Fu Luan

After coming out of the underground, Le Wuyan went to the cave on the mountain alone to retreat.

Xu Youming didn't leave, so he sat cross-legged on the ground outside the cave, meditating in meditation, waiting for him to come out.

There was no sound in the cave after that, and Xu Youming could feel Le Wuyan's spiritual power fluctuating, which was always unstable.

He didn't do much else, every time when Le Wuyan's spiritual power fluctuated violently, he would send a piece of Gengjin spiritual power to comfort him, and he would stop disturbing him after the calm inside returned.

The three of Mingjin returned by boat ten days later.

Le Wuyan has not yet left the customs, and Xu Youming is still guarding outside the cave.

The three of them came up, as if they had sensed something, and after hesitating, Ming Jin asked first: "Xianzun, have you quarreled with Master? Why did you come back without even saying hello? The competition is not over yet..."

Xu Youming didn't explain, and asked them, "You guys came back early too?"

Ming Jin said: "I didn't participate in the challenge match or the sect battle that was originally scheduled. The suzerain sent someone to ask, and we didn't know about it, so we came back early."

Xu Youming: "Nothing."

He had already received a voice transmission from his senior brother, Venerable Huaiyuan apologized for Fang Zigui to him, the matter has come to this point, there is nothing to say.

Qin Ziyu said, "Ma'am, he..."

As soon as the words came out, the barrier of the cave was opened, and Le Wuyan came out, as if nothing happened, and asked Qin Ziyu and the others: "You all came back so soon? Why didn't you wait for the competition to end?"

Seeing that he seemed to be back to normal, Ming Jin breathed a sigh of relief, and complained: "Master, you left with Xianzun first without saying a word, can we not worry?"

Le Wuyan waved his hand: "Forget it, let's not talk about it, ask someone to prepare wine and dishes, and get more delicious food."

Ming Jin: "Huh?"

Le Wuyan: "Ah what, the goal set before has been accomplished, let's celebrate."

Qin Ziyu responded immediately: "I'll go and order someone to do it."

After Qin Ziyu left, Ming Jin came to his senses: "Yeah, we have to celebrate. I'm going to get some wine, and I happened to buy some jars of good wine on Xinghe Island!"

Le Wuyan smiled and said, "Go."

Ming Jin took Qi Feng and left together, and only Le Wuyan and Xu Youming were left outside the cave. Le Wuyan didn't say anything to the people around him, and closed the gate of the cave casually, looking up at the dazzling sky Sunshine lightly said to Xu Youming, "Go down."

In the evening, some good wine and dishes were sent to the little monsters to eat and drink elsewhere, and the five of them had a banquet in the courtyard of Le Wuyan and Xu Youming.

Le Wuyan couldn't stand Mingjin slowly pouring wine for everyone with the wine jug, so he directly lifted the wine jar and poured a large bowl for everyone: "It's boring to drink from a cup, you can drink from a bowl."

Ming Jin laughed and said: "If you can't drink two bowls like this, you will be drunk, Master."

Le Wuyan squinted at him: "I won't be drunk even if you're drunk."

After pouring the wine, Le Wuyan stood still and held up the bowl: "Come on, have a drink, let's celebrate this time everyone in Xiaoyao Mountain has made a big splash, this first sip of wine must be at least half a bowl."

Xu Youming got to the point of speaking, without persuasion, he raised his bowl and stood up.

The three disciples followed, and the jade bowls full of wine touched each other, and then brought them to everyone's mouths, and soon everyone drank half a bowl of wine.

Le Wuyan wiped his mouth happily, and praised Mingjin: "You're quite smart, this wine is well bought, and it tastes really good."

"As long as Master likes it." Ming Jin flattered him and offered to refill everyone's wine with a smile.

Le Wuyan signaled him: "Why drink the second sip, tell me."

Ming Jin stood up from Shanruliu, raised his bowl and said: "After the celebration, let's bless you. This second sip of wine, I wish Master will raise a little phoenix as soon as he wished, and add to our Xiaoyao Mountain."

Le Wuyan said happily: "Okay, my good apprentice, the little mouth is so sweet, with your good words, I will definitely be able to raise the little phoenix smoothly."

After drinking another half bowl of wine, Le Wuyan then signaled to Qi Feng.

Qi Feng thought for a while, and said, "The third sip of wine, I wish everyone can get what they want, no matter what."

Le Wuyan nodded with a smile: "Yes, I got what I wanted, no matter what, come and drink."

Then it was Qin Ziyu's turn, and he also stood up, holding up the bowl with both hands: "For the fourth drink, I wish the Immortal, Madam, and the two juniors peace and happiness."

Le Wuyan reminded him: "And you, little peony, you must always be safe and happy."

Qin Ziyu smiled gently: "Okay."

After drinking half a bowl of wine, everyone's eyes fell on Xu Youming.

Le Wuyan pursed his lips and said, "Let's forget about the Immortal Venerable if he doesn't want to say it."

Xu Youming glanced at him, raised his bowl and stood up, with a deep voice: "The fifth sip of wine, I hope every year will be like this."

Mingjin and the others thought that Xu Youming would say something special, but they didn't expect it to be just a simple "I hope every year will be like this".

But after thinking about it, there may be countless opportunities in a monk's life, meeting countless people who meet by chance and pass by, thousands of years are just a moment, and it is not easy every year.

At this moment, the five of them, master and apprentice, can gather here to drink happily, peacefully and peacefully. Although it is normal, it is also rare.

Le Wuyan's eyes moved slightly, but he didn't know what he was thinking.

Ming Jin smiled and said: "The Immortal Venerable said it well, every year and today is the best."

Qin Ziyu echoed: "That's true."

Once again, they drank together and drank three bowls of wine. Xu Youming reminded everyone: "Stop drinking all the time, and eat."

With the bamboo chopsticks in his hand, he put the hot dishes into Le Wuyan's bowls. Le Wuyan's eyes followed his slender fingers and slowly turned. He didn't know if he was drunk, so he didn't make a sound for a long time.

Xu Youming said warmly, "Eat this."

Le Wuyan raised his eyes, Xu Youming's eyes were full of sunset glow, looking at him quietly, especially softly.

He pursed the corner of his lips and gave a vague "huh".

Mingjin leaned in front of Le Wuyan with drunken eyes, stared at his face with his chin on his hand: "Master, you are so good-looking, although there are many beauties in the cultivation world, But you are not as good as you, you are the number one beauty in Tianzi, let me take another look..."

Le Wuyan slapped him on the face, pushed his head back, and said with disgust: "I want to look in the mirror and see yourself."

Ming Jin also wanted to say that Qi Feng pulled him over behind him, pinned down his restless hands and feet, and fed him the hangover spirit dew: "Stop talking nonsense, what does it look like?"

Ming Jin teased him with a smile: "Why am I talking nonsense and ugly? Are you jealous again? Well, I was wrong. Although Master is beautiful, you are the number one beauty in my heart."

Qi Feng frowned, and said in a low voice, "Shut up."

Le Wuyan picked up the wine jar again and poured wine into the bowl, only the last half of the bowl was small, and the wine jar had already bottomed out.

He said unhappily, "Why is it gone..."

Xu Youming took the wine jar and put it on the ground by his side: "Forget it if you don't have any more, don't drink it after you finish drinking."

Le Wuyan didn't want to talk to him very much, and felt uncomfortable after drinking, so he simply lay down in Xu Youming's arms, mumbling and complaining: "I haven't had enough."

Xu Youming didn't make another sound, and a little spiritual power arose from his fingertips, rubbing his temples for him.

Le Wuyan closed his eyes a few times, probably feeling better, and changed into a more comfortable position in Xu Youming's arms, and stopped moving.

Qin Ziyu watched them bickering with great interest, drank a sip of wine from time to time, felt a little melancholy for no reason, and subconsciously clenched the Qinghe sword in his hand.

His fingers gently stroked the hilt of the sword, and the hairband fluttered in the night wind.

With the last sip of wine, Le Wuyan took out the Tao Xun and brought it to his mouth, but he couldn't pull up the strength and only blew out a hoarse empty sound.

Xu Youming took it, put the Tao Xun under his lips, and the sound of the Xun flowed out, with a low and deep rhyme, gradually dissipating into the boundless night tide.

Ming Jin and Qi Feng were still bickering, laughing from time to time along with the xun sound.

Qin Ziyu got up, Qinghe sword in hand, and danced the sword under the moon.

Le Wuyan looked at it in a daze, and slowly closed his eyes amidst the overlapping sounds of xun, laughter and sharp sword piercing the air, and fell asleep peacefully.

When Xu Youming carried him into the house and put him on the couch, Le Wuyan in his sleep was still clutching a length of his robe sleeve, Xu Youming pulled it out, and he subconsciously gripped it even tighter.

Le Wuyan babbled something in his sleep, his closed eyelashes trembled slightly, and the flame lines on his forehead seemed to have lost their usual bright colors.

Xu Youming didn't move anymore, and let him pull himself, fingers caressing his flushed cheeks after drunk.

A sigh.

After that day, Le Wuyan never mentioned the matter of immortal roots again, and he was still laughing and laughing heartlessly in front of people. When it was only him and Xu Youming, most of the time he either kept silent and ignored people, or he was the same as that night , clutching Xu Youming tightly in his sleep and refusing to let go.

Xu Youming tried to talk to him about this again, but every time he started, Le Wuyan didn't want to continue.

Xu Youming knew what he meant by "not wanting to wait", it wasn't really unwillingness, it was Le Wuyan refusing to accept the fact that he had broken his immortal root.

Le Wuyan's thoughts turned back to those red-crowned birds, and it so happened that two more birds, one female and one male, showed signs of estrus, and he brought them back from the back mountain alone to raise them.

Not in a hurry to breed them, he cast a spell to refine the two phoenix bones he had obtained before, and after arousing their spirituality, he directly replaced them with the two red phoenix bones.

This is the most possible solution that Le Wuyan can think of. As for the effect, you can see it after seeing it.

Ming Jin was very interested in the phoenix bone. Seeing that Le Wuyan actually used the phoenix bone to replace the heart bone of the red bird, he was very surprised: "With the replacement of the phoenix bone, can these two red birds become phoenixes?"

Le Wuyan: "It would be nice if it was that simple, I don't think so."

Really not, after replacing the phoenix bone, the two red-grass birds have not changed much, at most, the color of their feathers has become brighter, and the fire they spit out is more powerful than before, that's all.

Le Wuyan's greater expectation lies in the eggs laid by the female bird.

Ming Jin was amazed, but also puzzled: "Master, why don't you use the phoenix bone to make alchemy and feed it to them? I heard those Taoist monks mention the phoenix bone, and they all persuaded the elixir made from the phoenix bone. The cultivation base will be able to Promote?"

Le Wuyan: "My purpose is not to improve the cultivation of these two red phoenix birds, I want them to give me a little phoenix, besides, I only have two phoenix bones in my hand now, if I feed them, they will disappear , replace them on them like this, and they can be used repeatedly, try it first, and then talk about it if it doesn’t work.”

Ming Jin asked him imaginatively: "Can the phoenix bone be exchanged for a red-crowned bird? Can it be exchanged for other spirit birds? Can it be exchanged for a human?"

Le Wuyan said "nonsense", and his expression suddenly paused, as if he had thought of something.

Seeing this, Ming Jin asked, "Master, what are you thinking?"

"...It can be changed to a human body." Le Wuyan regained his composure and said something without further explanation.

After Ming Jin turned his attention away, he raised his hand and subconsciously pressed his heart.

The heart beats slightly faster, and the phoenix king bone protecting the heart veins is slightly hot.

A vague thought floated up in his mind, and he couldn't get it out.

Half a month later, the female bird began to lay eggs, one egg every ten days, which was an atavistic egg, much higher than before when the phoenix bone was not used.

Three months later, the female bird's estrus period ended and the last egg was laid. Several lines of alternating gold and red appeared on the eggshell, which was more vivid than other atavistic eggs.

Le Wuyan knew at a glance that this chick must have a higher degree of atavism than the others.

When the day when the chicks broke their shells, not only the few of them stood guard several days in advance, but even the little demons who were doing things came to join in the fun.

Stared at by dozens of pairs of eyes, the chick finally broke through the egg shell bit by bit and squeezed out.

It is a male bird, still full of fiery red, but there is no longer only one phoenix feather on the tail feathers, but layers upon layers, several feathers have patterns of phoenix feathers, at first glance, it really looks like a little phoenix.

Ming Jin looked at Le Wuyan eagerly: "Master, is this... the little phoenix?"

Le Wuyan shook his head: "No, it's still a red bird, more like a phoenix than the previous ones."

Everyone was disappointed when they heard the words, Xu Youming glanced at the calm Le Wuyan, and helped him explain: "A real phoenix, except for the tail feathers that are colorful red phoenix feathers when young, the feathers of the whole body are actually mainly blue, and they are called Qingluan. For a bird, it will take thousands of years for the feathers on its body to gradually transform into real phoenix feathers."

Le Wuyan used to be a green phoenix. Before turning back into a chick, he was almost turning into a real phoenix. Later, because of those accidents, he fell into the mortal world and fell here in Xiaoyao Mountain, where he was infiltrated by the devilish energy of Xiaoyao Mountain. He was trapped in that phoenix egg for thousands of years, and finally, because of the earthquake and external force, the phoenix egg shattered, and he was able to come to life.

If he had landed in a land full of aura like Long Tiantian back then, he might have turned into a real phoenix and returned to his homeland in a different situation now.

But no matter what, this result has already exceeded Le Wuyan's expectations.

"If we can raise another female bird like it and replace the phoenix bone with them, the concentration of phoenix blood in the chicks born after that will be higher. If this goes on from generation to generation, we should be able to give birth to real chicks sooner or later. Come Phoenix."

Le Wuyan breathed a sigh of relief after saying that, as long as there is hope.

One day he will send the little phoenix back to his hometown so that the phoenix family can continue to multiply, and his mission will be completed.

after that……

When he looked up, he met Xu Youming's dark eyes that were looking at him, Le Wuyan came back to his senses, and without saying anything, he turned his head and smiled at the others: "Let's go, I finally see hope, let's go drink to celebrate go."