The victory is for the one who has the strength of immortality, many were dead and many suffered, thankfully fairies secretly camped outside the palace protected by Prince Fei Xu's soldiers to heal the innocent people and soldiers
Prince Xiuming and Princess Yunxi went back home after the war ended, greeted with respect and was given titles for their bravery
"Xiuming, Yunxi, I'm glad you are both alright, thankfully you two are brave!!!" Emperor Bai Xu praised the two, the princess, prince's and consorts looked at Yunxi with tiger eyes and consider her their still outcast bastard daughter
"isn't that nice, given the title of a brave bastard!!!" the second princess rolled her eyes on her and made a face
"of course I'm brave and going outside the palace I saw beautiful swans and freedom, there are also pretty flowers as beautiful as me!!!" Yunxi mocked her
"at least I'm not a useless princess who only stays inside the palace and scold everyone!!!" she continued, Xiuming laughed but did not show it to anyone and secretly pinched Yunxi, his little sister glared at him
the second princess showed a pissed face and walked away with her maids of course her mother glared at her for insulting her but they are not in the position to fight Yunxi
"Yunxi, Xiuming- it's so nice to see you back here in the palace tell me about the outside?" the emperor invited them at the royal balcony
it's the floating palace of the state where you need your wings to fly to see the insides and explore the city
the emperor brought out his gray faded wings bigger than anyone in the palace almost looking like an old butterfly wing, when he was younger it was colored in blue which fascinates everyone who sees it, but butterfly wings are only for the royal bloodlines including the one who sits in the throne
Xiuming has a thinner black wings but wiser and longer now, a wings of a dragon fly which has a natural twirled design of pretty dragon linen scale, this made the emperor startled as he knew his son only has a smaller wings and natural black design
"My, when did you get such wings!" he asked and looked around
"I was fighting with the rebels your highness and in the middle of fight I was angry because the people were crying and hurt, it was when my comrades saw my wings change and create dragon scale linen!!!" Rong Xiuming explained, the eunuch Li Lu was surprises and spoke
"oh dear, I had read before in a book when we were still in school your highness that once a brave fairy is good enough to sacrifice himself for the people the heaven will grand him strength through his wings and a supernatural strength to defeat his enemy!!!" Says Eunuch Li Lu, the emperor smiled and painted himself with joy
"Yunxi, hurry take out your wings I wanna see!" the emperor ran to his daughter in exitement
"Dad my sister's wings gave her strength to create a wider portion of healing wave, she learned a lot outside, she even started more advanced acupuncture which doctors in the outside do, her wings-"
"okay okay my son- shush" the emperor cut him so he could see Yunxi's wings himself
"Diánxià-" Yunxi brought out her wings which is now 4 in number, the linen in her blue wings are faded red twirled in exquisite manner fascinating the eyes of the emperor
"when I was doing a healing wave, I was meditating up in the air, my energy was fading away and I wanted to heal the wounded since they are all dying, I wanted to sing with my voice to ease the pain inside my body and when I did, I felt power inside of me, I continued singing til I felt my wings getting stronger, Xiuming said he saw me grow two more pair of wings and tadaahh!!!" Yunxi twirled in joy showing off her beautiful wings, the soldiers who witnessed her wings made themselves fall in the abyss of love
"truly magnificent Diánxià!!!" Eunuch Li Lu praised
"now your royalties shall we!!!" Eunuch Li Lu extended his hands to make way for the royalties to fly at the floating palace, Eunuch also brought out his lime green wings and flew with them without any shame, his focus is praising the royal prince and princess for their good victory and not jelousy
The palace is crowded with joy, ministers and grand officials are all aligned to praise the emperor of Zhu for winning the victory of a full decade wars, the first son Lin is grinning next to the emperor looking like he is now the Emperor but he had to wait for the final straw
Fei Xu came inside the palace showing his golden eyes to everyone, the ministers felt insulted and glared at Xu but the second Prince glared back and walked towards the throne and bowed to his father, the victory is won thanks to the second Prince but all the ministers look at him with disgust in their eyes for he came dirty and bloody
"My son, Fei Xu-" the emperor stood out of his throne and went down to hug Fei Xu and kiss him in the cheek, Fei Xu did not give any reaction but stayed cold and gloomy
"my ministers look, do you see the blood of the enemy I killed in my son's clothes!!!" the mad emperor pulled Fei Xu around showing the bloody armor and blade of the second prince
"look, LOOK AT IT!!!!" The emperor roared and laughed, he pulled him up to the throne and showed Fei Xu to everyone
"look, this is my son, my killing machine!!" the emperor laughed out loud, Lin in the other hand made a face and spit on the tile floor
"tse!!!"
hearing the word Killing Machine made Fei Xu wanna pull his blade and take off his father's head, but he closed his eyes and did not let his anger take over him, Feng who was looking from afar saw his lord's eyes turning gold to faded red so he alarmed himself
"while the other country is weak, I was strong and now I have three large lands in my hands, all of you we Zhu state is powerful, and when enemies try to invade us-" the emperor pointed his fingers on the gloomy Fei Xu and said
"we bring out our killing doll- the father of catastrophe!!!" his eyes are red and mad as if he wants to kill every person inside the throne palace not even a fly can't get out alive but Xu kept his mind sealed not to let his dark personality awaken
"I was wrong about you my son-" says Tianing
"Because of your victory, I will grand you three wishes- say it!" Tianing went back to his throne, Lin rolled his eyes and made a face while the ministers are all terrified or in bad mood because the emperor gave Xu a wish
"I do have wishes my father!!!" Xu gave the emperor a tiger eye
"one, I want you to feed the citizens for free in 8 months so they can get back up again and give them seeds and free land to plant crops for Zhu state
two, let the soldiers rest and give them free medication to heal before they come back to the millitary
three-" Fei Xu paused, he knew his last wish but does not wanna use it now
"and three?" Lin spoke
"I still haven't decide brother, I'll tell you when I'm ready!!!- your highness I wanna excuse myself for I am and tired and had to mourn my soldiers who died at war, please make sure you grand those two wish-" Fei Xu kowtowed and left in a hurry glaring at every ministers he passed on
Emperor Tianing is mad and often smiles about everything, even if he is thinking about the innocents people he lost in the battle, he is clouded with victory and wholesome evil dignity
Lin who is sitting next to him is smiling vicious at his own father, he is thinking when will this old freak give him the throne, he is already 36 years old and wants the throne for himself so he could also use power to rule the people
after Lin spoke with his father he marched away with his own men disguised in their cloak and drove away with their carriage going into a mountain where the fog is thicker and more dangerous than most mountain fogs, though people cannot easily go inside the mountain realm of the devil often called as the portal of demons, Lin prepared a sacrifice to get inside the cave
the mountain is rocky and lifeless, there are various of poison fogs and crawlers like snakes and scorpions, there are also tons of poison herbs disguised as food that fools a fool but the old prince just drove away with his soldiers quite and eerie
they reached a cave in between the foot of the tall mountains, the fog is grey almost like a smoke of wild fires
Lin went out of the carriage and put on a mask to keep his nostrils safe and he spoke out loud
"Bring the sacrifice?" he said, the soldiers with tall bodies pulled two woman with a cover in their heads, Lin pulled it out and saw their beautiful pale faces
"so beautiful and attactive- too bad it's what the gate of demons want!!!" Lin gave his soldiers a cignal
two soldiers pulled the two beautiful woman and threw them inside the gray fog, two pairs of red eyes was seen and a snake figure moved and ate the two woman, it likes to munch the bones and spill blood on the ground, they watch in terror til the sound stoped, the large snake twirled around till the gray fog is gone, as well as the creature
they saw a cave entrance going deep inside the abyss, together they all marched inside
"My consort is a good sacrifice and the gate serpent likes them- Bohai when we get back make sure to find me another!!!" Prince Lin sigh and walked inside the dark cave
they entered a deeper area seeming like a dungeon, it's narrow, dank and cold securely made of iron bar, the air has a taste of salty sweat and suffocating from the smell of shit and peed from humans and animals, as they approached each room, some human inside is already dead rotten away getting eaten by maggots, their eyes are popped out and worms comes and go in their body
"Bohai, how long is this dumbassess here they all stink and dead!!!" Lin complained
"we left them here for months your highness, they might have died from hunger!!!" says Bohai
"uhhgg, tell some soldiers to throw them away for the scorpions and tigers, the rest come with me!!!!"
they entered another part of the cave til they reached a place with passage area, only Bohai and prince Lin entered holding an old book and a blood jade in a glass necklace
the cave is monstrously ancient and dry, the air is dead and has the smell of earth odor
"Bohai you idiot turn on the fire!!" Lin rolled his eyes, Bohai did as told and put fire in every lamp that is on the wall, inside that cave there is a tomb that is so hard and large made with stone slabs and carved devil markings
"Bohai this is it, the Jade blood might summon the hell guardian this time!!!" he smiled and went to the dry well a little far from the tomb
"Diánxià remember just one drop-" Bohai reminded, the prince rolled his eyes
"I know I'm not an idiot!!!" Lin opened the blood jade and put one drop in the well
they stepped aback and waited for the result of thier blood sacrifice
under the well, the blood was sipped inside the earth and after a second black blood came out filling the well up til it spilled, the smell of rotten flesh spang their nose so they covered it with annoyed face
the black blood continued to spill black blood on the dusty floor, two figure started to form, a form of a human body, one with muscular and taller figure and one with a slim but taller figure
the first man looked so pale with yellow eyes on his left eyes wearing a noble dark green hanfu, his hair is bound designed with a beautiful crown of gold and silver, the female figure look so beautiful, her right eyes are yellow just like her partner and her lips are perfect colored in red as if she kissed the blood of the dead, her dress is color grey with a design on claws and poison flowers, her hair is dazzling long raining down til her butt fixed with jade hairpins with lots of pretty designs
"sigh* it's been so long!!!" The woman spoke as if she just woke up after a deep slumber
"sister, it's been so long!!!" the man said
they are hell guardians, a twin devil snakes who is twirled around the gates of hell, their eyes are yellow as a purpose of seeing their enemies and use it to hypnotize people, they have poison tounges and double fangs, they eat fresh mixed with poisons
"Dìyù de shuāngbāotāi (twins of hell)" prince Lin spoke looking at the two people he summoned
"who is this dirty pheasant!!!" the woman spoke
"a human?" Bohai and Ling was terrified as the two walked towards them
"M-My name is Prince Fei Lin of Zhu state empire, I-I am the one who summoned you with beast virgin jade blood!!" Lin stuttered and kowtowed to them
"is that so- hmm, I am hungry with flesh but I will spare your life for waking us-" The twins looked at Bohai and smiled
"ah, he is a perfect meal for a welcome!!!" Lin pointed on his loyal companion, Bohai looked at prince Fei Lin with a betrayed face and spoke
"Diánxià, what's the meaning of this!!!" Lin closed his eyes while the twins showed their tounge and devour the human next to the vicious prince
after they ate Bohai, they left his head on the ground with his fresh bones and torned clothes, Lin in the other hand watched as his loyal companion is eaten alive by the two cannibals
"good good- your sacrifice has so many sins that it made him more tasty!!!" The woman licked her bloody fingers, Lin gathered the courage to get up and faced the twins who is bloody
"you ate the sacrifice now it's my turn to know who you are?" The two people looked at Lin and laughed
"haha, we almost forgot about you!" the man walked closer to him and smelled his face
"my name is Mingfu the male twin of Mingjie!!!"
"why did you summon us human?" Mingjie asked
"I- I, ahhmm, I have a request and I want it granted!!!" Lin stood his chin
"oh really!!!" Mingjie showed her long nails and slowly scratched Lin's face
"what is it-"
I want the throne of Zhu state, although I am the crown prince, The old man is still bloody strong and he wants me to do as he command!!!" says Lin, the twins was surprised and smiled with their teeth
"is that so, then we also have a wish that we want from you?" the twins smiled
"alright, tell me I'll do anything!!!" says Lin
"stay still, I wanna see this emperor!!" the twins hold Lin's both hand and made an eye contact with their yellow eyes, not like gold but yellow animal eyes
the two saw Emperor Tianing sitting on the throne like a madman ruling the land of Zhu state
"brother is he okay?"
"I don't know dear sister!!" their image went back to reality and flashed their eyes to normal
"in order to take the throne, We want you to sacrifice the emperor!!!" Minjie said
"what why?"
"no more questions prince Lin, take it or leave it!!" Mingfu turned to him
Lin made a face and suddenly made the decision himself
"alright, that old man is old and useless anyway, all he does is sit and relax and wants to rule, I wanna take the throne!!!" Lin grinned
"good, then we'll come with you as your companion" the twins went to the bones of Bohai and spit smoke in his deceased body, Mingfu turned to Bohai but pailer and taller, Mingjie turned a snake and crawled in his brother's neck like a jade necklace
"let's go!!!"
"you, you look exactly like Bohai!!!" says Lin and went around Mingfu
"it's a disguise, now take us both to the kingdom!!!"
"yes, of course yes!!!"
when Lin and Bohai went out, the soldiers felt weird as they felt evil presence around them
"what's wrong with all of you, let's go!!!"
The soldiers did not take their eyes off Bohai since the white small companion has turned pale and muscular, they did not let their mind go deep and just followed the prince
two days later, the emperor was reported dead in his own bed poisoned with an unknown herb or something mysterious, Fei Xu was at the soldiers camp far from the kingdom and as soon as he received the message, he was blank, part of him was happy that the man who tortured the land is dead but part of him is really blank for he does not know what will happen after his brother rules the Zhu state and no matter what it is still his father who brought him to the world
Lin succeeded and his deal with the devil will make him powerful to rule the land, he is already in the urge of control and has a pride higher than the heavens, the devils behind Lin is in good state for after a hundred years after they were all sealed away, they are back to earth and control it
the twins kept themselves hidden behind the emperor's clothes and examine every human inside Zhu state, a perfect place to create an army and build plan to send another war and wake up Yuzu the Emperor of hell
but their joy lasted after they saw Fei Xu, even if his eyes are not gold they know something will distract them from their plans, a father of Catastrophe is the brother of the emperor
Mingfu and Mingjie had to hide away from prince Fei Xu and the other state, they have to be stronger and it will take years before they rebuild their strength and power back so they never mentioned anything to Lin and kept an eagle eye on Fei Xu