The immortal is beside me

Chapter 70 The Immortal Comes and Visits Mount Qishan Again

The entire Demon City Square was silent, and everyone at the Super Research Institute on the branches was also speechless.

If the silence just now was due to being intimidated by the Demon King's aura, then the silence at this moment came from complete shock.

You have to know that when the people from the Transcendent Research Institute first entered the Demon Kingdom, they had the protection of a dedicated demon attendant and Phoenix True Feather, which allowed them to be accepted into this cave heaven. Even in the Demon Kingdom, they were extremely cautious and never left the protective circle of ten meters to avoid accidents.

But looking at the man before them, he was dressed in loose clothes, moved lazily, and came alone, with no companions or guards around him. If it weren't for the setting in the Demon Kingdom's imperial capital, they would have thought he was just strolling through the sun in his backyard.

How did he get into this demon kingdom? And when did he arrive?

These two question marks appeared in everyone's mind, but there was more to surprise them.

Cheng Xiaomeng stared at the camera screen. In the picture, she saw the awe-inspiring and inviolable Demon King lowering his head, extending his flaming down feathers, allowing the man to reach out and touch him.

Under normal circumstances, this would be a million times more serious than touching a tiger's butt. But the Demon King showed no resistance at all, and the action even seemed somewhat... intimate?

She looked at the display screen, then at the scene outside, and for a moment she wondered whether there was something wrong with the camera or with her eyes.

Around her, everyone in the Super Research Institute had a similar expression. They were leaning over the railings in front of them, looking out with their eyes almost popping out.

Before coming, they had read so much historical data, but they had never seen any human being able to touch the body of the Demon King with his own hands, and it was not by forcing his way in, but the Demon King took the initiative to approach him.

——No, maybe there is still one.

No one cared about anything else, no one even thought of grabbing a recording device. Everyone on the branches leaned forward to see the scene, their eyes filled with disbelief.

Before their eyes, the giant phoenix slowly raised its head and met the man's gaze.

Its body obscured the sky, and its golden eyes alone were larger than a human. In comparison, the figure before it was as small as a leaf, yet its eyes could only hold the leaf-like figure before it.

'Immortal.'

An ethereal sentence sounded. Phoenix did not speak, but the voice seemed to come from the soul. It was the sound of resonance from the spirit platform.

"Master, is it really you?"

"Is it you who's back?"

Zhou Qing patted the enormous beak. Compared to their last encounter hundreds of years ago, the bird seemed much larger, its aura much stronger, and it now possessed the aura of a demon overlord.

But the voice echoing in the mind was still the same as at the beginning, timid and cautious, just like the little red bird 1,300 years ago.

He glanced at the stage next to him, where sparks were still lingering, and chuckled, "The opera you compose now is much more sophisticated than it was hundreds of years ago."

The enormous phoenix trembled, and the golden sycamore tree behind it trembled with it, and auras like fragments of golden light fell in a shower of light. Man and bird bathed in a golden rain, like fleeting figures from thousands of years ago.

The mythical scene fell into the eyes of tens of thousands of people present. No matter whether they were humans or demons, they stopped talking. They just stood there like clay sculptures or wooden statues, looking at the two shadows in the center from afar.

After a while, Zhou Qing withdrew his hand and, accompanied by the phoenix, walked slowly along the path in front of him towards the center of the square.

He didn't walk fast. With every step he took, the group of monsters on the other side would move back as if pushed by some invisible force, leaving dozens of meters of space for him to move forward.

He passed by locust trees with fluttering petals, passed by the stage where the opera had just been performed, and finally stopped before the golden statue of "Emperor and Immortal" in the center.

He lowered his head and his eyes fell on the base of the golden statue, where a few lines of words were written.

In the Xinmao year of Xiqi, the Three Demons invaded, devastating the people. The Emperor met an Immortal in the mountains, and with him, they found a chance to conquer the demons. The Emperor and the Immortal traveled together, destroyed the Corpse Forest, and eliminated the Three Demons, ultimately restoring peace to Qishan. The Emperor witnessed the Immortal's achievements, and the Immortal was impressed by the Emperor's talent, so they became companions.

"Let's go together to suppress the demon."

Zhou Qing pinched his chin with one hand and read the lines of words carefully. Then he turned his head and met the gaze of Fenghuang behind him.

The bird's pupils were shaking at this moment.

"Master, please listen to my explanation! I didn't mean it!"

It shook its head, and its golden pupils dilated.

"When I founded the country, I wanted to write it according to the real situation! But my advisers all advised me that it would damage my image as an emperor and it would be difficult to unite the people. I had no choice but to do this."

"If the Immortal Master dislikes this, I will order all the legends in the country to be changed! Change them now!"

The voices came into Lingtai in waves, and the word "panic" was revealed between the lines.

"No need to change it. Written this way, it's indeed a good storybook."

Zhou Qing looked into the bird's golden pupils. "But—in order to build this statue and these paintings along the way, how much manpower did you mobilize among the demon nation?"

The voices in the spirit altar suddenly fell silent. The phoenix lowered its golden eyes, like a child who had done something wrong.

"I know you, Immortal, don't like this. Before you left, you told me not to build a statue or a temple for you, and not to waste money and resources on such things. I remember your words, Immortal."

"But, even if the Immortal said so."

"I still don't want the world to forget you."

It raised its head, and there was a bit more determination in its golden eyes.

"I have no right to interfere with the affairs of the human world. But this is the kingdom I built, and I shaped everything here. Therefore, I will make sure that all the people here will always remember your actions, Immortal."

The words echoed in his mind. Zhou Qing stroked the bird's feathers and smiled softly.

"Wherever I go, the heavens, the earth, the mountains, the rivers, the sun, the moon, the stars, and the stars bear witness. My deeds are witnessed by all the people of the world, so why should I engrave them on stone, or rely on external objects for evidence?"

The phoenix's feathers drooped down, and even the golden sycamore tree behind it seemed to dim a little. The entire cave of the demon kingdom was suddenly covered with dark clouds.

"But?"

Zhou Qing looked at the statues and murals before him and changed the subject: "These statues and paintings do have a certain charm. Now that they've been made, it would be nice to leave them in this capital city and add to the scenery."

The sky in the cave, which was covered with dark clouds, suddenly cleared up, and the phoenix's feathers shone brightly, as if flames were flowing on its body.

"Since you like this scenery, how about going up to a higher place to take a look?"

The giant golden sycamore tree behind him trembled. Under the influence of the Demon King's will, the branches and leaves of this spiritual creature that connected heaven and earth spread out, revealing the branches above that had the best view, as if to welcome him.

Zhou Qing looked up and nodded, "Okay."

(End of this chapter)