"Kill her!"
"This fairy must not live!"
"She must die!"
"Yes,let's burn her!"
Lian, a peach blossom fairy who had just transformed into human form, was suddenly
ambushed by a clan of demons who wanted to destroy her.
"Look at the mark on her forehead!"
"Yes,it's true!"
"This woman possesses the Sacred Heart!She's the one meant to be an offering to the
Dragon God! We must kill her now!" one of them shouted.
Lian didn't understand what these people were talking about.
"You...what do you mean I'm the owner of a Sacred Heart? You've got the wrong person.
Besides, I don't even know this 'Dragon God' you're talking about," she
protested.
The members of the demon clan exchanged glances.
"The Dragon God wants to destroy our clan because we opposed having a leader like
him!We are never treated as equals by the four united realms. We want to choose
our own leader!"
"Yes! We don't need to join the other three clans. They all look down on us just because
we are the demon clan!"
As Lian pondered his words, one of them lit a fire and prepared to burn Lian, who
was now tied to a wooden stake.
"W-wait! I-I will negotiate with the Dragon God, how about that?" she bargained.
Lian felt these people were completely unreasonable, they were all stubborn and
narrow-minded.
"You? Negotiate with the Dragon God? Hahaha! You're better off dead!"
"Yes! Kill her quickly!"
"This woman will heal the Dragon God!"
"The Dragon God must not recover!The God Clan must be destroyed!"
Lian looked at everyone with a panicked expression, shaking her head repeatedly.
"I won't save the Dragon God, please don't kill me," she cried, her body trembling.
Just as the wood at Lian's feet was about to be lit, Long Wang, who was on his way
home, saw a woman about to be slaughtered at the edge of the forest. Without a
moment's hesitation, Long Wang charged in and beat everyone until they were
bruised and battered.
All the demon clan members lay sprawled on the ground.
"This man is incredibly strong!Which realm are you from?" one of them asked.
Long Wang didn't answer. He immediately untied Lian and helped her get away.
Long Wang had used too much of his energy. He couldn't hold on any longer and his
body collapsed, fainting on the ground.
Lian was frantic, she didn't know what to do with the man who had saved her.
She sat beside him and patted his cheeks, trying to wake him up.
"Hey! Hey! Wake up! Hey!"
Long Wang looked at her, his vision blurry. He couldn't say anything because his
body was too weak.
Lian touched the pulse on Long Wang's wrist to check it. She didn't know where she
had learned this skill from before.
Lian discovered that Long Wang was poisoned by a demon toxin.The poison had almost
spread completely, threatening to rot his heart and poison his bone marrow.
"This man has been poisoned by a demon for a long time. For him to have survived
until now, he must possess immense power," Lian murmured.
Left with no other choice, Lian took him deep into the forest to care for him.
***
Using her spiritual energy, Lian built a small hut and set up a barrier to protect her area so the demon clan couldn't find her. Every day, Lian was busy searching for various types of medicinal herbs. She concocted medicine to help
Long Wang's body recover and slow down the poison's effects.
When Long Wang opened his eyes, he was lying on a simple bed. The man looked at
Lian, who was sitting beside him, wiping his forehead.
Long Wang coughed and then asked her, "Who are you?"
"Me?"
Lian asked with a confused expression. She didn't want to reveal who she was,
afraid that the man who had saved her might change his mind and kill her, just
like the demon clan members she had met.
"I'm a resident from the nearby mountain slopes," she answered, deliberately
lying.
"Oh,"
Long Wang knew the woman in front of him was the embodiment of a peach blossom
tree. He didn't press her with more questions since she clearly didn't want her
identity known.
Lian took a bowl of medicine and offered it to Long Wang.
"Drink this. Your body must be in great pain. That poison has almost rotted your
heart..."
Long Wang was stunned and stared seriously at Lian. There was no sign of great
intelligence in her eyes, so how could she know he was poisoned by a monster?
It was truly shocking.
Long Wang grabbed Lian's wrist. From her pulse, he could feel that Lian was an
ordinary fairy.
"How do you know I was poisoned?" he asked with a curious face.
Lian hid the truth. An old man who had touched her when she was still a peach tree
had shown her everything she would experience in the future, things she
couldn't refuse. That old man with a staff was also the one who gave Lian the
mark on her forehead, marking her as a goddess. However, Lian couldn't tell any
of this to Long Wang.
"I just guessed. I can't explain it in detail. Suddenly, I saw images in my head.
Is this a message from my ancestors? From your blue lips and the wound on your
chest, I could see it clearly. The Ancient Monster Horn is the strongest weapon
of the demon clan. They say even a god's body cannot withstand it for long if
pierced by one."
Hearing this, Long Wang immediately grabbed Lian by the neck.
"How do you know I was pierced by a demon's Monster Horn?"
Lian shook her head in panic. "I don't know! I truly don't know why I knew that. It was all in my head. Did I do
something wrong? You are dying from that poison and are almost dead now. You
must drink this so your condition can improve!" she cried.
Long Wang released his grip on Lian's neck.
Lian felt fortunate that she had hidden the mark on her forehead ever since the
demon clan tied her up.Lian had spiritual power, and she used it to hide her
true identity.
Long Wang wanted to find out more about Lian, but his body was dying and his soul
was almost gone. He had no choice but to trust Lian and drink her medicine.
***
Meanwhile, the inhabitants of the God Realm began to panic because Long Wang had not
returned.
They knew Long Wang had gone alone to the Spirit Realm to cleanse the poison from
his body. So much time had passed, and when they sent a message to the leader of
the Spirit Realm, Songce replied in his letter that Long Wang had left the Spirit Realm about a week ago.