26 White Lotus (1/2)

The moment Han Yi had dissipated into nothingness, a young man clad in lightning armor was swirling around a vortex of lightning. His blue toga fluttered with the current as he flew on top of a lightning bolt.

The young man felt a jolt in his back it passed like a quick shiver but left a lingering fear. The lightning pool around his receded inside of him.

As the lightning receded, the forest became visible as it stretched to the ends of the horizon. At the center of all this was a buzzing metropolis above it was a 9 pointed sword star, the mark of Verulyim.

The young streak along the sky on a lightning bolt passing through every obstruction to the kingdom almost like a specter. The lightning bolt shot through the city dodging the black tower and other historical landmarks.

Then it crashed down at a palace at the very center of village atop a large stairwell. Everyone in the palace looked up as they saw a blue light flash in the sky.

”His Majesty has returned!” An older maid in a black dress said to two women who were cleaning up. They looked at each other frantically as they moved to tell everyone else.

At that moment the young man's body had already passed through layers of the palace, breaking through the stairwell and heading underground hundreds of meters.

He shot through a strange patch of dirt in the ground and stepped through into a cave. Inside of which was an old man with graying hair sitting atop a stone throne. He had a beard that stretched down to his chest and wore a white toga.

The young man's specter-like body passed through the air and entered into the old man's body. The originally motionless body started to shake heavily. An electrifying aura passed through the cave walls making the ground rumble and shine with blue light from the cracks.

His closed eyes opened revealed a blue glow that could extinguish all life. The body rose from the throne slowly as lightning crackled as his joints set into place.

His body had not risen in ages and this was the first time the Verulyim King awoke in ages. His body dissipated into blue light that shot out from the ground. When he reached the surface he went into the courtyard of the palace and stepped down onto the ground.

There were a few maids watering the plants but when they turned around they dropped their watering cans as they looked at the man with surprise.

”Your Majesty, you have awoken!” A person exclaimed from inside the palace, a woman emerged from the palace entering into the courtyard.

She wore a white gown with 9 different swords on the hem of the dress, her long flowing black hair was tied up in a bun. She wore a demure and genial expression as she approached the king.

”My child, Emily. What happened to your brother Han Yi?” The Verulyim king asked with a kind and fatherly tone.

Emily's brows furrowed with doubt as she hesitated on what to say.

”We just noticed it but...his soul lamp...it dissipated into nothingness.” She decided to say but struggled to explain.

The king's face became ashen at that moment confusing Emily greatly. The King's eyes looked baffled with indecision at until he finally gritted his teeth.

”Do you remember the quest I gave out a while ago?” The king questioned with an amicable tone.

”Yes, father.” Emily responded courteously.

”Good, then you'll know what you need to do.” The king said praising his daughter. He was more than assured in her skills.

He reached into his white toga and removed a chart, it had on it various markings that pointed towards a spot. He handed the chart to Emily and spoke:”Assemble a group to find Han Yi at these coordinates.”

”There's a high possibility that a demon will be there. Do not engage it, simply follow it and find out what it's doing.” The king warned as his brows furrowed up in response.

”Don't engage it? Why not?” Emily said with a confused tone, she specialized in hunting demons and had assumed that was her father's goal with sending her out.

”It's not the demon we care about. It's the inheritance land that he controls.” The Verulyim king said with a hint of greed passing through his eyes.

”What land?” Emily said unsure, she wondered what could stir her father so much. He was at the peak of the world with a profound cultivation that she couldn't even understand.

”The Land of a Bearer!” The Verulyim king said with a gleaming smile.

”What?!?” A shock traveled through Emily's body all at once making her shiver. The power of bearer stands at the very peak of all life, it was a power that even surpassed the king. By how much one couldn't calculate, as the bearers are known as completely invincible.

”There could only be two lands not maintained by a force, The Earth Bearer's or the Thunder Bearer's!” Emily said as she thought through all the forces in the west.

In the Western lands, there are two big sects the Verulyim Sect of Chivalry and the Shadow Sect of Exorcisms.