Starlit Bonds

Chapter 1: YaoQing's war

It was another day on the Xian Zhou LuoFu, General Jing Yuan is sitting in his palace, playing Go with his pupil YanQing. 

"General, what does this have to do with the way of the sword?" 

"Ahh, YanQing, you have to know that the way of the sword doesn't mean that you have to practice and fight with the sword every minute there is. You have to feel the sword vibrating, and it's resonance with you."

"But General, with the way you just said, I don't really feel anything improving at all."

At this moment, a voice barged in on their conversation about the way of the sword. 

"General! Why are you sitting here and leaving all the work for me to do? Don't you have any shame?"

"Ahh, master Diviner Fu, good day, isn't it? As you see, I'm helping my pupil recognize the best way to feel the way of the sword. As for the work, I already have you, my brilliant master Diviner."

"UHHHAHHA, General!!!"

"Alright, alright, I'll do some work. YanQing, go bring me some papers."

"Okay!'

"So, Master Diviner Fu, what brings you here today?"

"There was a disruption in the Scalegorge Waterscape; there are some leftover residues from the fight with Phantylia. I think it is better for you to send some strong soldiers to explore these energies."

"I think that this job is a perfect fit for the Nameless, don't you think?"

"Right, but don't you think it's time to rely on our own forces?"

"Then, I can send YanQing, if he can't deal with the residues, I'll contact the nameless."

Then, a sudden communication portal from General Hua popped up.

"Jing Yuan, don't you think that you are behaving like a child right now?"

"Marshal Hua! How is your day?"

"You know that there is neither day nor night nor weather on the Xian Zhou where I'm at."

"But it's just courtesy to say that much to my superior."

"Enough blabbering, how close are you to YaoQing right now?"

"Let's see, Master Diviner Fu, how close are we?"

"General... You should pay attention to these things next time. But we are about 30 light years away from YaoQing."

"Good job, Master Diviner Fu, you are so much more useful than this lazy bastard. Sigh~"

"Hey! At least I've been guarding this Xian Zhou well."

"Well, you are doing good with that, but there is a legion of Borisins and Wingweavers led by Shuhu charging at Yaoqing about 50 light years away. I'd think you better be prepared for some kind of war."

"I think that I'd win against them since they are no match for my Lightning-Lord."

"Still, lightning-lord isn't invincible, you should obviously prepare more."

"Fine, I'll prepare for the battle. Master Diviner Fu, please go tell Helm Master YuKong to set sail to help YaoQing."

A few days later, after this conversation, LuoFu finally arrived near the location where the battle was going to be held. 

"General, are you sure that we are here for war, not for slaughter?"

"Ahh, YanQing, you must know that we have to prepare for any kind of war against other Denizens of Abundance. We must make sure that the Plague Author does not strike us again."

"But General, are we really going to be useful in this war? I've heard that the general of YaoQing is a maniac that seeks war everywhere. Won't she be enough to deal with this matter by herself?"

"Of course I know that, but in the end, we are only the insurance that marshal Hua sent to minimize the losses and destruction."

The war went as they said, it was a slaughter, and Shuhu was defeated through the feats of both Jing Yuan and general Fei Xiao. 

The war only took 3 days to fight, as the wingweavers and the borisins were greatly outnumbered by the cloud knights on Yaoqing and Luofu. 

Jing yuan once again entered the stage of laziness and slack and has decided to rest for several months before working as an actual general. He had appointed Fuxuan as the acting general of Luofu before he took a break from the paperwork he technically had to work on. 

During these two months, Fuxuan had given the work of the divination commission to Qingque. Even though at the start, Fuxuan doubted the efficiency of Qingque, but she had no choice but to appoint her as the acting master diviner because Qingque is one of the few people Fuxuan trusts fully in the Divination commission

The day of Jing Yuan finally returning to his position as the general, a letter was on the table where he works as the general. It was an invitation letter written by Jing Liu, to make sure he comes to witness the fight and reunion of the high cloud quintet,

"Master, I have arrived, why have you called a reunion of the quintet?"

"Jingyuan, you are late, did you already forget my teachings after only this many years?"

"I have not, master, but it seems that Yingxing is also late, would you look at that?"

Blade or Yingxing arrived while being guarded by several cloud knights.

"My name is now Blade, a slave of fate, and you, why have you called me here?"

"I wanted to see you all, before I go to the shackling prison on xuling to meet the xianzhou generals."

"I will be seeing you during your trial."

"Well, Blade, shall we have one last spar?"

"Gladly... I will fight you to my death"

They sparred for nearly 30 minutes, and finally, blade was the one to make a mistake first, and was stabbed in the heart by Jingliu, and got slammed into the ground.

Amidst the complex web of relationships, the invitation from Jing Liu to witness the last lesson and reunion hinted at deeper revelations. 

Thats probably it for the first chapter, ill write more if i get more ideas ngl