Wei School's Three Good Students

Chapter 70 Conception by a Sparrow
In the southward-bound military camp, Wu Fei developed a high fever, which was quite severe.

Wu Fei himself was very "clear" about the reason for his fever: he had been exposed to the elements during the march, had taken a cold shower, and had been issuing detailed instructions and summarizing his experiences while commanding the troops in the past few days. He had been a bit impatient in trying to compile the manuals, which caused him to fall ill.

Wu Fei, who prides himself on being young and strong, has always patted his chest and guaranteed that he is definitely not sickly, and has repeatedly said defiantly: Even if I have a fever, I will stand up straight.

Now in the military camp, Wu Fei tried to straighten up, but his vision went black, his legs went weak, and he plummeted. Fortunately, he could still move his limbs and didn't fall completely flat, but he landed on the ground in a rather unsightly manner, causing great unease among the other soldiers in the tent.

Wu Fei waved his hand, reassuring those around him that he was fine, and warned, "Do not leak this outside the camp."

Of course, his aunt was particularly concerned today. She quickly helped him up and wiped the sweat from his forehead with a white cloth, making Wu Fei feel very embarrassed. At the same time, a hint of suspicion arose in his mind: "This woman didn't drug me, did she?"

Of course, Wu Fei also felt ashamed of his "suspicion". After all, his aunt was very concerned about his condition. What if he was wrong because of his suspicion and people said that he was "ungrateful for his good intentions"? Wouldn't that be embarrassing?
At this point, you should have a best friend. Someone you can hang out with, someone you can trust without any reservations about showing your worst side to.

However, this didn't exist in the era before Xuan Chong's time travel. Before the age of ten, as a teenager, he tried to find a best friend, but was caught red-handed and reported on. From that time on, Xuan Chong became a "hypocrite," never revealing any character flaws that could be criticized to anyone.

Of course, after transmigrating, Xuan Chong was just like the spirited young man he was before he turned ten, because he had a "good brother" like the system whose mouth was absolutely sealed.

So now, Xuan Chong asked the system in a affected and tentative tone, "What did you update? I have a headache right now."

System: "Whether you have a headache or not is none of my business. Just eat and sleep properly. Also, you're an ordinary person, getting sick is normal. It would be abnormal if you were immune to all evils and could survive eating rat poison."

Xuan Chong tried several indirect inquiries, but couldn't find any reason for his aunt to accuse him of harming him.

If it's really confirmed by the system, Wu Fei, who's even more petty than a chicken, will definitely give his third aunt a good beating.

After several fruitless attempts, Xuan Chong turned to his "clever" inquiry: "As a transmigrator, can't I be immune to this negative status?"

System: "Do you want to consume credits?"

Xuan Chong thought for a moment and then said, "Fine, I'll just have to tough it out."

The system then made a sarcastic remark: "Yes, the more you fight it off, the stronger your immunity will become. Get more rest and drink more hot water."

…Ending the confrontation with the system (not backing down verbally)…

Wu Fei said to his aunt, "I have a cold. Be careful not to catch it from me."

Third Aunt smiled slightly: "I am a cultivator, and your illness cannot affect me. General, how about I concoct a medicine for you?"

Wu Fei paused, as if thinking of something, and shook his head: "No." — Aunt San's medicine is certainly effective, but! The more potent the medicine in her Taoist scriptures, the more wicked its ingredients.

Among the series of Taoist scriptures given by the Third Aunt, there are even recipes for prolonging life, namely "fire dates," a medicine that can increase lifespan. However, the spiritual item consumed is "a spark of heart fire within the spirit," and the heart and liver of a child are the most suitable for this attribute!

Third Aunt was fair-skinned and graceful, resembling Guanyin when dignified. Her gentle smile was like Buddha's light, but Wu Fei knew that this woman was even more insane than Wu Qing inside.

Wu Fei politely declined, saying, "I don't need any medicine. I'll just drink more hot water."

…ending the command work at the main camp ahead of schedule…

Wu Fei drank the water and went back to his room, where he quickly fell asleep.
However, Wu Fei was unaware that every footprint he left on his return left the ground scorched black. This was the black ash produced by the burning of impure energy and even obscure substances within his body by true fire. This ash seeped out from his pores; the entire process was a process of cleansing the marrow and transforming the body.

What Wu Fei was unaware of was that when his aunt helped him up, burn marks appeared on her fair skin.

After Wu Fei closed his tent and fell asleep peacefully, he was completely unaware that his third aunt was still inside with him.

…corrosion and obliteration…

In the reflection on the wall, Auntie San's body began to swell, suddenly becoming twice her height, while two wings broke free from her back. She also produced a metal mask from somewhere, and her hands, when she put on the mask, turned into bird claws, resembling bird beaks. The light also became increasingly blue, displaying Auntie San's reflection in front of the window.

However, just as the reflection in the intense blue light was about to pounce on the target on the bed, a golden light suddenly appeared, and the pounce stopped abruptly. Then, the wings were abruptly pulled open, and blue feathers fell off one by one, like plucking feathers from a goose after it's been scalded with boiling water in a market. Once all the blue feathers were gone, they were quickly reduced to ashes, seemingly because they were so ephemeral, leaving hardly any ash behind.

Immediately afterwards, golden light appeared from the tips of the two smooth wings, and the wings instantly vanished. The Third Aunt's mask fell off, revealing an expression of "knowing her mistake".

However, less than half a meter from the bed, Wu Fei was fast asleep, completely unaware of the dramatic events unfolding around him. —After all, he was sick; his entire body's sensory and biometric systems were updating, and his body was in hibernation and repair mode, its external senses shut down.

The third aunt was thus scorched by the golden light, returning to her original form. She knelt before the bed, reaching out to touch Wu Fei's bedside. Her fingernails tried to dig into Wu Fei's body.

However, a sudden change occurred on Wu Fei's side. A bright red energy barrier appeared beside Wu Fei, completely preventing her from touching it, while Third Aunt saw a thin, bright, and sacred wisp of velvet floating above Wu Fei's brow.

She was extremely familiar with this object; it was the Vermilion Bird Silk. When she tricked the Fire Ancestor into casting the curse, she secretly removed the Vermilion Bird Silk. Her plan was to use this top-tier extraordinary item from the Southern Frontier to counteract the outer god (system) that protected Wu Fei, and take the opportunity to break free from this outer god who imposed mandatory tasks on her and deleted her memories at the slightest disagreement.

Of course, she also wanted to implant the altered Bifang essence into Wu Fei's body at the same time to "enlighten" Wu Fei, which was her original idea of ​​a "new lamp wick".

However, now that the red velvet was firmly controlled in the center by a capsule made of golden energy, she knew she was wrong; the existence of this Outer God power was far beyond her imagination.

A series of pop-ups appeared in Aunt San's view, quickly becoming densely packed. Each pop-up contained complex information, and Aunt San understood the largest one: "Due to the target deviating from the mission, partial memory erasure is being performed."

"No!" Auntie San felt her memories being invaded. The mysterious knowledge in her memories was being archived and categorized, and then 99% of it was directly encrypted.

However, her body was the next target; she found herself being pierced through her seven orifices by beams of red flame power.

The red velvet had disappeared sometime earlier, but it wasn't implanted into Wu Fei's skull like a wick, slowly burning. This method of placing the Vermilion Bird Thread into one's head is the method of the Fire Ancestor of the Li Huo Sect. To stabilize this velvet within his body, the Fire Ancestor continuously drew upon the life force of all living beings in the Southern Border as oil to nourish the flame within him. But when the Vermilion Bird Thread entered Wu Fei's body, it was like cotton candy melting into honey. After the Vermilion Bird's power merged in, the flames overflowing from Wu Fei's body were jubilant, seemingly not being digested, but returning to their origin.

…astronomical unit dividing line…

6844 light-years away, on a dying red giant star transforming into a neutron star, an energy-state passerine creature dwells, completing its metamorphosis. As a life form with its genetic code residing within its nucleus, it can freely roam various planets, but every five thousand years it must seek out high-energy stars to replenish its energy. Like carbon-based life forms that need carbohydrates and fats, this passerine also requires a sufficient supply of "food."

However, for this red passerine, the nest it has chosen is no ordinary one. It is willing to risk all kinds of dangers from a supernova explosion to stay here because it needs to reproduce.

When the red giant star transforms into a neutron star, the "nest" will be completed, and then it will condense into a primordial egg. After hatching, it will become the new Vermilion Bird.

As a physical energy life form comparable to gods, the Vermilion Bird has great difficulty reproducing. Ninety-nine percent of its eggs will be destroyed in the storm of a supernova. Only a very small chance is that the eggs will combine with organic matter and then be taken by the Vermilion Bird to some planets with carbon-based life to undergo spiritual growth.

After the nucleus forms a stable structure, the reactions within the nucleus and organic reactions are weakly synchronized.

That is, when their descendants live as carbon-based life forms on planets like the Xiren Realm, the various carbon-based energies of their organic chemical reactions can micro-control the energy codes within the stable nuclei of their bodies, and release energy at the nucleus level in a controlled manner.

This is similar to building a skyscraper using chips as bricks, and all the chips inside this building can input data and operate.

Of course, such a demanding birth also means that it is virtually impossible for it to be corrupted by other forces.

It can be said that the Dragonborn are also such life forms. Their ability to transform into dragon form is due to the control chain of energy within their carbon-based biological structure.

The descendants of the Azure Dragon are numerous and widely distributed than the descendants of the Vermilion Bird. However, the code system of these races that possess the Azure Dragon's core code will gradually weaken during its spread. To achieve sufficient purity and approach the ancestral bloodline, they still need to undergo high-energy stellar tracing.

This nascent passerine, which nests in a star, will undergo a high-energy nuclear reaction and spontaneous combustion every "brief" period of time during its organic life period, which is one hundred cycles of the planet's orbit. After spontaneous combustion, it will grow for another cycle, and finally, after nine cycles, it will become a life form in which the soul and the nuclear energy body are completely integrated.

The Vermilion Bird flapped its wings, blocking yet another surge of stellar radiation pressure, just like a mother hen flapping her wings to protect her nest.

Suddenly it sensed something, as if it were its own illusion, that it heard the chirping of fledglings—and it was the "sound" of an organic life form.

He shook his head, confirming that this was not an illusion, and then emitted a powerful wave, beginning to search for the dried-up planets near the supernova, but found nothing. Then, he discovered that the "chirping" seemed to be coming from a more distant place.

He was getting anxious, because judging from the sound of the "frequency band," it seemed to be a species from a certain human realm thousands of years ago. Had He missed it?
However, upon further observation, the Star Sparrow seemed to be on high alert, because it sensed that there were four bad things lurking nearby the cub it had missed.

……

Outside the camp, Angri was looking up to record the stars when he suddenly stood up. He noticed that the stars in the sky were beginning to twinkle violently, as if their light had been awakened and twisted by some force.

He accelerated his divination with his hands, but his expression grew increasingly astonished. Then he stood up excitedly and greeted the emperor with proper etiquette: "The Vermilion Bird of the South, the king of all birds, born from the cinnabar cave, with flowing blue thunder, five wondrous colors, and six divine forms, come to guide me."

However, as he finished chanting the incantation, thousands of red rays, like the sunset, appeared in the sky above his camp.

The mage paused, looked at the camp, then suddenly looked up at the starry sky, and then looked down again to confirm the "point of the stars".

Angri came to a conclusion that was extremely unexpected: what he had been searching for had fallen right beside him, right here in the camp. What surprised him even more was that the very place where he sensed the Vermilion Bird's origin was also where the aura of the lost Bifang Fire was.

Considering Wu Fei's unusual complexion that afternoon, with red marks on his forehead resembling flames (indicating internal heat), Ang Ri had an uncertain hypothesis in his mind. He then murmured, "If this is the case, the Southern Spirit Land will surely prosper, and the hidden dangers facing our clan can be eliminated instantly."

He rushed to the tent and was stopped by the soldiers, but he was not angry. He asked the soldiers not to announce his arrival and that he could just wait there.

Ang Ri paced outside Wu Fei's camp and set up a simple formation, beginning to protect him.

Meanwhile, the stars in the sky grew brighter and brighter, and all the shining stars formed the Vermilion Bird constellation in the night sky. It was so clear that each star formed the Vermilion Bird's body and fiery feathers, and the changes in the starlight were so detailed that they were almost visible.

……

Inside the tent, Third Aunt was suffering. She went to the foot of Wu Fei's bed, curled up, and wisps of heat emanating from Wu Fei were continuously injected into her body like tubes.

The Third Aunt was unable to utter a sound amidst the flames. The blue flames on her body flickered like an oil lamp running out of oil. Compared to the Vermilion Bird's essence that Wu Fei had invaded, the blue flames, which had originally controlled and tampered with the Bifang Fire, were now launching a counterattack. The shadow of Bifang appeared in the center of the blue flames and began to absorb the fire energy, turning into an egg that gestated in the Third Aunt's abdomen.

This Bifang's wood and fire essence is becoming increasingly pure, and its single-leg characteristic is very prominent, showing no signs of being altered or tampered with.

…The perspective zooms out, then zooms out again, out of the atmosphere, into the starry sky…

After devouring several spiritual mountains in the Xi Ren Realm, the four evil moons were burping, lazily looking at each other, waiting for their next meal. Of course, the purple evil moon hadn't had a good appetite lately, often vomiting after eating.

After Ziyue swallowed the sacred mountain on the earth, it was unable to transform it into an internal world of pleasure. Instead, it caused a large number of volcanic eruptions on the physical planetary interface of its other half, which may be due to acclimatization issues.

Of course, the Blue Evil Moon is also bad. Its relative symptom is "allergy". During the switching process of its internal maze, logical errors often occur and it collapses. When large areas of the maze are flowing, they suddenly break like glass with uneven temperature, hundreds of kilometers apart.

The laughter of those winged, asymmetrical-eyed creatures within the blue, malevolent moon turned to terrified screams as the cracks spread and shattered them into countless pieces.

If one looks up at this moment from the Evil Moon, the Vermilion Bird constellation in the starry sky appears to be staring intently, which is a warning from a powerful star god.

The four evil moons silently shrank back, avoiding this round of scanning.

(End of this chapter)