Chapter 108 Can't Let Go of Those Two Children
The sight of the old man Changyi was suddenly completely blocked. He looked at Shen Jichuan who was blocking his way in a daze.
Chen Jichuan stared at him with a cold expression, his eyes filled with unspoken hostility, but he said to Cheng Huang behind him: "Cheng Huang, take Shang Youqing away first."
It seemed as if he was going to stay behind to cover our retreat.
The old man Changyi frowned. He couldn't see the little phoenix because of Chen Jichuan. He could only see the divine beast taking advantage of the spiritual energy fluctuations around Huang to fly away. He had to raise his voice to try to stop his servants.
"Wait! Little Phoenix, regardless of right or wrong, those two children are innocent. Can you really bear to let Heaven strangle them in Guixu?"
Shang Youqing, who had been leaning on Cheng Huang's back quietly with his head down, heard the old man Chang Yi's hurried words of obstruction. His cold eyes moved slightly, and the hands that were holding Cheng Huang's half-moon horns also clenched slightly.
She suddenly touched her lips and said hoarsely:
"Cheng Huang, stop."
"Phoenix, don't believe him! He's a subordinate of that evil dragon Ying Shixue. How can he be any good? Maybe he was instructed by Ying Shixue to trick Phoenix into saying these things!"
Shang Youqing was very calm, "I know, put me down first."
Cheng Huang howled wheezingly, feeling somewhat helpless and furious, but he did not want to go against their little phoenix, so he could only put the phoenix down in disappointment, and enlarged his beast form again, completely blocking the way of the old man Changyi with his extremely ferocious beast appearance to ensure that the phoenix would not be taken away by this old man.
Chen Jichuan knew that Shang Youqing's leg was injured and she couldn't stand steadily. Seeing that she insisted on coming over, he had to go forward with a stern face and support her.
Shang Youqing didn't try to show off. She just said "thank you" and let Shen Jichuan support her and walk to the old man Changyi.
"What did you mean by that?"
The old man Changyi did not answer immediately, but glanced obscurely at Shen Jichuan who was beside her.
Shen Jichuan naturally understood what he meant. Just as he was about to turn around and ask Shang Youqing for his opinion, Shang Youqing said, "There's nothing to avoid. Just say it directly."
Only then did the old man Changyi tell her exactly what had happened.
When talking about Ying Shixue who insisted on going to Guixu despite the dissuasion of the leaders of various sea areas, the old man Changyi paused and glanced at Shang Youqing.
Seeing that Shang Youqing's face remained expressionless from beginning to end, with an indifferent look, he felt a little uneasy, but still continued speaking:
"After the king learned that the two children had been tricked into entering Guixu, he returned to arrange some matters... and shortly after you, Little Phoenix, left, he headed for Guixu..."
After hearing this, Chen Jichuan's face darkened. He protected Shang Youqing by his side again and spoke first:
"So what's the point of you coming to tell Shang Youqing all this? You know there's no way out of Guixu, yet you still chased after him to tell him all this. May I ask, what do you want Shang Youqing to do? To follow you into Guixu to rescue people?"
Cheng Huang, standing by, was even more furious. "That's right! Did you think I couldn't hear it? Ying Shixue clearly risked entering Guixu because he couldn't bear to part with his cub's once-in-a-lifetime dragon and phoenix bloodline! He wanted to go to Guixu on his own, what does that have to do with us Phoenixes?"
"But those two children are—"
"That's enough."
Shang Youqing interrupted the old man Changyi's unfinished words with a light voice. She stood beside Shen Jichuan and raised her eyes again: "Have you said everything you need to say? You can leave now."
The old man Changyi looked at her with a complicated expression for a long while, then looked at Chen Jichuan and the divine beast Cheng Huang who were guarding her. He knew that it was impossible to persuade her, so he could only nod at her lightly, "Then I will take my leave first..."
The old man Changyi sighed, picked up the long staff beside him, and jumped from the cliff into the sea...
"Go, go, Phoenix, let's get out of here now! This is so unlucky!"
Cheng Huang said this and quickly called for Chen Jichuan to follow him. Then, not wanting to stay any longer, Cheng Huang took them away from the cliff near the sea as quickly as possible.
Chen Jichuan didn't ask anything along the way. He was always thinking about finding a set of clean and warm clothes for Shang Youqing. When he saw a sparsely populated village finally appear under the clouds, he told Cheng Huang to stop halfway up the mountain and wait for him for a while, then he went to the village by himself.
The temperature on the mountain was cold, so Cheng Huang deliberately puffed up his back hair to cover Fenghuang's bare legs. He didn't hear Fenghuang speak the whole way, and he was always feeling uneasy. He couldn't help but tilt his head and talk loudly to Fenghuang to make her laugh.
But before he could say a few words of comfort, Cheng Huang suddenly felt his face wet, it was Fenghuang's tears falling.
Cheng Huang was stunned for a moment and suddenly raised his eyes, only to see Fenghuang quietly closing her eyelashes, with the corners of her cold eyes obviously slightly reddened by tears.
"Phoenix..."
Shang Youqing held Cheng Huang's moon horn in his hand and asked softly.
"Cheng Huang, if I tell you that I can't let go of those two children, will you also think I'm hopeless?"
Cheng Huang rubbed his head against her cold palm and said, "Phoenix, don't cry. Then, then Cheng Huang will accompany you to Guixu to rescue the child, okay?"
"But if that is really a trap set by heaven."
"Those two little babies haven't even grown all their hair yet, what could they possibly understand? If they didn't follow that evil dragon and instead grew up under the careful guidance of us Phoenixes, they would surely become as kind and lovely as us Phoenixes!"
In order to appease Fenghuang, Cheng Huang's words became more and more hypocritical. "Maybe the Heavenly Dao is also testing the child's character. If it doesn't work, after the child is safely rescued, Cheng Huang will accompany you to the Nine Heavens to beg the Heavenly Dao. I don't believe it. How can the Heavenly Dao be so exaggerated? What kind of waves can two little kids cause!"
When Chen Jichuan came back with the bag, he briefly told Shang Youqing what was in the bag, turned his back, and waited until she changed her clothes and put on her boots and said to him, "I'm done," before Chen Jichuan turned back.
Shang Youqing was about to say something else when Chen Jichuan patted Cheng Huang and said, "Let's go. I know how to enter Guixu."
Shang Youqing's eyebrows moved slightly, "Colonel, how did you know..."
Chen Jichuan stared at her for a long time and said, "Shang Youqing, you don't have to say anything to refuse me from joining you. I do have some selfish motives, but you don't have to feel burdened. I am an adult, I know what I want to do, and I can take responsibility for the choices I make."
After a pause, he tried to convince her further, "Besides, my spiritual weapon was originally created to guard one of the Guixu Immortal Mountains. Perhaps after I go in, I can figure out the key reason for unlocking the spiritual weapon."
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