Beginning with the Ubume Bird Chapter 144

Chapter 144: Chapter 43 Sign

“I would like to ask the lady to look at the wounds of my friend here.”

Li Yan spoke up.

Feng Yi's gaze swept over Li Yan's form and she smiled, “Then let me draw a fortune stick.”

The lady put down the golden chisel, leaned forward, and her icy fingers touched the wounds of Nine-Winged Sudu, causing Sudu to draw in a breath of cold air in pain.

“Her injuries are severe, I need to take her to the back hall.”

Seeing Lady Dan nod her head, Li Yan bowed, “Thank you for your trouble.”

The lady gracefully bowed in return, bent down to pick up the pain-stricken Nine-Winged Sudu, and carried her towards the back hall.

Before leaving, she tossed a sentence over her shoulder without looking back.

“The fortune sticks are on the table, feel free to try your luck.”

The room quieted down once more.

Feng Yi walked to the table, picked up the fortune stick container, and shook it carelessly.

A pitch-black bamboo stick clattered down.

He picked it up and looked.

“Horse Falls, Void Fate; despite the peak being high, one basketful short of success.”

Feng Yi's face remained expressionless as he shook the container once more, and after a while, another black stick fell to the ground.

“Moon Meets Malevolence; a bucket draws water in vain, returning empty.”

He scowled in annoyance and tossed the container aside.

With a clatter, the fortune stick container hit the ground, landing right on top of Li Yan's foot.

Li Yan glanced at the back hall, bent down to pick up the container, and a black stick with engraved seal characters fell out of it.

“Greed in Martial Paths; going through mountains and seas, a realization comes too late.”

Going through mountains and seas, a realization comes too late.

Li Yan mulled over the deeper meaning, then handed the container to Lady Dan, “Want to give it a try?”

Lady Dan took it, her fingers gliding over the glossy, dark red exterior of the stick container. She bowed respectfully toward the statue of Heavenly Maiden Sifan (a folk name for Three Heavens Lady) on the altar, and then she began to shake the container.

With a series of clear rings, a black bamboo stick fell onto the cushion. Lady Dan picked it up and looked closely.

“Jade Hidden in Stone; hard to part day and night, does not remain in the mortal world.”

Li Yan leaned in to take a look and laughed, “Does not remain in the mortal world, that's quite interesting.”

Feng Yi leaned on the incense table, letting out a long sigh, “It's just a trivial game; it doesn't count for much. Now, where were we?”

“We were talking about… you wanting me to join Sifan.”

“And your answer?”

The distance between Li Yan and Feng Yi was less than a meter.

“If I refuse, does that mean I won't be able to leave this temple?”

A creepy deathly white burst forth from Feng Yi's palm, spreading wildly and unabashedly.

“Right!”

Li Yan rubbed the back of his neck, his smile becoming more apparent. The fiercer his smile grew, the stronger the murderous aura on his face became.

“Then let's see if you have the ability to make that happen!”

Advancing, twisting his waist, Li Yan's eyelashes brushed past that dreadful deathly white and he forcefully broke into Feng Yi's embrace.

An empty hand suddenly brandished a pale golden color.

Gold-engraved Tiger Head Spear.

Li Yan shook the great spear, and the spear's Devouring Blade moved like a tiger pouncing powerfully on stream water, forcefully knocking Feng Yi flying.

Tiger Rises.

The spearhead was stained with untraceable crimson blood drops, which penetrated Feng Yi's neck.

Blood Dip.

Black hair like ink, Feathers white as snow, arms embraced, a face of tender beauty.

The spirit of the Gu Huo Bird, Hook Star.

Hidden Flight!

Li Yan's feet moved in a goose-stepping motion as he pushed the shaft of the spear horizontally with his upper body, pressing down on the rod with his thumb.

The Tiger Head Great Spear turned into a sky full of platinum light, its tassel whipping through the air like a swallow skimming water, instantly engulfing Feng Yi who had yet to land on the ground.

Swallow Through the Curtain!

The Gu Huo Bird with its arms wrapped around itself was surrounded by eight lotus blooms. White feathers poured out like a blizzard. Centered on Li Yan, a layer of frost formed throughout the hall, spreading across beams, columns, and incense stands like a spider web.

Bang!

Blood Dip erupted!

Into the rich display of white, Lady Dan charged into the back hall.

The Nine-Winged Sudu was holding her wing with one hand, and in just this short amount of time, the wound on her back had already healed, showing no apparent harm on the outside. But her complexion still looked terribly unhealthy.

The girl with her sleeves rolled up and hair in twin buns held a cup of boiling water in one hand and a half-melted pale white medicinal pill in the other.

Seeing Lady Dan barging in, she let out a surprised yelp, “What's wrong?”

“I'm sorry.”

Lady Dan smiled at the girl and yanked the Nine-Winged's arm.

“We have to leave right now.”

“You initiated Blood Dip, causing additional damage. Nine Phoenix Enhancements damage is 728%. Your Hook Star status has temporarily disappeared, with a duration lasting 73 hours.”

“Gu Huo Bird has devoured the inheritance: 'Mu Kui's Branch – Verdant Vines,' your current Gu Huo Bird Spirit's Awakening Degree is at 56%, you have reawakened the Hook Star status.”

Li Yan didn't look back as he smashed through a window and fled, his toes lightly touching down, swiftly passing through the temple gate.

Feng Yi had nearly taken all of Li Yan's peak-level great spear combo techniques head-on. The damage from Blood Dip, known for defeating demons! Slaying filthy gods! Killing ghosts! Exterminating monsters! had been maximized.

Feng Yi, his suit tattered, sat up pulling at a canopy. The muddy yellow streams that enveloped his body had a thick and dense quality.

He wiped away blood from the corner of his mouth, spitting out a clump of red ice.

Feng Yi remained calm, without a trace of embarrassment, and picked up the gaming controller from the ground.

“Although Sifan's power is domineering, it's still the boss's thing, not very comfortable to use. However…”

His fingers moved on the controller, the pallid scuffs crisscrossing wildly, leaving the vast Godess Temple in disarray.

“Where can you run?”

The gusts made Li Yan's wide coat flap noisily while the Nine-Winged Sudu bird, with its long beak and black feathers, landed on his shoulder as he fled. A white scar appeared out of nowhere, brushing past Li Yan's neck.

The Sudu bird in the air reacted even faster than Li Yan.

“My lord, are you alright?”

The voice of the Nine-Winged Sudu came through the bird's beak.

“How are your injuries?”

“Completely fine.”

The ashen-faced Nine-Winged Sudu responded without hesitation.

“Avoid those white scuffs, I'll contact you later.”

Li Yan chewed on green dates in his mouth; his neck had just lost a layer of skin to the power of Sifan and showed no signs of recovering quickly.

In the hall, the muddy yellow streams around Feng Yi slowly disappeared, and his tattered suit returned to its original condition.

“Kind traveler, I kindly offered you shelter, yet you turned the hall into this state; this is too much,” exclaimed the girl in the treasure-blue dress, with twin buns in her hair, angrily picking up the golden mallet from the table.

“Are you a subordinate deity of Three Heavens Lady? To think this small fruit had reached its growth limit,” Feng Yi murmured to himself, not even glancing at her, as he pressed down on the gaming controller.

The girl looked up, a pallid scratch fell directly towards her. Her eyes flashed with brilliance, and she pointed the golden mallet forward.

In an instant, flying clouds, flowing fire, the Jiaolong dragon, and gracefully moving celestial women, all met the white scar head-on!

Then, along with the girl, were erased into nothingness by the power of Sifan.

Feng Yi stepped out of the Godess Temple, which had been severely stripped by the power of Sifan, suddenly clutching his chest as hoary frost crawled over his eyebrows.

Finally, a change came over Feng Yi's expression.

“Nine Phoenix Power?”

Chapter end