Incarnation Of Gods: Endless War

Third-person POV

The young boy stared at Hong er for quite a while then grabbed her hand again to write on her palm.

'I will check your wounds.'

Hong er nodded her head and followed the young boy by placing her hand on his shoulder. The young boy untied the bandages and cleaned up the wounds then replaced them with new bandages and medicine. After he was done changing the bandages, he wrote a message on her palm.

'Don't move too much.'

Hong er obediently nodded her head and used her hand to feel the cold stone that she was sitting on. She tilted her head and continued to grope around. She found the stone that she was sitting on was warmer than usual and it had different texture compare to the seat where she usually sat.

Since she lost two of her senses, her sight and her hearing ability, her smell and skin's sensibility increased immensely. Then she sniffed the air a few times and noticed that the air around her was more humid. The young boy was resting beside her when he noticed her unusual behavior. He offered his palm for her to write on.

'Where are we?' Hong er wrote down.

'Inside a mountain.' The young boy answered.

Hong er's mouth opened in shock, she used both of her hands to make a triangle as she murmured inaudibly.

(A/N: No offense to anyone, Hong er can make sounds but she can't speak clear words nor can she talk because her memory was changed and in her memory, she has been deaf since she was born. So she didn't know how to pronounce words.)

'Yes,' the young boy responded.

Hong er panicky pulled the young boy's hand and wrote with trembling hand, 'Aren't mountain full of hot liquids?'

The young boy chuckled as he found Hong er getting panic over lava was very funny, 'No. This mountain is special.'

Hong er's lips formed into "o". The cave was so quiet that the sound of water dripping could be heard loud and clear by the young boy. The young boy yawned out of boredom, at this time, usually, he would be asleep.

Since he couldn't fall asleep because he had to keep a lookout on the intruders, to prevent himself from fall asleep, he stared at Hong er who was carefreely humming a melody while her fingers tapping her thigh along the melody.

'What a beautiful melody.' The young boy praised in his heart.

Once in a while, he could feel a shiver ran down his spine.

'This mortal brat, he dared to use his inner sight. Hmph! Who do you think I am?! I am the guardian of the Cursed Land and one of the high-rank demon from the underworld! Tao Qi! Since Hong er is in a good mood, I will not kill you, mortal brat!' Tao Qi cursed as he clenched his jaw in irritation.

Tao Qi swept his hand across the mirror frame that was filled with water rather than a mirror glass. Then an image of Weisheng destroying every bit of the Illusion Mist that Tao Qi cast to drive them out. He slapped the stone table as the effort that he put on to cast the spell went to waste because of Weisheng's rampage.

His body abruptly froze when an idea came to his mind. The corner of his lips arched into an evil smile.

'Let's see how you deal with this! Ahahaha!' Tao Qi raised one of his feet on to the table and laughed mischievously.

Tao Qi brought his thumb to his lips and bit his thumb until blood seeped out from his skin. Then he let his blood dripped down to the ground and sunk into the soil. Hong er's brow twitched when she smelled a metallic scent which she is very familiar with.

Not long after, the ground shook vigorously and caused Hong er to yelp and searched for a nearby object to hold on. She let out an incomprehensive cry to call Tao Qi but she didn't get any response from the certain boy.

Meanwhile, the certain boy that she was calling, was laughing at the miserable Weisheng who was fighting off the corpses that all of sudden creep out from the shaking ground.

"Ahahaha! That's what you got from provoking me!" Tao Qi laughed with both of his hands on his waist.

In the reflection on the water mirror, Weisheng's scythe was slashing off the endless corpses. His crimson red eyes shone brightly within the dense fog. He growled and cleaned the corpse wave with one powerful strike. But the amount of people and beast that died in the Cursed Land was too much for Weisheng's small group to handle.

In addition, the corpses couldn't feel any pain nor they have any feeling. Therefore the tactic to chase them away by scaring them is futile. Nevertheless, Weisheng didn't give up and kept on killing the corpses with his scythe.

The malice aura that the corpses release after it was slashed off made everything much worse for them, especially Weisheng. The dark power inside him is already hard enough to control, needless to say when there was additional dark power that his body subconsciously absorbed.

Without saying, there were soldiers that were eaten alive by the corpses and Lu Ping was thinking about retreating but he was sure that Weisheng wouldn't agree with him. Lu Ping clenched his jaw and tried to hold the corpses' attack until they were driven into a corner then he would tell Weisheng to withdraw.

Seeing this method also couldn't push Weisheng and his group away, Tao Qi frowned and gritted his as Weisheng's stubbornness was harder than rock. Just when he was about to send another wave of corpses, a hard smack landed on the back of his head.

"Oww! Who dares to hit me?! Looking for dead?!" Tao Qi cursed with every curse word that he knew.

He turned around to look at the person who had the big gut to hit him. But his heart immediately dropped when he saw Hong er with the bandages around her eye stained with blood. He had warned Hong er that the wounds in her eye sockets would re-open if she had unstable emotion or grieving too much that can cause the blood pressure to rise.

Hong er fondled around to look for Tao Qi's hand and wrote a long sentence then ended with a hard pinch on his palm.

'Is this your doing?! Are you teasing the animal again? It is dangerous to do that when we are inside such a narrow cave, no, mountain!' Hong er wrote while incoherently yelled at Tao Qi.

The bloodstain on her bandage grew wider and darker as more blood seeping out from her eye sockets to her bandage. Tao Qi guiltily looked at Hong er and quickly canceled the corpse controlling spell. The earthquake stopped as well, he swiftly guided her to sit on his chair and rubbed her palm to calm her.

'Okay, I won't tease them anymore. It is just they are so persistent in attacking us so it leaves me with no choice.' Tao Qi wrote on Hong er's palm without knowing that his lips were puckered into a pout.

Hong er playfully ruffled Tao Qi's hair and checked his body from head to toe with her fingers. She sighed in relief as she didn't find any injury on Tao Qi's body. A gentle smile re-appeared on her pale lips as she wrote another message on Tao Qi's palm.

'It is good that you are unscattered. Why don't you just talk it out with them?' Hong er suggested with her brows arched in pleading.

Tao Qi clicked his tongue as Hong er found his weakness just in two weeks since they were living together. He brushed off Hong er's hand not too hard, yet, not too light as he wanted to show that he was upset that Hong er didn't take his side.

Tao Qi muttered a chant and the clouds above the mountain quickly turned grey. He coughed a few times to clear his throat then he opened his crimson red eyes with a snake-like pupils.

Weisheng and Lu Ping that were utterly confused when the corpses suddenly collapsed to the ground lifelessly, looked up to the darkened sky.

Then a deep voice resounded throughout the Cursed Land.

"You mortals, what are you doing to my land?"