Chapter 258

Even though it had transformed into a giant snake, Xuanwu was incredibly dark. No one could tell its emotions from its pitch-black head, but it was obvious that the giant snake was stunned for a moment, and the voice that had just been as excited as the Peashooter also became quieter. Yu Tu even heard a hint of grievance in his voice:

"Do you really have to tell me?"

He said angrily, "Did that bastard Canglong break his promise and tell you what happened back then? We clearly agreed that only God, the earth, I, and he would know! This damn bastard actually lied to me!!"

Yu was worried whether he would anger Xuanwu Tu: "......?"

He really didn't expect that the follow-up would turn out like this.

Yu Tu saw a slight bewilderment on Feng Huang's face. Perhaps Xuanwu's reaction was beyond his expectations, but this emotion disappeared very quickly. Feng Huang put on a confident smile: "How else would I know?"

In the past, there were people who got something for nothing. Today, there is a phoenix who lies to catch a black tortoise: "What happened back then wasn't that serious, was it? Is it worth giving him your turtle body?"

"I can only serve him like a slave for saving my life———" Although Xuanwu's expression could not be seen, everyone could hear the sadness in his tone, "Hasn't this meant I have been working under him for thousands of years?"

Although it is unknown how much the turtle body of Xuanwu is worth, it must be quite high. Yu Tu silently supplemented Xuanwu in his heart - this is not an ordinary part-time job, this is a job that pays for itself. I didn't expect that it had been so popular thousands of years ago.

"Let's not talk about this anymore!" The tip of Xuanwu's tail moved over from behind, slapping the ground with its thick tail tip. It bared its fangs fiercely and spit out its tongue. "Phoenix, what on earth do you want to do?"

The phoenix created by spiritual energy was not at all panicked by the threat. He said, "I came to see you, sir."

Xuanwu: "Then why did you create a time-space chaos!"

"I said it was a coincidence." Phoenix smiled innocently, "Would you believe it?"

Xuanwu: “…”

He half wanted to wag his tail at some annoying bird.

"Xuanwu." Phoenix took a step forward, "Lend me your turtle shell."

"What do you want to do?!" The nearly 20-meter-tall giant snake retreated in fear, leaving a deep groove on the ground. "That's my life-saving magic weapon, I won't give it to you!"

Say the most ferocious words in the most ferocious tone.

"No!" Xuanwu shook his big head wildly, "Canglong said that we can't give the turtle shell to anyone—"

The phoenix in front of it disappeared, and appeared above his head in an instant. It raised its hand and cracked a piece of scales: "What did you just say? I didn't hear it clearly."

"I said I can't give it to you, so I can't give it to you!" Two huge drops of water fell down, creating spider-web-like cracks on the ground. "Even if you hit me, I won't give in!"

Ten minutes later, the giant snake that was more than 20 meters high had disappeared, leaving only a small black snake that was half an arm's length coiled up in a ball, shedding tears.

Phoenix played with the black turtle shell and said slowly, "If I had known this would happen, why would I have done it in the first place?"

Xuanwu was beaten so badly that he dared not make a sound. He could only shed tears and curse at him in his heart. The ground under the dark "elliptical plate" was soon soaked.

Yu Tu felt really sorry for it. He took a few steps towards Xuanwu, but Fenghuang grabbed his arm and said, "It's too late for you to go there now. The cracks on your scales have all grown."

Even though he was working under Canglong, Xuanwu had never suffered any great hardship. After thousands of years, his fighting consciousness had been degraded to the point where there was almost nothing left. Even the spiritual creatures left by the Phoenix could not be defeated by Xuanwu.

"Although I really want to keep you in the deserted mountains until the barrier is broken and all the dust settles." Phoenix placed the turtle shell in Yu Tu's palm, "but I can't do that."

"Before I regret it." Phoenix lowered her eyelashes, "The right to choose is left to you."

The pitch-black turtle shell was only half the size of a palm and looked like some unknown metal. Yu Tu channeled a little energy into the turtle shell, and his eyes widened a little because of shock—Xuanwu's turtle shell was the only door to leave [Desolate Mountain], and it was a one-way passage that could only be used to exit but not enter.

"I think that you must have made many new connections in the outside world after waking up this time." Phoenix sighed, "You will not sit idly by and watch them perish in the face of disaster."

He spent so much energy and so much time building [Barren Mountain], but left the final decision to the person who was bound to leave, just because he didn't want him to be sad.

He remembered that in his distant memory, a long time ago, the teacher had said——

Once the choice is made, there is no room for regret.

People, things and events will never come back.

Yu Tu injected energy, which was equivalent to grasping the door handle leading to the door outside the barren mountain. He only needed to exert force to push it open completely.

Without the help of the Phoenix, Yu Tu would never have been able to determine that Xuanwu's tortoise shell was the only door inside the vast [Wild Mountain] within a hundred days.

Yu Tu mobilized the energy in his body and injected it into the turtle shell. The turtle shell, which was half the size of his palm, gradually emitted a mysterious black light. The turtle shell slowly floated up from Yu Tu's hand, then fell to the ground and grew in the wind. It stopped only when the entrance of the turtle shell was big enough for a person to pass through by bending over.

When the turtle shell changed, the phoenix figure made of spiritual energy beside Yu Tu began to fade, and the temperature of the small white stone hanging on his chest was also slowly cooling down.

Yu Tu said sincerely: "Thank you."

The phoenix smiled at him. He had now become transparent, and through his body, one could see the forget-me-not grass swaying in the wind behind him.

"It's a pity that we didn't see each other before you woke up." Phoenix said softly in the last moment before disappearing, "But this way...is not bad."

The almost transparent phantom shattered into red spiritual power flying all over the sky. Yu Tu raised his head, and the spiritual power passed through his body and fed back to the thick earth. He inexplicably remembered the fluttering sycamore leaves on Chao Mountain that day, as if it was a rain of fire.

Some of the red sycamore leaves fell on his knees, some fell on his hands, and some fell in his arms, just like the scattered spiritual light spots before his eyes, which could not be kept.

Yu Tu heard a slight "click", and the small white stone that fell on his heart seemed to have finally completed its mission and disappeared along with the red spots of light.

Yu Tu stood there and watched for a while, then he turned around and bent down to pass through the door made of the black tortoise shell, but something circled his ankles.

————It was Xuanwu who was hiding in the corner and crying bitterly before.

"Do we have to leave?" it asked.

Xuanwu's clear, young voice was sad, and there was a hint of fear in it: "If we leave here, we will never be able to come back."

"Do you want to go out with me?" Yu Tu asked.

The tip of the small black snake's tail twitched around his ankle: "I am now a mountain spirit in the [barren mountain], I can't leave."

When Mr. Yuchuan activated the door of [Desolate Mountain] leading to the outside world, Xuanwu suddenly realized that the hexagram of [Great Fierceness] was actually aimed at itself.

"We must leave?" Xuanwu asked, "Are those people outside... important?"

Yu Tu nodded, and he felt Xuanwu's tail tighten around his ankle. It raised its voice a little: "But you can't regret it after you get out! Once you make the wrong choice, there will be no chance to start over!"

"I know." Yu Tu bent down and touched the top of the head of the little black snake, which was tilted up. "I won't regret it."

Xuanwu raised its head and looked at him. Yu Tu still couldn't see its facial features clearly, but tiny drops of water rolled down its dark head.

"I'm sorry." Yu Tu said, "Thank you for your care these days."

Xuanwu shed silent tears, and the tail that was wrapped around his ankles moved away little by little. It swam to the root of a herb and wrapped itself around it like a rope. It was impossible to tell where the head and the tail were, like a black hollow cylinder.

Yu Tu bent down and entered the dark turtle shell. Before he was completely inside, he did not look back, but only said, "Goodbye."

He took a step forward, and the feeling of weightlessness and whistling came over him one after another, as if the world had turned upside down, everything was noisy, and the disordered lines in front of him turned into colors again. Yu Tu saw everything familiar - the only door leading to the outside world in [Desolate Mountain], which turned out to be his teahouse.

Yu Tu couldn't help but feel that it was a bit absurd, but what was even more absurd was that on the table behind the counter, where he usually sat, the open books were neatly stacked with bookmarks, with only a few blank sheets of paper left, and the other papers were filled with targeted teaching plans that looked so strict and inhumane.

Because he successfully got out of the [Desolate Mountain], the memory of this half of consciousness in the vest was finally able to synchronize with the original body. During the time when the vest was missing, the original body's life was extremely miserable.

…

“Drip—drip—drip—”

Inside the headquarters of the Beijing Municipal Abnormal Affairs Bureau, on the most central wall of the testing laboratory, the highest point that was so red that it was almost black suddenly dropped rapidly. Its height gradually became lower than level A, passed level B, and finally stopped at level C, with a faint tendency to fall towards level D.

In less than a minute, the red to black light spot had entered the safety line. The [Desolate Mountain], which had been inexplicably upgraded from B-level to S-level, inexplicably fell back a level and became a less threatening mission.

There are two A-level anomalies and eight B-level anomalies in the inner and outer worlds. The [Barren Mountain] detected in Huailin Town last year is the ninth one. Its appearance is as inexplicable as its upgrade and downgrade.

Although the six groups who had been monitoring the situation for several nights in a row and taking turns to rest did not know the reason, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

After confirming that there would be no new changes, the communication symbol was lit, and the leader of Group 6 reported in a slightly brisk voice:

"Director Jiang, the S-level anomaly [Barren Mountain] has been downgraded to D-. Danger factor: safe."