Blue Phoenix Chapter 1 – The Cliff

A cold wind swept in from the ocean as four figures could be seen standing on top of a cliff. A cliff which led straight down to raging waves and deadly rocks.

‘Are you really sure we need to go down there?’ Hui Yue asked questioningly, as he looked down at what seemed to be certain death yet the stubborn phoenix just hummed in reply to the question.

It had been four months since Hui Yue set out from the Magical Forest with Deng Wu, Wang Ju Long, and Sha Yun. Since then the group of four had wandered to the southwestern part of the kingdom, a place where there was nothing but water as far as the eye could see.

Hui Yue and his friends were standing at the very end of the peninsula. The most western part of the Taiyang Kingdom. Hui Yue never allowed for his eyes to become complacent; an alertness was always present within his ice-blue eyes.

Standing at the end of the kingdom, Hui Yue was at the very edge of the small world in which he currently resided. The peninsula was one large cliff, thousands of meters above the raging seas.

Looking down, even the usually excited Sha Yun showed signs of worry, as the violent waves crashed against the cliff’s stone wall.

‘It used to be around here,’ Lan Feng said while frowning slightly. Not even the firm ground looked as it had four thousand years ago; instead, the raging waters had corroded much eating up tiny bits of rock year by year. Four thousand years later those small pieces of rock turned into large chunks of land, changing the landscape completely.

Four months back, Hui Yue and Sha Yun lead Wang Ju Long and Deng Wu through the Magical Forest and past the countryside. All the way to this southwesternmost point of the kingdom. The place where the entrance to the Dungeons of the Divine allegedly should be.

During this trip, Hui Yue did his very best to coerce some information from Lan Feng about these dungeons which they were about to encounter, yet he gained nothing from the damned bird leaving Hui Yue expecting a humid and dark maze of underground tunnels where no sunshi

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