Corrupt Creations

Seth was inside the Evergreen Tavern, preparing a spot for him to try something new. He had already traveled a relatively good distance through the mainland; however, he was not in a hurry to arrive at his final destination, the Glazed Lake Sect. Throughout the whole way, there were no signs of Lan Xue, not even a spec of snow left behind by her movement technique. 

While Seth organized everything, he was constantly thinking about the various things that were about to come and how he could use his new powers to solve them better. 

Lexi watched how Seth was behaving and realized he was probably doing something suspicious. She decided to jump out of her rabbit hole and inquire him about what he was trying to do.

"I've never seen you cleaning the tavern before, what are you up to?" Her intonation sounded rather wary. 

"Oh, Lexi. Well... There is something I would like to try, but I'm not quite sure if I should do it or not yet. But... I guess I'm at least going to practice for the time I decide on doing that on the future." 

"Hm? You're not sure? There must be something really wrong with what you are trying to do so... I doubt something good would come out of what you're thinking about." 

"Come on... Actually, I was going to mix a bit of my Soul Essence with the Essence of Corruption and see what is going to happen." 

After Lexi heard about his idea, she almost freaked out. 

"Wait! What?! No! Are you crazy?! That power is not something you should be so casually using. Actually, you should never mix it with your soul essence! I still recall the time it had tried to invade your soul space and take control over you and me." 

Seth knew Lexi would be against that idea and that it would be very hard to convince her, but suddenly, the words the Great Corruptor told him when he was locked inside the crimson world, surfaced inside his mind. 

"Lexi, do you still remember that I told you about the entity that I found, at the time we were still down there in the abyss?" 

"Are you talking about that Big Corruptor or something? Why are you bringing him to this conversation?" 

"Well... If his words were really true, he was one of the most powerful entities that had existed on the ancient times and there must be only a few things he doesn't know about. At that time, when my soul was returning back to my body, he told me something that you may be interested to hear about... I didn't tell you before, because it may affect you a lot, but I guess I can't be hiding it from you forever." 

"What is it? Tell me already!" Lexi got anxious after hearing those words. 

She didn't know how to properly react to that entity. For her, it was still hard to believe someone could so easily separate Seth's soul from hers and only bring his soul, to a different dimension, while leaving her isolated. She felt it was not a soul separation, but more like their connection suffered some kind of interference. That entity was able to work directly in their connection and cause that separation effect. However, ever since Seth told her about that, Lexi has been thinking about how that entity did those things and what kind of power was required for that to properly work. 

That information was really something crucial for her, that's why lately, she has been studying and studying her abilities and the properties of her spiritual energy over and over again. 

"He told me, that the answer that you seek, can be found within the corruption..." Seth tried to sound uninterested in that topic, trying to not show her that he already knew she was searching for something and hadn't told him about that. 

"..." Lexi stood silent and for the first time, she had no words to retort Seth. Actually, she didn't even know how to properly express her opinion after hearing his words. Inwardly she wasn't even able to understand how that entity knew she was looking after something, and how the hell the answer would be that crimson energy. 

An awkward silence took over the place and only after Lexi was able to organize her emotional disarray, she decided to resume her linear thought process and break the ice. 

"Don't do it for now... I need some more time..." After saying that, she returned to the depths of Seth's soul in order to properly think about that. 

Seth completely stopped with what he was doing and decided to resume with his travel. He was going to listen to Lexi's words and delay that idea of his for later. It wouldn't take that much for him to arrive at the Glazed Lake Sect anyway, where he would then meet with Rina and bring her back to the Elven Territory. 

He started to dismount the Evergreen Tavern and stored everything back inside his spatial ring. 

Seth still thought there was a month or two for the wedding ceremony and didn't know the date had already changed and there were only thirteen days missing till it happened now. Because of that, he took his time traveling towards the Glazed Lake and would only arrive there, four to five days later. 

During that time, a carriage arrived at the Demonic Shadow Royal Clan doorsteps and a veiled woman wearing a black long dress entered inside it. Her silver hair was reflecting the light of the moon, bewitching everyone that was fortunate enough to have a glimpse of her beauty, even the mysterious person driving the carriage. 

The person driving that carriage was a woman; a very special woman. She was one of the shadows behind Velgor's back, the one he had ranked as first. First Shadow was disguising herself with a male attire and changing her appearance with some useful dark techniques. She wasn't the only one attending the ceremony, but was one of the strongest people going there. 

With a bit of her Mana, the horses were put in a state of fear and desperately started to run, accelerating the carriage, till it vanished into the distance. 

Something big was going to happen at that ceremony and Velgor and his lackeys were already prepared to the main event. 

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At the Blazing Phoenix City, a mysterious woman stood hovering on the air, looking towards the whole city. It was totally different from what she knew of and it was still suffering from all that desolation and destruction brought by the war. However, there seemed to be people already coming back towards it and rebuilding everything. 

They had a fervor in their eyes that showed her they would certainly die for their Phoenix God. She knew that fervor came from the past few events that had happened. The citizens now, were not feeling forgotten anymore, were not feeling abandoned by their god anymore. 

While that woman kept looking down, a thin water mist that gave the feeling of profoundness and holiness surged near her. From inside it a woman donned in a white robe and wearing a thin white veil appeared. 

A single glance at her, would make one realize she was one of the most perfect beings that existed. Not only that, but her ocean blue eyes seemed to be able to perceive everything. 

The woman hovering in the air calmly turned around and looked towards that goddess that had just appeared. 

"So many things have happened... Sigh... You should not blame him, but blame your own powerlessness." The goddess suddenly said. 

"That much, I am already aware of." 

The goddess nodded and said: "That's good. This is for you..." 

A pristine white stone appeared on the goddess hands and the other woman instantly recognized it as one of those rare Glazed Stones. They were capable of recording information, be it in the form of a mental image or a real image. 

The Glazed stone flew towards the woman that was silently hovering in the skies and she quickly used a bit of her Mana to transfer the information inside it, directly towards her brain. Palace Master Yushui could have done the same thing at that time in the meeting room with all the Palace Masters, since that special stone could be used both ways, but the information would have been limited to one person each time it was accessed. 

After seeing the contents inside it, she suddenly looked towards the goddess and asked: "Why are you showing this to me? What are your real intentions?" 

The goddess smiled and said: "Don't mistake it. I'm not doing this for him, but for my disciple." 

After that, she suddenly turned into a mild mist; cold and free. Her figure vanished, leaving behind another veil of mystery. 

No one was able to realize, but that mist was flowing towards a certain direction.. Towards a territory where there were important people that were required to take part in the upcoming events, and the goddess would make sure they were going to appear as well.