Lantern: Reflection of the Peach Blossoms

The phoenix does not rest unless it is a phoenix tree, it does not eat unless it is practiced, it does not drink unless it is a sweet spring.

Zhou Hui didn't know for sure until he arrived in Liulitian.The above are all the habits of the real body of the phoenix. If it turns into a human form, it only needs to be cleansed and avoid the smell.

However, cleanliness and avoiding fishy smell are fundamentally impossible things in the sea of ​​blood in hell. Therefore, Phoenix does not touch a drop of water when he is in Buzhou Mountain. Fortunately, his need for food and drink can be so small that it is almost nothing, so there has been no problem.

Outside the Liuli Tiangong is a vast land of nothingness. The wind blows across the plain, rushing towards the sky with a desolate atmosphere.Standing on the slope, you can see the horizon at a glance, and there are endless blue lights at the junction of the sky and the earth. The aurora is lingering when the sun is setting and the moon is rising, which is very spectacular and magnificent.

33 There are many magnificent landscapes in the heavens, but they are all hidden in desolate and uninhabited places outside the heavenly palaces on all levels.Zhou Hui had also seen the scene of Mount Sumeru through the water mirror. The deepest impression was the rolling giant buildings like mountains, carved with gold and jade, decorated with ivory, and even the fountains gushed out of broken jade, which can be described as extremely majestic and majestic.

He once wondered if the Phoenix would be more suitable for the luxurious environment of the temple, but the Phoenix seemed to be very peaceful in the hut he built in the wilderness.

What Zhou Hui built was a house similar to a small wooden courtyard on Mount Buzhou, surrounded by stone walls, and Phoenix planted a circle of fiery red Asura flowers under the stone wall, which were the seeds he brought out from hell.

At Buzhou Mountain, Zhou Hui didn't think he liked those flowers at all. It wasn't until after the hut was built, watching Fenghuang silently take out a handful of seeds from his pocket, that he suddenly realized that he was not completely indifferent to the surrounding environment.

Liulitian is at the bottom of the 33rd heaven, bordering hell.Zhou Hui goes to hell to hunt every day, while Fenghuang stays at home.At first Zhou Hui was afraid that there would be problems if he left his sight, but after so long, the thunderbolt did not come down, and the surrounding area was deserted, not to mention beasts, not even a bug, it was truly a land of nothingness and silence. , so I let go of my heart.

——However, it turns out that Zhou Hui's reassurance was too early.

One day not long after, Fenghuang woke up when Zhou Hui was away from home. The closed six consciousnesses were not completely penetrated, only the seventh mana consciousness was still there, and he sat in a lonely courtyard under the hazy sky.Shakti, the Goddess of the Snow Mountain, saw this scene through the cloud mirror, and she was so moved that she secretly descended Mount Sumeru and came to this remote courtyard.

Her original intention was not necessarily to assassinate Fenghuang, but to tease him maliciously—even if she proves the king with military exploits, it is not as respected as the five authentic kings of Tantric Buddhism, but the Phoenix is ​​also an ancient divine bird, and there was no beard when the jade fetus was born. Mi Shan, if you kill Phoenix, you will definitely be punished by God.

But when she found that the Phoenix's six senses were all sealed, it was really like a puppet on a string, what it was called and what it was called, and it didn't even have the slightest sense of resistance, and evil thoughts suddenly sprouted in her heart.

——It is said that the phoenix is ​​immortal, what if he is really just Nirvana?

What if, after Nirvana, everything in the past is really forgotten?

If that's the case, Zhou Hui's exasperated face must be very funny.

Thinking so, Shakti took out the poisoned dagger, and handed it to Fenghuang like a ghost.

Phoenix's only seventh sense was completely incapable of distinguishing good from evil, so he took it obediently and looked at Shakti quietly.

At that moment, Shakti flinched a little, but soon jealousy and malice overwhelmed the fear, and he leaned into Fenghuang's ear and said softly: "Go, stab your own heart with the knife in your hand... Let me see, Are you going to Nirvana, or are you really going to die?"

Fenghuang lowered his eyes, looked at the edge of the blade, with a blank expression, and slowly turned the tip of the blade across himself for a long while.

Shakti stepped back half a step, with a hint of appreciation and anticipation in his eyes.The next moment, the tip of the knife pierced the skin of his chest, and the golden-red blood soaked through the front of his clothes in an instant.

——The most fortunate thing for Zhou Hui later was that that day when he was in hell, he suddenly felt terrified, and immediately returned home, and rushed through the door at the nick of time and snatched the knife from Phoenix's hand.

Shakti wanted to leave, but Zhou Hui lost his mind in a rage, and stabbed her neck with a knife.

At that moment, the sky rotated, the earth collapsed, Shakti screamed and flew back, and countless huge thunders crashed from the sky above their heads!

It was actually two people who were struck by the thunder - Shakti, who intended to murder the ancient divine bird, and Zhou Hui, who hurt the goddess of the Snow Mountain. However, Phoenix's six-sense seal exploded in the lightning waterfall, and Zhou Hui was thrown down in a flash , The moment the landmine hit his back, it stopped abruptly and disappeared invisible.

Shakti didn't have such good luck, Lei Zhu smashed her godhead, and directly sent the Snow Mountain Goddess into the Six Realms of Reincarnation.

Although Zhou Hui was a rebellious Hell Demon who had cultivated himself into a human being, it was also the first time he had seen a thunder catastrophe—although it was not the same as when King Peacock Ming was condemned by heaven, the Wanren Glacier was turned into powder, and the vast plain collapsed suddenly. At the time, it was shocking enough.

The phoenix crushed him tightly in the rolling thunder, and the golden-red phoenix blood on his chest stained him all over, and then the blood sank into Zhou Hui's body, as if it had been completely absorbed by a sponge, leaving nothing behind.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Hui felt an extremely scorching energy sweeping through his limbs and bones, causing him to scream in pain amidst the lightning that was so bright that it was impossible to open his eyes.

At the end of the thunder tribulation, Zhou Hui lost consciousness. When he woke up, he was lying on the cracked ground, and Fenghuang was sitting in the burnt wooden ruins not far away, reaching out his hand, trying to touch the small red flower protruding from the crack.

Probably caught a glimpse of Zhou Hui moving from the corner of his eye, he withdrew his hand and asked, "Are you awake?"

Zhou Hui sat up, and was surprised to find that there was no scar on his whole body, and there seemed to be an unprecedented, majestic power hidden in the sea of ​​​​qi, like a beast waiting for an opportunity.

"I am..."

"Shakti has gone to reincarnation." Fenghuang said without opening his eyes.

Zhou Hui got up, staggered because of dizziness, staggered to the front of Fenghuang, half-kneeled on the charred and smoking ground in front of him, looked at him with a little dodging eyes: "What are you thinking?"

"……nothing much."

Zhou Hui took his hand and saw that the wound on his heart had healed, but there were still blood stains on his chest.

"What are you thinking?" Zhou Hui repeated, his voice full of gentleness and sincerity.

Phoenix lowered his eyes, and from Zhou Hui's angle, he could see his slender, thick eyelashes, and his clear eyes that could not see any emotion at all.

"...the yard is gone..." He said softly after a long time.

That voice wasn't purely sad, it just seemed a little confused, but it was like an invisible hand suddenly grabbed his heart, making Zhou Hui's breathing suddenly stopped.

"Let's leave Liulitian," Fenghuang said, "I want to go to the Chaos Realm, to a place where there are no people..."

The Chaos Realm is a void area beyond the six realms. There are no creatures or people. If you want to describe it, it is actually a bit similar to the colorless sky where Buddha exists. debris.

Zhou Hui took the phoenix with him and lived in the chaotic world for hundreds of years.

That was actually the most peaceful and comfortable time in Phoenix's life. There were only him and Zhou Hui. The repetitive routine day after day made him almost forget the fear of losing, and even the various threats and shadows represented by the name Sakyamuni. , seem to gradually dissipate with the passage of time, leaving only the unobtrusive black dust in the corner.

Sometimes they would go to the sea of ​​blood together, and sometimes they would go to the human world.They have walked through the wind, sand and gunpowder smoke in the world, and they have also seen all kinds of confusion and happiness in the world of mortals. No matter where they are, they are all close together, and there is an illusion of eternity and eternity in a trance.

There was no more news from Mount Sumeru, and Zhou Hui didn't bother to provoke the Heavenly Dao, it seemed a bit like the well water does not offend the river water.

In his opinion, Heavenly Dao should want to arrange the matter of King Phoenix Ming. When his life as a hell demon comes to an end, Phoenix will naturally return to Mount Sumeru.Then this millennium period will become a slightly unexpected episode in the long life of heaven and man, gradually drifting away as time goes by, and finally one day it will become a small piece of insignificant anecdote in the history of heaven.

For Zhou Hui, although it was a little sad, it seemed to be true.

——Until finally one day, Phoenix became pregnant and gave birth to Peacock Maha, who will be named King Ming after falling to the ground.

Maha's birth was Zhou Hui's first time entering the Buddhist hall through the main entrance, and it was also the first time this rebellious hell demon knelt in front of the Buddha for seven days and seven nights.

However, it was of no use. As soon as the peacock was born, it opened its eyes to reflect the death of the phoenix.

Zhou Hui didn't tell Fenghuang about this - because Fenghuang showed unprecedented joy at the birth of his eldest son.He had never seen Phoenix's reaction to anything so strong, the emotion was so sincere and surging that Zhou Hui was completely unable to confide a single word of the truth in front of Phoenix's weak and happy face.

Perhaps what the Buddha predicted would not happen, he consoled himself so in vain.

——Perhaps this child can grow up smoothly, be safe and happy, don't disappoint Phoenix's full of happy expectations for him today.

However, the cruel reality soon dealt Zhou Hui a head blow.

Maha's nature is evil and jealous, because he was jealous of the Buddha's bone, he went to the 33rd heaven to swallow the Buddha's body, so that the most serious divine punishment in the nine heavens and ten places was aroused on the golden summit of the snow mountain.

The spirit of the phoenix collapsed, and he desperately wanted to go up to rescue the child from the lightning storm, but Zhou Hui knew that it was almost impossible.He used 81 demons to imprison Fenghuang, but in the last step of the billions of thunders, Fenghuang still forcibly broke free, and saved Maha's last breath at the price of burning his real body.

Fenghuang was seriously injured and dying. Zhou Hui took him to Buzhou Mountain in Hell. He built a small wooden house exactly like it was thousands of years ago in front of the cliff where they first lived. Rehabilitation inside.

What was different from the past was that this time he took the small courtyard as the center and cast countless curses within a radius of thousands of miles, imprisoning the unconscious Phoenix inside without leaving any room.

Phoenix hated him now, he knew it.

He had seen how much Phoenix loved his two children—when Maha and Garuda were little birds, Phoenix would often transform into a real body, wrapping the two little birds inside with its long tail feathers, Gently groom and play with them, sometimes for days at a time.

When the little birds fell asleep, he maintained that position, looking at them tenderly and lovingly, not even willing to look away.

——If it is said that Fenghuang still has a little cautious temptation and careful reservations about Zhou Hui's company and loyalty, then when facing two young birds who don't know whether they can be raised smoothly, how does he feel? A look that can't wait to pour out all the emotions, as if the whole life is pinned on them.

That sacrificial gesture sometimes made Zhou Hui secretly startled when he saw it.

He once secretly worried about what to do if the child was gone one day, would Fenghuang have a nervous breakdown and be unable to survive?However, this conjecture was not pursued further because it was too terrifying.

Until now, when the eldest son almost died and the second son was taken captive to the snowy mountains of Tibet without hearing a word, he realized that this terrible thing would eventually come.

Fenghuang hated him for watching the child with nothing. Even if his superficial calm was restored with the passage of time in the future, that hatred would leave a shadow in the deepest part of his heart, and it would never disappear.

Sometimes when Zhou Hui looked at Fenghuang sitting there quietly, not moving for a whole day without speaking, submissive and indifferent to external stimuli, an indescribable sadness would rise from the bottom of his heart.

Was Phoenix happy?

Really carefree, contented, have you ever felt safe and happy?

Fenghuang had to suffer from injuries for several years before he could barely leave the ground. Zhou Hui took him to live in seclusion in a scenic spot in the human world, and removed thousands of forbidden spells, just like two children before they were born. .

However, this can only alleviate the situation temporarily, and cannot really solve the problem.

When Fenghuang was seriously injured, he seemed to be more and more disgusted with "being alone", even to the point of being a little afraid.So Zhou Hui tried his best not to leave him, no matter where he was, he made sure that they could appear in each other's sight at any time.Several times when he turned his head in the crowd, he could see Phoenix's eyes following him, and when he turned his head, he breathed a sigh of relief very unobtrusively.

Sometimes Zhou Hui would go through the crowd to hold his hand and ask with a smile, "Miss me?"

Phoenix never answers.

There was only one time when they returned to Hell Buzhou Mountain from the human world. Fenghuang stood on the cliff, looking at the endless sea of ​​blood churning beneath his feet, and suddenly turned around and asked seriously: "Zhou Hui."

"Ok?"

"Are you going to leave here one day?"

Zhou Hui was stunned. He didn't know why he asked such a question suddenly, but when he realized it, he immediately replied: "No, I will never abandon you—what's the matter?"

Fenghuang shook his head, turned his face away and did not speak.

However, Zhou Hui soon knew why he had this question suddenly.

——Because one night, the phoenix suddenly disappeared.

Zhou Hui still doesn't know how the unhealed and weak Phoenix managed to avoid his perception, barely struggled to leave hell and return to the way of heaven, passed through the blizzard across the plain, climbed Mount Sumeru step by step, and walked again. He entered the highest Buddhist hall that he had not set foot in for thousands of years.

Fenghuang stood in the middle of the huge and empty Buddhist hall, took off the Buddha bone with the red thread around his neck, and held it forward with one hand, his eyes were full of despair and desperate: "I will return the Buddha bone to you, and you will save Maha's life." Give it back to me, can you?"

——In the colorless sky, there was a moment of silence, and everything was silent.

King Fenghuang Ming did not return for a thousand years, and no one thought that returning would be a clean break with the Buddha.

The author has something to say:

Strictly speaking, the status of the king is Jiang III > Peacock > Phoenix, but the formation of the Phoenix jade embryo was earlier than the formation of the twin trees, so it can be said to have a long history.He is in a forbidden place that ordinary people cannot enter, not only because of Sakyamuni's deliberate arrangement, but also because of the supernatural status of the ancient gods and birds.

Originally thought that this chapter of Memories Revealing Secrets would be the end, but it seems that only the next chapter will end... After that, it will be monster fighting and upgrading, the battle will end, and then the home will heal, the relationship will be harmonious, and it will end.I haven't thought about whether to fight for a third-born little girl, even if I do, it may be put in the episode.Ah, do you want to fight?I actually never thought about having triplets...