Chapter 58: Shu Hong Past

Chapter 58: Chapter 58: Shu Hong Past "I’m doing this for Lilian. I don’t want that girl coming here and bullying my sister again," Damien muttered as he walked toward the living room. Thud! "Aghh, whyyy?" He rubbed his head in pain and looked back. His lips twitched when he saw his mother holding another potato, ready to throw. "Eh..." He didn’t wait. He bolted toward the kitchen door and slammed it shut behind him. Thud! The second potato smacked against the door with a loud thump, making him flinch. Damien let out a shaky sigh, rubbing his chest. ’Where did Mother suddenly get this much strength?’ When he turned back toward the living room, his eyes widened. Lilian and Betty were sitting on the couch, both staring at him with blank faces. He cleared his throat, straightened his posture as if nothing had happened, and walked upstairs in silence. "...What was that?" Betty asked, watching his retreating back. Across from her, Lilian smiled faintly and waved her hand. "Don’t worry. He probably just angered Mother. He deserved it." Betty blinked, recalling Emma’s usual gentle demeanor. ’That was gentle Emma...?’ Then she remembered the loud thuds from the kitchen and shivered slightly. "Why are you making such a weird face all of a sudden?" Betty asked when she noticed Lilian staring at her with a stunned expression. "Huh? What did you say?" Lilian snapped out of her thoughts. Betty rubbed her neck and shook her head. "Nothing." Lilian nodded absentmindedly and looked down again, falling into deep thought. ’What do you mean by that, system? What kind of objective is this?’ Lilian gritted her teeth, her fingers tightening on the hem of her shirt. [Don’t worry,] the system’s calm voice echoed in her mind. [When the time comes, you’ll be reborn in a better body, stronger than this one, full of potential.] Lilian sighed deeply, frustration weighing on her chest. ’But still... I don’t want to leave my mother here. Even if she’s not my real mother, I’ve grown attached to her.’ [I’m sorry,] the system said gently. [There’s nothing I can do about that. Remember what I told you the first time we spoke? This world isn’t yours to stay in. You’re only here to finish some tasks. Once that’s done, you’ll get the life you’re meant to have.] Lilian nodded sadly and opened the objective page, her shoulders sinking into the couch cushions. [Objective 11: Give Hints to the Thomsen family that Lilian is not as saint as they imagine, and when they find that, your soul will be exchanged with the original soul: Reward: Immense potential in your next life, and secrets of that world] Click! "Here, eat this, dear." Emma walked out of the kitchen and put the fruits on the table with a gentle smile and sat beside Sophia. Her brows furrowed in concern, seeing Lilian’s slightly red eyes and her posture. "What happened, princess?" Emma said, standing from the couch and sat beside Lilian. Lilian looked at Emma, without a word, she slid down and put her head on Emma’s lap. "Nothing, mother, I was just thinking about other things." Betty squinted, hearing her looking at Lilian’s eyes, looking like she would cry any moment. "Alert, Alert, all awakeners come to military grounds." Betty looks outside at the sudden announcement. "Did some beast again attack?" Emma said worriedly. Hearing her, Betty shook her head with a smile. "No, I guess not, there would be some other thing." "I should go now, we will eat some other day, bye." Betty quickly picked up Sophia and left. "Wait.....hush, why is she in a hurry?" Emma said, looking at the door where Betty vanished. --- Shu Hong, standing on a tall building, sighs, her gaze looking at Betty’s tiny figure walking on the road. She looks at the purple stone artifact in her hand, her other hand holding a brush to write on it. "Sorry, master, but I’m doing this for your own good. There will be only waste of time if you stay in this low-level world." Astonishingly, all the things written on the stone are objectives that Lilian’s system has given to Lilian. Shu Hong’s eyes narrow in determination as she puts the precious artifact in her space ring. ’I need to end this world fate quickly, and then send the master to another world to gain her strength.’ She rubbed the space ring on her finger and closed her eyes. "Hopefully, master will forgive me for using this artifact that she has given me on her friend’s soul." The toxic rain starts falling from the sky again, the drops nearing her body curving and changing their direction. [Shu Hong memories.] "Little girl, are you alright?" A woman with red eyes asked, squatting near the tree, she patted the little girl’s disheveled head. "What are you doing in the forest at this late hour? You know beasts will start attacking at night." The woman smiled, seeing the girl’s stunned face, and she gently took the girl’s hand. "Do you have a name?" The little girl shook her head, looking down nervously. "You don’t have to be scared of me. Are your parents near?" The little girl shook her head again more rapidly, tears welling in her eyes. "I don’t have any parents, I come here only to eat, don’t punish me." The woman narrowed her eyes and looked around to find some light, but all she could see was a dark forest. "What can you find to eat here? Come with me if you have nowhere to go, I will look after you." --- "You should be called Shu Hong, okay." The woman patted her head, making the little girl flinch. "Okay, you will wear this, you don’t have to be scared, we are in my sect now, nobody can harm you here." The women gave her a sect uniform and a wooden sword that any child needed to practice and survive. --- "Don’t be sad, Shu Hong, your master is ascending to the immortal world. Work hard and you will also ascend." The elder said with a smile, and the twenty-year-old Shu Hong nodded with determination, looking at the mountain where heavenly lightning was falling. --- ’Ah, I can finally ascend to my master. I miss her so much.’ The last heavenly lightning fell on a 200-year-old shu hong, a smile appeared on her face, seeing the golden gate opening her way to go beyond her master. --- "The heavenly immortal phoenix has given birth to her daughter." As Shu Hong put foot on the immortal world, the immortals around her started cheering happily, the sky turned red as a big phoenix appeared in the sky and screamed in pure happiness. Shu Hong ignores the immortals and walks away, not knowing what is happening. --- "Finally found you, I was right when I felt your spiritual energy, dear." A loving and warm voice fell on Shu Hong’s ear. Shu Hong’s eyes widen seeing her master appear in front of her, holding a little child in her hand. "Master, I miss you." Shu Hong quickly hugged her master, tears of joy spilling from her eyes. After some time, she looked at her master again and said. "Master, is this your daughter? What is her name?" Her master smiled and gave her daughter to her hand and said. "I have decided to name her Suo fei ya, is it good, right?" Shu Hong nodded, holding the baby in her hand, her legs shaking in fear of dropping her. --- "Good, but you cant learn phoenix techniques, dear, your element is darkness, so you have to find techniques related to darkness." Her master said, testing her strength. "How about you learn this technique first? This is a darkness-related skill." Her master gave her a scroll. Shu Hong nodded happily. "Don’t worry, master, I will find the techniques and learn this scroll also." --- "WOOHOO. The heavenly phoenix is ascending again. She has finally reached the god level." Shu Hong looks at the sky where her master is sitting cross-legged, and a little girl beside her looks down sadly. Shu Hong patted her head gently, trying to soothe her emotions. "Don’t worry, your mother is going to become strong, and we will also reach that level one day." suo fei ya nodded and turned to walk away as her mother’s body vanished. --- "Haha, just three more breakthroughs, I will reach god strength and will be able to travel through worlds easily." Shu Hong said with a smile, she stood up from the cultivation palace and walked out. [End memories] Shu Hong shook her head and looked down to see Betty’s figure entering the military grounds. her figure shimmers and vanishes in shadows. --- "Awakeners, you must be wondering why we have called you here, but we have an important announcement to make right now." The awakeners sitting on chairs start whispering, hearing Samuel. "We have called you here to announce that we have initiated a plan to take Earth back from these monsters slowly. Now, I formally request that you all awakeners help us so we can expand the base and rescue more civilians."