Chapter 116: Get Out of Here Obediently

. Every second Shang Youqing submerged from the sea, even as the surging waves automatically avoided her and formed a barrier of water, she felt a constant congestion in her chest, as if the icy seawater were pouring into her lungs and eyes.

Even looking at the foam beyond the barrier felt congested and difficult.

Her ears still hummed with the sound of Chen Jichuan's words, "He's no longer here."

At that moment, Shang Youqing looked at Chen Jichuan in confusion, but Chen Jichuan glanced toward the sea beyond the cliff and replied softly, "Go into the sea and you'll know."

So Shang Youqing and Cheng Huang dived into the sea together.

Almost the moment they entered the water, Shang Youqing understood the meaning of Chen Jichuan's words.

For the entire sea was permeated with the eternal chill emanating from Ying Shixue.

This chill was thinner than his own, forming a transparent cold current that spread across the surface, protecting the sea spirits.

The waves that should have drowned her, however, formed a barrier upon contact with her phoenix spirit.

Shang Youqing stared at the transparent barrier as she descended. Cheng Huang, beside her, seemed unable to contain her thoughts, and nervously asked, "Phoenix, did that evil dragon... perish?"

Otherwise, why would the cold current of his dragon breath spread across the entire sea?

Shang Youqing said nothing, and she was speechless.

When she and Cheng Huang arrived at the entrance to the Glacier Dragon Cave, they saw Elder Changyi stationed there, as if he had known she would come and was waiting for her.

Shang Youqing gathered himself and glanced sideways at Cheng Huang, who nodded with a complex expression. "Phoenix, go ahead. I'll wait here."

"Yes."

As Shang Youqing approached, the Changyi elder bowed slightly. "Little Phoenix, you're here for the two children, right?" Shang

Youqing stared at him and said, "Yes."

"Don't worry, Little Phoenix, the children are fine."

"I need to see it with my own eyes to tell you for sure."

The Changyi elder stared at the pale little phoenix before him for a few seconds. Finally, he pulled a dragon scale from beneath his wide sleeves and handed it to him.

"This is a dragon scale specially left by the king. It uses the energy it holds to capture a real-time image of a specific location."

As the Changyi elder spoke, Shang Youqing easily activated the thin, cold, sharp dragon scale with a touch of flowing spiritual energy.

Immediately, the cold current from the dragon scale, activated by the spiritual energy, automatically parted the transparent water curtain before his eyes.

Shang Youqing's eyes revealed the tiny cub lying on the floating ice of a pool, brimming with dragon breath.

Her baby Shang You was curled up with his transformed dragon tail, sleeping on the ice floe.

The cub's face still looked as white and cute as ever, with a pair of crystal clear dragon horns newly grown on his forehead, and the tip of his tail was gently arched as he slept soundly.

As if he had suddenly sensed something, Shang You's ears twitched slightly, and he climbed up from the ice floe, curiously looking up at the glowing area of the barrier above the ice abyss.

The little cub didn't know that it was the dragon scale energy that Shang Youqing had activated at this moment, and he immediately swam to the ice cave and told his brother about the unknown glowing object.

Shang Youqing passed through the transparent ice wall again and saw He Zhimo who was practicing diligently in the ice cave.

The childish voices of the two cubs were clearly transmitted into the water screen.

Shang Youqing pinched the dragon scale hard, his face expressionless and silent, but his sight on the water screen gradually became blurred.

The old man Changyi was still saying, "From now on, whenever the little phoenix wants to see the child, she can look through this dragon scale at any time. This is also what the king specially left for the little phoenix."

Shang Youqing put away his spiritual breath, and the water curtain image disappeared instantly.

She turned her head calmly and emphasized again: "I want to meet the child."

"The king has instructed that the child can only come out to meet you after completing his training mission in the waters."

Shang Youqing had no intention of backing down, "Why, is the child his to keep alone? You tell him to come out and see me."

"Little Phoenix, the king is already..."

"Dead, right?" Shang Youqing nodded, "Okay, I want to see him alive or dead. Take me to see where he died first."

The old man Changyi could see the stubbornness in Shang Youqing's eyes, and still tried to persuade her, "Little Phoenix, I really don't know where the king is, and even if you see him, what can you do..."

"He can fool me around, but I can't kick him when he's down? You can choose not to take me if you want to see me turn the sea area protected by your king upside down."

Just when the old man Changyi was feeling embarrassed by Shang Youqing's aggressiveness, a ray of silver-gray transparent soul light spread from the end of the waters, with a deep and old voice——

"Little Phoenix, come with me."

The old man, Changyi, was startled and reminded Shang Youqing, "It's the soul light of the old Dragon King."

Shang Youqing stared intently at the dragon-shaped soul light floating above the corridor pillars. She assumed he was taking her to see Ying Shixue, so she told Cheng Huang about it. Cheng Huang escorted her all the way to the ice stele and said worriedly, "Be sure to call me if you need anything. Cheng Huang will be waiting for you outside."

Shang Youqing obeyed and followed the soul light into the barrier.

Beneath her feet was a lava pool spewing icy flames. The flames were fierce, but they never came close to her.

"Axue has been tempering and practicing in this dark lava pool since he was a child. Every piece of dragon scale and chill on his body was tempered by the surging blue flames at the bottom of the lava pool."

"Every step of becoming a god is difficult. All the conditions for reaching the sky are strictly prohibited by the way of heaven, but he still did it. At that time, Axue had tempered the dragon vein divine bone, and he was only one step away from becoming a god in the ninth heaven." "

But you also know the final result."

Shang Youqing listened quietly.

He stared down at the roiling lava beneath his feet for a long time before speaking, "He gave me the divine bone."

The old Dragon King was not surprised by this. "Axue did mention this to me when she came to visit me last time."

Shang Youqing raised his eyes to the ray of soul light hovering on the icicle, "When?"

"When, little phoenix, you blocked the injury for Chen Jichuan. Axue came to me and said, forget it."

Shang Youqing shook his head slowly, not understanding: "What does forget it mean... what do you mean by forget it?"

"He saw that, little phoenix, you were determined to obey the will of heaven and stop him from becoming a god, so he let it go."

"Didn't I fail to stop you? How could he let it go?"

"No, little phoenix actually succeeded."

The old Dragon King let out a low sigh, "Axue said he couldn't bear it. He couldn't bear the pain you were in."

The sea was covered with white clouds and mist, and it was not a good day.

On the way out from the seabed, Shang Youqing leaned quietly on Cheng Huang's back.

The old Dragon King's last words flashed through his mind -

"When Axue left the sea, he didn't tell anyone about his whereabouts."

Cheng Huang had been soaring through the clouds with Shang Youqing for a long time, yet Shang Youqing remained silent.

He was debating whether to tease the phoenix with something playful when suddenly, a phoenix cry echoed, and the phoenix, which had been resting obediently on his back, transformed into its true form and flew off in another direction.

"Phoenix! Wait for me, Phoenix! Where are you going?"

Cheng Huang, fearing something might happen to her, followed her as she spread her tail feathers.

As they chased, they suddenly noticed a familiar spot beneath the clouds.

It occurred to them that it was the deep forest stream where the phoenix had saved the dragon from its childhood in the Guixu maze. Then, they saw the phoenix leap down the stream.

Shang Youqing had already landed by the stream, transformed back into his human form.

As he approached the stream, he could smell a faint, icy chill in the gurgling water.

Shang Youqing's slightly pursed lips curved upward, revealing a beautiful, delicate arc.

"I knew it."

Shang Youqing smiled slightly, and when Cheng Huang came after him breathlessly, she kindly reminded him, "Cheng Huang, get out of the way first."

Cheng Huang glared and stepped back, "Phoenix, what are you going to do?"

The next second, Shang Youqing's Phoenix Fire Formation had sealed the entire mountain forest, surrounding it tightly.

She took a slender step and slowly stepped into the clear stream, "First, get out of here, and second, I'll burn this mountain you're in seclusion on to ashes."