Chapter 62: The Three-Legged Golden Crow
62 Nest Building
A chaotic kiss flew from one end of the sky to the other.
Miao Jue was on a cloud, the entire ancestral land rushing beneath their feet, the wind and kisses making her unable to open her eyes.
It's unclear whether this person is trying to dispel rumors or create new ones.
Rumor one: He fell in love at first sight. When the burning kiss spread like fire, it was as if he had imagined it countless times, and gradually became adept at it.
Rumor two: he tried to force himself on her. Miaojue felt the strength of the arms restraining her at her sides, the tension in her neck and Adam's apple, and the increasingly sinister low chuckle above her head; she thought it wasn't impossible.
The closer Jin Shi was to someone, the more obvious the villainous aura he exuded, even if in this timeline he was just an innocent little bird.
Simplicity simply doesn't exist.
His jet-black wings enveloped her like a birdcage, and Miaojue felt as if she had been thrown into a pile of soft feathers, with fluffy black snowflakes drifting around her.
When she opened her eyes again, her folded wings parted like a curtain, and the scene before her suddenly burst into view.
His home.
Far off in the mountains of Culaishan, beneath a deserted cliff, hangs a huge, intricately woven nest-like hanging chair, its curved shape swaying quietly, lonely yet beautiful.
Wildflowers with delicate blue and white stamens bloom on the winding spring branches, intertwining densely among the green leaves and vines, forming a cradle-like seat. From this angle, the center of the vines is perfectly framed by a full moon.
Miaojue blinked, amazed by the exquisite beauty. It was like... a giant wreath under the moonlight, carried by a bird under the moon.
It turns out that while he was waiting for her, he did more than just plant trees.
I was afraid, angry, and praying all at the same time.
He misses her very much.
Miaojue leaned against his chest, and he was unusually quiet at this moment, a smile playing on his lips as he casually circled her.
A chair adorned with wreaths sits atop a thousand-meter abyss, while behind it lies a profound love.
This naughty bird...where did it learn to be so romantic?
With a flap of its wings, Jin Shi and the two of them sat steadily on the swaying hammock.
Looking ahead, the ancestral land of Changming lay still in the night, occasionally punctuated by the cries of beasts. In the distance, the sea surged, but the sound of waves was inaudible. Further still, the mortal world bustled about, its human affairs completely detached from their presence.
It seemed like there were only the two of them in the world.
This person isn't in a hurry to do anything now.
With an abyss beneath his feet, and being the only one who could fly, Jin Shi was now quite content.
Birds will pick and choose, bringing all the best things, including their own brightest and most beautiful feathers, to build a safe and masculine nest.
Male birds build nests to attract mates.
Improving one's sense of security increases the chances of success in finding a partner.
This...this is practically a giant bed!
Miaojue's heart inexplicably raced a little. She had some reservations about this kind of high-altitude, outdoor work, so she pretended to look around nonchalantly.
The mountains and valleys of Culaishan were each unique, a far cry from the later state after Langhuan had completely leveled them and built a labyrinth. She used her divine sense to slowly scan the area, and suddenly exclaimed in amazement.
This perspective was something the little girl could never achieve before, and even this flying bird dared not bring her up to see it.
However, this was the first time Miaojue had truly seen the place where the Changming tribe originally lived.
It turns out that Little Seven Brother has his own large horse farm, Sixth Brother Gui has his own lakes and ponds, Second Brother has a natural hot spring on a mountain, Ninth Brother Zhu and Fourth Brother Feng have farmland on three whole mountains to compete for land, and Third Uncle Cang and Fifth Aunt Yang have vast forest farms...
But in order to accommodate her and pretend to be human, they lived in that dilapidated little village for ten years.
The true form originally roamed freely.
A slight weight settled on her shoulder as Jin Shi's chin rested on the crook of her neck, his thin lips brushing against her ear as he spoke, "What are you looking at? Don't look at the hot spring."
Miaojue paused for a moment, then said, speechless, "Nobody's doing that now."
Jin Shi's voice immediately turned displeased, "So you actually watched it."
The secret: "..."
There's nothing to say about the villainous bad bird!
Jin Shi's aura burned intensely as he tightened his grip on her, his movements so large that the hanging chair below the cliff swayed like the moon's shadow in the sky.
For the male bird, within the nest it has built, it is not allowed to look at anyone else.
Miaojue saw a clear boundary and possessiveness in those slightly narrowed peach blossom eyes, and her heart clenched slightly.
His handsome features couldn't hide the wickedness in his eyes; the corners of his lips were slowly drawing closer, and his breath fell as light as a feather.
Miao Jue smelled the sweet, refreshing fragrance of herbs and trees, which was extremely deceptive. Clearly, beneath this person's spotless Taoist robe lay the body and mind of a madman bleeding profusely.
She squinted and suddenly saw a familiar stone hanging above the cliff.
It wasn't used for weaving nests because that was a very familiar trick.
"The Immortal-Binding Stone?" She braced herself against his chest and looked up to examine it closely.
Jin Shi's thin lips landed on her cheek, and he let out a snort of dissatisfaction.
Miao Jue released a wisp of spiritual energy to gently probe it, and the aura was exactly the same. It was indeed a Trapping Immortal Stone. No one knew how he managed to obtain one.
Jin Shi's broad chest encircled her from behind, and he said casually, "I've set up an array so that anyone who touches the raw stone mine at the bottom of the sea will be immediately detected."
"Ah." Miao Jue nodded, her heart softening yet hardening with determination. Protecting this land would depend on their memories.
“And another thing,” Jin Shi said, a hint of wicked mockery in his eyes, as he whispered into her ear, “If I go too crazy and can’t control myself, you can take off the Immortal-Binding Stone and lock me up.”
The implication was that he wanted to collapse the entire cliff.
Miaojue rubbed his itchy ear tips, stretched out his hand, and swept it along the Immortal-Trapping Stone, sensing its entire existence.
The girl nodded and said calmly, "I'll find some time to go to sea and clear out the entire stone mine."
So calm, yet uttering such chilling words.
He could easily solve the biggest hidden danger that had plagued their entire clan for thousands of years.
How can this little sapling look so majestic?
Jinshi blinked, then suddenly lowered his head, panting helplessly, "So scary, you're so scary..."
Miaojue couldn't help but laugh; she'd seen through his act.
Jin Shi couldn't wait any longer and lowered his head to bite the corner of her lips, his fingertips supporting her chin as he anxiously tried to draw out her breath.
"Xiao Shi, Xiao Shi, I knew you'd be here!"
A swift wind and a streak of light, the silhouette of a silver fox, rushed towards them in a crisscrossing pattern.
Jin Shi gritted his teeth, bit her hard in Miao Jue's smiling eyes, carried her back to the mountaintop, and flew away to lure them away.
…
The sounds of giant beasts cursing each other echoed throughout the entire Culaishan Mountains.
Miao Jue looked around with her hands tucked in her pockets, but couldn't see their skills clearly. Instead, she saw a ball of icy white light sitting quietly on the highest mountain peak. The light was not dazzling, but gentle and patient, as if it was waiting for her to come over.
Miao Jue suddenly realized something, left the bad bird's nest, and walked towards the light.
The only one living on the cold meadow at the top of Mount Culaishan, where ice flowers bloom on the high mountain, emitting a quiet glow in the night, guiding Miaojue along the way.
She made her way smoothly, surrounded by increasingly cool ice spirits, and soon saw a snake-tailed human body coiled on ice flowers at the end of the halo.
The clever trick stopped the footsteps.
The only thing he didn't do was appear before her in human form; he had already understood the secret.
Although she hadn't experienced the future yet, she, who held countless causes and effects in her grasp... probably guessed it.
The only icy white pupils gazed at the little girl who had descended from the sky. Just now, as she walked on the cracked ice flowers, she could already sense that unique spiritual aura.
She was the only one who knew how to forge time bones. ...
The only thing it exhaled was a long breath, which condensed into a frosty white mist.
Everything had happened; she was certain.
Even someone as long-lived as her was filled with endless shock and astonishment. Such a momentous event, capable of changing the course of history, had been accomplished by this frail figure before her.
Miaojue smiled faintly, but simply stood there obediently.
So neither of them mentioned it, and everything drifted away in the night wind.
Only the irritating squeak of a certain little bird accompanied the sound.
Wei Yi let out a long sigh, then suddenly whispered towards the distant mountains, "Miao Miao is with me."
The ice shards rippled outwards, and the sound clearly reached everyone's ears. They finally let Jin Shi go and went back to their lair to sleep.
Miaojue smiled and said, "He should thank you."
Wei Yi smiled faintly, looking at the girl with a sigh, "After you come back, what will you do?"
Miaojue looked at the moon and said in a clear voice, "His tree has only sprouted eleven buds. I'll continue planting."
Mount Culai is a mountain where great timber grows.
A tree is destined to grow, providing lasting shade and light.
The only one with icy white pupils, serene and timeless, felt a tenderness in his heart and asked the girl with great interest, "What kind of tree would that be?"
What flowers will bloom in spring, and what fruits will it bear in autumn?
Even if a lifetime is as long as one, suddenly this spring, which was nothing special, suddenly becomes special.
But then the girl seemed to remember something, and in an instant her almond-shaped eyes became bright and smug, and the corners of her lips curled up beautifully.
"That will be a marriage tree."
"I haven't been able to help people who ask me for marriage proposals yet."
…
Miao Jue was sent down the mountain by the sea of cracked ice flowers, and he felt relieved.
She walked towards the cliff with her hands behind her back, facing the moon, but accidentally took it too easy.
Before she could react, a hand covered her eyes from behind, and she was spun around and pulled into someone's arms.
Jin Shi was clearly displeased. A sense of crisis and competitive spirit ingrained in his bones made him grit his teeth slightly. "You really want to see that?"
The Fire Qilin is just a bit majestic.
He's far inferior to me when it comes to actually getting moving.
Jin Shi's eyes turned dangerous. "Regret? You really want to see that?"
However, the person was already lifted into the air, embraced and carried away, with a scalding hot sentence falling from above.
"Then watch me."
…
This time, he really managed to steal the secret weapon.
Lying on his flat, broad chest, Miaojue suddenly remembered something and nodded.
“We definitely need to see it,” she said.
The young man, who had been flying fiercely, suddenly stopped, looked down at her, then looked up into the distance, and began to ponder the physical attractiveness of his body with a deep expression.
Although the Golden Crow's true form is not as majestic as the Azure Dragon or the Qilin, as a human body, its muscle lines are so beautiful that they seem to have been drawn inch by inch with a fine brush, and every bit of thickness has been tempered by nature, making it perfect without being too much or too little.
At a cave entrance on a cliff, covered with ash-covered wings, Miaojue's fingertips began to trace upwards from his back.
Dragon spines, flight bones, ribs, heart, crimson feathers, countless drops of blood... all the parts exist perfectly within this flawless body.
Her last lingering worry—whether certain aspects would remain after a century of retrospection—was now completely dispelled.
When she looked up, she saw that his eyes were red from her touching.
"Strange to me? You can leave another dent in my chest, do whatever you want."
His breath was hot, and his eyes were filled with madness, as if he longed for the other person to leave any mark on him. Even pain would make him feel good, like some kind of intimacy.
Miaojue puffed out her cheeks and pinched his hard arm muscles hard: "If you ever get another bloody hole in your body, you're finished."
Jin Shi's lips curled up as he pressed down on her palm, "Use a little more force."
Seeing that he was burning up with fever and acting nonchalantly, Miao Jue was even more annoyed, completely unaware that she had fallen into his arms, which were vastly different in size from his, and that she had somehow ended up sitting on his lap.
When he lowered his head and approached, his dark bangs loosely obscured his peach blossom eyes, and his animalistic aggression created a subtle, inhuman, and oppressive feeling in this narrow space.
Jin Shi burst into laughter, his chest heaving.
"All of that is fine now. There's only one place on my body that hurts."
Miaojue quickly asked, "Where?"
Miaojue retorted angrily, "I know it all too well!"
“Little sapling, I am the three-legged golden crow,” Jin Shi chuckled, his tone seductive. “You don’t even know which three legs I have.”
Miaojue was taken aback, then suddenly sat up straight.
The burning sticks were so hot they could almost scald a person to death.
A strong sense of inhumanity surged up from below.
Miao Jue blushed and became serious, then quietly surrendered, "I don't want to know anymore."
You will die.
[Author's Note]
Start cooking [droopy-eared rabbit head]
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