Prologue

"Nooo!

"Hu Rong!

"Chen Ling!

"Man Lu!

"I curse you all!"

Words filled with rage came out from the soft rosy lips of a beautiful maiden that was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the spacious square of a sublime palace. Around her, the lifeless bodies of three men formed a golden barrier, protecting her.

Her phoenix-shaped golden eyes were reddish. They stared up with pain and hate at the people floating some metres above in the sky.

ZIIII. A long sword was pulled from the dead body of a female.

Purple blood gushed out and the handsome man who had killed her backed off in the sky.

The body fell before the beauty of golden eyes, right beside another five badly hurt and lifeless bodies. Aside from their injuries, it could be seen that they had been poisoned as their skins were dyed with shades of purple. And they weren't the only ones.

Around them, nine thousand soldiers had died under poison without being able to put a fight.

"As expected of your generals, my dear," the handsome man slashed empty air to clean his sword, "Although, you might feel disappointed. If they had blown their souls, the damage could have been something and not a useless struggle. We didn't have enough as to poison their souls too, you see, my dear."

"Speaking about it, why haven't you died? I heard the Sweet Holy Poison is the nemesis against us, necromancers," a cute female floating behind the handsome man opened before turning, "Man Lu, are you sure you didn't swap the wine I gave you?"

The cute female stared for a second at a frozen teenager-looking girl before shaking her head and looking down at the cross-legged beautiful maiden.

'A bit more, just a bit more…' her golden eyes stared up and from her mouth began to drip greyish blood, "Cough- I knew you were naive and idealistic, Hu Rong but I didn't know you were actually stupid. I don't know how… cough, cough-

"Never mind, your clouded eyes will be your doom." She grinned, "If you think you can kill me and my people, you are wrong!

"Cough- The people of Goddess Dark Lotus won't die… as long as the souls remain."

Her grin widened, "Empires are meant to fall, you said it. And its people will be the cause, you are right… be prepared for my vengeance."

"AAHHH!"

A heart-cutting cry resounded.

The barrier that protected her broke and a wind blew with her at the centre.

"What is…"

"It can't be that…" the cute female opened wide her dark eyes before yelling, "Quick, kill her!"

As her yell fall, Hu Rong waved his long sword. It ignited a purple flame that went straight at the beautiful maiden.

However, it was too late.

At five centimetres from her body, she disappeared along with all her followers, leaving all the traitors behind.

"She…"

"Chase her! She can't be that far, she ripped her soul."

*****

"Aghh!" In a dark space, a barely discernable female silhouette that shined dim light appeared.

She shook her head, "Look all you want, you won't find me."

"Hmm… how was it?" She blinked and looked rather drowsy.

"Noo..."

"I don't want…"

"Please…"

"Mercy…"

Various voices made their way to her through the darkness.

She covered her ears and closed her eyes to feel her surroundings, 'I have to be quick,' swirling voids appeared and her feeble silhouette widened until it wasn't discernable and only dim sparkles were seen.

'That obscurity, where…?'

"There!" The sparkles congregated in a line that flew straight into one of the swirling voids.

*****

"Damn, I curse you.

"Even if you have become a god, nothing has changed!

"Cursed fate!"

'A man?

'Oh, gosh! It's the body of a male!' The dim sparkles wandered all around and spotted the squatted soul of a ravishing young man.

"Damn destiny, damn all…"

The young man continued to curse without noticing an uninvited soul was inspecting his body.

'I felt it right, it is the Deep Obscurity Body but a male and a Lady Man on top of that… no wonder he is so mad…

'The Deep Obscurity Body is the perfect match for my Yang Soul. Even so, a Lady Man…' she gave it a thought. Males with a Lady Man constitution were bewitching men who could get pregnant and as such, they weren't treated as men but as pretty things to look at and play around. Their statuses didn't matter; the only good thing if they were high-born was that they might get better treatment when married off.

'Doesn't matter, I was a woman…' at length, she thought, 'Plenty of men and women belittled me when I was weak. Huh… not only when I was weak.

'But… he might live...' She had felt that whoever was treating this injured body was doing it fine.

When her thoughts were set, she found the young man was still cursing; his distaste for his life was obvious.

"Stop, you are giving me a headache."

The young man's soul trembled and he swept his eyes through the darkness, looking for the owner of the voice.

"What…" He saw little sparkles congregating and a silhouette began to take form.

"Hello, young god."

"… Who are you?" he asked at the fuzzy female figure.

"Hmm… that's not the correct question.

"You should ask what I want?"

"…" The young man didn't ask it, he felt he shouldn't.

"I want your body," she didn't care he didn't ask and gave her response with a smile.

"…"

"I know you don't like your current life. To your luck, I need a grown-up body as my vengeance can't wait till my reborn self grows and my memories are recovered so… what about if you enter that swirling void." She pointed with her blurry hand.

The young man followed it and saw it.

He shook his head, ready to decline but before he voiced his negative answer out, she appeared beside him and took out a palm-sized golden jade with some symbols engraved, "I'm not evil. You won't die without gaining anything.

"I have an acquaintance in the Netherworld. Show this to a Hell Judge and tell him Shen Rou rewarded this to you. You will be reborn wherever you want as the son of whichever you want, you might even have the fate you want."

Her speech was enticing to the young man. He looked at the golden jade with desire but also hesitation.

"Be quick, or…"

"This body isn't good."

"…" Shen Rou blinked.

"My body…"

"I know, a Lady Man."

"… why would…"

"I'm mentally a woman, you see," she winked.

"Even so…"

"I don't care, so why do you care?"

"…"

"Here, take it." She stuffed the golden jade in his hands as she saw no response from his part, "I also give you this. It will protect your soul against any type of soul attacks… except for poison." She tilted her head as she put on him a silver necklace.

"But…"

"Shhh-." She helped him up and led him to the swirling void.

"If you meet the Hell King called Ye, give him my best wishes."

"Wait, your acquaintance is a Hell… ah!" He was waking up from his daze when she pushed him into the swirling void.

"Good luck and thank you."

The void closed.

"Now… don't let my Empire crumble before I'm ready."