Chapter 51

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“Really?” Sumo was delighted, yet his eyes instantly darkened again as he asked hesitantly, “I’m a shark… learning your things, would your Master approve?”

She froze for a moment, thinking of her master, and a wave of anger rushed through her heart; she blurted out, “I don’t care! I don’t care! This man killed Yuan, he and I are now at odds! He’s not my Master anymore!”

Sumo stopped for a moment then suddenly understood, “Is it possible that the person you liked was killed by your Master?”

Zhu Yan nodded, her eyes dimmed, biting her lips hard before swallowing her tears, and after a moment of silence, she said in a muffled voice, “I… will avenge him!” When she said the last word, she was already carrying a sobbing tone and said viciously, “I will definitely take revenge for him!”

“…” The child looked at her and suddenly lifted his tiny arms and gave her a gentle hug.

This injury caused her to spend a month recuperating on the sofa. During this month of inactivity, Zhu Yan only felt like a bird trapped in a cage, immensely depressed and bored. Occasionally, when her mood was somewhat improving, as soon as she was remembering her Master’s desperation and Yuan’s death, her mood was immediately plummeting to the ground. She yelled and scolded at all of her servants, including Grandma Sheng, and gradually, the maids no longer dared to approach her. Only Sumo, continued undeterred to come to her room every day to keep her company.

For the most part, the child remained silent, just sitting quietly by her side. Gathering her strength, she flipped through the difficult ancient script inside the booklet, translating it into the Kongsang language, then patiently lectured it to the child, while mentally revising and reciting it silently to herself. In this way, in just over a month, she had surprisingly learned all the spells in the handbook. Although some of them were not completely comprehended yet, they had all been roughly gone through.

When the booklet reached the last page, she suddenly had a hollow feeling. Yes… It’s useless to learn everything when the last page is missing!

The silent child accompanied her through all these days which were worse than death. It was clear that he had grown up as a loner, had never made a deep connection with anyone else in his life, was not good with words and did not know how to comfort her, but simply kept her company without speaking, keeping his head down and carefully flipping through the booklet in his hand.

Finally, one day, when he reached the end of the page, he couldn’t help but point to the torn page and asked with curiosity, “What was written on this…? What was it supposed to say?”

“Star Soul Blood Oath.” Zhu Yan looked at the missing page and explained in a low voice, “The highest forbidden blood spell that can reverse life and death, recover flesh and whiten bones, and transfer stars – but Master actually tore it out…” At this point she became angry again, gritting her teeth, “He must have known this day would come, and did it on purpose! What a cunning and wicked old man!”

The child remained silent, only looking at the interpretation of the Star Soul Blood Oath for a long time before saying softly, “Even if you learn the Star Soul Blood Oath, you would not have been able to save the one you like anyway!” The child looked up at her, “This spell only works on Kongsang people, right? How can a shark come back to life with this spell if it doesn’t have a soul?”

“…” In that instant, Zhu Yan actually froze.

Yes, unlike humans on land, sharks do not have three souls and seven spirits. They come from the sea, and after death they do not go to the Yellow Springs to be reincarnated, they only turn into purified clouds and ascend to the sky, before becoming rainwater to return to the sea and enter into eternal rest. Since they have no souls, how can the Star Soul Blood Oath be effective on them? It was the simplest of principles, and she should have figured it out as soon as she thought about it. But, in the midst of her acute pain, surprisingly, she never thought of this aspect!

In that moment, she felt endless despair welling up in her heart, and her entire body suddenly fell into a state of depression.

“Yeah… you are right. No matter what, I couldn’t save Yuan!” Her voice trembled a little, and after a pause, she murmured, “So… so I’ll just have to find Master to take revenge?”

As she uttered the words, her heart suddenly clenched and her voice sounded almost like weeping. The boy watched her quietly from the side, his brows furrowed and a look of concern crossed his small face.

“Your Master is very strong, you can’t beat him,” he said, “teach me and I’ll help you.”

For an instant, Zhu Yan’s heart shook and she could no longer hold back the tears that sprang into her eyes.

Ever since she was seriously injured at the Star Ocean Cloud Pavilion, Zhu Yan had been lying in the Red King’s Palace for over a month before gradually regaining her vitality. Once she had entered the regular diet and regained a bit of her vitality, all people of the Red King’s Residence rejoiced.

Having recovered from her serious injuries, she could only spar with Sumo in her room during the week and chat about her magical skills. It was not until the beginning of May that she got down to walk and returned to the courtyard for the first time.

Outside, the daylight was bright and the sky was high and clear, lifting the spirits of those who had been bedridden for so long.

“Ah… The hydrangeas are growing buds? So soon?” Zhu Yan breathed in the much-missed fresh air, only to marvel at the flowers in the pond and murmured in a state of surprise. Turning her head again, she found that the tea flower in the corner had also reached its peak of bloom and was showing signs of fading. She suddenly remembered a poem reciting about the same flower…

The most beautiful thing about this world is that you can’t hold on to it.

Looking back, this year seems to have passed by extraordinarily fast… Just a few months later, world events have changed and turmoil has suddenly emerged; her life, which had been smooth all along, has gone through countless things in half a year that she had never thought would ever occur before.

Now, standing in the warm spring breeze of Yecheng, she recalls the day she first married into Susa Haru, when her Master came to her from the snowy night with the umbrella in his hand, and it suddenly seem like all these were events from a previous life, so distant that it feels like a dream.

Yes, Master he… he killed Yuan!

She had relied on him and trusted him so much, but he destroyed everything in her without mercy!

After recovering from her severe illness, Zhu Yan stood in a daze in the courtyard staring at the blue sky in the twilight of spring, her heart in a trance, empty, feeling as if everything was fake, as if she had just experienced a nightmare.

Yes… she truly hoped that all of this was only a dream, and it would be nice to wake up and find out that nothing happened. But, as cruel as it all was, it was all true! Yuan was dead… and she was going to avenge him!

As soon as Zhu Yan thought of this, the blood in her chest rose up and she turned pale. Yes, since she wanted to avenge Yuan, she could not just sit around and wait for death without doing anything. With her current meagre abilities, Master could crush her to death with one hand. If she didn’t seize the opportunity to cultivate day and night, there would be no hope of revenge in this life.

She dismissed Grandma Sheng and all the maids and walked alone to an enclosure in the deepest part of the garden, standing still and inspecting her surroundings – it was a nine-circle cloister surrounded by verdant bamboo, uninhabited, quiet and remote, and perfect for cultivation.

Zhu Yan barely walked to the stone platform and folded her arms in a vague gesture when she suddenly felt a pair of eyes behind her.

“Who?” She turned back abruptly and saw the shark child hiding behind the rockery.

Sumo didn’t leave with the others, but continued to follow her to the spot, watching from a distance.

“What’s the matter?” She couldn’t help but frown, “Are you afraid that something will happen to me? Don’t worry, I have to avenge Yuan, I need to cultivate well now, don’t think too much about it.”

“…” The boy remained silent, but refused to retreat.

Zhu Yan thought for a moment and called for the boy to come over, “Hey, don’t you want to learn the magic? How about watching how I practice it first?”

“Over here?” Sumo froze for a moment, with a gleam in his eyes.

“Hmm. You go sit under the porch over there, so you don’t get hurt.” Zhu Yan pointed to the bench not far away, telling Sumo to avoid the way a little, before retreating into the patio and taking up a position in the center. The child sat down obediently at a distance and watched her quietly, with a rare hint of curiosity appearing in his azure eyes.

The sky was high, and Zhu Yan, bathed in the sunlight pouring down on her, closed her eyes slightly and joined her hands together slowly between the eyebrows.

In that moment, a second eye in her heart opened and gazed at the sky and the earth. She slowly moved her hands forward and unfolded them, her ten fingers moving slightly.

Suddenly, the tea flowers that had fallen to the ground rustled and moved, surprisingly flying up from the ground one by one, arranging themselves in a line and floating to the palm of her hand!

“Huh?” The shark child sitting on the porch brightened his eyes.

“Look!” Zhu Yan raised her hand and blew gently into her palm – with one swift sound, the fading flowers suddenly returned to their branches as if they had been blown by the spring breeze, bursting into full bloom!

“Ah!” Sumo couldn’t hold back any longer and exclaimed in awe.

“This is just the most basic preparatory work.” Zhu Yan clapped her hands and explained to the child beside her, “Improving one’s spiritual power is essential, of course. But life is only a century long, even if you start cultivating at birth, how much power can be saved? Therefore, the most important thing is to control the power of all Five Elements in the Six Harmonies and use it for oneself. Understand?”

“Hmm.” The boy nodded in apparent comprehension and suddenly spoke, “But… we sharks can live for more than a hundred years, we can live for a thousand years!”

“…” Zhu Yan choked a little and couldn’t help but give the boy a blank look, “Well, I mean the Kongsang people! I’m teaching you the Kongsang magic art, okay?”

Sumo struggled to comprehend her words and asked again, “The Six Harmonies and Five Elements? And what is that?”

“Gold, wood, water, fire and earth are called the Five Elements, while the south, east, north, west, heaven and earth are called the Six Harmonies. In the center of them, there is an endless flow of power. If a mortal can borrow just one tenth of a percent of it, it’s already remarkable!” Zhu Yan tried her best to be as clear and concise as possible, but she obviously did not have the patience of her former master, so she clapped her hands together again and said, “Falling flowers and reverting branches are nothing, I’ll show you another impressive one!”

With a flick of her wrist, she quickly formed a seal with her ten fingers, palm pointing upwards. Within a few moments, a cloud suddenly appeared out of thin air in the clear sky above her head! The cloud, invited from nowhere, drifted around solitary, winding all the way, reluctantly, as if it had been forcibly dragged by an invisible thread and stopped in the sky above the courtyard, struggling and twisting several times, and finally faltering, unable to move.

“Huh? Did you summon this cloud…?” Sumo couldn’t help but exclaim softly.

“I grabbed the nearest one from the Blue Sea!” She said with a hint of triumph, but was slightly out of breath, evidently the spell was quite spiritually draining, “You see, manipulating a falling flower to return to its branch is only within a radius of one square foot. Whereas the more powerful the practitioner, the larger the radius they can control…”

“And how big would the biggest range be?” The child’s eyes lit up with wonder, “Is there someone… as wide as the entire Yunhuang?”

Zhu Yan pondered for a moment and nodded, “Yes.”

“Ah…” the child couldn’t help but let out a gasp, “so powerful?!”

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