Mu Hua said indifferently, "You can leave first. I want to have a good talk with her."
Zhao Wu couldn't help asking, "What kind of things can't I listen to?"
Mu Hua grew impatient. "I've told you to leave. Just do as I say. Why ask so many questions!"
Zhao Wu snorted. "I won't. I'm not your subordinate. Why should I obey you unconditionally?"
Seeing that he couldn't persuade Zhao Wu, Mu Hua's face darkened. Suddenly, several darts appeared in his hand and were thrown at Yao Hua.
Yao Hua was tied up in the net and couldn't move at all, let alone defend herself. Zhao Wu quickly stepped in front of her and shouted angrily, "Mu Hua, what are you doing? Why do you want to hurt her?"
Before his words faded, the darts suddenly exploded. Unable to dodge in time, Zhao Wu's body and face were badly mangled by the explosion. At the same time, Mu Hua's second wave of attack arrived.
Yao Hua struggled desperately but to no avail. At the critical moment, Zhao Wu managed to untie the net binding her at the cost of his own life. But at the same time, all the darts exploded on his back.
His heart was pierced directly. Blood, demonic energy and flesh flew everywhere. As Mu Hua's third wave of attack came, Zhao Wu stared wide - eyed, still maintaining the posture of untying the net for Yao Hua, and slowly fell to the ground.
"Zhao Wu!" Yao Hua exclaimed. But this was not the time to be shocked, for Mu Hua's fourth wave of attack was already on its way.
She summoned a fire phoenix made of the True Fire of the Phoenix, picked up the fallen Zhao Wu, pasted a talisman on herself, and then disappeared from the spot.
On the boundless prairie with no sign of human habitation, a wave of spiritual power slowly emerged. The beautiful phoenix girl, covered in blood, appeared with the Demon Lord in her arms.
Yao Hua spat out a mouthful of blood. In a hurry, she had found a random teleportation talisman in her storage space. The destination was unknown, but she was still hit by Mu Hua's darts during the teleportation. Now her back was badly mangled.
She looked around and, seeing no danger, let out a sigh of relief. Looking at the person in her arms, she asked with difficulty, "Zhao Wu, how are you?"
There was no reply from Zhao Wu for a long time.
She took out a healing elixir and fed it to Zhao Wu, but it had no effect.
A terrible thought occurred to her. Her hand trembling, she reached out to check Zhao Wu's breath, but detected none.
His heart had been pierced. Even for a demon, such a fatal injury was impossible to survive.
Yao Hua felt her head go blank with a buzz. She could only instinctively murmur, "Zhao Wu, don't scare me. Wake up quickly."
She took out all the spiritual pills and potions and piled them on his body, hoping to revive him, but none of them worked.
Before she knew it, big tears rolled down her face. Even though she knew that his vitality had completely disappeared, she still stubbornly searched for the spiritual pills and potions that could revive him.
"Zhao Wu, wake up quickly. Didn't you say you would marry me?"
"Hey, you're just pretending to be dead to scare me, right? As long as you can wake up, I'm willing to be your fiancée."
"You're really insatiable if you still don't wake up after hearing this condition. Zhao Wu, open your eyes quickly, or I'll be angry with you!"
In the vast wilderness, her voice was quickly carried away by the wind.
The wilderness and Zhao Wu's body listened to her self - reproaching and guilt - ridden words without any response.
After an unknown amount of time, the system said silently, "The dead cannot be resurrected. Host, please mourn."
Yao Hua shook her head stubbornly. "No, there must be a way to resurrect him!"
The system sighed. "His vitality has completely disappeared. Even the great celestial beings in the sky can do nothing."
Yao Hua shook her head vigorously, and the tears flew off with the movement. "No, I can ask Chong Ming and Chen Yu. There must be a way to save him in the Celestial Realm and Penglai."
The system comforted her. "His death was his own fault. If he hadn't been bewitched by Mu Hua, he wouldn't have died at Mu Hua's hands. Host, you should protect yourself first. Mu Hua must be searching for you everywhere."
Yao Hua pursed her lips and said nothing. Her complex emotions were like a tangled mess that she couldn't untangle.
Seeing that she was in a daze, the system couldn't help saying, "Host, wake up! For now, only Zhao Wu is dead. If we let Mu Hua carry out his plan, more people will die. The top priority is to find the reincarnation of the Purple Pole Great Emperor as soon as possible and prevent all these things from happening."
Yao Hua wiped away her tears forcefully. "You're right. I'll remind Chong Ming to be careful of Mu Hua right away."
At this moment, the communication jade token lit up. It was a message from Chong Ming.
"The God Lord has found the reincarnation of the Purple Pole Great Emperor and is having a meeting in the Celestial Realm to discuss how to deal with him." Yao Hua murmured.
She first returned to the Danxue Mountain, buried Zhao Wu, and then went to the Celestial Realm to attend the meeting.
In the God Lord's Hall, the God Lord sat high on the main seat. On the left and right sides were Tu Yang, Chong Ming and the War God Chen Yu.
A huge water mirror stood in the middle of the palace, showing the situation of the reincarnation of the Purple Pole Great Emperor.
His reincarnation was named Zi Ming, and he was already fifteen years old.
Yao Hua was slightly surprised. "Wasn't his divine personality just dropped into the mortal world? How could he be fifteen years old?"
The God Lord explained, "He was reincarnated as a celestial fetus. A woman conceived after receiving the divine personality and gave birth three days later. The child grew quickly after birth. Seeing this strange phenomenon, the common people admired him and the power of their faith fell on him. So although it had only been a few days, he had already accumulated a lot of the power of faith."
Chen Yu interrupted casually, "Little Phoenix, why are your eyes so red? What happened?"
Yao Hua told them what had just happened, and couldn't help shedding a few more tears during the narration.
Hearing this, the God Lord said seriously, "It seems that the rebirth of the ancient god is not a good thing. How should we deal with Zi Ming? Maybe we should kill him while he is still weak?"
Chong Ming looked at the picture shown in the water mirror.
It showed that since Zi Ming was born, he had often done good deeds and was highly praised by the people around him.
He sighed. "Heaven has the virtue of cherishing life. Now Zi Ming hasn't awakened his memory as an ancient god and has never done anything bad. How can we just kill him?"
The God Lord was speechless. "It will be too late when he awakens his memory as an ancient god! Yao Hua, what's your opinion?"
He was confident that since Yao Hua had just been plotted against by Mu Hua, she would agree with him.
But Yao Hua shook her head. "I agree with Chong Ming. Zi Ming is innocent now."
The God Lord's face turned ashen. "Fine. Since you all want to be good people, I'll have to be the bad guy. Let's act separately. Don't interfere with each other."
The meeting ended hastily, and everyone was in a heavy mood.