Chapter 49: Punishment
Sparks fell with the rubble, revealing a small gray bird's head.
The little bird opened its eyes, a pair of golden eyes with sharp eyes, and it shook off the rubble on its body in disdain, and raised its head to let out a long chirp into the night sky.
The phoenix roared, like crying and complaining, and the grievances were endless.
At this time, Chifeng was trying to control his stiff body, and the body that had been sealed for many years was also reminding it that the faint heartache and helpless loneliness had turned into hatred over the years.
In the legend of the bird clan, their phoenix clan has always been an auspicious bird, every 500 years, there will be a phoenix descended on the world, the grievances and hatred accumulated in one, and then throw themselves into the raging fire to self-immolation, with the end of life and beauty in exchange for the peace and happiness of the world.
In the same way, a phoenix can only be reborn after its body has undergone great suffering and reincarnation, which is "nirvana". The phoenix after Nirvana has more abundant feathers, clearer sounds, and more marrows.
It sheltered a homeless people, and made it clear that their metallurgical talent was grace; I saw these people love each other, start a family, and see the world; The human heart is insufficient, dissatisfied and resentful, it originally thought that it would soon be able to gather the hatred in the world, but it did not expect that the biggest and deepest hatred actually came from its own heart.
"Don't waste your efforts, the Nirvana fire of your first phoenix can't burn this stone, and it will burn yourself." Yan Lin spoke.
"You two didn't come here to find me to persuade me to let go of my hatred, did you?" Chi Feng stared at Yan Lin, insisting on igniting the raging phoenix fire, and the flames that swept up were the same as usual: the flames tore at its flesh and skin, licking away the blood beads that oozed from its body, except for the surrounding stagnant water steaming out of the fishy water vapor, it was really just like Yan Lin said, and it couldn't wear down the seal bound on its own body.
Chifeng, who was unable to maintain the fire of Nirvana, closed his eyes: "Are you here to see my jokes?" โ
The crimson phoenix blood shone with a glittering golden light, dotted with stars, bit by bit, as if marking crimes. But who can say whose sin it is?
"Does it hurt?" Zhen Xun asked Chifeng, but what answered her was Chifeng's silence.
"The wound of flesh and skin, drenched in blood, how can it not hurt?" The corners of Zhen Xun's mouth hooked up with a touch of mockery, "But are you the only one who is in deep pain?" Haven't you already taken over one-third of the life force of the entire Panlong City? If it weren't for that life force, the wounds on your body wouldn't have healed so quickly, would they? โ
"That's their agreement with me."
"Gold, silver, copper, and iron could have been made into portable tools for life, but you led them to forge the surplus metal into blades." Zhen Xun said word by word, "Isn't it? Every time you perform a ritual at the Xian family, you will separate a wisp of soul to review the oracle bones that record the ratio of gold and stone. โ
Zhen Xun looked at the corner, "Is that so?" The lord of the city, every time the family ceremony is enthroned, the oracle bones that record the latest gold and stone ratio will be divined, and the gods will choose. โ
Ying'er came over when she heard the sound, and she watched everything in front of her in silence.
"You want to accumulate enough hatred as soon as possible, so you secretly encourage them to start hurting, killing and destroying each other."
"Isn't there any other purpose for knives than to kill? If you want to blame it, blame the dark humanity of you humans. Chi Feng said in a contrived tone, "Little City Lord, what do you say?" Some people kill people with knives, some people use knives to harvest rice, some people use guillotines to cut off heads, some people use guillotines to cut medicine, tsk-tut-tut-"
Ying'er unconsciously took half a step back, and stepped forward with courage.
"It's not unreasonable."
Hearing that the little city lord did not refute himself, Chifeng's bird face changed to a ghostly look.
Ying'er said, when she passed by Zhen Xun's side, she pulled out Zhen Xun's majesty, held it with both hands, and looked at the cold blade for a while, then suddenly her eyes tightened, and then she strode across the ditch, relayed on the stone, and cut it down towards the bird's neck.
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The blade was half a foot off, shaving off the feathers on the top of the phoenix's head, slashing at the stone, and severing the chains.
Ying'er looked back at Zhen Xun in disbelief, "Sister Zhen Xun, why are you stopping me?" This bird has killed countless people in my Panlong City, doesn't it deserve to die? What's more, as she said, since a knife can kill people, it can naturally kill chickens. โ
The broken chain fell, as if a dull sigh, and half of the strange stone that sealed the red phoenix also shattered......
"You girl, you are really as cunning as your mother, your mother claimed to be the lord of the city and signed a contract with me, and now you are going to sneak attack and take my life." Chi Feng spread his wings and jumped a few times, "Little city lord, miscalculated, the sky has eyes, hahaha-"
"No matter how guilty Chifeng is, it shouldn't be up to you." Zhen Xun said, slowly broke off Ying'er's fingers, took Su Wei away, wiped the mud stains on it, and then motioned Ying'er to look at Yanlin, "You are the city lord, if you want to serve the public, you can't dirty your hands." โ
Chi Feng took advantage of the gap between the two of them to speak, flapping his wings and fluttering: "If you want to die, shouldn't your mother who signed an agreement with me die?" If it weren't for her help, how could I have gathered so much vitality? โ
"Butโ" Ying'er angrily shook off Zhen Xun's hand and looked at Chi Feng who had already flown into the air anxiously.
The chrysanthemum at Zhen Xun's feet instantly turned into a black giant beast, jumped high and stretched out his sharp claws, slapping Chifeng to the ground.
"Mingshuo listens to orders." It was Yanlin, who had been silent for a long time, who spoke.
"The subordinates are here." A silver-haired young man wearing a hanging foot hat slowly walked out with a stone mortar, and the robe on his body was embroidered with a dull and light yellow osmanthus tree, and the whole person looked well-behaved and quiet.
"I am the only red phoenix in heaven and earth, how dare you touch me?" The embarrassed Chifeng struggled to stand up, trying to widen his eyes, and his weak voice couldn't hide the rampant.
The rampant nature of the red phoenix is not without reason, and the protection of species diversity and the light treatment of rare varieties is one of the agreements between the god of time and the god of order.
"It's not the only one, don't you know, in the years you have been sealed, two phoenix eggs have hatched into red red chicks." Yanlin explained calmly.
"The red phoenix of the bird clan, bewitching the world, harming one party, not repenting, pounding its inner dan, in order to cleanse the three rivers. From now on, it will be stripped of its style and degraded to the original bird candle night. Yan Lin raised his hand, summoned a stack of prescriptions, wrote the message and punishment, and then tore off the prescription and threw it in the air.
"The subordinates have orders." Mingshuo jumped high, caught the prescription in the air, and landed safely, and the hanging feet of the head also stood up and hung down with his movements.
The so-called punishment is to take out the inner pill of the rare beast that has been cultivated to a certain realm, throw it into the stone mortar and pound it, once the inner pill that condenses all the cultivation is destroyed, all the cultivation of the inner pill owner will be wiped out.