Chương 21: Chapter 21 : The war of the Silver River.

"The First Lord went to attend court," the maid outside the First Lord study informed Hong Liu.

"Oh," Her shoulder falls down as she heard that. 'Now, what? I have to wait for him again,' she turns to see Hua Shen and Ming Zhu walking towards her with a quick steps

"Your Highness," Ming Zhu bowed to her.

"What happened? Ming Zhu, you look like someone had tricked you really bad," Hong Liu looked at Ming Zhu's nervous expression amused.

"No, No, Your Highness nothing like that. High Goddess Hua Shen mention in the passing that you are having a hard time paying back the First Lord's favour, I just come here....." Ming Zhu trailed off as he notices the First Lord study's door was closed.

"Don't remind me of that," Hong Liu cross her arms

"Have you met First Lord yet?" He asked.

"No, he is in court," Hong Liu answered, Ming Zhu just felt a wave of relief and Hong Liu tries to pass them to leave made him tense quickly.

"Your Highness, where are you going?" Ming Zhu asked.

"To court, to meet the First Lord," She answers in an obvious manner.

"I don't think it's a good idea, Little lotus. Remember? you can't be seen in Nine Heavens," Hua Shen try to reason.

"That's not a problem, I have the perfect disguise," Hong Liu grin and turn into a little red butterfly, flew away. Ming Zhu closes his eyes as the anxiety rise in his chest.

"May the Supreme Lord help her highness," Ming Zhu prayed with a sigh.

Hua Shen realizes that the First Lord won't appreciate Hong Liu following him around but, it can't be that bad, can it? He is the one who allowed her to stay with him and he...cares about her right? She shook her head, she just doesn't want to have the little lotus heartbroken. She honestly thinks that Ming Zhu is overreacting now.

"Are you not overreacting? First Lord won't be this harsh to the Little lotus," Hua Shen wondered hopefully.

"In all of the three realms, we should know better what happens when the First Lord is pestered," Ming Zhu said.

Hua Shen sigh.

Hong Liu flies through the upper window of the court tower and looks for the Blue Velvet robed white-haired diety in the circular white marble room. After going through the lines of high ranked deity, her eyes landed to him above everyone below the Heavenly Lord but not directly below him, he set aside. She flies to the lower table he was sitting by and landed just beside his long fingers.

Dong Hai eyes were not close like normally but he was leaning on his elbow like always with a stone expression looking at the old man with a long white beard and small eyes, wrinkled in the conner as he reports to the Heavenly Lord.

"I have seen it myself, Your Majesty. The goblet of blood fire had started to aflame again," He said in dread.

That announcement put everyone in a shock for a second, the First Lord simply look at the person with mild interest and leaned back it was then that his eyes happen to land on the little red butterfly whose wings were too beautiful for her to be normal. The corner of his lips stretch a little as he recognises her, 'what she is doing here?' He thought.

The goblet of blood fire, Hong Liu thought in shock. The name was enough froze ice in everyone's heart. Hong Liu however only heard tales of it from Ren because it way before she was even born, the war on the shores of the silver river three hundred thousand years ago... that legendary war is famous by the name 'War of Silver River' After the wars of the chaos, the downfall of the prehistoric era this is the war that is mention in the history books were the first time after few million years every heavenly tribe was united to fight one common enemy, the Ghost Tribe.

Three thousand years ago the Ghost Realm had rebelled against the heavenly rule under the rule of Ghost Emperor Qian Yazhu, he had lusted more power since took on the throne of his clan and resist the heavenly rule in every turn. He for forty thousand years created armies trained his journal in black magic arts to gather his power and making himself stronger than ever so much that it became real danger when he started to attack small heavenly clans and lower realms that Nine Heavens decided to take actions as the Ghost Emperor appeared to be undefeated nobody knew the reason how he got this unlimited power but war seems inevitable. At that moment, all the heavenly clan gathered their troops to fight and resist the Ghost Emperor, because where ever he goes he didn't leave anybody alive. He acquired the riches and lands and kill the inhabitants, he was driving on unquenchable blood lust and power.

Heavenly troops were gathered in the lead of God Of War, the only son of Heavenly Father Guan Yu, the Nine Heavens were confident that the Victory is theirs as long as the God War is on their side. What anybody wasn't aware of the source of the Ghost Emperor's true power, The Goblet of Blood Fire. A weapon that will burn the whole universe at the mare snape of the Ghost emperor's finger, just six months before the war with the Heavenly clans. The Ghost Emperor had sacrificed his five sons and two daughters on the night of the blood moon. The sacrifice of his own blood had given him the privilege of seven life he could die six times and come back to life, only be killed the seventh time, the cultivation the powers of black magic that he taught them were also observed by him. He created that goblet from that power and aflame the red fire from the blood of his seven children.

When everybody comes to know about this gruesome truth, the doom of the universe seem too near and it was that moment the High God Guan Yu come out with a solution if the seven demonic souls were sacrificed to create the goblet, to extinguish the fire the soul of high god should work, the willing sacrifice of a god soul. He chooses himself to do it, but the first the war was an attempt that Ghost Emperor never come close to use that goblet but all attempt went in vain. His powers were at a peak, a whole race of earth immortals was extinct in the war and in the last after thirteen days of gruesome bloodshed. High God Guan Yu reached the Ghost Emperor, he aflame the blood fire and when the fire was about to consume everything. High God Guan Yu took the last resort, he was ready to sacrifice his soul but in the last moment, the First Lord Dong Hai appeared in the middle of the warzone out of nowhere taking the Ghost Emperor Qiao Yazhu, he jumped in the blood fire with him sealing the Ghost Emperor with half of his spiritual essence in the Goblet and extinguish the fire with him. The First Lord come out as the fire cease to exist with just one red amber on his shoulder and he walked away silently with unhurried pace in the middle of the fire and dead bodies, dusting off the amber of his blue velvet robe.

Hong Liu sighs in the thoughts how must have he looked, Ren's descriptions were vivid but war something nobody wishes to see but hearing those legends she would love to see the First Lord like this. What Hong Liu was never told by Ren was this, every sacrifice and every power comes to an end and the flaming of The Goblet of Blood Fire only mean one thing the days of the Ghost emperor's imprisonment on his own creation was coming to an end.

He is breaking his seal.

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