Chapter 246

Given my current situation, falling into Feng Xianqiu's hands will not end well.

He has been waiting for this moment.

With this fragment of my soul attempting Nirvana, the chance of success is minuscule, but I would rather die in the Nirvana flames… perhaps this could be considered a kind of fallen leaves returning to their roots?

I just feel sorry for letting down Liu Junyan and Xiaoye.

They went to such great lengths, enduring countless hardships, just to send me back to Azure Paulownia Mountain, only to end up with this result; when the news gets back, I can't even imagine how they'll feel.

Liu Junyan must be going crazy?

I dare not think about it, but I have no choice but to make this decision.

Just as I imagined, the moment I collided with the paulownia tree, I was sucked in by a pull, my body falling straight down.

The temperature around me suddenly spiked, and beneath my feet lay an endless sea of fire.

That was true blazing fire.

The tongues of fire were crimson, leaping high, each one longer than the last, leaving nothing alive wherever they reached.

The speed of my fall was especially fast; I could feel the scorching heat behind me, as if it were about to melt me.

What I didn't expect was that, almost at the same moment, Feng Xianqiu also burst in, his black massive wings slightly spread, continually reaching to embrace me.

He wanted to hold me up.

After falling about ten or so meters, Feng Xianqiu's black wings suddenly wrapped around me; my vision went dark, and just as I was about to resist, I felt the tongues of fire licking my back.

A muffled grunt sounded.

Immediately afterward, I saw Feng Xianqiu's both wings catch fire.

The crimson tongues of fire, like a spreading prairie blaze, climbed up the black feathers.

"Damn it!"

Feng Xianqiu let out an angry roar, retracted his wings, quickly rolled a few times, and black broken feathers fell down, barely extinguishing the flames and stabilizing his form.

And from my chest, the Azure Paulownia Nether Seal suddenly flew out.

As it appeared, countless tendrils simultaneously extended from the Nirvana fire, finely wrapping around my body.

Surprisingly, after those tendrils wrapped around my body, the tongues of fire parted from me, and the sensation of being licked by fire vanished in an instant.

The moment the Azure Paulownia Nether Seal appeared, Feng Xianqiu, who had just retracted his wings, immediately launched a frenzied attack again.

This time, his target was not me, but the Azure Paulownia Nether Seal.

He repeatedly swooped down, reaching out, only to be scorched by the Nirvana fire, then retreat, roll to extinguish the flames, and swoop down again…

Only when I and the Azure Paulownia Nether Seal were completely submerged in the Nirvana fire did he cease his attack, his unwilling eyes fixed on me as if he wanted to devour me.

When the red light of the Nirvana fire completely blocked my vision, I felt like a cocoon.

A cocoon wrapped in countless tendrils.

No, that's not right.

To be precise, if viewed from the outside now, I am like an unhatched egg.

My whole body is curled up inside the "eggshell," well protected.

I even feel warm all over.

This feeling… seems like I have experienced it before.

I estimated the time; after falling for about five or six minutes like this, the "eggshell" landed gently, the tendrils quickly withdrew and disappeared, and the first thing that entered my sight was the paulownia leaves overhead like a canopy.

It was a huge paulownia tree, its trunk growing flush against the rock face, thick enough that ten people could barely encircle it, and its roots dug deep into the mountain, with no way to see how far they went.

The lush leaves blocked the sky and also blocked the Nirvana fire.

I actually couldn't understand why the Nirvana fire would be blocked by the paulownia leaves.

But it was indeed completely blocked.

I lay on the ground, the ground still rock, and for a long time I didn't want to get up.

What just happened was too thrilling and unimaginable; I still hadn't fully recovered from the shock.

I smiled.

I am not dead.

The Nirvana fire did not burn me to death or melt me.

I avoided this calamity and successfully entered Azure Paulownia Mountain.

What made me even happier was that Feng Xianqiu fears the Nirvana fire.

This is enough to show that, although he holds the title of Right Guardian and now wields supreme power in the Feng Clan, he has not undergone Nirvana.

Without Nirvana, can he truly be considered a phoenix?

After lying like that for about ten minutes, I finally turned over and got up; the Azure Paulownia Nether Seal landed on my chest, and I held it and kissed it fiercely.

What a powerful treasure this is!

I put the Azure Paulownia Nether Seal away, then ran to the paulownia tree, spread my arms to embrace its trunk, and pressed my cheek against it.

Although this paulownia tree is much larger than the one south of the Qilin Temple, I still feel they are the same tree.

It… is my lucky tree.

It has been so since childhood.

It has saved me countless times, protected me, and once sheltered Feng Wu; its place in my heart is exalted… right, Feng Wu!

Before, out there, I hadn't been able to summon Feng Wu for a long time.

But this time, as I approached Azure Paulownia Mountain, when I summoned her, there seemed to be some response.

And now that I have entered Azure Paulownia Mountain, will my summons be heard by her?

If Feng Wu can appear, will the figure holding her also appear together?

Thinking this, I tentatively summoned: "Feng Wu!"

After several successive sounds, the phoenix tree leaves above my head suddenly rustled, as if trembling, as if responding in some way.

Feng Wu, is that you?

I did not insist further.

Xue Feng's words led me to guess that the silhouette of Feng Wu grasping in the fire sea might be the divine remnant left behind when the Fire Witch God fell.

Feng Wu being in her hand is only natural.

But I don't know whether, after arriving here, I can establish some kind of resonance with that divine remnant.

Thinking of this, I began to survey this expanse of heaven and earth within Dark Phoenix Tree Mountain.

The place where I fell is spacious; besides that huge phoenix tree, there are stone tables and stone benches beneath it, with tea cups on the stone table, only covered in dust.

Many characters and pictures are carved onto the stone wall, neat and orderly.

Yet among those characters and pictures are mixed some graffiti, the lines playful and childish, likely drawn by a child.

I slowly ran my fingers over those characters, pictures, and graffiti; a scene seemed to flash in my mind, yet I could not grasp it.

My eye sockets unconsciously grew warm and moist.

Besides this stone wall to which the phoenix tree clings, the other three stone walls are entirely pierced with caves, each having a stone door.

I first pushed open the one on the right-hand side.

The stone door was heavy, but I seemed to know where the mechanism was, and I casually pressed the button; the stone door boomed open.

The moment the stone door opened, the lamps on the cave wall lit themselves.

I did not know what kind of lamp it was; inside its transparent casing, several clusters of Nirvana fire leapt, illuminating the whole cave.

This cave actually consists of an outer and an inner chamber.

The outer chamber resembles a small sitting room, with a table and chairs, and against the wall there is something like a… meditation platform.

Its surface is smooth and round, as if someone often sits upon it.

Upon entering the inner chamber, I was utterly stunned.

The inner chamber is spacious; the first thing that catches the eye is a row of longbows hanging on the east wall…