Chapter 6: End of peace

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Zhu Manor - Main courtyard

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“Big Bro!!, Big Sis!!” An innocent call of a three years old girl that running pitter patter to their direction.

“Xian’er!! don’t run!” Zhu Yinbing follows shortly while the girl jumps to Zhu Wushang chest.

Zhu Xian’er, the biological daughter of Zhu couples. She has almost all of her mother's features except her raven black hair that she got from her father, Zhu Songtian.

“Uf!! Hahaha, Why are you out here sister? Do you want me to cook something for you again?” Zhu Wushang asks the girl who sits on his lap.

“Yayyy!! brother cooking!!” A girl shouts happily before Zhu Yinbing picks her up from the lap of her son.

“Mom mom! Brother will cook our dinner tonight!! Am I smart? we can eat brother cooking again!!” The girl mischievously laughs at her mother who glaring at her in admonish because she always tries this cheap trick to eat her brother cooked food despite her brother's disabilities to stand and walk!

But despite what his mother thought. Zhu Wushang didn’t care one bit about that. He always felt the warm feeling gush into his heart every time he saw this scene, he swore to himself that he'd do everything in his power to keep this scene as long as possible.

“Xiao Lan, could you tell fatty to prepare the kitchen? I’ll follow shortly and teach you some of my special recipes.”

Zhu Wushang asks Xiao Lan, looking at his eyes she knows that the negative feeling that he always kept within himself has gone, and she feels happy for him.

“Ummm.” Xiao Lan nods and then walks to the kitchen area.

“Is there something going on between you and Xiao Lan? Hmm? can you tell mama?” Zhu Yinbing is teasing Zhu Wushang with a mischievous smile just like her three years old daughter Zhu Xian’er.

“Yes… mom, It’s just... I’ve decided that I’ll not hesitate anymore and I’ll do everything in my power to be able to stand with Xiao Lan without embarrassing her.”

The answer of Zhu Wushang makes Zhu Yinbing speechless. Because in these four years no one has told him about Xiao Lan's true Identity and the truth of his blood.

The first reason they didn’t tell him is because they don’t want the relationship between Zhu Wushang and Xiao Lan to change And the second one is that they don’t want him to feel like a living treasure.

That’s why in these four years there’s no one trying to get to drink his Origin God Blood except one person, Wang Zhao. In the last four years, Wang Zhao has tried very hard to get on the good side of Zhu Wushang. At first, they don’t think about it much. But as time passed, it seemed strange, so they tried to sniff it a little and knew that Wang Zhao wanted to drink Origin God Blood from Zhu Wushang.

After they knew, Zhu Songtian and Zhu Yinbing confront Wang Zhao about this. They get into a big fight, and Wang Zhao loses to Zhu Songtian, but Zhu Songtian just expels him from the captain of the hidden guard duty and not kill him because of his brother-like relation with Wang Zhao and to pay Wang Zhao back for saving his life back then in their youth.

Now Wang Zhao didn’t even return to the Great Phoenix empire capital. He just disappeared no one knows where he has gone to, but this silent make Zhu Songtian and Zhu Yinbing getting nervous with each passing day, but the couple can’t show it on their faces.

Even Zhu Wushang had genius intelligence if he didn’t know the facts about his Origin God Blood and the fact that Wang Zhao was lustful toward Zhu Yinbing. He can’t predict what Wang Zhao is going to do. Because he just knew that Wang Zhao can’t be trusted but he doesn’t know what might be the target of Wang Zhao goal, all he could do is just to be on guard against Wang Zhao.

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Zhu Manor - Dining room

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Under the night sky with the glittering skies. The fragrance of many delicious cooked food whiffing in the dining room with the heartwarming scene of 3 people eating heartily with laughter. They are Zhu Wushang, Xiao Lan, Zhu Yinbing and Zhu Xian’er.

Normally today should be the day when Zhu Songtian already returns from his duty from the Great Phoenix Empire and eats the personal cooked food from Zgu Wushang with his family.

It seems to not be the case this time, actually coming late for 2- 3 day is understandable considering the duty of Zhu Songtian. But, He’s already five days late and they start to worry if something happens.

<Clang><Clang><Clang>

The emergency bell of the town rang loudly. The smoke is rising from the horizon with the bright red horizon from town in the sea of flame. Many silhouettes flew through skies spreading fire and chaos throughout the town.

<Thud><Thud><Thud><Thud>

Many heavy footsteps of many people that rushing into the manor startle them. Xiao Lan immediately bring out a sword then guarding at the entrance of the dining room. While Zhu Yinbing pickup Xian’er to hide in the cupboard, Then she bring out the Emperor grade rapier-like sword from her storage ring.

“Wushang, Aunt Zhu, please stay here I’ll be back shortly!”

Xiao Lan rushes out of the room and in a short moment the sound of fighting with the sound of steel clashing with shouting and swearing sound aloud from the courtyard.

At this moment a figure in full black leather armor crashes through the wall and strikes at Zhu Yinbing. She counters it immediately with the emperor grade sword, but her regressed cultivation puts her at a disadvantage. Otherwise, the invader's hand would have been cut already.

Zhu Wushang threw the poisoned dagger at the invader, and this made the invader panic; he divided his senses and blocked the poison dagger with his sword. This made Zhu Wushang suspicious because he didn’t have any spirits qi why this invader is so startled when he sees his poisoned dagger.

This made Zhu Wushang narrow down the suspect of this invader to only one person, the only one that knew about the viciousness of his poison.

“Wang Zhao! It’s you!!”

His shouting made Wang Zhao panic and got stabbed by his mother's sword. But the wound is not deep enough to get him a severe injury. He immediately retreats outside of the room.

He wants to follow and help his mother, but his circumstances don't let him. He then decides to stay put in this room to guard his sister.

But he felt some force crushing his back through his wheelchair. His body crashes through the wall to the courtyard alongside his wheelchair that already broke to pieces.

“Ugh!!” He grunted before using this momentum of his body while it was spinning mid-air to throw all of his daggers to counter his attacker.

<Cling><Clank><Cling><Cling><Shlick>

One of the many King grade throwing daggers pierce through the spirit qi aura and scratch at the attacker's hand.

“Hmph! just a scra...?”

Before the attacker is going to mock him, his face pale before clutching his heart, the blood oozing out of his seven orifices, collapse on the ground and die without eye close.

[Shit! I already warned them to beware of that brat poison.] Wang Zhao who's fighting with Zhu Yinbing sweat profusely after seeing the Spirits King expert die. This is just the poison effect from the poison concocting skill purely without using any spirits ki to refine it. It’s good that this brat didn’t have spirit qi. Otherwise, his poison might even kill the Ascension realm expert.

Wang Zhao quickly retreats from the courtyard and regroups with his companion outside of the manor. Their reinforcement is coming, and Xiao Lan using her combat arts without reserve her spirit qi Her fire and lighting spirit avatar fighting alongside her many of the charred and burnt corpses lie around the field, and a new corpse is increasing every 3-5 breath.

[Damn it! This Infinite spirits root physics is very fearsome. It's good that we strike now if we let this girl grow to the Spirits Emperor realm we can forget about our ambitions.] Wang Zhao thinks.

More than 200 black cloth men are quickly reinforcing both of the group that’s fighting against Zhu Yinbing and Xiao Lan.

Zhu Yinbing was quickly losing her advantage and continued to get pressure due to her regressed cultivation while Xiao Lan was getting restrained by the formation of many black cloth men.

The situation is slowly becoming disadvantageous against 3 of them.

But at this moment a large red-hot spirit’s qi infused Guandao is launching straight to the black cloth man group.

Boom!!

The explosion tears the black cloth man group to many pieces, some of them die instantly, some lose a limb or two and can’t continue fighting anymore. There are only some lucky ones that are not getting injured.

The smoke from the explosion starts to subside while the blood odor of the unlucky black cloth man gets stronger. 

At the center of the explosion, a large man silhouette emerges, and this silhouette is very familiar to the three of them.