Love Is Colder than Death

And speaking of Jun Mohan.

Air stagnated in this giant chamber. The woman lying on his bed was the one who had followed him for three hundred years. Though being brave and stubborn, she was lying there, struggling the edge of life and death. She was so feeble--her face was extremely pale and her eyes tightly closed--that she might be blown away by a gust of wind.

A sense of bitterness overwhelmed Jun Mohan, which made him feel he was out of breath.

"I only left for several days, someone tells me why she becomes like this!"

He didn't believe that Phoenix would die.

He even had never thought of her leaving him permanently.

His heart ached. He had never been much worried about his whole life.

"I order you must cure her! Bring her back to life!" Jun Mohan yelled like crazy.

"I want her alive! Do you hear me?"

"Your Highness, I have exerted all my efforts. But she was so seriously wounded, her blood... has almost been drained up..."

Knees on the ground, Yigan--the Fairy physician--was quivering beside the Fairy Emperor for he had never been this furious as if he was enchanted.

"Your Highness..." The Fairy pharmacist who had kept silent tried to say something.

Jun Mohan gave him a stern look, "Shoot!"

"Well..." He stroked his beard and didn't know how to properly inform him.

No one dared to tell Jun Mohan the truth up till now.

The truth was that Phoenix was pregnant. Under the present condition, Phoenix had one destiny of being vanished. If her baby was also included, the Fairy Emperor would just be more grieved.

But the truth was to be revealed sooner or later, so the Fairy pharmacist opened his mouth and said, "Your Highness, after taking her pulse, I would say that... she's pregnant. This is a serious matter, please let me suggest--report the Celestial Emperor the soon the better."

"Pregnant?"

Something struck his heart wildly.

Jun Mohan was shocked and looked at Phoenix on the bed. His expression was very hard to tell. His face turned dark with rage. He took a deep breath and clasped his hands quietly into fists. He was trying to calm his heart which was beating madly.

"What are you saying? Say it again!" He pulled the Fairy pharmacist's collar and roared.

"Your Highness... Phoenix has been pregnant for over a month, but the fetus hasn't completely formed its shape..."

She was carrying his baby?

Well... Jun Mohan smiled faintly, thinking, "Maybe this is our destiny. You see, we just can break up with each other easily. We are so connected..."

His expression changed several times, which was the reflection of his emotion.

After a while, he squeezed his words from his teeth, "Phoenix is carrying my baby... You must keep her and her baby safe whatever it takes!"

"Your Highness! Her body was speeding up on the decline. What's worse, her primordial spirit was already broken into pieces, which could not be fixed... Even the blood of a phoenix girl could bring the dead back to life, it could not fix a soul..." Jun Mohan shattered everything in the hall except the bed with his magic power and roared, "So I can't do nothing but watch her getting vanished?"

"Your Highness..." All of them fell to the ground and apologized to him.

"Your Highness, this is the conventional condition. But what the Celestial people have is the ancient power of rejuvenating and they possess many ancient magic tools. They might have the ability to save her for she was the future of them..." Ziyan Emperor, who had been on his knees, suddenly stood up and said, "I should be blamed for what happened between Phoenix and the Asmodians. If it is necessary, just let me take the punishment from the Celestial people. Ziyan Emperor had seized the chance to inform Jun Mohan of the incident that Phoenix allied with the Asmodians just now. He also handed the crucial evidence collected from Phoenix.

He told Jun Mohan that he had taken Phoenix and Sparrow temporarily into the prison.

Jun Mohan stood up with his hands at the back. He said remorsefully, "You are not blamed for all of these. You made your contributions when I was not here and guarded the court during the war..."

Then, he pulled his face, "I just don't believe that Phoenix would really ally with the Asmodians! I know her temperament. She is the noble phoenix girl, she has no motivation to ally with them! You make a thorough investigation into it and find out who actually plotted these! And... find out who punished her secretly! Now!"