Xiao Yu opened his mouth and felt a breath rising in his chest. He didn't necessarily want to stand up for the monster, he just felt that it was amazing that someone could be so shameless.
If a divine beast that has guarded the Jin family for thousands of years can be treated like this, then does it mean that in the eyes of these people, ordinary people can also be left to them for whatever they want?
"What a saying that the strong are respected." Zhou Yanzhi looked at the head of the Jin family with a half-smile, "Do you know why the Jin family was left behind back then?"
"..." The head of the Jin family's breathing stagnated.
"Is this the thousand-year-old inheritance that your Jin family claims to have?"
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"It is this." Zhou Yanzhi said, picked up the teacup and stopped talking.
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The head of the Jin family's heart trembled, his mind was confused, and his face turned grim. He knew that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, many ancient martial arts families and sects had declined. And in the decades before him, the Jin family didn't even have a Heavenly Rank master.
The head of the Jin family wanted to say something, but he didn't know where to start.
Xiao Yu knew that these influential figures from well-established families couldn't possibly be so foolish as to not see the truth. They were probably just playing dumb with themselves, playing what they called "great wisdom disguised as foolishness."
Talking to someone like that is awkward no matter what. They're supposed to be pretending to be clueless, and then asking someone like him, with low intelligence and limited experience, to "show off."
Xiao Yu didn't want to embarrass himself, so—
"This nine-headed bird is at least three thousand years old. How powerful must your ancestor be to be able to subdue a thousand-year-old demon beast a thousand years ago, in an era when the rules were unclear?
Enlightenment, transcendence, nine transformations to become a saint?
Even if one had achieved Sainthood through the Nine Rebirths, without the final Rebirth, a battle a thousand years ago against a Chu totem beast like the Nine-Headed Bird, born with totemic power, would have had little chance of victory. Humanity is not short of scheming. It's a shame that you, the descendants of later generations, don't know how to cherish it. So, on behalf of the descendants of Yan and Huang, on behalf of China, I will reclaim our totem beast."
"You, what do you mean?" The Jin family patriarch looked at the young man in the golden mask. He knew he was young, but he didn't understand what qualifications he had to represent China and take away their guardian beast.
Even if this guardian beast is tortured to death by them, it will still belong to their Jin family.
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"You're not qualified to know. From now on, the Nine-headed Bird belongs only to China and the Chu Territory. Its totem power will no longer be employed by the Jin family." Xiao Yu said coldly, looking at the Nine-headed Bird, "Are you willing to trust humans again?"
"Oh!" The nine-headed bird raised its head and cried out. If it were before, it would definitely not want to, but now, it didn't know why, it felt that when the person in front of it asked, there seemed to be a force behind him, and it could sense a surge of power.
And it only needs to agree to obtain this power.
It has lived for thousands of years and does not want to die like this.
"Boom..."
As the nine-headed bird responded, bursts of thunder suddenly came from the sky.
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"Oh-oh!" The nine-headed bird cried out again. The whole bird was excited. It was real, it was real. This human had truly given it power!
It feels that with this power, it can recover.
A ray of golden light broke through the heavy dark clouds and shone onto the nine-headed bird.
At that moment, the already colorful divine bird seemed to have returned to its former glory, gorgeous, dazzling, and ethereal.
The nine-headed bird felt the blessing of power, cried out happily a few times, and soared into the sky.
The head of the Jin family, the ancient martial arts families, and the members of the sect were all shocked at the scene. Unfortunately, after the nine-headed bird flew into the air, no matter how hard they stared, they could only see a ball of dazzling golden light and nothing else.
Only the cheerful singing of the nine-headed bird can be heard occasionally.
In the eyes of Xiao Yu and Zhou Yanzhi, the four heads that the Nine-headed Bird had lost quickly grew back with the powerful power of the Chu totem, and its body also grew much larger, almost the same size as the normal form of Elder Crane.
After it absorbed the fortune of this country and the totem power of Chu, its lost golden elixir also returned!
This made the Nine-headed Bird very excited.
What made it even more excited was that with the return of the golden elixir, it suddenly obtained the inheritance of its race. It turned out that it was born from the phoenix, the totem beast of Chu.
It was not the mutated monster, the demon beast from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, or the ghost bird mentioned by the Jin family.
It is a divine bird, a ninth divine bird born out of the faith of millions of people.
The nine-headed bird suddenly spread its wings and soared high, then suddenly swooped down. In the space visible to all ordinary people, it reflected the golden winter light that had just parted the dark clouds, transformed into a totemic beast, and merged into Jiangcheng.
It was still too small and needed to accumulate strength and grow, so that it could repay the people and regions that gave it strength. As the political and financial center of Chu, Jiangcheng was the place with the strongest luck and totem power.
It will continue to gain more strength here, and guard the area where it was reborn for thousands of years.
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The light in the sky gradually returned to normal.
Luo Kaixuan touched his face and asked, "Why is there water?"
Li Miaoyi: "Just cry if you want to. Why do you have to tell me what kind of water it is?"
"Why am I crying? Why am I crying?"
Li Yuxiu, who had been standing beside them for some time, lowered her eyelids and said, "Is this the time to discuss this? Don't you feel that your cultivation has improved?"
Luo Kaixuan: (⊙o⊙)… “Really? How come?”
Li Miaoyi: "It's a nine-headed bird."
Zhang Qiyue: "It really is the totem of Chu."
"So, the Jin family had previously possessed the totem power of the entire Chu area?" Li Yuxiu.
Zhang Qiyue: "It should be called luck."
The eyes of several family heads, sect leaders and elders flickered.
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The sun in the sky gradually shrank back as the Nine-headed Bird completely integrated into the land of Chu. It seemed that even the Golden Crow liked sleeping in.
"Nine, where's the nine-headed bird?" The Jin family patriarch murmured, looking at the empty sky. Then, he looked at Xiao Yu, "Where's the nine-headed bird?"
Xiao Yu didn't want to waste time talking to him. He waved his hand and used his spiritual energy to block out the others from eavesdropping. He smiled and said, "Master Jin probably doesn't know my identity yet, right?"
"Who are you?"
"The first director of the Monster Management Bureau, with Nascent Soul cultivation. What else does Patriarch Jin want to know?" Xiao Yu: "When you're out in the world, you give yourself the status you want. He's bragging for the sake of the country, so no one should say anything, right? Talking about Golden Core cultivation doesn't sound impressive at all!"
Zhou Yanzhi: ^_^……
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