"Actually, to unleash the Kraken within you, it's quite easy." Tian Yu said, sipping from a cup of Tieguanyin tea he had in his right hand. After much bribing with his marvelous desserts, he had finally persuaded Zhi Xun to work on her constable skills. He had observed she had much pristine power hidden away inside her, power that she had not been able to utilise as she wasn't even aware that much power had existed within her.
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"Close your eyes and focus on something thrilling, something exciting," he told her.The key to releasing her hidden power had been her sensuality, as she was a person who would often act on emotions. So by stimulating her that day in the spring, he observed that she was able to release some of her power. Unfortunately, they had been interrupted by Meiya and Yuwu's arrival.
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He put down the teacup and took his place with Zhi Xun to practise with her. "Much improvement from the last encounter," he commented. "Concentrate." Zhi Xun took a deep breath and immersed herself in deep thought, focusing on a memory of one of their most engaging and yet, sensual encounters of the past. She visualised him ramming himself into her while she was pushed against a wall, and as she was concentrating on those thoughts, she heard a boom. She opened her eyes to see sparks of flashing colours thrown about the room. Her magic.
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"Congrats, you've mastered Level 20," Tian Yu cheered. But only after 100 days, he thought. What was she ever going to do without him around? He could only sigh and wonder how different she had been from Aranya in this aspect. Hadn't she led an army herself in the guise of her brother and destroyed the enemies with the soul evocation formation?
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Aranya was Aranya, Zhi Xun was Zhi Xun. Although she had been Aranya at one point but now, she was Zhi Xun. Zhi Xun couldn't really replace Aranya. She was one of a kind, her own kind.
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The next morning, the couple had received a message from Meiya that next on the Dreamwalkers' hit list would be Tang Jian. Although it was due to her own speculation, she had concluded that the agent would be next as he was an easy target due to him being 'slow' and muddleheaded compared to the others. Tian Yu realised that for the Ghouls to be able to operate so well from Yuqi would mean one thing, they had someone backing them up. There were only about thirty agents left in Yuqi, after deducting the ones who they had lost to the Deathwalkers' attacks. With a heavy heart, Tian Yu promised that he would not let Nan Nan die in vain.
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Zhi Xun seemed dismayed to hear of the news. About five days ago, yet another agent had feathered.
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"What if it happens to us?" she wept on his shoulder. "You promised me, you will be with me forever."
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"I will keep you safe, at all costs," he told her, patting her firmly. "You're everything to me, as you have always been. There's no Tian Yu without Xiao Xun."
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"No," she wailed. "I don't want anything to happen to you. If you go, I don't want to ever live anymore."
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He held her tightly in his arms. "I'll never ever let this happen. We will be together, forever and never to separate from each other." She snuggled tightly in his embrace as the heat from their bodies warmed each other. Immortality, why was it so complicated? What could they have done about the situation that threatened their very existence in the mortal world?
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"We have to fight for ourselves," Tian Yu suddenly announced. "For our love, our life, for everything. This is our final lifetime. We have to stay alive, and do our duty to save the immortals. They gave us this eternal life, and we need to do something. Isn't that why we came here?"
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She nodded. "But my skills-"
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"You have to put the idea in your mind mentally, that you CAN do it. As your husband, I have to do what I can to keep you out of danger, but especially after that escaped tiger immortal's attack on you, I'm really afraid. What if it had killed you with that pounce? You really need to set your mind on improving your skills. I don't want you to come to harm, especially when we are overwhelmed by an attack." He cupped her cheeks in his palms and gazed lovingly into her eyes. She leaned in for a kiss, and their lips met with a raging passion. She felt his fear, his anger and his pain. He had loved her so much that he had been so afraid that her life would be threatened by the Ghouls.
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She hadn't expected that the threat had been so imminent. She thought that they were in for a calm and peaceful immortal life in the mortal world, to be away from all the stress of academy studies and only have each other everyday. She had misjudged the severity of this task and its consequences. Should she have listened to Yue Yin when she had told them of her thoughts of them accepting the mission? So many agents had perished in the name of duty.
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"I'll do it," she promised. "I'll strive to improve myself for our sake." He played with her hair at her response. She was always so sweet, so innocent and so dependent on him. While she was everything he wanted, he really needed her to make that change about herself and to stop relying on him just because he was much better at magic and studies that she was. She had her strengths too, but her survival skills were just lacking.
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"We have to take a gamble," Tian Yu said. "Meiya has received a tip-off on the location that the Deathwalkers are operating from. It's just that.. I don't know if it's safe for you to go. I don't know how risky it is. It's either that you stay here in the house and under the wards I've created, or you come with us." He seemed hesitant as he spoke. Perhaps he had wanted her to stay out of danger.
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He recalled the tiger immortal capture. The tiger immortal had called upon a number of allies to defend himself from arrest. They had been separated by the vast amount of spirits that surrounded them. Zhi Xun had been able to take down a couple of inferior spirits with her bow, and Tian Yu released a wave of elemental energy like an earthquake that eliminated most of the young spirits. It had been while he was occupied, that the tiger had pounced on her. He was reminded of the Quanyin beast at Xize's residence in Fanyin Valley, where she had got slipped and almost lost her life to the beast. He had been so concerned about her, and she had asked him if she liked him. He couldn't let that happen again, especially when it had taken them so many lifetimes to get to each other. Now that it was their final lifetime, he would hold her tightly in his arms, like there was no tomorrow. He couldn't let her risk all that.
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"Love, then go get washed and changed then. I'll go get ready."
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She nodded, and entered the bathroom. Tian Yu knew what he had to do. While she was taking her shower, he closed his eyes and recited an incantation to lock her inside the bathroom for two hours. In the house, he placed special wards on the floor, on the windows, on the door, and on the rooftop to prevent entry by anyone other than himself.
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This should keep her safe, he thought. What were the chances that she would survive when she was not ready, on such a dangerous mission? Even Meiya couldn't confirm whether they would make it out alive. But for her, he needed to stay alive. Zhi Xun was dependent on him, she was a rather sloppy caster and she often muddled her own attack strategies and forgot her battle combo attacks. She would just end up messing everything and endangering herself, as she previously did. She had proven this part of herself so well, during the last forty-nine immortal arrests. By no way was he ever going to let her go with them and risk losing her. Furthermore, she had only mastered about thirty per cent of the constable skills that she was supposed to learn. And being only a Level 20 immortal, she had to face probably Level 30 up to Level 40 to Level 50 immortals that were way beyond her level. As Tian Yu was a level 40 immortal, Meiya about Level 35, and Yuwu about Level 33, the three of them would stand a better chance of surviving the battle and in the case they lost, fleeing the location alive to come back to it later at a more convenient time.
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She was such a slow learner, and she probably didn't understand how critical it was. Perhaps leaving her at home was the best decision he had to make in her stead.
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His immortal smartphone rang, and Meiya's portrait popped up.
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"We're about to make a frontal assault on the location I just sent. When will you be coming?" she asked.
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"I'll be right there, as soon as I finish locking up the house. We'll have to leave her at home. She isn't a good match against those versatile opponents," he said as he donned his battle gear and loaded his ammunition into the guns he was packing into a large bag. "We must prevail."
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