newbobooks Chapter 216 Amazement
Chapter 216 Amazement
"You regard mayflies as your obsession?" Phoenix's voice suddenly rose.
"No wonder! I was puzzled before. You have cultivated the Dao of Cause and Effect to this extent, but you haven't yet achieved the Dao. It turns out it's because of the mayfly!"
"Does Mayfly know that you see him as a whetstone?"
"How dare you provoke him?" Phoenix asked to herself.
Liu Yishu could have avoided explaining and let Fenghuang misunderstand him, but it would have been bad if such a misunderstanding reached Xu Weichen's ears.
"You have got the cause and effect wrong." Liu Yishu interrupted his imagination.
"What?" Phoenix asked in confusion.
"I just simply like Xu Weichen, why do I need conspiracy theories?" Liu Yishu asked curiously.
"Impossible! You practice the way of cause and effect, and love affairs involve the most cause and effect. How could you possibly take the initiative to get involved?!" Fenghuang didn't believe what Liu Yishu said at all.
"Xu Weichen is indeed my obsession, but I did not choose such an obsession in order to avoid being integrated with the Dao. It is because of him that I chose to practice the path of cause and effect." Liu Yishu said in a resounding voice.
Fenghuang stopped talking and just looked at Liu Yishu with an expression that said, "I'm listening to your nonsense!"
Liu Yishu's patience was completely exhausted.
"If you don't believe what I say, why bother asking? Are you trying to shirk your responsibility and deliberately asking questions to delay time?"
Phoenix was not angry either. "I am just curious. After all, I have lived for countless epochs, and this is the first time I have seen a living being that has cultivated the Way of Karma to perfection and is alive and kicking with flesh and blood."
"So it was out of curiosity that you turned yourself back into an egg and almost died?" Liu Yishu mocked, and then added: "You practiced the way of reincarnation to the point that you almost interrupted your own reincarnation. Your Excellency has impressed me a lot."
The four words "look at him with new eyes" sounded full of sarcasm when they came out of Liu Yishu's mouth.
Phoenix ignored his taunting and spread her hands. "I can't help it. I've lived too long and it's too boring. I just want to try something exciting! Didn't you also split your soul and go to a place called China to reincarnate and experience what it's like to be a mortal?"
"I heard that place is very interesting. The human race has many wonderful ideas and has created many interesting magical instruments that do not require spiritual power to support them. They can reach the moon in the sky and catch turtles in the five oceans. Is that true?" he asked excitedly.
"If you want to know whether it's true or not, why don't you split your soul and go see for yourself!" Liu Yishu said unhappily.
He finally discovered that this phoenix was not only greedy, curious, and talkative!
And a bit cheeky.
The images that were specially recorded with the photo beads back then are unlikely to pose a threat to the Phoenix itself.
But it doesn’t matter. The Phoenix is thick-skinned, but its subordinates are not. All of its subordinates are proud and aloof, and the easiest to control!
"I am indeed very interested in that place, but it's too weird. There's a damn rule that 'after the founding of the country, animals and plants cannot become spirits'. If I go there, I can't just be an ordinary feathered creature, right?" Phoenix said resentfully.
Liu Yishu was a little surprised when he heard this. Even knowing that animals and plants could not become spirits, it seemed that Phoenix knew quite a lot about that place.
"If you want to go to China, you won't have much fun as a Feathered Clan member. It's more interesting to be in the body of a human."
Phoenix shook his head repeatedly, "No, humans don't have much hair, they are too ugly!"
"Aren't you in human form now?" Do you have the nerve to look down on people for being ugly?
"Can humans have a body as perfect and handsome as mine?" Phoenix asked proudly with his chin raised.
Liu Yishu: ...
Most of the feather tribe are very narcissistic, especially those with beautiful feathers. The phoenix, as the king of the feather tribe, is the best among them.
"I've seen your human body, and it's about 70% similar to your original body. How did you do it?" Phoenix asked casually.
Liu Yishu suddenly realized.
Emotional Phoenix has been chatting with him here and saying so much nonsense, just to know this.
Perhaps the Phoenix has long been interested in China and wants to go there, but it dislikes the human body. If it borrows the body of a feathered creature, it will not be able to practice. An ordinary feathered creature, not to mention its short lifespan, it will find it difficult to integrate into the human world, let alone experience the happiness of humans!
Phoenix's question not only exposed his purpose, but also revealed something else.
Liu Yishu's human body only appeared when he first arrived in the Great Wilderness. After that, his residual soul returned to his body, and the human body was only nourished by a little spiritual consciousness. It has never appeared again. However, the Phoenix knows that his human body is similar to his original body, which means that he was conscious when he was still in the eggshell.
Perhaps, although he has not been able to hatch in the past ten thousand years, he has actually always been conscious and can pay attention to the world outside the eggshell at any time.
For example, his interest in and understanding of China may not have just suddenly emerged decades after hatching.
"It's simple. I just found a completely dead body with no causal connection to parasitize."
Anyway, it’s not a secret, Liu Yishu answered very straightforwardly.
Phoenix was thoughtful, "But in this way, it is difficult for the soul to merge with the body. The body will become very fragile and cannot be bumped or touched. It will also have many restrictions."
"No wonder Taotie said you were a sickly person when you were there and could die at any time. So that's why!"
Taotie?
When Liu Yishu heard the name Taotie from the Phoenix, he became secretly alert.
When he was in China, he seemed to have treated Taotie quite badly. Taotie was a petty person who would never let go of any grudge. It would be better for him not to let Taotie know that he had returned to the Wilderness, otherwise Taotie would definitely seek revenge on him all over the Wilderness.
"Occupying a body that does not belong to you always comes with a price. I cultivate cause and effect, so naturally I don't want to be contaminated by unnecessary cause and effect. What's more, it is a peaceful and prosperous world there. Even if my body is weak, it will be safe, and 'weakness' can also serve as my umbrella of protection." Liu Yishu said.
Since Fenghuang is so interested in that place, it would be a shame not to encourage him to experience the life of an ordinary person.
So Liu Yishu thought about it and added: "In fact, the biggest problem with this method is that our great demon souls are powerful. If the souls were not so strong, the body carrying the souls might not have such a heavy burden. You practice the way of reincarnation, so you should have more experience in this area than me."
Phoenix's eyes lit up.
Ever since he learned that there was such a place as China, Phoenix has been itching to go to that world and experience it for himself. However, that world simply cannot bear his arrival in his original form. If he wants to split his soul, he needs to occupy the body of another living being. The reason why Phoenix has never been there is that he thinks the bodies of other races, especially humans, are too ugly and do not conform to his aesthetic standards.
Later, he regained his memories before breaking out of his shell. Thinking that the human shell that Nine-Tail had used before was very similar to his original self, he wanted to ask Nine-Tail for advice. However, Mayfly guarded Nine-Tail too strictly, and he never found a chance.
Now, he finally had some alone time with the Nine-Tailed Fox by taking his life essence and blood, and got the answer he wanted.