I have been bound in a forbidden place for five hundred years. Why are you crying when I am a casual

"Can this altar connect to another world?"

“But how do you open it?”

"Why was a flaming feather sent like this?"

Speaking of which, Gu Xiu has been in this secret room-like temple for quite some time. Although he has been trapped inside and unable to get out, he is familiar enough with this place, including the altar he is staring at at the moment.

No matter how you looked at it before, this altar looked very ordinary.

Can be biased.

It was this ordinary altar that had nothing special about it, but suddenly, as if the void had been broken, a feather burning with flames appeared.

If Gu Xiu had not been sure that this thing had never existed before, he would even have doubted whether it was part of the altar.

And now...

"There must be some connection to other worlds here."

"chain!"

"It's a world connected by chains. If my previous speculation is true, does that mean that the place I'm in is actually connected to the Suzaku Secret Realm, and this feather is something from the Suzaku Secret Realm, but it appeared here for some unknown reason?"

Gu Xiu muttered to himself.

There was a gleam in his eyes, and he began to boldly speculate on the current situation.

But it is obvious that thinking about these things now is not the top priority. For Gu Xiu, the real priority is the feather burning with divine fire on the altar.

"The power inside seems to be leaking out?"

"wrong."

"It's said to be leaked, but it's actually more like it's being plundered, and the plunderers..."

"Is it this chain?"

After careful observation for a while, Gu Xiu made a new discovery: the iron chain connecting the Suzaku statue inside and the outer ladder to immortality was gradually plundering the power of the flame feather. However, the plundering speed was very slow, as if the power of the flame should not be absorbed by the chain.

Gu Xiu didn't know what this meant.

But there is no need to be clear about it, because the moment the flame feather appeared, a large amount of flames had already gathered towards it.

Or.

It was converging towards the ten thousand year old ice that he had been trying to break.

And at the moment of contact.

The thousand-year-old ice that Gu Xiu had tried countless ways to break with little success began to melt visibly under the burning flames.

It's not just the outside that's melting.

Including the thing wrapped in the ten thousand year old ice, which looked like flowing flames and the inner elixir of a monster, also began to exert its power at this moment. Under the attack from both inside and outside, it burned the ten thousand year old ice that could not be broken no matter what.

"This flaming feather is from the Suzaku Secret Realm, but its arrival here was more like an accident. That's why the chains here are so slow in plundering the power of the flaming feather. Normally, this isn't the place this feather should be."

"And the reason this flaming feather came here was because it was attracted here by the round bead caught with the green bamboo pole?"

"So, I accidentally interrupted someone's plan?"

Taking the current situation into consideration, Gu Xiu made an analysis in his mind.

The only uncertainty is.

Who was that person whose plans were interrupted by me?

Is it Master?

Is that the mysterious man in black robe?

Or is it the existence below the Burial Valley?

"Click~!"

While Gu Xiu was thinking about this, a sound so subtle that it would not be noticed unless one was concentrating fully appeared. Upon closer inspection, he saw that the indestructible thousand-year-old ice was melting and a tiny crack had appeared.

While Gu Xiu was looking at the cracks, more and more cracks began to appear. However, in the blink of an eye, the thousand-year-old ice that had originally tightly wrapped the round bead like a thick layer of glass had become as thin as a cicada's wing and was full of ice cracks.

next moment.

The pieces of ice that looked like scales began to fall off and dropped to the ground. The round ball that was previously tightly wrapped in these thousand-year-old ice and looked like a flowing flame also burst out with an extremely hot heat wave at this moment, as if it was going to burn everything in the world.

The surrounding temperature rises instantly.

The incense table, the offering table, and even the yellow cloth that decorated the temple all caught fire at this moment, and Gu Xiu, who was in the temple, was the first to bear the brunt.

The hair and eyebrows curled up in an instant, and a burnt smell began to slowly rise from the corners of the clothes.

But facing this scene.

Gu Xiu was not at all flustered, instead his eyes were extremely bright.

This was definitely the most special flame he had ever seen.

Whether it was the heavenly fire that he had seen before, or the extremely strange fire of burning passion, or even the ice-like flame that he had seen in the Canglong Secret Realm before, they all seemed a little eclipsed by this exploding fire.

If there is a king in the fire.

The group in front of him is the real King of Fire!

In terms of dominance.

Incomparable!

And the most important thing is that this flame seems to have some kind of spirituality. It does not want to burn everything at once, but seems to have life.

This is……

"My natal divine fire!"

"Suzaku's innate divine fire!"

Gu Xiu murmured, almost subconsciously mentioning the four words "natal divine fire".

Legend has it that the Vermilion Bird is the ancestor of flying birds and is also a congenital divine beast born from the ashes of fire. The Vermilion Bird has an innate divine fire. As long as the divine fire is not extinguished, the Vermilion Bird will never truly die. Even if it suffers from the most terrible injuries, it can be reborn from the ashes of fire.

Seeing the flame in front of him that was spiritual and even seemed like a living thing, Gu Xiu naturally subconsciously connected this divine fire with the Suzaku's innate divine fire.

It seemed to confirm Gu Xiu's guess.

The flaming feather that had broken through the void before suddenly rushed towards the innate divine fire. The moment the two sides came into contact, a red flame shot up into the sky, so dazzling that it was difficult to look directly at. Even Gu Xiu lost his sight at this moment.

next moment.

"Wow—!"

At this moment, a long cry suddenly rang out from the flames. The sound was ethereal, distant and sacred. At first glance, it seemed somewhat similar to that of a crane, but beyond that, this long cry carried a bit of majesty, dignity and uplifting power.

With this long cry, a flaming bird appeared in the flames.

The mythical bird has a chicken head, a swallow jaw, a snake neck, a turtle back, a fish tail, an eagle beak and sharp claws. Its crest is extremely gorgeous, with red light constantly flashing. Combined with the extremely slender and gorgeous tail feathers that resemble a fish tail, it looks extremely handsome and majestic!

Every time it flaps its wings, it leaves a path paved with flames in the air, which looks extremely gorgeous. Coupled with the colorful auspicious clouds and auspicious light surrounding it, it makes people want to worship it just by looking at it.

The only regret is.

This divine bird does not seem to exist in reality, but is transformed from flames. At this moment, its body has no substantial existence, only a feather and a ball of divine fire that is still burning in the position of its heart. Moreover, its size is somewhat different from the description of the sky-covering bird in the legend.

But even so, Gu Xiu still managed to instantly confirm its identity.

One of the four sacred beasts.

Suzaku!

While Gu Xiu was staring at the divine bird, the divine bird in the sky, Suzaku, also turned and looked at Gu Xiu. Their eyes met without any communication, but both of them could feel the same at this moment.

He/it bears no ill will towards himself/herself.

"Wow—!"

Another long cry sounded, and the Vermillion Bird in the sky suddenly opened its mouth. Then, the divine fire in its heart suddenly flew out in two streams, rushing towards Gu Xiu. Gu Xiu knew how terrifying this divine fire was, even without trying, but he didn't dodge, let alone fight back.

Instead, he stood there calmly, watching the two Vermillion Bird's divine fires coming towards him.

really.

Gu Xiu guessed right.

Zhuque really had no ill will towards him. The moment the divine fire appeared in front of Gu Xiu, the two divine fires separated, and one of them fell directly on Gu Xiu. A terrible heat wave instantly hit, igniting Gu Xiu's body, which had already entered the divine essence realm, on the spot.

But this divine fire was not really intended to burn Gu Xiu to death.

On the contrary, when this terrible heat wave arose, it brought with it a mysterious power that seemed to be able to heal everything. At the moment when Gu Xiu's body collapsed, it healed his body that was almost collapsed.

This is……

Seeing that Gu Xiu was a physical cultivator, he specially used a wisp of his own divine fire to help Gu cultivate his body!

And when this ray of divine fire was tempering Gu Xiu's body.

Another divine fire had already floated into Gu Xiu's sea of ​​consciousness and immortal palace at this moment. After wandering around in Gu Xiu's sea of ​​consciousness and immortal palace, it landed on the position of Gu Xiu's third soul lamp.

moment.

Light up the dry but never ignited wick!

it.

To repay Gu Xiu's kindness, I sculpted his body and lit his soul lamp!

This was a great opportunity, and Gu Xiu naturally would not waste it at this time. At this moment, after clasping his fists and bowing to the divine bird Suzaku in the sky, he immediately sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, and began to accept the gift from Suzaku.

……

While Gu Xiu was almost making a fortune and even received gifts from Suzaku, at this moment in the Suzaku secret realm on the other side, the divine bird Suzaku was reborn from the ashes.

Trapped in a catastrophe of destruction!