Chapter 76 - It’s a Phoenix (1/2)
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Yan Tianhen couldn’t help but laugh and say, “That’s the first time I’ve heard someone talk about themself like that.”
Yang Dongmian said with a straight face, “Humble me knows myself well.”
Lin Xuanzhi lightly said, “This bird…what’s so special about it?”
Yang Dongmian heaved a sigh of relief, then immediately answered, “I don’t know if this bird is special or not, but when I was handing over a Return Yuan sky-level pill to those two as part of our transaction at the foot of the mountain, this bird came out of nowhere and swallowed the Return Yuan Sky pill. So we definitely had to chase it— and we ended up here as we were chasing it.”
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Yan Tianhen’s face immediately changed. He even dug his ears before he said in disbelief, “Return Yuan Sky pill? I didn’t hear that wrongly right? Isn’t that really difficult to find?!”
Lin Xuanzhi was also stunned, then said, “After this bird ate an earth-level medicinal pill, it actually didn’t have any abnormal reaction?”
“Earth-level medicinal pill?!” Duan Yuyang almost fell down from his horse. He opened his mouth so wide his jaw almost dropped off as he shouted, “Oh god, you’re not lying to honourable me right? Where did you manage to get an earth-level medicinal pill from?”
Even though he didn’t know what kind of pill the Return Yuan Sky pill was, just knowing that it was an earth-level medicinal pill was more than enough!
Out of the four levels of medicinal pills — primary-, profound-, earth- and sky-level — the most commonly seen type in the Five Continent’s mainlands is the primary-level medicinal pill. Profound-level medicinal pills can only be found within big sects, and as for earth-level medicinal pills, the number of such pills that exist in the East Continent could probably be counted with just one hand.
Yang Dongmian was shocked by these three voices that rang out at the same time, then immediately patted his chest and said, “How would I dare lie to you? That’s a real, bona fide earth-level medicinal pill, and it was a pill that I expended a looot of effort in getting from the Middle Continent’s Sky Peak Sect.”
When he spoke of this, Yang Dongmian suddenly felt his heart and teeth ache. His face twitched, then he sighed and said, “At first I had thought that I would be able to earn a big sum…but who knew that this animal with flattened feathers would actually appear at such an opportune moment. All my life savings had disappeared in an instant…” After he finished speaking, Yang Dongmian felt more and more despair as he thought of what had happened. He didn’t kneel down to beg for forgiveness anymore, and instead sat on the ground and spoke as tears streamed down his face.
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“Forget it, just palm me to death. I don’t want to live anymore! I’m going to be broke soon……wuwuwuwuwu……”
Yan Tianhen looked at him as he suddenly cried while he was talking, then quickly comforted him by saying, “What are you crying for? If you don’t have any more money you can just go earn it back. People shouldn’t be forced to die just because of money!”
Yang Dongmian wiped away the snot and tears on his face, then sniffed as he said, “What do you know? This medicinal pill was crafted by a fussy craftsman in Sky Peak Sect who took ten years to craft this one earth-level medicinal pill. He hadn’t intended to sell it at first, but it was because I knew him when I was young that he was willing to sell it to me. And he hadn’t even received his deposit…wuwuwu……”
Yan Tianhen thought that he did seem pretty miserable, so he thought for a bit before he said, “When those two went to get the medicinal pill from you, they must have brought some money along. Why not you go search their clothes to see if there’s money?”
“They won’t have money.” Yang Dongmian sniffed and said with bloodshot eyes, “That was a pill requested by their master, how would they be able to afford an earth-level pill? I had coincidentally bumped into them on my way to meet their master, and they said that they had to see the pill then, which was why I was forced to open the bottle.”
But who would have thought that when one was unlucky, they could be this unlucky.
No medicinal pill and no money — you could say that he had lost both money and the goods. Yang Dongmian thought about his pathetic savings, then thought of the looming debt that towered over him and suddenly felt like his life had turned bleak and hopeless.
Duan Yuyang couldn’t help but sympathise with him and said, “You really are too unlucky.”
Yan Tianhen nodded his head and said, “Yeah, this kind of occurrence is really rare.”
“Chirp chirp—-chirp chirp chirp!” The bald bird that was buried in Yan Tianhen’s arms suddenly popped its head out and chirped a few times with a sympathetic look on its face.
Yan Tianhen, “……..”
He thought that at this kind of timing, the perpetrator only needed to keep quiet.
Lin Xuanzhi’s eyes swept over the bird and suddenly thought of something —- in his past life, Yang Dongmian appeared to have died very early on, and was said to have had died right on this Flying Luan peak. Rumours has it that Flying Luan peak was reduced to ashes after burning for a whole seven days and seven nights and had turned into a dead mountain. At the same time, there were three disciples from Profound Sky Sect who were burned to death in this fire, and one of them was Yang Dongmian!
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Lin Xuanzhi narrowed his eyes slightly, and a strong killing intent gradually arose within him.
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Bald bird suddenly felt a murderous intent come from one of the humans. It shuddered and withdrew his head back into Yan Tianhen’s clothes — see no evil see no evil.
Yan Tianhen rubbed the bald bird through his clothes, then said somewhat apprehensively, “Dage, since it had already eaten the pill, we can’t possibly get it to spit it out right? Why not we release it ba.”
Lin Xuanzhi was still immersed in his own speculations and could not extricate himself from his thoughts.
Lin Xuanzhi said, “Ah Hen, bring that bird over to let me take a look at it.”
Yan Tianhen hesitated for a bit, then took the bald bird out, got off his horse and walked over to Lin Xuanzhi.
He pursed his lips as he held the bald bird up in his hands, then said softly, “Dage, it’s actually really obedient.”
Bald bird flapped its wings and cried out sadly, then Lin Xuanzhi picked it up by its wings and held it in his hand.
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Lin Xuanzhi looked at this bald bird.
Bald bird opened its golden beak as it faced Lin Xuanzhi to express its dissatisfaction.
And what Lin Xuanzhi clearly saw in that instant was a hint of smoke within that bird’s beak.
Lin Xuanzhi was stunned. This bald bird whose ugliness was unmatched and was no better than a pheasant would actually become the phoenix that would turn the entire Five Continents’ mainlands upside down in the future.
Isn’t this too big of a discrepancy?!
Don’t ask how he knew about this, because in his past life, he only knew one such phoenix that could shake the heavens, the earth and the skies!
But at this moment, the phoenix was merely a bald bird.
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It tried its best to spit out a mouthful of fire, but all it did was spit out a puff of smoke and even choked itself by accident.
“Chirp chirp chirp–” It coughed harshly.
Yan Tianhen’s heart was beating so fast it almost jumped out from his throat1.
Lin Xuanzhi threw the bald bird back to Yan Tianhen, then said with a face full of disdain, “If you want to raise it, then just raise it for now ba. It doesn’t even have enough meat on it to get stuck in our teeth if we roast it now to eat.”
Yan Tianhen, “……”
Bald bird, “……”
Nonsense! It’s obviously very delicious!