Heavy Sweetness, Ash-like frost

Chapter 21.2: The Male Phoenix and the Female Phoenix

  My face became icy cold but my heart slowly started to recoil in pain. The voodoo spell must be activating again. I turned around to leave behind the nonsensical Master Pu Chi, rode a cloud and quickly flew off.  I immediately landed on the shore next to the River of Forgetfulness. I passed the boat fare to the old grandfather who steers the boat. As I stepped into the boat, the Nightmare Beast jumped after me and I felt the boat shook. Someone laughingly cried, "Old Officer, please also carry me across."  It was then I realised that Master Pu Chi had also followed after me. My face darkened. The old grandfather's eyes were sharp and seeing my darkened expression immediately knew that I did not want Master Pu Chi to follow. The old grandfather pleasantly told Master Pu Chi, "Gentleman, my boat is small, it's too dangerous for me to carry another person."  Master Pu Chi's expression fell and he seriously asked, "Are you calling me fat?" As he spoke, he angrily lifted up his arms and pushed out his stomach, "You can squeeze my strong arms and touch my firm stomach, in what way am I fat? Old Officer, you clearly have insulted my deep pride as a beautiful man. Of course, a beautiful man will not be calculative with you, if you carry me across, I will not even charge you anything."  The old grandfather was shocked and actually carried Master Pu Chi, the Nightmare Beast and me across the river. I sighed, it was troublesome enough to have a tail following me, but now I have another tail, what should I do? What's more these are two ostentatious tails! The Nightmare Beast was covered in elegant plum blossom patterns, it was obvious that it came from the Heavenly Realms. For Master Pu Chi, it was even more obvious - nowhere else in the six realms would you be able to find someone's taste to be so unique as to dress up from head to toe in green. As I was worrying, Master Pu Chi suddenly transformed into a sultry looking female demon and he changed the Nightmare Beast into a dog. The Nightmare Beast looked at its reflection in the water and was incredibly shocked.   I took out a pair of *** from my sleeves. These rabbit ears actually came from the Demon Realms and had demonic aura that would cover up my goddess aura. As I wore the ears, I became a rabbit. The Nightmare Beast looked at my appearance as a rabbit and suddenly felt better.   I ignored both of them and summoned a cloud to fly over. I only heard Master Pu Chi crying after me, "Beauty, go slower! Do you even know where he stays?"   Phoenix, must have chinese parasol tree or he will not rest, must have the fruit of bamboo or he will not eat, must have clean spring water or he will not drink.   He is very picky. As his book boy for a hundred years, I knew his tastes best - where was the cleanest spring water, where were the most luxuriant chinese parasol trees, where were the most simple Phoenix Goddess flowers, that will be where he stays.   After I discerned the aura of the surrounding water, flower and wood, I found a grand looking residence. On the door there was a huge sign which had no words.   I stood on the pavement and looked at the wordless sign. The pavement was filled with throngs of demons and sprites of all shapes and sizes. Suddenly, a small demon jumped out and cried, "It's noon! The Great One is leaving the residence!"  In one moment, all the demons and sprites on the pavement stopped moving and naturally all moved to one side. All of them had an expression full of respect and admiration. I was stunned for a moment and was one step slower in moving to the side. The big road that was full of people suddenly only left a lone rabbit in the middle of the road.  At that moment, Master Pu Chi pantingly bent down his waist and carried me into his embrace and quickly stepped into the crowd of demons at the side.   Just as he stepped into the crowd, I heard the great doors suddenly open. Master Pu Chi cried, "So close, so close! Luckily, I was fast enough!"  I lifted up my head above Master Pu Chi's sleeve to have a look. I only saw extremely curvaceous and sexy demonesses carrying flowers and fishes strung up in a row, coming out in two rows of fourteen each. The surrounding demons all salivated. Following the demonesses were two rows of male demons, compared to the demonesses they were sort of shapes and sizes, so ugly that I did not dare to take a second look.  I realised that in the Demon Realms - the males were very ugly and the females were very beautiful.   Suddenly, the sky darkened and a black cloud with gold bits descended, arrogantly blocking the afternoon sun. The grand sound of a carriage landing travelled across and I felt my heart beat faster, so fast that I thought my heart must have risen to my throat.  Very quickly, four large ferocious beasts carried the black huge carriage down. The dark cloud vanished and the ground shook.  The blood crystal shade lightly shook and in the gap, one could see a person half leaning half sitting inside the carriage. That person had an extraordinary appearance, very cold eyes, dressed in dark black robes with no accessories, but his aura was so outstanding that no one could look straight at him. In the carriage, one could see the Sixth King of Hell respectfully reporting to him on affairs. All the surrounding people respectfully bowed down their heads. For demons to open a path for him, for creatures to pull the carriage, for the Sixth King of Hell to respectfully report matters, all these seemed like it was natural.  I looked at him, my furiously beating heart suddenly stopped, as if frightened that any tiny jump would cause him to hear and discover me. I carefully looked at his long phoenix eyes, and suddenly had a strange and ridiculous desire, wishing that he would look at me. Even if it was only for a moment. *The term is actually "尊上" which is a greeting that denotes honour, seniority and reverence. I also considered using "Almighty" as well.** I really love this analogy of Jin Mi. Often during the novel, Night's gaze is described as very clear and clean - like the rivers, the waterfall, a clean serene pond. But, Jin Mi is slowly realising that what Night says and does is very different from what is in his heart. His eyes may appear clear not because they are clear, but because his real feelings are too well hidden... too deep, that they can never see light.*** If you see the summary here, you will realise that Phoenix bought Jin Mi the rabbit ears when they first visited the Demon Realm! :)

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