The Secret Princess – Fan Fiction by AC Chapter 77: Barrels of Souls
♥Author♥Angel♥Chua♥
Adapted from Princess Agents drama series and original novel by Xiao Xiang Dong’er – Chu Qiao Chuan Biography
Barrels of Souls (08.12.2021 edited)
Dusk painted the skies of orange and hues of blue, and darker twilight befalls the underworld realms. After the rainfall, the passing of clouds went fast.
A sudden peace embraced the misty mountains and quiet rivers.
Yuwen Yue suddenly heard a bird tweet.
A suspended wooden cage in a cliff is hanging like a pendulum clock waiting for the hour of death. He looked up but then looked down as well. Yuwen Yue looks at the seven seas of firefalls.
A man in the middle surrounded by a dark force. One of them is the strongest underworld assassin waiting to be attacked.
On the opposite, a young man who lost its underworld chains when his powers were refined by light.
Wanting to challenge the underworld, he promised to handover Di Fu, chief of underworld assassins.
He began to work as a dark palm. Under Yuwen Yue’s command, he was slowly transformed to be the light to the dark palm. Teaching him to control his dark powers, he succeeded in using meditation.
Yuwen Yue never gave up to show him the opposite of his character and the young man struggled to deal with it every day.
Learning Taichi everyday, he mastered to meditate.
Teach what is humane and what is not, the conduct of unbecoming and becoming a gentleman, learning cultural refinement through justice and injustice, made him forsake his underworld assassins behavior, back to his human soul and mind.
All of these teachings are never introduced to the underworld realms. What is taught is all about evilness, there is no remorse and only punishment, all kinds of sins are committed.
Tracker was human at first but because of he wants to revenge, he became half-bred underworld assassin who took the vows of hell.
***
Tracker’s past life was full of killing and betrayal.
As long as he betrays, it becomes his strength but spells weakness for the good. Being an enemy of the good, it always looks for evil people to accomplish their vilest sins and does not feel remorse afterward.
Now, it is his turn to experience evil himself.
Betrayed by Di Fu, at the time he was abandoned alone, he eventually recognized the glistening Poe Yue Jian sword he softly whispered: “This is not a coincidence, I found the Qinghai crown prince Ra Yue.”
Tracker summoned the seven elders of the seven seas and disturbed the balance of good and evil.
To challenge Di Fu, Tracker will have to open these realms to show who can win and who will lose then make him pay for abandoning him.
Revenge is not accepted in the underworld realms because to challenge the underworld realm means, to die in the Abyss.
Only one rule can never change, no one can extinguish evil. For it holds the balance of the good which can define the rewards of the loyal and faithful.
Aside from undivided loyalty, Tracker also thrives from his prideful heart.
So long as he preserves pride in his heart, he is never going to be pitied. He will never be seen as weak underworld assassin. He earned it when he started to perform his vow to be an underworld assassin. His first encounter was to defeat
Scarface, one must go through fiery hell and Tracker earning his first challenge became next to Di Fu. When Tracker sent many underworld assassins to the abyss, including Scarface who tried to fight him with evil versus evil, he did it on purpose.
He did this to rise in the underworld principalities and powers and with the right time can use it for his revenge.
He vowed to revenge for Trailkoya’s life, his brother who was slain by the Master of the eyes of God.
During the fight, Tracker fought Scarface and defeating him meant to force him to bow to Tracker and save himself from the death in the Abyss.
Scarface can still remember that day, he was the most perfect handsome face that turns people to become evil. Scarface used his perfect face to confuse as he tries to lure and copy good people to turn good people to become evil.
Jealousy is written in his neck, the art he mastered became his weakness even if he earned it for a thousand years when he received that scar in his face.
Instead of sharing jealousy to good people, he himself became jealous of himself. He is no longer beautiful and insecurity began to creep his vile confidence.
Tracker marred his face and gave a permanent scar. Scarface became the ugly evil and anyone who looks at his face will turn to be good instead of being evil.
Instead of gaining more power, Scarface gained weakness when he lost the challenge to Tracker. He was punished for a decade and became the gatekeeper of the Underworld realms.
Going back to the time when Yuwen Yue asked but already knew Tracker’s weakness: “What is your weakness in the underworld realms?”
“The thing that you ask for!” Tracker said to Yuwen Yue in the rudest manner.
Yuwen Yue smirked a bit and said: “Loyalty.” That is why you always betray.
“Why ask if you knew it all the time?” Said Tracker who took a stone and threw it to the river.
Yuwen Yue coldly said: “Because you may need to stop doing betrayal one day and I may need to harm the underworld when I force your loyalty to be displayed.”
“Keep dreaming, it will never happen.” Tracker found himself smiling.
Yuwen Yue disrespected but felt honest with Tracker’s reaction said: “I am awake. Only the Masters who sleep, dreams.”
Tracker looks at Yuwen Yue like he is going to kill him but smiled at him, in return did not refute his Master’s forewords.
That day his Master’s words became true today. Tracker facing his challenge once again to take over Di Fu and the seven seas of fire owes him a chance.
Di Fu on his closed eyes spoke with a horrible sound, he said: “Tell me, are you really the master of betrayal?!”
Tracker’s sitting in the middle of the seven seas closed his eyes is meditating. His ears rang when he heard the voice of Di Fu.
Tracker in his calm voice responded: “I am.” then he paused for a second and breathe for a second, he said: “I betray to fulfill my vow.”
Di Fu was not happy with what he heard, he became angry, he said in a loud thud of voice: “What is your vow? Did you forget?”
“Momentarily forget.” soft, cold and calm voice Tracker hummed in peace trying to resist the evil arousing in him.
Its Tracker’s turn to ask his former Chief he asked boldly: “Why did you abandon me?”
Di Fu will be honest for the first time he said: “If I will have to tell the truth, one of us will have to die.”
“Then you will die!” Said Tracker and he started to swing his hands and peacefully demonstrated the hand signal of the yin and yang until it floated in the wind.
Di Fu felt its powers, darkness, and light are entering the yin and yang sign. It tortured him for a while.
Tracker suddenly opened his eyes and as fast as the lightning, he struck Di Fu. Di Fu found his hands captured inside the yin and yang floating in the wind, it cannot contain it.
“Why endure it?” Tracker boldly said and gave him a mocking eye.
Then to injure Di Fu’s pride, in his deep horrible voice as hell, he said: “If you lose your human image, it will be a desperate act! And then what next? You won’t gain another human body again. You are bound in the Abyss forever. That is your death!”
Tracker let go of his anger at that moment and was back at peace and sat down in a Buddha position. With his left, steady and straight palm continued to torture Di Fu with shame.
Di Fu’s face shows dark madness, he started to draw invisible Chinese inscriptions in front of Tracker. But Tracker controlling the yin and yang in his mind, he is fighting evil with evil causing him to draw out more underworld power.
As the yin and yang sign tightens, it captures Di Fu’s both hands. Like invisible handcuffs, the two circles inside the yin and yang were spinning fast it began to burn Di Fu’s human hands. In any moment, Di Fu will be forced to show its true nature, he will begin to grow and became a body lake of fire.
When Di Fu increases its hell power, the mountains and rivers are consumed with fire. The forest lake turned into a raging lake of fire that spread forest fires and black smoke can be seen all around.
Describe the pit of hell.
***
Yuwen Yue for the first time saw what hell means, he looks at the Cangwu bird for the last time until it was slowly burned in his sight.
Without a sound, his heart was torn into bitter pieces.
The feeling of losing hope flowed through his veins.
Under this realms, Yuwen Yue defied the laws of the underworld. He is a human being with godly superior abilities. He bravely descended to hell.
Yet, he cannot even save a simple animal who went with this journey and sacrificed its life.
After a few moments, Yuwen Yue realized the elixir of potion that Tracker gave him earlier was cracked. The Cangwu bird may have eaten some of it.
While he realized the bird took the half of the flask to spread it over on the suspended wooden cage saving his life.
When Yuwen Yue’s situation is hopeless, with no help coming from anyone, he began to see the world around him.
Yuwen Yue’s tired eyes looked below. He saw Di Fu’s hands burning and yet he cannot do anything to stop. He saw Tracker lingering and sitting in a Buddha position, fighting Di Fu’s refusal to become a lake of fire.
He remembered Tracker whispered into his ears: “When the world becomes a hopeless place, look around and take this elixir and drink it.
If you are what you knew about yourself, this elixir will unleash your human godly existence.”
***
The underworld realm is full of fire, it is going to burn him alive and the fire began to burn the wooden cage.
As soon as it touches the wooden cage, instead of them being burned, the cage dramatically turns into gold.
Yuwen Yue felt safe but his body unable to stand the fire he sat in Buddha position inside the golden cage and closed his eyes.
Buying more time, Yuwen Yue began to chant. Suddenly in a timeless space, two souls called to meet again.
It is the only safe passage of time where Yuwen Yue can communicate when suddenly…
Two handsome bodies, free of chaos were facing each other.
Their eyes were closed.
Both Sitting in a Buddha position but suddenly two pairs of eyes opened.
One is a master and one is a servant.
The master spoke, he said: “Do not fret. To defeat evil, you must do nothing.”
The servant looked at the master and silently revealed through his eyes.
“I haven’t told you… I must lose in order to end Di Fu. If I win, I will only replace Di Fu and have to fight my Master. I did not accept Di Fu’s place. Even the gods know this.”
The Master recalled in his vision was the opposite of what he heard: “I accept.”
The servant paused and gave the master a prideful look in the eyes and then he continued to reveal silently…
“I accept..I accepted death.”
“The day I saw the Poe Yue Jian sword, I knew it was Qinghai Crown Prince Ra Yue.”
“Bearing the shame forever, I killed the Kungfu master of ice in exchange for you. I betrayed my underworld vow and started to betray Di Fu. But unless I kill one of you, Di Fu would not believe that I am going to betray the trapped Masters of this realm instead of him. I am sorry I have to choose. I have to deceive Di Fu and kill the master of the Kungfu of ice.”
The servant paused for a while and continued . . .
“At that moment of your pain, I already devoted my loyalty to you. Thank you for freeing my curse. Thank you for making me live in the human world once again. Goodbye Master, please save Mimi Gongzhu she is waiting on the other side. I promised to take you out of this realms but it seems I will betray one more time. Now I already knew what my fate lies. The gods have revealed, this is the path I must take. I will walk in it and shall see the light.”
“Master, please take care of my brother. This is my last wish.”
A calm, handsome, human godly face took pity on the servant’s last wish and silently expressed his last empty words.
“Very well, in your spirit tablet, I will inscribe you the word Loyal to a Master, and a Loving Brother.”
Timescape began to fast forward, skies are clear, the sun is bright, the clouds moved faster than the usual, snapped two souls in the present.
The world in a dark fireplace.
One must end. One must continue.
Yuwen Yue drank the elixir.
Time stopped and like the sound of tiny rain droplets.
A handsome human god appeared in the middle of chaos.
The divine like human opened his eyes, his face like a white jade stone, his body penetrated by light, came to watch Di Fu drawing a Chinese inscription, it turned off the chaos all around reversing the Yin and Yang sign, it freed his hands.
Di Fu not consumed with the lake of fire, his human image remained intact.
Looking at his hands, they were burned but it slowly went back to normal like nothing happened.
The losing moment of Di Fu became a winning moment while Tracker turning off his underworld powers and embraced his human nature.
Yuwen Yue in a godly trance of existence cannot violate the rules to the human world.
Yuwen Yue can only watch as he sees the two underworld spies clash using their swords.
Once again the dark skies went clear, the raging fires gone, the seven seas went out of sight and the black smoke turned into a cold dense fog.
Both underworld assassins found themselves in the black forest.
Suddenly the shying moonlight came out tonight. Tracker saw the beautiful moonlight like it smiled at him.
He knows the enemy is stronger than him, ten times the human capacity, he won’t be able to stand.
The two bodies started to fight.
Using their martial arts, both possess the human body, with flesh and blood went to tear each other’s fate tonight.
Tracker was severely beaten, bloody face, broken limbs but he still managed to stand. He is no match to Di Fu’s dark Kungfu and Di Fu said in a hellish voice: “Any death wish you want to say?”
Tracker spits out blood and in a calm deep voice like hell, he spoke.
“I do not have a death wish but whatever words I say, it will haunt you forever!”
Di Fu with an evil charm and evil laugh he said: “Bold! Your loyalty stinks! And you are going to die with it!”
With no hesitation, Tracker took the sword in his back and pounded it on the ground, in a calm voice he said:
“This is my grave! I am only human. I am no longer a vessel. I am loyal to few and ruled by no one.”
Di Fu felt a thousand swords cut his body, the pain in his ears became unbearable and his rage unquenchable, Di Fu slowly took out the glittering sword at his back and went to insert at Tracker’s chest.
***
“My Palm!!!”
A loud voice crying out above heaven’s calling out his name! His coldness gone, his chest is breathing fast wanting an act of revenge for a lone underworld assassin.
Suddenly the black forest was swayed by a big wind.
Nobody moved and the sound of footsteps heard, a handsome godly human being approaching in front of Di Fu’s eyes.
He slowly walked towards Tracker’s dead body and went to scoop the ground and his hands slowly let go of the desert sands that covered Tracker’s body until it is buried.
Eventually, Di Fu was stunned, he found himself in the middle of the scorching desert.
The handsome divine-like figure has never been in this way.
He never had this big amount of hate in his heart.
He continued to control the wind and the wind violently turned into a sandstorm while Di Fu forced to endure the punishment of nature.
Furthermore, he spoke and said: “On earth, there are only two types of a human being. One is a teacher and the other is a learner.”
But in the spiritual realms, there are only two paths. Good and Evil.
At the beat of his hands, the godly being turned the desert sands into the landmass of ice he spoke again and said: “I am the good teacher but you continue to learn evil.
“I shall punish you but not by death. Death is too easy, death won’t come until you have paid the last drop of blood shed from Tracker’s body.”
Di Fu’s body was slowly eaten by ice suddenly trapped inside an ice mass. He will forever endure the snow needles that grow inside the ice mass. It tears away every flesh inside his body. Blood will flow but no expression of remorse is allowed. Di Fu’s power was suppressed by ice. The coldness killed all the heat and fire, he possesses. Under the wind and cloud decree, his condition will become permanent.
The Master of Sand Drizzle suddenly saw a vision about Di Fu’s call for help he said: “The time of the Star is near. All of the prophecies about the Sun and Moon Kingdom shall be fulfilled.”
Finally, Yuwen Yue faces another underworld assassin gatekeeper and he introduced himself: “I am Scarface and I believe this one belongs to you.”
“It is,” said Yuwen Yue in his emotionless face, never bothered to look at Scarface.
Then Yuwen Yue spoke again: “I passed all the test, you should open the gate.”
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