The fated ones

Chapter 19

A month had gone by and Feng jiu still hadn't woken up. After what happened on the sky kingdom's borders that fateful day, the bai family had been worried for their little feng jiu. The clan had the felt so much pride in learning how valiantly feng jiu had fought with hei and defeated him but the inimitable trial afterward had left them all in deep apprehension. Resultingly, the royal family had closed the fox den to visitors. Only the immediate family and the handful of friends were allowed entry. Had it not been for the still-standing barriers of the young fox queen which had prohibited all entry and exit from sky kingdom, there might not have been friends' access to the den.

After fengjiu and dijun had fainted, zhe yan had disappeared with them for his own house before anyone could do or say anything. Following them, the disjointed group of high gods from sky kingdom and qingqui had followed him back to his peach orchard. This group of high gods was the one that had been lured away from the battle by the demons. They had hurried back when they had heard hei an's screams but by the time they had reached everything was done for. This little gathering consisted of bai zhi, bai yi, bai zhen, bai qian, ye hua and lian song. Si ming was also among the group but no one knew where he had come from.

At zhe yan's place in the peach orchard, they were greeted by another surprise. Mo yuan was currently occupying zhe yans bed and looked to be in deep sleep. Zhe yan looked at the serum bottle by his bedside and let out a loud sigh saying to himself, "what have you been doing, xaio jiu" Moving his head to the side, he conjured two beds and laid out both feng jiu and dijun on them. Standing between the two beds, he checked their vitals, cultivation, and spirit. Both of them seemed okay with healthy spirits and cultivations.

Looking at donghua's unconscious face, zhe yan reminisced the scene of feng jiu's ascension trial. The look of utter defeat and helplessness that had occupied donghua when the bolts had hit feng jiu, his cries of pain like he was the one being hit had unnerved him. And it wasn't only him that had seen it, bai zhi had also been a witness to that moment. Unlike him, though he had acted quickly and drawn a privacy shield over them to prevent others from seeing donghua in such a state. But what good had that done when ultimately, donghua had paid nary a thought to his audience and ran at the chance to take the lightning bolts for feng jiu. No one could have hidden that spectacular view even if they had wanted to. The pure devotion and love that had rolled off of him in waves as he had taken feng jiu in his arms and taken the rest of the bolts for her could never have been hidden. He had never even imagined donghua was capable of such emotions. Alas, it seemed like feng jiu had succeeded in cracking open that old rock and successfully found his heart. Now, at least he can rest assured that feng jiu's love for the old rock was definitely not one-sided.

As zhe yan moved outside, he was greeted by the whole group from the battleground. Looking at their expectant faces, he let out a chuckle.

"They are both fine. Just resting from that abnormality of a trial."

Relief flooded all their faces but before he could continue, bai yi interrupted, "so can we take feng jiu back to the fox den?"

Hearing this lian song was forced to step forward and ask for permission to take back dijun with him. He feared, he would be facing the canghe for separating dijun from the young queen but bai yi had put him in a difficult situation here. Without feng jiu here, there was no reason for zhe yan to keep dijun here. Though before his meeting would have been fixed with canghe, si ming interrupted.

"my lords, if I may be so bold to interrupt, we have a situation here."

"what is it, si ming?" Bai zhi asked.

"her majesty, bai feng jiu had placed the sky kingdom under two of her protective shields. These red shields of her are no small magic pieces that can be undone. I have encountered one of these before and these shields are vicious in nature. They swallow demons whole and feed on their power growing stronger with each one. Even though they do not harm immortals, they also do not let anything pass. It was her majesty herself that told me only one person can undo her shield beside herself and that person also fainted alongside her. So, I'm sorry to say this my lord but right now no one in all the realm can undo her barriers. With the barriers still in place no one can go to or come from the sky kingdom right now." Si ming bowed to the high gods and took a step back.