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

Chapter 50: An incident on Siyu (背叛的第一步)

Flame dark red sky surrounded TaoYan city as Lu XueCao played a grisly tune using his GuZheng. Two corpses of a man and a woman laid in front of him with a piece of parchment written with inscriptions placed on their foreheads. As he played more, two dark spirits appeared from his GuZheng. The spirits descended to the bodies and immediately, the man and the woman opened their eyes. XueCao was delighted seeing the two finally reincarnated.
He managed to let go of his GuZheng and examined the recreated corpses that he made.
The man was named QiuShan Li, a General that defended Suzhou from the great invasion of Mongolian army hundreds of years ago and the woman was named Qing Luan, a traitor from the Water palace that has been sentenced to death by Shui Yuhan, after she found out about her hidden motives.

"Arise."

The two corpses stood up straight.

"Hao. Hao... You two have not been fully incarnated. Now, I want you to strike fear into the hearts of mundanes. Go to Siyu and feed off souls from everyone including women and unborn children. Do not leave any stone unturned until you can recover enough spiritual energy."

The two of the corpses nodded and afterwards disappeared into nothingness leaving only the two talismans that were used before. XueCao laughed sinisterly. Finally, the demonic era starts with his hands.
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With Zhao Min missing on the scene, she was labeled as the culprit in all that had happened but deep in YingLuo's heart, she still considered Zhao Min as one of her partners. After hearing the news, Yin E'laa parted ways with them to personally tell the Grandmaster of Emei about Zhao Min's crimes and her involvement with demonic cultivators.

Meanwhile, inside the Dragon Palace's library, MoXiao flipped pages of every book that involved demonic cults looking for any clue about the ancient evil tree and his father's condition. His eyes almost swelled as morning time turned to afternoon.

It also happened that LanRong decided to descend upon the mortal realm to check upon XuanWu and the progress of her mission in dissecting the box out of ShaoTian's body to heal High Goddess Chang 'E.

"XuanZheng how is XuanWu doing?"

"She is fine now. She just needs to rest her body."

"About Goddess Chang 'e. She's in real trouble. I need your help to extract the box from ShaoTian."

"I will think about it. Currently, ShaoTian's condition wasn't very stable. If you want to see, I can show you."

"Hao. Lead the way."

XuanZheng led LanRong inside ShaoTian's room. She placed a spell upon ShaoTian to check the condition of the box inside his soul.

"As you can see LanRong, ShaoTian's soul has been wrapped with a thick amount of resentment. Extracting it right now might break his soul in return."

"But Goddess Chang 'e... She's dying."

"I know. I will find another way to heal her without using the power of the box."

"What do you mean?"

XuanZheng held out her hands and a black flute appeared on it. LanRong's eyes grew big.

"It couldn't be. It's..."

"I know. I should have thrown this instrument of chaos long ago but I chose to keep it."

"How... How will you save the High Goddess?"

"I can manipulate any form of miasma caused by resentment from the ancient evil. Thus, by playing this flute, I will transfer the miasma from Chang 'e's wound into my body in order for the Goddess of healing to close her wounds."