Warring Kingdoms: The Tale of the Jade Phoenix and the Dragon Blade

Chapter 18: The Collector's Forest

Wei Yue and the others escaped from Xiao Na and Ning's grasp. But not for long. Since she found out that the power of the Goddess is inside Luo Na, she will stop at nothing to draw it off her body and wouldn't care if she'll become a corpse.

"We're riding for hours and we couldn't find a safe hiding spot to stay." Zhang demanded to General Hua while staying hidden in plain sight behind the thick array of trees.

"Ning's power is really strong especially now it's the night of the full blood moon. My powers are weakening at this point now it's up to you General, where are we going to go?" Wei Yue said to General Hua.

Still carrying Luo Na in his arms he knelt down and closed his eyes.

Suddenly, he was transported along with Luo Na into the Parallel Dimension of Dragons.

"Please, I ask for your claivoyance, where do we need to go and escape Ning and Xiao Na?" He asked the heavenly dragon while lowering his head.

Luo Na is still unconscious. The dragon looked at Luo Na and said...

"Have you not do what the king told you? Have you not share a bed with her?" The Heavenly dragon hovered.

"I love her but I cannot take advantage of just one ritual to get her purity. If we are wed, we are to be one but if it was for the ritual, No... I would never do such thing." General Hua humbly said to the Heavenly Dragon.

Moved by General Hua's words, the Heavenly Dragon gave both of them two necklaces that are made of Dragon metal.

"You are to enter the Collectors forest, these necklaces are the only key to the hidden realm that you are going to hide."
The Dragon said as he gradually disappears.

"Why did you help us?" General Hua asked his final question.

"You are a kind man, General." After he said this, the dragon disappeared and General Hua awakened back to his senses.

"Come, I know where Xiao Na and Ning wouldn't find us."
General Hua gathered all of them and rode off into the night once again until they came across a large, steep, mountain which no one would dare to climb.

"This is dead end General. This steep mountain is not suitable for climbing. Even with a pickaxe or sword, the edges are too steep." Li An said. Her hopes are getting slim so as the other but General Hua remembered about the necklace.

"The necklace is the only key."
He took off the necklace and placed it into the steep rock.
The mountain suddenly disappeared and replaced by a thick forest with lots of unusually colored fireflies.

"That's unusual." Zhang said looking at the peach-colored fireflies.

"Talking about unusual, would you rather face that insanely powerful witch? Or go through the forest?" Li An sarcastically said with a slight grimace.

"Through the forest of course." Zhang lightly laughed.

They all went inside the forest and soon after, when they are all inside, the steep wall appeared again magically.

They wandered around the forest looking for a spot to lay and camp the night.

"This is the collector's forest so you all should behave accordingly." General Hua warned all his friends and they all nodded.

"Where's his highness?" General Hua asked Li An.

"He took a walk he said he'll be close."

General Hua laid Luo Na on a pile of soft leaves and stood up to find Wei Yue.