40. The awakening of the ice phoenix

The Far North has been shrouded in snow and frost that has lasted for an unknown number of years, and the skies here have been snowing for the time since life was born, since life began to observe the world, and since life began to record history, the skies here have been snowing, occasionally intermittently, and then again.

Does frost and snow also have a source?

If you want to find the answer to this question, you have to travel north from the southern shore of the northern border, across many countries that worship the frost phoenix, all the way to the depths of the most extensive snowy fields, and to the foot of the Sema Snow Mountain, a huge mountain range that seems to separate the heavens and the earth, is the source of the legendary frost and snow.

The braver ones will continue to climb upwards through the deserted mountainside to the top of the mountain, which is blocked by spatial turbulence

At this moment, in the depths of the Saima Snow Mountain, the upside-down peaks formed by the layers of vague spatial turbulence are particularly lively.

A large, muscular woman was surrounding a group of centaurs, slowly navigating through the turbulent mountain roads of the space.

"Be careful, if you fall into the spatial turbulence, the Phoenix will not be able to save you."

The female troll leading the way in front of her used her halberd as a crutch to support the ground, and at the same time warned the dozens of people wrapped in their troll team - although this female troll team was only a dozen people, more than two-thirds less than the guys surrounded by them, but because of the disparity in size, it seemed that those humans were not as many as half of them.

At the moment, surrounded by these trolls was a group of slightly embarrassed people, most of them women, and they were sturdy Sardinian women.

Among them, there was only a sturdy old man in a simple cold-proof robe, who was holding a little girl shivering with round rat ears and shrinking into a ball in his arms, and beside him, a fat-looking but strong old woman also held two little nezumi girls in his arms.

If Fisher had been here, he would have known none other than Jack Sr., the father of his old classmate, the first mate of the Iceberg Queen, Pahertz, and her three nezumi granddaughters.

And in front of this group of Satinia women, there is a girl with short blond hair who looks quite strong, she has an extremely noble Nari blood, blonde hair and golden eyes, but because of the long time of sleeping in the open air, she has also faded from that noble and weak appearance, and is more like a lion cub.

It was Elizabeth Godling's sister, Isabel Godling.

At this moment, she was supporting a tall, listless, and weak-looking Sardinian woman.

The woman's long white hair hung a little ungodly behind her head, and her graceful and unsmiling face hung down a little at the moment, and her extremely pale face could occasionally be seen in the scattered white hair.

She gently clutched her lower abdomen, wrapped her body in a rudimentary robe, and leaned weakly against Pahertz beside her. Pitch-black smoke kept coming out of her lower abdomen, as if something had penetrated deep into her body at the end of the smoke, and was sucking everything out of her.

"Ahem."

The weather was cold, coupled with physical factors, the Sardinian woman couldn't help coughing lightly.

Isabel beside her gritted her teeth and looked at the female troll leading the way in front of her, and couldn't help but say in the northern dialect,

"How long will it take, we've been walking for almost half an hour!"

The troll in front of him was still walking, but he just touched the back of his head and said in a daze,

"It's almost there, it should be, I don't know, I usually see it while walking."

Isabel gritted her teeth speechlessly, but she couldn't help it.

She had heard that there were now many subhuman races in the Snow Mountain, and the only remaining bloodlines of the six legendary Snow Mountain tribes had returned to the Snow Mountain, and there seemed to be a race called slimes that could teleport.

But now their ships have sunk in the process of fleeing, and even the captain Aragina has been seriously injured because of the relics of the Black Chief, and they are now in urgent need of a place to take refuge and rest, and they thought that they could live a little more peacefully when they returned to the North, but they did not expect that the Turan family here was complicit with Nari and the Black Chief.

It has only been in the past few years that Isabel has truly realized the sadness of "the world is so big that there is nowhere to stay".

Her sister is just too powerful, and everywhere is her power and puppet, which makes Isabel a little breathless.

"It's okay, Isabel, I can hold it."

At this moment, Alagina beside her suddenly opened her mouth hoarsely, causing Isabel to come back to her senses worriedly.

She looked at the pale Alagina in front of her, suddenly felt a little guilty, and whispered,

"I'm sorry, Captain Arajina, but I'm a drag on everyone. I should have gone back to Nari so that everyone wouldn't."

Aragina's long white eyelashes stained some frost and snow of the same color, and when she heard this, she shook her head and said,

"Even if it weren't for you, Elizabeth wouldn't let us go one day, because of Fisher, sooner or later. In that case, it's better to come sooner. What's more, the phoenix hasn't cut off all our hopes, has it? ”

"Phoenix."

Isabel looked a little hesitant, she didn't know whether to believe such an ethereal legend or not.

It's just that now the entire northern realm is rumored, and in the Saima Snow Mountain, the legendary frost phoenix has been reincarnated again, and it wants to take the northern realm back again and put it under the shadow of her wings. But just based on the migration of those subhuman races, and just because there are really trolls on the top of Sema Snow Mountain, can such a judgment be made?

Isabel didn't know, but she didn't speak again, just silently supported Aragina and approached the front with all the remaining crew members of the Iceberg Queen.

Although these female trolls looked silly, they were surprisingly honest and honest, because it didn't take long for a different kind of situation to emerge before their eyes.

"Well, we're here."

Hearing the troll's urn sound alert, Isabel unconsciously looked up ahead. only to find that they had passed through the previous spatial turbulence at some point, and with the change of space, the scene ahead also changed dramatically.

At the end of the snowfield that was gradually flattening in front of me was a huge, towering tower, whose luster was rare in the world, and it was the legendary Zhenbing.

The mystical light of the ice fell upside down from the sky, spreading the entire snowfield with their feet in the sunlight, and it was only now that Isabel realized that the place where they were stepping on was also made of the ice

"That's the Frost Snow Sycamore Tree?"

In front of it, the faces of countless statues of creatures kneeling on the ground or long disappeared or still existing are reverent, recording the glory of this place.

But what worries Isabel more is that the door of the Frost and Snow Sycamore Tree is open, revealing a large number of troll and snow fox species inside.

"Phew!"

At this moment, above the sky, a shadow in the same simple robe as them flew towards her, and behind her was the colorful parrot that had lost a lot of hair and kept flapping its wings.

"Sister Ossie!"

It was a blue bird, and when she saw the people below, she immediately landed in front of them, and shook her wings that had not yet been retracted, knocking down the wind and snow above.

Behind him, the first officer, Pahertz, who looked much thinner than before, hurriedly walked out and asked Osie,

"Well, what do the slimes mean?"

Osie looked at Pahetz, muttered for a moment, and then spoke,

They said. Still thinking about it. ”

"What?! Still thinking about it? So what if you don't agree? We've listened to them and climbed here with great difficulty, and if we don't agree, what should we do and go back the way we came? ”

Osie's ears hurt from Pahtz's loud voice, and she raised her feathered wings and rubbed her ears hidden in her long white hair a little, before explaining,

"It's not that they don't think about us, it's that they have. More important things to be busy. ”

"Get busy! Get busy! ”

The parrot, which had lost a lot of feathers next to it, but still looked unaffected, nodded and repeated.

Pahetz glanced behind him, and the group of trolls who had escorted them had all walked away, not knowing where to rest, and no one had come to greet them, as if they were left to fend for themselves.

As soon as she thought of this, Pahertz was furious, she folded her hands, looked at the magnificent frost and snow plane tree behind Osie, spat on the snow next to her, and said scoldingly,

"Dad, these dog-day plasticine slimes. Forget about snobbery, the lion opens his mouth, and if he doesn't pay all of us enough, he won't send us up, causing us to run so far! Arajina is wounded! If I hadn't asked you to come up and take a look at the situation first, wouldn't we have to be left here for a few days to know the result!? Her father, what are these hidden Snow Mountain Six Clans busy all day long, do they also have to fight with Nali? ”

Isabel helplessly stretched out her hand to stop Pahertz, who was scolding the street at the door of the other party's house, after all, they were here to ask for help, but they really couldn't interject, so they had to look back at the old Jack who held the three rat girls in his arms to keep warm, who knew that he also shook his head, indicating that there was no way.

"Pach. Z."

Alagina, who was not in a good state next to her, opened her mouth softly to stop her first mate from speaking disrespectfully.

Pahertz was silent, but the expression on her face was still not good, and she just looked angrily at the female troll who was lying on her back in the ice and snow nearby, sleeping on all sides, but as if she didn't feel anything at all.

Ossie also sighed, she looked at the frost and snow plane tree behind her, and couldn't help but explain,

"I can't help it, they seem to say that Phoenix is waking up, so everyone is nervous because of this."

Pahertz's originally angry expression was stunned when he heard Osie's words, and even everyone behind him, especially the Sardinia women, looked at Ossie in disbelief,

"It's not. What did you say? Phoenix? Do they really have a phoenix here? Have you seen it? ”

No, but most likely it is. I went inside and saw that the decoration inside was really where the phoenixes used to live. This is the Frost and Snow Sycamore Tree."

“.”

Pahertz's mouth opened wide, even if the expression on his face was angry, as a Sardinian woman, he didn't dare to attack anymore.

You must know that being disrespectful to the phoenix in the north is like disrespecting the mother goddess in Kadu, and besides, they all believe in the frost phoenix, so of course they know how to taboo

Pahertz pursed his lips, unable to speak like a wilted rooster.

She had no choice but to kick the snowdrift next to her, and waited for a while before whispering again,

"Then can't you take us to a warmer place, my old Jack is almost cold?"

At this time, inside the Frost and Snow Sycamore Tree, through the outer area, came to the courtyard of a deep, huge cylindrical phoenix.

Unlike the darkness and dead silence of Fisher's arrival four and a half years ago, the place was now brightly lit and noisy. Although now, after years of baptism and cursed slaughter, the number of the six clans in the Snow Mountain is far less than before, even if all of them have entered here, it still doesn't look very lively, but it still has popularity.

And just in the depths of the Sycamore Tree, above the roots left behind by the World Tree, is the place where the former Moon Princess died and left her remains. The ruins had been swept away by the trolls, the body of the Moon Princess had been properly buried, and makeshift houses had been built to protect their owners who had been sleeping below for years.

But at this moment, several of the big names of the six clans were anxiously pacing back and forth here, except for the giant slime king who couldn't be bigger, looking like a baby, Barion, he was too huge to move at all.

The two elders of the troll race, Daliouu and Koklia, were looking at the root of the World Tree below, which was emitting a bright light, and Daliwuu said with a serious expression,

"No, the roots of the tree have grown branches, and those branches have tangled the phoenix's eggshell."

Behind them, a very tall and tall blue bird woman wearing a Sardinian steel helmet glanced down and asked with a cold face,

"What does that mean?"

Kocolia glanced at the bird species in front of her and said,

"Hamria, it means that the roots of the tree are entangled in the eggshell and we can't get out of the eggshell of Nirvana. But the problem is that the surface of the eggshell is already full of cracks, and the arrival of the phoenix is coming soon. ”

Hamlia, the leader of the largest remaining colony of birds in the North and the boss of Oxi's mother's mother, is a child of a hybrid of a bird species and a troll of the bird species, so she is born taller and stronger than the rest of the northern bird species.

After hearing the call of the slimes, trolls, and snow foxes four and a half years ago, she decided to take the blue birds who were willing to leave the Sardinian country with her, all the way north, back to the Sema Snow Mountain, where their ancestors lived.

Hamlia was slightly stunned, as if he didn't understand what they were worried about, but he still asked,

"Then can't the phoenix be born directly like this? What happens when she falls to the root of the World Tree? ”

"Will die."

Daliou's answer was straightforward, but it startled Hamria, and she quickly flapped her wings to the edge of the platform, looking at the phoenix egg that was about to break in the bright light of the World Tree below.

"Her father, then let's use weapons to catch the phoenix directly, how about it?"

"No, there is a more serious spatial turbulence next to the tree roots, and even peerless divine weapons will be dissolved, unless"

"Unless what?"

The huge Schwalibaryne sitting on the ground behind him chewed the pacifier in his mouth and said sullenly,

"With the sword of the Phoenix King, that sword is now lying in the room above."

"Then go get it, why are you still stunned?"

Everyone present was speechless by Hamria, who didn't know if she had been a guard in the Satinia country for too long or if the bloodlines of the bird species and the troll species had created a wonderful chemical reaction in her body, causing her brain to burn out and become less intelligent

It's okay to fight, but every time it's time to discuss this kind of thing, he can always say something amazing, and he can't fix it for the leaders of the other six clans.

"I can't pick it up, the weapons of the phoenixes can only be fully used by the bloodline of the phoenix. Even if you take it, you will have to pick it up at a great cost, and if you can't completely control it, you won't be able to take the phoenix egg out of the root of the tree. ”

"Wait, so you mean, now we need a sword that the Phoenix Bloodline can use to save the only Phoenix Bloodline in the world?"

"Theoretically, of course, if I can think of any other way"

"Can you slimes' teleportation work?"

"There is the power of the roots, there is no such possibility."

“.”

At this moment, several leaders at the base of this plane tree fell silent all of a sudden, and it seemed that there was no better way.

Hamlia was so angry that he flapped his wings in impotence and rage, and couldn't help but look at the shed around him, and asked,

"What about the woman?"

All the leaders looked at her, knowing who Hamria was talking about, but none knew where she had gone.

At this moment, the very small snow fox race next to Barion's huge body opened his mouth, he glanced up, and said,

"She was here to discuss with us how to rescue the phoenix that was about to complete Nirvana, and discussed a lot of methods with us. As for now, it seems that she heard that a guest is coming, and she seems to have thought of something, and she ran away with Sister Eloth just now. ”

"And Iros? What guests? ”

Daliouu turned his head with some curiosity, and Dahl thought for a moment and said,

"It's like a desperate pirate, a Sardinian woman, what is the name of the Queen of the Iceberg?"

"Arajina?"

Hamlia heard this, and before Dahl could finish speaking, he opened his mouth and said the name.

"Yes, yes, that's her."

"Oh, this traitorous Broken Spine Dog will also have today, I heard that she not only killed her own mother, but also stole her mother's Ice Prince Sword and wandered away. Be cautious when you take her in, and be careful when she backstabs her. ”

Hamlia sneered and commented.

"Enough, Hamria, you are no longer a Sardinian woman, and there will only be plane trees in the north in the future. Of course, if you want to go back to the country, I have no opinion, and I am even happy to send you back for free."

Baryne next to him played with the pacifier in his hand, and undoubtedly interrupted Hamria's words, among the six clans of the Snow Mountain today, this Slime King is a well-deserved speaker.

After stopping Hamlia, who was complaining about the next one, Barion scratched his chin with many wrinkles and muttered,

"Arajina, when the Ice Prince Sword said that, I know what that woman thinks. The power of the Wind Phoenix's sword is too strong for complete control. But the swords of the three sons of the phoenix are not unavoidable. The Moon Princess Sword fell asleep with Valentina, and the Frost Prince Sword is now missing, and now that Aragina has the Ice Prince Sword, she may be able to try it. ”

Daliwuwu also looked at the crumbling phoenix egg below seriously, and turned around and said,

"It's the only way to try, we have to hurry, Valentina is about to break her shell, we can't wait any longer, let them come over immediately!"

Valentina's consciousness had always been in the dark, as if it had been as vague as when chaos had come out, but sometimes it had become slightly awake and flickered with horrible dreams.

It was as if she had seen a huge, golden-yellow illusory tree, suspended in the universe, looking down on all the creatures below like a god, but when she looked at "herself" and "the two people beside her", for some reason, Valentina could feel a different feeling

The tree. It is as if the mother looks at "herself" warmly like a mother.

"Peach"

Her soft voice seemed to be soothing the baby in swaddling clothes, and it seemed to be a request with high hopes,

"Be protective. Your younger brothers and sisters."

Peach?

Who is Peach?

Have you ever heard of this name?

Immediately afterwards, the scene in front of me changed abruptly, "myself" seemed to see a terrible war, as if he saw a chaotic life falling from the sky, "it" sang a poem formed by a certain language, and turned flesh and blood into a part of this poem.

It infects everything, bringing a living continent to disaster, turning countless unimaginably powerful lives of Valentina into its puppets and taking away "its own" mother.

Mother?

Valentina was slightly stunned, but her consciousness suddenly became much more sober.

No. It doesn't seem like it's what you should see, it's not yourself. Whose memory is this?

This is

"Momo should protect your younger brothers and sisters."

Valentina's perspective was withdrawn little by little, and finally, Valentina's consciousness seemed to have finally been stripped from the body of an "existence" at this moment. No, it should be that "being" stripped from one's body!

Valentina felt that the consciousness of that being was being cut off by a sharp sword like the roots of a tree wrapped around her, and that being was getting farther and farther away from her.

As this distance stretched, Valentina finally saw the true body of the "being", although only a back.

It turned out to be a quirky little girl.

She had a shiny black hair, neatly tied up on her head, and transformed into a flying fairy bun that Valentina had never seen before, and on that flying fairy bun, there was a pink peach blossom on the ground.

She wore a pale pink skirt, exactly the same color as the flowers on her bun, which looked very good, making her petite body even more cute and elegant.

But at this moment, she was pitifully hugging her knees, curled up in a ball, her expression seemed a little stunned and helpless, and she let herself get farther and farther away from herself.

As she walked away, Valentina soon discovered that there were frost-covered wounds on her skirt out of thin air, as if some sharp blade was slashing at her body.

Scarlet blood splashed down from her body, and quickly disappeared in the darkness, leaving only a faint scent of peach blossoms.

The little girl turned a deaf ear, as if she could not feel anything, and only held her knees motionless in despair.

Valentina was distressed when she saw it, Xu was kind in her heart and couldn't bear to see such a child being hurt, her consciousness became more and more sober, and she couldn't help but remind the other party,

"You've got it on you. Wounds, child."

The next moment Valentina spoke, the sides of her cheeks "swished", and she trembled and raised a pair of slender white ears, on which hung many small earrings that made a "tinkling" sound, which startled Valentina.

Unexpectedly, the little girl glanced at Valentina next to her, then retracted back into her original posture, and muttered by the way,

"Don't meddle, miscellaneous fish."

“.”

Valentina's face darkened, and she was so choked by the little girl's words that she couldn't breathe.

She clenched her fists, trying to blow the rude little boy up, but soon, she seemed to feel the despair and sadness hidden in the other person's words

She didn't understand why the child in front of her was so sad, obviously so young.

But there were more and more wounds on the little girl in front of her, and the scarlet, scented blood brought Valentina back to her senses, and she said worriedly,

"What the hell is wrong with you, you shouldn't be hacked to death in front of me like this, right?"

The little girl didn't look at her, and said,

"Anyway, everyone will die, and it doesn't matter if I die now, only a miscellaneous fish like you like a grasshopper will feel the passage of life."

"Ha, what are these words, isn't the passage of life worth sighing?"

The girl in front of her was slightly stunned when she heard this, as if she recalled something in front of her that made her sad, she didn't refute, but her voice became lower,

"You're right, Trashfish."

"You little brat, really"

Valentina was upset, she felt as if she hadn't been awake all along, and she didn't know where she was, but she had just woken up, only to wake up and meet this little kid who didn't know the height of the sky.

She stood up, gritted her teeth and tried to grab the long ears of the little kid in front of her, but she didn't expect the speed of the child in front of her to be amazingly fast, and instantly appeared not far away, making her scratch the air.

The little child glanced at her contemptuously, then muttered,

"What trash fish."

Valentina's face darkened, and she was instantly so angry that she rushed at her again, but every time she wanted to get close to the other party, she always went to another place, so that she could not touch her.

As if being walked by this guy, Valentina chased after her more and more

But the next moment, her chase stopped abruptly, and even the anger disappeared.

Because she suddenly realized that she was able to stand up.

"Me"

She looked down at her beneath her, and beneath her white and naked body, a pair of intact legs stood powerfully in the darkness.

"I can stand up."

Valentina no longer chased after the girl in front of her, but looked back at the girl in a daze, watching as more and more blood on her body gradually completely covered the skirt, but she still didn't care.

Valentina hesitated for a moment and couldn't help asking,

"What the hell is wrong with your body, why does it keep bleeding?"

The little girl no longer had a bad mouth, but lay in the dark, looking like she was waiting to die, and replied listlessly,

"Someone is slashing the place where my consciousness is deposited with the holy relics of that group of angels, and this holy relic is of very good quality, it must have been beaten by his wise angels under the seat of Michael. [Yufele], it should be her. ”

Valentina didn't understand the names she was talking about, she just pursed her lips, slowly walked over to the little girl, and said,

"Then how can I help you, you can't go on like this, right?"

"What if it goes on forever, it's just death. Anyway. We're all going to die. ”

"What is this called, is it because they will all die, will they not live? I used to have my legs paralyzed, and I never thought about it when I was twenty years old, and you are so young, why are you so depressed if you don't work hard? ”

Hearing the word "young", the little girl in front of her showed a hint of mockery on her face, she only closed her eyes and muttered,

You don't understand, my mother, my brothers and sisters, all the people I care about are dead. Now in this world, I am the only one left of my race, and my existence is meaningless."

"My race. I'm the only one left, and besides, I haven't seen them, but I've seen them, even after they're dead."

Valentina crouched beside the little girl in front of her, and the cloudy memories in her mind became clearer and clearer, and she instantly remembered what seemed to be a long time ago.

She thought of the Turan family, of the plane tree, of the curse, of the Moon Princess and the phoenixes who died for the world, and of Fisher.

"They are blood relatives I have never met, and they have put the future of their race on me. I don't know if I can do it alone, but they believe in me and I think I should believe in myself, even if I am the only one who can live up to their expectations. ”

The little girl in front of her opened her eyes, and in the growing scarlet color on her body, she didn't know what she thought or saw.

She just suddenly turned her head to look at Valentina beside her, and said with a smile,

"Forget that you're a phoenix."

"Phoenix. Right. I'm the last Phoenix."

It was at the moment when Valentina's idea burst out that her body seemed to have undergone earth-shaking changes.

Frost-covered cyan feathers slowly covered part of her body, and behind her, a pair of huge and powerful wings were gradually stretching out, as if bringing the wind and snow across the north.

Her figure is rising little by little, and she is no longer as fragile as before

The light of Zhen Ice bloomed in her eyes, bringing a little light of fate.

The little girl in front of her looked at the phoenix in front of her, which was the remnant of the whole world, and after a long time, she suddenly sat up, and as a wonderful power bloomed on her, the wounds on her body instantly returned to the perfect appearance of the past

She asked,

"Miscellaneous Fish Phoenix, what's your name?"

"Miscellaneous fish, you little ghost, if you want to introduce yourself, introduce yourself!"

Valentina stretched out her pink fist and struck the little girl on the head, and this time she didn't dodge, but let it fall lightly on her head, as if to wake her up from the darkness as well.

"My name is Valentina."

"Valentina."

She chewed on the name, then stood up, approached Valentina, and said to her,

"I'm Peach, one of the three sons of the elves. Peach Gong. ”

The next moment, the entire darkness suddenly burst out with terrifying brilliance, as if it had been exploded by that peach blossom, thus exuding sobriety.

Urged by the bright light, Valentina opened her eyes suddenly, as if everything she had seen before was an illusion.

What reappeared in front of me was the bright light in a room, and the broken eggshells?

She curled up in the eggshell, stunned, and for the first time opened the eyes of her new body, looking at everything in the ceiling, but she didn't feel right away

"Great, Miss, you're finally awake, great"

"Miss"

This voice

So familiar.

Valentina turned her head to look outside the shattered eggshell, only to see the person in the quiet room who seemed to have only the outside opening, and at this moment, the person was looking at her with great concern

The man's black hair was elegantly tied up on his head, wrapped in a crown of jewels, as Valentina had seen countless times.

Looking at the crown of hair and the appearance of the person in front of her, countless memories instantly filled into place, she blinked her eyes, but was surprised to find that a little beautiful snowflake fell on her eyelashes out of thin air because of this action.

Have you become a phoenix?

But she didn't have time to find out what she looked like now, she looked at the woman in front of her who was looking at her very worriedly, and she couldn't help but smile a little, and murmured,

"Great, Hedilyn, you're fine."

The bright candle flame illuminated the appearance of the woman outside the eggshell, and her worried expression was slightly stunned when she heard Valentina's words in the eggshell, and then her eyes turned red as if she was about to cry,

"It's me, Miss. It's me, Hedilyn Woo Woo Oooh, you're finally awake."

The phoenix in the north has finally awakened at this moment.

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