The elder's abrupt and undisciplined display of respect shocked the other elders, who involuntarily turned their gazes toward Jiu Feng. The Jiu Feng of today was cold and aloof, no longer the innocent child who was easily manipulated and obeyed their commands.
He has already undergone two rebirths this time, and his physical and mental strength surpasses theirs. If a fight were to break out, they would be no match for him.
For safety's sake, the elders chose to remain silent and observe, without interrupting, speaking, or criticizing Jiu Feng. They acted as bystanders, assessing the situation and waiting for the right moment to act.
Jiufeng stepped forward and stood before Elder Sui: "Elder Sui, my partner hatched today. Others aren't very enthusiastic, but you are."
“You brought people to my room, searched everywhere, and took away my partner. Now you’re saying I’m keeping it all for myself? Do you really think that you, as an elder, can be above me, the clan leader, and the high priest?”
Under the pressure of his overwhelming presence and the chill emanating from his body, Elder Sui involuntarily took a step back, trying to raise his head, his outward strength masking his inner weakness: "I, as an elder, cannot be above you, the clan leader and the great shaman, but you cannot rely on your status to cry 'stop thief' and try to monopolize that dragon, or seek immortality on your own."
Jiufeng's coldness suddenly turned icy, and she moved with lightning speed, grabbing Elder Sui by the neck and lifting his thin, old body up: "Elder Sui, I'll ask you one last time, where did you take my partner?"
The sudden turn of events startled the other elders present, who stepped forward to mediate and advise, "Great Master, great Master, let's talk things out. Let's talk things out. Whoever took the dragon, just hand it over. Let's not ruin the harmony."
"Yes, yes, it's still a small dragon. It will take many more years for it to grow up. Why are we arguing and making a fuss here? It's not worth it."
"Hurry up, hurry up! Whoever took that dragon, release it! It needs love, it needs to be nurtured with love, to grow and mature. You'll scare it if you do this."
The old man's neck was in someone's hand, his face turned purple from being choked, yet he was still throwing mud and being stubborn: "I didn't take it. I came to look for it but couldn't find it, so he chased me out. He closed the door, looked for it himself, and hid it. Now he's blaming me."
"Elders, he wants to monopolize this dragon, he wants immortality for himself, and he's trampling on our dignity to shut us out..."
Jiufeng interrupted him: "If you don't talk... then you can die."
As soon as he finished speaking, he exerted force and with a snap, Elder Sui's neck was broken.
The old man's neck tilted to the side, his arms fell limply, his eyes wide open, dying with unfinished business.
The other elders retreated in fear upon seeing this.
Jiufeng threw Elder Sui's corpse toward his followers.
The attendant was struck by the corpse and fell to the ground with a thud.
The Nine Phoenixes journey is from the past.
The attendant hurriedly pushed the corpse aside and knelt down, pleading, "Great Shaman, spare me! Great Shaman, spare me! Elder Sui heard from the Second Princess that the Great Shaman's dragon egg had hatched, so he took advantage of the Great Shaman's Nirvana being burned in the fire to come looking for him."
"We searched the house but couldn't find it; we only found a piece of blue eggshell."
As he spoke, the attendant took a small piece of eggshell from Elder Sui's bosom and held it up to Jiufeng with both hands.
The little green dragon cub isn't here. If it were, it would definitely say, "Family, who understands? It's not that I didn't want to eat all my eggshells, it's not that I deliberately wanted to leave a piece of eggshell, it's just that that piece of eggshell was kissed by that dead chicken, Jiufeng."
It thought it was dirty and unclean, so when it cracked open the eggshell to eat it, it left a piece behind. It wasn't for the eggshell itself, but purely for the eggshell's sake, as it didn't want to eat the dirty piece of eggshell.
Jiufeng picked up the eggshell. The eggshell was green inside and out, and it was slightly damp, as if telling his mate that it had just hatched not long ago.
He gripped the eggshell tightly, glanced at the others, and said in a cool, frosty voice, "My mate did hatch, but it's gone now. I can't find it."
Everyone gasped, their faces changing drastically. They looked at each other, having waited so long for the dragon egg to hatch, hoping it would grow up with love in its heart. They would then eat its flesh and drink its blood when it fell in love with the Great Witch, and they would live like dragons for a thousand years, achieving immortality.
Now, if you tell them that the dragon is missing and can't be found, they will reflexively choose not to believe it: "Chief, this joke is not funny at all. That blue dragon egg has always been in your room, and you have always been the one incubating it. There are invisible dragon-proof nets inside and outside your room. Even if it can summon wind and rain, it can't hatch without leaving your room."
"Is it hiding somewhere? Why don't you go look for it again? We don't believe that such a tiny baby dragon could run off to somewhere after hatching."
"Great Shaman, for the prosperity and eternal life of the Phoenix Clan, this dragon is the key. When we retrieved this dragon egg before, it was widely believed that the egg contained a sub-female dragon, and that eating it would grant immortality for thousands of years."
Jiufeng's voice grew increasingly cold: "I've moved everything out of my room. I haven't found a partner. Believe it or not, I haven't found one."
"And all of you need to pay attention and remember this: I just arrived, and you've all arrived too. Elder Sui has informed you that I will investigate what you did or didn't do."
"The entire temple is now on high alert. Everyone is to search for my partner. There will be a massive search of the temple and the sacred mountain. If you don't find my partner, none of you will escape."
After speaking, Jiufeng turned and left.
The other elders behind him called out, "Great Shaman, Great Shaman, where are you going? Where are you going? Aren't you going to find the dragon?"
Without turning her head, Jiufeng said, "I'm going to find the Second Princess."
Upon hearing this, everyone suddenly remembered that Elder Sui's attendant had just mentioned the Second Princess, who was apparently the first dragon to hatch and go to the Great Shaman.
"Should we go and see what's going on, just in case he tries to keep it all for himself?"
"Go and see who among you can withstand his beating?"
“He has been reborn a second time. Look at the murderous aura in his eyes and the coldness all over his body. Elder Sui killed him without hesitation, leaving no room for mercy. Who among you dares to go over?”
Upon hearing this, the person who had suggested going to check it out chickened out and weakly said, "If we don't go, don't follow, and don't watch, what if he cries 'stop thief' and tries to keep the dragon all to himself for all eternity? Wouldn't we be at a huge loss?"
The others hesitated for a moment, wanting to comfort others as well as themselves: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. No matter what, we all watched Jiufeng grow up and raised him. He can't possibly abandon us and take over a dragon all by himself."
"Besides, if that dragon is long, its body weighs tens of tons. We would know that he wants to kill the dragon, drink its blood, and eat its flesh."
"The most urgent thing now is to listen to him for the time being, and pretend that the dragon is missing. We need to find the dragon, the temple, and the sacred mountain as soon as possible."
"Yes, yes, yes, the dragon is missing. Let's find it. If we find it, it's ours. We can keep it in a cage and find someone else to raise it. Anyway, the dragon has never really seen the Nine Phoenixes since it hatched. We can just find someone with a similar voice to impersonate it, make it fall in love with him, wait for it to grow up, and then kill it!"
Everyone present had a bright idea, thinking it was a really good idea, a really, really good idea. So, they summoned everyone they could to search for the dragon's tracks in the temple and the sacred mountain, hoping to find the dragon before Jiufeng and capture it.
Jingyu rushed out of the temple, ran into the sacred mountain, and then ran all the way down the mountain to the palace. Before he could recover from the shock, he discovered that he had lost his spatial button.
She didn't know where she had lost it, and she didn't have time to think about it. Her heart was pounding.
She quickly found another storage button and stuffed all the valuables in her palace, along with her change of clothes, into it.
After stuffing the clothes in, she checked her account and found that the princess of the Fourth Civilization only had a few million in private savings. Without saying a word, she rushed from the palace to the bank and withdrew all the millions in cash.
She tossed the cash into the spatial button and fastened it firmly to her wrist, feeling a moment of security. To make this sense of security last longer, she thought of Bai Shaoqing.
She wanted to find him and stay by his side, even though he was younger than her. He was like a little dumpling, small, soft, and adorable.
However, before Jingyu even reached the Bai family, he was stopped by Jiufeng.
Her first reaction upon seeing Jiu Feng was to run.
My second reaction was: run!
My third reaction was: Heaven is going to destroy her.
She turned and ran as if by reflex, quickening her pace so he wouldn't stop her from running away.
Before she could run more than a few steps, a huge fireball fell from the sky. She jumped back and barely dodged it, but she still couldn't completely dodge it and her hair was hit by the fire.
She hurriedly swatted out the fire, but the smell of burning hair hit her face, making her terrified. She turned around and squatted down on the ground without any backbone, clutching her earlobes and howling weakly, "Great Shaman, Great Shaman, I don't know anything, I don't know anything, please don't burn me!"
Wearing a red robe and black boots, with her long hair tied up, Jiufeng slowly approached Jingyu: "When I was being burned by fire during Nirvana, I seemed to hear your voice. You said my partner had hatched, and you said my partner was very cute?"
Jingyu nodded like a chick pecking at rice: "Yes, yes, I saw that dragon egg hatch, I... I even took a picture of it, do you want to see it?"
Jiufeng acted swiftly and decisively, bending down to take the quantum computer directly from her hand and finding a photograph inside—a photograph of a dragon egg hatching and the baby dragon peeking out.
The dragon cub, like its eggshell, was entirely blue, tiny, and resembled a small eel; it was unclear whether it was male or female.
Jiufeng imported the photos into her own personal computer, deleted the photos from Jingyu's computer, threw her computer on the ground, and stomped on it, shattering it into pieces, leaving only dust.
Jingyu squatted on the ground, and the thought involuntarily flashed through her mind: "It's over, it's over. If her master knew that her partner was taken away and abandoned by her, her fate would be like her personal computer: shattered to pieces, reduced to ashes."
So...so...
For the sake of his own life, he absolutely could not say that his partner was lost because of her, or that he was lost because she took him out to look for him.
Jiufeng rubbed the photo on the screen with her hand, and when she lifted her eyelids to look at Jingyu, the coldness in her eyes was overwhelming, like a storm of ice and snow: "Second Princess, besides taking its photo, what else have you done?"
For the sake of his own life, Jingyu shook his head frantically and denied everything: "I...I didn't do anything. I...I only took a picture of it and then rushed to find you and inform you."
"I wanted you to see it as soon as possible, to see that cute little dragon crunching and eating the eggshell. I didn't do anything else, I didn't do anything, I didn't even touch it."
Heavens above, earth below, my God, the great witch is so terrifying, she looks like she's going to kill her, she looks like she's going to eat her.
She had no idea when the little dragon had run away from her arm, and she didn't react at all.
Jiufeng didn't believe it and asked in disbelief, "Really?"
Jingyu nodded heavily: "Really, really, I only saw it hatch and then went to call you. I didn't touch it. It's your companion, so I didn't dare to touch it."
Jiufeng narrowed her eyes: "You didn't touch it, you don't know, so why did you run away from the temple?"
Jingyu's mind went blank, and he blurted out, "Elder Sui, I...I went to your Nirvana Rebirth Cave to call you, but you...you ran away! I saw many elders of your Phoenix Clan come up, saying that Elder Sui went to find the dragon, so I...I ran away."
She wasn't lying. Many elders of the Phoenix Clan came up; it was indeed Elder Sui who called them. Those people also wanted to see the dragon cub, and it's reasonable that the dragon cub was scared away by them.
Regardless of whether it fits or not, she absolutely cannot admit that the dragon cub was taken out of the Great Witch's room by her and then disappeared, otherwise even her father and mother would not be able to protect her.
The Great Shaman is the faith and spiritual belief of the Fourth Civilization. The ability to hatch a dragon companion or a divine beast is the standard of honor and prosperity for the Fourth Civilization.
If her father and mother found out that she was the one who lost the Great Shaman's partner, she would lose her head, let alone her status as a princess.
Therefore, you absolutely must keep your mouth shut. You must never admit that you touched the dragon cub, never admit that you took the dragon cub out the door, and never say that the dragon cub was thrown from your hands.
Seeing that her own Great Shaman remained silent, Jingyu thought that shifting the blame to the Phoenix Clan elders was a brilliant plan. She continued to stammer, pretending to be serious: "Great Shaman, I...I also heard the Phoenix Clan elders saying something like, 'Oh dear, they've finally hatched. Let them grow a little longer, and then they can be eaten.'"
"Hmm, hmm, what else? Hmm, they also said that they can't let you be the only one to take advantage of it. They have to meet and see it before you do."
"Great Shaman, what do you Phoenix Clan eat? Why can you eat them after just raising them?"
The Phoenix Clan's belief that they eat dragons to gain immortality is a secret within the clan. Princess Jingyu, being only about ten years old, naturally had no idea about such a secret.
The elders of the Phoenix Clan were so impatient when his mate had just hatched. Were they trying to set him up by crying wolf?
Jiufeng's eyes darkened, and a fireball gathered in her hand, as if she were about to smash it into Jingyu: "You're lying..."
Jingyu's pupils constricted. Disregarding face, substance, and the dignity of a princess, she grabbed Jiufeng's leg.
The little girl, around ten years old, wailed with a voice that was so clear, so loud, so aggrieved, and so tearful: "No, I didn't lie, Great Witch, I swear to God, I really didn't lie."
"I truly, truly heard the elders of the Phoenix Clan talking about eating, drinking, becoming younger, finding dragons, and hatching."
“I didn’t even touch your dragon cub. I just took a picture and then went to find you. I was wrong, I was wrong. I shouldn’t have gone to find you. I should have stayed by the dragon cub’s side so it wouldn’t have been lost.”
"Great Shaman... Waaaaah... It's my fault, it's all my fault, I shouldn't have left your mate, left that dragon cub..."
Jiufeng coldly interrupted her: "Take your hand away."
Jingyu removed his hand from his leg as if startled by a sudden awakening, tears streaming down his face, his eyes red and swollen, as if he had suffered a great injustice.
Jiufeng looked down at her condescendingly: "You'd better believe that, or I'll burn you to the ground."
Jingyu trembled all over, almost swearing to the heavens: "It's true, it's true, it's truer than pearls. Great Witch, if you come to me now, what if the baby is in the temple, in the sacred mountain, and has been taken away by the elders of the Phoenix Clan?"
Nine Phoenixes spent 188 years incubating their mate, and now that it had finally hatched, it disappeared before they even met. He longed to see it so much that he panicked and gave up the most important spot to those old scoundrels of the Phoenix Clan.
The most dangerous place is the safest place. Perhaps those old scoundrels set a trap for him, deliberately making him leave the temple and the sacred mountain to find the Second Princess.
Jiufeng gave Jingyu a deep look, then turned and left.
Jingyu squatted on the ground, watching Jiufeng until he boarded the flying vehicle and disappeared into the sky. She then sat down heavily on the ground.
She took a few deep breaths, wiped away her tears, wiped her face, patted her chest, flipped herself up, and strode towards the nearest rented aircraft. She said to the pilot, "To the space station!"
The driver reminded her, "Please fasten your seatbelt!"
Jingyu pulled over and fastened his seatbelt: "Could you please make a call using your personal terminal? I'll give you double the fare!"
The driver was more than happy to be paid double. He unpacked his personal terminal and handed it to Jingyu, asking her, "Young lady, did you have a fight with your family? Look at your face covered in tears, your eyes are all red from crying. Once you've calmed down, apologize to your family, and everything will be fine."
As Jingyu took the personal terminal, he sniffed and said, "This is not going to end. I'm going to run away from home, or they'll beat me to death."
The driver exclaimed, "No way! Domestic violence is illegal! Are you even an adult? If a minor is a victim of domestic violence, the crime is doubled!"
Jingyu wiped away her tears. "I'm an adult now, I'm an adult now, I just turned 18 this year. Anyway, I'm not going home. Hurry up and get me to the space station so I can make a communication call."
As she spoke, she dialed Bai Shaoqing's number. As soon as the call connected, she rattled off, "Qingqing, I have something urgent to attend to. I have to go out for a while. Don't worry about me, don't miss me. Just focus on your studies and get back to your school. I'll call you back once I'm settled and have the new quantum computer..."
A clear, melodious female voice came from the other end of the communication line: "Qingqing isn't here. I'll relay what you said to him."
Jingyu instantly exploded: "Jingyi, how the hell did you take Qingqing's personal computer?"
The Fourth Civilization's Crown Princess Jing Yi: "Why can't I take his personal computer? We have a great relationship. What, do you think Bai Shaoqing likes a brat like you who hasn't even grown up yet? Don't dream. He will marry me, and I will join forces with the Bai family."
"You... tsk tsk tsk, you idiot who barely passed the exam, the Bai family will not take a liking to you, and your father and mother will not allow you to marry into the Bai family."
"you…"
Jing Yi retorted sharply, "What do you mean 'you'? Be smart and stay away from him. Stop babbling on like a bug all day long. Goodbye!"
Before Jingyu could finish speaking, her computer was disconnected. When she tried to call back, the number had already been blocked, meaning she was now a fugitive, heartbroken.
Jingyu burst into tears.
The pilot was startled and the aircraft sped up even more.
Bai Shaoqing cleaned the paint off his body and exposed skin, then came out and asked Jing Yi, "Jing Yi, I think I heard my personal terminal ring. Is someone calling me?"
Jing Yi handed him the personal computer, which had already deleted all communication records, and said in a gentle voice, "Your personal computer didn't ring, but mine did."
"Oh, I thought it was Jingyu calling me." Bai Shaoqing took the personal terminal and put it on his wrist. With his delicate features, he was as soft as a ball of cotton. "Thank you so much today, Princess. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to finish Jingyu's 18th birthday celebration so quickly."
Jing Yi smiled and said, "You're welcome. Jing Yu will definitely like it. If you need anything in the future, just call me and I'll come over when I have time."
Bai Shaoqing gave her a polite "hmm," thinking to himself that he would confess his feelings to Jingyu and ask her for help in the future, rather than bothering her sister.
Jing Yi's lips curled up. What could her good-for-nothing sister, who barely passed her exams with low scores, possibly have to compete with her for Bai Shaoqing?
She is Bai Shaoqing's perfect match, the daughter-in-law the Bai family desires, and the one who can bring Bai Shaoqing happiness. Her sister is trash!
Jingyu cried the whole way on the aircraft, crying about her relationship that ended before it even began, and crying about how she would be wandering the world from now on, with no home left.
Upon arriving at the space station, the pilot took three times the money, flew off in the spacecraft, and the little girl's cries were deafening, shrill and loud, almost piercing his eardrums.
Without a quantum computer, there is no identity; without an identity, one is an unregistered person. The second princess of the Fourth Civilization, with red rabbit eyes, sobbed, unable to buy a ticket on the space station, looking like a pitiful little thing.
But...fear and the will to survive filled her mind. Taking advantage of her small size, agility, and the blind spots in the surveillance, she squeezed into the fuel transport box and, using the box as cover, entered the large spaceship fuel depot.
She didn't know where the large spaceship was going. She came out of the fuel tank, sat in the fuel pile, and continued to cry. Although there were no tears, it didn't stop her from sobbing there.
She felt so miserable. At such a young age, as a princess of a country, she had abandoned her family, suffered heartbreak, and fled for her life, heading towards the stars and the sea.
As she cried, she felt an itch on her thigh. She reached up to scratch it, and a hand appeared out. She screamed, "A ghost!"
A voice that was somewhere between a male and a female voice sounded eerily: "Ghosts? Scientists explained this thousands of years ago. There are no ghosts in the world. The only ghost is yourself."
Jingyu's scream stopped abruptly. Looking towards the sound, she saw a girl with long, straight black hair wearing a skirt.
The girl was about 10 years old. Thick bangs covered her forehead, she wore black contact lenses, and her hair covered her ears and cheeks, revealing only her small mouth and cheeks.
Seeing that the girl posed no threat, Jingyu blurted out, "Who are you?"
The girl pressed down her bangs, inwardly letting out a shriek like a groundhog—it was that incredibly clever, goofy girl who had brought it out today.
It's fate.
This incredible fate is beyond comprehension!
The girl acted as if nothing had happened, extending her hand to Jingyu and blurting out a lie and a fake name: "My name is Aqing. It's nice to meet you. What's your name?"
"Ah Qing?" Jing Yu looked at the outstretched hand. Upon hearing the name, she thought of her first love, Bai Shaoqing, who had just ended things without a trace that day. Feeling a bit of affection for him, she spoke more gently: "My name is Jing... Yu... Feifei... Yu Feifei. I had that dress you were wearing last year too."
From now on, she has no home, no first love, nothing at all. It's like losing everything, like the fish flying out of the water.
Ah Qing looked down and was too embarrassed to say that she had taken it from your spatial button, and even more embarrassed to say that your spatial button was in her hand.
Because it stole her spatial button, everything it eats, uses, wears, and is able to get here is all thanks to her spatial button.
Aqing looked up again, her face showing an expression of how destined we were to meet: "Oh, what a coincidence! I bought this dress last year, and these shoes too."
Jingyu looked down at her shoes: "I also have a pair of shoes like these, exactly the same as yours. I bought them last summer for several thousand star coins."
"Really? Oh my god, what a coincidence!" Ah Qing exclaimed, grabbing her hand deliberately and taking the initiative to say, "By the way, how did you end up here?"
Jingyu was taken aback by her enthusiasm and sniffled.
How did she end up here?
She could say she lost her family's shaman's partner, who had no supercomputer, no identity, and was now on the run.
I absolutely cannot say it, I absolutely cannot say it.
From the moment she boarded this spaceship, Jingyu was already dead; now only Yu Feifei remains.
Yes, only Yu Feifei is left, there is no second princess.
She was called Yu Feifei before the Great Shaman found a partner.
Yu Feifei couldn't answer A Qing's question for a moment.
Ah Qing, who was quick to speak first, not only made excuses for herself but also indirectly made excuses for Yu Feifei: "Yu Feifei, are you like me, forced by your family to go on blind dates and get married after you come of age? You can't refuse, or you'll get beaten up, so you ran away?"
Yu Feifei's bloodshot eyes lit up like little light bulbs as she gripped A Qing's hand tightly: "Yes, yes, my family wouldn't let me be with the boy I liked. They forced me to go on blind dates and wanted me to get married as soon as I came of age. I didn't want to, so they took my personal terminal and tried to imprison me and kill me silently. I ran away to save my life."
To make her lie seem more believable, Aqing pouted, looking like she was about to cry, and stretched out her arms to hug Yu Feifei tightly, deliberately choking up in her voice: "Oh dear, Yu Feifei, we're like two halves of the same coin, suffering the same fate."
Yu Feifei was suddenly hugged and joined the accusation: "That's right, it's too much! If it weren't for this damn partner, how could I have left home and been hiding here? Waaaaah..."
Aqing hugged her, rested her chin on her shoulder, and made a peace sign with the hand holding her. Her voice was choked with stubbornness, and she immediately launched into a brainwashing prank: "Don't cry, don't cry, there's nothing to cry about. Crying means you lose. Let's not cry. We're going to go out into the world, make a name for ourselves, dazzle them, and make them unable to reach us!"
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