Chapter 274 - Celestial Guests

Lei Xing was still hugging her Emperor suddenly with her eyes closed, trying to distance herself from the surrounding bizarreness. She suddenly felt the Emperor stiffen and heard shocked gasps from the others around them. She knit her brows and then opened her eyes and froze in shock when she saw little balls of purple, blue, red, and black with surrounding halo of white little balls floating around her and the Emperor. 

She looked up like the others to see that the balls were floating down from the four celestial bodies. The sky was also steadily turning to night, further enhancing the shine of the celestial bodies and the river of their fragments. 

All four celestial bodies now appeared smaller and seemed to be shrinking as a river of lights steadily streamed into the Empress's palace, coming to swirl around where Lei Xing and the Emperor stood, forming a colorful enclosed wall of light. 

Lei Xing then turned to the Emperor to receive another shock and her eyes went wide. She immediately grabbed his arms and held him back at arm's length. She knit her brows, opened her mouth and then closed it, in complete disbelief.

Today was really one thing after another. 

She gulped and then tentatively said, "You're glowing...." in a quiet raspy voice, that was almost like a whisper.

The Emperor smirked and then responded, "You're glowing too~" in a sweet tone of voice.

Lei Xing frowned and irritatedly went, "This is not the time for flirting! I mean you're physically actually glowing!" She stressed. The Emperor she was looking at had a blue light, almost like a fire radiating off of him. But obviously he was not on fire, she was holding his arms and it felt normal. 

"I meant it...You're actually glowing." The Emperor responded, somewhat amused. Lei Xing blinked at him and then looked down at her arms and then down at the rest of her body, just noticing that she too was glowing as well, glowing a fiery red. 

{...Um - is this normal? OoO)...What the hell?! Of course, it's not normal! >_

Lei Xing looked down with a frown and took a few deep breaths to calm herself. The Emperor raised up a hand and pat her head and said, "Don't worry...it'll be alright. The Voice said so and even your doctor said so...and you trust him, don't you?"

Lei Xing lightly nervously laughed and went, "Sure...not really, it's complicated." She honestly admitted. Doctor Lou seemed like a flighty person and so she had understandably had issues trusting his words. Not to mention, he liked to mess with people's minds, for all she knew he could saying absolute nonsense. He was definitely not the naturally trustworthy sort and neither was she the naturally trusting sort. 

The Emperor smiled and stroked her hair and said, "Trust me then...It'll be alright."

Lei Xing nodded and then she looked at the increasingly densely packed swirling lights around them with knit eyebrows. She could barely see through the lights now, she took a step and stretched out her arm towards the swirling lights. But the Emperor promptly pulled her back and said, "Don't touch them."

Lei Xing frowned at him and went, "But -" 

"They could burn you." The Emperor kindly advised. Lei Xing gulped and quickly withdrew her hand, she was curious but not that curious. Lei Xing stared at them, she truly could not wrap her mind around what was happening right now. Lei Xing knit her brows.

{...Oy, doc...is this is you doing this? (≖_≖ )...You're going to have a lot of explaining to do...later...}

She did not get a response and she honestly did not expect to at the moment with the Emperor holding her. Lei Xing sighed and then glanced at the Emperor who was calmly looking at her and went, "Why are you so calm if you think they could burn us?" 

"Why are YOU so calm?" The Emperor threw the question back at her with a little smirk.

"Do I look calm to you?" Lei Xing responded narrowing her eyes at him with a pout. 

The Emperor lightly chuckled and pulled her back into his arms, "It will be fine..." He was also feeling very confused and panicked on the inside but he had been trained to maintain a calm demeanor no matter the situation. As far as Lei Xing was safely in his arms, he really did not care what was happening. her presence soothed his heart and calmed his spirit.

He could also safely assume that whatever was happening right now was the Voice resolving things, somehow. 

"Take your positions." Doctor Lou calmly ordered with his eyes still closed. Ah Jin and Tung Mei nodded and promptly disappeared and reappeared within the wall of lights where Lei Xing and the Emperor stood. 

"Are you sure you can do this?" Ah Jin asked looking at Tung Mei skeptically.

"Of course, it's just copying, it's simple enough~" Tung Mei offhandedly responded as she narrowed her eyes at the Emperor's arms wrapped around Lei Xing. 

"You go first." Ah Jin said and Tung Mei sighed and nodded and then fazed into the whirling wall of lights and then Ah Jin followed suit, and the swirling of the lights increased exponentially and so did the river streaming in.

Xiao Ruo and the others in the Empress's courtyard were so completely stupefied and enraptured by the scene playing out before them so much so that none of them noticed the Empress dowager suddenly ran into the courtyard. 

The Empress dowager stopped and bent down to catch her breath. Then she glanced around, ignored the now rapidly spinning wall of light in the center of the courtyard, the servants and the guards. Her gaze finally stopped at exactly where Doctor Lou sat and then she blinked at him in what seemed to be confused surprise.

Doctor Lou finally opened his eyes and then froze when he saw the Empress dowager looking directly at him. The Empress dowager knit her brows, opened her mouth but then closed it as if at a loss for words.

Doctor Lou frowned and then broke the eye contact, looking down. What was left of the celestial bodies in the sky finally burst into little balls of lights and went to flow into the incoming river just as the Empress dowager finally found her words, "Se-" A crippling pain suddenly shot through her head and she clutched it as she fell to her knees in pain.

"Se-" The Empress dowager's words immediately froze and clutched her head in pain as the last remaining orbs of the four celestial bodies floated into the river of light that was now rushing down to the wall of lights. 

Eunuch Li quickly arrived at the Empress dowager's side and held her up, "Is your head hurting again?" Completely ignoring the bright scenery before him. The Empress dowager did not respond and simply raised her head and looked at where Doctor Lou sat through blurry eyes before finally passing out. 

The maids and guards were now backing away slowly completely confused and lost as to what to do in this situation. Eunuch Li cast a quick glance at the spinning wall of light, frowned, and swiftly carried the Empress dowager and sped out off, not at all sure what was going on but more concerned about the Empress dowager's condition. 

The other people around seemingly took his exit as a cue and they started to run as well as the wall of light spun faster and got brighter. Leaving only a stupefied Xiao Ruo and the twins and a few other brave guards, who were slowly backing away with their swords drawn.

They were at a loss and did not know what else to do so they held out their swords out of habit. They were loyal to the Emperor but did not know how they supposed to battle celestial enemies, especially ones lacking bodies to cut down. 

In the center of the blazing light, the Emperor stood clutching Lei Xing to himself now feeling very worried, while Lei Xing just looked on awe-stricken. The wall of light suddenly shot out to the sky and exploded in a bright blinding flash that covered the whole palace. Two distinct loud piercing noises that sounded somewhat like animal cries reverberated through the air. 

They all averted their gaze to avoid the light and when they looked again, it was too see another even more shocking sight as the light dust shimmered down from the sky. 

Above the Empress's palace, in the sky was a huge magnificent flame blue dragon and an equally awe-inspiring fiery red phoenix, circling each other in an almost playful dance. 

Lei Xing's mouth as well as a host of other people's mouths all over the city instantly fell open.

The dragon and phoenix's cries rung out again and they continued took their festive dance around the palace as onlookers gaped in shock, fear...awe, petrified by the unbelievably remarkable sight. 

A true dragon and phoenix were gracing the sky above their heads. Legends from folklore were before their eyes. 

It was unbelievable. 

The dragon and phoenix went back to circle over the Empress's palace one more time before flying out in the sky above the city, basking all below in the radiance of the warm shimmering light falling from their celestial bodies. 

Lei Xing finally closed her mouth, gulped, and then burst into laughter. Her laugh promptly detached the Emperor's attention from the incredible scene playing out in the sky. 

Lei Xing looked at him, still laughing as she looked between him and the sky, "You see that too, right?" 

The Emperor tentatively nodded as he glanced at the forms of the dragon and phoenix "playing" in the distance. They were so grand and bright, that they all could still clearly see them even though they had left the palace. He too was honestly at a loss for words.

"So, planets turn to light to dragon, phoenix...all that...?" Lei Xing said still laughing, The Emperor nodded again. Lei Xing's fit of laughter increased as she kept pointing from the sky to him. The Emperor knit his brows in concern and was about to say something but before he could speak, her eyes suddenly rolled up and she went limp in his arms, her mind had gone into overload. 

{...This is all too insane...}

The Emperor swiftly picked her up in his arms and then looked up at the dark sky and the two bright celestial beings still dancing in the sky and smiled.

He would have never imagined of this...but this was much better than he could have possibly hoped for.