Phoenix Comes

Phoenix Comes

By Jiulu Feixiang,

Translated, Edited and Arranged by Angel Chua 10/11/2024

Blood kept pouring out of Xingzhi's mouth. He covered his mouth and tried to push Shen Li away, but his hands were so weak that he fell to the side before he could push Shen Li away. He lay on the ground and vomited a large mouthful of blood. His spotless white clothes, his always clean and slender fingers, and his face that always had a faint smile were now stained with blood.

"Xingzhi..." Shen Li called him in shock, with unprecedented fear and panic in her heart. She almost knelt to move to Xingzhi's side and held him on her legs.

Her fingertips and lips trembled even more than Xingzhi's. "Why..." She reached out to wipe the blood from Xingzhi's mouth, but blood immediately gushed out again, wetting her sleeves.

"Didn't it come out?" Her voice was trembling. "He was buried in Xutianyuan instead of me... He..." Shen Li choked, "Why are you still like this?" The

cold palm was tightly held, and Xingzhi's eyes looked at Shen Li quietly. His calm black eyes seemed to contain a calming power.

He swallowed the fishy smell surging in his throat, his breath was weak, but there was no weakness in his expression: "Gods... have no reason to exist anymore." Tianwai Tian will disappear with the disappearance of Xutianyuan.

Nothing can threaten the survival of the Three Realms anymore. The world no longer needs a power that can compete with the way of heaven. Itis time for a god, a position born from heaven, to retire. "What if the gods have no reason to exist!"

Shen Li held his hand tightly, her voice as dry as if squeezed out of her throat, "Xingzhi still has a reason to exist! Not the gods, but you, Xingzhi, you still have so many reasons to live..." "If it's still okay..." Xingzhi smiled, "Shen Li is the only reason I'm alive."

The Xutianyuan in the sky trembled violently, and the scope of darkness slowly shrank. No matter how Xingzhi clenched his teeth, blood still flowed from the corners of his mouth. He felt Shen Li's hands trembling constantly, and he was so flustered that he didn't have the usual majestic look.

"Shen Li is so bad at taking care of herself... She is so bad at feeling sorry for herself..."

Xingzhi coughed twice, "If possible, I would like to take care of you and feel sorry for you..."

Shen Li felt a sharp pain in her heart, as if her blood vessels were crushed: "You actually do what you say!"

Xingzhi smiled, shook his head, and suddenly coughed violently.

There was so much blood that Shen Li could hardly hold his hand. Maybe her expression was too sad.

Xingzhi smiled and said, "Every word is full of blood... I have played it thoroughly today. I have been a submissive and one of your kind."

Shen Li gritted her teeth: "At a time like this, only you can make a joke..." This sentence evoked too many memories of the past, and even Xingzhi fell silent.

After a long silence, he grinned, three parts sighing, three parts helpless, and mixed with a bit of begging: "Then, Shen Li, just smile." Tears fell on Xingzhi's face, and the warm tears streaked across his bloody cheeks, leaving a pale mark. Shen Li pursed her lips and smiled.

Xingzhi turned his head, closed his eyes, and sighed: "It's really... horrible..." As soon as he finished speaking, Xingzhi's face suddenly turned pale, and his muscles suddenly tensed. At the same time, Xu Tian Yuan trembled violently, and there was a sound of shattering from the sky. Shen Li turned his head blankly, but saw that the black space in the air was like porcelain, shattered by an invisible force, and the fragments turned into ashes.

The monsters and ambitions sealed inside disappeared with the breeze. The sun penetrated the miasma and shone on this land that had been covered by the darkness of Xu Tian Yuan for thousands of years, sweeping away all the darkness.

In the scorching sunlight, Shen Li seemed to see a cluster of weak flames leaping in the air. It slowly fell down like a leaf and sank into the earth. "Shen Li." She heard Xingzhi ask her softly, "Is this the sunshine in your dream?"

Shen Li looked at him, and there was no blood flowing from the corners of his lips, but for some reason, she became more flustered, "No." She said, "No, you have to accompany me to find that sunshine, that scene." " What a pity... But... I believe that you will find it in the future..."

He slowly closed his eyes as if he was very tired, "That sunshine."

Xingzhi 's hand holding Shen Li's palm gradually lost its strength.

Shen Li lowered her head, holding his hand and letting the back of his hand touch her cheek: "Asshole..."

She said in a hoarse voice, "You know that what I'm looking for is the Xingzhi who is basking in that sunshine... Asshole."

You asked her, where can I find another Xingzhi! However, no one responded to her again.

The golden light that floated down from somewhere in the sky was like heavy snow in the middle of winter, covering the sky. The immortals standing quietly nearby all looked up, and someone shouted, "It's the divine light! It's the divine light of Lord Xingzhi returning to heaven!"

The immortals knelt down in unison, bowed their heads, and kowtowed, "Farewell Lord." "Farewell Lord Xingzhi." The last god between heaven and earth disappeared. Did the way of heaven finally admit that he left as a god?

Did the way of heaven finally let him become a source of vitality between heaven and earth, coexisting with all things and sharing the same lifespan as heaven and earth... Then, wouldn't she not be able to meet Xingzhi even in reincarnation?

Shen Li looked up at the golden light in the sky. In such a dazzling brilliance, her eyes gradually dimmed all the light.

There will never be such a person again... She held the gradually cooling body in her arms, gently pressed against his cheek, as if she had extinguished her breath with him. After an unknown amount of time, someone came forward and called softly, "Lord BiCang."

Shen Li did not respond. The person paused and said, "Lord BiCang Shen Li, the God has passed away and his consciousness is no longer there. His body cannot remain in the mortal world at will. After the Gods of all generations passed away, they were all required to use the Three Flavors True Fire to transform them into something invisible. Lord BiCang, please hand over the God of Xingzhi to me."

Shen Li then looked up at the person who had come. It turned out that it was the Heavenly Lord himself who came to the Immortal Realm World to ask for someone. She lowered her head, still sticking to Xingzhi in the same posture: "No."

The Heavenly Lord's face changed slightly, but seeing Shen Li like this, he was not angry, and only said: "The body of the Divine Lord can only be cremated with the Three Flames True Fire, in the greatest way to protect the world." "Oh." Shen Li sneered, "When he was alive, you asked him to protect the Three Realms and the people of the world in everything.

Now that he is dead, you even don't let go of his bones, and you want his corpse to contribute to the peace of the Three Realms?" She hugged Xingzhi's hand tightly, and a red light flashed in her eyes. She burned a barrier in front of the Heavenly Lord, and the scorching flames burned off a few strands of hair on the Heavenly Lord's temples, forcing the Heavenly Lord to take two steps back. "If you have the ability, just snatch him from me."

The Heavenly Lord's eyes darkened, and he heard Shen Li say, "If you really snatch him and burn him today, one day, I, the Lord Bicang Shen Li, will definitely attack the Nine Heavens with fire, and will definitely burn your heaven without leaving a single piece of armor!"

Her voice was not loud, but the decisiveness in her words frightened everyone present. Across the flame barrier, all the immortals saw Shen Li's bloodshot eyes staring at them coldly. When the stalemate was just around the corner, Youlan suddenly stepped forward and bowed to the Heavenly Lord, "Heavenly Lord, Xingzhi Shenjun has been shackled by the people of the Three Realms for his entire life. At least now he should be free." She leaned over and knelt, "Youlan begs the Heavenly Lord to show some leniency."

"Grandpa Heavenly Lord." Furongalso lifted his robe and knelt beside Youlan. "Although the Lord of God has passed away, everyone has just seen that the Lord of God is willing to be with Lord BiCang. Grandpa Heavenly Lord respects the Lord of God very much. Why not give him a little respect and tolerance at this time. Furongjun, please show mercy."

Seeing the two juniors like this, the Heavenly Lord frowned slightly. Suddenly, there were scattered voices of kneeling and begging behind him. He was stunned and turned his head, but saw that all the immortals present knelt down and begged him. The Heavenly Lord glanced around, sighed again, turned his head and looked at Shen Li behind the flame barrier, and finally turned his eyes to the face of Xingzhi who had closed his eyes peacefully: "Forget it!" He sighed, "Forget it!" After that, he left with a wave of his sleeves.

Furong and Youlan stood up, and the two of them looked at Shen Li behind the barrier, and left on the cloud without saying a word. The immortals also followed them and gradually left.

Only after everyone had left did Shen Li remove the flames, hugging Xingzhi and sitting quietly: "You are free." She said hoarsely, "Look, no one will use the identity of a god to imprison you anymore."

But Xingzhi no longer had any reaction. Shen Li hugged him and buried her head in his cold neck, smelling the faint fragrance on his body, imagining that he would get up the next moment. The golden light in the sky disappeared, and the yellow sand was blown away by the wind. Shen Li didn't know how long she sat here, until someone called from a distance: "Prince!" It was the people from the Immortal Realm world who came.

Shen Li looked up and saw that the person walking first was the Immortal Realm Lord.

She was not wearing a mask and had not transformed into a man's body. She walked over eagerly. She looked at Shen Li in silence for a long time.

Finally, she squatted down, looked into her eyes, and said soothingly: "Silly child, it's time to go home." "Master..." She looked up at her, her eyes completely devoid of the former luster, "I lost two people who should not have been lost." Her voice was so hoarse that Shen Muyue's heart softened: "A Li..."

She didn't know what to say. After a long pause, she just said, "Go home first." One year later.

The Abyss of the Sky disappeared, the miasma in the Immortal Realm world was decreasing day by day, and the number of monsters that were infected by the miasma and turned into Immortal Realms and Immortal Realms was also decreasing.

Without external battles, the disputes over interests in the court became more and more intense.

Shen Li did not like these open and secret struggles, so she simply stayed sick all day and did not go to the court or the meeting hall.

There was no war for her to worry about, so she wandered around the capital of the Immortal Realm world every day, occasionally catching a few lazy generals who came out to drink, and cleaning up a few new soldiers who took advantage of their power to bully others. People gave her a new name of "big bad luck". Rou Ya felt very unfair for Shen Li: "He is the one who has big bad luck! Don't let Rou Ya know which unlucky guy spread this, and when she knows, I will let Xixi peck his head bald!" Shen Li sat on the chair and drank a sip of tea leisurely: "Nothing wrong." She said, "I am a very unlucky person."

Rou Ya was stunned when she heard this, and lowered her eyebrows. She still remembered that when the prince came back with the body of Lord Xingzhi covered in blood, Shen Li seemed to have lost her soul.

After sending Lord Xingzhi to the Snow Sacrifice Temple, she stayed alone in the ice and snow for three months with injuries all over her body.

Finally, the Immortal Realm Lord couldn't stand it anymore and dragged her out by force. She fell seriously ill after coming out, and it lasted for another three or four months.

After she recovered from the illness, Shen Li seemed to have figured it out and returned to her previous appearance. But Rou Ya knew that Shen Li's heart was already rotten. "I won't go back tomorrow."

Shen Li finished drinking the tea and said softly, "Just prepare the food you want to eat." Rou Ya was stunned, and suddenly remembered that tomorrow was the one-year anniversary of Lord Xingzhi's death.

Rou Ya nodded with some worry. Shen Li glanced at her and ruffled her hair: "Don't worry, it's all over. I know." This life was saved by Xingzhi and her father. Even if she didn't live for herself, she should live well for them, take care of herself, and feel sorry for herself. If Xingzhi couldn't help her, she would have to take care of herself. Rouya nodded and watched Shen Li walk away, with only a sigh.

The door of the Snow Sacrifice Hall was opened again. The air of ice and snow poured out from the inside. Shen Li closed her eyes gently. Such a coolness reminded her of Xingzhi. She stepped into the Snow Sacrifice Hall and placed Xingzhi's body in the seal created by the world. It not only kept his body intact, but also prevented people with bad intentions from stealing his body. "Xingzhi."

She broke through the layers of frost and looked up at the icicle in the middle, but her pupils suddenly shrank.

There was no one in the icicle! Shen Li was stunned. She stepped forward quickly and looked around the icicle in the middle, but she didn't see Xingzhi.

She panicked, but a new hope ignited.

She clenched her fists and forced herself to calm down.

But at this moment, Rouya called out from outside the Snow Sacrifice Hall: "Prince! Prince!" Shen Li left the Snow Sacrifice Hall, but saw Rouya running to her breathlessly: "Yes! Yes...

There is a monster! On the main street!" "It's a snow monster!"

Shen Li pushed Rouya away and left quickly. Her steps were a little staggering because of trembling.

She only looked forward, searching for her familiar breath, running all the way to the main street of the capital, searching forward like crazy.

Suddenly, she heard noisy sounds in front of her, the exclamations of the people, and the scolding of the officers and soldiers.

She pushed the crowd away and saw a white back standing in the street. He had his back to her, and his black hair was already snow-white, but Shen Li knew that it was this person, no doubt.

She suddenly stepped forward and hugged him from behind. "I know it's you." She said, "I know it's you!"

Shen Li didn't know what the people around her were reacting to. She only felt a pair of cold hands covering her hands: "Be gentle." He said, "It hurts."

Shen Li dared to loosen her grip a little. The man turned around, with a pair of familiar eyebrows and the same smile as before.

He said, "Shen Li, you should smile at this time." Shen Li's tears flowed even more happily when she heard this: "But... it's not as you wish."

Xingzhi sighed, "Can't you just listen to me for once?" He leaned over, lifted Shen Li's chin, and then pressed his lips on it, "After all, he is my husband." The exclamations around her became the background, and Shen Li hugged and kissed him in the street without caring.

Xingzhi God is back, but his divine power is extremely weak, as weak as that of an ordinary immortal, and his body is not even as good as that of an ordinary immortal.

Shen Li was worried that the remaining miasma in the Immortal Realm world would hinder him, so she took him directly to the human world and bought a small house, just like when he was still Xingyun.

The people from the heaven came to look for him several times, but Xingzhi avoided them and showed his reclusive attitude.

The people from the heaven understood and stopped looking for him. Shen Li settled down in the cottage with Xingzhi. Life seemed to have returned to the way it was at the beginning. The sickly scholar and the domineering queen planted grapes in the backyard.

They worked together, chatting while planting: "Aren't you curious about how I came back?"

Xingzhi asked Shen Li. Shen Li paused: "I'm curious, but I dare not ask." She confessed, "If I ask and find out that this is a dream, what should I do?"

Xingzhi was stunned, thinking that Shen Li must have been scared this time. He smiled and said nothing more. Don't worry, he still has so much time to tell Shen Li that this is reality.

But... he looked up at the sky, the broken outer world, the golden images of his old friends...

He lowered his head and loosened the soil. The memories of the ancient gods would only be like a dream for future people. He could think that in the West Garden of the Heaven Realm, the spirit tablets floating with the remaining divine power of the gods should have been reduced to ashes by now.

Because... they all became the power for him to live in the end.

His friends and the past could no longer be retrieved.

"Shen Li." He suddenly called, "I am no longer as strong as I used to be. Will you dislike me?"

Shen Li glanced at him and asked naturally, "Why do you dislike me? At the beginning, I just fell in love with a sick mortal."

They turned around and it turned out that they were just back to the starting point.

Xingzhi was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said no more.

The last god in this world disappeared, but there was an idle immortal.

Year after year, time in the human world passed too slowly, and the grape vines in the courtyard of Shen Li and Xingzhi had begun to touch large bunches of grapes.

That day, the sun shone through the grapevines onto Xingzhi's face in the rocking chair. He closed his eyes and took a light nap. Suddenly, he heard a voice saying, "Try some grapes." Xingzhi opened his eyes and saw Shen Li standing beside him. She was standing against the light, and her silhouette was too beautiful. Xingzhi reached out to take the grapes, and suddenly remembered something and said, "Shen Li, you owed me two wishes before."

Shen Li was startled, and pondered for a long time, as if she just remembered this: "What other wishes do you have?"

"The first wish is that you will help me pick grapes every summer in the future."

Shen Li lay down on the rocking chair next to him and nodded in agreement: "Okay."

"The second wish..."

Shen Li turned her head to look at him: "Are you going to make all the wishes today?" Xingzhi also turned his head at this time. The breath of the two was very close. Xingzhi smiled and said, "Because, the second wish will take a long time to complete." He got up and quietly kissed Shen Li on the lips.

"Help me give birth to as many children as a bunch of grapes."

Shen Li was shocked, pushed him and ran away: "You are so crazy!"

In the courtyard, only Xingzhi could not stop laughing.

At the right time, the sun was shining.

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