Night swept this devastated land with darkness that seemed to swallow everything.
Yu Qing Qian hovered over the Base, her pair of beautiful eyes rendered dark red by the raging flames that filled the sky, adding to her fierceness.
Under her ruined clothes, the several places of exposed skin were covered with bloody wounds.
She lowered her head and looked down. The earth had long been stained red with blood, and walls reduced to rubble everywhere, a devastating scene.
Although there were colourful variant powers constantly blooming outside the Base, but the last line of defence that the humans guarded was about to be broken by the group of Zombies.
“KILL! KILL! KILL!”
Sorrowful cries of ‘kill’ resounded throughout the entire Base, each with a firm determination to die together.
Everyone who was still alive in the Base, whether it was ordinary people or The Variants, all flocked to the city gate that the group of Zombies attacked.
Since they couldn’t guard the Base any longer, then they might as well die together!
Yu Qing Qian closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, there was an additional determination in her eyes. The longsword in her hand flashed, and suddenly cut through the night sky.
The Zombie King in the distance was also calmly hovering in the air on the other side, its stiff face seemed to carry a human-like ridicule towards the humans’ lack of understanding about their own abilities.
Seeing Yu Qing Qian rushing over, human-like disdain appeared in its murky eyes. But it didn’t expect that Yu Qing Qian, who had just been promoted to King Level, would actually have irresistible force, and faced him directly for the kill.
“Dirty thing, go die once and for all!” A clear and stern voice poured out from her mouth, like a grim reaper from hell.
The variant powers in her body were burning frantically, and the shattered deadly light illuminated the entire sky as if daylight. Even the surrounding air fluctuated violently, and the Zombie King was wrapped up within it, staring at the bewitching smile on her face in horror.
[BOOM BOOM!!]
The entire earth trembled, and the scarlet fire spread, engulfing countless Zombies in an instant.
“LEADER…”
Sounds of grief echoed across the sky, accompanying the firelight, but that perfectly graceful woman completely disappeared in the sea of flames in the sky forever.
***
Da Yan Kingdom, Jin wang’s1 Mansion.
The heavy rain beat against the windows incessantly, and the night wind swept the dead leaves into spirals in the air before floating down in pieces.
A beam of green light fell from the sky into the room with orange candlelight and a cry broke the peace of the moment.
“WAH!”
The cry was very faint, as if her breath would stop in an instant.
A young woman of unrivalled beauty in the room sat up from the bed, her eyes staring at the weak baby in the arms of the old woman opposite her with complexity.
“Madam, I have taken the umbilical cord and blood essence.” The old woman naturally caught the look in the woman’s eyes, her voice hoarse and carried a bit of steadiness and calmness.
The woman with unrivalled beauty nodded slightly and didn’t speak. With a thought, a faint yellow light flowed from her wrist and instantly surrounded her body.
After an hour, the yellow light on the woman disappeared. The body that was initially sweating and in a somewhat sorry state was clean and tidy, and one could no longer tell that she had just given birth.
“Put her on the bed. Let’s go.” After a while, the woman with unrivalled beauty sat up, got out of bed, and said slowly.
The old woman put the baby that was in her arms on the bed, with eyes that carried slight sympathy and pity, “Madam, with such a constitution, I’m afraid she won’t live long. It truly is a pity as she has the talent of an Innate Spiritual Plant Master.”
The woman with unrivalled beauty furrowed her brows, and instantly retrieved the hand that she just used to reach out to touch the little baby’s face.
Her beautiful eyes were stained with a haziness of pain, but it was quickly replaced by the colour of determination.
“Yu Jing is coming back soon. He may be able to save her life.” The woman with unrivalled beauty sighed, her face showing sadness and unspeakable complexity, “Although, in the end, I lied to him, used him, failed him, but with his temperament, he wouldn’t abandon our daughter.”
She stood up, quickly wrote a letter with a brush and ink from the room, then pressed a silver bangle with rich lights, colours, and patterns of flowers on the paper, and her eyes quickly returned to calmness.
Finally, she took a deep look at the baby who was so weak she could die at any time, then hardened her heart, turned to face the old woman, and said: “Let’s go. Ran’er is waiting to be saved with the umbilical cord and blood essence.”
“Yes, Madam.” The old woman nodded, then a translucent plant appeared behind her.
The woman with unrivalled beauty and the old woman walked in front of the plant, then the branches and leaves of the translucent plant quickly wrapped around them. Soon, the two disappeared completely in the room together with the plant.
Before the plant disappeared, neither of them noticed that the weak little baby who had been lying on the bed with her eyes closed suddenly opened her eyes. A strange scarlet flashed in her eyes, and it took a while before it gradually faded back to normal.
1wang (王) usually means ‘king’ or ‘prince’, often a title for someone related to royalty, such as the Emperor’s brother or even sons, but it can also be bestowed. I’ve decided to keep it as pin’yin.
Note: Woohoo! First chapter of one of the new series posted! Enjoy~ Info page can be found here.