Rong Yu was slightly taken aback and said, "I kept it..."
He had left Shepuzhu behind, and now, looking at the person staring straight at him, his heart softened. "You were drunk yesterday, and I couldn't wake you up, so I came back to check on you."
"Look? Look at what?"
Rong Yu didn't respond. A flash of golden light appeared before their eyes. The two of them weren't in a hurry, but Feng Yuan was anxious. She kept waving in front of them. Geng Qi said helplessly, "Let's go in first."
"..."
The two walked back to the place they had been before, not understanding why at the time. Even though Geng Qi felt a little uncomfortable, he didn't pay attention. Now, walking in the secret passage where the remains of the ancestors of the Tianzhi Sect were kept, the pulling sensation in his body seemed to be even stronger than before.
Rong Yu noticed his unusual behavior but did not stop him; she simply tightened her grip on his hand.
Geng Qi's steps were unsteady. After passing the few withered corpses, he felt a dull pain in his chest, his soul trembled slightly, and his blood began to boil in his body.
He stumbled and swayed slightly, but Rong Yu caught him.
"fine."
Purple flames scattered and flew to the corner of the secret chamber, illuminating the entire chamber as bright as day. Right in front of the two, a transparent crystal coffin stood upright on the wall of the secret chamber. The crystal coffin was more than three zhang tall. Inside the coffin, a golden phoenix spread its wings, exactly the same as the phoenix statue they had seen in the secret realm. However, the phoenix in the crystal coffin was a real phoenix and not a phantom.
It has phoenix feathers on its head, golden wings and tail feathers, and crimson down feathers on its chest and abdomen. The colors are bright and lifelike.
Strangely, all discomfort disappeared when the hand touched the crystal coffin wall.
Staring closely at the phoenix before him, Geng Qi felt a sense of intimacy.
"You came here for this?"
Rong Yu stepped forward and gently embraced him.
Geng Qi leaned against him and said, "I remember you said that as long as we're together, the discomfort you feel from being pulled by the fragments will disappear?"
"……Um."
Ji Rong said that these fragments of the glass heart originally belonged to him.
The phoenix before him, bound by blood ties, was instantly recognizable as his mother; in a sense, he too belonged to this phoenix.
Returning to the mother body is the nature of all things. Rong Yu has his things inside him, so as long as you get close, you can recognize him by the pull of the fragments. But for him, the fragments are his own things, so he will not feel anything unusual.
His strange behavior in the secret realm was due to the phoenix statue, and his discomfort here was due to the phoenix corpse in the crystal coffin!
The remains of the original owner's mother!
This was originally from the Demon Realm, so why did it appear in the Tianzhi Sect?
Geng Qi turned his head and suddenly understood why Rong Yu wanted to come and see "first".
"He is not in the Annihilation Cave."
Rong Yu spoke calmly, but Geng Qi detected a hint of doubt in his voice.
He suspected that Phoenix's death was related to Saint Zhifeng!
“No,” Geng Qi said. “If it were really him, he could kill a phoenix, so he wouldn’t be afraid of me at all.”
The phoenix is an ancient mythical beast, how could it be killed so easily?
Besides, if he really did kill him, why would the former Demon Lord, who had already ascended to immortality, let him go so easily?
Geng Qi had heard people in Ge Feng Town talk about his mother. The speculations were quite unpleasant, but now it seems that speculations should not be taken seriously. How could the supreme phoenix beast be a demon that climbs into someone's bed?
Judging from the phoenix totems seen in the secret realm, those four-tailed phoenixes were all carved with different postures of this phoenix. No one would go to the desolate swamp secret realm to carve a bunch of totems for no reason. The former Demon Lord was not as cold and ruthless as people say.
But why did he abandon his "wife" and ascend to heaven alone?
Rong Yu's eyes remained doubtful even after he denied it.
What he was worried about was not who Phoenix's death was related to.
"The phoenix is a sacred beast of heaven and earth, and is revered by both the righteous and the demonic paths. Why is there no record of the phoenix's fall in the ancient books of either path?"
Geng Qi, unaware of his unusual behavior, voiced the question that had been on his mind.
Rong Yu suddenly grabbed him and said, "There's always a place where records are kept."
"Huh? Where are we going?"
"Go find someone who knows."
"But this coffin..."
Rong Yu paused: "Take them all with you?"
Geng Qi: "..."
Looking at the crystal coffin that was over three zhang tall, he thought that if he really dragged the coffin back to the Demon Palace and told others that the phoenix was his mother, it would probably scare everyone in the Demon Palace. Moreover, the Divine Phoenix has no boundaries. Regardless of whether the righteous sects knew before that the Tianzhi Sect had the phoenix's remains, now that they know, it has been taken away by the Demon Realm. In the end, it will only become another major conflict between the righteous and demonic paths.
They have already been established within the Tianzhi Sect for a hundred years, so a little longer won't make much difference.
Geng Qi said, "Let's forget about it and go find someone first."
Go find someone who knows the truth!
In the secret realm, Ji Rong's ultimate goal was the same as theirs. Whether it was for the fragments of the Glazed Heart or for the phoenix phantom, he reached the cave by relying on the system's guidance, while Ji Rong found it entirely on his own.
The secrets hidden within the Yiling Sect are far more numerous than they imagined!
Having confirmed their direction, the two left the secret chamber and headed straight for Shangxu Peak. The peak masters guarding the restricted barrier were anxiously worried about what the demon might do in the forbidden area when suddenly they saw a golden light streak across the sky. The two rode the wind towards the direction of the royal family's Sangzhong City and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
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