Chapter 16: Strange Divine Beasts “I said, I fought for my life to ascend to immortality…
"..." Xie Bian was speechless. He coughed dryly and looked at Lucifer: "Mr. Principal, can you find someone from hell who is suitable for death? A death row inmate or something?"
Lucifer's eyes froze. If before this, he had only understood from common sense that the powerful beast before him was difficult to subdue, Xie Bian's request for a sacrifice now made him feel even more difficult.
In any culture, "living sacrifice" is not done casually. Ghosts are not considered living creatures in the human world, but they are clearly alive in hell.
Lucifer's expression became more serious. After thinking about it seriously, he nodded and said, "Yes." Then he picked up the Hell Plate and began to contact his connections in Hell for help.
After waiting for about a moment, the person was sent to the gate leading to Lingbo City from Hohenzollern Castle. Lucifer personally carried the person down. He was an old man in a suit and tie, who looked to be in his sixties or seventies. He had an Asian face and kind eyes, but his eyes were dull and wooden. Lucifer carried him into the cave with one hand and he did not react at all.
Si Ling studied him, frowning. "Principal, are you sure he's on death row?" She paused. "And judging by his appearance, he seems to be under the jurisdiction of our Porcelain Nation's underworld?"
"Hmm, that's a long story." Lucifer placed the old man in front of Phoenix and dusted his hands. "He's a pastor from Korea. You've probably heard of Korea, where cult culture is so flourishing it's even been nominated for World Heritage status. He's called a pastor, but he's actually the leader of a cult. Under the guise of Jehovah, he brainwashes his followers, extorts money, and forces women into prostitution. He may not have directly killed many people, but he's probably indirectly killed at least hundreds."
"So..." Lucifer clicked his tongue. "Regardless of whether he truly believed in Jehovah or not, he prayed to him for most of his life. Culturally, he's closer to us, so naturally, he belonged to the Western pantheon after his death. Jehovah couldn't possibly let him go to Heaven; his soul went to Hell. Within half an hour of his death, Heaven sent Michael to solemnly negotiate with Satan, demanding his death. Although Satan and Jehovah had a mutual dislike, there was no need to offend him over such a trivial matter, so he agreed to Michael's request. If it weren't for what happened today, he would have been executed next week."
It was a good thing for him that he could see the Chinese mythical beast before it turned to ashes.
Si Ling thought jokingly.
Then everyone got busy.
The priest who was being sacrificed was placed right in front of the Phoenix. Lucifer took out a box of fine salt from the pile of props, sprinkled it evenly on the ground, and formed a circle, encircling the Phoenix and the priest in the middle.
This is the most common enchantment in the West.
Then there is the inverted cross.
Lucifer inserted five inverted crosses outside the salt circle, the last one facing the Phoenix. As this last one pierced the ground, the five inverted crosses resonated and connected with each other. Red and black light illuminated the ground, forming an inverted pentagram between the five inverted crosses, which is also the symbol of hell.
After that, Lucifer took out a box of 24 bottles of 500ml holy water...
The Black and White Impermanence began to mutter in a low voice.
Xie Bian: "They have so many props."
Fan Wujiu nodded repeatedly: "...But you know what, the circle he drew is really round, and the pentagram is also very standard."
Xie Bian agreed: "Indeed, indeed, a living compass!"
Lucifer, who was immersing himself in the formation, did not hear their discussion. He used magic to carve a perfectly circular stone trough on the ground, which just encircled the pentagram. Then he unscrewed the bottles of holy water one by one and poured them into the circular trough.
After pouring the holy water, he took out a scripture, stood outside the holy water circle facing the phoenix and the sacrifice, cleared his throat, and began to chant in the ancient language.
It was Hebrew. Neither Si Ling nor Heibai Wuchang had learned the language, but when they saw the salt circle, pentagram, and holy water glowing red, they knew Lucifer was performing a magic circle blessing.
Xie Bian and Fan Wujiu looked at each other, walked to the left and right respectively, sat down cross-legged a few meters outside the holy water circle, closed their eyes, breathed, cast spells and constructed a barrier.
Si Ling pondered for a moment, and for safety reasons, he walked towards the stone gate, stopping only when he was only two meters away from the gate.
Then she also closed her eyes, raised her hands from her sides, palms facing up, and breathed silently.
Thick black mist gradually overflowed from her palm. Initially, it was just a small puff, like a drop of ink just released into clear water. It quickly began to disperse in all directions, forming a ring around the cave, and then began to gather upwards, forming a black dome.
When Si Ling returned to the center of the cave, the barrier between Lucifer and the Black and White Impermanence was also completed.
She took a long breath and walked around behind Phoenix: "I'm starting."
The Black and White Impermanence, who were breathing with their eyes closed, did not respond to her. Lucifer, who continued to recite Hebrew scriptures, nodded.
Si Ling held his breath, his right hand gripping the hilt of the bronze heavy sword. As if sensing the outsider's contact, the ancient magical instrument emitted a sharp chime.
Si Ling ignored him and drew his sword with all his might. The heavy sword began to vibrate violently, emitting a dazzling golden-white light. At the same time, the entire cave began to fill with alternating black and blue mists. The mist quickly condensed towards the bronze sword, pouring into the phoenix's limp body.
The vibrations of the heavy sword became more and more intense, causing the entire cave to shake. If the cave had not been separated from the Ghost Academy by a barrier that Lucifer had cast, even the students sleeping soundly upstairs would have felt the earth-shaking.
Si Ling's right hand gradually couldn't hold the hilt of the sword anymore, so he grabbed it with his left hand. He pushed the ground firmly with his feet, leaned his body back and pulled hard, and the heavy sword that was deeply embedded in the stone ground finally broke free from the ground!
The next second, the phoenix's body slipped off the sword and fell to the ground. The golden light, blue mist, and black smoke that gushed out filled the entire cave in chaos, and then quickly shrank after just a few seconds.
Si Ling Lucifer and the Black and White Impermanence subconsciously turned their heads to avoid the dazzling light in those few seconds. When they looked again, they saw that the phoenix had turned back into human form, with a water-blue scale armor glowing faintly, and a cold and handsome face exuding a sacredness.
But his eyes are completely white, without black pupils!
As expected, there is the first catastrophe.
Si Ling quickly retreated outside the holy water circle. Just as she stepped out of the stone trough, the phoenix suddenly knocked her arms apart, and the water-blue magic halo hit all directions, and the soul of the priest who was nearby disappeared instantly.
The sacrifice was directly devoured, which was a good result.
There was silence all around, and everyone was staring at the man in the magic circle.
He stood silently in the center of the inverted pentagram glowing red, and the black pupils in his white eyes appeared and disappeared, disappeared and reappeared.
This is a symbol of gradually getting out of the initial calamity state. Si Ling has experienced it personally, and Lucifer and the Black and White Impermanence, as officials of the underworld, have seen it even more often.
Everyone secretly relaxed, and Si Ling was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when he saw Fenghuang's right hand flip. Si Ling's bloodshot eyes suddenly narrowed, and he shouted, "Be careful!"
In an instant, the roar of the phoenix drowned out her voice, and the illusion of a clear spring rushed out in all directions with the phoenix as the center. The four of them were swept away by the overwhelming spring water and could hardly stand!
Lucifer's salt circle melted instantly, and the holy water was swept away. Only the inverted cross pentagram held out for two more breaths, then, as the pentagram directly in front was knocked over by the spring water, it instantly extinguished.
"F**K!!!" Lucifer cursed as he was thrown out, his back hitting the stone wall hard, making him dizzy.
The Black and White Impermanence, who were a little further away, only lasted a second longer than him before being thrown away and falling out of the outermost barrier.
Si Ling promptly thrust her bronze heavy sword into the ground, gripping the hilt tightly to withstand the onslaught of the spell. As the spell faded, she gasped and shouted to Xie Bian, "What's going on?!?!"
Xie Bian clearly saw the Phoenix's still completely white eyes from the direction he was in, and said in panic, "It's still in the first calamity!"
First kill is useless? !
Without waiting for Si Ling to think about it, the phoenix raised its head slightly, stared at the black fog dome for a moment, and suddenly jumped up and attacked the barrier with great force!
"Bang!" The barrier was attacked, making a muffled sound.
The phoenix hung in the air, casting spells with both hands, taking turns smashing at the barrier. Light balls flew everywhere, and the barrier shook continuously.
Si Ling's eyes froze.
...She could see that this was an unconscious attack. He just wanted to break through the barrier, and his moves were completely disorganized.
Si Ling took a deep breath, steadying his feet. With both hands, he plucked the pair of X-shaped silver hairpins from his bun. The hairpins instantly transformed into a pair of daggers. Holding the hilts, Si Ling rushed toward the opposite stone wall. With one step to go, he leaped, using the wall as leverage. With a single airborne flip, he landed in front of Phoenix and delivered a powerful kick to her chest.
Phoenix was caught off guard and fell back several meters, but he quickly regained his balance. He was still suspended in mid-air, and Si Ling was also floating there, sword in hand, facing him from a distance.
The phoenix stared at her blankly with its white eyes, then immediately leaped forward again, punching Si Ling in the face. Si Ling dodged on her back, barely avoiding the punch, and simultaneously flipped her body, causing the phoenix to turn with its back to the barrier.
Si Ling smiled and stabbed with the sword in both hands. Fenghuang dodged by turning her head, but her interspersed kicks were not so easy to dodge.
As a spellcaster, she could easily pass through the barrier formed by the black fog, but to Phoenix, it was like a solid wall. Every time Si Ling kicked him, he was hit hard.
After the third kick, Fenghuang's eyebrows jumped, and he suddenly raised his hand and accurately grabbed her right hand.
Si Ling paused, and suddenly felt a sharp pain in his right wrist, and the dagger in his hand flew out.
Si Ling became ruthless and swung out the sword with his left hand again. When the Phoenix dodged, he hooked the hilt of the dagger with his right leg and kicked it behind him. The dagger flew out from behind and pierced the Phoenix directly.
Phoenix tilted his head to the side, and the short sword passed by his eyes, just brushing his eyelashes, and pierced into the stone wall with a click.
Si Ling immediately reached for her sword, but before she could reach the hilt, Fenghuang kicked her in the chest. With nowhere to stand, she fell to the ground. Just as she was trying to steady herself, Fenghuang charged after her, grabbed her shoulders with both hands, and slammed her down.
Si Ling collapsed and screamed: "Fuck you!!!"
Boom!
Phoenix pinned her to the ground, sending smoke and dust flying everywhere.
"Ah..." Lucifer, Xie Bian and Fan Wujiu held their foreheads with their hands, grimacing and unable to bear to watch.
Si Ling's eyes turned white and he felt dizzy from the pain, but Fenghuang didn't stop. He grabbed Si Ling's shoulders and smashed him down again.
Dong-dong-dong-dong
Si Ling gritted his teeth and took a breath: "Did I give you face?!" He held the dagger in his left hand reversely and stabbed it at the back of the phoenix.
Puff—she clearly heard the sound of the sharp blade piercing into her body, but Phoenix seemed unaware.
Boom——
Si Ling laughed angrily as the world spun around him, and swung his right fist straight at Fenghuang's face!
After three consecutive punches, Lucifer and the Black and White Impermanence, who had just raised their heads, once again held their foreheads with their teeth bared, but Phoenix still had no reaction.
"... Damn it!" Si Ling gave up the pointless attack and punched the ground beside her. With a crisp sound, the stone ground shattered. She picked up a palm-sized stone and slapped it hard on the side of Phoenix's cheek.
“Bang—”
“Bang!”
The phoenix tilted to the side, and Si Ling seized the opportunity to hit it again. At the same time, he curled up his legs and kicked hard, kicking the phoenix away while leaping up. He made a hand gesture and turned into black smoke and rushed towards the stone wall, finally getting the dagger in his right hand back.
By the time she turned around and landed again, Phoenix had already found his footing. He raised his right hand slightly, and the scales all over his body sensed his intention. Some scales quickly flew out, gathering in his hand and transforming into a blue-scaled halberd over two meters long!
Only then did Si Ling realize that the other party had not used any weapons at all, and he couldn't help but feel suffocated.
The next moment, Fenghuang swung his halberd and attacked her. The heavy halberd swept through the air, making a sound of wind. Si Ling stared at his footsteps and threw the two swords in his hands into the air. The tips of the swords touched each other precisely, and in an instant, a dark light flashed, and they merged into one long sword and fell down.
Si Ling gripped the hilt of the sword with both hands and moved forward steadily, keeping his center of gravity on his hind legs.
"Whoosh--" The blue-scaled halberd came down with a gust of wind. Si Ling raised his sword to block it, and the collision of the weapons made a long "clang" sound.
The strong impact caused the phoenix to bounce back, but he quickly stood firm, and with his thin lips moving, two identical phantoms appeared on both sides. The two quickly turned into four, and then into eight.
"Ha!" Si Ling stretched his neck with interest. "The duel has come to an area I'm familiar with."
"Thousands of souls come together!" She chanted the clone spell in a deep voice.
She had used this spell on Azhu yesterday, but Azhu's cultivation was too low, so it only produced the most superficial effect.
Now, as the last word fell, countless phantoms instantly appeared beside and behind Si Ling. In just a moment, he could no longer tell which one was the real one.
"Oh my god..." Fan Wujiu gasped, "There are so many people, I'm socially anxious!"
Xie Bian covered his eyes with his right hand: "I'm *** trying to hide!"
The phantom clones started fighting immediately. The phantom Phoenix swung the blue-scaled halberd to deal with the attack, while Si Ling's phantoms had the advantage in numbers and split into several groups to launch crazy attacks.
Si Ling's real body merged into a stream near the edge, and while taking advantage of the situation to join the battle, he observed the Phoenix - they fought fiercely for a long time, but this guy didn't even get his skin scratched.
It is worthy of being an ancient mythical beast.
Si Ling concentrated and fell into deep thought, knowing that continuing the fight was not a solution, and his mind began to recall the details in a flash.
The numerous clones effectively delayed time at this time. Although the Phoenix clone could shatter two or three phantoms every time it swung its halberd, Si Ling still had enough time to think.
Suddenly, she thought of a detail.
Si Ling turned around and looked at the three people gathered together. He kept making moves and shouted, "It's time to test your connections - find me another death row prisoner!"
"...What?!" Lucifer didn't react for a moment. When he finally reacted, the three of them looked at each other.
In hell, whether in the East or the West, "death row" is not easy to find. This is because the main function of hell is to punish the wicked, and making them suffer hundreds or even thousands of years of torture is a common practice in hell. The number of people sentenced to death is even a drop in the bucket.
So Lucifer, who had just provided a death row prisoner, did not dare to take on this task again, and the Black and White Impermanence also hesitated.
Then Bai Wuchang sighed and said, "Let me do it!"
He stood up with the help of the wall, opened the underworld disk, and began to look for a way out.
White Impermanence:
"Hello, Marshal, I'm Xie Bian. Do me a favor, please. I have a prisoner who's supposed to be executed two hundred years from now, but he's going to die today. Can you take the blame for me? I'll tell you later that you accidentally killed Li Jing when you tried to kill him. I have a few boxes of Furong brand lotus root powder that I'll send to you later..."
"Oh... you didn't kill Li Jing, and you hurt an innocent ghost. Wouldn't that be embarrassing to tell others? That makes sense, I understand. I won't bother you anymore. I'll still send you the lotus root powder later!"
"Hey, Great Sage, I'm Xiao Xie. I have a favor to ask of you... I've had an accident and have to execute a prisoner who was supposed to die hundreds of years ago. Could you please help me settle the score? Let's say you beat him to death when you caused chaos in the underworld, but it was too chaotic back then and we didn't find out until now..."
"Okay, okay! Great Sage, you're the most generous! I have a superbly accurate 1:1 Fighting Buddha figurine and I'll send it to you tomorrow!"
Si Ling's mouth twitched as he fought against the phantom in front of him - it's 2025, why are you still looking for the Monkey King to settle accounts!
Brother Monkey has a really good temper.
Xie Bian breathed a sigh of relief and immediately made a third call: "Hey, Xiaoniu, are you at the Soul-Catching Division? Do me a favor! Open the drawer on the left side of my desk. There's a rare SSR Human World Experience Talisman in there. Bi Yuanbin has been wanting it for a long time. Give it to him. He has a death row inmate named Min You who came in over 800 years ago and is supposed to be executed in over 200 years. Go get him and tell him not to worry, the Great Sage will settle the accounts."
"Then, bring him here with the shuttle talisman hidden in the crack above my left drawer—don't worry, I bought it on the black market, so there's no record of it."
"I'll give you some coordinates!" Xie Bian said as he tilted his head, clamped the Tongming Plate between his head and shoulders, and took out a dice-sized cube from his pocket. The cube quickly turned into a three-foot square compass.
Xie Bian held the compass steady with both hands and said, "Degrees, minutes, and seconds format: 8 degrees 58 minutes 04 minutes east longitude, 48 degrees 19 minutes 23 minutes north latitude; secondary calibration, decimal format: 8.9678 degrees east longitude, 48.3231 degrees north latitude. 5 meters underground."
"Come as soon as possible!!!"
Xie Bian closed the Tongming Plate. There were only a few clones left on the battlefield. Si Ling's real body had also been found and was fighting with Fenghuang's real body.
Xie Bian: "I've found a good person! You just need to delay!"
"Okay!" Si Ling gave Phoenix a flying kick in the face, and while Phoenix was dodging, he turned and jumped onto the barrier, taking advantage of the arc of the dome to run wildly. Phoenix reacted and immediately gave chase.
About a quarter of an hour later, Si Ling saw Xie Bian walk out of the cave and enter the elevator.
Another three minutes later, Xie Bian flashed back, and Si Ling shouted urgently: "Give him to me!"
Xie Bian acted decisively and threw the prisoner in his hand with force. Si Ling penetrated the barrier, stepped on the stone wall, did a somersault, and caught the prisoner steadily.
She landed with the prisoner in her arms, and Phoenix seized the opportunity to swing the blue-scaled spear again and flew into the air. Si Ling was nervous, and he lifted up the prisoner and secretly made hand gestures.
"Bang!" The long spear touched the face of the condemned prisoner, and the prisoner turned into ashes in an instant. The long spear continued to chop down without restraining its force, heading straight for Si Ling!
At the critical moment, the spell was activated, Si Ling turned into black smoke and disappeared without a trace, and the long spear smashed into the ground.
Si Ling reappeared a few meters away. The violent inertia caused her to slide a few more meters before she leaned over and stopped.
She held her breath and looked up, only to see a man covered in blue scales standing stiffly there, staring at the ground with a frown, his black pupils flickering in his pure white eyes.
Si Ling no longer hesitated, biting his finger, and drawing a talisman in the air as he ran: "The evil spirits will stop and the abyss will condense, the spirit will be clear and bright. The sky will calm the soul, and the Tao will naturally be at peace. Hurry and obey the command!"
The soul-awakening spell was quickly completed with her fingers, and she pushed back with her hand, and the talisman hit the phoenix directly.
Phoenix noticed something strange and turned back in surprise. His pupils flickered and the talisman swept across his figure, turning into thousands of golden lights that spread in all directions, and then bloomed into countless golden threads that attacked him!
“Wow—”
All the golden threads flowed into the Phoenix's body at the same moment, making a subtle sound.
The phoenix lost its strength instantly and fell face down. Its pupils flickered twice before it finally stabilized.
His mind was in a mess. He saw the black skirt walking towards him. He wanted to raise his eyes, but extreme fatigue weighed down his eyelids like a thousand-pound rock, quickly pulling him into a coma.
Si Ling held the sword in both hands, taking every step with fear, until she saw him fainting. She felt relieved and fell to the ground.
"Si Ling!" Lucifer and the Black and White Impermanence ran towards her, and Xie Bian was the first to support her. He wanted to help her up, but she sat there motionless, her dull eyes making Xie Bian panic.
"Si Ling?" Xie Bian waved his hands nervously in front of her.
Si Ling's thin lips trembled slightly, and he murmured something.
"What did you say?" Xie Bian didn't hear clearly.
Si Ling regained his composure, mustered up a bit of strength, and said, "I told you, I risked my life to ascend to immortality..."
Xie Bian had a complicated expression: "That was indeed a desperate effort."
Seeing that Si Ling was fine, Fan Wujiu peeled off Fenghuang's eyelids to confirm that his black eyeballs had not disappeared. He sighed and sat down on the ground: "It should be quiet this time."
…
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The crisis was resolved, but Phoenix could not return to China immediately because the Black and White Impermanence had to go and handle the relevant procedures first.
In reality, the phoenix, a noble ancient mythical beast, had nothing to do with Fengdu, and handling the return process was not within the jurisdiction of the underworld. Fortunately, the Black and White Impermanence had extensive connections, so with a little time and effort, the paperwork could be completed.
Before that, he would be temporarily housed in the Ghost Academy. Out of respect for the ancient beast, Lucifer arranged a luxurious suite for him on the top floor, and out of awe for Si Ling's combat power, he also arranged a similar luxurious suite for her.
Si Ling fell into a deep sleep exhausted, skipping all classes the next morning and sleeping until noon.
After getting up and sorting her things, she discovered her sound transmission talisman was missing. She searched the suite but couldn't find it. She then went to the room she had shared with Ah Zhui, but there was no trace of it either.
Ah Zhui enlightened her: "Did you lose it on the road yesterday?"
"No." Si Ling shook his head.
She clearly remembered finding it in her pocket after the battle.
She began to recall where she had been later, and she remembered that before she moved to the suite, she worked together with Lucifer and the Black and White Impermanence to send the Phoenix to the room opposite her.
Si Ling then went to Lucifer to explain the whole story and asked for Zhang Fenghuang's room card.
She swiped open the door and walked straight into the bedroom. Phoenix was still unconscious and the whole room was silent.
Si Ling looked around the room and even lifted the quilt to take a look, but there was no sign of the sound transmission note.
Si Ling then stepped back a few steps and silently chanted the spell: "Seeing Through the Netherworld."
The scene in front of her suddenly turned gray-green. She concentrated on imagining the sound transmission note. After a few seconds, a small yellow triangle appeared on the screen.
...pressed under the man.
Si Ling smiled and walked back to the bed.
It was not difficult for her to take things in this way, because Phoenix was obviously a "physical ghost", which was different from her "spiritual ghost".
Simply put, if she does not use any magic, she will only collide with a ghost of the same spiritual form when she meets it head-on; if the opponent is a physical ghost, she will crash through the opponent's body.
However, it is extremely easy to use this spell. In order to facilitate dealing with physical ghosts, ghosts over 100 years old usually use these basic spells habitually, as naturally as breathing.
So now if she wanted to get the sound transmission talisman from under the Phoenix, she only needed to completely stop using this spell, without disturbing the other party at all.
Si Ling's mind moved slightly, and he immediately stopped breathing.
She reached out her hand towards Phoenix's chest, but... the solid chest blocked her hand!
Si Ling was stunned for a moment, then adjusted his breathing and tried again, but got the same result.
An ominous premonition emerged in Si Ling's heart. She concentrated and hesitated for a long time, not daring to believe this speculation, but still mustered the courage to chant a spell: "The ghost energy has the same origin."
After she finished the curse, she carefully raised her hand that was resting on his chest. A wisp of black smoke appeared between her palm and his chest, and Si Ling's head buzzed.
She gasped, not bothering to look for the sound transmission talisman. She quickly took out the Tongming Plate and made a video call to Xie Bian.
Xie Bian was sitting in his office, asking various acquaintances about how to handle entry procedures for the ancient mythical beast, the Hell-Passing Plate casually placed beside him. Si Ling dialed twice before he noticed the pop-up notification on the screen and immediately picked up the phone. "Si Ling?"
"Good afternoon." Si Ling adjusted her direction slightly to ensure that Xie Bian could see both her and Fenghuang at the same time, and said solemnly, "I have something to tell you."
Xie Bian: "What?"
"I don't think he's a phoenix." Si Ling paused, "Or maybe, he's more than just a phoenix."
On the screen, Xie Bian was visibly stunned: "What do you mean?"
"Look." She extended her hand to Phoenix's chest again, demonstrating its impenetrable state. Seeing Xie Bian still confused, she chanted the incantation again, "The ghost energy comes from the same source."
Black smoke suddenly appeared. On the other side of the screen, Xie Bian covered his mouth in amazement: "He..."
"What should we do?" Si Ling withdrew his hand.
Xie Bian stammered: "He he he..."
Si Ling sighed: "Let's think of a way."
"It's not...that..." Xie Bian finally calmed down and uttered three words, "He's awake!!!"
Si Ling suddenly turned his head, and before he could focus his eyes, he saw a blue shadow flash before his eyes. The next second, the glass window a few steps away was smashed, and a phoenix broke out of the window. It was still in human form, but with a pair of huge blue wings spread out, flying into the sky.
There were some ghosts moving around in the small garden below, and the sudden rushing figure made them look up.
Someone exclaimed, "Phoenix?!"
"Stop!" Si Ling cast a spell in a horrifying manner, "Thousands of souls are coming together!"
Several clones suddenly blocked the Phoenix's way.
Onlookers downstairs: "Wooow!"
The phoenix stopped and hung in mid-air.
Si Ling pinched her fingers and chased out the window, floating to a position three meters in front of him and facing him. The unexpected situation she had just discovered made her feel a little confused. She calmed down and said, "Mr. Phoenix... calm down."
Xie Bian's ruthless complaints came from the Tongming Plate: "What kind of a name is 'Mr. Phoenix'?"
The man frowned, holding his forehead to relax, then looked up at her again, his bright and pure eyes filled with confusion: "We have met before."
"Yes, I broke the seal for you." Si Ling said.
……seal?
This sentence made his guard disappear in an instant. He looked at her for a long moment and said, "Thank you."
Then he said, "Please move aside. I need to go see the Emperor of Heaven."
Si Ling ignored his words: "You're welcome, Mr. Phoenix, uh..." She was halfway through her sentence when she felt that it was strange to refer to someone by their species. She coughed lightly and said, "Excuse me, do you have a name? What should I call you?"
The man concentrated on thinking, and the chaotic memories gave him a splitting headache. He held his forehead again and tried hard to trace back those fragmented memory fragments.
But he couldn't find much useful stuff. Apart from the fragments before he was sealed, only his childhood memories were relatively intact.
He saw the endless expanse of azure water, reflecting the shadows of the sunset glowing in the orange-red sunset, with shimmering waves.
...That is a very distant memory.
"I..." Chaotic images and sounds tore at his mind. It took him a while to grasp some useful information. "I'm not Fenghuang, I'm Suhuang."
"Suhuang⑤?" Si Ling was stunned. This was a completely unfamiliar species.
"My name is..." His eyebrows twitched, "My name is Xuan Chi."
Si Ling nodded and continued to ask questions calmly: "Why do you want to see the Emperor of Heaven?"
"The Heavenly Emperor wants to kill me." Xuan Chi's voice trembled, and it was hard to tell whether it was anger or fear. "I was loyal to the Heavenly Emperor, but he suddenly punished me. I want to know the reason."
Inside the Tongming Plate, Xie Bian's voice trembled: "Holy crap... this is such a high-end game!"
Si Ling lowered his eyes and pondered in silence.
Xuan Chi saw that she didn't seem to be willing to give way, so he stepped forward and said, "Miss, I thank you for saving my life, but please move aside. I must go to the Emperor of Heaven to ask for clarification."
Si Ling raised her eyes and looked him in the eye. He had beautiful eyes, bright and clear, unlike the eyes of evil spirits that always had a hint of dirt in them.
His aqua-blue wings were also beautiful, and the long, horn-like feathers on his forehead exuded a sense of holiness that could not be found in the underworld.
She felt a pang of reluctance and sighed, then said softly, "You can't see the Heavenly Emperor because... the world may not be the same as you remember. You are now in a land ruled by another group of gods. If you want to see the Heavenly Emperor, you must first complete the formalities and return to the land of China."
"...What?" Xuan Chi was confused and obviously didn't quite understand what she was saying.
Si Ling bit his lower lip hard and continued, "Secondly, I think you misunderstood something—I did break your seal, but I couldn't save you."
"Wait a minute!!!" Xie Bian shouted in the Tongming Plate. He realized what Si Ling was about to say and tried to stop him with all his might, "Si Ling, wait a minute!!!"
Si Ling frowned and hung up the video call. He looked at Xuan Chi again and took a long breath. "You are dead. You should have died a long time ago. You are now in the form of a fierce ghost, but you haven't realized it yet."
Xuan Chi was stunned and unable to react.
But as he said this, some golden light began to emanate from his body, like countless tiny dust particles detaching from his body and dispersing into the air with the wind.
Xie Bian's video came in again, and Tongmingpan was thinking non-stop. Si Ling lowered his eyes to look at it, hung up again, and then directly closed the Tongmingpan.
She stared at Xuan Chi and continued, "If you still don't realize this, your soul will be gone within seven days." She laughed hoarsely, "Actually, this will save a lot of trouble in the process and will be good for everyone, but I..."
It was hard for her to explain how she felt right now. Honestly, she had no feelings for this ancient beast transformed into a fierce ghost, but she was inexplicably soft-hearted.
She couldn't just sit back and watch him lose his soul.
More golden light emanated from Xuan Chi's body, spreading and then disappearing.
When the golden light faded, the aqua blue color on his body also began to fade, starting with the beautiful long diagonal feathers, which quickly transformed into black, symbolizing an evil spirit.
Lips, nails, long hair, scales, scale boots... every part was doomed. All the sacred luster in the heavens quickly disappeared, and endless darkness was climbing madly.
Xuan Chi looked down at these changes in a daze. At the end of the change, his exposed crystal skin also changed, becoming lifeless and pale.
An intense sadness enveloped Si Ling's heart. She suddenly doubted whether she had done something wrong. She suspected that for the person in front of her, becoming a ghost might not be better than having his soul torn apart.
But she quickly suppressed the emotion.
She pinched her fingers and chanted a spell, and her white eyes and black pupils turned into black smoke and blood pupils again. She rushed towards Xuan Chi suddenly, slammed her head into his chest, and pushed him back into the window in one fell swoop!
Hyun Chi fell back onto the bed unexpectedly, then stood up and looked at her in shock: "What are you doing?!"
Si Ling floated in through the window without landing. He pulled out the silver scepter with both hands, transforming it into two swords. He recited the incantation clearly: "Burn the bones and scorch the marrow, corrode the orifices and lock the essence. Chisel the soul and calm it. All other methods are forbidden."
As she spoke, seventy-two silver-black nails gradually appeared behind her, spinning at high speed, ready to attack the target at any time.
But before actually triggering the spell, Si Ling pondered for a moment and made an explanation with good intentions: "This is the Soul Locking Nail, a restriction against evil spirits. If it is cast while you are unconscious, it will silently merge into your soul, disabling your spells, and you won't feel anything - but unfortunately, I didn't know you had turned into a ghost at that time. If I cast it now, your body's instinctive resistance will make it tantamount to torture, and I don't really want to do such a thing."
"So—" She said solemnly, watching every change in Xuan Chi's expression. "Please tell me honestly, do you feel like you're going through the First Tribulation again?"
She didn't know whether the evil spirit who had just realized that he was dead would trigger the first calamity state again. If so, it would be much better to strike first than to have another fierce battle.
Xuan Chi felt it carefully and shook his head: "No."
Si Ling didn't have much trust in him, so even though she got the answer, she still just looked at him, and the soul-locking nail was still spinning at high speed behind her.
After a long while, she finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that he remained calm and showed no signs of going berserk.
She tilted her head slightly, and the soul-locking nail hanging behind her instantly turned into black smoke and disappeared without a trace.
Si Ling sighed silently, lowered his eyes and reopened the Tongming disk. Just as he finished turning it on, Xie Bian's video came in again.
She answered the call expressionlessly, turned to the rear camera, and showed Xie Bian the status of Xuan Chi directly.
Xie Bian, who had been so anxious that he stood up and started typing on the video, sank back into his office chair, staring blankly at the screen: "The divine beast turned into a ghost... I'm in big trouble."
When Fengdu was established, "divine beasts" had already become a distant legend. The underworld had never dealt with such issues and did not even have corresponding laws and regulations.
The current situation makes Xie Bian, who works in the underworld, feel that his career is coming to an end.
He murmured to himself, "If I had known... I would have just pretended he didn't exist."
When Si Ling suggested that Xuan Chi stay in the cave, he and Fan Wujiu should have taken advantage of the situation to back off!
"I'm sorry to cause you trouble." Si Ling nodded, "But if you were to choose again, you would still let him out."
Xie Bian remained silent.
"Same here. If I had to choose again, I would still tell him that he is dead. So—" Si Ling's drooping eyelashes trembled, "It's done. Don't be dejected. Call Fan Wujiu to talk together and solve the problem."
Xie Bian smiled bitterly: "We can't solve it."
"Tsk." Si Ling's tone became a little more relaxed. "If you live to my age, you will know that there is no problem that cannot be solved except birth, old age, sickness and death."
——In the past 30,000 years, she has solved countless problems.
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The author has something to say: [Notes]
①【Michael】The archangel under Jehovah.
②【Hebrew】The vast majority of the Old Testament and the New Testament were originally written in Hebrew, with only a few exceptions.
③【Bi Yuanbin】According to legend, he is one of the Ten Kings of Hell, responsible for punishing unfilial people.
④This longitude and latitude is the real longitude and latitude of Hohenzollernburg.
⑤【随皇】It is a purely personal creation and can be understood as a phoenix with water attributes.
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In addition, regarding the name Xuan Chi: Xuan is a polyphonic character, and the second tone is used here, which is the same as Xuan.
The word "敕" is the same as "敕封" (chi), with the fourth tone.
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