Chapter 15 Is it a Phoenix? "Of course..." Xie Bian thought: ...

Even though Si Ling had been a ghost for 30,000 years, she had never seen such a situation. She was stunned for a long time, took a deep breath, turned her head and asked Lucifer: "What's going on?!"

"Well, it's a long story." Lucifer folded his arms and looked at the blue bird in front of him. "I discovered his existence when the Ghost School was first built. I have to mention that the location of the Ghost School in Hohenzollernburg was chosen by Satan. We didn't get along very well. He was wary of me. He asked me to run this Ghost School in order to squeeze me out of the core management."

“…” Si Ling didn’t want to comment on this office dispute, so he remained silent.

Lucifer continued, "So, when I discovered this, I believed Satan had ill intentions, so I used my connections to get to know Mimir. He's well-versed in the three realms of the West, and I wanted to ask him what this was, but he couldn't give me an answer."

Si Ling glanced at Bluebird: "Because he doesn't belong to the West?"

"Yes, so Mimir could only barely determine from the words on the bronze sword that he was from the Porcelain Kingdom and was sealed here by a powerful spell."

Lucifer nodded. "Then I asked Mimir if he would break the seal. Mimir observed for a while and told me that his magical power was constantly improving. It was only a matter of time before he would break the seal, but it wouldn't be fast. It would take at least three hundred years."

——The Ghost Academy was born when the second construction of Hohenzollern Castle began, which is more than a hundred years ago.

"See, Satan really wants to cause me some trouble." Lucifer laughed and continued, "Ever since then, I've been contacting the Eastern Hell. I wanted to seek help, but I didn't want to alarm Satan, so I couldn't say it directly. I could only say that I wanted to invite a powerful Eastern deity to come and communicate. Satan didn't have any objections to this and even wanted to do Jehovah a favor, so he let the angels make the contact."

Si Ling thought of what Xie Bian had said when he introduced the project to her, and took a deep breath. "But our Heavenly Court had no interest in it, so the project was handed over to the Underworld. And then you waited for me?"

"Yes." Lucifer nodded and chuckled. "To be honest, I was a little disappointed when I first met you, but through yesterday's mission... oh, and the way you scared Aymeric, I think you have some strength, so..." He spread his hands. "Can you do something? Like hand him back safely? Or... first, tell me what he is?"

Si Ling's gaze returned to the sealed creature: a chicken-like head with a crown, a long neck and a golden beak, a swan-like figure in front and a unicorn in the back, a fish-like tail with five forks, and a tail twelve feet long...

She quickly made an inference in her mind. Although this inference surprised her and made her unable to believe it, she could not think of anything else.

Si Ling calmed himself down and spoke out his inference: "I think he is...Phoenix."

Lucifer can speak Chinese, and they have been communicating in Chinese, including the word "Phoenix", which Si Ling also said in Chinese.

After hearing this, Lucifer subconsciously uttered a more familiar word: "Oh, Phoenix."

"No, it's not." Si Ling frowned slightly and shook his head. "It's 'Phoenix', the mythical beast of China. Phoenix was just a translation made by the first generation of translators to facilitate understanding, using a Western mythological creature similar to the phoenix. But in fact, their appearance, meaning, and attributes are all different. Just like Dragon and the Eastern dragon are actually different. Dragon is evil to you, but dragon is our mythical beast - so the official Chinese people just announced not long ago that its translation will be changed to 'Loong'."

"Okay... I understand." Lucifer digested the information and asked, "Can you hand him over?"

Si Ling thought for a moment and said, "I can help you contact the officials in the underworld."

Lucifer emphasized, "I don't want to alarm Satan."

Si Ling secretly evaluated her personal relationship with Xie Bian and gave a positive answer: "Yes - I can't guarantee that he can hand it over, but he should be able to keep it secret." She took out the Tongming Plate and said, "I can contact him now."

Lucifer made a "go ahead" gesture, and Si Ling immediately opened the Yinxin app and made a video call to Xie Bian.

A little after two in the morning in Hohenzollernburg is a little after eight in the morning in Fengdu. Xie Bian had just arrived at the office and was sorting documents with Hei Wuchang and Fan Wujiu. When he saw Si Ling's video call, he put down the documents in his hand and answered the call directly: "Good morning, what's up?"

"Good morning." Si Ling smiled, held the Tongming Plate in front of the half-dead Phoenix, pressed the rear camera button and said, "I'll show you something good."

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An hour later, Xie Bian, the White Impermanence, and Fan Wujiu, the Black Impermanence, both appeared in the cave. Both were confused about the appearance of the phoenix in a foreign country, but looking at his appearance, neither of them could deny Si Ling's judgment.

——Except for the aqua blue color, all characteristics matched the description of the phoenix in ancient texts. The color difference was not completely inconsistent, because when the light and fire shone on the feathers and scales, it did reflect the "five colors" recorded in ancient texts.

Fan Wujiu, dressed in a black suit, held his forehead with his hand and said in silence, "High-level ghost messengers like us have never seen an ancient mythical beast... and he actually appeared abroad?! How can this be possible?!"

Si Ling asked, "Can you get him back to Porcelain Country?" She glanced at Lucifer and said meaningfully, "Otherwise, it might be a hidden danger for Principal Lucifer."

"Of course..." Xie Bian thought: This is a phoenix!

He couldn't even imagine the incredible promotion and salary increase he'd receive if he found an ancient mythical beast. He was certain to become famous in Fengdu. He could even ask the King of Hell to reshape the Ghost Gates, replacing the relief carvings on one of the doors with his own.

But the next second, he regained some of his sanity, looked at Lucifer, and said, "This is a powerful beast. I suggest you get some powerful items in case of emergency."

"I'll go right away." Lucifer nodded and walked out immediately.

"We'll wait for you to come back." Xie Bian stared at him calmly, his ears perked up. When he heard the elevator ascend, he continued to talk to Si Ling, "Sending him back to the divine realm isn't difficult. The difficult part is removing the seal—you know the 'First Tribulation,' right?"

Si Ling was stunned.

This is an old piece of knowledge, referring to the out-of-control state that a person will enter when he turns into a ghost, or an ordinary ghost evolves into a ghost. There are only two options to break this state - either let it get the "first kill" or have a more powerful force to subdue it.

For ghosts, assuming the same magical powers, the only state more terrifying than this is the "Rakshasa ghost phase" caused by uncontrolled resentment.

But what Si Ling didn't understand was: "Do divine beasts also have 'first tribulation'?"

"If it's been sealed for a long time, it will happen." Fan Wujiu sighed. "A long time of sealing will accumulate anger, and when the seal is released, it will be unconscious, and it will enter the initial tribulation state. The sacrifice for the 'first kill' is easy to prepare, but accidents can happen - sometimes the initial tribulation is so angry that it will ignore the sacrifice completely, and then we can only fight hard." He raised his hand and pointed his right thumb in the direction of the elevator behind him. "An ancient beast, 6,000 years old Lucifer definitely can't control it, and Xiao Xie and I are even less likely to do so. So there is only..."

He looked at Si Ling silently.

Si Ling walked out decisively: "Oh, then let him stay here!"

——Even she might not be able to defeat the ancient mythical beast!

So there was nothing to worry about for her. She would be able to ascend to heaven in three years at the latest, and Xie Bian and Fan Wujiu came here secretly, so she could just pretend that nothing happened.

As for the fact that the divine beasts overthrew the Ghost Academy more than a hundred years later, making it difficult for Lucifer to explain himself to Satan, what did that have to do with her?

She didn't mind silently saying sorry to Lucifer in heaven.

Xie Bian and Fan Wujiu looked at each other, and they rushed over at the same time to pull her away: "Si Ling, come back!" They sandwiched her between them, one on each side, and pulled her back with their arms around her shoulders.

Fan Wujiu said, "No, if we didn't know about his existence, it would be fine, but now that we know about him, we can't just ignore it!"

Si Ling was speechless: "Why?"

Xie Bian: "This is the highest-ranking divine beast in our Chinese civilization! He was pinned to the ground miserably, and we just sit there and do nothing. What will Lucifer think of us in the future? If any news leaks out, we won't be able to hold our heads up from heaven to hell. I know I'm a damned bureaucrat in your eyes, but this is the greater good!"

Fan Wujiu: "Yes, we must release him and let him return to the Porcelain Kingdom's divine realm."

"Besides..." Fan Wujiu coaxed, "Perhaps his return would be beneficial to you! Hey, that ancient mythical beast... wouldn't it be a simple matter of words to make you ascend to immortality?"

"..." Si Ling frowned, looked at Fan Wujiu and then at Xie Bian, with the speechless look on his face not concealed at all.

She understood that for Lucifer, this matter was a solution to a hidden danger, and for Xie Bian and Fan Wujiu, on the one hand, it was a face for the God and Ghost System, and on the other hand, it was an opportunity for promotion and salary increase.

But for her, the idea of ​​"ascending to heaven with just one word" was just a pie in the sky, and it was true that she had to take a huge risk first.

——If she cannot defeat this phoenix, even if her soul is not destroyed, at least her cultivation of several thousand years will be lost.

Si Ling pondered for a while, then rationally discussed the conditions: "I have two requests."

Xie Bian was a little nervous: "What request?"

"First, you must do your best to protect me and prevent my soul from being torn apart." She looked at them as she spoke, and only continued after they nodded. "Second, if I succeed—no matter how much my cultivation is damaged—he must help me ascend to immortality as soon as he returns to heaven. If he refuses, you two will take responsibility and convince him for me."

"..." Xie Bian and Fan Wujiu looked at each other and nodded hesitantly, "Okay..."

"Okay, then let's make a blood oath." Si Ling smiled and stretched out his left hand. He made a gesture with his right hand and produced a short knife, which he cut through the palm of his hand.

The ghost's pure black blood flowed down, and she sprinkled it on the ground to form runes while saying happily: "Whoever breaks his promise will suffer backlash!"

Xie Bian and Fan Wujiu watched her write the runes, and the smiles they tried to maintain on their faces were uglier than crying.

Both of them froze for a moment, then Xie Bian walked over first, cut his palm with a self-destructive mentality, and dripped blood on the rune.

Fan Wujiu heaved a long sigh and reluctantly shed blood.

The oath was completed, the black rune flashed green light, and then disappeared without a trace.

They waited for a while, and Lucifer came back with a cardboard box full of magical tools.

Si Ling raised her eyebrows, and her appearance suddenly changed - the ordinary windbreaker and jeans on her body disappeared, replaced by a slim black long dress. Her long hair was automatically pulled back, and a pair of silver hairpins inserted diagonally on the bun formed an X shape.

Black spread across her thin lips until it became pure black. Her skin, normally only slightly paler than normal, turned a pale white as paper in a matter of seconds. The white pupils in her eyes disappeared, and black filled the entire eye socket. A red light emerged from the center, quickly expanding into a red eyeball, with the pupil being an even redder center.

Then, the skin on her face began to crumble, with several random cracks appearing, like cracks on porcelain.

All this happened so fast that not only did Lucifer subconsciously shudder, but even Xie Bian, who was most familiar with Si Ling, was astonished: "You have this kind of fighting form?!"

"I've been in the underworld for 30,000 years." Si Ling twitched his lips. "How do you think I survived the battles between evil spirits? Love and peace?"

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Si Ling: Lord Bai Wuchang, I'm usually pretty nice to you, but do you really think a ghost like me is just a little white flower?