The fated ones

Chapter 39

The body of the beast had started transforming under the shining purple glow and subsequently, began absorbing it. As the light faded, a gigantic yet magnificent bird came into sight.

From the beast had emerged a bird that was roughly the size of the celestial palace, with an exquisite purple body that glowed in a silver luminescence. Its two wings shimmered with a thunderous silver power and large deadly claws, had sprouted from the previous black hole. It had the face of a majestic bird and a sharp, pointy beak that could crush mountains in it, yet the most striking part was the bird's multi ended tail. Toward the end of the bird's body, a single tail emerged which further divided itself into multiple separate tailends except for the two tails at both sides. These long, sinewy, outer two tails were twice the size of its other tails and ended in a curvaceous point of wings, in multiple hues of purple. At the same time, its children had also finished their transformation and were a very close replica of their mother except for their size and color. The whole fleet of these birds was huge but still, they were half the size of their mother, and instead of her glorious purple body, these birds possessed a white body with hues of golden for their wings and tails.

As the birds were now free and returned back to their original state, donghua and feng jiu descended to the top of the steps of the celestial palace. They were not alone though. Along with them came the ginormous purple bird, but as it descended towards the palace, it kept reducing its size. Even at a quarter of its original size, the bird was still thrice the size of a normal immortal.

When they landed, donghua slid his arm around feng jiu's waist and scanned the gaping faces around him. originally, he had not planned for such a wide showcase of feng jiu's powers, so soon but since, the situation had arisen in such a manner, he only felt relieved that he no longer would have to arrange for such a setting in the future. Living such a long life, dong hua had recognized the fact that power was the one thing, people tended to be most suspicious about until they have seen or experienced it, firsthand. As such with feng jiu's growing power and rule, it would have been necessary for her to showcase these powers, not just to support her authority but also, to prevent any mistrust and discord within the realms.

Scanning over their faces, donghua stopped at the questioning face of bai yi. Donghua pointed with his chin, telling him to ask the question that mulled inside him. bai yi nodded at the permission and asked, "what is that?"

Feng jiu had been busy caressing the purple bird when she heard her father's question. Even though the object of his question was obvious, she still turned to see him pointing towards the bird beside her. Snuggling her hand inside the bird's soft purple feathers, she turned to answer her father's question.

"father, this is a lei niao, a thunderbird. A lei niao is the spirit of thunder and rain and everything in between." Pointing at the purple lei niao beside her, she continued, "but this one here, she was the first lei niao that was born when dijun's primordial lightning had hit hellfire. We don't know for certain when that had happened but it was before the pre-historic times. When she was still in her infant years, she got trapped inside the black sea for thousands of years. Over time, the demonic powers of the black sea superseded her primordial spirit and trapped her inside the demon body you saw before. Being the first of her kind, her powers are vast and varied but due to being trapped inside a demonic form, she couldn't control her powers and wreaked havoc, after being thrown out of the black sea, on the shores of the island of ash. Because of the horrendous damage caused, she ended up being imprisoned by dijun."

Bai yi asked again, "if she was in solitary imprisonment on the island, how did her children came to be? Is there another demonic lei niao on that island?"

Shaking her head, feng jiu replied, "no, father. There is no other lei niao in the whole universe except for this one and her twelve children up there. You see, since she was born from the culmination of lightning and hellfire, she needs no other to procreate. During her 100,000 years of imprisonment, she would accumulate a huge amount of lightning inside her, over the years and every time this accumulated power was released, an offspring was born out of it. at the beginning, she was unable to control her powers because of her demonic form and ended up birthing most of them quite frequently. But over time she learned how to regulate it. that is how her twelve children were born."