Lantern: Reflection of the Peach Blossoms: Chapter 51

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Phoenix sat up suddenly, squinted at King Jiang III, and asked, "Why are you here?"

——This is the top of Xuebao Mountain, which is very close to the Buddhist temple, and is the forbidden area of ​​Mount Xumi. It is reasonable to say that ordinary people cannot come. Only the phoenix, as an ancient sacred bird with a habit of living on high ground, has grown up here in isolation since childhood, and is no longer accustomed to moving to the 33rd layer of the world, so he will always live here.

No matter how you explain it, it is too weird to appear here late at night.

"...Someone asked me to come up." King Jiang III was silent for a moment and asked: "Are you dreaming just now?"

The Phoenix frowned.

"I saw you smiling."

Phoenix blinked and didn't know how to answer the conversation for a while, so she had to ask for a while: "Who told you to come up?"

Jiang III will not answer.

"...If there is nothing wrong, you can go."

However, the King III still didn't speak or move, his eyes were extremely bright in the dark, so bright that even made one's heart ominous.

The breathing of the phoenix gradually grew deeper.

His experience of going into the sea of ​​blood is quite a lot in the whole heaven, and he has seen too many great demon's posture before attacking. The feeling is too similar to the current King Jiang III Ming Wang, giving people a shuddering premonition. .

He squinted his slender eyelashes, his body tightened subconsciously, and asked coldly, "You still don't want to go?"

Unexpectedly, the voice just fell and King Ming III moved, but instead of backing away, he stretched out his hand and pulled the hair on the side of Phoenix's face behind his ears.

This action made Phoenix's first reaction not to be alert or angry, but to be astonished—the kind of astonishment that was a little overwhelming. He didn't even react, he saw King Jong III bend one leg, half kneeling on the bed, and the hand that lifted his hair was gently placed on his shoulder.

"Don't blame me," he said, "I just..."

Phoenix stood up suddenly, and pushed Jiang III down with a palm!

"What are you doing! Go away!"

Jiang III staggered on the ground for a while before standing still, his expression seemed a little sad, but it was unclear whether it was because he was really pushed away without thinking, or because of something else.

At this time, Phoenix didn't have any thoughts to pay attention to his reaction. He turned over and got out of bed and walked out. When his robe sleeves were raised, it exuded the breath of water lilies in the moonlight. The moment he passed by, it floated clearly into the tip of his nose, and the third world suddenly grabbed his hand: "Wait! Phoenix, wait, you really are. Not at all..."

He stared straight into the eyes of the phoenix, as if in an instant, the ghost asked, "...never thought of me at all?"

Phoenix’s answer was to shake his hand vigorously: "What are you talking nonsense!"

This answer without hesitation at all stimulated King Jiang III to some extent, turning all his hesitation and guilt into subtle anger. He grabbed Phoenix by the wrist and dragged him back. In the struggle, they all fell to the ground. As soon as the Phoenix kicked him, he rushed out, but in the chaos, the descendant III grabbed his hair and fell back on the smooth and cold floor tiles. .

"Are you sick? Get out!"

Jian III’s answer was to press his thin body hard, half of his face was hidden in the shadow in the moonlight, and it looked a little scary: "Do you know why I am here?"

"You..."

"Because you don’t care about me at all, no, you don’t care about anyone except that person, but you are more annoying and disgusting with me, so you have the lowest possibility of liking me. You will always It’s like this..."

Phoenix pushed away Jiang III strongly, but in the next second, he suddenly turned over and pressed it again. In the chaos, the back of his head slammed into the ground.

That was so cruel, the pain made him blur his vision.

"...They are so innocent and indifferent. No one cares about you, and you don't care about anyone..."

Jian III grabbed Phoenix's hair and forced him to raise his head, looking fascinated at his almost transparent neck in the moonlight.

"Who would make you care more, eh? Only the Sakyamuni, or does it include the children you give birth in the future?"

At that moment, Phoenix’s dizzy pupils shrank, and he finally understood what all this ridiculous thing was about, but the speculation that suddenly passed by was too terrifying, and his first reaction was no Believe.

No...impossible, not like this.

Even if you keep deceiving me, it won't be like this...

"Yes, that's what you think." Jiang III said cruelly, watching Phoenix's face blank because of his disbelief, and distorted pleasure flashed in his heart.

"I have told you that the person ordered me to come, understand? The eldest son is a big disadvantage to the Buddha. The only way to completely eliminate the possibility of this major disadvantage is to completely eliminate the cause and effect, and to put your so-called eldest son Strangled in a baby... That's why I came here. Instead of letting you give birth to an eldest son with someone unknown, it's better to be with someone you don't like at all, and there is no possibility of sharing your blind love... …"

Phoenix's eye sockets widened, and his lips trembled slightly, as if unable to make a sound.

"Look, you are so innocent." Jiang III touched his face and laughed lowly: "Innocently hope that others will treat you well, naively return all the feelings, naively believe that you will be Will not be betrayed or hurt..."

There was actually a hint of pity in his voice, but he didn't even notice it.

"No..." Phoenix shook his head subconsciously and denied it, but was a little weak because of his lack of confidence: "No, it's not like that, I just..."

He gasped for a moment, and said blankly: "It's not like this..."

Jiang III's fingers were deeply inserted into the cool hair on the back of his head, staring at Phoenix's bloodless face, there seemed to be something very deep in his eyes, which made people unable to understand. For a long while, he lowered his head and kissed the cold and trembling lips, but the approaching fiery aura made Phoenix suddenly agitated, reaching out and pushing him away!

"Phoenix!" Jiang III said angrily.

The phoenix staggered and rushed to the outside of the temple. However, immediately after Phoenix turned around, a string of colored glaze beads appeared in his hand, which suddenly turned into a pure blue short knife as the sleeves of the robe flew, pointing straight at him and shouting: "Stop!"

"What are you going to do? Go to the Buddhist hall to question? Don't be stupid!" Jiang Sanshi was full of anger. The unclear embarrassment and anger mixed with anger made him particularly irritable: "You think you are going to protest Just let it go? It’s a big disadvantage to the Buddha! It’s not that you don’t want to do it! Phoenix, I...I will treat you well, don’t you just want someone to accompany you? If you switch to someone else, you may not be like me. So..."

"I'm not going to the Buddhist hall." Phoenix gasped violently, but his expression had calmed down: "I don't want you either."

Jian San Shi angrily said: "Why?!"

At that moment, Phoenix remembered the words of Venerable Bati, you will give birth to two children with someone who is not in cause and effect-not in cause and effect, just a simple sentence, but inspires the most gentle and charming imagination of Phoenix.

Will he despise me for having a terrible look? Will he treat me well?

Will he always be with me?

This stranger who has never known each other is like a faint hope for the future in the ice and snow, allowing him to gain infinite confidence and strength from hope, and he suddenly rises up to this sinister situation and bleak reality Desperate to fight.

"Not why," Phoenix lowered his eyes, whispering but determined: "I want to leave here."

Jian III was shocked, followed by the anxiety and anger that even I did not know why-the irritation of being ruthlessly rejected can not be compared with the simple "I want to leave here". In an instant he jumped up and grabbed Phoenix's hand, and said angrily: "Where do you want to go? This is Mount Xumi! You want to go to the Four Evil Ways--!"

The phoenix flipped his wrist and swung his knife, pushing the King Ming III away!

He turned around and flew outside the hall, but behind him, King Ming Wang turned into a three-headed and eight-armed scorpion face, collided with the stone pillar of the hall, and caught up in the blink of an eye!

Phoenix has never seen the way of King Jiang III, Ming Wang, Jiang III has always appeared in his eyes normally, two eyes and two hands, there is nothing strange.

However, the five masters of Tantric Buddhism are very terrifying. When the phoenix flew across the ice, he saw the shadow close to his back in the reflection. His heart jumped wildly, and he slashed the knife in midair. Dang!" With a loud sound, he stubbornly resisted the halberd stabbed by King Jiang III on his back!

Jiang III's three heads and nine eyes all stared at the phoenix's scared pupils: "If you don't stop, I can only call people."

"..." Phoenix raised his head very uncomfortably, and tried his best to keep the distance between the eyes of King Ming Wang, the third generation, and the next moment he only said coldly: "Do you think you will be saved by calling someone? No, At that time you will still be promised to me--or if you don’t want to, the chakras of other Ming kings in Tantric Buddhism will be more terrifying and violent..."

Phoenix was furious: "Shut up!" As he said, he slammed the halberd away in the dazzling electric light!

Ming King Jiang III was caught off guard. When he stepped back and stabilized, he saw that the phoenix had already escaped with one blow. It was like a snow-white bird glide on the ice sheet and flew off the ice **** in an instant. At the end; Jiang Sanshi sneered, rushed forward like an arrow from the string, and shouted: "Stop—"

The strength of the Phoenix is ​​actually not as good as that of the Five Great Kings. Although the demons have been dropped more frequently and the record is more brilliant, it is just experience. In addition, he was severely injured in the ninety-eight King Kong bell ringing, but he was not completely healed. This chase on ice did not have any advantage at all. After being overtaken by King Ming III, he was caught up and swept away. It smashed a huge ice **** in an instant.

In a loud noise, he plunged into the lake under the ice, plunged into it, swam in the biting water, and caught the white-clothed horn floating in the water.

The next moment the phoenix tore his robe, rushed out from the other end of the lake, and rushed onto the plank road with the sky full of water!

The plank road is a long bridge connecting Xuebao Mountain and the main peak of Mt. Xumi. Below it is a deep and dark stream. The descendant III stepped onto the plank road amidst the roar of the sky, and suddenly the entire bridge was shaken, and even the depths of the mountain stream echoed back and forth!

"Stop, don't run!" Jiang III said sharply: "You can't live without Mount Xumi!"

The phoenix gathered up his wet robe, and his hair became darker because it was soaked in water, and his face turned whiter against the background. Under the background of the vast moonlight, it seemed to have a transparent texture like ice and snow.

His beautiful cheeks are slightly blue and white from the freezing, and the tip of the knife is pointed, drops of falling water freeze into ice in the cold wind.

This look even looks a little pitiful, but King Jiang III knows that he will not surrender or surrender because of this.

He knew that this little phoenix, who looked so thin and weak, had many times thought that he would not be able to hold on to such a heavy deception and blow, and he would definitely collapse; however every time the phoenix was Without falling down, he stubbornly guarded his tiny hope with a decisive and stubborn attitude, and never really bowed his knees to this painful reality for a moment.

The raging anger in King Jiang III gradually extinguished, and he said in a deep voice: "Come back, Phoenix, you have nowhere to go except Mount Xumi. Do you need some time to accept me? I will take good care of you. I always..."

However, Phoenix shook his head.

"This is not where I stay," his voice was soft and stubborn: "The person I need is not you either."

His slender eyelashes rolled his eyes, looking at the valley on the side of the plank road where the cold wind was whistling. Suddenly the King of the Third World had a bad heart, he suddenly stepped forward: "Stop—"

But it was too late.

Phoenix grabbed the gold railing with the ink and gold, and jumped into the deep stream!

Jiang III King Ming rushed to the side of the railing, and saw the figure of the phoenix plummeting sharply in the air, like a kite with a broken line, quickly turning into an unclear dot in the field of vision.

At the next moment, golden light burst out at that point, and even illuminated the entire valley. In the light, the phoenix turned into a bird, and the tail feathers shone with bright stars like a milky way. The clear sound resounded up and down Mount Sumi, and then plunged into the abyss. !

Ming King Jiang III grabbed the railing tightly: "Phoenix——"

However, in the next second, an indifferent voice came from the void: "Don't chase."

Jian III suddenly raised his head, his pupils widened.

I saw nothing in the dark night, surrounded by mountains on both sides, and the snow-covered mountain tops shone inconspicuously under the night sky. For a long while, the sound of wind came from the peaks of the mountains, it seemed that the voice sighed extremely slightly from the sky.

Jiang III did not move, holding on to the railing and waiting. But then he waited for a long time, and the person didn't say anything or gave any more instructions.

·

The Phoenix disappeared from the deep stream, and there was no news for a long time.

He probably didn't go to the Four Evil Ways, but went down to Mount Xumi, and went to recuperate in a space-time gap at the junction of Heaven and Hell.

The experience of that night, King Ming III, did not tell anyone, and no one on Mount Xumi recalled asking where King Phoenix had gone. After all, many people's perceptions of Phoenix are very complicated. This Primordial Divine Bird, who was born with an extremely evil appearance, once brought too much ominousness to the Dao of Heaven. Anyone who came into contact with it would suffer curse-like bad luck. Over time, it became a semi-taboo topic.

The long and continuous suppression of the Four Evil Dao by Heaven over the years has finally evoked strong resistance from Ashura.

The glazed sky under Mount Xumi has been the junction of gods and demons since ancient times. After Mount Xumi failed to send troops to the Asura tribe, the new Asura King Fanluo entangled with the monsters of the tribe and the **** road and brazenly Heavenly Dao launched an impact, occupying most of the glass sky overnight.

Ming King Jiang III received the order from Mount Xumi to set off for Liulitian. Unsurprisingly, the periphery of the city is full of dense monsters, and the black air covers the sky, and the void outside the city gate is already there. The momentum turned into a sea of ​​blood.

The moat surrounding the city wall was dyed blood red, and under the hazy sky, it looked like a godless giant eye straight into the sky.

The border of Liulitian, a barren suburb.

Ming King Jiang III gently stepped into the Buddhist hall, only to see light smoke lingering in the deep and dim front hall, the bluestone floor was warm and bright because of long-term friction, and the sandalwood was floating in the air, letting the mountain Xumi bring it down All the resplendent breath settled instantly.

There was a thin figure kneeling next to the Buddha lamp, snow-white robe, light gray robe, long hair **** on his side, and slightly curled tail hair hanging on the garment.

"...Phoenix," Jiang III murmured.

Phoenix closed his eyes slightly, without turning his head, and gently moved his finger across a glass Buddha bead.

He has recovered a lot, at least his complexion is not as pale as it was late that night. King Jiang III stood by his side, looking calmly at his side face under his sideburns. He was so careful that he didn't let the slight soft hair on his ears pass. It took him a long time to see him pulling a circle of Buddhist beads to his head. Stopped.

"What are you doing?" He opened his eyes slightly and said lightly.

He didn't get up, nor did he raise his eyes to look at the third world. This alienation attitude is no different from before, as if that unbearable night has been completely erased, at least on the surface, not even a trace is left.

"...I'll propose a marriage," Jiang III said after a moment of silence.

"It's my sister, the Snow Mountain Goddess Shakti... You have met her. If you don't like the male King Ming, at least she..."

Ming King Jong III paused, but only saw the phoenix gently dial a Buddhist bead, seeming a little tired: "Isn't she doing double repairs with you?"

There are many ways to practice in Heaven, and dual cultivation is extremely common, which is not surprising. Phoenix's tone was normal as if he only asked a very ordinary sentence, but it was because of this ordinary and normal that King Jiang III was suddenly extremely embarrassed, and only after a moment did he argued: "That was a long time ago, it has already been-- "

"No," Phoenix said, "No need to explain it to others."

He closed his eyes and continued to slowly move the prayer beads one by one, the aquamarine glass on his white and slender fingertips, the color was as pure as a painting.

Jian III thought that he had gone silently, neither standing nor walking, and was a little confused there.

——But he didn't know that Phoenix was not actually chanting.

When Phoenix closed his eyes, he was thinking of the person who was not in cause and effect. He knew that the man was not the descendant III, nor Shakti, nor any passerby that can be seen on Mount Xume. He constantly fantasizes about what that person looks like, what kind of eyes and face he has every day with gentleness and piety. How to walk from the crowd and stand in front of him.

When he knelt in front of the Buddha, he thought about how that person would appear; when he moved the prayer beads, he thought about how that person would hold his hand and take him away from this boundless place. The lotus sea.

Jian III watched his calm face and didn't know what to say. Obviously such a soft face, but it seems to be behind a transparent invisible wall, cut off any curious touch and prying eyes, making it impossible to detect the deep water inside.

"Shakti...really is your best choice," he finally spoke for a while, and persuaded him for the last time: "You are the phoenix who swallowed the phoenix. If even the goddess of the snow mountain refuses. , After returning to Mount Xumi, you may meet more people you don’t like, and you won’t necessarily be treated like that..."

The meaning in these words is very real, but even King Ming Wang himself can feel the paleness and powerlessness of these words in front of the Phoenix.

Sure enough, Phoenix didn't open his eyes, he only shook his head slightly, signaled rejection, and then dialed a Buddhist bead.

Jian III's secret anger quietly stretched out his head from his heart.

——Just insist on that, for a stranger who may not be nice to you?

However, before he had time to speak this time, there was a rush of footsteps from outside the gate, and then a figure of King Kong rushed into the front of the temple and gave a deep ceremony: "His Royal Highness! Ashura led the monster to invade the Liuli Tiangong. Already in front of the city wall!"

The anger of Emperor Ming Wang immediately rushed to the top of his head: "What did you say!"

·

Liu Li Tianjie, in front of the tower.

The huge black shadow of the nine-headed baby hovered in the air, and the red waves of the moat were overwhelming, and the heads of strange fish breathing fire constantly appeared. King Jiang III, standing on the wall with three heads and eight arms, threw the halberd in his hand towards the sky, the next moment it penetrated the huge forehead of the nine-headed infant, and the sharp cry of the infant suddenly cut through the sky!

"Humble monster!" King Jiang III roared, his voice swept across the land filled with monsters like a huge wave:

"If you don't surrender today, I will kill you here--!"

The Snow Mountain Goddess Shakti stood beside King Jiang III, but looked away from the battlefield and looked at the Phoenix on the other side of the tower.

Phoenix King is different from the legendary figure who has repeatedly swept through the sea of ​​blood and emptied the hell, and seems to be indifferent to all this. The wind raised the sleeves of his light gray robe and the snow-white robe inside. Although it was on the battlefield, it seemed as if he would return from the wind at any time.

It's really beautiful, the Snow Mountain Goddess thinks so.

As in the legend, it is so beautiful that it even gives people a...very ominous feeling.

She tilted her head with interest, and the next moment she suddenly saw King Phoenix looking into the distance, holding her gaze as if noticing something, and at the same time her expression changed indescribably.

——Although this change is extremely slight and difficult to detect, King Jiang III on the other side also noticed it, and immediately turned his head to look at Phoenix, and then followed his gaze to the battlefield.

Only above the dense group of monsters in the distance, a man in iron armor stood in the air, and the void behind him seemed to be burning with raging flames. In the hurricane connecting the world, it exuded a chilling and powerful magical breath.

The distance is too far to see what he looks like, but his movements are very clear. The man raised his long knife, dripping blood from the tip of the knife, and pointed it straight at the city wall——

Pointed to King Phoenix on the wall.

Phoenix was slightly puzzled, and raised his slender eyebrows.

In the next second, the man swung his sword, wrapped in a hot and powerful dark atmosphere, and rushed toward him like a sharp arrow in the wind sweeping the world!