Chapter 241 Red Kite Seeks Jade (Fifteen)
Fujie City.
Mist filled the giant pool, making the silver-blue mermaid's tail appear and disappear. Its wings, soaked by water, were neatly folded behind it, and its long silver tail floated on the surface of the water, reflecting a handsome face. Its eyes were slightly closed, its face was pale, and there were still some bloodstains on the mermaid's fangs. Its scales and feathers rose and fell slightly with its breath.
Two chains extended down from the pillars beside the pool and fastened around his wrists to prevent him from sinking to the bottom.
"Young Master?" A robust, red-haired merman walked over the mess on the ground and carefully stopped some distance from the pool, calling out in a low voice, "Young Master, are you feeling better?"
The shark in the water slowly opened its eyes. Its translucent vertical pupils trembled slightly before it seemed to fully wake up. It responded with a deep voice.
The red-haired merman was overjoyed and said, "I will go and inform the clan chief and his wife right away."
Wei Feng turned his stiff neck, casually pulled off the chains binding him, and stopped when he heard footsteps.
In the misty steam, a beautiful woman stood by the pool. She had phoenix eyes, a high nose, rosy cheeks, and thin lips. Her gaze was authoritative without being angry, but when she met Wei Feng's eyes, her expression softened slightly. She asked, "How are you feeling now?"
"He won't die." Wei Feng's tone was somewhat stiff.
“Your father is still busy, so I came first.” Ji Jingchen sat down on the shore and reached out to help him straighten his wet feathers, but he dodged her hand. She wasn’t annoyed and said, “It’s been two years. As long as you step out of Fujie City, both the Heavenly Dao and those half-immortals will take your life. If it weren’t for the Nirvana Technique of my Kite Clan, you wouldn’t even have a feather left. Why don’t you give up?”
"I'm going to find my master," Wei Feng said. "I will repay the great kindness of Lady Ji and Chief Qing in the future."
“You should call me Mother,” Ji Jingchen said.
“You should know that I am not your child,” Wei Feng said coldly. “Moreover, I am your enemy. I swallowed the Divine Kite Shark.”
Ji Jingchen's expression twisted for a moment, her overwhelming hatred impossible to conceal, but she still managed a smile: "Silly child, don't say such things again. Back then, when I went to Pingze for a trip, I fell in love at first sight with your father, Qing Changxi. Later, when you were about to hatch, Shen Yao had important business to attend to, so I returned, leaving only a wisp of my spirit to guard you. That's how the accident happened, and your father was also seriously injured and had to go into seclusion... Later, when my wisp of my spirit perished, I learned that you had encountered danger and rushed to Pingze. However, your father was barely clinging to life at the time, so I could only take care of him first and bring him back to Shen Yao..."
Ji Jingchen had said this countless times over the past two years, but Wei Feng had never seen Qing Changxi. Moreover, Ji Jingchen's words were sometimes incoherent, and she almost killed him several times. However, most of the time her attitude was relatively mild, unless Wei Feng deliberately provoked her.
When Wei Feng first arrived in Chenyao, he was completely clueless. He excitedly went to find Jiang Gu, but instead attracted countless pursuers. Regardless of race, once they sensed his aura, they went berserk and relentlessly pursued him. He managed to evade them for a while, intending to cultivate first. However, the heavenly lightning seemed to have eyes. As long as he circulated his cultivation technique, it would strike him regardless of whether he used spiritual power or turbid energy. For a long time, the golden heavenly lightning struck him day and night for a full eighty-one days, which forced him to retreat from his cultivation, which was about to break through to the Dao Ancestor Realm, back to the early stage of the Great Luo Realm. His meridians and dantian were almost reduced to dust, and his Dao Heart was almost shattered. In this way, he was surrounded and intercepted from all directions, determined not to leave him any way out. In the end, Wei Feng only had half a breath left and hid in the bottom of the swamp to barely escape.
At that time, he finally understood what it meant to be intolerable by the Heavenly Dao—every breath of spiritual energy was a provocation against the Heavenly Dao, and cultivation was out of the question. He didn't even know if he was still alive, let alone go find Jiang Gu.
Finally, he barely managed to stay conscious and guessed that it was related to his original form. He gritted his teeth and severed the ghost pattern and turbid energy together, stuffing them into the swamp mud to seal most of his consciousness. Only a small part of his consciousness remained in the body of the Divine Kite Shark, and he was finally able to see the light of day. Even so, it seemed that the Heavenly Dao did not allow him to cultivate. Once he had the will, he would attract divine punishment. It wasn't until two years ago that he accidentally met Ji Jingchen, who brought him back to Fujie City. He stayed in the water day and night, maintaining his original form, and was able to cultivate. But once Wei Feng left the territory of Fujie City, he would attract heavenly lightning again.
However, staying here is by no means a long-term solution. Every two months, Wei Feng would fall into a state of madness, losing all consciousness. Ji Jingchen was trying to completely separate his consciousness from the Divine Kite Shark. However, compared to fighting against the Heavenly Dao for a chance to survive, this danger was nothing to Wei Feng. In three more days, he would be able to completely master Ji Jingchen's Nirvana Technique. At that time, even if he left Fujie City, he would be able to avoid the Heavenly Dao's extermination.
Ji Jingchen stared at him for a long time before smiling and getting up to leave.
Having just had his consciousness forcibly stripped away, Wei Feng was a bit exhausted. He lazily soaked in the pool, idly tugging at his feathers. The thought of being able to go out and find Jiang Gu in a few days made him incredibly happy.
I wonder how Master has been these past three years, and if he's missed me. I should have formed a Daoist partnership contract earlier; they haven't even consummated their marriage yet...
“That kid still has a breath left.” Outside Fujie City, Feng Wuyou placed his hand on the city's protective array. “I just don’t know what your little Daoist partner is thinking. Why does he seem quite happy?”
Jiang Gu calmly replied, "He is optimistic by nature."
“No wonder she’s still alive.” Feng Wuyou expressed his understanding, and then said, “The manager of Fujie City is a 20,000-year-old little kite bird who is always thinking about the fish that died. However, she is quite capable. Her clan’s Nirvana Technique is unaffected by the Heavenly Dao.”
"Ah, I remember now, it's Ji Jingchen from the Phoenix Clan," Chanlin said.
"Tch, what phoenix? It's just a distant relative with a trace of ancient phoenix blood. There aren't any ancient divine beasts anymore." Feng Wuyou said, noticing Jiang Gu and Chanlin looking at him. He said confidently, "But when you're out in the world, you give yourself an identity. Anyway, no one has ever seen a real divine beast. There probably aren't many left in the Upper Realm. I'm a genuine Qilin!"
Chan Lin laughed silently, his shoulders shaking.
The search array in Jiang Gu's sea of consciousness had been running continuously, and the fluctuations within it suddenly intensified the moment Feng Wuyou broke through the array.
"Let's go." Jiang Gu entered the city without hesitation.
“Ji Jingchen secretly ran away to Pingze, disguised herself as an ordinary kite, and became a Daoist partner with a mermaid, laying eggs. This angered the kite clan of Fujie City, who forcibly recalled her. However, later, the kite clan was in turmoil, and she eventually became the clan leader. When she went back to pick up her partner and child, her partner was dead, and the child was missing. After returning, she became somewhat mentally unstable and kept many mermaids in the city, not afraid that they would be eaten.” Feng Wuyou said in a low voice, “But it would be more convenient for us to disguise ourselves as mermaids.”
He snapped his fingers, and the three of them instantly transformed into merfolk.
"Although I am a toad, it still feels strange to become a mermaid." There are waterways built specifically for mermaids in the city. Chan Lin swung his brown mermaid tail and floated up from the water. "I still prefer swimming with three legs."
Feng Wuyou transformed into a mermaid, his tail now a long, round, snow-white strand. He swam with some difficulty, panting heavily, and said, "Those birds are very clever. They can smell us right away on the shore. Brother Jiang, Brother Jiang! Swim slower, your mermaid tail is too conspicuous!"
Jiang Gu turned around at the sound, and a long and beautiful mermaid tail shone brightly in the sunlight, dazzling the eye and attracting the kite spirits next to him to lean over and take a closer look.
Feng Wuyou swam over quickly, using his strong body to block the figures of him and Chanlin, and said: "You two, one is too ugly and the other is too beautiful. Be moderate, brothers, learn from me."
"Mother, what a fat and round fish!" a little kite exclaimed.
"Wow, so fat." A woman who had transformed into human form covered her mouth, swallowed hard, and said, "Enough for three meals."
"Let's go, the chief won't let us eat again." The kite beside him shook its head and sighed, "Honestly, what is the chief thinking..."
"The clan leader and the fish have become partners, doesn't it make you hungry?" The little kite perched on her mother's shoulder, watching the three large fish swimming away, her mouth watering. "And there's a beautiful, golden fish too~"
An hour later, Jiang Gu stopped in front of a magnificent temple. A wide waterway surrounded the temple from the outside. Countless merfolk were playing and laughing inside. The strong fishy smell and the merfolk's shrill laughter made Jiang Gu frown.
"Brother Jiang, we'll take you in first, but remember, once inside, don't touch any formations or release your spiritual power. The Nirvana Technique of the Iris Clan is utterly unreasonable." Feng Wuyou flicked his fish tail, and the auspicious aura around him enveloped Jiang Gu, turning him into a bubble that silently merged into the temple.
When he opened his eyes again, he saw a large expanse of dazzling white. The black mud in the storage bag tried to struggle out, but he pressed it back in.
"Who goes there?!" A cold, sharp shout rang out from above his head, followed by a silver-blue shark tail slashing down at him.
Jiang Gu was not used to the merman's body and couldn't dodge in time. He tried to block with his merman tail, but the other party stopped halfway and his tail mercilessly slapped the other party's face.
Wei Feng covered his face with one hand, turned around and looked at him with teary eyes.
"..." Jiang Gu looked at the blood seeping from between his fingers and remained silent for a moment.
"Master, is it really you?" Wei Feng's clear vertical pupils widened instantly. He nimbly swam to his side, sniffed him hard, and then pulled him into his arms.
The sticky, cold touch of the merman made Jiang Gu feel a little uncomfortable, but he did not push him away. Instead, he reached out and supported Wei Feng's waist, carefully examining him. Although Wei Feng was very weak, his condition was much better than he had expected.
"Master, you're finally here. I thought you didn't want me anymore." Wei Feng hugged his neck with a wronged expression, his silver-blue mermaid tail wrapped around his waist, and he pressed himself close to him.
Jiang Gu noticed that he had many injuries, but remembering Feng Wuyou's instructions not to use spiritual power, he had no choice but to give up and let him hold him. He asked in a deep voice, "How did you get injured like this?"
“It’s already been calculated.” Wei Feng raised his head, his long silver hair cascading over his shoulders. He looked at Jiang Gu’s glittering golden tail with curiosity. “Master, did you come in as a mermaid? Your tail is so beautiful, can I wrap it around you?”
Before Jiang Gu could refuse, his large, silver-blue tail tightly wrapped around Jiang Gu's golden mermaid tail. His tail was a size larger than Jiang Gu's and incredibly strong. Jiang Gu was almost pushed underwater, but he was pulled up by his long arm around the waist.
Just as Jiang Gu was about to speak, Wei Feng pressed him against the edge of the pool and sealed his lips with a kiss. Wei Feng's long, forked tongue in his merman form nearly suffocated him in the water. Jiang Gu pushed him away, but Wei Feng refused to leave. His underwater tail wrapped around him even tighter, and the hard scales almost embedded themselves into his body.
In the thick fog, Jiang Gu gripped his chin, forcing him to lift his head. Wei Feng stared at him with a deep, dark gaze, took a few breaths, and the fierce light in his eyes slowly faded under Jiang Gu's cold gaze. He leaned closer and carefully licked the bloodstains from the corner of his mouth.
“Ji Jingchen wants to strip away my consciousness, and my true nature is somewhat out of control right now.” Wei Feng looked ashamed, but his tail honestly clung to Jiang Gu, showing no signs of estrangement after not seeing each other for several years. He stuck to Jiang Gu and asked, “Master, do you miss me?”
He asked too bluntly. Jiang Gu met his burning gaze through the mist, his fingers gripping Jiang Gu's chin tightened slightly, and his eyes darkened.
Their reflections in the water drew closer, and a sudden exclamation interrupted them.
"Good heavens, which great demon is in heat?! The smell is so strong!" Feng Wuyou pinched his nose and pulled Chanlin up from underwater. Chanlin covered his eyes, pretending not to see the two beautiful tails intertwined in the water, but he still couldn't help but sneak a peek.
Jiang Gu straightened up and released Wei Feng, but Wei Feng refused to leave, pulling him into his arms and then staring coldly at the two uninvited guests in front of him.
If it weren't for them, Master would have almost kissed him on his own initiative just now!
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