Book of Exotic Beasts

"I need to find a fairy messenger or fairy child. Would you be willing to help me find one by entering it in the register? I don't need many, just one will do."

"Of course I am willing. Then what kind of fairy messenger do you need?"

"Most people avoid unlucky gods like me. It would be great if someone could come willingly. As long as you have a kind heart and can tolerate the loneliness of my immortal abode, that's all. What's your name?"

"Xingjun, what you said is interesting. You are not a god of misfortune. I have noted your request. My name is Xiaozhu."

Yuanli stood up and returned the greeting, saying, "Thank you very much, Fairy Envoy Xiaozhu. If you have any letters, please let me know. I'll take my leave now."

After coming out of the Sixian Pavilion, Yuanli walked happily towards the Tianjie Library.

Outside the library, there are thousands of stairs that lead straight up to the clouds. Immortals and gods coming and going are either riding on cloud racks or casting spells to fly. Only Yuanli can only walk on her own two legs, and others look at her strangely.

After finally climbing halfway up, she felt a bright red light swooping down the stairs along with the cloud shelf. Yuanli looked back suddenly, her footing was a little unstable, and she almost fell down, but the cloud shelf had already broken through the clouds and disappeared.

Yuanli patted her chest fearfully, not realizing how high she was climbing. Looking back, she saw the stairs behind her being swallowed by the mist. Through the gaps in the clouds, the stairs looked like an abyss. If she fell down accidentally, she would at least be half crippled.

A gust of wind passed by, messing up strands of hair. Heng Jin cast a spell and flew forward, followed by a familiar-looking immortal messenger, but the speed was too fast for her to see clearly.

An unkind nephew!

Yuanli's legs felt weak, and she couldn't help but stretch them to walk, muttering to herself: "I am the favorite of the underworld, but one misstep will lead to eternal regret. Since ancient times, men are so heartless, and you didn't even take me with you, you poisonous husband!"

As she spoke, she gritted her teeth, and with each word she spoke, her footsteps became heavier, as if she was stepping hard on the stone steps as if they were that inhuman guy.

Until the last stone step appeared in front of her, Yuanli looked up and saw the three big words "Scripture Library" engraved on a door plaque made of perfect jade. It looked so noble. The door of the Sutra Library alone was so high that it reached the sky.

After stepping through the threshold, Yuanli followed the ladder and searched for relevant records in categories until she found another dusty book of exotic beasts at the top of the bookshelf.

"In the far north of the Demon Realm, the 34th generation Demon Lord was extremely gifted in beast control. He created the Guixu Realm on the Ancestral Mountain to protect the divine beasts. There are many divine beasts in the Guixu Realm... Guixu Realm, that sounds familiar."

Yuanli read every word carefully. The "Guixu Realm" seemed to be something Taibai Jinxing had mentioned before. Hui was from the Guixu Realm.

Looking through the Book of Strange Beasts, a thick volume records different mythical beasts and even portraits, all of which record the descriptions of them by the Lord of the Demon Realm, including Hui of Tianshu Star Lord.

After flipping through the book carefully for about half of the time, Yuanli finally found a mythical beast in the book of strange beasts that looked very similar to Manman.

"On Mount Chongwu there lives a bird called the Biyi Bird. It resembles a duck, its colour is blue and red, it has a single eye and a single wing. It cannot fly unless it is winged. When it appears, floods will occur across the world..."

The portrait was created by divine power, with rich colors and lifelike appearance. In the painting, the blue and red love-winged birds are close to each other, as if they have merged into one. Each has one wing, and when they fly together, they fly high. It is certain that the Manman from yesterday was a love-winged bird.

Driven by curiosity, Yuanli casually flipped through the contents at the back. Dang Kang, Suan Yu, Bai Ze... each of them was recorded in great detail, and Yuanli became more and more interested the more she read.

Yuanli brushed off the dust on the book and put it back to where it was. She thought that with so much dust, no other immortals or gods would be interested in it. She would take more time to take a look at it in the future.

Leaving the library, Yuanli looked at the bottomless stairs and felt her legs go weak. She had just gone through torture, and now she had to go through it again.

Just as she was about to leave, someone called out to her from behind, "Xingjun, did you forget to bring your cloud rack? I'm going down too. If you don't mind, Xingjun, you can use my cloud rack."

Yuanli looked back and saw a familiar face. It was clearly the old man who poured night fragrance in the mansion. She wanted to be polite, but when she tilted her head slightly to look at the endless staircase, Yuanli immediately responded, "Thank you very much, Immortal Envoy."

With the help of Lao Agou's cloud rack, the wind whistled and the clouds and mist quickly retreated behind her. The beautiful scenery around her was in full view. After a while, she went down the thousand steps.

"Thank you very much. May I know which family this immortal belongs to?"

"The Jade Rabbit of the Fairy Chang'e."

Thinking of the Jade Rabbit and the fairy Chang'e running to the clear moon in the picture book, such an ethereal combination made him feel a little aggrieved.

After saying goodbye to the Jade Rabbit, she stopped and thought. She still didn't know who the immortal was who gave her the red rope yesterday, so she had to try her luck and see if she could meet Manman again in the near future.

Seeing that it was time to go to Taibai Jinxing Mansion to light the furnace, Yuanli hurried to Taibai Jinxing Mansion. Halfway through, something fell from the sky and hit her dizzy.

Yuanli suddenly saw stars and felt dizzy. She lay on the ground for a long time before she trembled and got up. The culprit sat beside her uneasily, a worried look on his face.

When the blur in front of her eyes dissipated, Yuanli could see clearly that it was the blue bird Manman who had sneaked out to learn how to fly again.

"Xingjun, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to hit you..."

"I know, Manman, I have a way to make you fly."

Manman looked up with joy and stared at her expectantly, the hope in his eyes fading in an instant. "My wings won't grow back. What can you do, Star Lord?"

After saying this, Manman hung his head in dejection, but then he looked up again and asked with concern, "Xingjun...did I make you stupid?"

Yuanli rolled her eyes and said, "You're the fool. I've looked through the collection of exotic beasts in the library. The Demon Realm Lord gave away several lovebird eggs, and you're one of them. The male and female lovebirds are different colors, the male is blue and the female is red. They're born with one wing and one eye, so they can't fly unless they fight."

Hearing the words "Demon Realm Lord" (魔界主), Manman's credibility soared. After a moment's thought, he simply said, "According to what you said, my inability to fly isn't because I'm born stupid. I just need to find my other half and spend my life with her before I can fly together."

Yuanli nodded in agreement. Manman immediately got up from the ground, brushed off the dust on his feathers, and bowed solemnly to her. "I will go back and ask the Moon Fairy to find me a marriage partner. One day, Manman will come in person to repay you."

After saying that, Manman hurriedly said goodbye to her and left, the joy on her face was beyond words.

The red thread given by the Moon Fairy must be about marriage. No wonder Tianshu Star Lord looked strange that day.

Yuanli felt a little annoyed when she recalled it. Those words kept echoing in her mind like an echo: Don't let down the deep friendship between you and me. How could she face Tianshu Star Lord with confidence in the future?

It was already noon, and it was too late to calculate the time, so Li hurried to Taibai Jinxing Mansion and had to give up the matter of getting Xiaobai into the Divine Cavalry for the time being.

Taibai Jinxing had been waiting at the gate of the mansion early. When he turned around and saw her, his white beard and eyebrows curved, and he quickly welcomed Yuanli into the mansion.

Recently, Taibai Jinxing has been refining pills frequently and in a complicated manner, and she is constantly striving for perfection in the temperature, as if she is afraid that after she has gone through the tribulation and descended to the mortal world, she will not be able to find a suitable furnace-burning boy and will have no pills, so she simply gets tired of refining.

Yuanli was working hard in the furnace when the furnace mouth was suddenly opened by someone. The air that rushed in gave her a sense of alertness. The tip of a sword stretched out from the furnace mouth. Yuanli dodged left and right, but the sword tip still quickly moved her out.

Before I could see the person clearly, he cast a spell and teleported away from the alchemy room. After I calmed down, I found that the peach tree in the yard was bigger than the one in Li Wan's wooden house in the forbidden area of ​​the Demon Realm.

Among the branches of this lush marriage tree, Manman stood steadily on a thick branch, busy on the tree with a red rope in her mouth.

Yuanli followed the hilt of the sword and saw the Moon Fairy looking at her with a smile.

"Sorry for the inconvenience. I also wanted to borrow you legitimately, but that old man Taibai Jinxing is too selfish and wouldn't even allow me to borrow you for half an hour."

"What does Moonlight Immortal want from me? I'm still refining the elixir in the alchemy furnace, and it needs the right temperature. If you're not in a hurry, I'll come when I have time."

Hearing this, he pulled her to the stone table under the tree and said, "Manman came back today and has been pestering me for a marriage. When I asked her in detail, I learned that it was you, Star Lord, who told Manman about this, and that it was the record of the Demon Realm Lord. You don't know, but my Manman, like other divine beasts, has a deity in his heart that he believes in. It's the Demon Realm Lord you mentioned, and he believes in him without a doubt."

"So you want me to find a female lovebird for Manman?"

"That's right, I only control human marriages. I can't change the fate of gods and beasts, immortals, or gods. The Three Lives Stone has its own records. You have read the Book of Exotic Beasts, so I think you understand more than I do. After the matter is completed, I will definitely reward you handsomely."

Yuanli had never been a matchmaker for birds, but the theoretical knowledge was the same. She was not very interested in the first few words, but the generous reward was clearly on her mind.

"Does the Moon Fairy know where in the heavens there are red lovebirds?"

"I only know that there are countless lovebirds in the Guixu Realm, but I really don't know about the ones in the heavens. I'll go to the Divine Cavalry Palace to check someday."

Just as Yuanli was about to speak, the door of Yuexia Laoren's mansion was suddenly pushed open, the door panel shook, and Taibai Jinxing came in angrily, stroking his long white beard, and even the magic staff that he usually said was used to show off was also brought in.

"Chai Daohuang! Give it back to me!"

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Taibai Jinxing continued, "It's fine that you usually use the cloth bag to store my beauty pills, but now you are trying to steal the fire from the furnace. My furnace of Tianyuan Pills is lacking the right temperature and is almost ruined!"

"You have plenty of Tianyuan Dan in your storehouse. I even caught one of the Tianchan for you in the swamp. What a waste of my kindness, you ungrateful old man! You wouldn't even lend me a light!"

Taibai Jinxing's words were stuck in his throat. He held his staff and straightened his clothes. He coughed softly and said in a gentle tone, "Never mind. We've been close friends for many years. Let me have some of that precious Northern Wasteland tea you collected."

"I won't give you any drink." After saying this, the Moon Fairy walked into the house with a double-talking tone.

Seeing his figure disappear for a moment, Taibai Jinxing quickly pulled her back to his own immortal residence, and did not forget to say with a proud smile in the direction of Yuexia Xianren's residence: "You are still a little naive to fight with me, Lao Chai."