Chapter 64 - The Struck Bird
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The real departure from the ancestral land of Changming occurred after the marriage tree had grown up.
As for how this tree grew to be so tall, that's a very obscure question.
On the surface, everyone thought they had done the work.
Despite someone clearly and impatiently stating that they didn't need help, the older siblings, uncles, and aunts all tried to help.
After all, they didn't know if Miaomiao was bored staying here, and these adults who had been beasts for thousands of years had nothing to do. Since she wanted to plant a tree, then she should plant the most magnificent immortal tree in the world!
“Don’t meddle in other people’s business,” Jin Shi’s eyes were very ambiguous. “I have my own way of doing things.”
Miaojue's face flushed, she looked up at the sky, and didn't want to say anything.
But soon, when Miaojue wakes up in the middle of the night, he will find a blue dragon faintly appearing in the air casting spells, with lightning and thunder bringing rain.
Every now and then, when she is not around, the nimble deer will silently replenish the soil of this mountain with spiritual energy.
Subsequently, pandas were spotted several times raiding the mountaintop at night, using bamboo planks to support the trees and employing natural wood extracts to help the seedlings grow faster;...
These people thought they didn't know the secret.
Jin Shi really wanted to laugh.
Even the Fire Qilin wanted to help, but Jin Shi stopped it precisely, raising an eyebrow indifferently: "What can you do to help? Burn it for me?"
Upon hearing this, Fuji was deeply hurt and walked away dejectedly. His dejected figure, carrying a bamboo basket, resembled a pitiful old man with a generation gap from the children.
Turning his head, Jin Shi was hit by Miao Jue's fist, which was as big as a sandbag.
The clever trick couldn't stop everyone's good intentions, so day by day they watched the marriage tree grow taller and taller, reaching into the clouds.
Later, it was said that people had seen the tree's shadow in several mirages at sea, and for a time, it was regarded as a sacred tree in the mortal world. So Miaojue began to vaguely hear the prayers of the people and received a lot of new information from the outside world. Now, the mainland is also in turmoil, and there are always people eager to try their luck at the overseas fairyland.
It's time to set sail.
“Okay.” Jin Shi’s lips curled up and his eyes narrowed.
The secret lies in two coughs.
In a secluded, dark place when no one is around.
Their minds clashed, their spirits surged, and they intertwined and merged.
His spiritual power had been repeatedly impacting and expanding her limbs and bones, and she was beginning to be able to withstand the burning heat of the golden crow, stirring up boundless ripples of pleasure in her sea of consciousness.
It was like an endless, extremely detailed foreplay.
Sometimes, even the spirit bones of the magic technique showed signs of subtle improvement.
This is absolutely terrifying.
She already possesses a Xuan-level Time Bone, a rare find even in ten thousand years, and her consciousness has merged with that of the Changming Clan, yet she will still advance further.
"Is this all it takes for a spiritual connection?"
Miaojue's face was red and yellow, but in order not to let the bird be too conspicuous, he kept his face tense and expressionless.
"What if you get promoted?" she asked casually. "It will have the same impact on both sides. What will the Golden Crow become?"
"Golden Rooster...maybe," he said modestly after a moment's thought.
"." I almost dared not let him repeat the first three words.
Miaojue ran away, clutching her head and looking utterly dejected.
Utterly shameless! Utterly shameless!
…
The sea surrounding the ancestral land was not yet called the Endless Sea, nor was it shrouded in year-round sea fog.
As the golden crow spreads its wings and gracefully skims across the sea, it feels as if another world has passed.
Nothing had ever happened; it was so clearly tangible.
"Where is the Kunxian Stone Mine located?" she asked Jin Shi, looking up. "These past few days, I've vaguely heard cultivators from the mainland praying, wanting to cross the sea and become immortals."
The place where Bu Er was imprisoned was the location of the mineral vein. It was Tai Sui who guided the direction, but Tai Sui was actually formed by soaking in the blood of a Qilin in the sea. Now that this cause and effect is gone, Miao Jue feels blind when facing the vast ocean.
Jin Shi seemed to remember something, his peach blossom eyes lowered, and he patted her head, "Just stick close to me."
The sea stretched endlessly, like a long, wrinkled blue carpet. The man behind him remained calm and composed; just as his vision blurred from the magic trick, he seemed to understand some wave and suddenly began to plunge downwards.
They didn't even say hello!
Miaojue subconsciously held her breath, her mind drifting back to how she gasped for air underwater when she went to the sea to find her second brother last time. It seemed as if his ashes and feathers had formed a ball of oxygen that isolated her, enveloping her within it.
The icy seawater enveloped her from all directions, but when she looked up, her crisp breath came from the other person's lips.
Miaojue instinctively grabbed his collar, remembering that he had said that day that it didn't matter if she couldn't swim, he could help her breathe.
He was wounded and bleeding when he made those lewd remarks.
It's not that I'm helping her breathe, but it's also like I'm completely stealing her breath.
The waves gently lapped against Miaojue's tightly closed eyelids, and her familiar, hot lips and tongue sealed her firmly. In the ocean, isolated from the world, the kiss was wet and dripping.
In the aimless feeling of floating, sinking and falling, like a soft, weightless jellyfish being deeply kissed and conquered, the subtle feeling of suffocation makes the heart beat wildly and lose its rhythm.
That's really clever.
His tongue explored unrestrained depths to a terrifying extent, and the soft jellyfish in his arms finally let out two whimpers from its throat, gasping for breath in the ashes.
Then it blew a bubble.
Jin Shi looked down at her, and after a while, he laughed and fell into the crook of her neck.
...So cute.
It's delicious.
Miaojue's head slumped on his shoulder, feeling dizzy. After a while, his vision was still black; they had reached the deep sea.
The surroundings remained extremely quiet, with deep-sea currents surging, sometimes calm and sometimes like a tsunami passing by. Finding the trench buried by the Kunxian Stone Mine in such an environment was no easy task.
Jin Shi pinched her cool earlobe in the seawater, the corners of his lips curled up, and he transmitted his thoughts through his mind, "Close your eyes and look."
The secret is to close your eyes and use your divine sense to scan your surroundings.
This scan gave me quite a shock.
It wasn't because there was anything terrifying around her, but because she discovered that her divine sense was incredibly clear and vast, revealing almost every detail of the entire sea area.
It's so detailed that you can see tiny schools of fish swimming by, how each one is lined up, and see transparent, fibrous jellyfish contracting and expanding as they breathe in the quiet depths of the sea.
Of course, there are also the dark white crystal veins hidden in the vast ocean trench, which are the previously undeveloped "Immortal Trapping Stones".
Miao Jue blinked, realizing that refining one's divine sense to this extent seemed to be...
He chuckled maliciously from the chest behind her a few times, and the fingertips that were pinching her earlobe rubbed it meaningfully.
By merging her soul with the Everlasting Golden Crow every day, she now possesses not only top-tier spiritual bones but also a divine consciousness strength comparable to that of the ancients.
The trick is to pretend nothing happened, slap his hand away, and raise your own palm.
The verdant spiritual stream, like fireflies in a dark sea, spread out in scattered spots. The fireflies, their halos growing larger, gathered into lamps, and one by one, these lamps stretched out along the veins of the white crystal, seemingly without end.
These underwater rock formations have been formed over millions of years due to tectonic movements, which explains why the former Langhuan Immortal Court had an inexhaustible supply of them.
Fortunately, her Xuan Bone Power was also inexhaustible.
The vast, endless green fluorescent lights descended along the veins, eventually illuminating a third of the boundless deep sea. In the dim light, it was almost like a dazzling, interwoven Milky Way.
Amidst the twinkling stars and the Milky Way in the long night, they came upstream, holding lanterns and gazing at each other.
No matter which century it is, it's always been the two of them.
The man behind her had been quiet until this moment, when his breathing became even and deep.
I felt I should say something, but lately he's been saying things that are so out of place, nothing is appropriate for this place or this moment.
The girl in his arms spoke to him telepathically.
Hmph, she's not one to talk dirty.
"There will be no more chains, no more walls."
Miaojue raised his palm, and the crystal veins beneath the azure Milky Way began to collapse. Time passed silently, saving them from suffering countless times.
"From this day forward, we will shine forever."
…
Jin Shi tightened his grip on her arm, but for the first time ever, there was no response.
She gently shattered all the nonsensical remarks.
His eyelashes fluttered wildly, his breathing became erratic, and he felt his heart flutter a hundred times over in those few dozen words she had spoken.
Horrible, so terrifying...
Miao Jue supported herself with her palms as she traced the vein back to its source. Soon, it had collapsed by half and was buried even deeper in the seabed trenches. But as her spiritual energy flowed back to the Trapped Immortal Stone, she vaguely sensed some kind of connection.
Or rather, a cause and effect.
She had been carefully sensing things, and at a certain moment, she inadvertently touched Jin Shi behind her. Suddenly, a moment of clarity came to her mind, and she stopped.
This deep sea vein is connected to the Changming Ancestral Stone.
In the more distant primordial era, they were born in opposition, like yin and yang. Before the ancestral stone began to exhale and release the ever-shining spiritual energy of the five elements, what it revealed were the impurities within this essence of heaven and earth.
These impurities are the yin substances that affect the evolution of the stone embryo, like the mud and sand that bury pearls and jade, and their quantity is naturally many times greater than the spiritual energy of the five elements.
They were originally in a state of yin and yang balance, like the five elements, forever mutually generating and restraining each other, influencing one another. However, in the long geological changes and the evolution of the sea into land, they were separated by faults.
The yin essence slumbered in the sea, and the stone embryo began to gestate into an eternal light. Then, after countless years, this in turn led to the near extinction of the entire race. ...
ah.
The secret is to open your eyes.
The cycle of cause and effect is indeed the most mysterious and unbreakable thing in the world.
Seeing that she had come to her senses, Jin Shi pulled her closer. His usually nonchalant expression turned serious, and he felt he had to say something at this moment.
He can spout witty remarks easily, but struggles to formulate a serious statement.
He thought for a long time before finally opening his thin lips: "I..."
But at that moment, a dark shadow suddenly darted out of the water and snaked its way towards them.
Miao Jue seemed to sense something and looked closely. It turned out to be an extremely huge black dragon, or rather, a dragon that had not yet become an immortal. Its entire body was black, except for its white whiskers.
This underwater overlord carries the aura of the Immortal-Binding Stone.
Those dragon eyes darted around, and his excellent night vision allowed him to immediately see the secret, his pupils lighting up instantly.
Jin Shi frowned, already annoyed at being interrupted, and raised his hand to crush the unknown thing.
But two other figures appeared along with the dark figure.
The two chased each other, one in front and one behind, one swimming and the other gliding, clearly trying to kill the black dragon, but it seemed as if they were vying to die for their cause.
The man, his eyes bloodshot: Step back! Step back! I'll sacrifice myself!
The woman burst into tears: How could I bear it? How could I bear it!
Miaojue blinked.
Jin Shi blinked.
The two of them tacitly stepped aside.
With the past wiped away, Miao Jue's memories of Dongfang Yaotian and Gong Yuqiu could no longer be limited to those years of fancy tree-cutting, but rather to the scorching light of the two refining the Heavenly Fate Pearls before the world collapsed.
In any case, a century has passed in a flash, and it's good that old friends can still meet again...
That's hilarious.
The two fought fiercely against the black dragon, eventually both falling unconscious. This admirable virtue of entrusting their lives to fate in a moment of crisis continues to this day.
The black dragon didn't actually intend to kill them. It glanced at the magic technique, then flicked its tail and disappeared into the deep sea.
Jin Shi crossed his arms and scooped them up a couple of times before the tsunami hit, his face full of disgust.
Throughout their long lives, the Changming tribe rarely develops deep friendships with ordinary humans, except in extremely rare cases.
Of course, it cannot be denied that Dongfang Yaotian did leave a deep and colorful impression on his world.
Jin Shi casually tossed them onto the shore, his peach blossom eyes filled with mockery and malice.
Thinking back to the countless times they had clashed over their torturous love, it was through their marriage that they finally reached their end.
Things are different now than they were in the past.
Jin Shi crossed his arms and sneered with a sense of superiority.
His romantic prospects are progressing incredibly fast now; the two of them are probably still playing in the mud.
Jin Shi grabbed Miao Jue's hand and kissed her palm.
There were acquaintances there too!
The ingenious trick was inexplicably embarrassing; my five fingers immediately curled up, my palm felt itchy, and I pulled them back.
Why is this bird suddenly spreading its tail feathers? What is it that's making him happy?
Not satisfied, the other person lowered his head and followed her lips, his words muffled and clingy, wanting to finish what he had just said, but was suddenly pulled aside by a clever trick.
Suddenly, Dongfang Yaotian rolled over and, while spitting out water, shook Gong Yuqiu wildly with bloodshot eyes. Gong Yuqiu slowly woke up, and when their eyes met, she asked with tears in her eyes, "Why are you so stupid? Why did you have to stand in front of me?"
Jin Shi is just having fun.
Jin Shi stopped laughing again.
His expression remained calm, but the fingers he held to his arms began to tap anxiously. After a while, he broke down and started trembling.
They haven't officially started dating yet.
Although many years ago he had taken a desperate gamble and shamelessly donned a wedding dress.
But she has not given a direct answer yet.
Never.
She's always like that.
Jin Shi anxiously hugged his arms, then finally lowered his head and fiercely bit her smiling lips, rubbing them together.
They've already slept together and kissed.
"So who am I to you now?"
[Author's Note]
Ahhh, I'm late! It was supposed to be a short chapter, but I felt it was too short, so I continued writing half of it. [crying emoji]
There's still some rice left!
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