Empress Fu Yao [Volume 1] (COMPLETED)✔

Storm's Fury

It was raining.

The downpour in the middle of the night suddenly came furiously, like a tear in the heavens poured down an ocean. With a "hua la la" sound it pounded down, and in a short while thousands and thousands of thin streams began to flow on the ground.

Pei Yuan came out from the front hall holding a oil-paper umbrella, and under the waiting of a maidservant she tread on water puddles to return to her "Orchid Pavilion". Another maidservant was carrying a paper lantern to light the way. The wind and rain was fierce and the lantern swayed side to side, and despite the maid using her own rain cloak to protect the light the whole way, the lantern was still quickly extinguished by a surging gust of tempestuous wind and rain.

Before the maidservant had time to apologize, Pei Yuan had already backhandedly slapped her. Sharp fingernails sliced a couple bright red streaks on the maid's face and fresh blood began to drip down. The child didn't dare to cry, only hugging the extinguished lantern and shrinking back a little in the rain.

"Useless idiot! Can't even take care of one lantern!" Pei Yuan raised her eyes to glance at the turbulent currents of wind and rain in the deep night sky, and a feeling of irritation washed over her without reason. She furrowed her brows and covered herself better with the rain cloak, speeding up her steps to enter her secluded courtyard.

"You are not allowed to enter the courtyard, don't dirty my grounds." Pei Yuan hated people intruding and was obsessed with cleanliness - even her chosen residence was the most spotless and elegant "Orchid Pavilion". These habits everyone in the sect knew, and so the maidservants lowly concurred and retreated far from the entrance.

Outside the doors was the furious storm that hit the ground like a deity's whip, inside the doors was a deep, silent darkness without any movement.

Pei Yuan went to push the doors.

With a creaking sound, the doors slowly opened, and Pei Yuan's eyes casually lowered. In that moment, she spotted on the wooden floorboards some light wet stains.

Her heart shook, and Pei Yuan's reactions were extremely quick, immediately shooting backwards in retreat.

However it was already late.

"Cha!"

In the inky dimness a white glow flashed, and faintly a dark shadow materialized with a sharp blade piercing forwards. The attack was silent and traceless, fast like flowing light or flying lightning - in only a split second, it had already reached in front of Pei Yuan's face!

"Chi."

The thin, vague sound of skin and flesh being sliced open shockingly sounded in Pei Yuan's ear, and she only felt on her left temple a coldness then a pain. Following her left eye became an expanse of blood red.

Scarlet red covered her left vision, causing Pei Yuan to be unable to discern clearly the person who used the cover of darkness to sneak attack her. The only thing she knew was that at this moment, only she could save herself. Biting her teeth and bearing the pain, Pei Yuan drew her sword with a ringing noise. The sword tip vibrated with the light of the heaven's stars, the resplendent radiance drawing one's eyes. In this emergency situation, she even used the clan inheritance her master had secretly passed down to her, the treasured sword technique "Vast Sky Sword".

The opponent seemed to realize the power of the sword art, and didn't confront it head-on but twisted their body, already flitting over to the side of her body like a swimming fish. In the instant the figure passed by her side, it flipped its hand and fiercely sliced upwards. Pei Yuan's right forehead felt another pain, and more fresh blood splashed down like a red spring. A waterfall of blood appeared across the horizon, completely obscuring her last bit of clear vision.