Chapter 149 Zufeng starts!
East Desert, Yujing Mountain.

After countless years of peace and quiet, this private Taoist temple of Hongjun Laodao finally ushered in the hustle and bustle...

"Godfather! Please take us out to play!"

Bird number three, Taiyi, jumped onto Jiao Ming's shoulder and begged:

"Just play for a while..."

"no!"

Jiao Ming, dressed in a red robe, sat cross-legged under the roots of the old tree. No matter how Taiyi begged, he just frowned and refused.

I don’t know if it’s because being a father is inherently old-fashioned and tough, but Jiao Ming, who has never been a father, suddenly realized something after being called “godfather” by the three little birds.

As soon as the little ones wanted to play, Jiao Ming immediately started to scold them. This was something that didn't need to be learned:
"Look at your sister, then look at you! All you do is play all day long..."

Taiyi:……

Indeed, Xihe is the most diligent of the three siblings. No matter how much Jiao Ming and Hongjun teach her, she always manages to fully understand it. She is diligent and motivated. Daily practice, alchemy and medicine, mountains and rivers, geography, astronomy and astrology... and so on are all no problem to her.

Taiyi, on the other hand, was more playful and always wanted to go around and have fun. Although he didn't neglect his cultivation, Jiao Ming just couldn't stand him wandering around...

Taiyi felt aggrieved:

"My brother is also idle all day long, why don't you teach him a lesson?"

Without waiting for Jiao Ming to speak, Di Jun, who was using branches to draw a formation, could no longer sit still. He tilted his head, with confusion flashing in his eyes:

"I'm not doing my job?! Stop right there!"

"Only a fool stops!"

Taiyi flapped his wings disdainfully and flew away, leaving Dijun so angry that he chased him everywhere...

Jiao Ming looked at the two of them helplessly, then looked up at Xihe who was practicing in the tree canopy, and couldn't help but sigh:

How come the three siblings, all born from the essence of the sun, have such huge differences in their personalities?
Xihe has a bad temper and likes to bully her two younger brothers, but she is very serious about her cultivation.

Di Jun is generally aloof, but he has a lot of complicated ideas in his mind. He always likes to play with some exquisite things, such as formations.

Taiyi is more gifted and intelligent than his sister and brother, but because everything is too easy for him, he is not very interested in cultivation and other skills. He just wants to play around and has the most eccentric personality...

It’s strange that the three siblings have different personalities.

Fortunately, personality does not affect the talent for cultivation. The three little golden crows have shown extremely strong talents. According to this trend, it won’t take long for them to become Daluo Jinxian.

However, the original plan of joining forces with them to kill the Second Ancestor might be difficult to achieve...

There is no other reason, it’s just that there is not enough time!

Jiao Ming sighed:
It has been a while since the death of Ancestral Qilin. After killing Ancestral Qilin, it seemed that its death and last words stimulated Ancestral Dragon, causing Ancestral Dragon to become even more vigilant against himself.

After dealing with Ancestral Qilin's affairs, Zulong immediately chose to begin to enlighten the scaly-armored aquatic creatures on a large scale, intending to further improve his cultivation and gain a strength advantage over Jiao Ming.

Therefore, the alliance between the two parties is essentially dead in name only, and Zulong is ready to turn against him!

This was undoubtedly bad news for Jiao Ming, but he really had no choice. This was a stalemate because he could not carry out his plan to kill Zulong immediately. Doing so would only cause the two ancestors, who were in a desperate situation, to huddle together for warmth.

Once we start a war with the Second Ancestor, at best both sides will suffer losses, and there is no way we can really win...

"Ugh……"

Jiao Ming did not sigh, it was Hongjun who sighed.

Taoist Hongjun also sat under the old tree, his eyes filled with a sense of powerlessness. He said quietly:
"Fellow Daoist, I still can't kill the evil corpse..."

Jiao Ming's mouth twitched:
"What's wrong with you? I never saw you so stuck in my previous life."

It can be said that the fundamental reason why his plan had so many loopholes was because of this old man Hongjun!

If he could have killed the evil corpse like he did in his previous life, the three ancestors would have all been dead by now.

Anyway, Jiao Ming never expected that his biggest flaw was actually this guy...

"how could I know!"

Hongjun was also helpless:
"Fellow Daoist, I think it's better for me to go out for a walk. If I just sit there, I'm afraid I'll never be able to successfully kill the corpse..."

Go out and try your luck?

Jiao Ming seemed to be thinking about something.

This does make some sense. Reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles. The reason why Hongjun was unable to kill the corpse might be because he did not wander around like he did in his previous life.

After all, in this life, ever since he came to Yujing Mountain, he has been discussing the plan to kill the Third Ancestor with him on the mountain. Apart from that, he has hardly ever gone out, and has been locked up like a homebody!
In this way, it will definitely be different from the experience in the previous life.

And because of his different experiences, perhaps he lacked certain opportunities and insights...

"Then I wish you all the best, fellow Taoist."

Jiao Ming smiled and bowed.

"I hope..."

Hongjun sighed and stood up.

After the two said goodbye, Hongjun left, leaving only Jiao Ming and Xihe and his three siblings in the huge Yujing Mountain...

Seeing Hongjun leaving the mountain, Taiyi, who was being chased everywhere by his brother, flew to Jiao Ming and begged again:
"Godfather! Can I go down the mountain with Master? I won't run around..."

"no!"

Jiao Ming once again showed his father's severity:

"You stay in the mountains and practice diligently. If you slack off again, I will... I will lock you up with Di Jun!"

"what!"

……

[In a certain period of time, you and Hongjun met Zulong and tricked Zufeng into not coming to rescue you, thus killing Zuqilin! ]

[It is luck. In order to eliminate the threat from you in terms of strength, Zulong officially began to awaken the spirits of all living beings on a large scale. With one drop of dragon blood, the spirits will be awakened.]

[Soon, the flames of civilization began to burn across the four seas, and the dragon race emerged, breaking the ancient barbaric state! ]

[Then, Zulong promoted slavery, just like in his previous life, and implemented his absolute rule in the primitive world...] [You know all this, but you have no reason to stop it. You can only watch the fire of civilization burn with all living beings as fuel.]

[But... an unexpected thing happened. When the fire of the dragon clan's civilization was burning from a corner of the East China Sea to the four seas, the phoenix clan in the southern volcano was unexpectedly silent...]

[You are confused about this and don't know what Zu Feng is doing, but Zu Long is immediately anxious! ]

[So, Zulong went to the southern volcano many times to urge Zufeng to awaken his spirit, but Zufeng did not know why.]

[Even because Zulong was so anxious, Zufeng took only a few hundred second-generation phoenixes and moved all at once! ]

[And her new home was chosen to be Yujing Mountain...]

【Zu Long: ……】

【you:……】

……

No, what does this have to do with me?!

On Yujing Mountain, Jiao Ming stared at Zu Feng in red in amazement. After a long pause, he finally managed to utter:

"What are you..."

"Oh? You mean moving?"

Zu Feng sat under the old tree indifferently and said casually:
"Nothing, just hiding from that old worm..."

As she spoke, she directed the Phoenix Clan's top backbone, Suzaku:
"From today on, our Phoenix Clan will live in Yujing Mountain. Remember to keep your noise down and don't disturb the peace and quiet here."

"Yes! Patriarch!"

Zhuque didn't dare to say anything and just took the order and retreated obediently to convey the patriarch's order to other second-generation phoenixes.

Although it was very uncomfortable to leave the southern volcano where they were used to living, all the members of the Phoenix Clan were essentially slaves of the clan leader, so naturally, whatever the clan leader said was the truth.

Let alone just moving to Yujing Mountain, even if the clan leader told everyone to live in the cesspool of the Sea of ​​Blood in the future, everyone would just have to hold their noses and jump in...

Besides, Yujing Mountain is not bad either.

But why did the patriarch not move to any other place, but chose to move to Yujing Mountain?

Zhuque has always been meticulous, and subconsciously glanced at the male bird next to the clan leader... no, it should be called a man.

Its intuition told it that the patriarch was doing this for him...

cough!
Suzaku secretly reminded himself:

It seems that I need to adapt to my new roles with my brothers in advance...

Suzaku took the order and retreated.

While Zhuque was stealing glances at Jiao Ming, Jiao Ming was also looking at this good brother from his previous life.

Although two lifetimes have passed, the scene of the two brothers hiding from Luohou together is still vivid in my mind. Now that they meet again, their identities are completely different, which makes people sigh...

After thinking for a while, Jiao Ming asked Zu Feng seriously:

"Why don't you enlighten the wisdom of all living beings? It's related to enlightenment..."

Unexpectedly, Zu Feng suddenly sighed:
"Because of the death of the old cow and horse, I feel that there is no point in achieving enlightenment."

what?
Jiao Ming was a little confused for a moment after receiving this unexpected answer:
what's the situation?
Weren’t you so crazy in your previous two lives trying to achieve enlightenment?
Zu Feng saw through his confusion and said with a wandering look:
"The three of us have known each other for countless eons, and our relationship is so deep. We originally agreed to achieve enlightenment together and rule the wilderness together, but unexpectedly, the old worm actually killed the old cow and horse just for the possibility of achieving enlightenment."

"It can attack the old cow and horse today, and it may attack me in the future... After thinking about it, I suddenly feel that enlightenment is not that wonderful..."

Jiao Ming was somewhat at a loss after hearing Zu Feng's deep words:
"But, I also participated in the siege?"

"You are different from it."

Zu Feng glanced at him:
"You don't have the ability to enlighten all spirits, so you are destined to never achieve enlightenment... You are safer."

Jiao Ming: …

Jiao Ming really wanted to tell her that he could also awaken spirits, to see if she would still remain calm, but after thinking about it, he held back:

There's no need to make enemies.

"So, you don't want to awaken your spirit and become a Taoist?"

Jiao Ming still found it a little difficult to understand, as this was a development direction he had never planned.

"At least not yet."

Zu Feng sighed.

"What about the massacre on Zulong's side?"

Jiao Ming asked again.

Zu Feng rolled his eyes at him and said unhappily:

"Do you think I'm a fool? I know that Tu Lu will help it achieve enlightenment, and I don't want to achieve enlightenment for the time being, so why should I help it? What if it breaks through and wants to kill me, a threat to enlightenment?"

This……

Jiao Ming was confused:
There was a major change in the plan. Zu Feng didn't want to awaken his spirit, nor did he want to become an immortal, and even less did he want to help Zu Long slaughter slaves.

As a result, Zulong couldn't achieve enlightenment.

He only killed one Ancestral Qilin, but unexpectedly achieved the result that could only be achieved by killing three. This...

Does this count as a disguised way of passing the level?
While Jiao Ming was brainstorming about this, Zu Feng quickly adapted to everything in Yujing Mountain. She casually summoned three little golden crows perched on a tree.

After a few games, the three little guys accepted this foreign guest and had a lot of fun with each other...

Looking at this harmonious scene, and then looking at a group of second-generation phoenixes digging soil and cutting trees to build bird nests in the mountains, Jiao Ming silently said to the landlord, old man Hongjun:

Daoist friend, if you don't come back, your home will become the home of the Phoenix Clan...

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(End of this chapter)