The Way of the Sword (BL)

On a high mountain was a verdant, magical-looking valley with a beautiful lake with a cascade of crystal clear water; there were many fruit trees with rare and precious fruits that even the powers of the world wished for in their dreams crazier. There were many rabbits, foxes, ferrets, and cats all colored white and black, fish of various colors jumping into the lake causing slight ripples in the waters. Beautiful swans and ducks floated in the water and played with the turtles that seemed to sail leisurely on the water. 

In the middle of this valley was a hill and there was a nest made of sacred crystals, around that hill were layers upon layer of snow, which is quite strange with all the spring weather that is found throughout the valley. 

There in the nest was a majestic phoenix, but unlike the phoenix of fire, its plumage was pure white and its crest was an ice blue, its claws were like precious crystals, and its plumage of chest was as pale blue as the sky. The ice phoenix seemed to be in deep sleep, she had been in deep sleep for many years until the wounds were healed or she suffered in the blue fire of nirvana, she would remain asleep. 

Well, that's what everyone thought, that this great holy beast, which was so rare that it only existed in legends, would only wake up when fully recovered, so no one cared about this holy beast and just didn't disturb their peaceful sleep.

Moonlight shone on the great and beautiful immortal bird, giving a sacred glow to this beast, all seemed in the greatest peace and tranquility, until the ice phoenix opened its beautiful eyes, its eyes were gray and furious. The ice phoenix looked around confused, she seemed to be looking for something very important, but she only saw small animals and plants.

"Where is the young master?" The ice phoenix thought in confusion, but soon she felt the waves of violent and negative emotions coming from a distant direction. The ice phoenix knew it could not get out of this nest, otherwise it would take even longer to recover or worse would have to leave the young master to look for a place to overcome the fire of icy blue nirvana to rejuvenate and be reborn.

The more time passed, the more anguished the holy beast felt and the angrier her mind became, she thought she had no other way, if she could not go to her young master, then she would have to make others go to her precious young master. She began to scream at a strange pace, the bird's scream ran for miles, the screams grew louder, the animals that lived there began to tremble and their bodies began to glow. 

Zhong Liang's master who felt the screams of the ice phoenix quickly rushed to the spot, arriving there, he could only see a bizarre scene before his eyes seeing all the common animals evolve into sacred beasts, it was not even a small evolution, he could see with the naked eye the transformation of these animals.

"What in the world is going on?" Zhong Liang's master muttered in confusion and surprise as he watched the whole scene, even the fish and turtles were changing.

The phoenix of ice screamed harder and spread its wings, now that the master of Zhong Liang watched it looked like a cry of pain and despair, did the bird get hurt? 

But that was impossible! This ice phoenix was more powerful than the cult leader! 

"Is it Liang'er?" Zhong Liang's master finally came to the most reasonable conclusion, but it made his heart sink in concern. 

"There! I have to contact my husband to look at little Liang's situation! Oh my God! I said he had better recover by meditating! He had to go out to find his benefactor… It's too late, I'll send the message to her husband! "Thought Zhong Liang's master worriedly, soon the great masters of the mountains and the sect leader would come looking for him for the cause of the Ice Phoenix. 

Of course, these people were going to be shocked, it was as if the ice phoenix was forming an army of holy beasts for some kind of powerful and insane war! Soon a powerful blue fire spread all over the place, but it was a fire that did not burn, having a strange effect on the whole environment. Ordinary animals also began to make strange noises of pain and savagery.

Returning to the mountainous region of the floating island, Zhong Liang was kneeling on the ground, but now it was quite silent, his gaze was on the vast dark blue sky, it was not known what he was thinking. Zemin Yan who stood beside him for a while and silently did not know what to say.

Zemin Yan only thought that he had to stay close to Zhong Liang until the boy calmed down, like a wounded animal that doesn't like to be touched, but an ordinary person couldn't help being heartbroken watching this kind of scene, naturally. He stood beside him with his beautiful brown eyes.

Zhong Liang, who was calmer, breathed much more softly, as his memories broke so hard, he had a lot to organize, of course, the most recent memories were the strongest, the memories of his childhood caused him a lot of emotion, but they were fragmented and others looked blank with few scenes, as if they were blocked by something. 

He was much calmer then, glancing sideways to meet Zemin Yan's worried gaze, his brown eyes as always surprisingly warm. The brown color was similar to the light and soft but sweet honey, in those eyes it seemed that he was the only important person in the world. 

"Song Yan?" Zhong Liang's voice was hoarse from the recent crying, not sexy, but the serious tone of his turn could make many girls sigh, feeling their hearts soften. Zemin Yan wasn't a girl, but she felt his heart soften when his War God of his real name with that voice.

"Yes, my original name is Song Yan," said Zemin Yan, looking straight into Zhong Liang's dark eyes, paying close attention to whether his War God really had recovered. 

"Good, very good!" Said Zhong Liang after spending a full minute looking straight into little Yan's eyes. As soon as he pulled the child into his embrace, surprising Zemin Yan.

"Big Brother Zhong?" Zemin Yan called with a tone full of doubt, the hug wasn't bad, it was warm there and he felt very comfortable as if he had been in a similar hug before. 

Zhong Liang looked at Miss Song, as if she knew what he was thinking, she just shook her head, so that meant she hadn't told her about Zhong Liang himself yet and hadn't talked much about the past. Zhong Liang sighed and as if it was very normal to kiss the top of Zemin Yan's head with familiarity. 

"Big Brother Zhong?" Zemin Yan called again a little agitated, as Zhong Liang did not behave so directly, in the previous interactions the two barely talked, at most one hand stroking their hair! A kiss was something Zemin Yan couldn't imagine Zhong Liang doing so easily.

Zhong Liang would not be called a genius for anything, with the name Song Yan and Miss Song's familiarity with himself, after his most recent memories returned there was no doubt about the identity of Miss Song and Zemin Yan. Now all that remained was to know why little Yan's appearance had changed so drastically, but there were so many mysteries about the time of Song's father and mother's disappearance.

Zemin Yan felt a little frustrated that Zhong Liang seemed to be having his mind elsewhere and wasn't listening to him, so he pulled Zhong Liang's clothes a little to get his attention. 

Zhong Liang looked down to meet the bright, sweet eyes of Zemin Yan, who was already pouting with his distraction. His icy heart soon became soft and warm, so Zhong Liang very naturally kissed his two bright eyes, leaving the child dazed. 

"Don't call me Big Brother Zhong, but call me Liang or Brother Liang" demand Zhong Liang, showing a serious expression, but in fact, he wanted to laugh as he watched little Yan's stunned face turning red, so he talked about it to divert attention. 

"I can't, you're the great God of War!" Zemin Yan automatically denied forgetting to measure his words, eventually speaking the nickname he gave Zhong Liang in his heart.

"God of War?" Asked Zhong Liang a little more interested, but Zemin Yan looked away even more embarrassed, already forgetting that he was kissed on both eyes. 

"I can only call Big Brother Liang," Zemin Yan said to divert the subject, he did not want to explain the origin of this nickname, only he and his little white dog know about it. He had to be careful, it wouldn't be good to talk about it in front of Zhong Liang! He was going to die of shame!