Hua Zhenlan ranted on, as Hua Shiming suddenly held his head and tried to block out all the sounds, he was trying not to listen to her but the words still penetrated through. On his knees screaming "no", as he held his head, he looked identical to the prisoner from the underground cell, just less pale and more nourished.
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In a grand hall above the underground cell, a man looking like he was in his fifties sat on a throne, he stared earnestly with eyes that carried no emotion at a devilishly seductive woman that sat in meditative position cross legged. She was surrounded by maid servants feeding her pills to replenish her energy, as she was constantly going pale before gaining color back.
"Fuck, the geography of the crossover is very complicated my control over Hua Shiming is weakening and he is also trying to resist." The woman said.
"If he is trying to resist that means he must have found his sister… But Su Xianli, I thought you said you would have total control of him no matter the distance?." The man said, getting a little angry, though his voice carried the same indifferent coldness.
"I think my lord misunderstood, I said I would have total control over him no matter the distance as long as we are in the same realm. It is just bad luck that the girl decided to hide in the lower realm." Su Xianli explained calmly.
'Bitch just decided on the worst place to hide, it is like she wants me dead' she muttered in her head.
"What is going on there? I know you say you can't see what is happening, but it has been a few months already, they should be on their way back by now. I would have preferred they brought the girl back, but if she is causing too much trouble they should just kill her." Patriarch Lin queried.
As he was talking, Su Xianli spat out a mouth full of blood. "The connection is growing weaker, I don't know what is happening."
"Use the forbidden technique –fast. I spent over five years breaking that boy, all the work I've done since the parasite informed us that Hua Shiming felt the connection to the technique can not be undone. Do you think it was easy breaking that boy? He is as stubborn as a bull, in fact part of the reason he conceded was so he could see his sister again. If the connection breaks we will lose both of them and the technique. Use the life force of the servants around you and if your life force depletes, I have an Origin of Life pill. I don't want to find out how hard it is going to be to break him again." Patriarch Lin said with his usual coldness.
"If Hua Shiming breaks free from my control, he is going to lose all his brain activities and become just an empty shell." Su Xianli said, as she started looking at the girls wondering which one to pick.
All the servants were already scared, as they were praying not to be chosen. Some tried moving back in order to avoid being chosen but Su Xianli chose at random, dragging the hand of the one she could find. Before making complicated hand movements, she branded a seal on the girl in front of her. Using a transfer technique, she turned the young girl – who was quietly sobbing – old before turning her to ashes in a matter of minutes. Before selecting another servant.
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"Zhenlan, ...Zhenlan please I didn't want to do it, they made me do....., Shut up, No!, no!." Hua Shiming on his knees, crying as he begged and cursed, it looked like two different people were in the same body.
He suddenly stopped, a purple glow flashed in his eyes before he regained his original demeanor, leaving the men behind confused as to what the drama is all about.
Hua Zhenlan finally understood, she knew her brother had a little bit of sense and he would not throw everything away for love or fascination, even sacrificing his own parents.
Even Chi Xianyan that witnessed the series of events from a hole in the tunnel has an idea of what might have happened to her granduncle, she already knew how everything started from her grandmother.
"I think that is enough talking, are we going to fight or what." One of the men expressed the group's frustration of how things are turning out.
"Sorry, Zhenlan but you would have to come with us." Hua Shiming said, as he brought out his weapon, the rest of the men followed suit.
"I see, so that is how it is." Hua Zhenlan said, nodding continuously, like she is in a state of complete understanding. "Chi Xianyan, I'm about to give you another motivation. I want you to be strong enough to destroy Su Xianli, Lin Jian and the entire Whispering Lotus sect, you still have a long way to go but I know you can do it. Always remember what I said, it is time for me and my brother to rest. Avenge Us."
Chi Xianyan wanted to run out to stop Hua Zhenlan from doing whatever she wanted to do or at least hug her, but she stopped herself frozen in place as she just watched.
Hua Shiming and the men were confused since they couldn't sense anybody around, due to the concealment formation they didn't know who she was talking to. The other men thought she was losing her sense because she was about to die but Hua Shiming was more suspicious.
"Be careful, my sister would have used every enhancement herb and pills this realm has to strengthen herself." Hua Shiming warned.
Since she has been standing at the front of the house since the beginning of the conversation —within the formation, they could not sense her cultivation. But they were not too worried because she has been passive throughout the interaction, which means she was not sure that she could beat all of them together. But they did not attack because of the various formations covering the place, if they could see her cultivation they would have stormed in regardless of the amount of formations.
"As long as she is not a Sage, we will be fine. There is no way she is beating two emperors." One man responded.
"Dumbass, if she was a Sage we would all be dead by now." Another replied.
A more perceptive one among who hadn't talked a lot. "Shut up, do you sense that?"
"There is nothing to sense." One of the two that was arguing answered, angry that he was shut down like that.
"Exactly, the nothingness just got smaller." The perceptive one said.
" What does that mean?." One of the guys asked as they were all confused.
"It means we're in a dome" this time it was Hua Shiming that answered. 'But that doesn't make sense, if she can't beat all of us at the same time why would she put in a dome. Is she trying to activate another offensive formation, she does know that that guy died because he was too careless —we would not fall for the same trick.' Hua Shiming was lost in thought, but was abruptly brought back by the shout of one of the men.
"Where is she?." The man shouted.
"She was right there." Another answered.
"It is because of this dome, we can't sense her movement. But we can't leave because there might be a trap set once we step out. Hua Shiming what is your sister thinking?" The perceptive man asked, but Hua Shiming, who he questioned, was frozen to the spot because the person they were looking for was hugging him. But since they were behind him they could not see it.
"Brother, let me end your suffering." Hua Zhenlan said in a low tone. As the rest of the men looked towards him.
BOOOOOOOOOOOM.
Hua Zhenlan self destructed, another thing that only sovereigns could do but like a lot of things there is an inferior version in form of a technique. Chi Xianyan stared at the five meters deep carter, filled with different body parts, and blood. An upper body part was trying to move, she knew it was not her grandmother or Shiming and she also knew that the blood will attract beasts and the person would probably not survive when the beasts came. Then she turned towards the Azure Sky kingdom in the tunnel and started walking
without saying anything, she just stared straight ahead and walked away.