When the dishes ordered by Qingyan were served, the two Chou Chou also arrived.
Chou Chou changed into a very ordinary-looking middle-aged man just like last time.
Huang Xiaowu still looked that wretched, but his clothes had changed. The previous Taoist robe was too eye-catching.
It was wearing a black and gray robe today, but it had an abrupt bun. Fortunately, it had enough hair to look good, but if it were sparse, it would be even worse.
Qingyan stood up and waved to the two "people". She was still dressed as a man, so no one thought it was strange that her movements were bolder.
The restaurant is not as crowded as yesterday. They must have left for the capital, so there is still room in the lobby.
In fact, Chou Chou and Huang Xiaowu saw her as soon as they entered the door. She was sitting on a table facing the door, and she was facing this way holding Yuan Bao. She was easy to recognize without the need for sound transmission.
The two "people" sat down on either side of her, picked up the bowls and chopsticks on the table and started eating.
This is not the place to talk. It is better to finish the meal quietly and find a quiet place to talk carefully later.
It's still a combination of three people and one cat, but two "people" have been changed. The waiter didn't recognize Qingyan's outfit, but he recognized Yuanbao.
It is rare to see such a fat cat, not to mention that it can hold a chicken leg and chew on it. The bold and unrestrained posture is still fresh in my memory.
However, the waiter didn't come forward to disturb him, he just took a second look.
After finishing the meal and paying the bill, the three "people" and one cat got on the carriage at the door and drove to the southwest of the town with the packed chicken.
The black bird's soul bead was still staring over there, and it had set up a new phantom formation there. It didn't feel comfortable leaving just yet, for fear of being picked off by others.
It's not that far away, we arrived in ten minutes.
Qingyan looked around. This was an east-west road. She didn't know where she was going in front of her. On the left was a village. This was the north of the village. It should be behind the village. All she could see were the back gables.
Qingyan asked Chou Chou with a puzzled look on her face: "This is it? There's nothing there. Where is the Black Bird Soul Bead?"
Chou Chou did not answer her question, but directed the big bear: "Continue to take five steps forward, then ten steps to the left and then to the right..."
The big bear followed suit, and then the surrounding scene suddenly changed. The path just turned into an open space with a well in the open space.
They got off the carriage and walked to the well. Qingyan took a closer look and found that the wellhead was polygonal and the stone well platform was more than half a meter above the ground.
There is well water inside, and the water level is not low. It is not far from the well head. It looks very clear to the naked eye, and the surrounding area is also very clean. There is also a path leading to the entrance of the village not far away, which should still be used to supply the village with draft water.
Now Xuanniao has set up a formation, so no one is coming, only a few of them.
"Where's the black bird? Why don't you see it?"
Qingyan looked around, but she didn't see Xuanniao's soul bead.
"It's at the bottom of the well, I'm calling it out."
Chou Chou sent a message to it, and soon a black bead broke out of the well and flew directly in front of them.
"You are here. There is an underground palace below. Do you want to go in and have a look?"
The black bird soul bead floated in the air and said to them.
Qingyan walked around it in surprise, "Have you upgraded again? You can talk now, and your color seems to be different. It was pitch black before, but now it's glowing red!"
The soul bead shook up and down, as if nodding, "Yes, I am also a fire attribute. Before, because of the cultivation of the soul body, I stayed in the tomb for too long before it became black. Now I am close to the real Phoenix. Yan has recovered a lot."
Qingyan nodded and continued: "Didn't you say we have to wait until night? Can we go in now? Will there be any noise to attract other people's attention?"
The soul bead swayed left and right, "No, I set up the illusion array. We are just going in. As long as we don't take anything out, it will be fine. There is a fire spirit bead below, and there is a trace of phoenix true flame inside, which is sealed in In the underground palace, if you take it out, there will be quite a stir."
Qingyan raised her eyebrows, "How come the Fire Spirit Pearl is at the bottom of the well? Isn't this mutual repulsion?"
In her mind, the water spirit beads should be at the bottom of the water, and the fire spirit beads should be in the volcano.
"That's why it's said to be sealed. It's because fire and water are incompatible, so it's sealed with a well. If you use fire, it won't add energy to it."
Hunzhu replied.
"..." Qingyan was choked. Her mind was indeed a little confused and she couldn't figure out such an obvious question.
Chou Chou looked at her embarrassed face and felt a little distressed. He quickly came to the rescue and said, "I'll take the big bear and the carriage into the space and let it reunite with Xiao Hong. Do you want Yuan Bao to go in? There are no outsiders now. You can step in." Progressed steadily.”
The big bear nodded happily, and Qingyan went directly to remove it, so that it could be stored in the space without having to remove it again.
Yuan Bao shook his head, "There is no rush to advance. You can go later. I want to go to the underground palace with you to have a look. I don't know if I will have the chance to encounter such an adventure again."
Chou Chou nodded in agreement. This kind of thing is indeed rare. If you advance, you can enter the space at any time. If you can't control it, just take it in.
Seeing that they had made their decision, Hunzhu said: "Then let's enter the underground palace. The entrance is thirty steps west of the well mouth. There was a formation there before. Now it's daylight and I've broken it. You can just walk there." "
So the three "people", one cat and one bead went to the place thirty steps west of the well. When they got there, they disappeared instantly!
Qingyan felt in a trance for a while, and when she came back to her senses, she was already in an underground palace.
It was very bright and warm inside the underground palace, higher than the temperature in the Chou Chou space.
She took a look and saw that the surrounding walls were inlaid with orange beads, like little suns, emitting warm light.
"What kind of beads are these? Are they just generating heat? Are they also fire beads?"
She turned around and asked Chou Chou them, thinking they should know.
Huang Xiaowu and Yuanbao were also looking around in surprise. They just turned their heads and eyes, but did not move around casually for fear of triggering some mechanism.
Chou Chou also looked at it before replying: "It should be the inner elixir of the fire attribute monster, but it is of a lower level. If it is of a higher level, it will turn into a water and fire spirit bead like the Dragon Ball and Phoenix True Flame."
Qingyan said with gleaming eyes: "Then if I carry this thing with me, will I not be afraid of the cold? Can it be used as a baby warmer?"
Chou Chou looked at her look, smiled and shook his head: "No, putting it on your body will burn your clothes and skin, and even putting it on a carriage will ignite the carriage. Ordinary people cannot control this kind of inner elixir, and the temperature cannot be adjusted freely. ."
Qingyan said "Oh" in disappointment. She thought she could carry it with her like a spiritual stone, so that she wouldn't have to be afraid of the cold when driving the carriage.
Xuanniao comforted her and said: "I can refine them all. Then you don't have to worry about being cold as long as you take me with you. I can also adjust the heat and cold around you."
"That's great!"
Hearing this, Qingyan's eyes lit up again, that's okay, as long as the effect is the same.
Huang Xiaowu asked Xuanniao: "Can we wander around this underground palace? Are there any mechanisms or anything like that?"
The Black Bird Soul Pearl swayed up and down, "Okay, there are no mechanisms here. There was a formation before, which I have cracked. You can't go except for the platform in the middle. There is a Fire Spirit Orb there. I haven't cracked the formation yet. , otherwise we will be attacked indiscriminately."
Several people nodded, each walked towards what they were interested in, and began their exploration.
Yuan Bao and Huang Xiaowu walked separately from them. Chou Chou was worried and followed Qing Yan. The Black Bird Soul Bead began to absorb the fire element inner elixirs one by one.
Qingyan walked to a mural and found that underground palaces and ancient tombs like to record the owner's life in the form of murals. Maybe there were no words at that time, or the words couldn't be as intuitive as paintings. of manifested.
The murals were not painted, but carved, and they were not carved by anyone, but by Phoenix himself using his spiritual consciousness or thoughts.
It must be that before Phoenix was sealed here and lost consciousness, she was unwilling to disappear and be forgotten, so the causes and consequences were depicted.
At the front of the depiction is a phoenix perched on a high hill. Below is a large river. In the middle of the river is a hippopotamus, which is a good omen.
This corresponds to Chen Liu's legend of "When the phoenix arrives, the river flows out of the picture."
It was the same when it came to Cangjie, but the story behind it was different, and it wasn't the version she heard.
There is not a very bad southerner who is jealous of the Feng Shui-built Nailfeng Well here.
But there was an evil cultivator who wanted to create a weapon suitable for himself after reaching a very high level of practice.
He practices fire-based techniques. Which of the best fire-based materials in the world can compare to Phoenix True Flame?
Of course, the true flame of the phoenix is not so easy to obtain. It will only appear when the phoenix reaches nirvana and is reborn from the ashes. The flames usually spit out or fanned out by the phoenix are just real fire.
And even if his cultivation level is high, he may have no problem catching the phoenix, but it will still be difficult to force it to resurrect from the ashes.
So he made a trick to deceive the trust and affection of the phoenix, which transformed into a woman, and let people pretend to be his enemies, causing him to get hurt trying to protect it.
Phoenix believed it to be true and went everywhere to find treasures of heaven and earth to heal his injuries. He even pulled out his own Phoenix feathers and exchanged them for pills. However, when he could not maintain his body without the feathers, he was cut off by the evil cultivator. neck.
You must know that there is a saying that dragons have reverse scales, and those who touch them will die; phoenixes have weak necks, and those who offend will be killed!
The phoenix did go as the evil cultivator thought, and the phoenix was reborn from the ashes, but he underestimated the power of the phoenix's true flame, and burned him to ashes the moment it appeared!
If he just killed the evil cultivator, he didn't expect Phoenix to start killing like crazy because of his emotional injury!
Not only did it burn the surrounding villages, both houses and people, to ashes, but it also dried up the river at the foot of the high hill, leaving the people on both sides of the river with no way to survive. The killings committed at this time were too heavy. The gods above were alarmed, so they sent immortals down to stop him.
After the immortal came, he stopped the phoenix from continuing to commit crimes, but it refused to go with the immortal to be punished, so the immortal had to seal it here.
The formation used for the seal has these three wells as the eyes, so it is right to call it Nailfeng Well. It is indeed fixed here, and its neck and two wings are fixed respectively.
As for why it is only suppressed rather than killed, of course it is because it cannot be killed. After all, the Phoenix can be reborn again and again, and each time it is reborn, its power will be improved to a higher level, and it will only become more and more powerful. In the end, it will still be dead. Not necessarily who it is.
And this fire spirit bead is not the Phoenix's inner elixir, and the Phoenix is not dead, so the inner elixir cannot leave the body or be taken away.
This is the trace of true flame left behind when the phoenix was reborn from the ashes. Because it was directly suppressed here, it was held in the body for a long time and could not be released. It slowly concentrated and condensed. After thousands of years, it finally became a ball full of fire energy. Beads, also known as Fire Spirit Beads.
The heat of this fire spirit bead should not be underestimated, not to mention that there is a trace of true Phoenix flame inside, so it is not something that ordinary people can touch.
If it weren't for the fact that Xuanniao was a descendant of the Golden Crow and a fire-based monster, plus the Golden Crow bloodline, even if it had been diluted, it would still be the true fire of the sun, which could be said to be comparable to the true flame of the phoenix.
Moreover, this bead has been suppressed here for who knows how many years, so the chance of it being refined is still very high.
Because it is carved on the stone wall, there is no color, just deep carvings, but even so, the carving is lifelike, allowing people to intuitively see the beauty of the phoenix bird and the immortal spirit of the immortal, and even that The vulgarity of the evil cultivator has been depicted, and he can be said to be a master of painting.
After reading this mural and knowing what happened to the Phoenix and the origin of the Fire Spirit Pearl, Qingyan felt a little emotional. It turns out that divine beasts also suffer from emotional tribulations.
She sighed with emotion and then began to look at the treasures in the underground palace.
Yes, it is a treasure.
Although the phoenix is different from the dragon and does not like to collect and hoard shiny things, it is still a mythical beast after all. It has its own natal space and still has some collections.
Since there are fire spirit beads and those inner elixirs of monster beasts here, especially those inner elixirs, they should be in the natal space of this phoenix.
Otherwise, where else could it get these things if it was trapped here? It couldn't just be that so many fire-type monsters just arrived at the door.
Of course, it shouldn't be placed here for display. It is probably to protect its own original power and prevent it from dissipating after being suppressed for a long time.
Most of them are fire-type magic weapons, which, together with the inner elixirs of fire-type monsters, provide it with energy and protect it.
Qingyan picked up a red jade stone from the ground around her. She tested it before picking it up and found that it was not hot before holding it in her hand. The tentacles were warm, like warm jade.
She showed it to Chou Chou, "Do you know what this is?"
Chou Chou also finished reading the paintings on the stone wall with her, and was following her to protect her.
He reached out to take the stone in her hand and looked at it: "This is the fire spirit stone, which is a spirit stone with fire attribute inside, but there is not much fire attribute inside, so there is only a little warmth left.
This can be used as a warm jade, but it can't be worn on the body for too long, as it can easily get angry. "
(End of chapter)
