The fated ones

Chapter 44

Over the next fifteen days, donghua took over her training of magic and weaponry as promised. He taught her how to circulate her energy and manipulate it to her advantage. He showed her the ways to control the discharge of her power and at the same time how to keep cultivating more. He walked her through different types of instruments and weapons that can be yielded with power and controlled through magic. Donghua ran her through several training exercises and weapon yielding moves every morning.

During the evening, he would take her for exploration around bihai cangling. Sometimes, they would end up swimming in the holy blue sea, sometimes they ended up planting trees and shrubs; and a couple of times he took her to meet his rides, his pet lion, and tiger. One such evening, he took her to the very bottom of the holy blue sea. When they stopped swimming, they ended up at a colossal silver rock, placed underneath the very center of the island. The rock though was suffused and gleaming with palpable divine energy. It radiated with raw power.

Nearing the rock, donghua placed his hand against the crater at the top of the rock. After a few moments, he slid his hand on the rock towards the right, in her direction. With the motion of his hand, a smooth rectangular slab detached from the rock and flowed into her hands. The moment she caught the slab in her hands, an image of the island, of bihai cangling started appearing on it. Awestruck, she watched as the image completed and then engraved itself on top of the slab. This struck a chord in her mind as she looked from the slab to the crater in the rock and finally, to donghua.

Hesitantly, she asked in his mind, "Is this...?"

Giving an affirmative nod, he answered, "it is."

Stepping forward, feng jiu touched the crater from where donghua was born. The moment her fingers touched it. She felt a warm sensation flowing through her. It felt as if she was being enveloped inside donghua's aura. Overwhelmed with such emotions, a tear slid down her face and onto the rock. Instead of getting lost in the seawater, her one drop of tear came into contact with the rock and formed a glowing red shield around it.

Startled, she looked up at donghua. He swam to her side, as in her mind he spoke, "we are two parts of a whole, xaio bai. The pure emotion of your tear just gave the rock the protection it had always lacked. Your emotions completed that rock, my love, just like you complete this old rock." He finished, pointing towards himself. She chuckled as they swam back up to the shore.

While feng jiu dried them off with her magic and channeled some much-required heat into their bodies, she asked, "why would you take out a slab from the rock you came from? Isn't it infused with creation magic?"

Donghua was surprised at her ingenious observation as he answered, "since I do not have any parents or ancestry, I decided to take out this slab for our wedding. Since the heavenly father is also not alive, there was no other option left for me. And as for its creation powers, you are absolutely correct."

"This rock is the oldest surviving source of creation magic since this universe was created. I have always been worried about its' lack of protection. I had tried to create a shield around it many times but every time it just soaked up the powers from my shield. Now, I realize what it had been missing. All along, you were the only missing link to this chain. You complete me in every way, xaio bai. So, would you also lock the powers from this piece of my origin, that you hold in your hands?" Donghua asked in a gruff, emotion-laden voice.

Feng jiu nodded imperceptibly, before closing her eyes and enveloping the slab in her aura just as the rock had done for her. She channeled her love for donghua through her aura, permeating the slab with it. As she felt a shield slide into place around the rock, she retrieved the aura back inside her.

Donghua watched silently as her red aura became infused with her love and turned a lighter blush shade of red. He could feel the warmth of her love that radiated from the slab when she retrieved her aura. A slight red shield covered the slab which quickly turned invisible, locking away the creation magic of the slab with it. Any immortal to come near it, will only feel the warmth of feng jiu's love that emanated from her shield with no clue to its unique powers. Gathering feng jiu in his arms, donghua dematerialized the slab and proceeded to worship her with all his heart.