Incarnation Of Gods: Endless War

Third-person POV

The moment the Weisheng's dark power in the box released, Meiyun's body trembled.

"Turn right!" Meiyun shouted.

Di Sahng immediately pulled the rein and turned sharp right as Meiyun commanded. They galloped towards the top of the mountain and a few seconds later a similar thunder from the main base stroke once again at the direction they were heading to.

"What was that?!" Di Shang who had been silent all this time finally spoke up.

"It was His Majesty Emperor…" Meiyun said in low voice but Di Shang could hear her loud and clear.

His face instantly scrunched up into a frown, "How is that possible?"

Weisheng was supposed to be in the Royal Palace, which was what Di Shang thought. Meiyun understood what Di Shang was thinking and she was in his position she would think so too. But since Meiyun had a tiny bit of Weisheng's power in her, she could recognize Weisheng's power even without a need to look at it.

"Do you remember the orb that His Majesty Emperor gifted His Highness Prince Zhang?" Meiyun asked Di Shang as a reply to Di Shang's question.

"En." Di Shang nodded his head.

"It is a tool to summon His Majesty Emperor. However, not anyone can use it, not even a handful of people." Meiyun summarized.

Di Shang pondered for a while and felt what Meiyun said made sense. Weisheng was known to have a unique dark power and of course, the person that most closely related to Weisheng was the twin. Therefore, without a doubt, they would inherit some of his power.

Di Shang also noticed how Meiyun reluctantly spoke to him about the matter thus he didn't inquire Meiyun any further as to not give her any burden. He didn't mind how Meiyun sometimes could be very secretive. Although they had been husband and wife for more than a decade, he still respected Meiyun's private life.

He thoroughly understood that people had at least one or two secrets that couldn't be told to anyone, even if it was their closest. Just like Meiyun, Di Shang also had been keeping this one secret from Meiyun.

The fact that he knew a secret that Meiyun had desperately hidden from him. He pretended to be a fool in front of Meiyun, to make her feel better and assured. However, behind the calm pretense, Di Shang was anxious every single second. Di Shang dispatched countless personnel to find information about the disease that slowly eating away his wife's body.

But luck wasn't on his side, it took him 8 years only to find out that the disease was incurable. Nevertheless, Di Shang never gave up. He wouldn't be swayed by some words spewed from the physicians' lips.

Di Shang went all out, he even dared to participate in the underground market in hope that he could find a rare herb that could possibly heal the disease or at least slow down the progression of the disease. Every herb that was auctioned would be bought by Di Shang in anonymous, then he would bring the herbs to the Imperial Academy to do research on the herbs whether it could be used as a cure.

While waiting for the cure to be found, Di Shang would make Meiyun drink body nourishing concoction and he would diligently watch Meiyun gulp down the concoction till the last drop.

Meiyun always insisted Di Shang to give her child but Di Shang refused and when they were consummating, he would not come inside her. He would pull out at the last second and this made Meiyun frustrated.

Furthermore in this era, having no child was a disgrace to a married woman as they would be stamped as infertile by the society, and Meiyun didn't want to disappoint her in-laws. She could see their longing for grandchild thus she was very burdened by Di Shang's stubbornness. Fortunately, Di Shang explained his reasoning behind his behavior to Meiyun and Di Shang's parents didn't mind it at all.

Although Meiyun knew that Di Shang was doing this for her sake, she still couldn't brush off the guilt of not fulfilling her duty as a wife and a young madam. For that reason, Meiyun brought back several women with a clean background. Meiyun didn't know Di Shang's preference hence she chose the women that had their own distinct beauty, even some of them were more beautiful than Meiyun.

Yet, Di Shang dismissed all of the beautiful ladies without even sparing a glance at them. At first, Meiyun was disappointed that her plan failed yet deep in her heart she was relieved that Di Shang held her in high regard despite having enticing ladies lined up in front of him.

It didn't take Meiyun and Di Shang long to arrive at the top of the mountain and the first that caught their attention was the sight of a woman desperately struggling to free herself from the embrace of a man who was wearing a majestic imperial robe.

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A few moments ago

Zhang Wei froze on the spot, from all of the people he didn't expect Weisheng was the first one to arrive considering the distance between the Cursed Land and Royal Palace.

"Imperial Father…" Zhang Wei muttered under his breath as he stared at Weiseng in disbelief.

At first, Zhang Wei was worried at how Weisheng would react when Weisheng saw Hong er. Would he recognize her? Or maybe this lady who coincidentally named Hong er and his mother only had a similar appearance. However, he was immediately proved wrong when his eyes laid on Weisheng's expression.

Weisheg's eyes were wide open as it slowly turned glassy from the tears that he had hold for 13 years. The usual cold and indifferent face melted into a pained yet longing expression in a second. If one looked at the expression on Weisheng's pale face, one could indirectly feel the pain that Weisheng had kept in him.

Weisheng staggered as he was making his way to Hong er. Zhang Wei stood unmovingly between Hong er and Weisheng, his face filled with bewilderment. In just a second, thousand of questions came through Zhang Wei's mind. But one thing he was certain of, that the lady was his mother.

His heart was jumbling with various emotions that he couldn't tell what he was feeling right now. Was it anger? Was it sadness? Was it happiness?

Every step that Weisheng took felt heavy, his breath quickened as well as his heart pumped harder. In his eyes, Hong er was so close yet so far away just like his dream where he tirelessly chased her silhouette. Just as he was only a step away from Hong er, he stretched out his hand to Hong er's pale face.

"Hong er ah…" Weisheng's voice cracked as he called out to the woman in front of him.

His hand was visibly trembling, he wanted to touch her, he wanted to feel her warmth, he wanted to know if this was reality or another torturing nightmare. Yet as his finger was about to touch the pale skin, he slightly retracted his hand. What would happen if he touch her? Would she disappear just like she did in his dream?

His thought caused his hand to halt. Weisheng gazed at Hong er intently, no one could guess what he was thinking. While Weisheng was pondering whether he should embrace her or not, Hong er was panicking because of the tremor that was caused by the thunder.

Moreover, she could feel a presence in front of her and a pair of eyes watching her closely. She didn't dare to make any hasty move as her instinct was telling that the unspecified presence in front of her was strong. Living in a forest for more than a decade had made Hong er warier of her surroundings than before.

'Is it a bear? But rarely there is a bear around here.' Hong er pondered in her heart.

Seeing the cautious expression on Hong er's pale face made Weisheng wanted to hug her and reassure her that everything would be fine as long as he was there beside her. At that moment, the tip of Weisheng's finger touched Hong er's soft and warm cheek.

In that instant, Hong er flinched and pulled away but in the next second, she found herself in someone embrace.