The Battle Begins! The red lotus is a woman?
The moon was entering the clear sky, but the sun wasn't set yet, the air was not cold or warm and it was slow like mother's hands caressing their sons.
Inside a big red tent however the atmosphere was heavy, there were dozens of people in 4 big rows, in their front there was a podium with seven small thrones and in the middle, there was a big throne all of them made of stone.
On the big throne a woman dressed in a widow robe was seated, this time Daiyu Meng'er wasn't using her widow hat, her perfect oval pinky face was bare to everyone. But her poker face was still the same like she was a statue made of smooth meat.
Below her the seven small thrones are almost filled, only one was missing its owner. There were 4 men and 2 women seated on those thrones.
Suddenly the third man from the left to right got up from his seat and cupped his hands at Meng'er. Opening his mouth he said in a tone without any emotion "Matriarch, I ask you to forgive Liang'er, she is blaming herself for this entire situation and is probably wandering through the forest, she is so stubborn that she may think those flares are just baits".
With no changes on her face, her lips parted and a sweet voice comes out almost entrancing the man she was facing "There is no need for you to speak for her Elder Zhang, I know her temperament, years ago when sister Yu and her husband are killed, she also blames herself because of it"
Turning her face to the row of people below the podium she got up and said "I know everyone is anxious, but we need to fight our way through their camp, our spies already confirmed Cui'er is held prisoner there" her sweet voice was powered by her spirit qi, making it enchanting.
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It was already dark, and the moon was shining through the forest. Shi was sorting out some pentagons made of wood on the grass floor, he was clad in the same clothes as the core disciples of the Evil Cloud Sect, courtesy of dead ones.
Half of his face was hidden behind a new 'seal' rune mask made with black cloth, when he was preparing his new tools he heard sounds of multiple metals and yelling, he wanted to join it but was forbidden by his father.
It wasn't time for him to join the battle yet, even if Shi didn't understand what was happening Long Shin as a million years cultivation did, big battles aren't funny and interesting but in reality, it was a bloody mess, even if are two very well trained army fighting, there's will be a flowing river of blood and mountain of corpses.
That is why he made Shi prepare himself and let his left arm wound get better, last time he almost lost it, if this time he needed to fight a desperate fight again it was better to be in great disposition.
Getting everything ready on one of his rings he shot in the direction where the yellow flare appeared before.
"This time you shouldn't just meddle in it, even if that moon girl is there, your focus should be to understand the battle and where you can take your best shot" Long Shin advised.
"But I don't get that, since it's going to be a mess, shouldn't I just jump in there and make even more mess?" Asked Shi with doubt.
"Don't be silly boy, do you think it will be just the third generation like you? Just think about it, there is this young master Yun, he is kidnapping all women from the Cuifen sect. Then what her sect is going to do about it? They would just accept this?" asking a ton of questions Long Shi guided Shi to the right way of thinking.
Shi started to think about it, he was really taking things just black or white, maybe it was because he never met any man from the Cuifen sect or it was just because he thought the world was like this.
"Well there was that boy that wanted to kill me, but he was just pure evilness" as his thoughts got there he started to think about the men he fought all those years, all of them are trying to kidnap women.
Every time he was 'meddling' in the young master Yun business, thinking about the words of the young man he had a 'conversation' yesterday.
'Genius of dual cultivation', a very picky man with his women, since he's a genius all woman he 'taste' they died, this looks very tricky, if he truly is a genius in dual cultivation he probably can feel about Cuifen bone structure, that may be why he wants to capture her, but why all the other women? Is it just greedy?
As Shi was getting near the campsite of the Evil Cloud sect the yelling and metal noises were getting louder and louder like his doubts.
When he got a clear view of the battlefield he felt a sharp cold prick on his nose, for some time he forgot to breathe, it was truly a big fight, there were at least hundreds of people holding and swinging weapons.
But the most impactful thing on the battlefield was a fight between a middle-aged man and a young woman, every time they took a step Shi could only see their after images, the middle-aged man was carrying a giant saber with a gold pommel with a white jewel, the thing who caught Shi attention was his martial spirit and the way his slashes were.
Behind him a creature with a body strong like a bull but with the face of a dog was standing on clouds, its skin was a blue ocean with sky-blue lines every time the middle-aged man made an attack, the beast bared its fangs and made a pouncing stance.
The woman was clad in a dark black tight robe when Shi glanced at her he felt his heartbeat speed up and a deep will of embracing her born in his head, but at the same time he heard a calming chant and this thought started to go away.
"Sigh… the
Her right hand was carrying a black sword. Her sword wasn't like the swords he saw everywhere, it was a square sword like it was made by a ruler, it's point was a right-angled triangle, it had an edge on only one side.
Behind her there was a great red lotus blooming very slowly from its tip red pollen was being shot in the air, every time it fell on the floor a new smaller lotus was blooming and from this one different pollen was being released it was a pinky one.
"Those pinky particles were bewitching pollen, but the most interesting thing is that woman isn't a human one, but a real red lotus" finding a new interest. Long Shin explained to Shi what those things were.
Widening his eyes Shi started to stutter "A-a-a-a real red lotus you mean a flower? is this possible? how can she cultivate? in fact why she had a human body and.." bombarding his father with questions he looked with a surprised face to the woman.
"It's normal kid, there were more than millions of races and other incredible things in this universe that I never saw but no matter the universe we all come from the same place".
Shi kept looking almost entranced by the lotus woman and a thing caught his attention, she was using a scabbard just like that Jiao woman he met at the forest back then, taking into consideration her juicy entrancing voice all made sense.
"But father, I can't see any difference between her and a 'real woman'" asked Shi as he analyzed the woman with his celestial eyes.
By this time he already forgot about anything he was doing and was fully focused on the woman fighting, Daiyu Meng'er was a spirit awakening realm cultivator and she cultivated bewitching arts so it was truly hard for him to take his eyes from her.
"Because she is a real woman you silly child, the thing is the human is the 'spirit' of all things, people can reincarnate as everything in this world, but their spirit still the same, so even if she is a red lotus on this life the next maybe she could be a deva or an asura or a beast"
Hearing his father talking about the reincarnation circle everything started to become a little more mystic but also it was more clouded he could understand a little of it, but only a little.
"What happens is that everything on the universe can transform into a human form, about why is that one day you will understand" Long Shin said before giving him a scolding "Now forget about that woman, look the other things on the battlefield".