Self Confidence

"How's this? Taeshin, do you have a plan?"

Lee Gon who was behind Taeshin while he was busy pushing the skeletal bodies using his sword as a shield, tried to talk to Taeshin who was doing some basic punches with his two hands that were quite lethal, towards the skulls.

"I don't have any plans, Lee Gon. Although they look weak, the bodies of these skulls are very strong."

"Then what should we do, Taeshin? Usually, you always have brilliant ideas!"

"Don't engage me in conversation Lee Gon. I'm busy."

"You think I'm not busy? These skulls keep multiplying and overwhelming us."

"I'm already tired, don't talk to me anymore. Die you damn skull!"

Taeshin, who was already looking very tired, began to beat up one by one the deadly skulls that tried to approach him, while attacking him with his death blow. However, his efforts always ended in vain. Because the more they tried to counterattack and hit them, the skulls came back to life and multiplied. It was impossible to reduce the death rate of the skulls under these circumstances.

"How is this? Is there no way to defeat them?" Asahi attempted to smash the faces of the skulls with his divine lotus flower wand.

"I don't know, I can't think of anything else but to attack them with my full strength," Ling Fei replied, and went back to attacking the skulls by slashing at them with his sword, "don't grab my hair, damn skulls!"

Annoyed that the skulls were grabbing his hair, Ling Fei kicked the skulls' bodies hard, until they broke into two pieces and shattered into splinters.

"Ling Fei, there is one tree that caught my attention. And, it feels very strange."

Asahi tried to talk to Ling Fei. However, it seemed like Ling Fei was busy beating up the skulls that had begun to surround him.

"Are you referring to the Maple tree, Asahi?" asked Taeshin who suddenly came and stood behind her, and helped her to attack the army of death skulls.

Asahi looked into Taeshin's face and nodded his head slowly.

"Yes, that tree is strange. As far as I know, a Maple tree can't stand upright in a wilderness like this. Ever since I entered this forest, that tree has been bothering me."

Hearing the conversation between Taesin and Asahi, made Bai Lu think for a moment. Is it possible that the key to all of this is indeed in that Maple tree?

Han Yuram, what should I do this time? Bai Lu thought.

"Call Wiggle Azura to help you, Yuram in the future. The rest you think of yourself, I can't help you much this time. You have to figure it out on your own," replied Han Yuram in the past whose voice came back to him.

"Wiggle Azura, beautiful bird, great bird, my best friend. Come here and come to me. I need you," Bai Lu said softly while closing her eyes.

A giant Fire Bird Wiggle Azura flew over and came to Bai Lu. As soon as she was called, she immediately came to her, making Bai Lu, who saw her, smile widely and happily.

"Wiggle Azura is here!" Taeshin exclaimed happily as soon as he saw the giant bird coming towards Bai Lu.

"Wiggle Azura? Are you talking about the Fire Bird?" Ling Fei looked confused.

"Yes, Ling Fei. That Fire Bird has a name, Wiggle Azura. She was one of our heroes during the incident in the illusory forest to kill Shin Yeongdo. She is our best friend, she is Wiggle Azura."

Taeshin smiled widely upon seeing Wiggle Azura coming. As Bai Lu stretched out his hand, Azura immediately pulled him, allowing him to sit on her large body, then fly high above the sky.

"Azura, what should we do now? Those skulls can't just be defeated. They're very strong, Azura."

"Calm down, Swordsman. Everything that is difficult, will find a way out. I'm sure you can do it."

"Me? How could I? I don't know a way out." Bai Lu looked visibly unconfident.

"You don't believe in your own abilities, Swordsman?" asked Azura, causing Bai Lu to pause for a moment.

Bai Lu was stunned. Until now, he had not been confident in his own abilities. Although he managed to kill the enemies many times, but it was all thanks to the help of his friends and also Han Yuram in the past. He only played the role of executioner, not the brains of problem-solving.

She became a powerful warrior only because she was trapped inside Han Yuram's body, not because of her own abilities. She was just a weak, naive, and helpless girl.

Perhaps, if she believed in her own strength and abilities, Bai Lu could solve all the problems that happened to her and her friends every time?

"You have to believe in yourself, Swordsman. If not you, then who else will believe in you?"

Bai Lu thought about things and tried to digest what Azura had said to him. What Azura said was right, if not her, who else could believe in her power and be able to help her friends?

"I believe in myself, Wiggle Azura. I am Jeonsa Goljjagi, the guardian swordswoman of the sacred waterfall valley who is the ruler of Mount Halla. I'm also a Heneunim Uju, so I'm very confident in my abilities."

This time, Bai Lu looked confident. And, that confidence made her body radiate such a bright light.

"I like your confidence, Swordsman. Then, order me to do something quickly."

Bai Lu closed his eyes. He began to try to sense his surroundings by concentrating fully. Trying to bring out a powerful energy within him, by sharpening his sense of hearing and smell.

Suddenly something happened to him. It was as if he had entered into a circle of the solar system of the universe, just by closing his eyes.

He seemed to be able to see clearly the entire universe with everything in it, until he arrived at an empty place, and only the color of pure white was visible to his inner eyes.

"God of the universe Han Yuram, what do you want from me?" asked someone who suddenly appeared as he saluted Bai Lu.

"Sun god, I ask for your help to shine your sunlight into the forest of death skulls. I want your rays to penetrate through the forest of death skulls, so that it can provide some light there."

"As you wish. Since your request is an order for me."

As soon as he said his request, Bai Lu opened his eyes in shock, and with both eyeballs widened in surprise.

Why am I able to talk to the Sun God and command him? Is it because I'm also an incarnation of the God who is Uju's Haneunim? Bai Lu thought.

For some reason, all of a sudden when Bai Lu circulated his eyes, everything felt very dark. However, there was one point where the light came into view. The light was on a Maple tree that was glowing so brightly.

"Maple tree? Why?" said Bai Lu quietly and looked confused.

"That Maple Tree has always stood firmly there, Swordsman. But, I think there's something strange about that Maple tree."

"Strange? What's strange, Azura?" Bai Lu sounded confused and extremely curious.

"It's like I heard human screams inside that Maple Tree. Like people screaming from torture and asking for absolute liberation, Swordsman."

"Absolute liberation? Is that tree not actually a Maple tree, but a death tree that holds hundreds of human souls?"

"Yes, Swordsman. That could be the case."

"Then take me to that Maple tree, Azura!"

"As you wish."

Wiggle Azura instantly led Bai Lu towards that Maple tree. Ling Fei and his other friends, meanwhile, were still struggling to fight off hundreds of endless skull armies.

"Where did Yuram go? Is he doing something?"

Lee Gon was seen charging back at the skulls. As for Taeshin, he tried to wrestle with the skull army and knocked it to the ground, while cutting its bones to shreds.

However, Taeshin was again surprised because the bone fragments came back together and formed one whole skull, thus splitting it into two parts.

"Damn it! They fused back together!"

While Taeshin and the others seemed to be busy, Bai Lu had arrived in front of a death tree that looked from the outside like a Maple tree. However, when touched the tree shook.

"Why is this tree shaking?"

Bai Lu tried to bring her ear closer to the Maple tree. When she pressed her ear against the trunk of the tree, what Azura said was true. She could hear human cries inside the tree, as if asking for help.

"Right, this is the tree of death. Azura!" Bai Lu shouted out.

"Yes, Swordsman."

"Help my friends from the sky. Blast your dragon fire at the skulls until they burn. When I manage to uproot this tree, ask the Sun God to help you burn down this entire forest. And, tell the Taeshin, when everything becomes corrupted, ask him to restore things to normal."

"As you wish, Swordsman."

As soon as Bai Lu ordered something big, Wiggle Azura immediately left and flew to help Bai Lu's friends who were in trouble. Did Bai Lu succeed this time with all the plans she had neatly laid out?