Chapter 219 Fire Cloud Cave
Huoyun Cave is indeed a huge grotto, so huge that one-third of the entire Huoyun Mountain is within its boundaries.
In terms of shape, the Fire Cloud Cave resembles a bowl embedded in the mountainside.
The area is warm in the front and cold in the back. In front, the mountains are high and steep, with steep cliffs and deep ravines. The flowers are fragrant and the fruits are sweet, with red vines and green bamboo.
Behind them, the frost remained unmelted, the pine trees were covered in white, and the cold rocks stood silently.
Here, one can see the scenery of all four seasons at any time; what a blessed place!
Above this Fire Cloud Cave, there are countless fox dens, where they, along with fifty-one other races, live around the Fire Fox Clan, led by Gu Chan.
Originally, many more races lived in this cave, but Gu Chan was domineering. After she advanced to the Eight-Tails and became an emperor, she used her own strength and background to drive out all those who did not submit to her. Now, she is the one who calls the shots in the Fire Cloud Cave.
That day, she was enjoying the singing and dancing with her newly acquired beautiful fox, drinking and having fun. Just as she was getting carried away, a patrolman came to report, "Your Majesty, something terrible has happened! A scruffy bear has been chased and attacked by a group of old birds, and it has come all the way here."
The patrolling fox was a six-tailed fire fox, and one of her hind legs had been torn open, bleeding profusely.
Gu Chan looked at her exquisite printed bird feather cushion, now stained with blood, and felt a surge of anger. She raised her eight fiery red tails and scolded, "What kind of panicked talk is this! Back in the day, how many bears were there in our Fire Cloud Cave? Didn't I chase them all out?"
Having said that, she lost all interest in having fun. She put on her golden armor, summoned the best fighters in her tribe, and went outside.
Outside, Zhan Shi sat arrogantly at the gate he had smashed.
He held a basket of bird eggs he had collected that day, picked one up, smelled it, licked it, and called out to the group of bird cultivators in the sky, led by the old ribbon bird king, "Today, if you can't properly hand over a method that satisfies your bear grandfather, you can forget about getting this egg!"
"This is outrageous!" The old ribbon-tailed bird, Queen Tangye, who was hovering in the sky, saw the bear sniffing and licking her offspring's eggs. She lost all reason and urged the sharp feathers on her tail, which had been refined over many years, to swoop down towards Zhan Shi.
In an instant, a shower of fine rain, like a hundred arrows, shot towards Zhan Shi.
Zhan Shi immediately stood up straight, baring his huge fangs and roaring towards the sky! He then swiftly drew a gleaming silver spear from his back and swept it towards the face of the ribbon-tailed bird, the King's wing, which was swooping down towards him. He deliberately swung it slightly off-center, only knocking off a few large feathers from the wing's right wing.
A great battle was about to break out. Nearly thirty large birds surrounded Zhan Shi, who was sitting in front of the Fire Cloud Cave. Zhan Shi would not just wait to be attacked. He dragged his spear with one claw, made a few feints, and then used one claw to protect the egg basket. He rolled several times on the ground and ran into the Fire Cloud Cave.
After running a few steps, Zhan Shi saw a fully armed fox cultivator of the Emperor rank walking towards him. Zhan Shi immediately called out, "Whose cave is this? I need to take refuge here for a while."
Then, he darted into the depths of the Fire Cloud Cave.
The group of bird cultivators behind Zhan Shi, their eyes bloodshot from the fighting, also followed him in, diverting the attention of the Emperor Fox Cultivator Gu Chan from Zhan Shi's side.
The terrain of the Fire Cloud Cave is uneven, and countless trees grow inside, making it very difficult to fly. Many of these bird cultivators bumped their heads into trees as soon as they rushed in. Because of this delay, Zhan Shi disappeared without a trace.
The ribbon birds refused to leave after failing to retrieve the eggs; they immediately scattered and began searching everywhere in the Fire Cloud Cave.
Zhan Shi ran while searching for the formation in the Fire Cloud Cave; as soon as he found it, he transformed into his Dharma Bear form and randomly jabbed at the spot with his spear.
His brutal breaking of the formation caused various sizes of earth flowers to explode from time to time throughout the Fire Cloud Cave.
Before long, the entire Fire Cloud Cave was in chaos.
Birds roamed the cave, while foxes cried out in despair. Amid the chaos, some seized the opportunity to rob, others devoured cubs, and still others stole fox mates. It was truly a scene of utter chaos.
Seeing the chaotic scene, Gu Chan was furious. She transformed into a giant magic fox and imprisoned or forced back the bird cultivators that were constantly circling in the sky. She then used the technique "Bewitching Mind" to bewitch the bird cultivators she had captured.
After Gu Chan learned the whole story through the behavior of these bird cultivators in the illusion, she felt even more hatred for the flower bear she had only met once.
Although Gu Chan felt resentment, she was not in a hurry.
Because years ago, she had covered the entire Fire Cloud Cave with an array. She was confident that as long as she sealed the cave and repaired the damaged parts, she could catch that scruffy bear and tear it to pieces!
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Fox Chan issued orders and deployed troops from the heart of the Fire Cloud Cave.
Zhan Shi, however, had already taken a shortcut and hid in the artificial hill in Gu Chan's backyard; he waited there for a day and a night and finally caught those foxes who wanted to do good deeds, as Gu Qingqing had mentioned.
Zhan Shi tied up the two foxes he had stumbled upon and threw them to the ground; then he sat down on the ground and began to recite the lineage and identity of the two foxes as if reciting a text.
He said, "Since you two young friends dare to secretly have sex behind my back, you must be quite bold, and you've done this kind of thing quite often."
"Would you rather send me out of the cave, or come with me to Gu Chan's place and tell her about the good deeds you've done behind her back?"
Upon hearing this, the pair of wild foxes whose tryst he had witnessed immediately wilted their tails.
They knew that the bear before them could explain their origins so clearly because there must be a fox traitor within the Fire Cloud Cave.
But at that moment, they didn't care about anything else.
After all, no matter how important the clan's affairs are, they are not as important as one's own life.
So they all lowered their heads to conceal Zhan Shi! Taking advantage of the brief interval between the changing of the guards in the Fire Cloud Cave, they quietly sent Zhan Shi out.
It was a close call, but no real danger.
Outside the Fiery Cloud Cave, the bird cultivator king, Tang Ye, who had been forced back, was leading his fellow bird cultivators in a second charge into the cave when suddenly a bird behind them cried out, "Whose eggs are these? Who left their eggs here?!"
Upon hearing this sound, the birds immediately abandoned their attack on the Fire Cloud Cave. They excitedly flew back and soon found a Venerable Realm gray bird, which was none other than Ji Zhuang.
According to the plan, Ji Zhuang should have received the last basket of eggs before calling out; however, after flying around, Zhan Shi did not appear.
Seeing that the Fire Fox clan members outside the cave were searching more and more thoroughly, Ji Zhuang could no longer care about the last basket of eggs and shouted.
"That gray brat, return my clan's eggs at once!" Upon hearing this news, Tang Ye was overjoyed, and her imperial aura pressed down on Ji Zhuang.
Ji Zhuang immediately transformed into a celestial being and flew away. He shouted, "How dare you! I am a servant of the Dragon and Phoenix Palace, Jue Jun. I am ordered to find that wicked bird that keeps throwing eggs at us. If you continue to pressure me and humiliate me, I will kill myself!"
"When that time comes, Juejun will definitely come looking for me, and you'll all be doomed!"
The old emperor, Tang Ye, had already ventured into the Fire Cloud Cave, so she had no reason to care about this now. She stretched out a claw and reached out to grab Ji Zhuang.
Seeing this, Ji Zhuang stopped avoiding it and turned around to slap his spiritual power into the Xuanhuan wooden plaque hanging on his chest.
Suddenly, a phantom image of a tiger at the Emperor Realm flew out from the wooden tablet, its mouth wide open, and it bit down on Tang Ye's claws.
The damselfly cried out as it was bitten, and even the mind that had lost its eggs regained a little. It cried out in anguish, "Give us back our eggs."
But Ji Zhuang was nowhere to be found; he had already fled the moment the phantom of Shan Zhongfeng appeared.
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