Chapter 36 : The Seven Dead bodies and the Ghost Emperor

She landed on the shores of the silver river the bells she stole was now tied to the end of the ties of her red robes on her waist, it chimed in the cool air of the river. The goblet of blood fire still looks imposing and dangerous as ever, Hong Liu swallowed and clear her throat. For a second she stops seeing the red ambers reflecting the rusted gold edge of the Goblet and its fine, it might be something she never dealt with before but she had to pay back the First Lord favour. She will find a way.

She flies up to be near the edge of the goblet, her heart raced as she felt the heat of demonic energies on her skin, it felt like her skin was scrolling and the scent around it left a dead taste on the tip of her tongue but she courage herself near and look down inside the cup, she gasped. Dark red blood was halfway up and there were bodies drenched in it, floating. She saw it, they were seven bodies scattered and one was in the centre, the centre one was lit with red ambers the blood was sparkling when they said it is a blood fire. It was truly meant the fire was lit from the blood of the sacrificed children of the ghost emperor. Hong Liu grimaces with horrification of the act...such an evil. How could it exist?

The raw demonic energy was too much for Hong Liu's fairy essence and it started to drain her power, the thoughts in her mind scattered as she started to feel the effect of the Goblet.

'It's better I go back,' She thought weakly, she stumbles in the air as she turns to fly but the wind the fairy dust that was falling in the cup touch the centre of the pool of blood just on the centre of the forehead of the body in the centre, on the Ghost Emperor's forehead and his eyes were snapped open, revelling dark yell pupils and a cold smile as he felt the energy of her magnificent wings. He raises his hand from the blood pool, from his blood dripping come yellow light going out of the goblet. The wings, it holds the power he never felt before. there was heat a that the cold blood of his yearn for and he will consume her.

Hong Liu yelp in shock, in fear as a yellow raise, bind her arms to the side and paralysed her wings forcefully pulling her towards the goblet. Her eyes widen in horror as she realizes what is happing.

"No! No, no, no! This can't be....!" She struggled and screamed but nothing helped the more she try to free herself out of the yellow aura the more painfully tighter it wrapped around her.

"Little fairy you can't be free now!" A growl comes out of the cup and her heart raced in panic. No spell would work on the ward that was created around her. It became harder to breathe because of the demonic heat that was burning her skin, she was about tip off the edge and into the goblet, something happened at that moment. Her wings break the spell that was paralysing it and went out of control. The bell on her waist started to ring loudly that it pierced the Ghost emperor's ears and he screamed, he still manages to pull Hong Liu close to the surface of the blood when her wings hit him in the space blowing out the ambers and the fairy dust towards him and he burned and he screamed in agony. His hold loosen on her, when she felt it her eyes went wide, adrenaline pumped her veins and she expands her wings further to hurt him, she took a bigger flight to get away and out of the goblet when she felt a piercing pain on her back just where her wings come out from.

"Ahhhh!" Pain tore out from her spine, she screamed as her flight break, falling back inside the goblet and those bells rang louder.

"Liu'er!" someone called her but the excruciating pain had numbed her and she falls, feeling like she was drowning.