Kenji's father commanded his spiritual weapon—thousand chains. It projected out, thundering from his sword.
"You either obediently get your core sealed by me or this will be the one dealing your core." Kenji's father signalled towards the thousand chains.
Kenji's gaze moved towards the weapon, his heart was beating faster and faster, fear taking over his mind.
"No." He said.
"What?" His father asked again, hai eyebrows furrowed with anger.
"I said no. No means no. I will not let you seal my core." Kenji's voice roared through the palace. He got up, his eyes reflected both, fear and rage.
The thousand chains lashed at him, he fell down with a thud on the floor. His face came in contact with the flower, his lower face was bleeding. His father continued to strike him with the chains, the pain was overwhelming. Kenji's fragile body was covered in bruises, blood and scars as he lay on the ground, helplessly crying for mercy.
The chains were heavy and merciless but what truly hurt him were the fact that he would never be loveable to his parents. The weight of the chain was cold, but the weight of the words and his parents hatred towards him was colder and heavier. Blood flowed from his wounds like an endless stream, his heart felt heavy and blocked. He felt suffocated and the world around him grew blurry. After nearly an hour of relentless beating, his body stopped flailing, he had no strength left to even try to defend himself anymore. His eyes shifted upon his mother, who sat in the balcony at a distance, completely ignoring the scene unfolding infront of her.
"Mother ….are you listening? Are you seeing? Please mother…I beg you, don't do this to me. Please stop father. I will never even practise cultivation, please don't deal my core." Kenji begged, his voice worn out and throat dry. He felt the blood in his mouth.
"You do not exist to me you monster." His mother said, hatred pooled in her eyes and she went out of the room. Kenji yearned to hear a word which was not dripping with disgust and hatred. Kenji's father dragged him towards a corner of the room, Kenji felt numb, he saw his mother walk away from her own son's body begging for mercy, he watched his father lash out his hatred, he was helpless, no one to turn to. His father kept his right hand on Kenji's forehead and recited a sealing spell, then with a strike of his energy he blew a fist on Kenji's lower chest, a wave of energy radiated out. With a swift motion, he projected out thousand chains again and sealed Kenji's core. Kenji felt a pool of blood form in his stomach, threatening to come out. His eyes felt as if someone is gauging them out. His head felt heavy and as if someone is crushing it between a wall of cement. His hands and knees felt weak, he collapsed, the world turning dark in front of him and then finally, black.
"I will come to your kingdom. Just get well soon." Kenji spoke after a while, his hand still caressing Liuxing's cheek.
Liuxing lifted his head, his face was adorned with a soft smile, not a smirk, not a malevolent smile, just a slight and soft smile.
"I will be honoured, your highness."
"Now…..stay here. I have to proceed for more thorough eradication." Kenji said.
"Now that the place is eradicated and we have got rid an evil disease to the heavens named Xun Yu. This must serve as a reminder to everyone that the one who betrays the heaven will never be at peace and will never survive for long." Superior Guardian's voice echoed through the hall.
All the guardian's were gathered to write the final entry of Xun Yu's case.
Kenji stood there silently….after a while he went back to his kingdom.
"Bring him." He ordered.
Xun Yu was brought in front of Kenji by Kai. His energy was sealed, so that no one would even get a whiff of his presence.
"I have saved you …..now you have to do something for me." Kenji said.
Xun Yu's gaze shifted from Kenji to Kai and then back to Kenji.
"I will be going to the Demonic realm in three days." Kenji continued, his voice steady but firm. "I need someone on the inside who can gather evidence and lead me to the truth and all the inside schemes.I want you to join Liuxing's side."
Xun Yu furrowed his brow,skepticism etched on his face, "Liuxing?"
"Yes. Joining Liuxing would provide you the power which you can no more have it in heavenly realm and then I need you to be the spy in this realm. I know it will be hard to be the spy in the heavenly realm after you join the demonic realm but we have no choice for you and I believe you can do this."
The tension in the air thickened, Xun Yu knew that Kenji was right. He cannot even be a god or a warrior, let alone guardian in the heavenly realm and he cannot waste his whole life being idle and powerless, especially when he had the power once. So he had no choice but to join the demonic realm openly.
"How did you save me?" Xun Yu asked.
"The veiled illusion, it is Chao Xing and Kai planned it along with Shen. For now, Superior Guardian does not know. Or even if she knows, she is not making it visible because apparently she plans something bigger as far as I can analyse. She is the superior guardian after all, I am sure that even she is aware that we saved you, she will not take any action right now. She plans to do something bigger."
"Okay….I will join Liuxing. But what if he refuses ?"
"Liuxing will not refuse, also …this way your mother and sister. You can meet them too and avoid being scared for their life." Kenji said.