Mo Yuan, Bai Qian, Ye Hua

Part 22

Di Jun was in consultation with his star lord Si Ming and the Earth Deity, he had keeping watch over The Bell of East Emperor.

"Qing Cang looks to be making moves to escape." The deity informed him.  "His purple haze is still spreading out from the bell and his hell fire has increased considerably on the inside, it is building to incredible proportions and it is also beginning to spill out." he added.

Di Jun nodded that he understood.  "What of Li Jing?" he asked.

"There's been no movement at all from the Ghost Clan today My Lord, however, there were a few visitors to the riverbank last night." Then remembering one of the visitors, he added as an after thought. "The Ghost Clans Princess, arrived with a few soldiers, but didn't stay long."

"The Demon Clan?" he asked.  He had been informed earlier they had suddenly gone quiet, and for the Demon Clan, that was highly suspicious.

The Earth Deity looked somewhat confused.  "The Demon Clan My Lord?"

Si Ming interrupted and informed the Deity, that the Demon Clans activity of late had suddenly gone very quiet.

Realizing immediately of the importance of this new information, the Deity directed his words directly to Di Jun.  "I will make inquiries." 

Waving his hand to dismiss the Earth Deity and Si Ming, Di jun, sat in deep thought.  He knew the sealing spell, having taken it from Qing Qius Princess Feng Jiu.  However, what he also knew, and what he knew Bai Qian didn't know, was the sealing spell also cryptically hid the spell that could completely destroy the bell.  A spell so powerful, only a select few could use it, with catastrophic consequences.  

Sealing Qing Cang would not be a problem, but how many times would they have to keep resealing him?  How many would have to give 70,000 years of their lives to save the rest at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives in the ensuing wars in the process?    

Eventually, they would have to completely destroy the bell, if they were to have everlasting peace.  And having already visited Mo Yuan to ascertain his strength and ability to carry out the spell, which was the real reason for his visit, he knew in an instant that Mo Yuan was not fit for the job.

With Zhe Yan and Bai Zhi in seclusion, that left Ye Hua and Qing Qius Bai Qian. 

Both had received a considerable amount of cultivation and both were capable of destroying the bell, but would they at the risk of dying, with no chance of returning? There would be no ashes to resurrect, nor would there be a scattered soul to gather and reassemble.  There would only be complete death, with no afterlife as the soul itself would be completely destroyed.  

The spell would automatically remove the soul from its body, and it would be the soul itself that would not only sacrifice itself it would also literally unravel itself before it even entered the bell.  Once the bell took hold of its scattered pieces, the pieces would instantly destroy itself along with the bell.

But there had to be a way around it.  Surely Mo Yuan would not have created a spell so devastatingly destructive, after all, he came back after shattering his soul into thousands of pieces, even when it was believed it couldn't be done, because he knew it could be done.  

Di Jun sat in silence for a very long time.  And of the two options available to carry out the spell, there was only one name that came to mind as he repeated it over and over again.

Nodding, he left his Palace to prepare himself.

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Mo Yuan woke gasping for air and his whole body shook from the delicious dream of Qian Qian riding him to oblivion. "Qian Qian." he whispered softly as he sought to bring his breathing under control.