"Master, do you think I saw it wrong?"
"A fallen phoenix is no better than a chicken." Wen Xueshan's gaze remained as cold as ever; it seemed as if he had experienced a great deal in the past six months.
The figure appeared somewhat ethereal, as if bathed in an unreal moonlight. Standing atop this snow-capped mountain, with the cold wind blowing, it resembled a deity fallen to earth.
"Master, what nonsense are you talking about? Why can't I understand you?"
He sighed and patted Ji Jing's head. "I'm talking about you."
"Me? I'm not some phoenix."
"Yes, you are Phoenix Heart."
"Huh?" Ji Jing frowned.
Her master of the house had a habit of acting erratically for no reason, and many of his words were not to be taken seriously. However, for some reason, she felt a sharp pain in her heart.
"I grew up in the mountains, but I've never seen a phoenix, and I... I..."
Suddenly, she had nothing to say.
Because she had never seen any other demonic beasts since she was a child.
"There!" Wen Xueshan pointed into the distance, a worried look on her face. "The phoenix you wanted to see has arrived."
A shooting star streaked across the sky, as if tearing a gash, and a person with white wings descended from the sky, stirring up a wave of snow. He warily sized up Wen Xueshan.
"Are you that tree?"
"yes."
My heart is dead.
"Um."
After saying this, Bai Yu's gaze swept over Ji Jing again, and he asked Wen Xueshan, "Should I get to know her?"
"Your heart."
“Not really.” Bai Yu frowned, his words filled with disgust. “I shouldn’t hate my own things.”
"Who knows..." Wen Xueshan looked up at the sky, "Those of me, before I even had a chance to come down, it seems like they were gone. Did any of you go up?"
"I don't know, Qingling's speed has slowed down a lot, she probably hasn't gotten there yet!"
"Does he remember everything?"
"His inability to remember is his own fault." Bai Yu regained his phoenix arrogance and sneered, "He thought he was so smart, with double insurance, but he ended up with no insurance at all."
“You are really different from that one.” The true meaning behind Wen Xueshan’s words was unclear, and Bai Yu couldn’t guess what he really meant for a moment.
"Is she here?"
They didn't exchange many words, but both knew who "she" referred to.
"You probably didn't present a positive image to her, did you?"
"No, or perhaps only once, and it was also from behind."
"No wonder?" Wen Xueshan pointed at Ji Jing, who looked completely bewildered, and squatted down on the ground to draw circles just like her. "In her memory, you must have done something bad, right?"
Bai Yu was silent for a moment: "The demon race was almost wiped out, does that count?"
Wen Xueshan hadn't expected him to be so blunt, and said speechlessly, "Of course it counts."
"That's it." Bai Yu was touched, then glanced at Ji Jing, whose name was scribbled on the ground like chicken claws. "What did she write?"
"Her name is Ji Jing."
"I'm already so quiet, why should I be quiet anymore?" he said weakly. "I only killed a bunch of clowns, right? If I hadn't killed them, would her plan have succeeded? She's a killer, she should have witnessed the most desperate situation on earth, but I've only injured my very essence..."
“Precisely because she is a killer, she doesn’t want to.” Wen Xueshan’s figure grew thinner and thinner, and like the snow mountain, it took on an abnormally translucent color.
"You..." Bai Yu snorted coldly, her attitude gradually softening, "You're about to dissipate, did you summon me here? Just for this Ji Jing who can't write?"
"The person you're waiting for is right down here." Wen Xueshan knelt on the ground, pointing to the large circle drawn with her hand. "It all depends on whether you dare to go down. Ji Jing, you are the embodiment of your heart. Why did you grow into a mutant? It's probably because... someone did something to you!"
Throughout these ten thousand years, the Golden Crow could only be a pet of humans, treated as a beast that humans could command. It's normal that she grew up like this.
However, I'm still very curious: who is so kind to you, calculating that I, from the heavens, would pass by that place?
If I hadn't passed by, your heart, even if you were to commit countless murders, could never be found again.
Back then, at the most crucial moment, you reached a tacit understanding, using heaven and earth as the chessboard, people as the chess pieces, and the Fusang tree as witness, to lay out a chess game that would last for ten thousand years.
I'm very curious, what was the reason for the truce in the first place?
The faction that relied on killing probably almost failed to turn the tide!
"You are not that tree." Bai Yu was certain of this at this moment.
"Yes and no, none of that matters anymore. I'm about to vanish." He breathed in the air of this world, his face contorted as if he were clinging to the last vestiges of this world.
"The roots of this tree were pulled from me. In any case, the killings are my children. As their father, I can't just stand by and watch outsiders bully them, can I?"
Bai Yu opened her mouth, but instead of asking what he wanted to do, she asked a question that went off on a different topic: "Do I... need to get my heart back?"
"If you want her, Ji Jing will die. If you don't want her, she's already lived for tens of thousands of years, so it doesn't matter to her anymore."
"Thanks."
"You're welcome." His figure turned into a bubble, his voice sounding unreal in the wind: "You're practically a child I've watched grow up, and I've always been lenient with you all."
"You! Qingqiu Lake, will you ever go back?"
Bai Yu's words drifted away with the wind, but the wind did not bring back a corresponding echo.
“You…” Ji Jing was a little afraid of Bai Yu.
He was like a sculpture in an ice cellar. In Wen Xueshan, his master, she could still find a trace of humanity temporarily preserved, but Bai Yu's murderous intent was too strong. In addition, he had once harmed the entire demon race with his own strength. Even Ji Jing's phoenix heart felt unprecedented pressure.
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