Blue Phoenix Chapter 28 - Confrontation

With her hands still firmly around the young boy’s neck, a low growl erupted from the woman’s throat as she slowly withdrew her shaking hands. Within her eyes, the insanity had been suppressed and instead, profound sadness flooded in like a tide.

The woman swiftly raised her hand, and with a sharp nail stretched out, swinging down fluidly, she cut a fine line on Hui Yue’s cheek.

Small blotches of blood started to drip from this cut, painting his snow-white skin crimson. Even so, Hui Yue did not wake up.

A sigh of vexation escaped the lips of the intruder. She lifted her outstretched finger and made a beckoning gesture towards the wound. Three drops of blood slowly rose from the wound on Hui Yue’s cheek and floated towards her.

When the three drops of blood came closer, the woman gently touched her belt. One jade vial appeared in her hand. The three drops of blood trickled down the neck of the vial before the woman sealed it with spiritual power.

Just as she had arrived, this stranger moved towards the window and stood there for a short while, tarrying reluctantly, gazing at the sky. Eventually, she turned her head and looked at the sleeping boy. An emotionally rich and ineffable expression appeared on her face.

“Stay alive, little lord. At least till we meet again,” she whispered before faintly mumbling a few words. As she spoke the words, a large inscription array lit up, releasing the courtyard from a temporary spell.

Upon exiting the window, big hazel-brown eagle-like wings sprouted from the woman’s back. With a few flaps, she was soaring high into the night, the moonlight spraying her figure silver for a moment.

Unlike the previous visit, this woman no longer flew back to Riluo City disappearing into the darkness. Now she flew towards the cold north and the mountain range which separated the Taiyang Kingdom from Shenyuan.

Hui Yue’s heavy eyelids slowly opened being encrusted by overnight rheum but were greeted by the rising sun from outside his window. Usually, when Hui Yue allowed himself to sleep, he

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