"Help!" Ying Hua tried to scream even louder. However, the vortex that was now surrounding her was too strong to be blocked. Moreover, her body was now getting weaker as the yellow wing bird sucked her power. "Help!" Her voice was getting fainter and quieter.
"There is no one to help you here!" said the yellow-winged bird, who was already floating in front of her without needing to flap his wings. His wings were spread apart while his feathers were gently blown by the vortex of the wind. Even though the vortex was very strong. "Until I suck up all your energy, then you won't be able to get out of here."
"But I have to live." Ying Hua roared, her blood spilling all over her clothes. Her skin shrank and dried, and so did her body. "I still have to defend my life to be reincarnated again. If I die in this condition, then I will get bad karma. The kindness that I have pursued is not enough to atone for my sins. Moreover, the moral duty I still have on some souls."
But unfortunately, Ying Hua's body was very weak, and it was getting weaker as the energy of her body and soul was sucked in by the yellow-winged bird.
"Damn it!" cursed the yellow-winged bird. "I want to suck the energy from her necklace because the energy there is very pure and also huge." Suddenly his body and face turned into a human, a man in his thirties who looked greedy and terrible. "But I saw that there was a strange energy in her heart. I will suck energy from it."
He focused his mind, and then inhaled air from the front, from her body. 'Her energy is white and red, just like the core color in her body. I will inhale them one by one so that my body can still take it well.'
The first thing he inhaled was her fire energy, which made him stronger in a short amount of time. 'Her fire energy is divine. I believe she is the illegitimate child of one of the gods.' He smirked, as his human body grew more solid and firm. 'I can almost transform into a complete human. But I have to endure it so I can have a perfect body shape.
He stopped breathing in Ying Hua's fire energy, feeling that it had run out.
'Now I will inhale the ice energy within her body.' The yellow wing bird neutralized the body for a moment, it made the vortex of wind around him subside.
Ying Hua's body collapsed and hit the ground. She almost fainted and her voice had completely disappeared.
"Wow, your energy is huge! I can feel it running through my body." The flames were like burning the yellow-winged bird's body. But the fire seemed to coalesce in his body, like fuel to make him stronger. "Now I am ready to receive your ice energy. That means you're going to die soon."
The whirlwind appeared again, even stronger than before. Ying Hua's body was lifted back as weak as a corpse. Her head was tilted, like it was broken, just like the condition she was in when she was born.
Her appearance was back to the way it used to be, her white hair was now not lit.
"Who are you actually?" asked the yellow-winged bird. He started the ritual again, then began to inhale the energy from Ying Hua's body. 'This flow of energy is greater than before. I could feel my muscles growing uniquely. I am like a plant that grows in a very short time, I am like a dwarf tree that suddenly rises through the sky.
I will be fully human. I will be able to become the most powerful human on earth and become the supreme ruler of the human race. Ice energy, enter my body completely!"
As the energy was sucked in, Ying Hua had all sorts of various and strange dreams. She was like walking through various terrible worlds filled with fire, inhabited by various terrible creatures who were tormenting the souls of living beings. Even a god who once violated the rules of heaven now had to be tortured with flames that could scorch his body, amidst his screams airing and filling her ears.
The sea was full of blood and fire, and everyone screamed for her.
Several gods guarding the place turned to her, with red eyes full of fire.
"Do you want to join them?" asked the god. "If you want to do it, then just give up and don't do anything! This place is too precious to accept a dirty soul like you. Even the vilest humans cannot compare to you."
"What did I do wrong?" Ying Hua asked hurtfully. "I only stole the White Qin Stone because I had to survive."
"Don't you know how important the White Qin Stone is to the seventh wing palace? The stone is the essence of life there, which can help Emperor Heng to keep the balance of the seventh parallel world. You have destroyed a whole world inhabited by humans. You have tormented and killed all humans on earth, in a world. And soon the other worlds will be destroyed if you don't return the stone."
The god's face changed in an instant, replaced by the face of Emperor Heng which now roared with explosions of fire around his body.
This was Ying Hua's first time seeing her father in this clear form.
"Now you know why you had to return the White Qin Stone!" cried Emperor Heng, whose voice was louder than thunder and lightning. "I am the Thousand Flame Emperor Heng Cung, the emperor who rules over the seventh wing of the heavenly palace. I am in control of the defense of the seventh parallel world, which is unfortunately on the verge of collapse because of you!"
His deafening voice finally hit Ying Hua's body, like gnawing at her soul and blowing her up in an instant.
"No god can help me, because this is the mess of one of the children I want to kill and hide. If the seventh parallel world was destroyed, surely the gods in the other heavenly palaces would be suspicious. And if they find out all about it, you will be killed and severely punished. It will take more than a hundred thousand years for you to make up for all your mistakes. I'm still giving you a chance. So, quickly return the White Qin Stone to me!"
"Argh!" Ying Hua struggled and groaned as she felt her heart being ripped apart and torn apart. Slowly, the figure of her father with fiery red hair is now fading, replaced by the figure of a solid-bodied man who she knew was a yellow-winged bird.
"Your energy is amazing!" He smirked, continuing to focus on sucking the energy out of Ying Hua's body. "And I'll suck some more."
Ying Hua's heart trembled, feeling a strange vibration from something struggling and protecting her. Then a terrible tug hurt her, and it was like burning and painfully drowning her.
"Stop!" She screamed, but her voice was no longer heard, as her heartbeat slowed down. 'Am I going to die?'
As soon as her mind said that, there were various explosions from one direction. Then the screams of several people she knew.
'Open your eyes, Ying Hua!' she forced herself, as if she was having severe sleep paralysis, and was having a hard time waking up. 'You have to see what's going on.'
"Princess Ying!"
'Old Man Mo!' But she still failed to open her eyes. Then a scream came from Old Man Mo. 'Old Man Mo, did you lose?'
And soon the sound of fighting came back. Following someone's laughter. "Hahaha, you are nothing compared to me! Do you think you can become the ruler of the earth with this low ability of yours?"
'Skeleton Crow?' Now Ying Hua forced herself to open her eyes, and finally managed to do so. As she expected, the one fighting was Skeleton Crow, while Old Man Mo was kneeling in a corner clutching his chest. Blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
She fainted again along with a terrible explosion that was created in the tunnel, which managed to push her body as if attacking her blindly.
Dark. Only darkness remained. It was like a dreamless sleep, which looked terrifying, because Ying Hua could count how long she had been unconscious, with a soul waiting to be awakened.
"I knew she would wake up." Skeleton Crow's voice was faintly heard as she opened her eyes. Her body was on top of her meditation place which was inside the hut.
Old Man Mo looked panicked as he approached her. "Princess, you finally came to your senses. Are you okay?"
But Ying Hua didn't manage to say anything. She wanted to say something but failed.
"Her energy is absorbed very much. Moreover, the fire energy from her was almost depleted. Fortunately, the core of her body reacts quickly so that it can camouflage as if the energy has run out," explained Skeleton Crow. "And the White Qin Stone protects her very well. I could see how it ended up pushing the yellow-winged bird and harming him at the last moment. She is fine now, but it will probably take a very long time for her to recover."
"Then what should we do so that Princess Ying can recover like before? She must immediately save the other souls."
Skeleton Crow rubbed his fingers on his chin while looking at Ying Hua who was now cross-legged with a stumbling head. Around her flashed a circular light. "There is one way for her soul energy to recover immediately."
"How to?"
"Love." Skeleton Crow grinned. "She must feel the thrill and heat of love so that she can recover quickly."
"Nonsense!" Old Man Mo tried to hit Skull Crow's head. However, because his body was too weak, he failed to do so. While groaning, he spoke again to the Skeleton Crow, "Please just be serious this time!"
"I'm serious. She must fall in love to hasten the return of her energy. Because by feeling the love she has become a whole living being. By feeling love, the energy trapping pores in her body will get bigger."
"But how could that happen? She just met us. I'm too old and recognize her as my teacher and master. While you are no match for her."
"There's one more person."
"Who is that?"
Skeleton Crow raised an eyebrow. "Prince Dwei."
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