Chapter 37
Seeing that the situation was not good, the Yellow Emperor summoned his daughter, Ba.
By this time, Ba had grown into a graceful young woman, dressed in green, with unparalleled beauty. To stop the heavy rain, Ba used the Solar Divine Power god. The rain stopped, and the Yellow Emperor seized the opportunity to kill Chi You and unify the Heavenly Realm.
However, the Goddess Ba exhausted her divine power and could no longer return to heaven, so she could only remain in the Mortal World from then on.
Ba had been waiting for her father, the Yellow Emperor, to take her back to the Divine Realm, but he never came. She was depressed, her face always clouded with sorrow, and she even fell seriously ill.
At this point, a familiar figure suddenly appeared in the scene—it was the white-clad woman they had met at the River of Forgetfulness. Back then, the white-clad woman was still young, a bright and innocent teenage girl, completely unlike her current cold expression and the sorrow shrouding her brows.
The woman in white often visited Female Drought Demon, using her newly learned, somewhat clumsy Healing Art to cure her illnesses, and she would also try her best to make her happy.
"Ba, you must pull yourself together. You've lost your parents, but you still have me." The woman encouraged and comforted her again and again, but she could never heal the wounds in her heart.
When Female Drought Demon was critically ill, a fragment of the soul of Hou, the progenitor of evil beasts, broke through the seal of Nuwa and Fuxi and secretly entered Female Drought Demon's room, merging with Female Drought Demon's three souls and seven spirits. Female Drought Demon's body underwent strange changes; her hair gradually fell out, her forehead became wrinkled, and her body emitted immense heat.
The goddess Ba transformed into the Drought Demon, and wherever she went, nothing would grow within a hundred miles.
That day, the sun scorched the earth, the air was dry, the land cracked in large fissures, and the crops in the fields yielded nothing.
Ba finally saw her father again.
She never expected that her father would not come to take her back to the Divine Realm, but rather to drive away this Drought Demon at the petition of the villagers. The Yellow Emperor settled her north of the Red River, which was called settlement, but wasn't it also a kind of imprisonment?
Disappointment.
Tears streamed down my face.
Resentment.
The demon was influenced by the beast and was shrouded in resentment.
The woman in white traveled a long way to the north of the Red River to see her. She screamed hoarsely, begging the woman in white to kill her! She could no longer control the evil soul of the Hou within her and wanted to do something irreparable!
The white-clad woman's hands trembled as she gripped the sword; she couldn't bring herself to strike her former best friend.
The Evil Qi and resentment within Female Drought Demon's body flowed endlessly, growing ever stronger, and sweeping across the entire world depicted in the painting. The land turned scorched black, the trees withered as if burned, birds, fish, and insects died in the mountains and forests, and wild beasts and humans desperately searched for a way to escape.
Ye Zhenzhen, trapped in the scene, felt as if she had become the Female Drought Demon, deeply affected by her resentment, and uncontrollably craved powerful strength, wanted revenge, and wanted to destroy the world.
"Ba, I didn't save you to watch you fall into depravity and become an enemy of all living beings." In her dazed state, she heard the voice of the woman in white.
"Ye Xiao, how about we make a bet and see if the most powerful force in this world is the power to destroy the heavens and the earth, or the love you keep talking about." Female Drought Demon's voice lingered in her ears.
Ye Xiao? Isn't he their Cloudsky Sect's founding ancestor, the legendary master who supposedly broke through the Tribulation Transcendence Stage and ascended to the Upper Realm? Could that woman in white be Ye Xiao?
She didn't Ascension the Upper Realm, but instead remained hidden in the River of Forgetfulness?
In the midst of chaos, Ye Zhenzhen was suddenly pushed out of the painting by an unseen hand.
"She's awake! She's taken the painting down too!" King of Hell and the Ghost King watched excitedly as the little girl with her hair in pigtails held the painting in her hand, their Spiritual Platform gradually clearing.
This painting was hung at the Ghost Gate when Female Drought Demon wreaked havoc in the Netherworld. For thousands of years, it has been releasing resentment, easily bewitching people and threatening the peace of many beings in the Netherworld. They tried various methods but failed to remove the painting until ten thousand years ago when a woman named Ye Xiao let them smell a scent and told them that a girl with this scent would help them take the painting away in the future.
Over the years, King of Hell had been sending his Ghost Guard to secretly monitor all those who came to the Netherworld and those who Divine Descent, searching for their scents, until they found Ye Zhenzhen.
She removed the painting that had troubled them for years with almost no effort.
However, what they didn't notice was that the moment Ye Zhenzhen received the painting, a dark aura flashed in her eyes. Soon, the Little Glutinous Rice Ball was enveloped in the dark aura.
A strange resentment seemed to surge within her: Go! Take this painting to Qiongqi, and help me destroy this damned world!
The Classic of Mountains and Seas records. "There was a person dressed in green, named Yellow Emperor's Female Drought Demon. Chi You made weapons to attack Yellow Emperor, Yellow Emperor then ordered Yinglong to attack him in the wilderness of Ji Province. Yinglong water, Chi You summoned the Wind Earl and Rain Master, unleashing a great wind and rain. Yellow Emperor then sent down the heavenly maiden Ba, the rain stopped, and Chi You was killed. Ba could not return to heaven, and where she lived, there was no rain. Shujun told the Emperor, and later placed her north of the Red River."
Chapter 37
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As the saying goes, the Phoenix will not perch on anything but the parasol tree.
When Ye Qinghui and Ye Qingyao arrived at Phoenix Valley, all they could see were Phoenix Tree with canopies stretching like a sea of clouds, shimmering with a faint golden light in the sunlight.
The Phoenixes' feathers are like burning flames, noble and elegant, with bright tail feathers. Some perch in pairs on the Phoenix Tree, while others soar high in the blue sky and white clouds, casting a beautiful shadow.
The entire valley is filled with a pure and rich Spiritual Qi, making people feel peaceful and tranquil, and forgetting worldly troubles.
"Where are Junior Sister and Third Junior Brother?" Ye Qinghui and the others waited for a long time, but Ye Zhenzhen and Ye Qingchuan did not appear. They were so anxious that they flew around on their swords to search for them, almost turning Phoenix Valley upside down, but they still could not find their junior brother and sister.
"Could they be stuck in the Netherworld? No! I have to go back and find them right away." Ye Qinghui picked up the Space-Time Conversion Box, preparing to press the time-space knob to go back to find Ye Zhenzhen and the others.
His usually aloof and indifferent face showed no sign of panic despite being poisoned, but a rare look of alarm appeared when he got separated from his Junior Sister. His complexion grew increasingly dark, as if the poison was gradually invading his internal organs, and even his steps became unsteady.