The Allies

At the top of a tree that surrounded a mansion lost in the middle of the forest, was Chi Yu with a small pot of jade with wine. From time to time, the tall God took a sip. The position was not comfortable, lying on a branch while watching Ch'eng Huang pacing behind Mei Yang. His new life as a guard and demon hunter was pathetic. For those who were almost in nirvana, being in the mortal world was decadent.

A tall, truculent human with a horrible appearance accompanied the blind girl holding a broom. In addition, as far as he could vaguely remember what he wrote in her destiny, Mei Yang was twenty-one years old and working in a brothel. The ghost princess was thinner than he remembered when he saw her at the heavenly court twenty-one days ago. It was strange to look at her closely and see that she was without her power and her memories, but the greatest fear of him was not the power that the ghost princess hid inside, but the hatred that she carried in her heart and that when that seal to break would be the end of peace. Chi Yu had already warned the Emperor of the risks of sending a criminal to the mortal world; it was like sending a demonic beast to cultivate Yin on Mount Emei.

Mei Yang cultivated an uncontrolled hatred for the celestials; therefore, at the exact moment that she broke the seal, the celestial race will need to arm themselves.

- If you keep walking like that, you will open a crater in the ground! Be still, Ch'eng Haung! Mei Yang is alive and well. - Chi Yu spoke calmly and drank another sip of the wine with a very questionable taste. The only thing that worried the mind of the real high god was who was making the wines of heaven. The bitter, thin taste was unbearable. He had already drunk a few pots and was still unwell. However, he needed to lose the senses of his own body to pass all that phase in the mortal world and return to his nirvana, it was impossible to be sober in that situation; he needed to fill his body with wine to fight that so infamous luck that the celestial emperor imposed on him.

- Why didn't you write a milder destination for Yang'er? She's blind! Do you know what it feels like to not see?

- No! Moreover, I do not even want to know. - Chi Yu replied disinterested in that conversation - Stop drama, soon the vision of the ghost princess will be recovered. Why do you protect your friend so much? She is going through the judgment of heaven and does not dare to interfere.

Ch'eng Huang slightly messed up his robes as he sat on the tree trunk while watching Mei Yang work hard. She was the same way she was when she left the nine heavens. Dirty, ragged and malnourished, but this time he just had to look, because if Mei Yang failed in that judgment it would be the end of it.

- I do not understand this punishment of the celestial emperor! - Chi Yu calmly released his thoughts. - To send Mei Yang to the ordeal in the mortal realm is to strengthen her cultivation, and when she returns to the heavens she will be much stronger ... - Chi Yu scratched his chin while looking at the gray sky a little thoughtfully - What does he expect from this ordeal? May the princess understand human feelings?

- Mei Yang already has feelings! - Ch'eng Haung remembered his happy and smiling friend when his clan was still alive. The phantom kingdom was called the Clan Healer; every line of skilled doctors who proudly boasted their skills was recognized by all heavens. Mei Yang was another person entirely different from the bitter creature that was in front of him ... - We cannot judge a person's feelings based on what we see now. Just because she promised revenge, does it mean that she is devoid of love? Mei Yang was born with feelings and will die with them. I do not believe that the emperor sent Mei Yang to the mortal world to cultivate what she already has, there must be something more...

- Like what?

- I do not know ... I asked myself that question too. Mei Yang has been on earth for twenty-one days, her trial will be sixty years old and no one tried to kill her. At first, I suspected that the plan was to send her into the mortal world to die as a human at the hands of immortals and finally be erased from history. But, now ..."Ch'eng Huang bowed his head and stared at his feet. Why was Mei Yang sent to the mortal world? That question ran through his head day and night. What would be the logic of sending her to the mortal world to pass trials, if the purpose of trials was to teach and cultivate what the gods did not know? Mei Yang already knew the pain of loss, misery, prison, hunger, injustice. The judgment would further strengthen Mei Yang's spiritual powers. As much as Ch'eng Huang thought of an answer, the more distant it seemed.

- Now, that the demonic clan has returned we must guard against attacks and protect Mei Yang. - Chi Yu said - If the terrestrial abyss opened up for some demons, that means it could open up for...

- Don't mention this being ... It gives me chills. - Ch'eng Huang felt his body freeze just in case he thought of that being trapped ...

- Come on! You are idiots! Chaos has been trapped for millennia, long before we were all born. He was arrested by the ten celestial elders formed from the creative god Panku himself. What can he do? The era of chaos has passed, we live in an era of peace and the only concern of the celestial kingdom is Mei Yang.

- Mei Yang is not a threat, it never was! She did not kill the ghost clan...

- That is what you say. - Chi Yu put away the jade pot and came down from the tree, stopping in front of Ch'eng Huang, quickly adjusted his usual white clothes and his hair that was tied up. - What we can do now is to save Mei Yang's life and prevent more demons from escaping the abyss, if that sealed hole opens more and that damn Chaos escapes I lock myself in the mountains and let the worlds catch on fire.

- Chi Yu! - Ch'eng Huang scolded him.

- I was not born for war, my friend! I was born to live in peace, eating and drinking well. I need to get out of this damn mortal world as soon as possible, before I throw all my cultivation out the window.

- Now that the demonic clan has returned we need to reorganize. The skies cannot discover and we need to close the earth's abyss as soon as possible, something has caused a rupture in the seal, some disorder ... It may be the chaos that has been sealed for so many millennia and finally found a way out...

- The heavens would not allow such a creature to return to this world and destroy every being that exists. Ch'eng Huang was vehement in his response.

- The skies have allowed for much worse things, we need to hurry and go to the abyss. The sooner we find out what is in that place, the sooner we will return to our mission.

- What about Mei Yang? - Ch'eng Huang stared at the woman with a bandage on her eyes as she swept the floor of the entrance.

- She is fine. - Chi Yu guaranteed, and as soon as the god of fate looked back, he saw the platinum figure on a black horse strolling quietly around the place next to a man. As much as the heavens tried to separate these two, destiny always united them. Chi Yu felt that something much bigger than a war was coming, Mei Yang was again in that vicious fate that the heavens condemned. - Mei Yang is fine. Do not worry about her.

Chi Yu smiled forcedly and before his body and Ch'eng Huang disappeared like a smoke screen he faced the ghost Princess and the Crown Prince of Heaven on opposite sides, but at the same time united by destiny.

It was a new destination, and oddly enough, the skies were repeating the cycle once again.