Fire broke out at the centre of butterfly village. The fire seemed to have started from the brothel where the crew of Wang Li Jie and his bros went at the night of lantern festival. In fact, villagers made an effort to put out the fire since the beginning. This was such a small village. Of course, every one would realize it as soon as the fire broke out. But the fact was they just couldn't put it out no matter what.
The initial small fire had now turned into some major. Other little houses near the brothel were also engulfed by huge blaze. The heat was especially unbearable and villagers just couldn't go any closer, let alone containing the fire. In a matter of minutes, the fire had already spread to several other houses of inhabitants. Just as they thought the entire butterfly village was going to turn into ashes, the savior cultivators came down from the snowy-light-peak in a hurry.
Riding their swords, all the disciples of Jianyu Sect with water and ice spiritual roots finally arrived. Such kind of huge destruction from fire had never been occurred in the villages. That's not to say there was never a fire-related accident happened here in the past. Yeah, there was. But, they never needed help. Just with the aid of other villagers, it was enough to control the fire.
Today's incident was somewhat strange to begin with. But it had never occurred to them that such sort of a minor fire would lead to an uncontrollable extent like this. With the instructions of their masters, disciples did a very neat job. Some tried to suppress the fire by using their power and pouring water from nearby lakes. Some saved trapped villagers and kids in the buildings. Sect physicians had also arrived. Soon, they also began doing their jobs by tending the wounds of the injured.
Everything happened in the blink of an eye. Some died. Some injured. Some became homeless. But in the midst of such chaos, there was something weird. The blaze engulfing the brothel...no matter how several cultivators attempted to put it out, they couldn't manage to do it. It was as if this was a fire from hell.
Blaze from all the other houses were completely under their control but just this brothel. Hence, the helpless Jianyu sect's disciples and elders could do nothing other than looking from beside and putting out the fire which would go spread to other houses from time to time.
There was also another thing that seemed to be off. Again, no other villagers lost their lives except for subordinates of this brothel's owner. Some died in fire whereas some were from serious injuries. All prostitutes and customers in the brothel were saved successfully.
The size of damage was not that big. Still, more than dozens of villagers had turned into homeless. There also was a sudden need of a place to stay for prostitutes of the ruined brothel. From some investigations, sect elders found out the owner of this brothel was a landlord from a town named "Xue". He was not only a landlord in that town but also a merchant and a business man in the capital.
Elders didn't know how and when that man got an idea to build a brothel in such a small village. They already informed the owner about the ruin of his property. Even so, he didn't seem to care about it that much. There only was a single reply from him that he was going to send his men to get survived prostitutes to the capital.
He seemed to have given up on the idea of renovating a new one and continue the business here. Well, that didn't come as a surprise though. Most of inhabitants here were not the type to find joy in thing like debauchery anyway. If he continued the business here, then no benefit was to be expected other than some minor income.
The next day, renovation started in butterfly village. All the other inhabitants from surrounding villages also come to aid the work. Sect elders also sent their disciples to help. It was going to take at least a month or two to restore this village into its original state. Even so, no body got disheartened. They received all the necessary aid....in fact, they even got more support and help than they needed. Despite damages, laughters and warm atmosphere of butterfly village didn't disappear at all.
Villagers were so busy with their own farm works and renovation process that it didn't take long before they started to forget about the strange incident on that day. But sect elders were different. This matter was not something they could just choose to sweep under the rug.
That day, the fire started out of no where. And as to the brothel, it was even more weird how nothing could do to contain the blaze there. Just this fact alone was enough to prove it was not some natural phenomenon or an accident anymore.
Things were more serious than they appeared on the surface. And elders were already starting their plans to delve further into this accident. There was a high probability this fire might have something to do with the curse. Yeah...it must have something to do with soul consuming curse. It must be the doing.....no, a wish of a villager or one of the prostitutes who held a grudge against the owner of the brothel.
To make a wish to burn down the entire brothel, someone might have a deep grudge against this brothel's owner for sure. But.... maybe things were not as simple as their hunch either. Anything was possible. Even so, one thing was for sure. Someone had made their very wish on that day, so the curse.....there must be additional victims of the curse as well.
Soon, less than in the duration of a week, the curse was going to take effect. And with the curse taking its toll, there would be new cursed patients in the villages as well...