Looking at the empty summit of Kunlun before her, Chu Hongluan called out, "Senior?"
In the blink of an eye, the magnificent Qingxu Palace appeared right before my eyes.
"Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! The palace has been completely transformed!"
"......"
Chu Hongluan silently recited the Heart-Cleansing Mantra, but could not hear, could not hear, could not hear...
The gates of Qingxu Palace opened, but the figure of the Taoist in green was nowhere to be seen. Chu Hongluan guessed that the Taoist in green was fully engaged in forging the Xuanfeng Mecha and was asking them to go in on their own.
"Walk."
The two stepped forward.
Since returning to the nameless immortal mountain, they had changed back to their usual attire. Liu Jinghong had her long hair tied up, wore a silver crown inlaid with sapphires, and a dark blue round-necked robe with auspicious cloud patterns on the lapels. The cuffs were tied up and decorated with silver thread folds. A jade fan was attached to her waist, with jade pendants and tassels hanging from it. She was still the same glamorous and dissolute playboy she always was.
Looking at Chu Hongluan again, she simply wore a red jade hairpin in her hair, with the rest of her black hair cascading down. She was still dressed in red, but the style was much more elaborate than before. If you looked closely, you would find that it was a Heavenly Rank Dharma Robe, with a red background and peony patterns, gold thread embellishments and edges, and a pearl pendant gold-inlaid red jade waist chain around her waist. When she moved, she was dazzling with light.
I won't say whose taste it is.
Upon entering Qingxu Palace, they still did not see the Taoist in green robes. Instead, they heard the clanging and banging of iron being hammered in the weapon-refining room, a scene of bustling activity.
"Hey! Come upstairs quickly! My benefactor has been in seclusion for many days! Nobody has talked to me! I'm so bored!"
The loud calls of a nine-headed bird could be heard from the third floor.
In the past, Chu Hongluan might have found it somewhat cute, but ever since she had Xiaoyu, she felt a jolt of dizziness in her temples whenever she heard such an explosive burst of energy.
Hey!
Chu Hongluan sighed heavily and dragged her heavy steps up to the third floor.
As soon as they went up, the nine-headed bird chirped in the spirit-gathering sphere, and Ayu chirped in her sea of consciousness. Chu Hongluan could not bear it any longer, so she used her divine sense to pull Ayu's spirit directly out of the spatial bracelet and threw it onto the sphere, letting the two of them chatter on their own.
A miniature version of the snake-shaped earth spirit, and a miniature version of the nine-headed bird with tiny eyes facing each other.
"Um... what's your name?"
"My name is Ayu! And yours is Ayu!"
"My name is Xiao Jiu! I want to tell you..."
The two little ones started chatting happily.
Chu Hongluan barely managed to suppress the urge to dance online, and used one hand to create a soundproof barrier to enclose the two of them.
Whew! The world is quiet.
Liu Jinghong looked at Ayu, then at Chu Hongluan.
"Has this guy been causing trouble in your mind all these past few days?"
Chu Hongluan and he exchanged a glance, and after a long while, Chu Hongluan sighed deeply again.
Everything is understood without words.
The two sat down at a table by the window. Chu Hongluan tilted her head and looked at the wind and snow outside, feeling a sense of peace in her heart: "Well... there's something I've wanted to talk to you about seriously for a while, but I haven't found the right opportunity yet."
"Um?"
This tone made Liu Jinghong subconsciously straighten his back; his intuition told him that Chu Hongluan was about to say something very serious.
Chu Hongluan turned around and looked him straight in the eye with utmost seriousness: "I want to ask you, are you aware of your current physical condition?"
Liu Jinghong was stunned for a moment before speaking: "You all know..."
Ah... I thought I was the only one who kept it a secret. Indeed, the Blood Spirit Mushroom is still relentlessly eroding my life essence. If I'm lucky enough to find Phoenix Blood, I can eliminate the threat.
He smiled calmly, "On the contrary, living another year or two shouldn't be a problem." Finally, he winked at her reassuringly, "Don't worry, I'll find it. After all, I still want to be with my junior sister for hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of years..."
Chu Hongluan couldn't laugh. "Do you have any clues?"
“It will happen,” Liu Jinghong said.
Chu Hongluan remained silent.
"Junior sister, don't worry about such a trivial matter. The Swift Wind Intelligence Agency is already investigating the Phoenix Blood in the four regions. If there are any clues, we will know as soon as possible."
Aren't you afraid?
“What am I afraid of? Am I afraid of death? I wasn’t afraid before. But now… I want to live. Actually, that day in the Witch Clan, when I used the Void Causal Eye, besides the formation’s structure, I also unexpectedly saw some fragmented images.”
"What?"
"That's probably another way of unfolding everything if you had never appeared."
!!
Chu Hongluan's eyes widened suddenly, her pupils dilating violently.
"You know, right? The Liu family possesses an innate talent for communicating with the Heavenly Dao. I think those scenes might have been things that should have happened around that time, but because of my junior sister's appearance, everything changed."
His eyebrows curved into a smile, and a gentle, bright smile flowed from his eyes: "So I believe that my junior sister must have been sent by heaven to save me. What does this mean? It means that the heavens do not want me to die at all, and that I will eventually find the Phoenix Blood within two years."
"If you don't believe me, I'll cast a divination now. Thanks to my junior sister, I'm now at the Nascent Soul stage and have the Void Cause and Effect Eye by my side, so the divination will definitely not be wrong again."
As he spoke, he actually pretended to close his eyes, moved his fingers, and began to calculate.
It seems very profound.
Chu Hongluan stared at him nervously, and when he opened his eyes again, she immediately asked, "How is it?"
"Great fortune."
"Really?" Chu Hongluan narrowed her phoenix eyes, full of suspicion.
"Really." Liu Jinghong nodded seriously.
However, what he was calculating in his heart was not whether he could find the Phoenix Blood, but whether he could have a happy ending with his beloved.
The divination indicates: Great fortune.
Chu Hongluan nodded, a huge weight lifted from her heart. As long as she could obtain the Phoenix Blood, no matter how arduous the process, it didn't matter.
"Recently, the Northern Region Sword Sect sent an invitation, saying that a mysterious cave has been discovered in the back mountain of the sect, and inviting elders and elite disciples from all sects to explore it. Junior Sister, are you interested?"
Before ascending to immortality, a powerful being who has reached the pinnacle of cultivation will usually divide the world they live in into an independent small world, leaving behind their legacy, as well as various wealth and treasures that they cannot take with them, and setting up numerous obstacles to win over those with the right destiny.
Such a small world is called a cave dwelling.
Chu Hongluan's eyes lit up?
Is this a test for cadres? If she doesn't go, wouldn't it be a waste of her overpowered, god-slaying abilities?
"Of course. How many people are you planning to bring this time?"
"Including you and me, there can't be more than ten people. Junior Sister Gu still needs to rest, and Junior Brother Song needs to take care of her closely, so the two of them can't go. If Junior Sister doesn't have anyone else in mind, I'll take Li Dazhuang and Qiao Yue, and then randomly pick a few more from the inner disciples."
"no problem!"
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