Chapter 373 - 8.98 First Blue Star - God Of Destruction's Emergence
Due to his immense curiosity about his mysterious past, Ye Xiajie agreed to meet his long-lost younger brother, Gui Xiajun. The reason why their surnames are different is that only those who were deemed worthy as the candidacy of heirship can use the surname of Ye. Gui is the surname of Ye Xiajie and Gui Xiajun's mother. Their mother is a strong cultivator that uses light elements as the main. She was the well-known repairer in the God System. But unfortunately, she had fallen in love with a scum man. The Clan leader of the Ye Gui race, Ye Mo.
Intentionally ignoring the approaching invisible figure of Hei Lian. The Marshal nonchalantly stretched as if he just woke up. He walked slowly towards the chained Zerg King with a bored expression on his face. The Zerg King trembled in his presence. He is once again feeling that suffocating aura that Altair Sirius naturally emits.
"W-What. You. Need. Human. No. Exalted. Being. Sire!?" asked the Zerg King with a broken sentence.
Due to being frightened almost to death, he had forgotten how to speak like a normal human. It was by his instinct to fear the strong, their race would always succumb to those who are stronger than they are.
Marshal Sirius didn't reply or answer his question. Instead, he stares at him like he is in a daze. Clearly, despite the Zerg King being in front of the Marshal, its existence is something that doesn't matter whether it exists or not. This alien's existence isn't that much different from a normal insect-like ants under this lord's gaze. They were both minuscule existences he wouldn't care about whether it existed or not. He reached out his right hand over the Zerg King's head and then plucked it out like a potato planted on the ground
It was such a gory scene that made System Yue and even the hiding Hei Lian nearby shivers in fear. Thought as cultivators they were used to using the life and death of others, no one treated their enemies as cruel and merciless as this man and that venerable lord. They watch as he throws the held the human-shaped head like a ball before making the darkness eat the remains of the dead zerg and disappear completely.
The Marshal then noticed the presence of his approaching wife, a serene smile appeared as he stared in that certain direction where Feng Jing was riding on the back of his quantum beast. He had intentionally lowered his vigilance allowing that lurking figure to take this a chance to kill him.
Hei Lian's perspective.
She was walking as silent as she could while carefully approaching the said Marshal of the Oberion Empire. In the beginning, she was stunned. This is the first time she had seen a mortal with an appearance that could contend that of an immortal. A cold demeanor yet his haughtiness and dangerous presence cannot be ignored just because of his overly refined features as if he was personally sculpted by the Gods himself. Sharp piercing gaze as if a lion silently observing in the corner, his majestic and elegant aura that matches his face. Like a tyrant overlooking his subject with disdain and the world itself must bow down before him.
Her thoughts upon seeing the marshal, 'This person's presence is more powerful than that of Lord Ye Tianyu. They were both from the same race but how come this man is a personification of aloofness and viciousness. On the other hand, Lord Tianyu can only be an arrogant prince figure in front of this man. No wonder that monster fancies him. If he saw him die I wonder how he would react.'
Gathering the space essence around her, Hei Lian is planning to use Space teleportation to suddenly appear behind the marshal and directly grab his heart so he could instantly die. After formulating her plans in her mind, she already made the preparations to put them into action.
At a certain distance on the horizon, Feng Jing had seen his husband kill the Zerg King for no reason. He must be planning to clean up the war zone so they could both go home as possible. But he noticed the strange movement of System Yue who was hovering around his husband. He was floating all over as if panicking about something but was prevented by his other half from telling him.
A glowing small moon was hovering around with a blinking light. In Feng Jing's eyes, it looked like an SOS signal from far away. Feng Jing used the subsystem with him so he could clearly see the scene that was happening on his husband's side. He wanted to know what that bastard is planning to do right now. Then he finally noticed the figure of Empress Adhara who suddenly came out from a space distortion from behind his husband. He wanted to warn his other half only to see him give the young lady a cold glance but still left that slender hand to pierce his back and dug out his heart. His husband obviously allowed the empress to enter his personal space and made her take his life, Even though Feng Jing didn't know why his husband wanted to do that it still made him completely unhappy.
To Feng Jing even though it was a deliberate scene, the loud pumping of his heartbeat at that scene brought back a few bad memories of the past. The same scene of the original Ye Xiajie being stabbed from behind directly stabbing his heart and destroying it made him recall the hysterical laughter of that man who had killed not only his wife but also his son just to be able to hurt him. At that time Feng Jing almost self-imploded just to kill that person and drag him to hell with him. But he was stopped by his uncle who arrived on time and was able to keep his soul intact yet fatally injured.
With the current scene overlapping the past scene, Feng Jing had fallen into a trance as if replaying that past he had wanted to forget. He removes the limits of his body, expanding his strength to that of a God-King. Unfortunately, his mortal vessel couldn't hold on and blood seeped out from his orifices. At the corner of his eyes and lips as well the opening of ears and nose, a scarlet color trickles down. He used teleportation to appear right in front of the Marshal who was shocked to death by what he had just witnessed.
Altair Sirius felt a throbbing heartache seeing the current state of his wife. Though he had expected him to lose control but not to the extent he would use his life energy as a source of his qi. This is a suicidal action that he never expected that his lover would do just because he saw him die. As a God inhabiting the vessel of the Marshal, he wouldn't instantly die just because his heart was crushed.
Feng Jing started murmuring words he couldn't control, "I will never let you die. You are mine for eternity."
Upon hearing these words, the aching pain in his heart had spread affecting his soul himself. For some reason, he felt that this death scene was something that had happened before and a surge of memories entering his head followed after. A tiny part of his past memories broke through at this moment.
"Baby?" calls Altair Sirius as he wanted to reach out towards his wife only for his vessel to be burned into ashes by the cultivator using the vessel of Empress Adhara. Before he completely turned into ashes a glowing insignia in a form of a feather appeared on his forehead instantly protecting his soul from being destroyed before disappearing in the blink of an eye with him.
Before Feng Jing could even hug his other half, his body had turned to ashes that the wind had scattered in the surrounding. Feng Jing caught nothing but emptiness in his embrace. He was stunned in dazed as both the figure of his husband and the black dragon king quantum beast faded. Even System Yue, who was connected to both Feng Jing and the Marshal, had disappeared as well. Leaving alone Feng Jing's stunned state beside the killer covered in the blood of his husband and his astonished hybrid phoenix-dragon quantum beast, Reine.
Hei Lian who was using the vessel of Empress Adhara had started laughing hysterically once she saw the reaction of this man he hated the most. This is the person who had killed her sister and the man who had ignored their existence despite having the same bloodline as Hei.
"AHAHAHA~ Serves you right! You deserve this! You monster who wears the appearance of human skin. I've never expected you would react like this just because I've killed your other half. Even if you kill me! I do not care as I got what I wanted!!! HAHAHA~"
The whole scene of the ongoing war in Planet Citlali was live broadcast on the Star Network. The death of the Marshal was witnessed by everyone in the Empire. Even the culprit's face was broadcasted clearly and almost caused the Star Network to explode and freeze in endless traffic.
At the Star Network,
[What the fuck!? Aren't we winning!? Didn't the Zerg Planet be destroyed and the Zerg's were exterminated!?]
[Why is the Empress in there!? She suddenly appeared!?]
[That's not the problem!!! She just killed the Marshal. Shit! This is impossible. Since when did the Empress become this strong!?]
[Look closely! That doesn't seem like the real Empress anymore. A young lady's voice came out of her mouth.]
[Damn! Is that Empress fake!? No, maybe that is no longer the Empress! Don't tell me, aliens!!?]
[I don't care about that! What happened to the Marshal? Is he really dead!?]
While the conversations in the Star Network get heated and chaotic, the scene at the Planet Citlali is converse to it. Feng Jing, who was shocked, looked dazed on the horizon as if he had lost his soul. He even ignored the existence of the hysterical lady laughing not far from him. It took a long time for Feng Jing to get out of his state and free himself from that nightmarish nightmare of his past where he was helpless and weak. Like now, he couldn't even do something to save the life of his other half. For a Mo, this is more than a failure but a mistake that cannot be forgiven.
A sudden backlash hit his soul. Suddenly releasing all his godly strength in the body of the mortal is not possible. As expected his vessel called Feng Jing started to break, cracks appeared on its body as a glowing feather also appeared on his forehead as the Marshal had before. But the insignia on his forehead keeps blinking as if it couldn't decide which soul is to be protected. Inside Feng Jing's body are two souls. One is the soul of the God of Destruction, Hei Anjing, and the slumbering soul of the original owner of the body, Feng Jing.
As a descendant of the Phoenix Clan, even if the original Feng Jing had died as a young phoenix he had the privilege of being reborn thrice. But it was overridden by the Will of the Heaven as his vessel is the only suitable body for a God of Hei Anjing's caliber and thus Feng Jing's original soul was put to sleep inside his vessel. Hei Anjing knew about his existence and protected this little one's soul. Now that his own soul is in the state of chaos he could no longer use the child's vessel.
Feng Jing murmured as if talking to someone. It was Hei Anjing speaking with the child's bloodline as a phoenix. "Choose the child, I could no longer stay in this world."
As soon as Hei Anjing finished saying those words, the blinking glow on his forehead brightened then faded. Obviously, it took the soul of the Original Feng Jing to enter rebirth in his place.
The cracks of his body spread until it peels off like a disguise. Hei Anjing at the peak of his powers could instantly materialize his soul even for a short duration. As the appearance of Feng Jing slowly faded, Hei Anjing's appearance in his God Form was revealed.
His silver hair slowly turned in the color of hazelnut the length grew until it reached the ground and half of it was tied up with a hairpin made of ice shards keeping it neat and tidy. The young teen body of Feng Jing grew into a tall and adult figure. He looks a bit slender but he is not feminine as Feng Jing's size and instead, his features were perfected to the point that he excludes the presence of immortality.
His phoenix-shaped eyes were bewitching despite those cold argent irises. Every time he blinks those long eyelashes flutters like butterfly wings. Paired with a tall yet small nose plus soft and thin yet cerise lips. He is like the personification of Winter itself. A gorgeous being, an embodiment of purity, and untainted beauty, and yet he is aloof, desolated, and unattainable. Like immovable and picturesque glaciers that one can only look at but never possess.
Hei Anjing in his God Form was wearing a cultivator's clothing that the Interstellar History only recorded that was worn by the Gods. A pure white robe with black snowflakes patterned at the edges. He stood straight surrounded by a majestic aura. The heaven in the sky and the land below his foot didn't dare to offend him. The wind brushes but avoids touching this immortal and even the trees themselves and all living creatures bows down in his presence. This appearance alone is enough to tell everyone his status as a God.