The Primal Fire: Book 1 of Starchild Escapes Arranged Marriage

by Fat Bread

  "Eh... but... It's just a common micalex." Yun Xi looked at the delighted White Lotus in surprise.

  As the White Lotus Holy Virgin, you should have seen countless more valuable and beautiful gems, right? Even if you wanted to build a gem palace, it wouldn't be any more difficult than overturning your palm, right?

  "I know it's a micalex. But it's your love token, the proof of our love." White Lotus blissfully took the golden-red micalex from Yun Xi's hand, though it hadn't been sanded yet and looked rough.

  "Today, this micalex is just a common stone in the eyes of other people.

  "But from now on, it's the first gift my lover gave me.

  "In the future, it will be the gift my husband first presented to me, and gradually will become a priceless and irreplaceable treasure in my life.

  "I don't mind other people's ideas, but for me, it's the most beautiful and glitzy gem from my prince.

  "I witness it here, your present is the most valuable gift to me, to complete our eternal contract.

  "Maybe I indeed don't know what true love is, but I swear to this gem.

  "I will love you forever."

  Chapter 36: Star and Moon Ring

  "I should go!" The longer Yun Xi stayed with White Lotus, the dirtier he felt. It was like writing messy and ugly letters on a pure white paper.

  The gap between their worlds was too wide.

  Maybe a prince and princess would have a perfect end.

  But this princess and himself? Was it a joke? Besides, they were natural enemies.

  "Oh right, Mei'er." Finally, Yun Xi remembered that his star spirit was still looking at them curiously.

  My spirit, why are you looking worried about nothing right now?

  "Ah, is this little golden dog your pet?" White Lotus looked at Mer'er jumping into Yun Xi's arms in surprise.

  "En, she is my pet." Yun Xi hugged Mei'er - he didn't know why, but she was excited - and suddenly turned his face red.

  He remembered the scene he saw just now through Mei'er's eyes, and the soft, sweet feeling he felt through Mei'er's body. No matter if it was the elder sister or the young sister... Woohoo, it wasn't his fault, it wasn't his fault!

  "Sure enough, we can understand each other, this is an arrangement of fate." White Lotus smiled and waved her hand to Mei'er. She looked very happy.

  They could meet each other under the starry sky, at this time in the world where there was only the two of them.

  The god of fate, thank you for presenting to me the best prince in the world!

  "No... in fact, that's..." For White Lotus, it was her luck. But for Yun Xi, it was definitely bad luck.

  He was just a 1st-ranked Swordsman now, but the apostle candidate of his ex-girlfriend had found him. Was he cursed by the god of fate?

  "Then, goodbye!" Yun Xi thought that if he stayed here any longer, he would have a heart attack.

  "We will see each other soon after, my prince." White Lotus looked at Yun Xi leaving with Mei'er, smiling sweetly.

  In her palm, the golden-red gem Yun Xi presented to her was shining extraordinarily bright. It was due to the blessing White Lotus casted on the gem.

  ****

  At midnight, inside the foggy hot spring, Red Lotus opened her eyes and stretched herself comfortably.

  She felt that she was in her best state. Inside of her body, her spirit energy quickly flowed like a waterfall. Even the essence of the sun and moon also responded to her twin witch blood, dripping from the sky incessantly.

  Peace of mind. The world was reflected in Red Lotus' heart. She could even clearly hear a flapping sound from several miles away.

  It was pretty weird. Wasn't her state too good?

  In Red Lotus's memory, she had only temporarily reached this kind of realm once. That happened when she and her sister broke together the wailing barrier of mortals and reached the Hero Rank.

  Enlightenment, god's thinking, or unity between heaven and man. Different god's domains had different words to describe it, but they all meant the state of forgetting oneself.

  Red Lotus didn't enter that realm after that.

  Red Lotus leaned over her body and saw that her sister had an expression she had never seen before.

  There was an irregular shaped golden-red mineral in her hands, which she had focused her cultivation power into.

  What was she doing?

  Red Lotus mainly practiced sword skills and unique skills like Void Mudra, so she didn't understand what White Lotus was doing.

  Though she didn't understand it, but from White Lotus's eyes, she could see that she had forgotten everything and sank into the God's thinking realm; she was trying her best to cast a special magic.

  Together with the moonlight and starlight dropping down, it slowly crushed and eliminated all impurities from the golden-red mineral, and only left behind the most beautiful and pure part.

  At first, the mineral was still a little rough and had some debris on its edges. However, after White Lotus refined it, it shined bright and beautifully.

  "Hiss!" Under Red Lotus's surprised eyes, White Lotus bit the tip of her finger and dropped blood beads on it one by one.

  The Contract of Blood! Red Lotus didn't believe what she saw. It was a forbidden magic, and normally people only used it when they were making a supreme spirit weapon or artifact.

  Once one person's blood was linked to other stuff, it wouldn't be an easy thing to discharge it.

  One person could only link a certain number of blood contracts, and once the stuff he used to make the contract was destroyed, the person would suffer a heavy blow.

  As the Red Lotus Holy Virgin, she had only one blood contracted weapon now. That was her inherited sword - the Red Lotus Holy Sword.

  As for White Lotus, there was also an artifact waiting for her blood contract. But because she wasn't old enough, the ceremony was still being prepared.

  Why? Was this golden-red mineral a special treasure? Why did White Lotus use her precious blood contract?

  "You're... my sun...

  "I'm willing... to be the moon and the star... rotating around you...

  "The sun, the star and the moon will never be apart from each other.

  "I name you as 'Star and Moon Ring'."

  Red Lotus looked as White Lotus cast an occult art, which she didn't understand at all, to soak her essence and blood into the gem, which already turned into a beautiful golden-red rhombic jewel.

  The blood of White Lotus was the "Yin" part of the twin witches. It had a special power.

  She paid far more attention to the refined gem than her sister Red Lotus's imagination.

  Now, the occult art White Lotus cast was a mystic spell she found from an ancient book by using her incredible deducing and decoding abilities.

  If a girl of the pair of lovers wanted to prove her love, she could mold an artifact by using this occult art to mix her blood with her lover's love token.

  This occult art could refine common stuff into an artifact, which was able to link her soul and make it nearly immortal.

  However, in order to do it, it needed the girl's side to pay a heavy price. It was an occult art that only the imperial family members of the Eastern God's Domain were qualified to use.

  The last step of the occult art was to give the refined artifact its "true name".

  The Star and Moon Ring. This was the name White Lotus gave to the love token of Yun Xi and her.

  Once she made it, it would become her own treasure and no one could rob it.

  Yun Xi didn't expect how serious the innocent White Lotus Holy Virgin would take her first love. She didn't even hesitate to use the occult art, which would hurt her essence and blood, to make a common micalex a unique artifact.

  Now, no one would think that the rhombic golden-red gem was a micalex.

  A golden-red light point shone in the core of the gem, with stars rotating around it one after another.

  Another silver moon essence dropped and stayed around the golden-red li
ght points.

  "You're the sun, I'm the star, and sister is the moon." Looking at the Star and Moon Ring, White Lotus smiled sweetly.

  Tonight, the world was so fantastic for this girl in love...

  Chapter 37: Regression

  "White Lotus, what's happened?" After White Lotus finished casting her secret spell, Red Lotus asked her sister. She didn't know what put her sister in such a good mood.

  Something must've happened. As the elder sister of the twins, Red Lotus never saw her sister so excited.

  Her sweet smile, focused eyes, and the golden-red gem in her hands, everything told her that something had happened.

  "Eh, I met with my prince." White Lotus had no secrecy awareness. Her sister took good care of her, which caused her have no idea about what was a "lie".

  Pure love and a pure heart, her first love was forever to her. White Lotus was a single-minded princess.

  "Prince? You had the dream again." Red Lotus couldn't help but laugh. The prince was just a virtual character, but for her, he was simply a nightmare.

  'Oh, I shouldn't let my sister read too many fairy tale books from the Western God's Domain', thought Red Lotus. She had a far too irrational dream about love.

  Red Lotus knew if they didn't have the strength as Hero Ranked warriors, plus them being twin witches, there would be far more dirty eyes peeping at them.

  Fortunately, she had enough power to protect her sister. She didn't even let her sister find these dirty people in the shadows, and had solved most of them in secret.

  She never allowed any dirty man to get close to her sister. It would be fine to let White Lotus live like a princess from those fairy tale stories, just like now.

  Ha ha, she remembered that her sister still thought that little children were delivered to their parents by immortal cranes.

  "It wasn't a dream. This is a love token from my prince." White Lotus proudly held up the Star and Moon Ring.

  It was limited to her power. Though it was named the "Star and Moon Ring', it was just the first step in making an artifact, which meant that she just made the outline of its core.

  In Eastern God's Domain, the forging method of making an artifact of royal love token needed ten years, a hundred years, or longer to make the love token an artifact.

  During this period, if the lovers betrayed each other, or just broke up, the forging method would mean nothing. Ss the person who made it on her own initiative, the bride's side, would suffer a great blow and never recover after that.

  In that case, without a huge courage, determination, and excellent talent, it wasn't possible to forge an artifact using this method. Gradually, the secret method nearly disappeared in the Eastern God's Domain.

  According to the ancient books that White Lotus read, most of the girls who tried to use this forging method were the bride's side of a pair of childhood sweethearts, and the successfully finished artifacts would be counted on one person's hands.

  Childhood sweethearts would be the doomed losers, but she wouldn't, because she was the prince's princess!

  "Is this the micalex you dug out from that place?" Through the outline of the mineral she saw, plus the trace on the rock not far away, Red Lotus immediately guessed the source of the so-called 'Star and Moon Ring'.

  Her sister was too frivolous. She dug out a beautiful mineral casually, felt it likable, and used one of the quotas of the blood contract.

  You should know, normally an ordinary person had only one quota that could be used to make a blood contract. When they chose the treasure to make the blood contract, they would choose them carefully and think again and again.

  However, they were different. Because they were cursed twin witches, they could make blood contract several times more than ordinary people.

  Even if White Lotus used one of the quotas, she had other quotas to make blood contract with other treasures.

  They had the qualification and talent to pamper themselves.

  "Ha ha, sister, you found it?" White Lotus looked pretty happy.

  "Yes, this is the love token my prince dug out from that place and handed over to me personally. It's my treasure."

  Red Lotus covered her own forehead.

  Too bad, her sister slid into a reverie which was named "love". How was it possible for that prince to walk into the real world from a dream.

  Even if the prince really existed, he would never get through the warning line she made. There was no creature in the hot spring beside themselves and the turtle.

  Eh, where was the turtle? Had it left?

  "All right, all right, the prince is the best. We should go." After stretching her snow white body and feeling the last moments of "harmony of heaven and human", Red Lotus stood up.

  The transparent water drops slipped down from her jade-like beautiful breasts and dropped into the hot spring, rippling alluring ripples.

  "En. I want to make the Star and Moon Ring as quickly as possible. Let's go, sister." Looking at the golden-red gem shining in her hands, White Lotus's eyes burned.

  She wanted to make the gem her prince presented to her into the most beautiful ring in the world.

  ****

  "Yawn!" Holding Mei'er in his arms, Yun Xi trembled after running back to the door of his home. He felt as if he ignored something.

  "Little Xi, tell me the truth. Where were you last night?"

  She was here! The girl he ignored!

  His childhood sweetheart, whose jealous radar never made a mistake and was 100% accurate - Hua Huo!

  In the darkness, Hua Huo put her right hand on the sword scabbard, staring at Yun Xi as if she was a wife who found her husband coming back from a secret date.

  Her sword hadn't been drawn out, but her killing intent was already rising in the air.

  Once she found the truth that Yun Xi moved his love to any other girl, the only thing he would see was her lightning sword.

  "I-I just went to the mountain to take a bath in the hot spring." Yun Xi honestly said.

  "Eh... eh..." Hua Huo stepped forward and smelled the odor on Yun Xi's body.

  Fortunately, Yun Xi kept soaking in the hot spring, so Hua Huo smelled nothing. In addition to Mei'er's special odor, he escaped from the probable disaster.

  "It's weird. You body indeed only has Mei'er's odor, but why did I felt ill at ease during my practice and made mistakes several times?"

  "Ha ha, it must be your illusion. I was just going to the hot spring!"

  Yes, he didn't lie.

  He just met his natural enemies when he was at the hot spring, and the sister, White Lotus, showed her love to him. Of course, he wouldn't say it out, even if she tore off his mouth!

  "Oh right, Hua Huo, do you know what I saw? I saw a real big scene beside the river. Some real big shots came to our village!" Yun Xi immediately tried to change the topic.

  "I know, they are the strongest people in White Lotus Sword Domain, the twin witches." Hua Huo's eyes turned serious, it seemed that she had heard of them before.

  "Elder sister Red Lotus and young sister White Lotus. Even in the Western God's Domain, you can hear their names.

  "Yun Xi, you should be careful. They're cursed twins, you should never get close to them.

  "It says that they hate males. They never allow men to walk within ten meters of them.

  "Many people have died because they'd made this mistake."

  Yun Xi sweated.

  Yun Xi sweated like a trooper.

  Sweat streamed down Yun Xi's face!

  Ten meters? Oh god, the distance between the White Lotus Holy Virgin and himself was almost a 'negative' number!

  Chapter 38: Flocked

  "Little Xi, never, ever get close to the twins of fate." This was the first time Yun Xi saw his childhood sweetheart look so serious.

  "They're a thousand times more dangerous than Milei, El'Phyllis, and Ye Li. If they take an interest in you, you would have a miserable end."

  Ah? Aren't you being too sensitive, Hua Huo? And who di
d you think I am?!

  Do I look like a guy who would get in trouble with the pair of twins... No, this must be the stars' fault! Wu wu, I didn't expect that!

  "They are here, so this small village will get in trouble soon after." Hua Huo suspiciously looked at Yun Xi, who was in a trance now, and felt that something was wrong.