Chapter 503: The immortal Phoenix!

Lu Qiji and Gongshu Yuan were intercepted. 

Lu Qiji was originally severely wounded, and even cracks had begun to form across her Phoenix heart. If Gongshu Yuan had not come with the bird carriage in time, she would have been slaughtered by Song Gudu and the others. 

They simply did not care if she was the mother of the tens of millions of races, or how much she has contributed to the continuation of the human bloodline.

In order to achieve fame and prestige, in order to obtain great benefits, there was nothing that the cultivators did not dare to do. 

After living for so many years, Lu Qiji very clearly understood this point. 

 It was a very difficult task to carry the unconscious Li Muyang and escape from the top cultivators of the divine continent.  Even in her peak state of physical health, she also was not certain that she would manage to escape. 

Gongshu Yuan had suffered the same fate as her. Although chubby, he was extremely agile. He was a fatty of great speed. 

Carrying Lu Qingming in his arms, he charged forward heedlessly. When he accidentally b.u.mped into a cultivator in front of him, he threw a glance, hurriedly apologised with ‘sorry, went the wrong way’, then turned around and darted in the opposite direction.

He was slammed to the ground. 

Lu Qiji and Gongshu Yuan stood back to back, staring warily at the cultivators gathering from all directions. 

“Did Grandpa, I, anger you? You dare to set fire to Grandpa’s Lark Flyer and now you’re trying to block Grandpa’s way?” The fatty threw into a rage. No matter who the other person was, he had to take advantage of the chance to bring out the facts and reasons first.

What was that sentence…n.o.body will find fault with one with reasons. 

 “Are you a descendant of Gongshu Yu?” A beautiful man on the back of a hummingbird asked. 

“What does the relations.h.i.+p between little grandpa, I, and my Grandfather has to do with you?” The fatty fumed, then after a pause, asked curiously. “You know my Grandfather? Are you old friends? Have you known each other for a long time?”

The beautiful man circled around in midair, saying with an arrogant twist of his lips, “Even if your Grandfather Gongshu Yu personally comes over, he also won’t dare to call himself ‘Grandpas’ in front of me. Boy know your status? You dare to call yourself Grandpa in front me. Do you want me to slap your skull?” 

“Stupid.” The fatty remarked with a very disgusted face. “If I said I’m your Grandson, wouldn’t you still shatter my skull?” 

“You——”  

“What do you mean you? Since you’re going to shatter my skull either way, then let me be your Grandpa to satisfy my desire—-”  

Lu Qiji warily stared at the enemies in the way while she very impatiently said to her battle companion. “Why talk nonsense with them? What’s the use of saying all this?” 

 “I just want to stall for time.” The fatty whispered.  

Do you think divine soldiers will descend from the heavens?” Lu Qiji scoffed at the fatty’s thinking. 

She was already seriously injured, the fatty was not strong enough, and Li Muyang and her father Lu Qingming were still unconscious. It was unknown whether they would survive. Moreover they were besieged by a group of powerful cultivators. In other words, any one of them could easily kill them.

In this hopeless place and situation, the fatty was still childish to think that someone would come rescue them.

Lu Qiji, who was haughty and cold, simply could not stand the fatty’s womanish style. 

“Even a pile of wood can fly in the sky, what else could not happen?” The fatty argued. “Look, in the time I spoke to them, haven’t we lived for longer already? Isn’t that a wonderful feeling?”  

“—–” 

The beautiful man stared at Li Muyang in Lu Qiji’s arms, speaking in a threatening tone, “Give him to me, and we may spare you death.”

“Bad people always die from talking too much.” Lu Qiji’s voice was icy cold. Although at a disadvantage, she still looked the powerful cultivators of the divine continent who intercepted them with a condescending att.i.tude. In her eyes, these beings were as small as ants, not in the slightest qualified to negotiate with her. “You clearly know that I won’t agree to your terms.”

“You want to die.” The beautiful man uttered in a cruel voice. 

“Brother Wuyi, why get so angry?” A middle-aged man in a white robe looked l.u.s.tfully at Lu Qiji. “The little girl is beautiful, gifted, and is a good choice of a furnace. Since Brothers want to become dragon slayer heroes, then leave this little beauty for younger brother, I. Is that alright? As you know, little brother’s ‘Jade maiden’s mantra’ happens to need a superb furnace to be reborn and break through to the next stage—–” 

 “Xiao Yaozi, who doesn’t know you’re perverted? Would this little girl come to a good end if she were to fall into your hands? I would rather take her back to be a servant who serves tea and cook, rather than let you suck out her essence and blood—-this is a violation of the heavenly laws, I will certainly stop it—–”

“Hundred Life scholar, is your reputation better than mine? You’re an old pervert who did not even lay your hands off your daughter-in-law, yet you have the face to talk to me about violation of the heavenly laws? If there really is reincarnation, it is unknown how many times you would have been struck by lightning already—–”

 “You pervert, go die.” 

“You old thing, you don’t want to live?” 

“Shut up.” The beautiful man snapped. “You both had made a name for yourself long ago, how can you say such unbearable words in public? Are you not afraid of being laughed at?”

Xiao Yaozi sneered, “The cultivation of martial arts and breaking the realm is based on freedom and the will. I naturally am fond of beauty, why shouldn’t it be known to outsiders? Which Emperor of the nine countries of the divine continent does not have a large number of wives and concubines?”

“Xiao Yaozi, you have defiled my imperial family.” The man in a gorgeous silk robe roared. 

 “Did I say something wrong?” 

A smile bloomed on Fatty Gongshu Yuan’s face as he whispered to Lu Qiji: “see, if I say a few more words, it may trigger an internal conflict. Since it doesn’t cost anything there isn’t any harm in trying.” 

“Was this because of your nonsense?” 

“Of course, your beauty also helped a little.” 

“—–”

However, there were calm and collected cultivators fiercely staring at Li Muyang, “Let them quarrel, we will go slaughter the dragon ourselves.” 

“Brother Bai Xiu is right. Let’s do it ourselves. We cannot let the evil dragon bring danger to the world.” 

Kill!

Someone leapt forward, bringing a large sword down at Lu Qiji in a slas.h.i.+ng strike. 

Not only did they want to kill Li Muyang, they also wanted to kill Lu Qiji who was carrying Li Muyang. 

The beauty, the furnace, was worthless in their eyes.  

Boom! 

Lu Qiji had vanished from where she was, and a tremendous body that was shrouded in blazing flames had appeared overhead. 

Lu Qiji had once again transformed into a divine beast, fighting against these cultivators with her life yuan energy. 

Otherwise, given her cultivation realm of the Free clouds, while her opponents were either Starry sky or Withering glory cultivators, she would only be killed in seconds.  

The two talons of the firebird Phoenix were clenched, tightly holding onto Li Muyang’s body. 

Under the conditions that Li Muyang did not have the ability to defend himself and could be killed at any moment, she dared not to leave Li Muyang’s body on the ground. 

These people had come all the way to slaughter the dragon, and Li Muyang’s ident.i.ty as a dragon had already come to light—-

Kacha— 

The moment the first sword strike failed, the man soared up and once again launched a second sword attack in the direction of the Phoenix. 

Lu Qiji dared not to receive it forcibly, darted skywards. 

“Kang-” 

The cry of the Phoenix reverberated.  

“Monster, you want to run.” How would the cultivators who knew that the Phoenix was wounded, let go of this opportunity to kill her? “

One by one, they soared into the sky, chasing after the fire bird Phoenix that was trying to escape.  

Kacha— 

A thunderous sound. 

Screech—— 

A gush of sword qi slashed out. 

Rumble——-

Several shadows of fists and shadows of palms rippled.

Lu Qijii flew up to the ninth heaven, behind her were four or five cultivators incessantly chasing after and madly attacking her. 

 You lash out with a heavy sword and I wave out a punch. The cultivators took turns in attacking, cooperating with each other, and making it impossible for Lu Qiji to defend effectively, with no chance to counterattack.

 “Kang—–”

The tragic cry of the firebird pierced the sky. 

A blade had hacked her back, causing the majority of the flames to fall and her body plunging to the ground.

Puchi puchi.

Even if the pain was unbearable, she still desperately beat her wings.

Just as she was about to fall, she lifted her head up, speeding skywards once again. 

Even more cultivators came charging over. Whether it was the immortal Phoenix or the dragon Li Muyang, both had great attractive force to them. 

Bang— 

A ‘Gold refining incantation’ was aimed at the body of the firebird. 

‘A multicolour demonic blade’ slashed the wings of the firebird.

Crackle——

It was a chain of sounds caused by the series of coordinated attacks on the Phoenix.

The Phoenix time and time again took on the attacks with her tremendous body.

The body was riddled with wounds and all the flames had disappeared. Her eyes were blinded, one wing chopped off and one talon had been snapped off.

The extraordinarily n.o.ble Phoenix that was shrouded in blazing flames had turned into a crippled ugly wild bird.

However, she still, with the only remaining wing, desperately flapped forward, and with the remaining talon firmly clutched onto Li Muyang’s body, protecting him with her wing.  

Despite fighting for millions of years, they were each other’s best companions. 

Chapter 504(1): The Peac.o.c.k Imperial Court!

“You grandchildren.” When Gongshu Yuan saw that everyone were chasing Lu Qiji to kill, while he stood there carrying Lu Qingming doing nothing, he felt somewhat aggrieved. 

We’re all humans, why kill them and not kill me?  

However, on another thought, he was a human, but Li Muyang and Lu Qiji were a Dragon and a Phoenix, respectively——Thinking of this, the little bit of imbalance in his heart then disappeared.

 How can a human be compared to a divine creature? 

A thought then came to his mind – while they were not paying attention, he could run away with Lu Qingming. 

 Run as far as he could.  

It was difficult to save Li Muyang, but he could save himself, and also save Lu Qingming.  

As long as Lu Qingming was still alive, the Lu family would still have a chance to live.

He puffed up his cheeks, a fierce look across his face, and had made up his mind.  

“We said we’re brothers, we live together and die together.” 

In the end he decided to stay and fight alongside Li Muyang. No, fight for Li Muyang and fight alongside Lu Qiji.

In the ma.s.s brawl, Lu Qiji’s injury increasingly worsened.

The more serious the injury, the more one loses the ability to fight back and defend.  

Seeing that the firebird, whose wings were broken, was about to be knocked to the ground by the group of cultivators, the fatty anxiously and furiously fumbled out a centipede made from wood, and pressed a b.u.t.ton at the end of the centipede. Then, as though the centipede had come alive, it broke free from his hands, diving into the earth with a ‘whoosh’.  

The fatty was constantly muttering an incantation, and then all of a sudden yelled out, “up.”

Bang—— 

Like it had broke out from the underground world, the centipede rose high into the air, opening its pointy mouth wide, waving its numerous venomous claws in the direction of the cultivators.

 Bang——

Kacha——  

Crackle—— 

Just as the cultivators were about to ruthlessly kill Lu Qiji and Li Muyang, suddenly a giant centipede had rushed out stirring up waves in front of them and making threatening gestures. Immediately various types of weapons were brought out, and very quickly the huge centipede was on the ground in pieces. 

The appearance of the giant centipedes was only a brief moment, but still temporarily eased Lu Qiji’s crisis, allowing her to maneuver the remaining wing to fly to the distance. 

Fatty Gongshu Yuan set Lu Qingming down on the ground, and chanted to the sky: “Grandsons, your grandpa is here——quickly, come and hit me——”

“Grandsons, come and beat your grandpa, otherwise you’re really my grandsons——” 

“You’re a bunch of mad dogs, a bunch of idiots, a bunch of trash——come on, hit your grandpa——”

 Fatty screamed till his voice went hoa.r.s.e.

 Bang—— 

 Boom—— 

 Kacha—— 

The cultivators were unexpectedly obedient,and immediately launched the most violent attack at where Fatty Gongshu Yuan was located.  

 Fists rattled and sword intent blazed. A fireball landed and blew a giant pit where Gongshu Yuan was just standing. 

 Gongshu Yuan had fled long ago. He pulled out a miniature axe hanging at his waist, blew at it and triggered it to transform into a giant axe that could support the sky like a pillar. 

 Waving the giant axe in his hand, he roared, “grandsons, your grandpa is here——come and hit me, if you have the skill come hit me——” 

 And then he yelled at the direction of Lu Qiji, “Miss Lu, leave these grandsons to me, quickly take Li Muyang and escape as far as possible——” 

 “That boy wants to die.” The beautiful man brought the sword down at Gongshu Yuan’s head with a full swing. 

 “Grandson is looking for death.” The fatty waved the giant axe, aiming towards the beautiful man.

The sword roared, and the axe buzzed.

 The blue-green sword qi and the fiery red giant axe fiercely collided. The fatty Gongshu Yuan was directly blasted away. 

 Bang—— 

 The fatty slammed to the ground, smas.h.i.+ng a huge snow pit in the ground. 

 Kacha—— 

 The other wing of the firebird Phoenix was also severed, dropping to the ground with a loud boom.  

 After landing, it rolled across the ground non-stop. It tumbled all the way to the distance near the fatty before coming to a stop.  

 She could no longer hold onto Li Muyang with her remaining talon. The body of Li Muyang rolled out from under the wings. The body was stiff and his eyes were closed as he lay in the snow. 

 Whoosh—— 

 The transformed form of the firebird Phoenix had vanished, and Lu Qiji spurted out jets of blood on the ground, finding it difficult to move an inch. 

The fatty tried to get up from the ground and shouted, “Li Muyang——Lu Qiji——” 

 “Pu——” 

 Lu Qiji spewed out another mouthful of blood. The splattered blood across her face made her gorgeous face turned frightful and tragic. 

 “Lu Qiji——Lu Qiji——” 

Lu Qiji did not respond, nor could she respond. 

Her face was pale and weak, and she lacked even the strength to get up. 

She raised her hand and grabbed at where Li Muyang had fallen—— 

Unfortunately, she failed again and again. 

“Lu Qiji——” 

The fatty cried with grief and indignation. 

The fatty glowered at the cultivators, fat face turned purple-red as he roared in fury: “grandsons, come, come kill Grandpa——Grandpa will perish with you——”

“You?” Xiao Yaozi sneered, “Killing you would dirty my hands.”

“It’s just an ant, just crush it to death. Why bother talking to him?”

“Yes, we came for the dragon and the firebird. What are you?” Another cultivator descended. 

Many cultivators landed one after another, surrounding fatty Gongshu Yuan as well as Lu Qiji and Li Muyang, who were lying on the ground unable to get up.

“Fellow cultivators, the slaughter of the evil dragon is at this very moment.” The beautiful man said in a loud voice. 

“Everyone, attack together, the dragon has no reason to live.” Someone suggested.

After all, Li Muyang was now unconscious. If one person attacked, then only one person would become a dragon slayer hero. 

Therefore, everyone prepared to make an attack, whether it was a sword slash, a punch, or a palm thrust. Everyone prepared to unleash their unique skill. 

“I’ll go first.” Xiao Yaozi bellowed. 

“Why are you first? If it comes to merit, it is natural for me to go first——” 

“I was the first one to hurt that firebird.”  

“It was I who chopped off her wings——” “

“It was my West Wind’s Old Immortal Song Gudu who unleashed the [Great Daylight] that wounded him. So it should be Old immortal Song who should attack first——”

Fatty’s face was fierce, laughing wildly and pointing to the cultivators he scolded, “you hypocritical old things, you all pose as a person of high morals, and claim to be elites of the human race, experts of the divine continent. You think you’re high and mighty, and pride on being out of the ordinary. You think you’re the best between heaven and earth, and think everyone else is as lowly as an ant. But——but——so many people are arguing over who to attack an unconscious youngster——the result of the argument is——who should make the first stab——the first stab to a dead man——” 

“Hahaha, what a joke, the most ridiculous joke in the world——do you know how ridiculous you are? Do you know how despicable you are? Unfortunately, it’s a pity you can’t see what you look like now, otherwise——you’re going to throw up for seven days and seven nights.”

“Is this who you really are? This is the cultivation you seek——this is the Dao you seek? For the reputation of a dragon slayer hero, what despicable things would you not do?”

“Come, you b.a.s.t.a.r.ds, come and kill me——to die in the hands of you disgusting people, I will surely become a malicious spirit after death and fall to the 18 floors of h.e.l.l——but I will be waiting for you in the 18 floors of h.e.l.l——becuase you are not worthy of a long life at all. You will, like me, fall to 18 floors of h.e.l.l and never be allowed into the immortal world, never be reincarnated——” 

Bang——

The beautiful man lashed out with a kick, sending the fatty flying.

Without the fatty and his malicious words, everyone’s mood was much better at once.

“Fellow citizens, the eradication of the dragon is the duty of my generation. This fat man is acquainted with the dragon, and naturally is not a good person. We kill for the people of the world. I am willing to be the first to slay the dragon——”

As he spoke, the iron bone fan in his hand opened with a loud ‘PA’. 

The iron fan emitted a yellow glow, which was the unique colour of the ‘Jade maiden mantra’ when it acc.u.mulated strength.

The iron fan suddenly erupted in a blaze of light. 

The condensed yellow brilliance turned into a huge blade, producing a series of cracking sounds that lingered in the air. 

“Evil Dragon, go die.” 

As he bellowed, the iron fan in his hand was brought down in a slash at the head of Li Muyang.

Li Muyang lied there motionless, letting the iron fan blade fall on him. 

Boom——

A breeze blew. Xiao Yaozi’s body was propelled into the distance. 

Whoosh—— 

His figure flew far away, so far that his shadow had disappeared. 

What happened?  

Aren’t you going to slaughter the dragon? Why did the dragon slayer hero——fly away?

However, all the people present were martial arts experts. 

They felt strange, immediately looked skywards. 

In the sky stood an old man in a white robe with a crown of thorns.  

“This boy cannot be killed.” 

“We can’t kill him because you said so, who do you think you are?” 

“The Peac.o.c.k Imperial Court.” The old man, with a gentle voice and a smile on his face, looked at the many cultivators present and said, “Ying Wuyu.”