Chapter 14 Immortal Lord 014%
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When Qu Yaoyao regained her sight, the red light disappeared, leaving only a sea of fire on the snow and strange red lotuses blooming.
The blizzard stopped, and even those twisted white ghost faces disappeared. Wisps of black smoke rose into the sky. The surroundings were quiet, with only the crackling sound of the flames. The scene was shocking.
Wow——
It is the sound of wind stirred by wings.
Qu Yaoyao looked up stupidly and saw a phoenix hovering in the sky above her. It was surrounded by flames, its feathers sparkled with red gold, and its wings spread out, blocking out the sun. It was so beautiful that it was beyond words.
"You..." Qu Yaoyao swallowed, and her legs went weak as she looked at the phoenix's cold and arrogant red-gold eyes. This was the natural pressure from the ancient gods to the future generations.
In a trance, Qu Yaoyao had this picture in her mind:
A beautiful phoenix, swirling with flames, held a pure snow lotus in its mouth, soaring through the sky before swooping down to the ground, heading towards the Xingyang Sect. Was this... the scene of him sending her into the body of the original owner, Qu Yaoyao?
Qu Yaoyao's eyelashes trembled twice. In the moment of daze, the phoenix spread its wings and swooped down towards her, casting a large shadow.
"Ah." Qu Yaoyao was still trapped in the fire circle. Unable to escape, she stumbled backward and fell, subconsciously stretching out her arms to cover her cheeks.
The painful impact she imagined didn't occur. She waited for a while, only to hear the howling of wind and snow. While she was puzzled, she heard someone calling her, "Yaoyao."
With a smile and a low voice, the man spoke to her gently, "Don't be afraid."
It’s Chong’an’s voice!
Her tense body slowly relaxed. Tentatively, Qu Yaoyao lowered her arm. She saw no phoenix through the gap, but instead a corner of a crimson dress. When she lowered her entire arm, she saw a man in red.
He knelt in front of her, his crimson clothes blending with the sea of fire on the snow. His figure was tall and slender, and his long hair fell to the ground, but it was as dazzlingly pale as the snow.
Moving her sight upwards, Qu Yaoyao stopped her gaze on the man's face. He had fair skin, red lips, and a chin as white as jade. She could not see above because it was covered by a golden phoenix mask. She could only vaguely see a pair of beautiful red-gold phoenix eyes.
It's exactly the same as the phoenix we just saw.
"Are you... Chong'an?" Seeing that the man just looked at her without saying anything, Qu Yaoyao asked cautiously.
Although she had known Chong'an was a phoenix, she had never seen his true form, nor had she imagined that a phoenix's true form could be so beautiful and intimidating. The moment the crimson lotus fire spread, it frightened her, the lotus at the bottom of the pond, to the point of shock.
"It's me." Chong'an's gentle and smiling voice was inconsistent with his phoenix true form, it was too gentle.
Staring deeply at the face in front of him, Chong'an seemed to want to raise his hand to touch Qu Yaoyao's cheek, but his pale and slender fingers went straight through her cheek.
...He couldn't touch her.
Chong'an's eyes dimmed, and under Qu Yaoyao's confused and ignorant gaze, he slowly withdrew his hand.
The elegant, bright red sleeves fluttered, and the sea of fire around them instantly dissipated, along with the circle of fire under Qu Yaoyao's feet. Chong'an stood up before Qu Yaoyao. He was very tall, and he lowered his eyes to look at Qu Yaoyao's ankles, "Can you still get up?"
"Yes." Qu Yaoyao just fell and was not hurt.
She brushed off the snow and got up. She stood next to Chong'an, not even as tall as his shoulders, so she could only look up at him. She smiled brightly at him and said, "Thank you for what I did just now. If you hadn't helped me, I might have been eaten by those ghosts."
Chong'an's lips were crimson, and he curled them lightly as he said, "I'm here, nothing will happen to you."
"Huh." Qu Yaoyao noticed the black smoke that was about to dissipate. She pointed it at Chong'an and tried to grab his sleeve, but her grab went through his chest.
Realizing that he seemed to be just an illusion, Qu Yaoyao quickly pulled her hand back and whispered, "There seems to be something glowing over there."
The four snow ghosts that surrounded Qu Yaoyao were killed by Chong'an and turned into black mist, which quickly dissipated. Qu Yaoyao noticed that after the black mist dissipated, there was something glittering on the snow. She walked closer and found that it was a white spiritual grass that looked like a phoenix.
"What is this?" Qu Yaoyao picked up the spiritual herb and showed it to Chong'an.
Chong'an walked behind Qu Yaoyao. When he was silent, he looked cold and aloof, which made people feel intimidated. Although his face was half covered by a mask, his temperament and figure were too outstanding, giving people the illusion of an iceberg beauty.
No, or rather it was not an illusion. Qu Yaoyao stared at Chong'an's chin and thin lips in a daze, thinking that there must be a stunningly handsome face under his mask.
"This is the Honghu plant, also known as the white phoenix plant." Chong'an did not notice Qu Yaoyao's gaze. He just glanced at the Honghu plant and then looked away.
Qu Yaoyao didn't know what a Honghu plant was, but she knew it was one of the six ancient phoenix species and held a high position. She looked in three other directions, and after the black mist dissipated, she saw another Honghu plant.
"Is there any relationship between the Honghu plant and the Honghu?" Qu Yaoyao wanted to pick up the remaining Honghu plant.
Chong'an stopped her and said, "After Honghu dies, his body will transform into a white phoenix plant, which is a divine spiritual herb that can be used by future cultivators to temper their bodies and improve their cultivation. The stronger Honghu's spiritual power was before his death, the greater the improvement in the cultivator's cultivation the phoenix plant he transformed into after his death would bring."
Qu Yaoyao stopped and looked at Chong'an in shock. "Then the cultivator who uses it, isn't he practicing by stepping on the flesh and blood of Honghu?"
Chong'an didn't answer. The wind blew his silver hair and his blood-red clothes fluttered violently.
He walked to Qu Yaoyao, looked at her face and said, "So Yaoyao, don't touch them, they are too dirty."
Qu Yaoyao's current body has no cultivation. If she uses the Honghu plant, she will be able to temper her body and gain cultivation immediately. Looking down at the Honghu plant in her hand, Qu Yaoyao shook her head, "How can they be dirty?"
Picking up another Honghu plant on the ground, Qu Yaoyao squatted on the ground and dug a deep hole in the snow, burying the two Honghu plants together.
As a descendant of the ancient phoenix, the phoenix flowers that Honghu turned into after his death are not dirty at all, but this does not mean that Qu Yaoyao will use them to practice.
"They... should rest in peace underground."
Qu Yaoyao filled the hole, stood up and patted the snow off her hands, "Let's go, we should go find the cave you mentioned."
Withdrawing his gaze from the snow, Chong'an followed Yaoyao in a slow tune. Under the wind and snow, the red and white figures stretched out very long. Chong'an's voice drifted in the wind, "Do you want to practice?"
Qu Yaoyao nodded and said, "Of course I do. Otherwise, I can't always rely on you to protect me every time I encounter this kind of situation."
Chong'an was silent for a moment. The two figures were getting farther and farther away. Finally, only a few intermittent words were heard, "Yaoyao."
"Let me teach you how to practice."
Teach you to become stronger so that no one dares to bully you.
Even he can't bully you.
“…”
The cave Chong'an mentioned was in the deepest part of the forest, covered by wind and snow and extremely inconspicuous. The two of them searched for a long time before they found it.
The cave was not deep, but fortunately the space was large enough. Qu Yaoyao tidied up simply and placed the soft bedding, food and clothes she had prepared neatly. Finally, she lit a candle in the cave according to Chong'an's request.
"Is it really safe here?" Sitting on the stone bed, Qu Yaoyao was still a little worried as her legs were shaking.
Chong Jing stood quietly at the entrance of the cave. He raised his hand and waved it. A layer of red barrier instantly appeared at the entrance of the cave, which was impervious to wind and snow and ignored external objects.
"With this barrier, you can see the scenery outside, but the cave here cannot be seen from outside." Chong'an's cultivation is unfathomable. As long as Qu Yaoyao does not leave this cave, no one outside can find her.
A snow rabbit suddenly appeared in the snow, as if to verify Chong'an's words. It hopped to the edge of the cave, as if it couldn't see Chong'an who was so close to it. It scratched its feet, dug a hole, and went back into the snow.
Qu Yaoyao tilted her head and looked at him in amusement, "So what should we do now?"
"It's not us, it's you."
Chong'an walked up to Qu Yaoyao and leaned closer to her, "Have you forgotten what you just promised me?"
Looking at the enlarged phoenix mask in front of her, Qu Yaoyao moved her mouth but her mind went blank. "What did I say?"
Chong'an chuckled softly, knowing full well that he couldn't touch the person in front of him, so he flicked her forehead lightly, "Promise me that you would practice well."
"Yaoyao, it's time for us to start."
Qu Yaoyao's body was poorly built. If she had been able to cultivate, she wouldn't have been looked down upon by the Immortal Sect for years, forced to resort to devious methods to show off her power. Fortunately, the little snow lotus was a thousand-year-old spiritual creature. It had absorbed the essence of the sun and moon for a thousand years, leaving its soul pure and clean. After entering this body, the two gradually merged. With a little guidance from Chong'an, she quickly tempered her body and developed spiritual roots.
"Chong'an, I seem to see my snow lotus body!" Qu Yaoyao sat cross-legged on the stone bed, with her eyes closed and her eyelashes trembling.
Chong'an stood in front of her, raised his hand and used magic to help her stabilize her essence, and reminded her in a steady tone, "Close your eyes and sit in meditation, hold your fist and meditate."
"Yaoyao, don't be distracted."
Qu Yaoyao calmed down after hearing what he said. Following Chong'an's instructions, she gradually approached her own original body and raised her hand with great effort to touch it. The moment her fingers touched it, a spiritual light burst out from her forehead, and she completely entered a state of meditation.
Done.
Chong'an looked at the serious and quiet little girl in front of him. She had lost her usual sweet smile, but her eyebrows were delicate and her cheeks were soft. She was still so cute that it made people happy at first sight.
It was because she was in a state of meditation and unconscious that Chong'an dared to get so close to her. Leaning over, he slowly touched her cheek with his fingers. Chong'an saw his fingers gradually become transparent, and his body seemed to be blown away by the wind.
His spiritual power can no longer hold up.
Chong'an curled up his fingers and leaned over to give her a kiss on the forehead before disappearing completely.
Chong'an is gone.
He left without any warning and quietly.
When Qu Yaoyao woke up from her meditation, she only heard a few fragments of his words in her ears. He called her Yaoyao in a gentle voice and told her that he would leave to recuperate for a while, and asked her to practice well after he left and wait for his return.
Qu Yaoyao felt her forehead getting hot. She rubbed it, picked up the pendant around her neck, and tentatively called out, "Chong'an?"
The blood drop pendant dimmed and no one responded.
Qu Yaoyao was so reluctant to let him leave that she called out to him several more times. After confirming that she received no response from the pendant, she sniffed and clenched the pendant tightly, muttering softly, "You didn't even tell me how long it would take for you to come back."
This way she can have something to look forward to.
The cave was empty and silent. Without Chong'an, Qu Yaoyao hugged herself tightly, feeling lonely. With no one to talk to, she could only practice non-stop, occasionally waking up to eat something and sitting by the cave entrance to watch the snowy scene outside.
No one knew how long it was like this until one day, Qu Yaoyao ate up the last bag of fruits and vegetables that she had piled in the corner and could no longer bear the loneliness in the cave.
Should I go out or not?
Looking at the empty corner, Qu Yaoyao touched her stomach. Maybe it was because she was too hungry, but she felt her body twitching with pain and felt very uncomfortable.
She tried to suppress the pain with her spiritual power, but it didn't work. Instead, it made her breathless and exhausted.
"Chong'an."
"Chong'an, can you hear me?" Qu Yaoyao hugged her knees as she sat at the entrance of the cave, and said helplessly, "My stomach hurts. Am I sick?"
The pendant remained dim, and no one responded.
"Help, help--" Suddenly, Yaoyao heard a cry for help coming from outside the cave.
Qu Yaoyao stood up with the help of the wall. After tempering her body and gaining spiritual roots, her eyesight was much better than before and she could see scenes from far away.
Blurredly, she saw a transformed spiritual grass ball running wildly in the snow, with a ferocious snow ghost chasing after it, opening its mouth wide and greedily wanting to swallow it in one bite.
"Someone, someone come and save me!" Lingcao Tuanzi looked like a child of only three or four years old. He was running and crying, and was about to be caught up.
Qu Yaoyao's sense of justice was overflowing, and she suddenly felt that her body was not in so much pain anymore.
In any case, Chong'an never told her that she couldn't leave the cave. Qu Yaoyao took out the talisman that Qu Yushu had left for her from her arms, and prepared to rescue the spiritual grass dumpling first, and then go to the town to buy some food to fill her stomach.
After practicing for so long, she thought her skills were good enough to deal with the snow ghost.
She just thought...
In what Qu Yaoyao thought was a long period of training in the cave, in fact, only five days had passed. She did have some spiritual power, but it was not strong enough to be like Chong'an, who could burn these snow ghosts with a fire.
"Run, I'll take care of it!"
So when she stood in front of the spiritual grass ball in a flowing white dress and threw a talisman at it, it only made the snow ghost faint for a short time, but did not completely destroy it.
Lingcao Tuanzi hadn't finished saying "Thank you, Fairy Sister" when he saw the snow ghost that Qu Yaoyao had knocked unconscious suddenly open its eyes and roar as it rushed towards them. So, Qu Yaoyao hugged her head and ran with Lingcao Tuanzi.
"You run to the left and I'll run to the right to lure it away!" Although she was terrified, Qu Yaoyao decided to risk her life to lure the snow ghost away.
She had failed to save the young master of the Medicine King Sect before, and seeing him die in front of her had already become a thorn in her heart. She could not let Lingcao Tuanzi die in vain again.
Fortunately, she had some skills now, and Qu Yaoyao flew up and stepped on a tree to escape. The snow ghost chased her closely and almost grabbed her sleeves several times.
"Roar--" I don't know if Qu Yaoyao's luck was too bad, but while she was escaping, she attracted a few more snow ghosts.
These snow ghosts seemed to have seen some delicious food and were chasing Qu Yaoyao like crazy. Qu Yaoyao took out the talisman paper in her arms and struck it several times. In a hurry, she suddenly took out a neatly folded talisman paper.
It was the protective amulet that Yunzhi asked her to keep close to her heart, saying that it could kill all the evil spirits in the world!
Although this talisman was a gift from Qingxi Immortal Venerable, at this critical moment, Qu Yaoyao could not care less. She used her spiritual power to throw it into the air and shouted, "Kill!"
Swish——
The imagined golden killing array was gone. Qu Yaoyao opened her eyes wide and saw the talisman glowing red and emitting black air, from which emerged one vicious ghost after another...
This wasn't a life-saving talisman; it was a fatal one. It turned out that Immortal Qingxi had wanted her life before she even entered this body!
Not far away.
A masked man in red clothes appeared out of nowhere on the snow, with his black hair scattered behind him. He tilted his head to look at the forest on the right and felt the change in his original aura. It was Qu Yaoyao who moved the talisman.
"Found it." He murmured with a sneer.
Before he could get close, the woods on the right rustled and a graceful girl in white rushed out.
Qu Yaoyao didn't expect that the tree in front of her would suddenly disappear. She stepped on empty air and fell down due to weightlessness. The pain she imagined did not come, and she suddenly stopped halfway down.
It seemed like something caught it.
The author has something to say: Xiao Xuelian: Hi!
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I'm back!
I've been so unlucky lately. I accompanied my brother to have a tooth pulled, and when I checked myself, I found out my mouth was full of rotten teeth. I had six fillings twice, and I have to keep getting them filled!
I strained my lumbar muscles right after I started writing, and yesterday I had my old stomachache again. After getting my medicine, I thought I didn't need to take fever-reducing medicine because I didn't have a fever. But I ended up having a fever that afternoon! I went to get another injection while feeling dizzy. On the way home, I was distracted and a basin of water suddenly splashed out of a store door, which scared me to death.
When I woke up this morning, I was nearly five pounds lighter.
May all illnesses and pains in the world disappear.
Thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution: 4 bottles of Wind Believer; 1 bottle of Labra;
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