Dance Of The Phoenix
139. The Sacrifice of 1000 Bloods

Finally Gu Yuena returned to the place where she started the absorption of the demon monsters. The double door opened, letting Gu Yuena go inside to see any changes in the altar.

The demon bone had become the core of the altar, lighting a dense red radiance like blood accompanied by dark energy roaming about. It had yet to be activated, but it had already emitted an overwhelming death aura.

The focus of Gu Yuena who was staring at the demon bone was now shifted. His gaze looked lazy just to go towards Li Hua. However, unknowingly his steps came to a halt once he saw someone.

The tall man was reddish-browed as well as a red iris similar to Gu Yuena. He was wearing a black robe, looking extremely resolute and mysterious. However, when his eyes fell on the woman who had just entered the altar room, the mysteriousness disappeared replaced by warmth.

"Sin." He smiled, then walked over to Gu Yuena who was nailing.

Gu Yuena's feelings became complicated. Before, he was eager to meet the man. But now, in a situation like this, he felt helpless.

His sister ... was in front of him, calling out to him, and touching his head gently. The gaze of an older brother that Gu Yuena yearned for was now present in front of her. Gu Yuena really did not know how to express herself.

"Nr ...." Gu Yuena pursed her lips, then hugged the man tightly. Gu Yuan had chuckled at Gu Yuena's unexpected reaction, he rubbed Gu Yuena's shoulder gently.

Gu Yuena took off a hug, then saw Gu Yuan return meticulously. His appearance and aura changed a lot from a few years ago.

It has been seven years ..there have been many changes between them.

"You're a big one." Gu Yuan rubbed Gu Yuena's head.

Gu Yuena's longing gaze changed in an instant. Looking at her brother's eyes deeply, she was reminded of something. Li Hua once said that he and Gu Yuan were sent to another world with his father's soul and lived together. That meant, the big brother in front of her was really her brother, not just merely similar.

The look turned into sadness. Gu Yuena lowered her head, then sighed to suppress the feeling of pain in her heart. Given the tragedy of the past, it made him very sick.

In another world, Gu Yuan died in front of him. Gu Yuan was an agent in a community, often doing dangerous things. When Gu Yuena followed Gu Yuan out of curiosity what the man was working on during their move abroad, he could only see Gu Yuan leaving him in a bomb explosion in a building.

That was the beginning of everything. Gu Yuena's whereabouts were discovered and invited by team leader Gu Yuan to join, citing revenge. Gu Yuena who is too young and easily manipulated follows into the community, and becomes close to the team leader who will eventually kill him.

That's an old story. It's only natural that the team leader killed him. Gu Yuena was betrayed because the community asked the head of his team to kill the family that housed Gu Yuena and Gu Yuan after their parents died. Until now, he still did not feel guilty.

(For the curious, Chapter 1 already told the reason Gu Yuena was killed. To find out about the full 'team heads', you can stop by the next novel that I have finished~)

It was a bad day for Gu Yuena. Better to forget it. It's good that her brother comes back to life.

"You're getting old." Gu Yuena smiled mockingly.

"Is that so?" Gu Yuan was surprised. The feeling of his age is not yet 30.

Gu Yuena nodded. "More looks like a mother's delivery." His mother looks so young compared to his age.

"Are you praising or mocking?" Gu Yuan felt anxious and pinched Gu Yuena's cheek.

"Not meant to interrupt the reunion, but the red moon's time will be over." Li Hua suddenly appeared between them, reminding that the right time was running out.

Gu Yuena could see the dark sky and the moon shining in red. The demon bone became the moon's energy absorption medium, spreading it to the altar.

He immediately approached, then stood at one corner of the altar. The three surrounded the altar with their respective energies. In the center of the altar, there was already a coffin where one fell asleep inside.

Li Hua started the altar awakening. The demon bones activated, emitting a dense red radiance and adorning the altar with blood.

Gu Yuena and Gu Yuan were assigned to defend the altar from the turmoil of the demonic bone power. The strength of the demon bones was unpredictable. If the energy was too strong, the effects of the demon bones could destroy the altar in an instant. The sacrifice of 1000 blood will fail.

In order to maintain the sacrificial altar of 1000 blood, one must use the soul power possessed by the same bloodline as the sacrificial target of 1000 blood. Gu Yuena and Gu Yuan were the only descendants of the Linghun Palace Gu Family, whereas Li Hua was the intermediary to activate the altar and awaken the spirits.

Li Hua's strength was not something that could be measured back. When he married Gu Ying, his strength had already reached level 9. He lived for thousands of years in the Underworld until he could control the souls of the dead. Activating the sacrificial altar of 1000 blood would use thousands of years of his cultivation. But it was worth it to revive Gu Ying.

He will get his love back.

Thinking about it made Li Hua very happy. He really hopes that everything can be perfect again like in that world. She had made her two children return to this place and meet, only to awaken Gu Ying to complete their happiness.

That red light surrounded Gu Ying. His black coffin emitted a pitch-red glow from under the altar, then circled around the man's cold body.

Dragon blood cannot be incarnated. When they die, their souls will be scattered and will never be found. However, Li Hua had managed to keep Gu Ying's soul inside the demon bone before it was torn apart, now fusing it together with 1000 blood to revive her.

When the soul and the blood unite, life will rise. That was what happened as the blood red radiance continued to be absorbed into the soul that fused with the physical body inside the coffin.

Knowing that, Gu Yuena was extremely shocked. It turned out that all this time, he had always carried his father's soul during his time in the Underworld.

On the other hand, Gu Yuan did not look surprised, it seemed like he already knew. Gu Yuena glanced at him, then sighed. I don't know how much more he doesn't know.

Li Hua's strength was getting drained. The pressure within the demon bone was too great to cause spiritual power to be injured. Li Hua's mouth was dripping blood, but he simply did not stop channeling his spiritual power.

The demon bones managed to condense the soul that had previously been nearly smashed into pieces, back into the origin body. The strength of the demon bones grew stronger as a surge of spiritual energy occurred, knocking out Gu Yuena and Gu Yuan simultaneously so that their spiritual power network was cut off.

The demon bone that had previously floated in the air, landed on top of Gu Ying's body. The red moon's light grew increasingly dense, spreading across the world with lightning strikes as it defied the sky.

Out there, the red moon looks very clear. The devil is getting stronger and causing trouble. The Underworld was also affected by the effects of the red moon. The demons grew increasingly uncontrollable and broke through the natural barrier, spreading throughout the world.

It's like the resurrection of a demon god.

Gu Yuena watched the demon bones enter Gu Ying's body. The red radiance turned pitch-black, filled with an aura of darkness. While Li Hua looked very happy and hopeful.

"Finally ...." Li Hua looked towards her husband. The rays on both his hands disappeared, while his body collapsed to the floor from being too tired. He tried to maintain his consciousness as he stood up to approach the coffin in the middle of the altar.

Gu Ying's face was still very pale and cold. His eyes were closed as if he were asleep. Looks very handsome.

Li Hua looked at him with a restless feeling. The red light around the altar was still burning, flowing into the coffin and piercing through the nerves of Gu Ying's body. Li Hua was still waiting, while looking with a pale face that looked sad.

"Did it work?" Gu Yuena glanced at Gu Yuan with a complicated feeling. Gu Yuan immediately got up, walked over to Gu Yuena to help her get up and stand right on the edge of the flaming altar.

Li Hua could not imagine that his efforts were in vain. He sacrificed his thousands of years of cultivation for this. Dangerous thinking arises when thinking that sacrifice has failed.

He needs more blood.

However, the thought of such danger ends when one is aware of one's movements. The pair of eyelids inside the coffin moved, accompanied by a frown that looked like it was enduring the pain.

Li Hua gasped. He approached Gu Ying, touching her face gently trying to help ease the pain. The demon bones were fusing to give him life, it would probably give him immense pain.

It's fine, as long as Gu Ying can come back to life.

His expression became complicated. Looking at the woman's beautiful and pale face, he felt that something was stirring in his heart. Memory after memory appears, two worlds fused together in one memory and give it a new feeling.

"Hua'er," he said. Her cold hand grabbed Li Hua's pretty face gently.

Li Hua was surprised, not expecting Gu Ying to remember everything after so long. But he put away all those negative thoughts and cupped the hand that touched his cheek with a bad feeling. Tears trickled down her red eyes, before finally looking down as she freed her tears.

Gu Yuena and Gu Yuan only looked in silence. They were surprised to see Li Hua crying. The woman is usually very cruel and laughs at killing, blood-loving and destruction. Now the woman is sobbing on top of an open coffin.

It was as if they were looking at the figure of their mother they had seen before.

Gu Yuan was curious and stepped towards Li Hua. He looked at Gu Yuena who was only silent on the spot in a blank expression, then led her hand to come along.

Gu Yuena gasped to see Gu Yuan lead her, and she stepped up. His mind was complicated, his heart was complicated as well. He was aware of what Li Hua saw so he did not know how to express.

When his gaze saw the figure of the man he had once known opened his eyes, showing a look of affection towards his mother, Gu Yuena's heart felt tight.

Was that the person who had been a father to him before? The one who once spoiled her and left her just like that?

Looking at that face, Gu Yuena felt all the bitter delusions in the past repeated. The picture as little Gu Yuena waving in front of the school gate while jumping up and down, greeting the man who brought her a birthday cake across the street.

When the pedestrian lights turned green, the man crossed. But a car passing by without such rules has gone crazy and caused a miserable accident just like that.

Gu Yuena could hardly believe the person lying in the coffin was her father. His face was still the same as before, only slightly more mature than Gu Yuan's. Her father had been dead for a very long time, but Gu Yuena could not deny what she was seeing at the moment.

It felt too sad, as well as happy at the same time.

Gu Yuan was as speechless as Gu Yuena. Although he did not witness the death in person, the feeling of seeing a familiar figure in the funeral coffin as well as a photograph strung together by a wreath was painful. Moreover, he witnessed it twice.

Gu Ying's gaze was directed at Gu Yuan and Gu Yuena alternately. Her soft smile was imprinted, watching her two children grow up so well. Gu Yuena was the one he cared about the most. When in that mortal life, he would not forget his days of being an ordinary human being with them.

Gu Yuena must have felt extremely devastated seeing her death head-on. He was very small at the time.

Gu Ying wanted to say something, but her neck felt a great pain. Body too. Li Hua deftly helped Gu Ying who wanted to get up from her position, then called out a competent servant to help.

Several servants entered when called using telepathy. Quickly brought the cloak that had been provided, then covered Gu Yuan who was wearing thin clothes.

The man is still in a weak condition. He coughed and spat out blood from his mouth, making them worried. It was the effect of the demon bones. He no longer had the dragon power he had trained in the past, there was only the corrosive demonic power of the demon bones. That's why, his body became vulnerable.

Gu Yuena just kept silent watching them leave. His gaze remained blank, whereas Gu Yuan beside him was still grasping it. Gu Yuan looked happy and relieved, but Gu Yuena was filled with doubt and emptiness.

"Is he really our father?" ask Gu Yuena.

Gu Yuena looked at Gu Yuena, then smiled. "You have to be sure everything's gonna be okay."

Gu Yuena was still full of doubts. "No. There's something."

Gu Yuan didn't know, but Gu Yuena knew. Gu Yuena had interacted for a very long time with the dragon blood and had understood it. Gu Ying had dragon blood. The power of the dragon being replaced by demonic power just like that would put him in a critical condition.

Moreover, there was no other phoenix blood other than Gu Yuena. Although there was, it could no longer be dealt with by phoenix blood.

The sacrifice of 1000 blood was used to raise death or increase strength. However, something that is made into an object will turn into a demon. If not, there will only be death.

Gu Ying lost her strength. But the curse of dragon blood will continue to exist. It would deteriorate as long as the demon bones were in his body. In that case, his condition was the same as waiting for death. His life was very short, shorter than phoenix blood.

"What are you thinking?" Luo Yi asked as she saw Gu Yuena contemplating alone in the palace courtyard. He sat next to Gu Yuena, looking at her curiously.

"It's nothing." Gu Yuena averted her gaze and put on an indifferent face. He looked at Luo Yi, then asked, "Why did you choose to stay here?"

Luo Yi smiled, then replied, "I chose to follow Gu Yuan."

"Klan Luo needs you. You know how annoying Luo Zhiyi is when she blames me for you disappearing with my sister."

Luo Yi sighed. "Did something happen to the Luo Clan?"

"The Clan Chief is seriously ill, predicted not to live long. Luo Zhiyi had been urged to become a successor, but she was not ready yet. You take it easy, I've taken care of the Clan Leader, he'll be fine. It's just that, if something really happened, the position of clan head would really be empty."

"I never meant to be a successor." Luo Yi lowered her head, seeming to think of something. They demanded her to be a perfect woman, have great strength and achievements to cover up any controversy Luo Zhiyi had. He was once urged to become a successor because Luo Zhiyi wanted to live freely. But that wasn't his wish.

"I understand how you feel." Gu Yuena leaned back as she sighed, "I was thinking of handing over the phoenix throne to another, more competent phoenix. But .. I can't do it. It'll just make a mess. So don't just think about yourself. You love freedom, everyone wants it. But not everyone can get it."

"If I become the Clan Leader, I will be bound there and not be able to be with the person I love. Gu Yuena, I am a selfish person. It's not worth getting that position." Luo Yi did not care about the disappointment of others. They were not his parents, only his uncles and aunts who kept demanding it. There's no connection to him.

Gu Yuena chuckled. "It seems living in Linghun Palace made you completely change."

"I see you seem displeased at the rise of the King of Linghun Palace. He's your father." Luo Yi shifted the topic. He came to ask this. Gu Yuan himself did not know why Gu Yuena looked gloomy.

Gu Yuena shook her head slowly. "Just remember the past" he said. "I was so happy I didn't know what to do. But on the other hand, I am also sad. Will I be left for the umpteenth time?"

"The King is very healthy, the Queen also accompanies him at all times and nothing will happen. If you want to be sure, you can see him."

Gu Yuena was silent for a while. It felt very strange after a long time of not meeting, making him feel awkward. What should he say in front of Gu Ying?

Showing fun? His disappointment? Or concerns? What would Gu Ying say to her?

Li Hua was in that world and this world was much different. He was not sure the man would have the same attitude as in that world. After all, here, he was the ruler of a palace that had lived for thousands of years in the Underworld. Different from ordinary men who work in an office for their small family.

Gu Yuena so longed for the life of the modern world.

"Will he remember me?" Gu Yuena was still doubtful. Too hesitant to be afraid.

"He'll remember you." Luo Yi assured. He had already heard everything from Gu Yuan, so understand why Gu Yuena was so worried.

Gu Ying would remember Gu Yuan, but Gu Yuena was never born in this world when Gu Ying was alive. Gu Yuena was born when Gu Ying was already dead and only met as a father and son while in the modern world that was already like a dream. It's only natural that he feels foreign.

"Trust what you want to believe." Luo Yi cupped Gu Yuena's hand, giving her some spirit.

Gu Yuena was depressed, but still nodded slowly. Well, wouldn't know if it didn't try.