Linda, do you know who the person in front of you is? Mark asked. He is the red sun god, son of the heavenly emperor.
Yes I know that, Linda replied.
No you don't, Mark said. Red sun god's enemy is the phoenix, his mission is to kill the phoenix. He just wants to kill you.
Don't talk nonsense! Linda told him.
Mark looked at her, blood dripping from his mouth.
Why don't you trust me? If I hadn't arrived in time, you could have died under his blue flame sword, Mark said trying to make her see what the situation was.
Linda became more confused as things were now looking like the opposite of what she knew or expected. She looked at Stanley who stood in the distance unwaveringly watching them without uttering a word.
Stanley tell me it is not true! She said facing Stanley with a frown.
Stanley looked at her eyeball to eyeball and replied "it is true!". The heavenly emperor ordered me to kill the phoenix and you the phoenix are a threat to the three realms. You caused disaster to the three realms and my mission is to maintain peace and kill the phoenix.
He told her with aggressive tone, no iota of emotion or pity in it. Immediately using his spiritual energy, he drew out his sword again and pointed it at her. Linda forced herself to believe it see it was a dream and not real but no matter how she tried she just couldn't wake up. She shook her head trying to suppress the pain in heart as it became heavy.
Mark immediately blocked her front seeing she made no move to protect herself. The immediate turn of events still left her in shock that she couldn't move and became speechless.
Stanley sent the sword again straight at them but a barrier immediately stood between both sides and blocked the sword and slowly, Cyrus appeared holding up the barrier.
This is fate, you can't stop me, Stanley said.
I don't care if it's fate or not but as long as I'm here, no one can hurt her, Cyrus replied him.
At this time, Stanley's spiritual power had totally recovered. He put in more energy to break the barrier but an explosion erupted, sending the both of them flying backwards. Immediately Stanley landed, he turned around and drew his sword again, determined to complete his mission, no matter what.
Take Linda away! Mark shouted and turned into his spiritual beast form, a white wolf. He howled loudly and stood in front of them.
Looking at Linda, Cyrus took her hand and disappeared saying "no time to explain".
Mark immediately rushed at Stanley and they exchanged strikes for a while with Mark delivering most of the strikes unsuccessfully from different directions, as Stanley blocked all with ease. He used his vital energy to guide his sword in blocking the attacks, his sword kept on moving in orbit around him blocking off any strikes.
Cyrus and Linda landed in the demon realm, close to the podium where the purple rose was. Shortly after, Mark followed falling to the ground but was held up by Cyrus and Linda.
Stanley is coming, he is here! Mark exclaimed.
They all looked up at the entrance and saw a golden ray of light flash down straight to the p9 and there stood Stanley. As he was about to step forward, the demon guards appeared and blocked his way and they engaged in a battle. Stanley fought them one by one to save energy for heavy strikes or attack.
He fought till he was almost over powered, swords had already cut through some flesh on his body. Seeing this, he leaped into the air and built up all his spiritual power around himself, looking like a tornado controlled by a human from within . All the demon guards sent their swords accompanied with spiritual power straight at him but his spiritual strength kept them at a stop in mid air and around himself. Then he released it, all the swords broke to pieces and it's wave swept across the entire place throwing everyone to the ground, including Cyrus and Mark and they all spat out blood.
Linda tried using her spiritual power to block the powerful waves but she was only able to hold on for a while. She wasn't as powerful as she was supposed to be because the formula had ravaged her body.
Stanley drew closer and looked at her for a while. Linda looked at him as she felt excruciating pain in her chest. She clutched her chest and asked "why?"
Because you are phoenix! he replied.
Determined to complete his mission, he raised his sword with both hands into the air and drew some amount of his spiritual power to the tip of the sword. As Linda saw this, she saw there was not a thing between both of them anymore, everything they had experienced together was just a lie. And all the love she had for him vanished. She screamed at the top of her voice as if to let out everything inside her as blood red tears flowed from her eyes and then she was struck down by Stanley. After a while, Stanley emerged from the demon realm with the purple rose in his hand and went to the heavenly realm.
A few days later in the devil clan, Mark knelt before the devil king. He looked sad but the king was in a good mood.
That's good! You have atoned for your crime, the king said. You have shown that you are a real member of the wolf segment. Now tell me what do you want as a reward? Is it position, wealthy or beauty? No it can't be beauty. What do you want?
My king I don't need any of these, I just want you to renew my engagement with Zina.
He looked up at the king to see his expression and looked down. The king got up and walked to him, helped him up to his feet.
I'm only a king not a matchmaker. If you want to renew the engagement, you have to fight for it by yourself.
Yes my king, he replied.