The seafloor was not pitch black. Instead looking at the sea’s surface from the seafloor was like looking at the sky from the earth. Blue and boundless, mysterious and high. And those luminous seven coloured fish were like scattered stars.
The undercurrents were still strong from the Fu Chen Pearl. However, Hua Qian Gu began to use it again despite being exhausted.
She quickly moved on the sea floor, trying hard to feel that nearing warmth among the ripples.
Her heart strings were taut, as though as they were going to snap any moment. She sawn into a small cave hidden by sea grass. Water had been kept out of the cave. The interior of the cave was simple, with luminous pearls flowing on the walls. However, a larger halo was emanating out of a huge shell.
Her heart was at her throat as she watched the shell lightly open and close, the light pulsing.
“Shi Fu……” Hua Qian Gu rushed beside the shell and peered in, her knees giving way. She was so agitated, her lips trembled and she could not speak.
Bai Zi Hua was lying quietly in the shell, his eyes closed. His face was as pale as snow and thin layer of frost has formed on his eyelashes, his expression as frigid as ever. He was like an ice statute, without any sign of life.
It was only a few days of separation, but it seemed like tens of thousands of years.
As she looked at his face, she suddenly felt clam. As long as Shi Fu was around, as long as he was well, she was not afraid of anything.
“Shi Fu…..” she called out softly again, as though she wanted to wake him, yet she was afraid of disturbing him.
However, she did not have much time–
Hua Qian Gu looked around her. The sea was in chaos and the little demons were all trying to escape. there was clearly nobody guarding this place. However the immortals and demons from everywhere were all outside and they would quickly find this place.
She knew that once her Shi Fu woke up, according to Chang Liu’s rules, even if what awaited her was not a punishment that would disintegrate her soul, it would be hard to escape death. She was not afraid of such punishment, yet she could not bear to experience his fury again. She only wanted to just stay beside him and look at his sleeping face, forever and forever…..
“Gu Tou, hurry up. Someone is going to find us soon….” Tang Bao hurried her.
Hua Qian Gu lowered her head and squeezed Bai Zi Hua’s cold hand tightly, recalling the simple happiness as they held hands and walked through the snow and could not help but feel her heart ache. Even though she knew that she could not tear no matter how sad, she still tipped her head back and closed her eyes. She took out the Nu Wa Stone and pressed it against her cheek and softly whispered: “Shuo Feng…..”
The Nu Wa Stone gave out a brilliant light that shot through the surface of the sea, causing panic among the masses who were above the sea.
Bai Zi Hua’s body slowly rose and stopped midair. Bits of silver light began to gather. As his immortal body had not been destroyed the poison was quickly neutralised and his strength quickly recovered.
“Shi Fu…..” Hua Qian Gu ectastically hugged him as he slowly descended and desperately transferred her internal energy to him despite her weak state.
Seeing that Bai Zi Hua’s poison was finally neutralized and everything was slowly returning to normal and he might wake up in a moment, Hua Qian Gu happily squeezed his hand.
“Tang Bao, how about Shuo Feng? is there anyway to save him? Even though he is part of the Nu Wa Stone, he already has his independent mindset, is there really no way to take him out of the Stone?”
Tang Bao was about to shake her head when she suddenly heard a voice from outside the cave, “Yes.”
Lan Yu Lan Feng swam in from outside the cave, her eyes sparking with a strange excitement.
Hua Qian Gu alertly stood up and took out the Xuan Yuan Sword.
“You are very fast.”
“Of course. After all this is my lair. I naturally can find it faster than other people. However the others are arriving soon. You better escape with the Kun Lun Mirror in your hand.”
“I won’t escape, I will wait for my Shi Fu to wake up before I personally accept punishment from him.”
“Accept punishment? Do you think just because you stole the Instruments of the Gods to cure him of his poison, he was feel guilty or is heart will soften and he will not punish you?”
“I dont understand what you are saying? Whose poison did I cure? I became a Chang Liu disciple under the orders of the Sovereign of the Demon and Monster realms (Sha Qian Mo). From the beginning I had planned to steal the instruments and release the Demon God.” Hua Qian Gu looked at her coldly.
Lan Yu Lan Feng was shocked and did not speak for a long time. Then, she laughed maniacally.
“So from the beginning, you had already decided not to tell him the truth. Are you silly? Do you think he can live in ease this wat?”
Hua Qian Gu looked at Bai ZI Hua: ‘This is my own business. You don’t need to care.”
Then she took out the Xuan Tian Umbrella and threw it to her: “This is the umbrella that I borrowed earlier. I will trouble you to help me return it to your sovereign and help me thank him.”
Lan Yu Lan Feng gave an inward sigh. There were so many people in the immortal realm. No wonder their sovereign liked her so much. Even though she felt a bit guilty, for him, she could not care so much.
“Didn’t you want to save that who?”
Hua Qian Gu’s body shook: “So what?” she had told herself over and over again that this woman was too crafty and could not be trusted. But ever since she began speaking, her heart could not help but burn with hope.
“I really did not expect a fragment of the Nu Wa stone to assume a human form. Did you how the Nu Wa stone was shattered?”
….. Did you forgot how the Nu Wa Stone was shattered?
Shuo Feng’s wisp of a voice echoed beside her ear once again. Why do they all ask this question? How would she know how it shattered. The Book of the Six Realms did not record this. All the ancient books only briefly mentioned things of the ancient past.
“If you don’t know its ok.” Lan Yu Lan Feng lowered her heard and smiled, euphoric. She really did not know anything.
“Actually to separately him from the Nu Wa Stone, all it requries is a drop of your blood.”
Hua Qian Gu felt a joy arose in her heart. Tang Bao quickly reminded her: “There is no such thing. GU Tou, don’t believe her.”
Hua Qian Gu knitted her brows tightly, a storm raging inside her.
Lan Yu Lan Feng looked at her fingers, and said casually: ” You don’t have much time to consider. They are arriving soon. Then, all the instruments will be taken away and you will not be able to save that person.”
Hua QIan Gu was so nervous, her foreheard was covered in sweat. Even though she did not know why her own blood save him and why Shuo Feng had not told her if it was so easy and this must be a trick, she knew her blood did have a lot of uses. If she did not try, she would feel indignant for the rest of her life and never forgive herself.
No. Time was running out. She could not hesitate anymore. Shuo Feng had died for her. She must think of a way to save him!
“Gu Tou!” Tang Bao felt a huge wave of terror as she looked at Lan Yu Lan Feng’s strange and excited expression.
However, Hua Qian Gu had already dripped her blood on the Nu Wa Stone.
Suddenly, the surrounding started shaking violently as though the sky was going to collaspe and the earth crumble. Hua Qian Gu could feel the Instruments emitting a loud clanging in her Xu Ding.
Amidst her brain splitting heading, she took out the instruments. In that instant, all 16 instruments shot up towards the sky.
“Crap!” hua Qian Gu did not know what had happened. She only knew something was very wrong.
She only saw Lan Yu Lan Feng roaring with laughter. She cried and laughed at the same time. It was so strange it was terrifying.
“A hundred years. I waited for a hundred years! Hahahaha!”
“What’s happening?” Hua Qian Gu began to panic and carried Bai Zi Hua and flew out of the collapsing cave. The sea water around them was extremely choppy and she could not see anything. The sea floor was experiencing a violent earthquake. Lava was slowly seeping out and the entire Eastern Sea was in total chaos.
“What’s happening?” Hua Qian Gu grabbed Lan Yu Lan Feng, but saw her looking manically at her through her bloodshot eyes.
“The Demon God is born! The Demon God is born! Hahahah! To think that the last seal which would take a few days to be broken, only needed a drop of your blood to be broken!! Hahahahah! This is great! This is great! The world is finally ours!”
HUa Qian Gu felt her heard buzz loudly before becoming a blank.” What did you say?! Impossible? How can it be! I merely wanted to save Shuo Feng! You are lying to me! you are lying to me! You are lying to me again!!”
Lan Yu lan Feng looked at her and laughed: “Lying? I am grateful to you. The Shuo Feng you are speaking about had already ceased to exist and can never be recovered! You blood is merely used to break the last seal on the Instruments. Once the seal is broken, the Demon God will be born. There is nothing to stop it in this world!”
Hua Qian Gu shook her head hard: “No, No, its only a drop of blood, its only a drop of blood…. How can it…..”
“You still don’t know your own identity? Actually, to think of it its only natural. In this world, the only person who knows is Bai Zi Hua. If I did not scry his memories while he was unconscious, I would not know…..”
“What are you trying to say?” Hua Qian Gu head was in extreme pain.
Lan Yu Lan Feng brought her face close, smiled and whispered: “The Demon God was sealed by you and the other Gods. The Nu Wa Stone was broken because of you and mixed with you blood to fix and nourish the land. Hua Qian Gu, you are the last god in this world….”
Hua Qian Gu felt her body crumble and sink downwards, however the weight of Bai Zi Hua’s body in her hands told her that she must hang on. All these was false. She liked to lie! Don’t listen! Everything she said was false….
Tang Bao was also shocked stiff. At this moment, all 16 Instruments appeared in the Sky above the sea. The black night sky and turned to a demonic dark purple. The sea water was flowing towards the sky, towards the 16 instruments, forming a giant spirally tower of water between the sky and the sea, like a tornado that had sucked in all the surrounding air and water.r
The demons and monsters everywhere could feeling the awakening of the Demon God and were chasing chaos everywhere. All around there were natural disastaers, earthquakes. The casualties were innumerable. This was only the prelude.
In the sky above Eastern Sea, it was utter chaos. The immortals were in utter panic and helplessness while the demons and monsters were euphoric. Mo Yan and the others could not help but sigh. It was still too late.
At this moment, Sha Qian Mo and Chun Qiu Bu Bai had led their armies over. The Immortals and the Demons were in confrontation. One wrong move could spark off the fight. It looks like a fight was inevitable.
Hua Qian Gu did not know whether to blame herself for stupid stupid or useless. To think she was being lied to again and again. She wanted to kill her but she was already spent.
“Do you know why your blood had so many uses? Do you know why the Instruments can never be separated from you and were gathered by you? I was always very curious how you and a fatally poisoned Bai Zi Hua could escape from the Shen Nong Cauldron without being burnt by the Zhen fire…..”
Hua Qian Gu’s ears were ringing. So Shi Fu had long known and yet did not say anything. Maybe whether she was human or god did not matter to him? She was always causing misfortune and now had even let the Demon God out. If she really was a god, she really was the god of misfortune!
Hua Qian Gu wanted to laugh, but could not laugh. She could not imagine what the battle between the ancients must have been like to eliminate the entire race of the Gods and leave her all alone. She was lone wandering wisp of a God who had wondered for thousands of years. Finally, she had fathered enough energy to be reincarnated into the human world.
However, her reappearance only represented another calamity. And this time, who had the power to seal the Demon God again?
Hua Qian Gu hugged Bai Zi Hua, buried her head into his chest and began sobbing. She could could feel his slight movements. The surge of demonic energy from the Demon God had alerted him. He was about to wake up.
“Gu Tou, don’t worry. There will be a way!” Tang Bao was afraid she would do something silly and quickly comforted her. “This is not your fault. You did not know anything. You only wanted to save Zun Shang and Shuo Feng. The birth of the Demon God is inevitable. It is not your fault! Don’t blame yourself! Since it can be sealed once, it can be sealed again!”
Hua Qian Gu looked at Bai Zi Hua blearily, and gave a light laugh: “Shi Fu always says, a wrong is a wrong, no matter the reason. Even though my power is limited. I will try my utmost to salvage the situation. Shi Fu, please forgive Xiao Gu!”
Hua Qian Gu carried Bai Zi Hua and flew up. Suddenly, she felt a familiar presence./
“Zi Hua?” A lot of people were looking for Hua Qian Gu. Zi Xun Qian Xia relied on the Jin Si (Golden Thread) Fish who had an acute sense of smell to search for Hua Qian Gu’s strong scent. However,s he did not Bai ZI Hua to be here as well.
“Zi Hua, what’s wrong with him?”
Hua Qian Gu looked up and saw the shock and worry on Zi Xun Qian Xia’s face and tired hard to smile as she shook her heard: “Shi Fu was poisoned by the poison of the Shen Nong Cauldron made by Lan Yu Lan Feng. Luckily, Zi Xun Jie Jie stole the antidote that Lan Yu Lan Feng had brewed with the poison and cured Shi Fu’s poison. Xiao Gu then completed the mission the Sovereign had given her and collected the 16 Instruments of the Gods. Now the Demon God is about to be born.”
Zi Xun shook her head, her face full of shock: “Xiao Gu, what are you taking about? Why can’t I understand anything?”
Hua Qian Gu then push the unconscious Bai Zi Hua to her.
“Take good care of my Shi Fu. If he asks, just answer him according to what I just told you. You understand what I mean.”
“But….” Zi Xun Qian Xia pulled her back, “Where are you going?”
“I will go and salvage the mistake I made. Zi Xun Jie Jie, take it that I am begging you. You must tell this to Shi Fu.”
Hua Qian Gu’s eyes shone with a sense of trust and reliance she could not bear to reject.
“Tang Bao, you stay here as well.” Hua Qian Gu grabbed Tang Bao from her ear and placed it on Zi Xun Qian Xia’s shoulder.
“I don’t want! I don’t want! I want to go with you!” Tang Bao knew what she was thinking. She cried, kicked, scratched and bit while hugging on to her finger.
Hua Qian Gu hypnotised it and it immediately fainted.
“Qian Gu!” Zi Xun Qian Xia felt terrified. Hua Qian Gu’s gaze was completely at odds with her young appearance.
Hua Qian Gu gave a comforting smile even though her body was in so much pain she was about to curl up into a bundle. She squeezed Bai Zi Hua’s tightly. How could she bear to let go. However, in the end, she steeled herself and turned around to break through the surface of the sea.
She would pay for her own mistakes even if it meant death.
Luo Shi Yi, Sha Qian Mo and the others watched Hua Qian Gu fly out from the ocean. Nobody knew what had happened on the seabed or how the Demon God was born.
Hua Qian Gu looked at the purple sky. The demonic,evil, pungent, toxic and corrupt energy from every direction was being gathered in the giant vacuum created by the 16 Instruments. The waves roared and lightning crackled int he air.
“Arrest that abomination!” Mo Yan glared at Hua Qian Gu and shouted. After so long, the Demon God was still being released. Was this fate? All the immortals were in distress without a leader. As they were about to rush forward, the demon generals stopped all of them with a wave of Sha Qian Mo’s hand.
“Qian Gu! “Xiao Bu Dian!”….
Hua Qian Gu did not know how many voices were calling her. She slowly surveyed her surroundings and saw familiar faces and a sea of chaos. Then she flew into the black hole like beam of light.