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Yes! It was not a candle flame that was pulsating inside the lamp, but seven pale rays of light – those were, surprisingly, seven human spirits!

Could it be that the Grand Master used a magic spell to seal the seven spirits of the Master in this Seven Star Lamp? But if the seven spirits are here, where are the three souls?

With that thought in mind, she looked up suddenly and spotted the lotus flower in the hand of the God of Creation.

Within the lotus stems, there was a flow of brilliance, three wisps of white light intertwined together, shimmering brightly.

Zhu Yan took a deep breath and suddenly understood: the three souls and seven spirits contained in this temple, were in fact those of her Master. But where could his body be? And why had he been placed there?

Amidst the silence, the dark eyes of the God of Creation and the golden pupils of the God of Destruction gazed quietly at the girl in the empty hall, with an expression of mystery and elusiveness that was not normally present.

Zhu Yan and the deity statue stared at each other for a moment, and her heart suddenly quieted down.

“Ah-Yan, you are more powerful than you think you are. Remember: if you want to, you will always be able to do it and will always be in time!”

Is that so? If I want to, I can always do it, and I can always be in time?

In that moment, Zhu Yan stopped thinking about everything else and calmed her mind like the still waters, sitting down on her knees inside the enclosure and unfolding the thin page in her hand under the light of the Seven Star Lamp.

The page, on first glance, appeared to be blank and devoid of content. But when she closed her eyes and opened up her heavenly sight to gaze, twenty-eight characters emerged from the paper.

Strangely enough, each and every one of them was unknown to her. As she studied the thin page, the words suddenly started to come to life, emerging in an endless stream, transforming from one to ten, from ten to a hundred, like the stars in the sky, descending swiftly and speeding along!

She was observing the proceedings with her mental vision, her body shaking slightly.

Having already experienced it once, now seeing it for the second time, although well prepared for it, she could barely hold it together – It would be hard to describe what she felt in that moment: the very instant she opened her mental sight, it was as if an enlightened child had glanced up and beheld the vastness of the universe, and she instantly felt like her strength went extremely weak, as if she were being tugged by a great roaring, being almost instantly lost under the vastness of the void!

An individual is as small as a mustard seed, at a loss in the face of the infinite sky.

In the midst of the dizziness, Zhu Yan tried desperately to stare at the endlessly changing dots of light, identifying them carefully, before suddenly being struck by a feeling of stupefaction: weren’t the combinations and dispersion of these dots of light exactly the same as the stars and dippers in the sky?

In the next moment, Zhu Yan abruptly understood: what was written on the paper was not twenty-eight characters, but twenty-eight constellations. It was the map of the twenty-eight constellations under the vault, representing all the stars!

“Use your soul to ally yourself with the stars. Use your blood as a guide, infuse it into the twenty-eight constellations of the Three Walls, and control the orbit of the stars. When the Moon departs from the Earth, the Fluxus will guard the heart. When the soul strays from the stars and the mind reaches Heaven and Earth, it can change the trajectory of the stars and reverse life and death.”

In that moment, all those statements on the annotations made sense to her at once.

Zhu Yan formed a seal with both hands and placed them on her chest, using the Soul Leaving magic spell to release her three souls and seven spirits, using her spiritual essence to connect with those stars and dippers in the distant void, starting with the seven constellations belonging to the Blue Dragon Ascendant in the Eastern Palace and passing through them one by one: the Horn, the Hydra, the Libra, the Fang, the Heart, the Tail and the Leopard… then, the Vermilion Bird Ascendant in the Southern Palace, the White Tiger Ascendant in the Western Palace and the Black Tortoise Ascendant in the Northern Palace*.

The stars in the sky were being skimmed one by one by her mind’s power. With her entire mind and soul, she felt the changes in the sky and her hands shifted rapidly on her chest, forming seals and gradually beginning to resonate with the stars by drawing their trajectories… It was an extremely difficult process, each star requiring all the energy she could spare to make the connection. She felt herself gliding through the stars and the twenty-eight constellations of the heavens and the Three Walls, gradually becoming one with the entire celestial firmament.

At last, she made her way towards an eclipsing star – the star of fate from which her Master was about to fall.

However, at the critical moment when she was about to make contact with the Fate Star, countless sharp lights suddenly descended from the sky and pierced her body!

Her soul was struck and plunged down. Zhu Yan’s entire body shook violently and her eyes opened. The dispersed soul returned to her body with a swish from the starry sky, and her body leaned forward, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

No… still not possible! With her current power, she was still unable to harness those stars!

Zhu Yan struggled to prop herself up on the ground, lifted her head and gazed high above – the stars in the night sky were still shining brightly, motionless in their original position, looking down coldly at this insolent mortal.

Even if it means to be like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, or an ant to shake a tree, she will still have to give her best and try!

Zhu Yan silently wiped away the blood from the corner of her lips, struggled to get up from the ground and started to form her seals again – this time, she wondered if she could eventually reach it by trying to enter the Starfield from the Vermilion Bird Position of the Southern Palace.

However, within less than three hours, she was again struck down by the power of the stars, vomiting blood and rising again and again… repeating the process for an unknown number of times until the stars faded from the sky and the dawn descended upon her before she collapsed in exhaustion, unable to move a single muscle.

In the empty temple of Jiuyi, only the Twin Gods lowered their eyes and gazed silently at the young girl who kept trying again and again, the golden pupils and the dark eyes remaining as silent as the sun and the moon.

In the dimly lit temple, a breeze swept through and a white shadow descended. The Chongming Divine Bird passed through the curtain and turned into the size of a snow sculpture to get to inside the temple and rested on the Seven Star Lamp. The Godbird lowered its head to look at the exhausted Zhu Yan on the ground, and its four blood-red eyes moved as it emitted a grunt.

Once he landed on Zhu Yan, he suddenly reached out its head and gave her earlobe a fierce peck!

“Aiya!” The half-conscious girl jolted awake from the excruciating pain and was just trying to pull herself up when suddenly something fell down onto her lapel: it was a bunch of vermilion fruits – shaped like grapes, exuding a peculiar fragrance and emitting a faint red glow in the darkness.

“The Dreaming Flower Vermilion Fruit?” Zhu Yan was stunned for a moment.

This is a precious and rare spiritual plant that grows on the Meng Hua Peak, only appearing on the cliffs guarded by the Wretched Spirits, where it breathes the heavenly wind and drinks immortal dew, and only bears fruit once in a hundred years, making it a coveted item for cultivators.

In order to test her cultivation in the past, her Master once let her go up the mountain alone to collect some medicine, and she was besieged by the Wretched Spirits and almost fell off the cliff.

She suddenly understood, “Four-eyed bird, did you go and pick these up by yourself?”

Chongming grunted and rolled his eyes – in that instant, Zhu Yan noticed a little crimson bloodstain under its right wing, as if it had been clawed by something.

“You’ve been injured by the Wretched ones?” She was taken aback, “Are you going to be okay?”

Chongming ignored her, merely pushing the vermilion fruits towards her with his beak, giving her a vicious glare with his four blood-red eyes, letting out a grunt as if to urge and warn, before flying off through the heavy curtain without looking back.

It was already daylight outside, and a thin layer of mist shrouded the Jiuyi Mountain, making it look like a world of immortality.

She popped the vermilion fruit into her mouth and they instantly turned into a cleansing stream, replenishing her vital energy.

Yes, her Master also said that she was stronger than she thought, and if she wanted to do anything, she would be able to do it and make it in time! The Master was never wrong in what he said, isn’t that so?

While the young Princess of the Red Clan was painstakingly cultivating on the Jiuyi Mountain at the far north end of Yunhuang, trying to reverse the stars, the Red King’s Palace in Yecheng was in a state of panic.

During the rebellion of the Restoration Army several days ago, Princess Zhu Yan left in the middle of the night unnoticed and has failed to return after more than ten days.

The Chief Housekeeper sent many people out and almost turned Yecheng upside down searching for her, but he could not find the whereabouts of the Princess and was as anxious like an ant on a hot pot ready to get burned.

In such an imperative moment, the Red King has come back unexpectedly.

“Bunch of useless bastards!” The Red King roared like thunder, with his whiskers flaring, “I clearly told you to keep an eye on her! How could this young girl still manage to escape? What’s the use of having all of you here? Take them all out and chop them up!”

* The names come from the Twenty-eight Constellations in the Ancient China. See reference on the Wikiwand: http://www.wikiwand.com/zh/二十八宿

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