The Sorceress: Blossoming Power

Lifen agonized with their situation of Xian Lang's hard-headedness, believing the prince would keep his word. The prince waited patiently, but his hand held Lifen close to him.

Xian Lang stood there wondering if he would give in to the prince's threats, and Xinyi's face came to mind. He had no inclination to let the prince's people go. For him, this was his chance to capture the men, but sadly, the prince had powers while he had none. Even his armor had reached its limit. The only thing he could do was look back, hoping Xinyi would understand him.

Xinyi also saw her father mouthing something to her, but she couldn't make out of it. "What is Pa trying to say?" she asked Ming.

"I think he said, do something?" Ming followed his father-in-law's mouth with his.

The prince saw Xian Lang's movements and looked past him, and their eyes met. Out of a sudden, his blood boiled. Not boiling out of anger, but boiling as he felt a connection to Xinyi. And it was not only him, Xinyi, too, felt something inside her, as if a link from the prince pulled her to him. She looked inside her ring and saw the mark on her baby's cloth shone so brightly, a blinding one. Her head turned to Xionmao, and the latter nodded. 

"Go, obey the calling. Don't be afraid." He said, feeling what she felt. All the spirit guardians near him felt the same way.

The prince lifted a hand and in a blink of an eye; he brought Xinyi in front of him. She gasped. It was the first someone pulled her in such a powerful way.

Outside the shield, Ming gasped when her hand slipped from his fingers and she disappeared. Then he yelled louder, "Xinyi!" when she appeared inside, in front of the prince. "Don't you dare touch my wife!" Ming shouted, flaming in anger and frustration. He couldn't believe that the prince had such remarkable and fearsome power in his behest and took Xinyi from him without a fight.

But Xionmao spoke. "Calm down. He won't or let's say… couldn't hurt her."

"Why?" Ming asked. "Tell me." He added in serious panic.

"Just watch. I guarantee you she's in good hands. And this might be our solution to our problem today."

His words were not enough to appease Ming. The unsettled husband turned back to look at Xinyi and on the verge of smashing the shield with his wind blades to get her, but Xionmao's hand kept him.

"Let go. I understand." Ming told the panda. Deep inside, his nerves throbbed as he held himself from doing drastic and feared that it might harm her. Thus, he swallowed his pride and controlled his frustration, for his wife's sake.

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Inside the shield. Xian Lang was alerted with her disappearance and with Ming's shout. He followed Ming's line of sight and saw Xinyi near the prince. He was about to run, to snatch her from that beguiling prince's grasps but Ming called his name. He shifted and faced his son-in-law. 

"I don't know what's going on, but Sir Xionmao here said to leave them be," Ming said.

"What do you mean?" the anxious father-in-law asked.

"Let them be and watch. Don't do something foolish. He will not harm her or he will die if he does." Xionmao spoke this time. Worried, Xian Lang obeyed in silence but ready to kill his prisoners if the prince would take Xinyi away.

"Who are you, lass?" The prince said, but he didn't dare to touch her. However, his face had that obvious hint of kindness toward her.

But Lifen didn't see his face. Rather, she was alarmed with this girl instantly appearing in front of them and ran off to Xinyi. Turning toward Prince Zelmer, she said, "She is my daughter-in-law." She gulped as she spoke, afraid he might do something with her. 

But Xinyi was calmed. A welcoming warmness and void of fear could describe what she felt from this powerful prince. "I'm Xinyi. I'm the Chief of Guardian of this world. Who are you?"

The prince was amazed, looking at her familiar face, but he realized this was not the person he knew. "Who is your mother?"

"I… I haven't seen my biological mother, but I heard I came from the world Zeirean." 

Lifen stood between them, unsure what to say, holding Xinyi's hand tight. This time, she decided that she would strike and break her promise if the prince would take Xinyi away to his domain. But the opposite of what she expected happened. The prince wept without shame instead.

"You're a Zeirean? Are you sure? Not from Platanna?" He said, raising his hands, wishing to hug her, but brought it down when he saw Lifen's reaction. He didn't want Lifen to misunderstand and told her, "Please don't take this differently. I'm not taking her as my wife. It's just her face is familiar to me. I believe I know her mother." 'Fairly well,' he said inwardly.

"Really? You know my mother? Honestly, I'm really sure I'm from Zeirean. Why?" Xinyi said, astonished with the prince's tears, at the same, excited when she learned this man knew her mother.Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click /book/the-sorceress-blossoming-power_14314881306034205/blood-related_50951183442959699 for visiting.

"We'll know if we're blood-related once our hands meet. Please lift your right palm."

"Why?" Xinyi kept her hands to herself, unsure if this was appropriate. As customs dictated, a woman shouldn't let a man touch her hand, mostly a stranger. And this owner was their present enemy, a powerful one. She was adamant to let him do as he asked.

"Don't be afraid. Allow me to touch your palm. Just your palm. I'm only going to send my power of memory to you to confirm something." He pleaded, wiping his tears with his sleeve. To make her drop her guard, he placed a hand on his chest, saying, "I swear in the name of your beloved mother-in-law, and my heart's love, Lifen, that I won't hurt you, not even a single strand of your hair. A royal gentleman's oath from Platanna is worth my life and die if I won't keep it."

Xinyi looked at Lifen, with eyes inquiring about his confession. Then when she said nothing, she faced the waiting prince. When she understood that the embarrassed and concerned Lifen Ma wouldn't stop her, she obliged and showed her open palm to him. His palm touch hers and their heads jolted as a stream of memories of a certain woman plunged in their minds. Lifen held Xinyi's waist firmly, afraid she would disappear without her. But the two stayed there with their eyes staring at a blank space.

Xian Lang, Ming, and friends reacted too, but the spirit guardians stopped them. They assured their human companions that she was safe with their connection with her still intact. They felt her mixed emotions of confusion to exhilaration and ended to joy deep within their chest.

Both Xinyi and Prince Zelmer saw the same vision that took place in the past. They saw a woman with the replica of Xinyi's face in a flowered white dress and with a floral crown on her black hair. She was running away with a tall but burly man while a younger version of Prince Zelmer shouted after her. "Lyra, you are a princess. Come back. That man is not worthy of you." He kept on running, wishing to stop her from jumping into a hole just meters from where she stood.

But Lyra merely looked back and smiled, saying, "I'm happy to be with him. King Father already gave me his blessing. This is my right as a Platanna woman. I can choose anyone I like and I choose Derix. Bye, brother. Take care." She and Dherix hopped into the hole in mid-air and disappeared with the hole popping close.

Then the scene changed. They saw the sweating Lyra lying on a white-sheeted bed. Her crimson blood filled the blanket under her wide-opened legs. She recently gave birth to a healthy baby girl, carried by another woman in the room. Suddenly, a blue-haired woman appeared near Lyra's bedstead and told them the newborn would become the next Chief Guardian of Chiji. It was the late Sorceress, Xinyi could tell. And the late Xinyi named her. With that, the late Sorceress's face turned pale and vanished, but not without leaving a statement.

"The Great King will send her to Chiji soon. So, get ready and spend time with her for now. Your rewards would follow." The late Sorceress' voice trailed behind. And the vision of the past ceased. The prince's and Xinyi's minds cleared up as they faced each other. Both of them were crying this time.

"Xinyi, you're really my niece!" The prince cried out, face wet with his tears as he pulled her to his embrace. "Such great benevolence of the Great King for sending you here. Giving me the chance to see you. I've longed to see your mother but met you instead."

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At the far seas of Chiji, a boat glided from the skies and splashed on the water below, but it didn't sink down. It swayed as it floats while the water waves sent ripples to the shore after the boat settled on the deep ocean.

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