novelraw Chapter 331 : The Plan Backfires
Chapter 331 : The Plan Backfires
There are no unwarranted favors—this principle is simple. Even though Quan Yu was now treated as an honored guest by the entire Quan family, he was well aware that it was all an illusion.
The task entrusted to him by the Quan family head was to find the Fire of Creation again, lure her out, lead her into a trap, and obtain her power.
The Quan family head had not abandoned his ambition to capture the Fire of Creation.
"What? You're unwilling?" The middle-aged man's cold eyes swept over the silent Quan Yu, exuding intense pressure.
"...I understand." Quan Yu looked up at him, hesitating before speaking, "Although the Fire of Creation saved my life, I was merely a chance passerby in her eyes. Perhaps she has already forgotten me. I'm not confident I can successfully lure her out."
"Hmph, useless! What good are you to me!"
Quan Yu lowered his head in silence, then spoke again after a moment, "But, I have another idea."
The family head frowned, gesturing for him to continue.
Quan Yu spoke softly, "The Fire of Creation lives by burning anger and resentment. If we could reach an agreement with her on this basis... perhaps this reason would seem more credible and not arouse her suspicion."
"You mean, provide offerings for her?"
"Yes, mutually beneficial transactions are always the most unbreakable relationships. Father, you can use the family's divine arts to communicate with the Fire of Creation. We provide her with sufficient resentful energy as offerings, and in exchange, ask her to promise... to do one thing for our family, such as training an heir."
The Quan family was a branch descended from ancient deities, later interbreeding with ascended human deities to expand to their current state as a great family. The family possessed divine arts passed down from ancient times that could connect with deities.
The Quan family head had used these divine arts when sacrificing Quan Yu to the Abyssal Evil.
By the same logic, these divine arts could naturally communicate with the Fire of Creation.
Of course, this was predicated on the deity's willingness to accept communication.
The Fire of Creation accepted the dialogue.
The Quan family head had prepared excuses to apologize, saying he had been deceived by the evil god and made a grave mistake, seeking the deity's forgiveness and atonement. Unexpectedly, the other party seemed unconcerned about this matter.
Her requirements were simple.
The Quan family would provide her with sufficient resentful energy.
The Quan family controlled the Upper Realm's penal grounds, where many heinous criminals were imprisoned. This request was not difficult for them to fulfill.
In exchange, the Fire of Creation would personally choose a divine envoy within the Quan family and fully train this envoy for them.
An envoy trained by divine power would be a great asset for the Quan family, potentially even helping them defeat the opposing Yu family and become the Upper Realm's preeminent family!
This played right into the family head's hands. After all, his precious son Quan Yi possessed the rare Heavenly Fire Spirit Root, already an unparalleled prodigy. If he could also gain the Fire of Creation's assistance, wouldn't the entire Upper Realm be within their grasp?
However, to everyone's surprise, the Fire of Creation did not choose Quan Yi, whose power was most compatible with hers, but instead selected the overlooked Quan Yu.
Quan Yu's talent might not compare to Quan Yi's within the family, but in the outside world, it was still considered excellent. Both brothers had fire spirit roots, but Quan Yu also had a gold spirit root. The family head was somewhat disappointed, but it didn't matter. As long as they could lure out the Fire of Creation and achieve their goal, it was sufficient.
When Quan Yi learned of this, he was extremely dissatisfied.
He directly led people to the back courtyard, finding Quan Yu who was still in seclusion in the artifact refining room. He slapped Quan Yu's face, full of resentment, "Why you! You waste! Trash! You spend your days reading useless books, your strength can't even compare to one of my fingers. You... what method did you use to seduce the Fire of Creation? How could she choose you!"
He was clearly the one with the highest talent, possessing the Heavenly Fire Spirit Root. How could the Fire of Creation not choose him, but instead select this waste?!
Quan Yu turned his head slightly, releasing his hand. The five red finger marks were still clearly visible on his face. After a while, he spoke calmly, "Do you want to know why?" He smiled pitifully and harmlessly, "Perhaps it's because... I've met the Fire of Creation before. Her choosing me is not unreasonable."
"What?! You two have met! How could you possibly meet her?" Quan Yi grew angrier the more he thought about it. He grabbed Quan Yu's collar forcefully, demanding, "Where did you meet the Fire of Creation? Tell me!"
"The Forest of Death Mist."
"...I see, the Fire of Creation is in the Forest of Death. If I go there, I can encounter the fire seed!"
Quan Yi, desperate to obtain the power of the Fire of Creation, immediately and secretly led people to the Forest of Death Mist.
Three days later, terrible news arrived. All the deities Quan Yi had taken with him were dead, killed by evil spirits.
Quan Yi himself had a life-saving talisman from the Quan family head and narrowly escaped death. He was rescued in time by the Quan family head who rushed to the scene, but he was severely injured and remained in a coma, his fate uncertain. Even the best divine doctors in the city had no solution. It seemed... the situation was dire.
Someone suggested that since Quan Yi possessed the extremely rare fire supreme spirit root, if they could inject more powerful and pure fire-attribute divine power into his body, it might help him survive this crisis.
The Quan family head thought of the power of the Fire of Creation.
He had originally planned to wait until the Fire of Creation had finished training Quan Yi before betraying her, but now it seemed there was no time to wait!
That very night, he specially set up a banquet trap, inviting the Fire of Creation to attend.
Secretly, he had called upon the family's elders who had been in seclusion for thousands of years, all for the purpose of successfully capturing this ancient deity who had just awakened and had not yet fully recovered her power...
Ever since Quan Yi was severely injured and fell into a coma, the atmosphere within the Quan family had been off. Especially since the family head had assigned most of the guards to Quan Yi's side, no one paid attention to Quan Yu anymore, which gave him more freedom of movement.
He sensed the tense atmosphere tonight and his first thought was that the family head could wait no longer and was about to take action.
He dismissed the servants and hurried to the main hall. When he saw the object above the family's great battle platform, his pupils constricted. It seemed that this time the family head was determined to capture the Fire of Creation in one fell swoop, even bringing out the Quan family's ancestral divine artifact—the Nine Dragon Cauldron, which could extract and store a deity's power.
The entire family compound, inside and out, had been surrounded by various formations, making escape impossible.
He lowered his eyes slightly, flipped his palm, and summoned a formation-breaking awl, using it to break a corner of one of the formations.
The subtle change in the formation's corner went unnoticed in the tense atmosphere of the Quan family compound, but it could cause the entire supposedly impenetrable formation to deflate like a punctured balloon. Once strong divine power was used, it could easily be broken through!
The intense battle that followed was not something a child who had not yet come of age could interfere with.
However, the outcome was predictable. The Quan family was defeated. The Quan family head, as the mastermind behind this plot, although he didn't meet a tragic end, had his divine soul burned by fierce flames. Even if he could eventually be saved, he would be essentially a cripple, his cultivation destroyed and unable to cultivate again.
A stream of black energy emerged from the family head's body and escaped.
As expected, the Abyssal Evil had been hiding within his body!