Mingfu looked at the Blazing Phoenix with teary eyes, wondering why it was so heartless. She had raised it for not just a day or two, but for a full three hundred years!
In the past three hundred years, it has never spoken to her. She didn't even know it could talk. Every day when she spoke to it, it would look down on her as if she were a fool.
She thought the Blazing Phoenix couldn't understand, but it turned out the Phoenix was simply impatient with her and even thought she was stupid.
"Alright, stop crying. What's there to cry about? It's just a spirit beast. Do you really expect it to have human emotions?"
Fang Ruotang took a clean white handkerchief and wiped Mingfu's face.
She is three hundred years old, but looks no more than twenty, and has a somewhat gentle personality.
When Mingfu heard Fang Ruotang say that about the Fiery Phoenix, she subconsciously looked at the Fiery Phoenix, only to find that the usually difficult and fiery-tempered bird was not angry at all, and was just nestled obediently in her arms.
That sound wasn't human; it seemed to refer to something else entirely.
Mingfu, who was already on the verge of collapse, burst into loud sobs, as if she were questioning a heartless man.
"Why? She's not nice to you and doesn't respect you. Why did you choose her instead of me? What do I lack compared to her?"
"You are no match for my master in any way."
The Fiery Phoenix couldn't explain it either, but it smelled the scent from afar and ran over like a madman, throwing itself into Fang Ruotang's arms, hoping she would take it away.
It felt that if she disagreed, it could cry itself to death, crying even louder than Mingfu was at that moment.
"You're talking nonsense! I'm clearly of a higher level than her, and I treat you better than her. She's just a mortal. If you choose her, can she stay with you for long? She'll die soon!" Mingfu roared.
Fang Ruotang said innocently, "I probably won't die that easily."
"You will die, your whole family will die! I signed a contract with my master, and everything I have is shared with her. She won't die. You die, you die, your whole family will die!" The Blazing Phoenix roared in fury and broke free from Fang Ruotang.
It went straight toward Mingfu and kept pecking at her with its sharp beak.
Fang Ruotang was initially nervous and wanted to call a halt, but after observing the behavior of the Blazing Flame Phoenix, she carefully noticed that although the Blazing Flame Phoenix did not want to acknowledge Ming Fu as its master, it did not actually harm her.
Otherwise, given what she just witnessed of the Blazing Phoenix's abilities, a mere breath of fire would have been enough to torment Mingfu.
Mingfu was being pecked at, clutching her head as she ran around, still stubbornly trying to persuade the Blazing Phoenix.
Fang Ruotang suddenly felt that she didn't need to be the mediator anymore. This human and beast gave her the feeling that it was a young couple arguing and she couldn't get a word in edgewise.
The sect leader and the others stopped talking when Ming Fu started crying loudly.
"What do you say now?"
Fang Ruotang didn't have much patience. Everyone watched as Mingfu was pecked all over the palace by the Fiery Phoenix, as if they were in a pantomime.
Sect Master Ming took a deep breath and said with a solemn face, "The Blazing Phoenix is the most precious treasure of our Beast Taming Sect. We certainly cannot let you take it away like this."
"So?" Fang Ruotang gestured for him to state his terms directly.
"We need to add resources, lots and lots of resources. You should know that spirit beasts like the Blazing Phoenix are extremely rare and hard to come by. It's simply impossible to find another one like it."
"Uh, it can't be that bad! I want to be able to have it anytime."
Fang Ruotang's frank words silenced the people from the Beast Taming Sect. They wanted to curse, but seeing the Blazing Flame Phoenix's eager and devoted manner, they couldn't utter a word.
The fear is that this person has some special animal taming skills, and other animals react the same way when they see her.
"How about I catch another Blazing Phoenix and send it back to you?" Fang Ruotang had just communicated with the little mirror. There weren't many Blazing Phoenixes on this Cloud Deep Continent, but there were still a few dozen.
"...You can catch him?" Master Ming was completely stumped.
They found the egg in the secret realm, and only after it hatched did they realize it was a Blazing Phoenix; they hadn't been able to identify it before.
"It is possible. I can tell them and they should come with me. But I can't guarantee that they will agree to form a bond with you. After all, this kind of thing is a transaction between two parties."
Sect Leader Ming: ...
This kind of bad breath is even worse than eating pickled vegetables; it's really infuriating.
"The Blazing Phoenix can choose whoever it wants; the Beast Taming Sect isn't its master. Say something practical, and our Heavenly One Sect will be grateful for your help. If your Beast Taming Sect ever needs anything in the future, we can lend a hand. Anyway, it's impossible for you to ask for an exorbitant amount," Qi Yu said with dissatisfaction.
"That's right! I was hatching peacefully in the secret realm, and you stole me out, causing me to be born a few years later for no reason. If it weren't for my own hard work, I might still be in my eggshell right now."
This is also one of the reasons why the Blazing Phoenix didn't want to talk to them.
It has inheritance and memory even before it is born.
Its mother specially chose a place rich in resources and full of spiritual energy for it to hatch and hatch.
But these people stole it, so when its mother came after it was born, it deliberately didn't run away, determined to bankrupt the Beast Taming Sect.
If they dare to steal, they must bear the consequences.
Fang Ruotang hadn't seen the entire Mirror of Rewind and was unaware of these events. She flipped back through the pages and found that it was indeed as the Blazing Phoenix had described.
No wonder he acted like a grumpy brat and never gave the Beast Taming Sect a friendly look; Fang Ruotang instantly understood.
He no longer felt ashamed of robbing someone else's treasure.
The Beast Taming Sect steals, but in this case, the spirit beasts actually followed her.
Fang Ruotang thought for a moment, then took out the recording stone and played back the events of that year. The video clearly recorded the Beast Taming Sect's act of stealing eggs.
It even recorded the incident where the little phoenix's mother came looking for it and flew into a rage upon discovering that the little phoenix was missing.
As fate would have it, when the little phoenix's mother arrived, it had already hatched, and she chose such a childish method of revenge.
Otherwise, the Beast Taming Sect would have formed a deadly feud with the Blazing Phoenix Clan three hundred years ago.
“I don’t think I need to pay compensation. What do you think? The Blazing Phoenix is free. It doesn’t belong to you. It can go with whomever it wants.”
"No, we've used so many resources on it over the past three hundred years. If you want to take it away, you'll have to give it back everything it's eaten."
Fang Ruotang originally planned it this way.
But now I feel something's not right.
"So after you gave birth to your child, I stole your child, and when he grows up, I'll ask you for child support. Will you agree?"
“How can these be the same!” the elder retorted instinctively.
Fang Ruotang tilted her head. "Is there any difference? To its mother, the Blazing Phoenix is also her child. And you can see from the recording stone that it could have lived a better life. It was you who made it suffer without any hardship, and then made it pay for its living expenses."
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