Chapter 13: The Firebird
Two months later, the firebird did not grow up at all, and spent all day in the cage, but I often went to see it, and at noon I took the cage to the yard to bask in the sun. The lotus flowers will no longer open when the last handful opens, and the flower cakes made by the fairy attendants are replaced with autumn hibiscus as bait, which is also a unique flavor.
I heard that the nephew of Dongting Shuijun went to the mortal world to experience a catastrophe and came back, and they held a dust washing banquet for him, and Princess Zhiyu also resigned from Rong He two days ago and returned to Dongting Lake. Chonghua Hall is the only one of us living together, Rong He didn't have any special reaction, when Princess Zhiyu was there, he also treated her as if she was not there most of the time. But I'm very happy, when Zhiyu is here, I feel like I'm tied up in everything.
When I passed by the Ice Palace of Siye Shenjun a few days ago, I smelled the aroma of osmanthus, and when I stepped into his palace gate, I found that there was a big osmanthus in his courtyard. Speaking of which, he is not like other places here, and he did not use the immortal method to make the flowers of the four seasons always there, probably the same, so it seems that this short flowering period is rare.
My relationship with the Si Ye Shenjun gradually eased, recently began to call his name, he said that he went out day and night, is a few relatives and friends, but I don't want to have no one call his name in the past thousand years, he said this with a bit of self-deprecation, so I am a little uncomfortable, usually he either laughs at me or throws me a roll of the eyes, I feel that the original ninefold heavenly immortals are not so free, how much of this loneliness is only known to themselves.
So I asked his name, and he said let me remember, his name is Moonwind, and I thought that since we are all friends, if I call him by his name, can he stop calling me stupid bird. He reverted to his old man, and then rejected me.
It turns out that every immortal has the loneliness of every immortal, so what about Rong He, the identity of the Emperor of Heaven brings him unlimited rights, so what does he really want.
In the season of white dew, I stayed in the Chonghua Palace, thinking that it should be autumn in the world now. Rong He has been getting busier and busier recently, I often can't see him in the hall, I go out less these days, for fear of missing the time with him, even if it is a cup of tea together, it will make me feel at ease.
The stars have risen, the night has come, I carried the firebird in the courtyard and sat in the courtyard waiting for Rong He to come back, I was idle and bored to take a piece of snack to tease it, let it spit fire to show me, but it ignored me, so that I felt very frustrated. I hung my head for a while, and saw a little fairy boy from the Ice Palace timidly walking into the temple door holding a pot of flowers.
Seeing me, I stepped forward, I looked at what he was holding seemed to be a pot of epiphany, he put the flower on the stone table in front of me and said: "Peach Gardenia Fairy, this is my family Shenjun asked me to send it to you, he said that today is the epiphany flowering period, so you don't lose Shaohua." β
I looked at the ephemeral flowers that were about to bloom, and said to the little fairy: "Thank you for this experience, do you want to eat some hibiscus cake?"
The little fairy child seemed to be a little shaken, but shook his head again and said, "I still have to go back to the Ice Palace for the night, so I will leave first." β
I stacked the firebirds to the side, put the flowers in the middle of the stone table, and after a while, there was a fairy waiter who stepped forward, and put a few fairy peaches on the jade plate she was holding in her hand, she put the fairy peaches on the stone table, and said to me: "The emperor is still discussing with the immortals in the Lingxiao Hall at the moment, and ordered me to go to the peach orchard to pick them and serve them to the fairies." β
So I stacked the epiphanys aside and put the peaches in the middle.
Tonight there was a moon, an epiphany, and a peach, but there was no one to talk to, and I sat alone in the courtyard, and a sense of desolation arose in my heart. I came to this Nine Heavens, met people I thought it was impossible to meet before, and felt feelings that I had never had before, I felt as if I had changed a little, but I didn't know what had changed. There was no one to accompany me tonight, only the firebird that looked like it was in its cage.
I looked at it like I was not out of Kunlun, it must be stuffy, I looked at it was only a little big, although it can spit fire, I think it should be able to control it, let it out for a while to let it breathe, I opened the cage, let it out.
But I didn't want this firebird to suddenly become huge when it first came out of the cage, the red feathers on its body seemed to be on fire, and its cry resounded in the nine heavens, as piercing as a baby's cry, and even gave birth to nine heads. It flapped its wings and overturned the stone table, and the old plum tree in the courtyard was burned in an instant, and I immediately flew away to keep myself away from it, and in the blink of an eye, most of the courtyard had been destroyed.
It turned out that this was not a firebird at all, this was the Nine Babies of the Ancient Fierce Beast, but this Firebird was given to Rong He by Zhiyu, how could it be released from the cage and become a fierce beast. Before I had time to think about it, the immortal attendant in the hall was shocked to the ground by the breath of this fierce beast, and its nine heads looked at me together, and it was actually about to rush at me.
I stretched out my right hand to conjure up the magic weapon jade flute, this beast flew towards me, only the sound of the wind and its cry came from my ears, nine flames shot at me, I used to play the jade flute to protect the flames, but I was invincible, it was getting closer and closer to me, I attracted the water of the heavenly river to help, and the water was attacked by the ice, it was hit by me, but it attacked me more fiercely, I was defeated, just when I thought I was going to die at this moment, a beam of golden light protected me like a barrier, I looked at the source of the golden light, it was Rong He who cameγ
He turned into a blue light ice sword straight towards the beast, several times of fighting, the beast suffered a loss, but as if it was provoked more ferocious towards Rong He, the vision of this place also attracted the immortals of the Heavenly Palace, everyone saw the Emperor of Heaven and this beast fighting, they all turned into magic weapons to help Rong He, the beast was invincible, Rong He found that he could not kill this beast, and temporarily sealed it with the three caves of the ether curse, after a burst of gunsmoke, it turned into the appearance of that little big firebird.
Rong He flew down from the cloud head and half-held me in his arms, I thought he would ask me what happened, he only said, "It's me who is not good, I am late." β
My clothes were almost burned by the flames of the beast, and the flesh on my body was burned to reveal the broken feathers, I was so painful that I couldn't speak, he didn't let the immortals come forward, he cast another blow on the firebird, sacrificed a magic pestle, recited a spell, the firebird was sucked into the pestle, he ordered the county captain Shenjun to offer this demon pestle to the Tongming Palace, and then carried me back to his dormitory.
When Rong He picked me up, I couldn't hold it anymore and fainted.