Riding the spirit boat on top of the sea of clouds, looking at the splendid mountains and rivers that have shrunk like a sand table under his feet, the wind and the chest are full of heroic spirit.

This is the land that gave birth to her Yuan Ling in the first place, and it is the continent that she is destined to protect with all her might, no matter how powerful the foreign enemy is, she can't and won't back down, even if she insists on taking her last breath, she will never give up!

Although they had tried their best to reduce the number of personnel, from Zhilan and other personal attendants to the Yuanlingshan monks arranged by Long Yucang, as well as the guards that the emperor had to bring when he traveled, plus Xiao Yan and his party who insisted on accompanying them, the spirit boat was still full.

When he arrived in Kyoto, the Fire Phoenix Country, Feng Huanling left his team in the spirit boat, and only took a few important entourages to take the green dragon as a mount, and parachuted into front of the Feng Emperor who was dressed up in front of the red golden gate of the palace gate.

The Fire Phoenix Kingdom respects the southern mythical beast Vermilion Bird as the guardian god, advocating the flame-like red, since the time of the ancestor emperor, it has been respecting women, and the adjacent flower god country that is also respected by women is the most friendly, but its territory is several times wider than it, and it is the only female kingdom on the Guiyuan continent that can match the other four directions and three kingdoms.

Like the subjects of the Divine Dragon Kingdom, the Fire Phoenix Kingdom had not seen a divine beast appear for hundreds of years, so when they saw the green dragon in the sky, everyone immediately bowed down, and the cheers of the miracle spread throughout the entire Phoenix Capital.

Until Feng Huanling and his entourage were welcomed into the palace, the cheers of thousands of people in the city were still endless for a long time.

In front of the gilded gate, at the top of the ninety-nine white jade steps, the empress of the Fire Phoenix Kingdom was wearing a five-tailed Liuxia phoenix robe, her black hair was held high in the crown of the red gold phoenix, and the scarlet jade with brilliance covered most of her face, revealing only a touch of beautiful lip color, but it could not cover the outstanding bearing of the phoenix in the world.

Feng Huanling jumped off the green dragon's towering back like a hill in an elegant posture, and after slightly trimming his clothes, he stepped on the jade steps proudly. When she reached the ninety-eighth jade step, Emperor Feng stretched out a white jade dizzy soft wattle to her, and personally led her into the Chaofeng Palace.

In the Chaofeng Palace, the royal relatives and nobles of the Fire Phoenix Kingdom and the civil and military officials have been waiting in the palace for a long time, and the scene of this wind banquet is not grand.

When the brightly lit Chaofeng Hall and the idle people all receded, Emperor Feng, who was still drunk a moment ago, was already full of clarity in the blink of an eye.

The third princess and Emperor Feng glanced at each other, and said first: "You have noticed when you were at the banquet, and several princesses did not attend the reception banquet today. They felt that no matter how powerful the Xuanwu Kingdom was, it would be impossible for them to cross Yuanling Mountain and capture our Fire Phoenix Kingdom, so they didn't support the alliance too much. However, after I explained the stake to them, they also agreed to make appropriate concessions, as long as you can summon the Vermilion Bird Divine Beast in the Fire Pavilion, they will agree to the alliance. ”

Seeing that Emperor Feng was silent, Feng Huanling understood what she meant that she would only agree if all the sisters agreed to the alliance, and all of this ultimately depended on her ability to summon the Fire Phoenix Kingdom's Protector Divine Beast, Vermilion Bird.

"What's the mystery of the Bath of Fire Pavilion?"

Feng Huanling was very confident in summoning a divine beast, but hearing her mother specifically mention the Fire Pavilion made her feel more scruples.

Without waiting for the third princess to respond, the ninth princess had already rushed to say: "The mystery of our Fire Pavilion is great!" After entering, you have to face not only how to summon the divine beast, but also how to withstand the test of heavenly fire and be reborn like a phoenix. ”

Reborn from the ashes? What do you mean?

It's just that Feng Huanling, who is a mortal in the flesh, is a little uncalm, and it is not difficult for her to summon Suzaku, but "bathing in fire" is not within the range she can bear.

"Don't listen to Xu'er's nonsense, only if you invite out the Vermilion Bird Divine Beast will there be a heavenly fire, and the so-called heavenly fire in the Fire Pavilion is just an illusion, and it can't be real."

The third princess glared at the ninth sister who was still worried that Long Yucang did not come, and carefully explained the mystery in the Fire Pavilion.

Not to mention that it is just an illusionary flame, even if it is a real sword mountain, fire, sea and wind, Huanling must be broken, and only by summoning Suzaku to sign an alliance with the Fire Phoenix Kingdom first, and then the alliance with other countries can have a chance to be reached.

"Mother and aunt, please rest assured, I will definitely summon the Vermilion Bird Divine Beast, because only by inviting the Divine Beast to protect us, we will have a better chance of winning against the demon army of the Xuanwu Kingdom. My personal success or failure is nothing at all, but for the sake of the innocent subjects and people on the Guiyuan Continent, for the sake of my sisters and children whose lives and deaths are unknown in their hands, I cannot defeat and cannot lose anything. ”

I don't know if it was Feng Huanling's "aunt" that touched a certain soft heartstring of Emperor Feng, and she raised her eyes to take a deep look at this niece who had already died once.

"Yes, it is worthy of being a descendant of my royal family of the Fire Phoenix Country. Although they are both Quartet Divine Beasts, the Vermilion Bird is completely different from the green dragon you summoned, so don't be careless about the enemy. Huo Ran rarely showed a loving expression, and even patted the back of Feng Huanling's hand gently, "It's not early today, you will enter the Bathing Fire Pavilion tomorrow, go back and rest early." ”

Feng Huanling obviously felt that Emperor Feng held her hand this time, which was different from the hand in hand when he greeted her during the day, and it was only at this moment that she really felt that the woman in front of her who had been in the throne of a country for a long time was really her mother's eldest sister and her aunt.

Following.

Unlike the Qinglong Pavilion of the Divine Dragon Kingdom, which allows civil and military officials to visit outside, the Fire Phoenix Kingdom houses the Bathing Fire Pavilion where the Vermilion Bird God statue is placed, and no one outside the orthodox royal family is allowed to approach without permission.

Therefore, the people Feng Huanling saw in front of the Fire Pavilion were all the main veins of the Fire Clan, and a few of them felt that the faces that were relatively unfamiliar were the princesses who did not attend the reception banquet yesterday. She should have called her aunt, but the eyes they looked at her were not even friendly.

She asked her mother to find out that in order to avoid extraneous branches, except for Emperor Feng and the Ninth Princess, Huoyan did not tell more people the truth about her life experience. Therefore, in the eyes of these "aunts", she is just the empress who suddenly stood up in the Shenlong Kingdom, and it is understandable that she will be defensive and difficult to trust.

What's more, the royal family has always been a place of intrigue, even if they know that she is actually the daughter of the third princess, they may not easily agree to the alliance with the former enemy country.

"Have the eldest sister and the third sister forgotten? The death of the fourth sister back then was inseparable from the delicate work of the Shenlong Kingdom, even if there is a change in the north now, should we ignore the fourth sister who has not been avenged for blood revenge and be with the enemy? ”

The second princess's face was cold, her back was straight, and her sonorous voice was like an ice pick.

"Second sister, the truth of what happened back then has not been found out so far, and there is no direct evidence at all to prove that the fourth sister was harmed by the Shenlong Kingdom. Even if the fourth sister was really killed by someone when she was cleared in the vast mountain, it was also a matter of the previous generations of Shenlong monarchs, why bother to implicate the new monarch? We chose to form an alliance to fight against the demon army together, in order to save the people of the world, how can we ignore the misery of life because of our own personal grudges? ”

Even if she had expected that the second sister would take the opportunity to make trouble, the third princess was still so angry that her face turned pale, and her tone couldn't help but be a little high-pitched and indignant.

The fifth princess, who had the best relationship with the second princess, sneered when she saw this: "The third sister is really marrying a chicken and following the chicken, even if the husband of the Shenlong Kingdom has been killed, she is still so dedicated to the Shenlong Kingdom, and she doesn't know how to take into account the feelings of Her Majesty the eldest sister and our sisters." ”

Although the remaining princesses had a difficult face, most of them were also on the side of the second princess, obviously worried about the alliance in their hearts.

Feng Huanling walked to the door of the Bathing Fire Pavilion, and said without humility or arrogance behind everyone's back: "You princesses don't have to argue about this anymore, I just ask, as long as I summon the Vermilion Bird Divine Beast, you will agree to form an alliance?" ”

"Not bad." The second princess's tough voice sounded again, "But the premise is that you can come out alive, otherwise the alliance will be just empty talk after all." ”

After getting the promise he wanted, Feng Huanling didn't waste any more time, and took one last look at the fire smoke, and walked into the Fire Pavilion with his head held high.

The Pavilion of Fire is nine floors high, and the statue of the red gold rosefinch from the first floor to the top floor in the middle of the empty field is lifelike, and the half-spread wings seem to be able to break through the shackles of the dome at any time, and fly high into the nine skies.

Feng Huanling circled around the Vermilion Bird Statue a few times, but did not find any illusions appearing, wondering if it was because of the presence of the green dragon, so he was not disturbed by those illusionary things? Regardless of the truth, it was naturally best not to encounter the illusion of being burned by the flames, and she hurriedly gathered her mind and began to summon Suzaku.

Lengthy, ancient mystical spells reverberated in the empty attic, as if a hammer was striking at the statue of the Vermilion Bird carved in red gold, and each blow made the ingenious statue more delicate and delicate.

Gradually, the flame-like crimson feather feathers began to exude bursts of warmth, silently raising the warmth of the room.

As the summoning spell came to an end, Feng Huanling couldn't resist the scorching heat and opened his eyes, only to see that the Suzaku statue in front of him had become fiery red, as if a huge furnace was burning with an extreme heat wave.

Is all this really illusory?

The summoning spell must not be stopped halfway, otherwise it is a small matter if you can't summon the divine beast, and if you are eaten by the spell, you will hurt yourself and die at worst.

Therefore, Feng Huanling hurriedly closed his eyes again, and while continuing to chant the mantra, he told himself in his heart that the heat around him was an illusion, and as long as he defeated his inner demons, he would no longer feel the heat.

The flames on the Suzaku body are becoming more and more vibrant, and the flames on the feathers are becoming more and more pure and bright, as if implying that the fire beast is gradually waking up from its eternal sleep.

The flames obviously did not affect the surrounding wooden structure, but wisps of green smoke slowly filled the attic, and Feng Huanling, who was already in a settled state, was unaware of it, or she sensed the choking green smoke, but only regarded it as a false illusion.

At that time, something strange had been found outside the Bathing Fire Pavilion, but at first, everyone only said that the Vermilion Bird Divine Beast would be awakened, so the pavilion would burst out of the green smoke like fire.

It wasn't until Luanwei, who was on patrol in turn, came to report that someone had deliberately set fire to the pavilion, and now the fire was too big to contain, and the royal family led by Emperor Feng was shocked to realize that the situation was serious.