Xuanji watched him being engulfed in flames, and was scared to death, not caring about the blazing flames, she jumped in to save him. In just a moment, her hair, eyebrows and clothes were all burnt, and her body and skin seemed to be splitting apart, the pain was excruciating.
“Sifeng!” She screamed and reached out her hand to pull, but only pulled a hard object, half-melted by the fire, which immediately burnt her skin when it touched her palm. She did not care about the pain and pulled it out – but it was the sword he was wearing at his waist, the scabbard and hilt had been burned.
She was stunned and did not move. Téngshé sneered and said with a smile, “So easy to die this way.”
Xuanji slowly turned back and stared at him. He was a little nervous from the stare and said coldly, “What?”
She whispered, “I’m just wondering, are all the gods in heaven as arrogant and domineering as you are? You can kill people whenever you want and burn wherever you want.”
Téngshé shrugged its shoulders and said indifferently, “I don’t care, I’ll have the blessing to make up for it later. I think the mortals should be happy that a god has come down to earth.”
Xuanji whispered, “What kind of blessing is worth a life?”
Seeing that there was something wrong with her expression, Téngshé himself had an irritable and impatient temper and immediately shouted, “How could you compare?! I’m going to set fire first!”
Xuanji shook her head and said softly, “Answer me.”
If she had cried out or come up to fight, Téngshé might not have been afraid, but seeing her calmness and coldness, he was a bit frightened and had to reply, “When they are reincarnated in the next life, they will be put into a rich house, and all the human places I borrowed will have a good harvest for three years. Isn’t that blessing?”
Xuanji said gently, “What about the relatives of those people you killed? They just watched him die in vain? They will be sad for the rest of their lives?”
“Relatives?” The snake was obviously unfamiliar with this word, and only after thinking for a while did he remember what he was referring to, he then laughed and said, “People can’t come back to life after death, not to mention that everyone is going to die eventually. Why get entangled with me on such a trivial matter? Hey, are you going to fight?”
She suddenly said loudly, “No! It’s not the same! As long as we live, we have hope, and we can spend a long time together, laughing together! Who allowed you to take away this right! Who gave you that right?”
Téngshé was stunned for a moment to see her pulling out Yu Si Feng’s sword with a loud clang. Her palm was already glued to the molten hilt of the sword, and she wouldn’t be able to remove it for a while. He laughed, “After all the talk, still want to fight! Shouldn’t you have just agreed earlier? This is not the DingKun sword, Let’s see whether you have the ability to release the sanmei.”
She did not seem to hear, with a twist of the wrist she executed a sword technique and slapped it on the burning fire around her. The tip of the sword held a cluster of sparks, bright red, and jumping. Her fingers slowly brushed the smooth sword, every inch she brushed, immediately glowed with a shining fire. Finally, the colour of the sparks jumping at the tip of the sword gradually receded, and turned into a bright white orange.
The so-called Dingkun, that is meant to pacify the universe. If the universe is in the heart, then whether Dingkun is in the hand or not, what is the difference?
“Come here.” she said gently. “Let me see what you’re capable of.”
Téngshé was about to release a sea of fire to surround her when suddenly the fire around her swelled and became a hundred feet high, rolling and jumping, closely followed by a cloud of golden light flying rapidly from the fire, with a clear cry spun into the air, and in the blink of an eye flew extremely high and far, leaving only the glittering golden light in his eyes.
He made a ‘huh’ sound, and suddenly his cheeks hurt, as if they were burned by fire. He was shocked and hurriedly jumped away, only to see Xuanji’s sword sparks pulling up in front of his eyes, and a little fire on the tip of the sword, had actually been turned into Sanmei fire by using Téngshé’s fire.
He was immediately energized, his eyes glowing and shouted, “You have such a skill! I like it!” The surrounding firelight gathered in an instant, raising him high, and gradually, more and more flames gathered, and his body was surrounded by layers of flames and could no longer be seen. The huge flame suddenly emitted a clear whistling sound and the fiery wings rustled open, and turned into the shape of a snake.
The overwhelming fiery wings slowly swayed and large fire balls descended from the sky, like rain, densely packed and falling on the ground, rapidly spreading over a large area as if alive, towards Xuanji’s location. The fire circle around her was instantly two people high, and it was difficult to move.
The snake laughed and said: “If you like fire, I’ll give you more! I’m afraid you can’t handle it!”
Xuanji said coldly: “I’m afraid you can’t afford it!”
The sword in her hand spun around, and the Sanmei fire cut the fire circle into two halves. She hooked her hand on the circle of fire and gently said, “Quick! Transform!” The fire circle was instantly reunited, and when the upper and lower parts collided, the fire splashed around and turned into bright orange Sanmei. With a flick of her wrist, she threw it out, and the fire light instantly turned into a fire dragon, pouncing upwards.
Téngshé’s fire wings flared, and suddenly transformed into a human form, supported by flames, descending from the air, dodging the fire dragon and laughing: “It’s nothing!” The two wings of fire still remain behind him, burning. Suddenly elongated, falling from the air and scratching the ground, carving deep scorch marks. The flames that the Téngshé calls for are different from the flames on his body, especially the two fire wings, which are the essence of fire.
The reason he came down to the mortal realm was because he had a little temper, and everyone in the heavenly realm knows that Téngshé are bad-tempered and love to be petty. He borrowed the path in the human world to make trouble on purpose, to show the people above, but in the end, no one cares about him, so he was bored. He met the former General of War here, so how could he not play a game.
To say that he really wants to kill her heart, that may not be necessarily true, but if he really did, there would be no way back. Originally, gods are not allowed to kill at will but there rules are shit in his eyes. Mortal reincarnation, like the life of an immortal, is never-ending, and a lifetime in the eyes of a mortal is only a small part of a long cycle. It is not a big deal in his opinion to cut it off at will and continue another cycle. What’s more, with his blessing, those people’s reincarnated life will only be a blessing in disguise.
He couldn’t understand Xuanji’s anger and he didn’t bother to understand.
The scorching wind rolled by, her scorched hair moved slightly and her brows were clear and indifferent. Suddenly he started to play with her heart and smiled, “You are so angry, I still don’t understand. If you want me to understand, why not use the power of your God of War to convince me?”
As he spoke, his fiery wings had reached her side, which were more than ten feet high. The ground was burned by his fiery wings and two huge cracks were opened, emitting a creaking sound of being burned. The huge fiery wings suddenly closed and locked her in them. The two fire wings are the essence of the fire of the serpent, and even the gods have to be a bit afraid of them, he did not believe that she can still fight back.
Sure enough, for a long time there was no movement in the winds and the self-reliant little girl who wanted to attack had been burned. Téngshé laughed loudly and opened its wings triumphantly, “The god of war is just like that!”
Suddenly, he heard her whisper from below, “Quick, transform!” With a flash of sword light, she hit him on both wings. As her sword light flashed, his wings slowly turned bright orange from start to end.
He screamed and watched as his fire wings were turned into Sanmei by her, and the flames underneath him could not be maintained. He fell down and rolled on the ground, shaking like chaff, screaming as if being killed. Like a helpless pig.
“Damn girl! Stinky girl! I’ll get you back for this one day!” He screamed in pain and cursed at the same time, but the two fire wings were covered by her Sanmei fire, and this fire could burn fire, which he could never imagine. He couldn’t retract his fire wings and was so pale with pain that he wanted to kill himself with his sword to get rid of the pain.
Xuanji took the sword and walked over and didn’t talk too much with him, raising Yu Sifeng’s sword. The whole sword was transformed into Sanmei fire that could burn the sky to the ground. She swung her sword and was about to chop off his head. Suddenly, someone behind her shouted: “Don’t chop off the head! Just make a cut!”
The two of them were dumbfounded and looked back to see Yu Sifeng covered in black and his pants burned to a crisp, standing in an awkward position next to a scorched tree, blocking his vital parts.
“You ……” Xuanji’s body froze and she looked at him in disbelief.
Yu Sifeng said anxiously, “Quickly, make a cut with the sword!”
Xuanji was already in a mess at this time and she didn’t know the ins and outs of the situation, so she dumbly followed his words and made a cut on Téngshé’s face. Yu Sifeng said again, “Make another cut on yourself! Put a drop of blood …… into his wound!”
Xuanji still did it blankly, made a cut with the sword on her hand without hesitation, grabbed Téngshé neckline and was about to drip blood on him. Téngshé knew what she was going to do and was so shocked that his hair was about to stand up and he shouted loudly, “Not like this! If you insult the heavenly beasts like this, I will never let you go!”
Although Xuanji did not know what the meaning of this is, but Yu Sifeng is still alive, he asked her to do this, not to mention a few cuts, even immediately cut off her hands and feet, she is willing to do.
Her blood dripped into the wound on his face, but did not flow out, slowly seeping in. Yu SIfeng whispered, “Recite his name to make a contract!”
She whispered, “Téngshé.”
Téngshé’s heart is naturally unwilling but the blood had already seeped into his body and he had no ability to resist. His instincts as a divine beast forced him to bow his head and bang his forehead to the ground, saying respectfully, “Téngshé is here to greet his master, since now never leave, guard the master for his whole life.”.
“Huh?” Xuanji was baffled and turned back to look at Yu Sifeng, who had searched for days and found only a burnt corner of his clothes on the ground, covering his important parts by his waist, and came over and said, “He is now your spirit animal, Xuanji.”
A spirit animal?! She was shocked and said anxiously, “I don’t want him to be a spirit beast! He … he killed you … no! Sifeng, you are still alive …”The first thing I did was to find a piece of burnt clothing on the ground to cover my vital parts. He …… he killed you …… no! You are still alive ……”
Her mind was suddenly in turmoil and she couldn’t help but cry out loudly, throwing herself into his arms and saying, “You’re not dead! You’re not dead! I thought you were dead! I wanted to kill him and then kill myself!”
Yu Sifeng soothed her with a soft voice, and managed to stabilise her emotions before saying, “I just …… dodged quickly and only burned my clothes, my body is fine. But it was unsightly so I had to clean up. It took a long time to come here.”
Xuanji sniffed fiercely and murmured, “What does it matter? I don’t care at all. I don’t care even if I’m naked … I was almost mad just now.”
You don’t care, but I care a lot …… Yu Sifeng laughed wryly in his stomach, patted her shoulder, turned his head to look at the gray face of the Téngshé and said in a low voice, “You have always wanted a spirit beast, right? Now that you have caught the divine beast Téngshé, you should be happy. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
Xuanji stared at Téngshé bitterly and said angrily, “I don’t want him to be a spirit beast!”
Téngshé waited until the Sanmei fire on its wings had subsided, protecting him from the pain, but when he heard that she disliked him, he was immediately aroused by the pride of a divine beast and said sternly, “I don’t like to be a spirit animal for a stinky girl like you, either! You think I want to? Isn’t it you who made the contract!”
Xuanji said urgently, “Then back off! I don’t want you!”
Teng Shi was so angry that he almost fainted and said angrily, “Do you think the contract is a child’s play? The contract is a contract! I’m a sacred beast, my whole life’s reputation is ruined by your hands! I can’t wait to kill you right now!”
With a flash of inspiration, Xuanji shouted, “I killed him! Will there be no more contract?”
Téngshé trembled and stared at her in fear, knowing that she was true to her word, and could not help but shrink into a ball on the ground.
Yu Sifeng sighed and pulled her back, scolding her in a low voice: “Don’t be so hard-headed, a Téngshé is the ultimate dream of many people. You want to save Minyan and Linglong, don’t you? Why bother with such trivial matters?”
When Xuanji heard the names of Zhong Minyan and Linglong, her heart shuddered and she was speechless. After a long time, she stared at the snake that had shrunk on the ground in disgust and said, “Then … I will reluctantly take you. If you kill anyone else, I will kill you first!”
“Bah! Stinky girl You think so!”Téngshé cursed and suddenly fainted. It turned out that the injury on his wing was still very serious. In addition, when considering that only due to a moment of grudge he came to the mortal realm to play and in the end he was turned into her spirit beast for no reason. How could he swallow this resentment?
When he passed out, the fire wings naturally retracted. Yu Sifeng picked him up from the ground, the hat on his head fell off and his long silver hair dropped down. As he was unconscious, he didn’t have the ferocious and arrogant temperament just now but he looked like a handsome young man.
“Xuanji, get along well with your spirit beast, don’t quarrel.”
Yu Sifeng stripped off Téngshé’s clothes and put them on, then lifted him up life a rice bag, took Xuanji’s hand and walked out of this terrible hot hell.
After a life-and-death event, burning flames, and finally abducting a snake as a spirit beast, this business is not a loss.
Yu Sifeng was feeling satisfied when he heard Xuanji exclaim, “Sifeng! You said you could only get the spirit beast by beheading! Do I …… have to chop my head off once?”
Beheading ……? He was startled and suddenly laughed, no matter how Xuanji asked, he laughed so much that he couldn’t speak.
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[1]:三昧 (sānmèi) literally ‘three dark/obscure’, is another name for the Buddhist term Samadhi. In Buddhism, it is the last of the eight elements of the Noble Eightfold Path.
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