Chapter 108 Can't Let Go of Those Two Children
Chapter 108: Unable to Let Go of Those Two Children.
Elder Changyi's vision was suddenly completely blocked. He stared in slight astonishment at Chen Jichuan, who stood in his way.
Chen Jichuan stared at him with a cold expression, his gaze filled with unspoken hostility. He addressed Cheng Huang behind him, "Cheng Huang, take Shang Youqing away first,"
as if intending to stay behind to cover their retreat.
Elder Changyi frowned. Blocked from the sight of the little phoenix by Chen Jichuan, he could only see the divine beast, Cheng Huang, surging with spiritual energy as it neared its flight. He raised his voice to try and stop his servant—
"Wait! Little Phoenix, regardless of cause and effect, those two children are innocent. Can you truly bear to have Heaven smother them in Guixu?"
Shang Youqing, who had been quietly leaning against Cheng Huang's back with his head lowered, heard Elder Changyi's hurried words of dissuade. His cold, downcast eyes flickered slightly, and his hand, clutching Cheng Huang's crescent-shaped horns, clenched slightly.
She suddenly touched her lips and uttered hoarsely,
"Cheng Huang, stop."
"Phoenix, don't believe him! He's a subordinate of that evil dragon Ying Shixue. How could he be any good? Maybe he was just following Ying Shixue's instructions to trick Phoenix into saying these things!"
Shang Youqing remained calm. "I know. Put me down first."
Cheng Huang howled, a little helpless and furious, but unwilling to antagonize their little Phoenix. Ultimately, he put Phoenix down in frustration and magnified his beast form once more, completely blocking the Changyi elder's path with an incredibly ferocious beastly appearance, ensuring that Phoenix wouldn't be taken away by the old man.
Shen Jichuan knew that Shang Youqing's leg was injured and she was unsteady on her feet. Seeing that she insisted on coming over, he had to go forward with a stern face to support her.
Shang Youqing didn't try to show off, but said "thank you" and let Shen Jichuan help her to the Changyi elder.
"What did you mean by that?"
The Changyi elder didn't answer immediately, but instead glanced obliquely at Chen Jichuan beside her.
Chen Jichuan naturally understood what he meant and was about to turn to ask Shang Youqing for his opinion, but Shang Youqing said, "There's no need to avoid it. Just tell me."
The Changyi elder then told her exactly what had happened.
When he mentioned Ying Shixue's insistence on heading for Guixu despite the dissuasion of the leaders of various sea regions, the Changyi elder paused and glanced at Shang Youqing again.
Seeing that Shang Youqing had no expression from beginning to end, and looked indifferent, as if it had nothing to do with him, he felt a little uneasy in his heart, but he still bit the bullet and continued: "
After the king learned that the two children were deceived into Guixu, he came back to arrange some things... not long after you, little phoenix, left, he went to Guixu..." Chen
Jichuan's face sank after hearing this. He protected Shang Youqing to his side again and spoke first:
"So what do you mean by telling Shang Youqing all this? Since you know that there is no way out of Guixu, you still chased after him to tell Shang Youqing these things. May I ask, what do you want Shang Youqing to do? Follow him to Guixu to save people?"
Cheng Huang on the side was even more aggressive: "That's right! Do you think I can't hear it? Ying Shixue obviously didn't want to give up the rare dragon and phoenix bloodline in the cubs, so he risked entering Guixu! He wanted to go to Guixu himself, what does it have to do with us Phoenixes!"
"But those two children are after all-"
"Enough."
Shang Youqing interrupted the old man Changyi's unfinished words with a light voice. She stood beside Shen Jichuan and raised her eyes again: "Have you said everything you should say? You can go now."
The old man Changyi looked at her for a long time with a complicated expression, and then looked at Shen Jichuan and the divine beast Chenghuang who were guarding her. He knew that it was impossible to persuade her, so he nodded to her lightly, "Then I will take my leave first..."
The old man Changyi sighed, picked up the long staff beside him, and jumped from the cliff to the bottom of the sea...
"Let's go, Fenghuang, let's leave now! It's so unlucky!"
Chenghuang said, and hurriedly called Shen Jichuan to follow him. Then, unwilling to stay for a moment, Chenghuang took them away from the cliff near the sea as quickly as possible.
Chen Jichuan didn't ask anything along the way. He was always thinking about finding a clean and warm set of clothes for Shang Youqing. When he saw a sparsely populated small village finally appear under the clouds, he told Cheng Huang to stop halfway up the mountain and wait for him for a while, then he went to the village himself.
The temperature was cold on the mountain, so Cheng Huang deliberately puffed up his back hair to cover Fenghuang's bare legs. He didn't hear Fenghuang speak along the way, and he was always uneasy. He couldn't help but tilt his head and talk loudly to Fenghuang to make her laugh.
But before he could say a few words to coax her, Cheng Huang suddenly felt his face wet. It was Fenghuang's tears splashing down.
Cheng Huang was stunned and suddenly raised his eyes, only to see Fenghuang quietly closing her eyelashes, but the corners of her cold eyes were obviously slightly red and wet with tears.
"Phoenix..."
Shang Youqing asked softly, holding Cheng Huang's moon corner.
"Cheng Huang, if I tell you that I can't let go of those two children, will you also think I'm hopeless?"
Cheng Huang rubbed his head against her cold palm, "Phoenix, don't cry. Then, then Cheng Huang will accompany you to Guixu to rescue the children, okay?"
"But if that is really a trap set by Heaven."
"Those two little babies haven't even grown all their hair yet, what can they understand? If they don't follow that evil dragon in the future, but grow up under the careful teaching of our Phoenix, they will definitely be as kind and lovely as our Phoenix!"
In order to coax Fenghuang, Cheng Huang became more and more hypocritical, "Maybe the Heavenly Dao also wants to test the character of the children. If it doesn't work, after the children are rescued safely, Cheng Huang will accompany you to the Nine Heavens to beg the Heavenly Dao. I don't believe it. How can it be as exaggerated as the Heavenly Dao said? What kind of waves can two little kids make!"
When Chen Jichuan came back with the bag, Chen Jichuan briefly explained the things in the bag to Shang Youqing, turned his back, and waited for her to change her clothes and put on her boots and said to him, "I'm done", then Chen Jichuan turned back.
Shang Youqing was about to say something else when Chen Jichuan patted Cheng Huang and said, "Let's go. I know how to enter Guixu."
Shang Youqing's eyebrows moved slightly, "Colonel, how do you know..."
Chen Jichuan stared at her for a long time and said, "Shang Youqing, you don't have to say anything to refuse me to go with you. I do have some selfish motives, but you don't have to feel burdened. I am an adult. I know what I want to do, and I can be responsible for the choices I make."
After a pause, he further persuaded her, "Besides, my spiritual weapon was born to guard one of the Guixu Immortal Mountains. Maybe after I go in, I can find out the key reason for opening the spiritual weapon."