Ch129 - Daily Life in the Immortal Realm (Extra 3)
Dan Xi had lived alone in the Taibai Continent for more than eight thousand years. The aura on that continent was not suitable for humans to cultivate towards immortality, and everyone that could ascend had already ascended. When the last person died at the hands of the demons, the mortals of Taibai Continent no longer gave birth to children with spiritual roots.
Demon beasts could not ascend in Taibai Continent, nor could the demons ascend.
The demons were not like the demonic cultivators in the human cultivation world, at least the demons there had some courtesy, justice and shame. But the demons in this world and humans were not the same species. They were the dark side of this world, and they even fed on demon beasts and mortals.
The Great Immortal-Demon War was not only a battle between the immortals and the great demons, but also between humans, mortals, the demon beasts, and the demons. All the White Tigers that were left in the world died in that battle. The great spiritual power coming from the great demons and immortals bombarding the world resulted in the separation of the continent and separated Dan Xi and Mingyan, and when they woke up, the two worlds were already separated.
The Vermillion Bird flew all over the Taibai Continent and searched for hundreds of years, but there was no news of the Green Dragon.
The demons were originally torn apart, and several demon lords acted in their own way, looting demon beasts, and killing mortals.
Several great demon beasts found the Vermillion Bird, hoping that he could take charge of the overall situation. Dan Xi didn’t want to take this burden, but the great demon beast’s words struck a chord with him.
“I heard that you are looking for someone. If you become the Demon King, it would be much easier to find that person.”
At last, in the ever calm phoenix eyes, there were turbulent waves. Dan Xi got up and turned into a fiery Vermillion Bird ten feet long, and charged towards the demons that came in groups to encircle and suppress the demon beasts at the foot of the mountain.
The Vermillion Bird was an ancient divine beast, and its auspicious heavenly fire was the biggest nemesis of the demons. Dan Xi single handedly killed three thousand demons with his heavenly fire and became a well-deserved Demon King.
Under Dan Xi’s command, the demon beasts had been searching for hundreds of years, but there was still no news of the Green Dragon. Dan Xi gave up, utterly defeated, as he realized that he and Mingyan were separated into two worlds.
The gorgeous fiery Vermillion Bird circled the Taibai Mountains every day, hoping to find a way back. However, there were pros and cons to the gate of Xuan Pin, and there was no way to open it from the Taibai Continent.
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“Mother, what are we doing in Taibai Mountain?” A mortal child asked his mother beside him curiously. They came in a carriage and travelled for thousands of miles, but they didn’t know why.
“I heard that there is a Phoenix God in Taibai Mountain. Your brother will try for the Imperial Civil Service exam soon. It’s always good to come and worship the gods.” The woman next to him said with a pious face.
There was a legend in the Taibai Continent that every year on the seventh day of the seventh month, in Taibai Mountain, there would be a Phoenix God dancing. People who had the chance to see it would be able to have a smooth life throughout the year.
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A Demon Lord came out from nowhere, and killed several rogue demons with the power of thunder and unified the demon race. Although mortals were useless, they were needed for the balance of heavenly Dao.
The Demon Lord and the Demon King- Dan Xi agreed not to disturb those mortals who could not cultivate to immortality. The demons walked on the street on ordinary days, and mortals thought that they were foreigners from the foreign countries, and no longer felt any surprise when seeing the demons.
Therefore, the mortals of Taibai Continent, after reproducing for thousands of years, no longer remembered the immortals who ascended to the heavens before them. They thought that they were all legends, and the only God they could see was the Phoenix.
The carriage stopped at the foot of the mountain. The child followed his mother and the house-servant slowly up the mountain, and stopped on the platform on the mountainside. There were already many people gathered there. Everyone had spread a clean cloth on the ground, laying out the food they wanted to offer to the Phoenix God, and waiting quietly.
As night fell, the child looked up at the star-filled sky: “Mother, why does the Phoenix come here every year?”
“The elders said that because the person whom the phoenix loves is blocked by this high mountain, he can only see them on the seventh day of the seventh month every year.” Mother’s soft voice narrated the beautiful legend about the phoenix. This legend has been passed down from generation to generation. It was said that a woodcutter heard the song of the phoenix on the mountain and realized that he was separated from his lover a thousand years ago.
Mortal legends were always beautiful. They thought that the Phoenix came every year to see his lover, and stubbornly made up the day as the seventh day of the seventh month.
The child listened to the story his mother had narrated, and looked up at the top of the high mountain. All mountains had another side. Only this Taibai Mountain would never be turned around. A brightly colored stream of light came from the horizon and hovered at the top of the mountain.
“Phoenix! Phoenix!” The child exclaimed and shouted, pointing to the sky. He was immediately pulled over by his mother, telling him to kowtow quickly.
All the people present bowed their heads, only the child had his eyes open.
The glamorous phoenix, with a thousand spirits all over his body, hovered and danced on the top of the snow-covered mountain. The “Pray for the Phoenix Dance” passed down from ancient times was so beautiful that people couldn’t move their eyes away, and the child just watched it stupidly.
Phoenix! Phoenix, with no Wutong tree to perch on. He lingers on, on the Taibai continent unwilling to leave and having no branches to cling to.
“Tweet–” the crisp sound of the Vermillion Bird reverberated between heaven and earth, and a few moments later, it disappeared without a trace with the bright-colored stream of light.
“You child, why didn’t you kowtow!” The mother got up, saw the child staring at the space stupidly, and slapped him angrily.
“Mother, I don’t think the Phoenix has seen his lover.” The child said to his mother earnestly with his eyes wide open.
“What nonsense? Did you not see, why did Phoenix dance such a beautiful dance? The elders said it was the dance of a ‘Feng Qiuhuang‘.”
“But…” The child looked back at the lonely snow-capped mountain. The sound of the Phoenix cry was clearly mournful. So sad, it was not a happy singing, but a lonely and sad cry.
Year after year, the mortals who came to Taixuan Mountain to worship and pay respect, changed one after another, but the Phoenix God was still the same phoenix.
“It is impossible for the barrier gate to reopen, why are you suffering?” The Demon Lord looked at the man who was obsessively pressing his hand against the stone gate and sighed, “Your life span is also coming to an end, instead of waiting hopelessly like this, why don’t you study with me on how to go to the demon world.”
Dan Xi glanced back at him: “How can a lowly thing like you understand the mood of this seat?”
Hearing the words “lowly thing”, the Demon Lord suddenly became angry. The Vermillion Bird had always felt that the demons who ate everything were inferior like bugs, and every time he saw them, his eyes were so lofty, it made him itch for a fight.
The two of them were about to fight, when there was a sudden violent tremor across the world, and a loud sound resounded through the sky — it almost sounded like the world was tearing open.
When the dust had settled, an unusual spiritual power mixed with traces of demonic energy surged in. At the same time, an extremely beautiful face that had only appeared in his deepest dreams in the dark night for eight thousand years, was truly revealed.
“Dan Xi!” The low and sweet voice was not loud, but it roared like the booming thunder in the sea of his consciousness.
Mingyan, Mingyan..
When everything had calmed down, the two of them were already standing hand in hand at the entrance to the immortal world.
Because there were too many demon beasts ascending all at once, the Immortal officer of the Heavenly Realm hurriedly pointed them to two floating islands and ran away. The island was the Immortal palace of the first generation of Green Dragons and Vermillion Birds. It was in total disrepair and in dilapidated condition. Although, the grass on the island was luxuriant. .
“So, you danced the ‘Feng Qiuhuang’ alone in Taibai Mountain for 8,000 years?” Mingyan dragged Dan Xi to sit on the edge of the desolate floating island, and looked at the prosperous immortal world under his feet. The dark green eyes were a little lost and dazed. For eight thousand years, he had wanted to say too many things to Dan Xi, but he didn’t know where to start, so he first listened to what he had learned over the years.
“Not at all.” The phoenix eyes were slightly raised, looking askance at Mingyan who did not dare to look at him directly.
Mingyan was taken aback for a moment, and slowly raised his head to look at him, his eyes met the extremely beautiful face that had a smile but not yet a smile, and he couldn’t move his eyes again: “I forgot, you can’t dance.”
When they were young, there were still a few phoenixes alive. Although they were not Vermillion Birds, they had similar habits to Vermillion Birds. Every phoenix would dance ‘Feng Qiuhuang’, saying that it would be useful in finding his wife in the future, but Xiao Dan Xi, who hadn’t grown his tail feathers, couldn’t learn how to do it.
Other families Phoenix dances were incomparably beautiful like the ninth heavens, beautiful and glamorous. But he was a fluffy little fat bird flapping his wings and jumping, so Xiao Dan Xi was very depressed and felt that he could never find a wife.
“Who said I can’t dance!” With sharp phoenix eyes upside down, Dan Xi shook off Mingyan’s hand and instantly turned into a gorgeous Vermillion Bird, circling a few times in the air, dancing up and down.
Such a beautiful dance was better than any phoenix dance before, but the dance was a bit strange, with some curved movements.
“It doesn’t seem to be the ‘Feng Qiuhuang’ dance,” Mingyan said blankly.
“Of course not,” Dan Xi triumphantly put away the thousand spirits around his body, “This is my original ‘Feng Qiulong‘.”
This Vermillion Bird didn’t need to search for his wife, he just wanted to take the big Green Dragon back to his nest. .
“Dan Xi…” When Mingyan heard this, he felt his throat tighten, clenched his fists, grabbed the person, and blocked the thin lips that always uttered alluring phoenix sounds.
Dan Xi’s Phoenix Palace was built, but he never went, because there are many Wutong trees planted on Mingyan’s island (of course, Mingyan planted it himself). He liked this island better.
It’s just that recently, the proud Vermillion Bird was a little worried.
The troublemaker Emperor of Heaven, threw the prince over to play with the cub of the Tiangou. It was nothing to be concerned about at all at first, he didn’t mind. Just throw the prince and the dog under the tree and let them play by themselves. But as this matter spread, more and more cubs were sent over, and Mingyan accepted all those who came .
“Dan Xi, look, this little tiger cub is so funny.” Mingyan held a furry little tiger and raised his paw to show him.
“Three thousand-year-old man, what’s so interesting.” Dan Xi snorted coldly. When he was three thousand years old, he had become a Demon King and had fought the demon race for thousands of years. The cold phoenix eyes swept over the tiger cub, Qingtong’s third uncle immediately felt the danger, he struggled to jump down and hide away.
However, things didn’t get better because of Dan Xi’s unhappiness, but got worse and worse.
Dan Xi was lying on the rocking chair, watching the stupid dragon surrounded by a group of young boys, and watching with a smile in his eyes while feeding them snacks, the resentment and jealousy in his heart reached its culmination, and there was no need to bear it anymore! So, Lord Vermillion Bird turned into a streamer and rushed over and turned into a little fluffy fat bird…
“Tweet—” squeezing away a group of cubs, Dan Xi arrogantly opened his mouth to eat, but the children hadn’t seen it before, so they were shocked.
“Who are you?”
“Woo, you stepped on my head!”
Mingyan looked at the fluffy red fat bird in front of him, and slowly straightened his eyes. The phoenix had the ability to regenerate from Nirvana, and the Vermillion Bird was also a phoenix and a divine beast. He could use the power of Nirvana for his own use. Among the many demon beasts, only the adult Vermillion Bird could change between juvenile and adult at will. It’s just that the Vermillion bird was arrogant and had never bothered to show himself to people like a young bird, so Mingyan hadn’t seen this young bird for a long time.
“Tweet!” Seeing that Mingyan was stunned, Dan Xi fluttered his wings and flew upwards.
Mingyan hugged the little fat bird and held it in his hands.
The fluffy chubby body was really too fat, just standing made it tired, the little fat bird kicked his legs, and squatted on Mingyan’s palm and stopped moving.
Then, Mingyan hugged the little fat bird and didn’t let go.
The group of cubs began to make a noise when they couldn’t get their snacks. Mo Tianliao looked at the cold face and the eyes of Mingyan, and coughed dryly and said, “Shizun, you are busy, I will help you watch the cubs for a while.”
Mingyan nodded, and left with the fluffy feather ball in his arms.
“Baby, let’s look after the children.” Mo Tianliao lifted the kitten from the dog’s head, although the kitten was the youngest in this group of children.
“Meow!” The kitten flicked its tail, flashed its paws at the disobedient group of children.
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Zaki~ there must be a bit of confusion between the Phoenix and Vermillion Bird, they are of the same species. The author had used Vermillion Bird since the start but the mortals in Taibai called it Phoenix (coz they see it as a Phoenix).. More Info.