Chapter 88 Will you let those two children go?
"However, the priest didn't expect that even in this situation, he could still use a wisp of remaining spiritual consciousness to gather a clone... This is the priest's fault and has nothing to do with Xiaoqing."
"The priest will ask to go to the Ninth Heaven to explain the reason to the Heavenly Dao, and will not let Xiaoqing be punished."
Shang Youqing slowly closed his eyes, the corners of his dry and cold lips twitched slightly, and he spoke in a hoarse voice.
"Father, you don't have to take all the blame for me. I wanted to devour the killing barrier myself, and I gave him the amulet that contains spiritual energy. Including... those two children, I wanted to give birth to them myself..."
The priest frowned. “But you didn’t know his true identity before.”
"Yes." Shang Youqing laughed softly, "I'm so stupid."
She felt the chill seeping into her skin again, so cold that she had to slowly hug her thin knees and legs. She lowered her eyes and asked, "Ever since I was practicing in Wutong Mountain, his spiritual consciousness has been targeting me, right?"
"Xiaoqing."
Shang Youqing smiled grimly, burying her face between her knees. Her shoulders twitched slightly as she suppressed her anger and asked, "If, I mean, if I can atone for my sins and kill him, will Heaven let those two children go?"
The priest remained silent and did not answer immediately.
Shang Youqing also found it difficult to speak, but what should he do?
Those were the two little phoenix babies she had conceived and given birth to.
No matter how much pain and hatred she felt, she couldn't bear to do anything to her own flesh and blood.
Shang Youqing clenched her fingertips, tears on her face soaking her knees and legs, and her cold voice trembled even more. "Then I, I don't want the child anymore. Can the heavens spare the child?"
The priest sighed and said.
"Now that Ying Shixue's clone has returned to its original form, those two... their dragon vein genes will also be awakened. Moreover, they also carry your divine bloodline, and their potential to become gods in the future is even greater than Ying Shixue's. The Heavenly Dao will never accommodate them, let alone allow them to grow up."
The priest spoke as he slowly stepped forward, placing his hand on Shang Youqing's head and patting it gently. "More importantly, Ying Shixue is no longer the same Ying Shixue he was back then. He's even harder to kill now than he was back then. Furthermore, the sea is the vastest region in the world, so no one knows where he might be hiding now."
"Xiaoqing, the priest only wants you to recuperate well in Kunlun Mountain. The rest will be handled by the priest."
After hearing this, Shang Youqing's emotions gradually calmed down. She slowly loosened her hands, calmly wiped away the tears on both sides of her cheeks, took a deep breath, and when she raised her face again, except for some redness around her eyes, her expression had returned to its calm and indifferent state.
She looked at the priest, her voice still hoarse, but she clearly refused.
"No, Father, I will go to the nine-day punishment myself."
"Xiaoqing——"
"Of course I know the priest is reluctant to see me punished. I was still young when he left, so in his heart, I might still be just a little phoenix that needs adult protection. But I'm grown up now, and I don't want to hide behind the priest."
Shang Youqing straightened his clothes and got down from the couch, his expression becoming even more calm and indifferent. "I am the culprit who caused him to escape from Kunlun Mountain. There is nothing I dare not admit."
The priest could not stop Shang Youqing from going to Jiutian, and wanted to take her there personally, but Shang Youqing refused again.
She knew that if the priest went with her for nine days, he would definitely plead for her, but she didn't want to implicate the priest again.
Facing Shang Youqing's extremely resolute attitude, the priest was silent for a while, then took out a bottle of pills from under his sleeve and handed it to her, saying.
"Let Cheng Huang go with you."
During the years that the priest has been asleep, Cheng Huang has been stationed at the Kunlun Mountain Temple, only following the priest's orders.
After receiving the summons from the priest, Cheng Huang transformed back into the divine beast, allowing Shang Youqing, whose tail feathers were broken and had not yet recovered the ability to fly, to ride on it to the nine heavens.
The priest watched Shang Youqing walk away from the Kunlun Mountains, but he could not really sit idly by as he had promised Shang Youqing.
He stood at the Snow Mountain Temple for a long time, and finally hid his true identity and followed.
…
"Phoenix, you look very sad."
On the way to Jiutian, Cheng Huang occasionally turned his fox-like head and saw Shang Youqing sitting quietly on it, his eyes wandering into the sky from time to time.
Finally, I couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so I started talking to her.
Shang Youqing gently grasped the two symmetrical half-moon horns on the back of its head, still absentmindedly, "Really?"
"Yes... When you were little, the priest was always in the lower world on business and had no time to play with you. Wasn't it me who accompanied you everywhere? Back then, every time we went to the Ninth Heaven Flower Realm, you were so happy that you insisted on picking a few flowers to bring back to the priest. But I just took you over the flower realm, and you didn't even look at it. You were still in a daze."
Shang Youqing listened to Cheng Huang's words and couldn't help but recall the past. Then he slowly lowered his face, hugged Cheng Huang's furry head, and said softly.
"Cheng Huang, I made a mistake."
Cheng Huang asked curiously, "Is it a serious mistake?"
"Um."
"Then you should honestly admit your mistake to the Heavenly Dao. The Heavenly Dao is not unreasonable."
Shang Youqing didn't say "good" or "bad", but just fell silent again.
Cheng Huang sent her to the outside of Jiutian's Order Spirit Gate and patted her head. "Go, go. Cheng Huang will wait for you here."
The thousands of steps of Lingmen cannot be climbed over by flying, so Shang Youqing can only climb up step by step by himself.
Perhaps because his tail feathers were broken, Shang Youqing felt a distinct pain in his ankles as if bones were broken every time he climbed a step.
Every step she took was difficult, but she had no intention of stopping.
When Shang Youqing was halfway up the stairs, blood had seeped out of the white flesh and bones of her ankles under her sleeves, dragging on the stairs behind her, inch by inch, like a blood lotus.
Shang Youqing's will remained calm, and she finally reached the sacred tree outside the spiritual gate.
He knelt under the tree and confessed everything he had done.
She knew that the vital energy from the roots of the sacred tree would convey the way of heaven to her.
Shang Youqing didn't know how many days and nights he had been kneeling under the sacred tree.
During this period, the nine-day cold current was like a dense mass of blades that penetrated every pore of her body. She could not resist it, but she remained kneeling upright.
His body is almost entirely supported by his spiritual consciousness.
Therefore, I don’t know which day it is.
The sacred tree that had been standing motionless in front of the spiritual gate finally slowly dropped a golden leaf.
At the same time, a sacred, long, unbroken voice descended and echoed at the high spiritual gate.
"Phoenix, the fault that caused Ying Shixue to flee Kunlun Mountain is not entirely yours."
"But you—you should never, ever, give birth to those two evil creatures."
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