Chapter 4 Past Events
After laughing, Huang Pinjie said to Ji Er, "Wait for my news. I'm going to visit that old bastard from the Wuhuang Clan."
"When the time comes, take Ji Rong to have her aptitude tested. If she's promising, then we'll definitely never have to be food for the rest of our lives."
The old bastard of the Wuhuang clan held some power among the phoenixes, but he was also a notorious freak known to all birds. Ji Er looked at Huang Pinjie uneasily and said urgently, "No..."
"Slap!" Huang Pinjie slapped Ji Er across the face.
She stared at the four fingers on her left paw and said, "No buts, it's just one finger, and it's not like I've never lost one before."
Even if Xiao Ji Rong didn't inherit the bloodline of Qing Luan, it doesn't matter. We still need to make a trip and find her a proper teacher.
Regardless of her aptitude, she has finally awakened her intelligence. You can even teach Qing Shi, so surely someone like her in the early stages couldn't be worse than Qing Shi.
Ji Er's eyes filled with tears, and she choked back sobs as she murmured to herself.
Ji Rong didn't know what kind of veiled meaning these two were conveying, but she could vaguely sense that the fox aunt in front of her would need to make some sacrifices. In a moment of impulsiveness, her blood boiled, and she flapped her wings and slammed Huang Pinjie's head three times.
"Wow, you're really smart."
Huang Pinjie looked at Ji Rong, who was throwing her head, her fox-like face showing both vicissitudes and a hint of relief.
She then took out a spirit sack, filled it with spirit snake fruits for Ji Er, and urged him to go back.
She tapped Ji Er's head with her paw and said, "Don't eat alone when you get back, leave a few for Qing Shi too."
Huang Pinjie was quite long-winded today, like an old hen.
Ji Er couldn't stand Huang Pinjie's rambling. Huang Pinjie's rambling reminded Ji Er of what Wu Lier said after drawing a food skewer in Luohuang Ridge. Her tone was like that of someone giving their last instructions, which was really ominous!
She picked up the bag irritably, nodded, and said, "Okay, okay, stop talking."
I will take good care of him and won't kill him. If he dies, I won't even be worthy of being eaten; I'll be torn apart by those scum of Qingluan Peak. When I get back, I'll give him fruit to eat and tell him that it was specially given to him by his good friend—the beautiful Sister Jie of the Fire Fox Clan.
Ignoring Ji Er's rough appearance, Huang Pinjie chuckled with satisfaction, "Yes, that's how it should be said." With that, she raised her paw and threw the two of them out of the cave.
On the way back, Ji Rong nestled against her mother's neck and asked, bewildered, "Mother, is Father's bloodline really that powerful? And what's with the 'vegetable' thing?"
Ji Er was in a bad mood. She didn't have the concept that cubs couldn't listen to adult birds. She just thought that Ji Rong was praising her useless father, so she replied angrily, "Sister Jie thought so too. Who knew that after marrying your father, we would realize that we were too naive!"
Qingluan has a terrible relationship with your father, that old ancestor!
Qingluan's bloodline is impure. She shares the same mother but not the same father as your foolish father's ancestor. It is said that Qingluan's father was a blue-feathered bird with mixed bloodlines. Qingluan was born into a poor family and was always bullied by her sisters who were born into better families. It was common for her to be beaten half to death.
One day, Long Jun of the Dragon Clan was pulling a carriage for the Golden Mother when he saw Qingluan, who was barely breathing.
He felt that growing up with such a mixed-race, phoenix-like bloodline was both eye-catching and rare, and was strong evidence to attack the phoenix clan for being licentious and immoral.
So Long Jun took her to Kunlun and let her roam freely, occasionally taking her out for walks and mocking the various Phoenix clans.
Because of this, even the pure-blooded phoenixes back then wanted to kill her, and even Qingluan's mother immediately declared that she had never given birth to her.
But the Golden Cauldron Palace was not a place the already weakened Phoenix Clan could go. Qingluan was lucky; not only did she not die, but she also managed to get close to the Golden Mother Goddess and become a celestial maiden.
My child, do you know what the first thing Qingluan did after becoming the Heavenly Maiden of the Kunlun Golden Cauldron Palace was? She advised the God Lord (the Golden Mother Goddess) that the pure-blooded phoenix gathers the essence of birds, and eating it will surely bring forth spiritual energy.
So, the phoenixes with less talent were the first to be served.
Afterwards, the Phoenix Clan was forced to rebel. Taking advantage of the situation, Qingluan forced your father's ancestor to give birth to the bloodline of Qingluan's cousin by using the inheritance of the Fire Phoenix lineage. However, she broke her promise and killed all the other pure bloodlines of your ancestor, the Fire Phoenix.
She also led the celestial maidens to hunt down pure-blooded phoenixes in the mortal realm who refused to obey orders, forcing those phoenix branches who were unwilling to go to the celestial palace to become slaves or servants to intermarry with outsiders in order to dilute their bloodline and survive.
Thus, the Phoenix Clan developed into a thousand branches of the Phoenix genus, each generation becoming less powerful than the last.
Otherwise, your silly father at least has a trace of genuine phoenix blood, is handsome and rich, how could it be your mother's turn to marry him?
A few years ago, it was said that Qingluan was sent down to the mortal realm to quell a rebellion in the Western Continent. Whether she will be able to return is still uncertain.
"My dear daughter, do you believe that once news of that Azure Phoenix's death outside spreads, your fool father will definitely be tied up by the clan and offered up to those pure-blooded phoenixes serving as servants in the Golden Cauldron Palace?"
After hearing such a bloody family history, Ji Rong suddenly felt that she needed to learn more about the world.
So she eagerly said, "Mother, please tell me more of these stories, so that I won't break any taboos when I grow up."
Ji Er turned to look at Ji Rong and asked, "What do you want to hear?"
Looking at her beautiful feathers and thinking about the amazing methods Huang Pinjie had demonstrated, Ji Rong opened her beak and said, "Mother, I want to hear the story of how this world came to be."
Upon hearing this, Ji Er scrutinized the boy in front of him again and again.
It wasn't until Ji Rong felt uneasy under Ji Er's gaze that Ji Er exclaimed happily, "Haha, my child is so clever! He knows to listen to the affairs of heaven and earth at such a young age. When I was your age, I only knew how to find insects to eat."
Then, Ji Er began to tell Ji Rong the bedtime stories that Huang Pinjie had told her when she was still relatively young.
This was not long after the beginning of time.
This world has already gone through the stages of Nuwa dividing the heavens, the ancient gods creating mountains and rivers, the witch gods creating all things, and the ancient gods creating all races.
Thanks to the efforts of these great masters, Kyushu exists today.
These are Zhongzhou, Buzhou, Chizhou, Cangzhou, Danzhou, Hezhou, Xizhou, Liangzhou, and Beisaijuzhou.
The source of the spiritual veins of the Nine Provinces begins in the Central Province. Since the end of the ancient era, gods and great cultivators have gradually moved into the Central Province, which is shrouded in spiritual energy. They opened nine palaces on the towering peaks and steep mountains, which all races call the Nine Heavens Palace.
The current ruler of the Heavenly Palace is the Lord Xi of Guangyang Palace on the Guangyang Mountains. It is said that He is an ancient three-legged golden crow who governs the sun and controls the essence of fire. Very few living beings know how long He has lived.
In addition, there is the even more ancient Golden Mother Goddess of the Golden Cauldron Palace in the Kunlun Mountains, who governs all races and administers criminal justice.
Under His jurisdiction was the Court of Regulations, which maintained order among the various tribes within the Central Plains; the Court of Regulations had many female monks, hence it was also known as the Court of Heavenly Maidens.
A separate Jade Pool was set up to receive the gods of the Heavenly Palace and powerful beings from afar.
At the top of Kunlun Mountain, there is also a fairy spring, a favorite bathing place of the gods.
There is a War God named Di Rong in the War God Temple of the Chijian Mountain Range. Legend has it that he broke out of the belly of the previous War God Temple Master, Di Ba, and was in charge of military affairs, specializing in suppressing rebel armies in the Nine Provinces.
There is Qingpingzi, the master of Yuxu Palace in Yuxu Mountain Range, who is in charge of alchemy, medicine, artifacts, talismans, arrays, puppets and all other skills.
There are ancient gods of the Moonshade Mountains and the Yuanjun, the mistress of the Moonshade Palace, who govern the Yin energy of heaven and earth and control the Jade Liquid Pool.
There is a deity named Ming Jiu from the Tianming Palace in the Lianyun Mountains. He is an acquired deity whose true form is a nine-tailed, three-eyed black cat.
There is a Mirror Room and a Palace of Destiny, which oversees all the tribes in the Central Plains. The annual survey of the number of tribes within the Central Plains is carried out by the Palace of Destiny.
There is the Fulu Mountain Range, the Fulu Temple Master Baode Shenjun Nanlu, who is in charge of the Lu Pond, the Crane Palace, and controls the divine path.
The Dragon and Phoenix Palace of the Danxue Mountains and the Ancient Witch Realm of the Python God Mountains have both declined. Later, the Danxue Mountains were merged into the adjacent Kunlun Mountains and taken over by the Kunlun Golden Cauldron Palace.
The ancient shamanic realm above the Python God Mountain Range became a treacherous place, where poisonous creatures could infiltrate every crevice, often leaving cultivators who came and went without any protection, and thus it fell into disuse.
Besides the Nine Heavens Palace, there is another innate deity, the Canglan God-Lord. He was born late and is in charge of the two sacred mountains of Canglan and the two rivers of Nanshui and Canglan. He is the only earth god in the world who can ascend directly to the Nine Heavens Palace.
The Nine Heavens Palace surrounds the legendary source land, preventing spiritual energy from circulating throughout the Nine Provinces. As a result, the Central Province gradually rises, hence it is also known as the Upper Realm by all races.
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