Waiting For You (A Wangxian FF)

11) Flashback

It was after the Sunshot campaign and everyone kept celebrating the victory for weeks. Well.., everyone except one lone young master.

For days he had been feeling unwell and aroused for no reason. The first time he felt the arousal, it was right after the death of Wen Rouhan and he lost consciousness for days worrying his shijie, shidi and one particular young master. After that, it only grew stronger until yesterday when he let himself lost in liquor along with the man of his dreams.

"What happened?" That's all his eternal crush asked in the morning when he found himself tangled with the young man before rushing out in a raged fury, not even bothering to have an answer.

"Is he that disgusted about sleeping with me?" The young man asked, feeling deeply hurt and betrayed. But he had no time to waste crying over the rejection as he had to be present at somewhere else. So he just left a note for his family, telling them not to worry before using a transportation talisman to reach his destination.

He already knew what he had to do when he decided to pass the gates to enter to the biggest killing ground of the millennia-Mount Tonglu. But now, with his feelings all over, he wasn't too sure about his decision.

'What if he never even looks at me again? What if he decided to hunt me down for ruining his purity? What if he-' Before he could continue worrying further, the loud noise of a horn came piercing through the air and the killing begun.

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He had no idea how he managed to come this far with only the help of resentful energy. Even though he had reached the wraith level before entering, it didn't seem like much of a help against the vast number of competitors present there. It was only the sheer desire he had to go back to his shijie that kept him moving this far. Yet, after reaching the upper tire of level two, he felt like that desire isn't strong enough to move further.

He was all alone, wounded and scared and his heart didn't make the things easy either. He was split between wanting to go back for his family and the urge to bury himself here just so he could avoid meet that man again.

Yet after helping a fatally wounded female out of habit few days ago, he found his desire to keep fighting till the end.

As a payback for his kindness, that woman- who once had been a healer, passed all her power to him since she had no use for them any longer. It is when her keen senses of a healer picked the real situation the young man was placed in.

"Young lad, have you- have you slept with someone before coming here?" She asked hesitantly, searching an answer within the young man's eyes.

"I- yes." After a long pause, he finally replied, wondering where the conversation is going.

"Are you fertile? I mean...are you able to conceive?" To her question, the young man chocked on his own salvia and apparently, that gives the woman her answer.

"You are going to be a mother, boy. Congratulations...I suppose." She announced, clearly uncertain about the future of them both, yet the young man didn't seem like he care.

He seemed so shocked after receiving the news and didn't seem like he realized the danger that is looming around, waiting to attack them at any second. After his initial shock, tears flow down his eyes as one of his hands clasped over his mouth to muffle his cries and the other moved onto his tummy.

"I- I'm going to be a mother..." He murmured softly, his voice trembling from overflowing joy and love.

From then on, no one succeeded in reaching him and nothing managed to stop him either. It was as if he was possessed entirely by another supreme being even though it is only his willpower.

Within a record time of three months and with the biggest killing count of the history, the young man managed to enter the kilin-the heart of the mount Tonglu with no other competitor to challenge him once after he jumped in. The only problem is, there was another life growing within him that had to be protected at any cost.

On the other hand, he knew very well that this process cannot be delayed until the baby is born. Once after it is started, it should continue until the end no matter what the cost is. If he try to delay, the kilin would just devour them both and dissolve their souls, not even bothering to go through the process of moulding the next supreme. Thus he had to pray for the gods to help save his unborn baby since he had no other choice but to end what he started.

Yet, when the gods helped him by sealing away the growing soul within him-with the feeling of the child's presence gone, he found it very hard to fight against the fire within the kilin. For multiple time, he touched the threshold of death and even thought of giving up the fight for multiple times. But he kept holding on to the hope of seeing his baby's face one day.

When his mind break down in fear of the endless darkness that surrounded him and cannot handle the agonizing screams of millions of lost souls all alone, he wanted to give up so badly. But everytime that thought crossed his mind, his heart clenched in pain and desire, holding firmly onto that unknown soul who is waiting for him to come back safe and sound to continue its growth within him.

So after a very long and painful period of forty nine days of torture when he burst out from the kilin, it was someone who knew nothing about fear and pain-both had long since been demolished into nothingness during his acsension to a supreme.

He was no longer devoted to any other but only to his unborn baby-whose soul automatically unsealed within him the moment he stepped out from the kilin. His heart didn't beat for the man of his dreams and he didn't care about his relationships with other people either. It only beat for his baby and to that soul only.

He is now a master of resentful energy, a supreme and a king above all the other ghosts and demons beneath him. He didn't have to try so hard to keep the people he love and care for-as of now, his child away from any harm and no one will be able to defeat his power. If they dared to do so, he will make sure that they all will face the wraith of the new supreme calamity, later known as Bǐ'ànhuā* or as the-

Scarlet Spider Lily.

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A/N

Bǐ'ànhuā* (彼岸花) - Red spider lily

Xīnghóng zhīzhū bǎihé - The Scarlet Spider Lily.