Chapter 110 Beheading

"Phoenix, look! He caught up with you when you turned to go down the mountain!"

Shang Youqing followed where Cheng Huang pointed and saw the shadow of the "blue carp" that she had released when she was a child, lying on the bank of the stream and following her all the way.

Even when the stream was blocked by rocks and it was impossible to swim across, the blue carp relied on the faint remnant of its revival and floated silently behind the little phoenix with an almost transparent dragon scale.

The young phoenix knew nothing about this and was followed all the way to Wutong Mountain.

Cheng Huang became more and more angry as he watched, and couldn't help but roar.

"This Ying Shixue is sick, Phoenix, you saved him, so it's fine if he's not grateful, but why is he still haunting you?"

Shang Youqing's gaze slowly fell on the lingering dragon scales behind the little phoenix. "He's not pestering me. He just thought of a way to use me to leave Kunlun Mountain."

Since then, Ying Shixue's regretful incarnation has been following her secretly.

Sometimes it turned into the paulownia tree where she lived, sometimes it turned into the fish in the spiritual pond where she practiced in seclusion, and sometimes the faint light of the dragon scales would even turn into a cold breeze that caressed her feathers back and forth.

Finally, one night, an extremely severe rainstorm occurred on Wutong Mountain, and lightning and thunder broke through the cracks in the barrier of Wutong Mountain.

On a rainy night with thunder and lightning, the faint light of dragon scales sneaked into the courtyard of Little Phoenix, and took away her spiritual roots from the sleeping Little Phoenix without anyone noticing, and successfully transformed into a human clone and fell into the human world.

Cheng Huang couldn't stand it the more he watched. When he saw that the spiritual root of his phoenix was actually pulled out by this ungrateful evil dragon, he was so angry that he wanted to turn into a vicious beast on the spot and bite the evil dragon's clone to pieces!

"I've never seen such a shameless person. What does he think of us Phoenixes—"

Shang Youqing covered his mouth expressionlessly, "Alright, shut up. This isn't a glorious past for your Phoenix after all. Please save some face for your Phoenix and stop making so much noise."

"Uh uh Phoenix—"

Cheng Huang grabbed Shang Youqing and struggled for a few seconds, but the next second, the world spun around, and they unexpectedly fell back to the scene where they had picked up the dying blue carp by the stream in the Little Phoenix Mountain forest...

Cheng Huang was stunned again, and then he realized that this was the Guixu maze repeating the world of obsession that Ying Shixue had.

After Shang Youqing put down his hand, Cheng Huang couldn't help but ask again, "No, I'm a little confused. So why is Ying Shixue obsessed with his past where his ghost keeps following Fenghuang? Didn't he succeed in the end?"

Shen Jichuan, who had been standing silently beside Shang Youqing, suddenly spoke in a deep voice at this moment: "I'm wondering if there might be a mistake in a key link of Ying Shixue's plan, which led to his obsession and regret."

"How could something go wrong? He even…"

While Huang was talking halfway, Shang Youqing glanced at him again. He then remembered Fenghuang's words about saving her some face. He had no choice but to stop talking and looked angrily at the "little carp" that Fenghuang had successfully saved swimming towards the stream...

"You can't use normal human thinking to understand... this dragon."

Shang Youqing paused, temporarily suppressing the hatred in his heart, and analyzed calmly and rationally:

"I think what Shen Jichuan said is not completely unreasonable. Since he will be trapped here forever as long as he can't get rid of his obsession, we can reanalyze his every motive and behavior through this obsession world to see what caused him to have such an obsession and regret—"

Cheng Huang: "Then I think it must have been that rainy night at Wutong Mountain. This ruthless dragon might have been regretting waiting in Wutong Mountain for so many years before finally finding the opportunity to extract the Phoenix's spiritual root!"

Chen Jichuan looked towards the Kunlun Mountains: "I think Ying Shixue's obsession should have appeared before Qingqing left Kunlun Mountains."

The two had different opinions, so they all looked at Shang Youqing who was standing in the middle, waiting for her opinion as one of the parties involved.

"Phoenix, what do you think?"

Shang Youqing didn't answer immediately. She hesitated for a moment and said, "...How about this? Since we have different opinions, we can separate and investigate the events that we each consider suspicious. We can meet here in half an hour."

Chen Jichuan frowned upon hearing this, "Qingqing, don't forget that Ying Shixue is also in Guixu. What if he comes looking for us while we're apart..."

"It's okay. He can't do anything to me in Guixu. Even if there is any danger, I will summon Cheng Huang in time."

Knowing that the longer they stayed in Guixu, the more disadvantageous it would be for them, they did not hesitate too much at this critical juncture and quickly acted separately.

Shang Youqing retreated back to the edge of the stream. Like a bystander, she lowered her eyes and watched coldly as her younger self rescued the little blue carp over and over again.

There were several times when she had clearly gathered the Phoenix Spiritual Power at her fingertips, but in the end, she still had to watch helplessly as her younger self released the little carp into the stream...

I kept watching this scene over and over like a madman for who knows how long, when suddenly a familiar chill approached from behind me.

Before Shang Youqing turned around, the biting cold wind blew across her cheeks, and the snow-white figure had already arrived. He stood beside Shang Youqing and looked over indifferently in the direction she had just been looking.

"Although Cheng Huang cannot get close to you in the world of obsession, as the person involved, you are completely able to touch your younger self."

As he spoke, his calm and cold eyes returned to her face. "So, Cheng Huang was right. The kind-hearted little phoenix couldn't bear to take action against even the slightest trace of regret in this world of obsession."

Shang Youqing calmly retreated to the tree behind him and leaned his body weight against the tree to prevent his ankle from becoming unstable.

She stared coldly at Ying Shixue who appeared in front of her and said, "Really? Then have you ever thought about what if I'm waiting for you to show up?"

"Wait for me?" Ying Shixue looked at her, "I thought you would never want to see me again."

Shang Youqing's face was grim: "Unless you die."

Ying Shixue smiled indifferently and slowly walked forward. "You know, the way to leave Guixu faster than dissolving an obsession is to kill the obsession itself."

Ying Shixue finished speaking calmly, not even giving Shang Youqing a chance to react. In the world of obsession, the young phoenix reappeared on this mountain road. Before it could discover the dying blue carp—

He took the initiative to swing his cold light and killed the little carp for her.