Chapter 319

How that bloody night ended, Canglong no longer remembers it due to his self-protection mechanism. He only remembers the fragrance of grass and trees in the blood, and the subtle, regular heartbeat beside his ear.

The impression of the terrifying appearance of those alien beasts and plants gradually faded in his mind. The claws of the Canglong unconsciously grabbed the gentleman's clothes. It closed its eyes and swore in its heart that it must not become such a monster.

Life seemed to be back on track, and everything seemed to be the same as before, but Bai Ze was sleeping and had not woken up, while Mr. was in a hurry, going out early and returning late. Before returning to the courtyard, Mr. had tidied up his appearance. Phoenix and Qilin did not notice anything, and just thought that Mr. had suffered some minor injuries.

The gentleman and it agreed that the injury was a secret between them and would not be known to anyone else.

Under Yuchuan's deliberate concealment, Fenghuang and Qilin did not notice that his left eye was dull and lifeless, as if covered with a layer of gray shadow. Even though it was slowly repaired to be no different from usual, Canglong knew very well that the severely injured eye only looked the same on the surface, but in fact, it had left an irreversible damage.

Canglong also began to go out early and come back late.

After taking on a human form, even if it was just a child's form, it was sometimes much more convenient than the original form. Phoenix stared at Canglong's chubby face, with obvious envy in her round eyes: "Canglong, what's the secret of your transformation?"

———They are still a long way from transforming.

The fingers behind Canglong's back trembled for a moment. Phoenix's words, without any knowledge of the situation, seemed to bring him back to that bloody night. He said vaguely, "Once you feel it, you can transform."

Phoenix: “…”

It's really like listening to your words, just like listening to a conversation.

"Do you have time now?" Canglong lowered his eyelashes, "I need your help with something."

The master told them not to go out unless necessary. Qilin was used to eating salted fish so he didn't feel any impact. But Fenghuang had nothing to do except practice, and he was so busy that the sycamore tree in the courtyard was almost glowing.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Phoenix nodded quickly without even asking what it was about. "I have plenty of time now!"

Canglong brought the phoenix to its own yard. Canglong had a strong sense of territory for the place where it lived, and the phoenix seldom entered without permission. This time, after the phoenix stepped into the yard, it couldn't help but let out an exaggerated "Wow--".

Canglong's room was filled with transparent gems, some as big as a fist, some so big that they almost poked the ceiling. Sunlight poured through the half-open windows onto the gems, refracting colorful spots on the walls that looked like rainbows.

"They are so pretty!" The phoenix looked around. It had no resistance to beautiful, shiny things. "I knew you would like these too!"

Every Chinese New Year, the phoenix would pick out some of its favorite items from its collection as New Year gifts for other friends, and the other friends would give the phoenix beautiful sparkles in return. If a strong light is shone in the phoenix's room, the reflected light can temporarily blind a person.

Canglong: "I want to give you a pair of monocles. Your spiritual power is of fire attribute, which makes you more suitable for forging than me."

In the stories the teacher told them, he had mentioned glasses. In the future, there would be all kinds of glasses.

"Why a single lens?" Phoenix was a little confused, "Wouldn't it be better to make a pair?"

"Because monocles are cooler." Canglong thought for a moment and gave a very serious reason to Phoenix, "and it's more convenient to hold."

"What you said makes a lot of sense." Phoenix was convinced instantly, "So all the materials in this room are from you?"

"Yes." Canglong walked to the table, on which were three cut and polished prototype transparent gemstones. "I have tried many kinds, and the effects of these three can accommodate the greatest degree of change."

"Anyway, I like the second one better."

The phoenix used its spiritual power to make the second transparent lens float up. The fire-attributed spiritual power enveloped the transparent lens, calcining the lens evenly to ensure that every position of the lens could carry the same spiritual power. After being calcined by the phoenix, the lens looked more transparent, as if it were invisible.

"Are you sure you want to give it to me like this?" Phoenix used the tip of her wing to touch the top of her head. "I feel like it will disappear if I'm not careful. How about we add a fixed edge?"

As the Phoenix was talking, an inspiration came to it. It threw the lens into Canglong's arms, returned to its own courtyard and took out a ball of golden material. In the eyes of the Phoenix, this was one of the most beautiful colors in the world.

"This material has the property of 'immortality', I think it is the most suitable!" Phoenix stuffed the ball of gold into Canglong's arms, "If you want to give a gift, you can polish it yourself~"

Phoenix has no patience for such delicate work.

Canglong looked at the irregular golden cluster in his arms and whispered "thank you". This material with the "immortal" property is quite special. It needs to be kept in gold before being forged. The Phoenix has always treasured it very much, but he didn't expect that it would be willing to use it now.

"Do it well!" The phoenix poked the baby dragon's chubby face with the tip of its wing and warned him fiercely, "Don't waste my treasure!"

Canglong spent several days fitting the Phoenix's treasure around the outer circumference of the lens to form a circle. After forging, there was still some concentrated material left, so Canglong added a chain under the lens and tied a leaf at the end.

The monocle did not have too many functions. The most important and core formation engraved on it was protection. The monocle fell gently into his palm. Canglong was not very satisfied with the glasses that took nearly two months to make. However, this was already the best work within his ability, or even beyond his ability.

Canglong thought that he would be able to make better glasses in the future so that the gentleman’s injured left eye would no longer be a burden.

After the master came back that night, Canglong hesitated for a long time before knocking on the door of Yuchuan Courtyard at night and delivering the monocle he made.

"Is this a gift for me?" After receiving the monocle with a gold frame, the familiar feeling that had not appeared for a long time came back to him. Yuchuan's body reacted faster than his brain. He picked up the monocle and put it on his left eye. The gold chain of the glasses hung down to his jaw. Yuchuan smiled and said, "I like it very much."

Canglong breathed a sigh of relief. His voice was small and gentle: "As long as you like it."

"I'm not lying, I really like it." Yuchuan touched the horns of the Canglong, bent down and picked up the little human-shaped Canglong. "We agreed before that if there are any problems, we must communicate in time and not keep them in our hearts. You can't go back on your word."

Canglong whispered back, "I didn't."

"Then I believe it." Yuchuan pinched its cheek, a smile flashing in his eyes, "Are you going to sleep next door today? I basked in your little nest yesterday."

Canglong buried his head in Yuchuan's neck, his chubby face bulging out from under the pressure: "...Yes."

…

All the changes seemed to have little impact on the courtyard, but the area outside the courtyard was becoming increasingly turbulent. The mad oak tree that the dragon blood tree had encountered before was in a worse condition than any other alien plant that Yuchuan had encountered on the other side of the mountains—it seemed to have completely lost its mind.

Fuso and Wakagi teamed up to force Yumu back to his original form. There was a faint black line on his trunk, and the surface of each of the red fruits hanging between the branches was covered with gray scars.

Fusang's expression was quite serious: "I can't find out."

She could see with her naked eyes that something was wrong with the wood, but when she channeled her spiritual power into the original wood, everything seemed perfectly normal.

Fuso is in charge of the characteristic of "vitality", while Ruomu is in charge of the power of "decline". After carefully examining it several times, Ruomu still found no problems.

"We can't delay this any longer." The elegant Sanzhushu frowned and made the final decision, "Let's hold a special gathering of plants and trees."

…

Yuchuan felt that the depths of his cracked consciousness seemed to be touched for a moment. He looked in the direction of Jianmu as if he had sensed something. In fact, he did not receive any information, but he had a premonition that Jianmu was calling him.

Shoumu came here before and told Yuchuan that other plants and trees did not have a suitable solution, so there was a high probability that a special gathering of plants and trees would be held. Now it was Jianmu who was notifying him?

This method of notification was somewhat strange. Yuchuan blinked his eyes. After arranging the tasks for the four cubs, he went to the grass and tree gathering. Due to the special nature of this gathering, the grass and trees were unprecedentedly neat and orderly, but Langshu, who was in charge of counting the number, looked a little ugly.

The special thing about this gathering of plants and trees is that all plants and trees in the world will be notified by Jianmu, and it is impossible for any one to be missed. However, the number of plants and trees that should arrive is one-fifth less than expected.

The number of transformed plants and trees is not as large as that of alien beasts, and most of them are lazy and peaceful in nature. However, no plant or tree will ignore the summons issued by Jianmu unless something happens.

"One fifth..." Fuso frowned, "It's more serious than I expected."

An unknown strange disease is parasitizing alien beasts and plants recklessly, and is becoming more and more serious.

After making sure that no more plants would come, Langshu gathered his spiritual power in his palm and poured it into the naturally formed purple wooden wall. The green vines trembled, the black flowers closed one by one, and all the plants heard Jianmu's voice.

[All the plants and trees that have not yet arrived are in need of disaster.]

———Jianmu gave an unexpected answer.

Fuso: "Should be robbed?"

[The universe has its regularity, the four seasons have their order, and our time is about to end.]

Dragon Blood Tree held his newly carved stone basin and wondered, "Why don't I understand anything?"

The Golden Crow was poking its head around in Ruomu's arms. It couldn't hear Jianmu's voice, so naturally it didn't understand why the conditions of these plants suddenly became abnormal.

[Survival of the fittest is the law of nature.]

Ruomu sighed: "We have to find a solution, we can't just sit there and wait for death."

"Great changes in the world bring about great disasters." Lang Shu's face was still very ugly. "I thought this was just a vague legend passed down from generation to generation."

A big question mark almost popped up on the top of Dragon Blood Tree's head: "Why is this not mentioned in my inheritance?"

"Dudu——"

It sounded like someone was knocking on the wooden wall.

"Excuse me." They suddenly heard Yuchuan's voice, with a hint of confusion in his tone, "What secrets are you talking about? Why can't I listen?"

"Could it be that you are too young, Yuchuan, and Jianmu is afraid that you might be scared—" the elegant Sanzhu pointed hesitantly at the two pots in the arms of the dragon blood tree, "so you were subconsciously blocked by Jianmu along with them?"

The leaves of the two trees named Emperor Xiu Tree and Emperor Wu Tree bent and turned into two question marks.