On How the Phoenix Hanged on the Crooked Neck Tree

The door opened slowly, was there really someone inside!Surprised, Qiao Yitong held her breath and looked inside, but no one noticed.

how come?

"Chichi." A strange voice came from diagonally above.Qiao Yitong followed the sound and saw a bird made of ice, standing on a pink-purple coral, nodding to him.

When Dan Sheng saw it, he was a little curious, went to peck it, and pecked off half of its leg.

Qiao Yitong: "..."

Dan Sheng: "..."

The ice bird uttered a mournful cry, and jumped far away with one foot, trying to stay away from the creature that hurt it.Qiao Yitong saw that the bird didn't look like a living thing, but it moved like a real bird. It should be that the soul of a bird was pulled out and put into the ice bird.

This kind of behavior will harm the soul of the bird forever trapped and unable to reincarnate. In essence, it is similar to the puppet technique, and it can be regarded as a relatively insidious technique.

Qiao Yitong couldn't bear to see the ice bird whining in pain all the time, so he took out a piece of talisman paper from the Qiankun bag and stuck it on it. In the firelight, the ice bird melted into a puddle of water, and its imprisoned soul was able to enter reincarnation.

No longer pay attention to this place, go indoors.There are tables and chairs here, swings decorated with flowers, a big bed made of a whole piece of Lingshi, and various ice sculptures... Most of the shapes are exquisite and beautiful, and they are well arranged, harmoniously integrated with the ice building. It is pleasing to watch.

Qiao Yitong thought, this must be the place where his father and mother lived together.

Just now he went around this small building, up and down, but he didn't see any other living things. It seems that his mother has already left here.Usually only Qiao Guangyi would come here occasionally.

It took a lot of effort to get here, if you don't look around, it's really a big loss.With the idea of ​​finding as many clues as possible, Qiao Yitong started to walk around in the ice building.

On the head of the bed was a woman's dressing room, on which were placed combs, rouge boxes and other things. Qiao Yitong opened the carved drawer, and inside were several hairpins with unique styles. Take a look, the workmanship is superb and stunning.

It seems that my mother is a person who likes to dress up, she should be a beauty... Qiao Yitong thought to himself, but yes, her appearance should be mainly inherited from her mother.

On the small table in the room, there is a full set of fine porcelain tea sets, and the tea bowls are buckled in the saucers. It seems that no one has touched it for a long time.Well, it seems that my mother loves to drink tea, but Qiao Guangyi, a guy who only knows how to practice, obviously doesn't know what tea tasting is.Qiao Yitong secretly slandered her father.

The beauty who walked outside leaned forward, and there was an embroidery stand with an unfinished embroidery stretched on it, Qiao Yitong leaned over to take a closer look.This embroidery is not very good, the stitches are a bit messy, and the embroidered leaves are sycamore leaves, which are embroidered crookedly, not like sycamore trees, but thick and short fingers, but because of its special meaning, Qiao Yitong couldn't help being moved.Cultivators basically don't do mortal affairs, but my mother is willing to embroider for herself. Did she sit in front of this chair and embroider things for her unborn child?

Qiao Yitong couldn't bear to look any further, and instead left the corridor and came to the study.The four walls of the study room were covered with books, Qiao Yitong looked carefully, but they were all Taoist cultivation methods of meditation and concentration, there was nothing special about them.

He intuited that there should be some manuscripts left by the two of them back then, but he couldn't find them anywhere, so he started to fiddle with some common methods of solving mechanisms.First I looked for the armrest of the chair, then picked up a pen to write and draw on the paper, and then took out the books one by one, but there was still no movement.With a flick of his sleeve, Qiao Yitong simply pulled out all the books on the entire wall.

Hundreds of books quietly floated in the air, revealing the bookcase behind. Qiao Yitong keenly noticed that there were some strange lines on the wall behind the bookcase. When he only took out a book or two, he thought it was the texture of the wall itself. So I didn't care.Now it seems that there is a lot of mystery in it.

Qiao Yitong put his hand on the pattern and poured spiritual power into it, the pattern emerged with light, and then joined together to form the emblem of Fengyundu. Qiao Yitong's eyes lit up, and there was indeed something interesting.The bookcases spread out to both sides, and the wall shrunk up to reveal a small world inside.

This is an open underground world. The spirit stones emit light, reflecting on the surrounding ores, giving off multicolored soft light, and there is the sound of gurgling water in my ears. It turns out that there is actually an underground river under the Fallen Leaf Peak.

A small pavilion was built next to the river. Qiao Yitong came to the pavilion and found that there was a spirit-gathering formation in the middle of the pavilion. The level of spiritual energy here was dozens of times that of the entire Fengyundu. It should be twice the result with half the effort.

However, he was not interested in the Spirit Gathering Array, but instead focused on a book next to the pavilion.

The corners of the book were curled up, and some pages were missing.It has obviously been around for many years and is often looked at.

It seemed to be what it was looking for.

Qiao Yitong took a deep breath, but was a little nervous when he wanted to open it.He shook his head in self-mocking, and traveled through the pages of the book to a bygone time.

These are essays written by Qiao Guangyi, each of which is usually only a few words, but together, it makes Qiao Yitong know a lot of things that he doesn't understand.

Qiao Guangyi was also a disciple trained by Fengyundu in the past, and his life was no different from Qiao Yitong's. Qiao Yitong quickly skipped some trivial matters before, and only when a woman appeared frequently in Qiao Guangyi's writing did he start to read seriously.

"...It was not my wish to travel the world under the order of my teacher and arrive at the Wood Clan. The world is unpredictable..."

Qiao Guangyi, who was traveling in the mainland, accidentally passed by a settlement called the Mu Clan. He did not expect that the Mu Clan did not allow outsiders to enter, so he was attacked by the members of the Mu Clan. He was seriously injured and thrown out of the Wood Clan.

The Mu family is in the deep mountains, where monsters live in groups. Qiao Guangyi was seriously injured and had no power to protect himself. In case of an attack by an unknown creature, it would be difficult to save his life.Just when he was in despair, Qiao Guangyi, who was almost exhausted, was saved by a woman.

That woman, who was peerless in appearance and kind-hearted, found Qiao Guangyi by accident, and couldn't bear to see him die, so she took him to a hidden place and placed him there, and then healed him every day.

Under the woman's meticulous care, Qiao Guangyi couldn't help feeling admiration for her, and wanted to find out her background and marry her as a Taoist couple.Unexpectedly, the woman refused to tell him her name.Qiao Guangyi thought that the woman didn't love him, so he felt sad.Unexpectedly, his injury has recovered, and the day of parting is coming soon. The woman's eyebrows are clearly affectionate, and she seems to be reluctant to part with her.

Qiao Guangyi was full of doubts, he didn't understand why she didn't give the two of them a chance to develop even though she was obviously pleased with him, so he stood behind the woman and wanted to find out her identity.But the woman seems to have a secret technique, which he always loses.After several failed attempts, Qiao Guangyi made a plan, pretended to recover from his injury and left, but secretly hid by her side.

When he asked to leave, the woman didn't show any expression, she just smiled and wished him well.However, after seeing that he really left, the woman cried sadly alone.Although Qiao Guangyi was heartbroken, he suppressed his desire to rush out to comfort her and waited for her to return to his home.Wanting to show up again at that time, he proposed marriage to her openly.

The woman stopped her tears and went back as usual.Qiao Guangyi, who was following behind, was shocked to find that she had actually joined the Mu clan!

Although the Mu Clan has expressly prohibited him from entering, and if someone finds out, he will be in great trouble, but for the sake of his beloved, Qiao Guangyi resolutely disregarded his own safety, sneaked into the Mu Clan, and silently guarded the woman.

The woman's identity was finally revealed. She was Zhiji, the saintess of the Mu clan. She had known that she was extraordinary, but she had never expected her to be so noble.

Qiao Guangyi already understood that he and Zhiji had nothing to do with each other, and they could never be together.

However, for some reason, he had clearly made a decision intellectually, but he kept procrastinating and did not leave.

One day, Qiao Guangyi was accidentally discovered by Zhiji's maid and leaked her whereabouts.The maid was supposed to inform the patriarch to deal with him as a foreigner.But she was stopped by Zhiji.

Zhiji was really taken aback, although she was also surprised by Qiao Guangyi's behavior, but after blaming him, she couldn't bear to leave after all.From then on, the relationship between the two developed secretly.

However, although the love is strong, it is destined not to last long. Zhiji has been engaged to someone else since she was a child.

As the wedding day approaches, Qiao Guangyi proposes to take Zhiji away.Zhiji hesitated again and again between the tribe and Qiao Guangyi, and finally came to Fengyundu with Qiao Guangyi on the eve of their marriage. The two got married, and Qiao Yitong was left.

The story seems to have come to a happy ending.However, what Qiao Guangyi said next made Qiao Yitong angry.

When Qiao Guangyi went out once, it happened that the two countries in the mortal world were fighting, and there were casualties all over the place.As a cultivator, he couldn't bear it, so he stayed for a few days to extradite the souls of the dead.During this period, he saved the life of a subjugated princess in the rebellious army.

The princess was young, and she was very dependent on the fairy who saved her life.Qiao Guangyi originally only wanted to leave when her condition improved slightly, but later he found that taking care of the princess had become a habit for him, and it was difficult to leave.

History seems to be repeating itself at this moment, Zhiji fell in love with Qiao Guangyi who was rescued by herself.And Qiao Guangyi also fell in love with this lonely and helpless princess of subjugation.He began to doubt whether his feelings for Zhiji were gratitude for her life-saving grace or true love.

The princess is a mortal, and her lifespan is only a short life, only seven to eighty years. For a cultivator, it is as short as a fleeting moment, but Qiao Guangyi wants to accompany her through this life.However, even though Qiao Guangyi's love for the princess is getting deeper and deeper, he can't feel sorry for Zhiji who left everything for him, not to mention that Zhiji once saved his life and gave birth to a son for him.

Although Qiao Guangyi tried his best to conceal the existence of the princess, maybe women are naturally sensitive to love, and Zhiji has already noticed that the Taoist couple no longer loves him.Zhiji was depressed when she left her hometown, and the child had just been born, but the Taoist couple had a new love. Under the shock, she developed inner demons during her cultivation, which caused her cultivation to be damaged, and she couldn't afford to be sick again...

Qiao Yitong looked at these words, and Zhiji's sad face in front of the hospital bed appeared in front of her eyes, and a strong sense of unwillingness and anger arose in her heart.Qiao Guangyi has always disliked him. He thought he was just naturally indifferent and dedicated to Taoism, but he didn't know that he was so passionate when he was young!Where did he put his mother in this way?

No wonder I had only my father and no mother since I was a child. It turned out that my mother was killed by him!

Why?Why can he do such a thing?Qiao Yitong clenched his hands tightly, and all the severe criticisms his father had made to him in the past came to mind for a moment. The slap he slapped him before may not have healed, otherwise why is his chest hurting now?

If... If Qiao Guangyi appeared here now, Qiao Yitong wondered if he could hold back the pain and anger in his heart, and continue playing the boring drama of the filial son and strict father with Qiao Guangyi.

Feeling Qiao Yitong's slightly trembling body, Dan Sheng knew that he must be very excited at the moment, so he whispered twice in his ear, and kept rubbing his cheeks, comforting him with his small body.

Qiao Yitong touched Dansheng, and seemed to have calmed down a bit.After all, he sneaked in without permission. No matter how unwilling he is, he will argue with Qiao Guangyi later.With an indifferent expression, Qiao Yitong put the book back to its place, sorted out his ups and downs, and prepared to leave along the same path.

Xiao Qin is still waiting for him outside at the risk of being discovered, and he cannot be put in danger.

Qiao Yitong turned around, and Qiao Guangyi's calm but angry face appeared in front of him.