8 Stones of Eternity
A rescue.

Chapters 185. A rescue.

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The Sword Swordsman's past - Ling Dao Kai. Ling was a nickname as a teenager before becoming what he is today. Her mother was a servant in the Dao Empire palace, her name was Li Yu.

Li Yu was the only palace maid with the most beautiful face of all the servants. Li Yu was a distant relative of the current King Li. Because of her beauty, it made Emperor Dao fall in love. Having a far different social status gap, made Emperor Dao embarrassed to question him.

Quietly, the Dao Emperor ordered the other palace servants to give sleeping pills to Li Yu's drink, the only purpose of which was to enjoy Li Yu's body. Long story short, Li Yu was pregnant out of wedlock because of foul deeds from the Dao Emperor.

Not wanting to embarrass the Li family, Li Yu decided to leave the palace, she lived away from the hustle and bustle of urban life. She who was pregnant young decided to stay in the mountains until giving birth.

During his solitary stay in the mountains, Li Yu met a kind-hearted adventurer, his name was Ling Gho, the uncle of Ling Dong who was in the second-rate White Dove Academy.

Ling Gho fell in love with Li Yu, and accepted what he was. Because of her sincerity, Li Yu accepted her love. They were married at the Ling family residence. Ling Dao Kai was born.

After the birth of Ling Dao Kai, the Dao Emperor learned that Li Yu was pregnant and had a son. Not wanting Ling Dao Kai to take revenge on him, and also seize his throne, the Dao Emperor decided to kill Li Yu and Ling Dao Kai.

Knowing the Dao Emperor's ill intentions, Ling Gho immediately brought his wife and son to leave the Ling great family. They hid in Flower Village by changing their names so that they were not easily known by the assassins, until Ling Dao Kai grew up and was very talented.

During the hideout, Ling Gho and Li Yu never told his son about his past. However, when Ling Dao Kai was 19 years old, his parents were killed by assassins from the Flower of Death Pavilion.

Hunted by the Death Flower Pavilion, Ling Dao Kai had clearly fled to the Imperial Capital of Xia. In the Capital City, he decides to enlist as a soldier to be safe from the pursuit of a hitman.

Become a soldier of the Xia Empire. He showed all of his abilities in order to become an officer as soon as possible. And eventually he became a high-ranking officer. Until one day, she meets Xia Junsu who makes her fall in love.

However, he had to contend with Tian Sun who also loved Xia Junsu. Due to the love rivalry, Tian Sun and Ling Dao Kai fought for pride as a man. The fight was witnessed by Emperor Xia and many important people.

Because the fight was so fierce and draw, Tian Sun was forced to take out the moves from the Book of Seven Layers of Heaven. He eventually defeated Ling Dao Kai, but did not kill him for being an officer.

After that fight, Emperor Xia sanctioned the relationship between his daughter and Tian Sun. His goal was to bless the relationship because he wanted the Book of the Seven Layers of Heaven. Originally, Emperor Xia did not respond to rumors that Tian Sun had managed to create two martial techniques. After seeing it for himself, he finally believed.

From there the beginning of Tian Sun became a hunt for many people because of the Book of Seven Layers of Heaven and the Book of Heaven's Rainbow.

As for the defeated Ling Dao Kai, he decided to leave his post as an officer. He also began to adventure in order to increase his strength. The defeat of Tian Sun had been his motivation.

After several years of adventure in the Eastern Continent, Ling Dao Kai met the Heavenly Snake Queen. He fell in love a second time. Unfortunately, the Heavenly Snake Queen flatly rejected him.

Unaccepting to be rejected, Ling Dao Kai foolishly challenged the Heavenly Snake Queen to a fight. If he wins, then the Heavenly Snake Queen must be his wife. If he loses, he's ready to die.

Unfortunately, Ling Dao Kai was easily defeated by one of the Heavenly Snake Queen's bodyguards. Fortunately, the Heavenly Snake Queen did not order her bodyguards to kill Ling Dao Kai.

Ever since his defeat by a female bodyguard, Ling Dao Kai decided to refocus on increasing strength. He left the Eastern Continent and headed towards the territory of the Dao Dynasty.

In the Dao Dynasty, his name became famous because his cultivation base increased dramatically in just a few decades, and many defeated strong cultivators at that time.

After becoming famous as the Swordsman, he met a palace maid who had given Li Yu sleeping pills.

The servant told Li Yu's past. Knowing the secret of his mother's past, it was clear Ling Dao Kai was furious and was about to kill the Dao Emperor, as well as overthrow the government of the Dao Empire.

Unfortunately, he had difficulty killing the Dao Emperor who had a lot of military power. In order to achieve that goal, he continued to challenge all the strong cultivators for the sake of obtaining his opponent's treasures.

Because of his achievements, that eventually made Ling Dao Kai have many enemies. Hence, his name entered the list in the Death Flower Pavilion.

After becoming famous, Ling Dao Kai began to enter the sphere of the Dao Empire palace, he became the coach of the soldiers. His intention was to observe the movements of the Dao Emperor and his famous strong bodyguards.

In order to overthrow the power of the Dao Dynasty, he would have to have a lot of wealth, his current wealth was not enough to bribe the palace officials.

He secretly decided to join the Death Flower Pavilion, becoming a hit man. He used a pseudonym and his face was covered with a mask.

After several years of being an assassin, he obtained the mission to kill Tian Jun. Knowing the information about his wealthy target, and also the husband of Queen Shima aka the Heavenly Snake Queen, it was clear Ling Dao Kai would not waste this opportunity to obtain wealth.

Moreover, he bore a grudge to the Heavenly Snake Queen and Xia Junsu. Killing Tian Jun was one of his current life goals. He rushed to the Middle Continent to kill Tian Jun, as well as meeting the Li family who were still distant relatives of his mother...

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The Dark Forces and the Niao Kingdom troops had arrived in the Liyao Desert, the desert that became the border between the two kingdoms. Ancestor Yao had to pass through the Liyao Desert because the cliff path of the Snake Valley was blocked with fire by the Li Kingdom. King Li's goal was clear so that the Dark Forces could not pass through Li Yao Bridge Gate.

It is certain that the fire that blocked the cliff path was very hot and difficult to extinguish. Inevitably, Ancestor Yao and King Niao had to pass through the Liyao Desert in order to reach the territory of the Li Kingdom.

Right now, Ancestor Yao along with King Niao was facing off against King Li. King Li is not alone, he is with the Swordsman - Ling Dao Kai who is very famous in the Twins Moon Continent, besides Queen Shima.

King Li and the Swordsman saw an even larger number of opposing forces, over two million soldiers. However, they were undaunted against the victorious opponents, as the Dark Forces were weak in terms of cultivation base, which they were wary of were the Niao Kingdom army, Ancestor Yao and King Niao.

Ancestor Yao was astonished in her heart because the Swordsman was in the Middle Continent and supporting King Li. However, seeing behind his enemy that many people were hunting Tian Jun's head, he guessed that the Swordsman was also hunting Tian Jun.

"I know your purpose... Since our goal is the same, which is to kill Cao Tian Jun, it would be nice if we cooperate alone. We know he has a strong backer behind him that we can't stay alone for long!" the invitation of Ancestor Yao who wanted to utilize the Swordsman's ability to fight against the Magic Kingdom.

But his words also made sense. With Tian Jun being supported by Queen Shima, Xue Delun Hai and the Magic Kingdom, it was definitely difficult to kill him.

"What's in it for us?" ask the Swordsman.

"Obviously it's a big profit if we manage to kill him! We know he has a lot of wealth coming from Mystical Beast Mountain, the Jade Emperor's Stamp, and many more of his treasures that cannot be mentioned. We share our wealth. In addition, you can occupy one of the territories of the Magic Kingdom or Ming Kingdom!" ancestor Yao replied lightly.

Ancestor Yao's offer clearly attracted the hearts of the Swordsman, King Li and the assassins. Swordsman obviously needed territory to build military power and wealth. As for King Li, since the days of his ancestors desperately wanted the territory of the Ming Kingdom.

"We made a deal!" the door of King Li who did not want Ancestor Yao to renege on his words.

Ancestor Yao turned her head to her left to look at King Niao who nodded in agreement. Then, they made a joint agreement letter to kill Tian Jun and his supporters who were in the Central Continent...

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After preparing a shelter for everyone in Kiev City, Tian Jun sought a place away from the Wushi Magic College disciples. It didn't take long for him to find a quiet place. He immediately took out Team Phoenix from within his Soul World.

"Winged Golden Armor Ring anti magic energy. But be careful against them!" tian Jun's message before Team Phoenix spread out to subvert the disciples from Wushi Magic College.

They nodded in understanding and immediately spread towards the points where the Wushi Magic College disciples were securing Kiev City.

It didn't take long, the 19-woman Phoenix Team fought with 100 Wushi Magic College disciples. Explosions of spiritual energy and magic clashed against each other sounding loud.

The children and all the women in the hostages clearly saw their fight. Looking at Fang Yin, they were excited because it would definitely be helped.

The Wushi Magic College disciples were unable to match the Phoenix Team, as Xia Junsu, Fang Yin, Li Jiancheng, Ao Fengying, Yin Cang and Diny Nuan were also magicians, respectively, all magic does not hurt Team Phoenix because of the winged armor of war.

In fact, when all those disciples turned into Crow Birds in order to increase their Speed in fighting, Team Phoenix still easily defeated them.

As for Tian Jun, immediately encountered the hostages who were about to be rescued. Due to his extremely handsome appearance and not looking like a bad person, as well as claiming to be the husband of Fang Yin, he had no trouble convincing them, and immediately inserted them into his dimension ring...

Since those 100 disciples were connected to Niao Wushi's eyes, it was clear that the teacher knew. Niao Wushi was obviously furious that one by one his students had been killed. Out of his 100 students, there are currently 67. He immediately teleported before his disciple was all killed, and appeared inside Kiev City.

"You're looking for death!?" the clash of Niao Wushi that shocked Team Phoenix while fighting, he saw Fang Yin who had just killed his disciple.

Fang Yin and Team Phoenix immediately gathered. They saw Niao Wushi who looked terrible, carrying a staff made of human bones.

Likewise with the 66 Wushi Magic College students who immediately gathered with his teacher. In the hearts of all those disciples, they admired Team Phoenix who had different beautiful appearances, as well as capable abilities.

Xia Junsu and Fang Yin advanced closer to Niao Wushi, they were followed by Team Phoenix who was behind him.

"Your cruelty from then until now is truly unforgivable! Today you must die!?" fang Yin's indignation was not the least bit afraid of Niao Wushi, despite knowing that this opponent had magic abilities at the 7th rank of the intermediate stage - at the Sacred-level Divination Witch.

While Fang Yin was far below him, his ability was still at the 3rd rank of the peak stage, Master Grade Magic. Definitely no match for Niao Wushi. However, Team Phoenix had Xia Junsu who was ranked on par with Niao Wushi.

Niao Wushi paid no heed to Fang Yin's words, the one on guard was Tian Jun. Seeing that Tian Jun was not among them, he calmed his heart down a little.

"Then what do you want, kill me? Let's do!" niao Wushi's challenge while stomping the magic wand to the ground.

Then it emerged from within the ground many human skeletons, and immediately attacked Team Phoenix.

Xia Junsu smiled faintly at the sight of his enemy, he also stomped the magic wand onto the ground. Then, came out the roots of the tree that were snaring the human skeleton that was about to attack him. The human skeleton was shattered, but its bones quickly fused together.

Xue Li Xia immediately used her flagship ice element to freeze the attacking human skeleton. The Phoenix team immediately attacked Niao Wushi's disciples...

Tian Jun was aware of Niao Wushi's arrival, but he wasn't worried because Team Phoenix had been equipped with the Winged Golden Armor Ring, as well as having Xia Junsu. He focused on saving the children and all the women who were very numerous.

He felt black and white magic colliding with each other. If he wasn't forbidden to interfere against Niao Wushi, obviously wanting to test Niao Wushi's strength using the Spirit Power of the Universe.

There is one beautiful married woman, the woman who always calms the hearts of all the hostages. Zhang Xinyu, 36, has a 15-year-old daughter, Feng Meiyu. Her husband became one of the Dark Forces.

"Young master, thank you for saving us!" zhang Xinyu said as she bowed in gratitude for Tian Jun's help.

"It's our job to save each other! Are there no more hostages?" sahut Tian Jun and asked.

"Many have been killed by soldiers for rebelling ...!" zhang Xinyu replied as she pointed towards the back of the resident house.

Tian Jun followed Zhang Xinyu's index finger, then was surprised to see the piles of corpses of children and many women.

"Civilized?!" tian Jun's growl while clenching both of his hands.

He took a deep breath and exhaled slowly to calm his heart. Then, he looked at Zhang Xinyu as he promised, "i will avenge them!"

"Can you save our family who became undead?" asked the hopeful Zhang Xinyu.

However, Tian Jun shook his head in response. He knew that anyone who absorbed the black fog could no longer be saved. Zhang Xinyu and her daughter cried hugging each other.

Then, as the mother and child cried, Tian Jun inserted them into his dimension ring. After that, he continued until all the hostages were no longer in Kiev City. After his task was done, he burned all the corpses that had piled up.