Chapter 221 Finding the "Enemy"
"It's just a matter of changing masters again," Tang Ye thought to herself.
She followed Gu Qingqing back into the palace. When the fox attendant Gu Qingqing returned to Jiao Jue's side with small steps, Tang Ye immediately bowed and said, "Lord Jue, I am deeply grateful for your kindness and benevolence. I wish to move my entire clan to the forest next to your Dragon and Phoenix Palace. I hope you will grant me permission!"
I have always had several lifelong enemies, but because our Dragon and Phoenix Palace had no chief deity in the past, we had nowhere to turn for help and thus were unable to take revenge.
If you agree to my relocation, I wish to unleash my wings and claws to avenge the land-grabbing incident of years past.
Jiao Jue, recalling Canglan Jun's usual behavior—squinting, baring his fangs—sighed and said, "I understand. Go now. The fighting will never end, and the grudges will never cease."
I am willing to settle things for you. If you can capture your enemies, bring them here. After I understand the whole story, I will take charge for you.
"Qingqing, bestow gifts."
Upon hearing this last sentence, Tang Ye couldn't help but slightly raise her eyes to look at the main seat. She saw the fox-like attendant, Gu Qingqing, bring over a tray with a simple little storage ring on it.
Gu Qingqing squinted her narrow eyes and said to the stunned Tang Ye, "This is a gift from Lord Jue. Go back and do your job well."
If you don't know where to start, think carefully about where your eggs have been, and ask around in those places; you're bound to find something.
Tang Ye accepted the ring, bowed, and took her leave, walking out in a daze.
The cold wind at the mountaintop was particularly chilly, gradually clearing the old bird's head, and making Jiao Jue's words clearer.
The words "to be in charge" were deeply engraved in the heart and mind of the old ribbon bird.
"My chance to turn things around has come!" Tang Ye glanced at the glittering spirit crystals in her storage ring, feeling a surge of excitement in her heart.
She looked back at the still deserted Dragon and Phoenix Palace, her eyes blazing with ambition. All the anxiety of the past few days had transformed into gratitude at this moment.
She laughed heartily, then sped down the mountain, and the next morning, the entire clan moved into the woods surrounding the Dragon and Phoenix Palace.
She personally led her people in performing the clan dance outside the Dragon and Phoenix Hall and bowing nine times. After Gu Qingqing came out to settle her people, she solemnly handed over the clan history that recorded her Ribbonbird clan to Gu Qingqing before leaving.
Gu Qingqing stopped her, took out a special healing pill made by Shan Zhongfeng, and said, "You still have an injury on your claw, take a pill to help."
Tangye gratefully accepted it, swallowed it, and then flew alone into the Danxue Mountains to find her "old enemy".
After Tang Ye flew away from the Dragon and Phoenix Palace, the wounds on her wings and claws healed, but her courage was also halved.
So she stopped on a large, lush tree and repeatedly considered who she had grudges against in the past, but the more she thought about it, the more confused she became! She felt as if she had several streams of anger in her heart that she just wanted to vent!
After hesitating for a while, Tang Ye made up her mind and flew towards the Fire Cloud Cave. She thought to herself that instead of thinking about who to cause trouble for, she should follow the fox servant's advice and catch Gu Chan, the fox leg of the Golden Cauldron Palace, to beat up.
As Tang Ye flew, she thought, "If I were killed by that Gu Chan, Jue Jun would surely treat my people well."
Upon returning to the Fiery Cloud Cave, the cicada immediately transformed into a magical bird, channeling its spiritual power and howling into the cave, "Gu Chan! Return my clan's eggs!"
After letting out that cry, Tang Ye felt an unprecedented sense of comfort, a youthful feeling of head held high and chest out lingering in her heart, intoxicating her;
This was a feeling she could never experience when she was forced to work as a fertilizer and manure planter in the Jade Pool's garden because she hadn't offered enough treasures as tribute.
Later, she cultivated herself to the rank of Emperor and became the Director of Manure Management, but she never stood up straight among her colleagues because the other cultivators would always laugh at her for smelling bad...
As Tang Ye reminisced about the past, she gripped the large wooden door of the Fire Cloud Cave with her wings and pushed it aside. The red ironwood door opened a crack, and Tang Ye stretched her neck and pecked open the chains below. Then, she flapped her wings and scraped the door open, feeling even more comfortable!
The bird, head held high and chest puffed out, entered the cave alone.
She strolled through the cave as if it were her own woods, gradually finding her footing. She realized how refreshing it was to stand upright like a bird; no wonder some of them were unwilling to serve as attendants in the palaces!
They're all powerful cultivators, used to being upright and unyielding; who would want to bend over?!
Tang Ye's thoughts drifted through her mind, then quickly coalesced. She released her imperial aura, her wings flapping loudly, causing dust and leaves to fly everywhere in the fiery cloud cave, rendering the low-level cultivators unable to move.
Then she shouted, "Gu Chan, get out here right now!"
The more she did this, the happier Tang Ye felt.
Before she could even feel smug, the damsel was grabbed by the neck by the golden-armored Lonely Chan and slashed in the face with its claws.
But Gu Chan didn't get the better of her either. Just as her claws reached out, Tang Ye turned her head to deal with it. She also stretched out her wing claws and tore off two pieces of flesh from the claw that Gu Chan was grabbing.
One wound for another, and Tang Ye's figure swayed precariously.
Gu Chan had recently poisoned her claws to fight the bear, but just as she thought Tang Ye was already poisoned and about to collapse,
Then, a large amount of black blood gushed from the wound on the face of the woman, and then fresh blood flowed out of the wound at an incredible speed, while the surrounding flesh grew at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Tang Ye's wounds had healed by about 60%, while Gu Chan's claws were still bleeding.
But Tang Ye's condition was clearly wrong; she was shaking her head and flapping her wings, as if she were bewitched.
Seeing this, Gu Chan once again moved all eight tails together, intending to kill Tang Ye in one fell swoop. However, the old bird's physical instincts were extremely powerful. Whenever Gu Chan felt that she was about to restrain the old bird, the old guy would always break through the encirclement of her eight tails in an unexpected way.
"I can't delay any longer!" Gu Chan thought to herself. She channeled her spiritual power, cast an illusion spell, and then her four paws ignited with raging foxfire, burning against Tang Yan.
Tang Ye remained motionless, letting the fire rush towards her. However, just as Gu Chan got close, the old bird suddenly stirred up its spiritual energy, flapping its wings and fiercely slashing towards Gu Chan. Its tail feathers were like darts, shooting straight at Gu Chan's exposed eyes, completely ignoring the flames on its body.
Seeing this, Gu Chan immediately retreated, but it was too late. A tail feather swept past her left eye and pierced through her left pupil.
Seeing that Gu Chan had been hit, Tang Ye shouted, "Gu Chan, you wait! You harbored our clan's greatest enemy and you still won't return our clan's eggs! Since you've driven our clan to the brink of destruction, then your Fire Fox clan won't have an easy time either!"
As Tang Ye shouted this, she retreated, transforming into a bird-like figure in the air and quickly flying away from the Fire Cloud Cave.
Having injured Gu Chan, Tang Ye gained some insight into how to find "enemies." So she flew to the nearby sparrow clan, captured the leader of the sparrow king, and said, "Why do you allow your clan to eat the spiritual treasures of my ribbon bird clan?"
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