Chapter 73
"Jinguan City." Feng Jue muttered silently, rubbing his temples with his fingers. He stood up from the couch and looked at the exquisite boudoir, pondering in silence.
There seemed to be a dark cloud covering her heart, silently obscuring her memory.
"Why am I here and where am I going?" Feng Jue tilted his head, and the hairpins on his temples swayed, dropping bits of golden light.
The woman sitting on the low stool also stood up. Her hair was as blue as clouds, her dress was as soft as feathers, and she was extremely graceful and charming. She chuckled softly and said, "Why bother yourself with troubles? Why don't we go out of the city together to enjoy the flowers today?"
As she finished speaking, several clear, silvery laughs echoed from outside the house. Several women, each with their own tenderness, floated over like colorful clouds. They stood outside the door, peeking out and saying in a playful voice, "It's such a beautiful day. Why stay indoors? Come out and play with us."
"Yeah, let's go out and play."
Before Feng Jue could move, the woman beside him grasped his wrist. The cool sensation made Feng Jue lower his head, but his view was blocked by a round fan. On the fan was a painting of a hibiscus with pink petals.
"This is the new fan I painted for you. Do you like it?" the woman asked. "It complements the peach blossom on your forehead beautifully."
"Let's go. The peach and plum blossoms outside are in full bloom at this time. Let's go and take a look."
Feng Jue was pulled out of the boudoir, through the elegant garden, and out the door.
Perhaps everyone in the city was eager to go out and enjoy the flowers, as the streets and alleys were bustling with people. Feng Jue looked up and saw a piece of cloth embroidered with flowers, birds, insects, and fish draped above the surging crowd, like brocade cut from a rosy cloud.
Clusters of flowers bloomed beside the green bricks and tiles. Feng Jue tilted her head curiously, watching a woman take a string of candied haws from the shopkeeper. She subconsciously said, "0——"
"Sister, this flower is for you." The woman next to her smiled and handed her a pear blossom. Feng Jue suddenly realized something and put the pear blossom in her hair. She turned her head and the name of the person she wanted to call was left behind her. She was swept out of the city by the crowded crowd.
Outside the city, there are patches of peach blossom forests, like a pink sea, occasionally interspersed with a few jade-like white pear trees or fiery apricot trees.
A lively woman waved her fan and said with a smile, "There are azaleas and peonies over there. Would you like to wear them? I'll pick them for you."
Feng Jue said without hesitation, "I want peonies. Pear blossoms are too plain and elegant and don't suit my outfit."
The women laughed out loud, their laughter as loud as silver bells, causing people around them to look at them with smiles.
"Our sister is the most charming, but who else in this city can compare to her?" The woman leading Feng Jue said softly.
"Go quickly and pick the biggest and most beautiful peony for her."
"Okay, sister."
Feng Jue stroked her hair with her hand, her lips curled up, and she walked through the peach forest with her hands lowered. The others followed her, chatting and laughing. Feng Jue listened to them talking about which flowers to pick to make rouge, and which patterns to draw to embroider new clothes.
She raised her hand boredly, looked at the bright red nail polish on her fingers, and smiled with satisfaction.
Soon, the women who had been picking flowers returned, their clothes laden with blossoms and their bodies filled with fragrance. The woman who had been there before said, "We've picked so many, why don't we make a garland to wear?"
Feng Jue responded nonchalantly and stood under a peach tree, gazing into the distance.
I saw that the city not far away was surrounded by peach trees, as if it was in the pink clouds, and outside the city, countless beautiful flowers were blooming, but they were hibiscus flowers.
Feng Jue said subconsciously: "In the morning, the makeup is like jade, and in the evening, it is like the clouds."
The other women sat down beside her, and one of them said with a smile, "Sister, you are quite talented in literature. Do you like reading?"
Not really.
Feng Jue raised her eyebrows lazily, plucked two peach blossoms, and played with them in her hands. She lowered her eyes, looking at the women making garlands. Just as she was about to speak, a gust of wind blew by, shaking the pear blossoms in her hair. The petals fell like snow, landing on her blood-red sleeves.
Someone seemed to be standing beside her, leaning over to whisper in her ear, calling out in a cold and gentle voice: "Feng Jue." Her drooping silver hair was like the pear blossoms.
Feng Jue was suddenly stunned.
The grass was covered with peach petals, like a pink carpet. The woman sitting on the carpet looked up and said with a smile, "Sister, do you want a wreath?"
Feng Jue glanced at the peach blossom on her fingertips, sneered, and loosened her fingers, letting the peach blossom fall. She said lazily, "No need, I already have one."
There was a man who thought she had no wreath to wear, and was willing to gather flowers from the whole mountain to make a wreath for her. She wanted to put all the beautiful flowers in the wreath. This alone was better than the beautiful scenery of spring.
Feng Jue calmly input spiritual power into the storage ring and took out the wreath that she had never been willing to wear. She took the pear blossom from her hair that she had taken from the woman, looked at it, and returned it to the woman.
The woman smiled and said, "But aren't the pear blossoms beautiful?"
Feng Jue said, "It's not that the pear blossoms are not beautiful, it's just that I already have pear blossoms in my wreath."
She placed the wreath on her head. To be fair, the craftsman's craftsmanship wasn't very good; the branches were a bit rough and it felt heavy to wear, but in Feng Jue's eyes, it was the most beautiful wreath.
The women sitting on the ground stopped what they were doing and looked up at her.
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The woman sighed, "Sister is so beautiful and lovable."
Feng Jue raised his eyes and smiled faintly, "Yes, many people have indeed said so."
After she said that, she took out her life magic weapon.
Everyone stopped talking. The woman who had taken Feng Jue out asked curiously, "What's wrong?"
Feng Jue smiled slowly and asked, "What season is it now?"
The woman said naturally, "Of course it's spring."
"The hibiscus blossomed too early this year, and it seems the sisters opened their fans too early." After Feng Jue finished speaking, the clouds that obscured his vision dissipated, revealing the peach forest as it was still the peach forest, and Jinguan City as it was still Jinguan City, but the women sitting on the ground revealed their true appearance.
They were still dressed in brocade and had flowers in their hair, but their faces were covered with vague shadows.
Feng Jue raised his eyebrows and whispered, "Remnant soul."
These people are actually residual souls.
The leading woman sighed softly, and did not make a move. She said slowly, "I have been gone for too long, and I have forgotten what spring, summer, autumn and winter are like. Yet I ask autumn flowers to bloom in spring. I am making a fool of myself." She raised her hand and released a stream of spiritual power. All the hibiscus flowers outside Jinguan City, like clouds and rosy clouds, fell down and floated up with the wind.
Feng Jue pursed her lips. When the woman attacked, she saw a golden light shining from her chest. It was a fragment of the golden dragon. Although this woman was just a remnant soul, her cultivation was enough to reach the early stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm!
She looked up and saw that everyone in the city had golden light on their chests, like stars walking in a pink peach forest. They were not bothered by Feng Jue, even though she had discovered that this was not the place for her.
"Why not stay?" the woman asked slowly. She and Feng Jue looked at the laughing souls and said calmly, "This place is like a pure land, allowing you to forget the troubles of the world."
Feng Jue shook his head and looked at her warily.
The woman sighed, raised her hand and pointed, telling Feng Jue to look at the sky. She released another spiritual power, which rushed out. A light lit up in the sky, and it was like a giant bowl hanging on the ground, forming a barrier.
"You don't want to stay, but you can't leave. As long as you are in this barrier, your memory will disappear bit by bit. What's the point of remembering it now? It will only add to your temporary troubles." The woman chuckled.
Feng Jue also smiled, took back his life magic weapon, took out Fan Zhi, and said calmly: "It's okay, someone will come to find me."
"She'll take me away."
The woman looked up in surprise and looked at Feng Jue.
Feng Jue raised his eyebrows and said, "What? You don't believe it?"
"How about we make a bet?"
The woman asked curiously, "What do you want to bet on?"
"If someone can break the barrier and take me away from here, you will collect the golden dragon fragments from everyone in Jinguan City and give them to me. If not... I will do whatever you want with me."
"That doesn't sound like a fair trade." The woman thought for a moment and then smiled. "But it's been boring for so long, it's good to do something fun."
Feng Jue raised the corner of his mouth and said, "Okay, then please swear an oath to the Heavenly Dao with me."
"boom!"
Half the mountain tilted and slammed into the earth, boiling magma gushing out and flowing everywhere, submerging the nearby mountains. 03, feeling a pang of guilt, quickly stored the Fire Bird's corpse in her storage ring. She raised Jiuxiao and swung it twice. Wherever the sword energy touched, the magma instantly froze into rock.
Ling Shi was flying around in the sky, her eyes lit up, and she said, "Zhu Zi, look!"
03 looked in the direction her tail pointed and saw a pitch-black token embedded in the suddenly cooled stone. It was a teleportation token. It turned out that the teleportation token was in the magma. If 03 hadn't split the mountain and let it flow out with the magma, it would have probably been dormant in the magma for the rest of its life.
"That's great!" 03 smiled happily and gave Lingshi a thumbs up.
Lingshi excitedly grabbed the tip of the tail, spun around, and swooped down, shrinking to coil around 03's wrist. 03 hurried over, but this time she didn't throw away Jiuxiao's sheath. Instead, she held it firmly in her hand and squatted on the ground, digging for the token.
After the token was dug out, it was discovered that the token was green. The black color was the gray left by the fight between 03 and the Fire Bird, and the pattern on the token was a blooming chrysanthemum.
03The petals of the bubble flower on top of her head fell silently. She lowered her eyes and held the token silently.
The white light flashed again.
Just after she disappeared, outside the Suzaku Volcano, Shi Yingyue came on a flying magic weapon. She looked at the mess on the ground in shock. There were still fluctuations of spiritual power in the air, and traces of fighting everywhere on the earth.
Unwilling to give up, Shi Yingyue explored the surrounding area until she had visited every volcano. She found that there was indeed no Candlelight Golden Lotus. She sighed, "Someone got there first. What a shame!"
03 and Ling Jiao squatted in the grass nest.
The grassland stretched as far as the eye could see, a sea of green grass. A person sitting on the ground would be completely submerged in the grass, leaving no trace. The wind blew the grass low, and 03's silver hair shone like a stream winding through the sea of grass, gleaming with dazzling light. From time to time, birds would alight and then fly away in a hurry.
03 He didn’t take it seriously and shared a peanut with Lingshi.
Lingshi stuffed peanuts into her mouth dejectedly, not even wanting to peel them, and swallowed them whole with the skin and fruit in a "crunch". 03 was observing Lingshi.
Bubbles appeared above her head, and Yin Tong inside the bubbles was thinking. 03 said, "Lingshi, we are good friends. I want to ask you a question. I hope this question is not presumptuous."
Lingshi blinked her big eyes and said, "Go ahead."
03 Question: "You don't want to die?"
Ling Shi was horrified. She turned her head and glanced at the green snake behind them, whose body was still warm and bigger than her own. She said in horror, "Why?! I just ate a handful of peanuts!"
"That's not what I meant... Oh, okay, as long as you don't want to die." 03 said, Jiuxiao dug a hole in the ground, put the peanut skins in his hand into the hole and buried it, and after knocking the soil on Jiuxiao, he put the giant snake into the storage ring.
"Let's go." She said to Lingshi.
Lingshi sighed, feeling incredibly humiliated as she slipped into her sleeve. 03 smiled and said, "I'm incredibly anxious." She grasped the token she'd found on the grassland and vanished in the blink of an eye.
A bird landed blankly, pecked at the grass twice and flew away.
Three days later, it was still the same grassland.
Two monks landed from their magical instruments, and one of them explained, "Junior brother, the Shadow Devouring Snake is extremely ferocious. When it attacks, it spews out a green poisonous mist that can make it difficult to distinguish between heaven and earth and poison you to death. Furthermore, it hides in the grass and is difficult to identify. We must be careful!"
"Don't worry, brother. As long as we kill the Shadow Devouring Snake and get its gallbladder, we can refine the Great Yuan Pill. Our brothers' breakthrough is just around the corner!"
"good!"
The two brothers were full of confidence and were ready to die. They would not give up until they captured the Shadow Devouring Snake! However, after luring and exploring the grassland for a long time, they found no trace of the snake.
"Strange, Young Master Zhao said the Shadow-Eating Snake was clearly in this area, how come it's gone?" said the senior brother.
The junior fellow was bewildered: "Yes, the Chengxian Chamber of Commerce never cheats anyone. Could it be that someone got there first?"
"Aqiu."
03Walking in the desert, I looked up at the big sun and a question mark popped up above my head.
She rubbed her nose, walked up the sand dune, and her eyes suddenly lit up, "Lingshi, look!"
Lingshi quickly stuck her head out from her sleeve and saw a huge thorny cactus growing next to a lake under the sand dune. The lake was not important. What was important was that there was a snow-white, beautiful, and delicate cactus flower growing on the cactus!
"Wow!" 03 was rarely happy, clapping his hands and saying, "Feng Jue will definitely like it!"
She shrunk into a tiny size and landed by the lake. Just as she was about to pick some flowers, the ground beneath her feet shook. A three-meter-long, pitch-black giant scorpion emerged from the sand. Its claws were as sharp as knives, reflecting the sunlight.
03 Open your eyes wide, the ellipsis of the bubbles above your head floats and "pops" into flowers.
What a big scorpion! Catch it and show it to Feng Jue!
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