Chapter 88 88 Goodbye Chiyou "Build it, activate it, maintain it...

September 21, the first year of the Aura Recovery, Demiplane? ? ? .

"They are all good kids." Ning Changkong sighed, sitting on the bed and stretching, "Good, good, it's good that I didn't delay the little fox - by the way, when was that sect competition? Did I miss it?"

Chu Qingge replied: "Today. If you rush over now, you can still see the tail."

"Forget it, let's finish the current tasks first... Please tell me, this is the worse news you mentioned." Ning Changkong's tone revealed a hint of helplessness.

Is there really any news worse than a leak?

"You're thinking too much." Chu Qingge took a deep breath and his eyes began to wander. "You know that Chi You stabbed you in the end, right?"

Ning Changkong: "Yes, what's wrong?"

Chu Qingge said hesitantly: "I don't know why, other parts of the body are fine, but the Nirvana Fire can't repair your heart..."

Ning Changkong seemed to have realized something, raised his eyebrows and asked: "Is it because..."

"It could indeed be related to the fact that your heart is not original, or it could be related to the special features of the Phoenix Heart or the Nirvana Fire... There is no way to verify it now."

Chu Qingge cleared his throat and continued, "Anyway, I took out Phoenix's heart and used the other half of Feng Qingwu's heart as material to repair it for you."

Ning Changkong: "...Excuse me, how did you cultivate it?"

Chu Qingge: "Uh, do you know how to use 502 glue to stop bleeding? Anyway, it's -"

Ning Changkong: "——It's a bit rough. I understand. No need to say more."

Chu Qingge: "I think I'm pretty good. I've basically preserved the spiritual energy in the Phoenix Heart fragment—"

"Let's first study this thing that is sleeping peacefully on the ground... I don't know what it is." Ning Changkong covered his face and forcibly ended the topic. "Can he still turn on his phone now?"

"Logically, yes. When he was in Qianshi Bank, he hadn't stolen Phoenix's heart yet, and he was still able to move freely." Chu Qingge analyzed rationally, "Nirvana Fire should have recognized you as its master now. Why don't you plug the power back in and try?"

"Let me try." Ning Changkong took a deep breath, and a blazing white flame appeared between his palms. He carefully sent this flame, which carried the aura of life and death, into Phoenix's open chest.

As the life force that filled his meridians suddenly disappeared, Ning Changkong's body, which had just "resurrected from the dead", shuddered in discomfort. He whispered, "It seems that he just opened the battery slot in his chest and used the Nirvana Fire as the energy source... Oh, he's awake."

The opened chest cavity closed automatically, and the concealing magic was reactivated, and Phoenix's inhuman alchemical body was once again covered with a layer of disguise similar to human skin. He sat up slowly, with confusion in his eyes.

Ning Changkong had already grasped the black spear tightly in his hand, ready to deal with any emergency at any time.

Chu Qingge held him down and said in a deep voice, "There is no intention to attack."

Ning Changkong spoke with a cautious look: "Who are you?"

"Phoenix, Phoenix." Phoenix was unexpectedly obedient and cooperative, although his thoughts seemed a little confused and he answered with obvious hesitation.

"Who made you?"

"Owner."

"Who is your master?"

"Baril... no, Phoenix... you?" Phoenix tilted his head, with confusion in his voice.

Ning Changkong and Chu Qingge exchanged glances. They both knew in their hearts that the phoenix they were referring to could not be Ning Changkong, so the answer could only be Feng Qingwu.

The truth seemed within reach.

"What did he ask you to do?" Ning Changkong continued to ask.

Phoenix was silent for a long time, almost making Ning Changkong lose his patience, and then he slowly stretched out his finger and pointed out the window.

Chu Qingge seemed to have guessed the answer and gave up his seat silently.

Just like the scene described in Chi Zhaoming's retelling, or as he saw it through Phoenix's eyes:

The huge black machine stood tall and majestic, like a silent beast, quietly ruling everything around it, and the light of the runes pulsated with the operation of the machine.

And further away, countless passages of fantasy worlds were suspended in the air, emitting a faint glow, like a bridge connecting reality and myth, leading to the abode of the gods.

——Or maybe it was. Ning Changkong swore that he saw the familiar gate of Yaochi at the first sight.

It seems as if this place is the sacred gateway to the abode of the gods, the legendary kingdom of God.

...If there weren't a dark shadow filled with the breath of death floating in this bizarre fantasy world.

One hour later, half plane Jiuli.

"What do you think is in there? The World Tree?" Ning Changkong asked before activating the teleportation spell on Dijiang Feather and leaving Phoenix's room.

Chu Qingge replied: "Without the image of a tree, it might as well be called heaven."

At least they had a ready-made god to turn to for advice.

"Hey, little phoenix." Li Guibai's bored voice rang out. He was lying on the desk, drawing intently.

Jiuli's connection with the human world has been cut off, and Li Bo, Li Gui's greatest helper in the human world, has also passed away. Chi You now obviously has no intention of killing Ning Changkong.

The heart in his chest was beating violently, and every beat was accompanied by sharp pain and palpitations. Ning Changkong still couldn't help it, closed his eyes, and took a slow, deep breath.

Teleporting between different spaces is a very energy-consuming thing. I don't know where he got the strength to teleport from Jiuli to Phoenix when he was in a dying state...

……well?

Ning Changkong slowly adjusted his breathing and spoke cautiously: "You don't seem to be that surprised?"

I wasn't too surprised at his reappearance in Jiuli, or the "resurrection" of the dying phoenix.

Chi You finally put down the electronic calculator in his hand, which he still didn't understand, and shifted his attention from the blueprint of the new spiritual weapon he was designing in front of him. His voice was as calm as water: "After so many years, nothing can surprise me anymore."

"If you return to the real world, there is no way you can appear here again."

"There is only one place that Jiuli can be teleported to now... What is the name of that crappy place called by Feng Qingwu?" Chi You paused, as if recalling, "Oh, it's called--"

"—The place where the gods are buried."

One hour ago, in the demiplane where the gods were buried.

"You're not awake yet, so I don't dare go far." Chu Qingge whispered, "But based on my current investigation results, those should all be... the remains of gods."

The black giant shadows slowly floated in the air, like dark clouds covering the sky and the sun, and one could faintly feel the pressure of the gods' aura. Although those gods had disappeared in the long river of time, their residual power still echoed in these giant shadows.

Ning Changkong recalled the slogan he heard in the basement on the day he was captured by Phoenix.

"The gods are dead, and the eternal night is coming..." He exhaled slowly, feeling the beating of his heart in his chest.

"What exactly is your job?" Ning Changkong turned around and looked at Phoenix, who was still sitting on the floor with an expressionless face.

Phoenix's first reaction was swift and clear. He blurted out without hesitation: "Bring back the eternal night."

Then, the artificial phoenix paused for a moment, as if trying to dig out the original instructions given to it when it was created from the massive amount of data. Finally, he clearly stated his mission in a mechanical tone lacking emotional fluctuations:

"Build it, enable it, maintain it."

One hour later, half plane Jiuli.

Ning Changkong quietly observed the God of Weapons across from the desk. He saw Li Gui holding a brush and calculating calculus skillfully on a piece of draft paper. He was silent for a while before finding his voice again: "Did Li Bo bring these things to you?"

"Oh, have you met him?" Li Gui frowned and answered casually while reading the manual of the calculator. Ning Changkong couldn't help but take another look at the abacus under the "Advanced Mathematics".

The writing brush is easy to explain, as it was invented during the Shang Dynasty. But the abacus must have been invented at least until the Eastern Han Dynasty, right? This date is wrong... Forget it, the date of "Advanced Mathematics" is even more wrong.

"How did he get here? Did he also pass through that place?" Ning Changkong finally did not say the words "the burial place of the gods".

"Yeah." Chi You sighed, picked up the notebook in the corner of the desk and flipped through it, "I remember it was 2000 in the Western calendar - how many years was it?"

"...Ten years ago, right?" Ning Changkong whispered.

"Let me see, this year is 2000 in the Western calendar... Oh, yes, ten years ago." Chi You stopped flipping through his notes and recalled the past. "That human, Li Bo, was teleported to me covered in blood, carrying a large pile of things he had taken out of the Yao Pond."

At this point, Li Pi smacked his lips and said, "He really dares to take it. Even if the Queen Mother of the West is dead and only a shadow is left in the Yaochi, she can still fight."

"Records of the Grand Historian: Annals of the Yellow Emperor" records: "Xuanyuan fought with Chiyou in Zhuolu, but was defeated after nine battles. Xuanyuan prayed on Mount Tai and fell into a trance. The Queen Mother of the West was touched by his sincerity and sent an envoy to give Xuanyuan a talisman, saying: 'Think carefully and report to the heavens, and there will be a response from the Supreme.'"

It seems that even after he died in battle and became a god, the grudge between Chiyou and Queen Mother of the West has not been resolved. Ning Changkong coughed twice and asked, "Then how did he come to Jiuli?"

According to existing intelligence, the investigation team sent by the Alien Bureau ten years ago should have entered the burial ground of the gods through the Longyuan illusion, and then entered the Yaochi illusion from there, and encountered danger in Yaochi.

In the chaos, Li Bo was left behind and disappeared. He finally escaped death and came to Jiuli with a lot of spoils, including the white jade Guan that was later made into Yan Xiaoling's jade pendant.

The previous owner of Yuxu Sword Pavilion held the Kunwu Sword and forcibly reopened the passage back to the real world from the side of Yaochi. He eventually died of his injuries and passed the position of owner to his daughter, Zuo Langning.

But this still cannot explain why Li Bo was able to come to Jiuli, the demiplane that had been "exiled" for a long time.

Li Pi sighed, "He is lucky. He found a lot of treasures in Yuxu Palace, including the Queen Mother of the West's treasure - Dijiang Feather."

Ning Chang felt the Dijiang feather in his pocket hollowly.

"I escaped back to Jiuli from the burial ground of the gods, and then Xuanwu cut off the passage from the outside." Chi You recalled, "I guess time was urgent at the time, so I didn't do it so thoroughly."

"But he was able to capture that tiny space fluctuation and successfully transmit it over... I guess that's lucky."

"So, why is it?" Ning Changkong couldn't help but ask.

Xuanwu did something he "shouldn't have done" and let go of a god who was supposed to have died. In the end, he was detained by Feng Qingwu at the foot of Penglai Mountain as a guard.

But, "Why do the gods die?"

Li Gui snorted and sat up straighter. "When you said 'evil spirit', I knew you knew nothing."

"Well, I won't talk to you about this... who else can I tell it to?" Li Gui slowly exhaled, his expression serious:

"Feng Qingwu wants to use the corpses of the gods as energy to drive a machine he built himself to cause spiritual energy decline."

"You should have seen that machine before - it's called Tianran."