--!"
"--Do you want your spirit essence back?"
"… Yes, please."
"Good! Then close your eyes and stand still."
"Mhm."
She nodded and then she closed her eyes. She soon felt how her spirit essence began to flow back into her. It was a very pleasant feeling.
"Done!"
"… Thank you."
"You noticed?"
"Mhm."
She nodded again.
"Thank you for helping me."
"It is nothing", Xiao Huoyan said while smiling.
The barrier suddenly disappeared along with the maze.
As soon as it disappeared, Tian Mei came flying down.
The first thing she noticed was the changes in her daughter's spirit essence.
"What happened to you?!"
"My dear little brother helped me."
Tian Mei fell onto her knees and began to cry.
Tian Xin's Poisonous Cherry Blossom held a secret that few people knew. The Poisonous Cherry Blossoms are incredibly strong, but they bear a fatal risk. Her spirit essence have always been a ticking bomb.
To many people, the Poisonous Cherry Blossoms is a curse.
It is a very violent spirit essence with extremely potent poison. The people born with Poisonous Cherry Blossoms as their spirit essence usually die between the age of fifteen to twenty.
Tian Xin is already seventeen and does not have much time left.
Neither does the people in her village.
When her spirit essence one day erupts, every living thing within the range of a few miles, will die from the poison, including her.
That is why she has always been living in fear of her own spirit essence.
"H-how? How did you stabilize it?", Tian Mei asked curiously with tears still rolling down her rosy cheeks.
"I did not."
"What do you mean?", Tian Mei said worriedly.
'If he did not stabilize it… how did her spirit essence turn so tranquil?', she thought to herself.
"I did not stabilize it. I absorbed it and forcefully triggered the eruption. Then I put up a barrier made of all of my spirit essences. My spirit essences easily managed to block the eruption. Since my blood is special, I did not get poisoned.
After I finished I left it outside of my body as if I had not touched it. Then when she came, I gave it back to her.
It will never erupt now, so you can both rest in peace."
"You did all of that while I was in the maze?"
"Yes."
"Wow… You really are an extraordinary child…"
"Hehe, it was nothing", he said with a proud smile.
"No need to be so modest little bro. Without you, many people would have died... Including my mother and I."
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