Save The Phoenix

 Cyrus immediately used his vital energy to defreeze Mark and warm him up and he became conscious again after a while. 

Since you'd rather die than tell me where the phoenix is, fine. Then I will show you something, Cyrus said. 

 In the farm land belonging to the heavenly realm, Alice sat down drinking hangover soup and Jennie stood aside watching her.

This hangover soup is so good, Alice said. I need more please.

This is the peach juice from peach that blossoms every three thousand years, you can't have more than a filling of it as you wish, Jennie told her.

I can't imagine a minor peach fairy like you could make peach juice wine.

Kitchen god...

Who are you talking to?

You!

Eya! Stop calling me kitchen god, just call me Alice. Adding those honorary titles looks so boring.

But you are a high immortal, Jennie said.

So what? We are having a conversation, so just let it be simple. Speaking of which, you have lived for many years and you should be my senior.

That's right! Then Alice it seems you are troubled.

Alice smiled and said "why do you say so?"

Because you were drowning your sorrows with wine. I've seen that many times in the mortal world.

Can one really drown his sorrows? Why do I feel like it's useless?

So, is it Stanley? Jennie asked and sat down beside her. 

What does it have to do with Stanley?

Everyone knows about the engagement between you and Stanley.

Me and Stanley are just cousins and nothing more.

So if not Stanley, which high immortal could it be? Jennie asked thinking thoroughly with her hand on her lips.

He is not from the heavenly realm, Alice interrupted her thoughts. 

Aah! Jennie exclaimed and immediately stood up, giving Alice some distance.

Shush! Don't tell anyone, Alice warned her immediately.

Kitchen god you are so wonderful and I admire you. The immortals and the demons are down to the bone enemies and distinctively separate. As a noble high immortal of the heavenly realm, you managed to break through the feuding barrier of the two realms and fall in love with a demon. It's really the grand love of the three realms, Jennie Saluted and bowed to her.

Alice smiled and put on a sad expression almost immediately.

However, he doesn't seem to know I like him, maybe he doesn't want to have anything to do with me.

Haaa? Why? Jennie asked and sat down tiredly. Alice do you still have some wine left? I want to drink some too.

Why? Alice asked.

Because the feeling of loving someone that is impossible to be with you, I know it. Let me get drunk with you.

Jennie immediately stood up and took Alice by the hand, pulling her away to get wine.

Hey Jennie! Do you have a lover? Who is he? Alice asked while they went to get wine. 

 At home, Linda had fallen half asleep in an uncomfortable position while sitting down and waiting for Stanley to come back. Stanley came back with a sad expression, walking sluggishly. Linda woke up suddenly and seeing it was him, she stood up and hugged him tightly.

Stanley don't leave anymore. I am willing to die for you if it's meant to be, Linda said.

Silly! Stanley rebuked. I won't let you die.

He held her hand and looked her straight into the eyes.

Don't worry once I go back to the heavenly realm, I will beg my father and he will save you, okay?

Linda nodded and they hugged each other again. While they hugged, Stanley thought to himself "Linda for you I won't get cold feet again, no matter what, I will always be by your side".

In the demon realm, Mark and Cyrus with his assistant where standing at the podium in front of the purple rose. It had bloomed brightly and a powerful aura of vital energy was surging around it. Cyrus told Mark everything related to the phoenix and the purple rose and the past associated with it. Letting him know the dangers Linda will face and is already facing, if she is not found and given back her heart(the purple rose).

No! Impossible! Mark screamed.

 After Stanley's vital energy had finished recovering, he visited the heavenly realm. His father knew he was coming at waited for him to bring news. As he stepped up the last step to the terrain overlooking the beautiful skies, his father told him "you are finally here", he still had his back to him. 

Yes, Stanley answered.

Where is the phoenix?

Stanley knelt down with a sad and pleading expression.

I beg you father to save the phoenix.

You found it? His father asked.

Yes, Stanley answered calmly. The phoenix is in danger to save me, please save her. That's why I came here, besides that I have no other request.

His father turned to look at him and turned his back to him once more.

In the end, you still can't escape your fate, he said and used his vital energy to conjure a spell that drew Stanley into an illusion. In the illusion he saw how the phoenix was born and how it caused chaos to people of different realms of existence and how his mother was the only one who could fight it. The phoenix accumulated evil power over the course of years and broke the heaven demon barrier and started a war. She tried to purify it's soul with a flower and that gave birth to the purple rose. But after the phoenix's nirvana, it went crazy again and this time it was much more powerful than his mother. Before his father could arrive, his mother had already blown her soul which only killed the phoenix but it would be reborn again and go through another nirvana.

 After seeing this and coming out from the illusion, Stanley was heartbroken.

How true is this? And why no one is talking about it? He asked.

I knew you didn't like the killings and you couldn't stand it, so I sealed your memories and forbade anyone from talking about it, his father said. Now your mission is to kill the phoenix with the blue flame sword your mother left behind.

But father Linda is kind hearted and portrays no atom of evil.

If the host body of the phoenix has a weak bloodline, it will not be able to be stimulated. But the bloodline has been stimulated twice, if it is stimulated for the third time, no one will be able to stop it. The last time the phoenix went through nirvana, many high immortals where injured. This is your mission to avenge your mother, his father narrated.

I'm sorry father, I can't do it!