A life of clearness

Chapter 357 Big Trouble

The black chess pieces made Phoenix's fingers look particularly white. However, the hand holding the chess piece paused in mid-air, as if it was troubled by the chess game or the troubles of this world.

She lowered her eyes and put the chess piece back into the chess box at hand.

"I lost this round."

"I can only just catch up." The male cultivator kneeling opposite chuckled.

Phoenix lost this round, but did not lose the entire competition.

He had won and lost in the 142 competitions, and now he has won half of them... He has rarely felt such great pressure among his peers.

Perhaps... the woman in front of him would be a good choice, although her bloodline is still a little poor, which makes him still a little hesitant.

If the man's sigh was heard by those in Qinghang who admired the Taoist Phoenix, they would probably be indignant. Moreover, he did not win over the Phoenix by an absolute advantage, so what qualifications did he have to despise her?
However, the fact is that the powerful families in the universe are rooted in the bloodline. These bloodlines have been refined to the utmost over countless epochs and are extremely pure, filtering out many inferior impurities. This allows every family's direct line to have a perfect body, soul, and great potential.

If this could be easily replaced and surpassed, why would the aristocratic families spend huge amounts of money to refine their bloodline generation after generation!
Every clan has unique talents, and the Wenren clan naturally has some as well.

Although Fenghuang is very outstanding, she does not belong to any aristocratic family, which means that her bloodline still retains some inferior qualities, which will affect her descendants.

"What happened?" Phoenix asked.

She did not ask Wenren Seventeen outside the veil. Because Wenren Seventeen was the pride of the Wenren clan, and she had not yet married into the Wenren clan, so naturally she had no right to instruct Wenren Seventeen on what to do.

She was asking about Xizhen.

"...We met the disciples of Elder Xuan Yi in Juntian City." Xi Zhen was a little hesitant.

She originally wanted to take Wenren Shiqi somewhere else, but Wenren Shiqi insisted on coming back to Phoenix City to report to his brother.

What to report? Xi really didn't know. She wanted to stop him, but the huge difference in cultivation made it impossible for her to stop Wenren Shiqi's actions.

"And then..." Fenghuang didn't believe that Xi Zhen would come back in disgrace just because the other party was a disciple of Elder Xuan Yi. If it was Elder Xuan Yi himself, it might be possible, but if it was an ordinary inner sect disciple, who would dare to provoke Xi Zhen?
"I asked Daoist Xizhen to come back with me." Wenren Shiqi said calmly, and then bowed to his brother through the veil: "Brother Fourteen, during this trip to Juntian City, I found that Elder Xuanyi's sect is quite strange."

"What's weird?" Wenren Fourteen said calmly, not allowing Wenren Seventeen to hesitate, and said directly: "You don't have to show it to me in private, and you don't have to hide it in front of Phoenix Taoist. Maybe you are thinking wrongly."

No need to hide in front of Phoenix Taoist Girl...? Wenren Shiqi couldn't hide the shock in his eyes.

Could it be that her extremely arrogant fourteenth brother has really chosen the Taoist Phoenix Girl?
It’s not that Wenren Seventeen looks down on Taoist Phoenix, but she thinks that Wenren Fourteen, as the recognized number one of the Wenren family’s generation, has many choices given the background of the Wenren family.

In fact, they were originally heading to Yanliu Realm, where there was a proud girl favored by the elders of the clan. Like Wenren Fourteen, that proud girl was a legitimate descendant of the legitimate line, with pure blood and amazing talent.

If they are satisfied with each other, they might even get married.

Unexpectedly, Wenren Shisi came to Qinghang Realm halfway. The reason was that he met an opponent who could rival him in the trial field and wanted to meet him on the way.

Wenren Seventeen felt that since his Fourteenth Brother was partial to him, the choice of the marriage partner would probably really fall on this Phoenix Taoist girl.

Wenren Shiqi thought: What good luck. No matter from which aspect, Juntian Sect is not as good as Wenren Clan, not to mention that Qinghuang Clan is just a sect within Juntian Sect.

No matter what she thought in her heart, since Wenren Fourteen said to let Taoist Phoenix watch it together, Wenren Seventeen had no choice but to take out a blank image-retaining talisman from her sleeve and place it against her forehead.

The dark-colored image-retaining talisman instantly emitted a bright and dazzling light. The light expanded the talisman until the entire talisman turned into a bright light color.

Wenren Shiqi held it in his palm and squeezed it.

A beam of light and shadow then unfolds from her perspective as the first person.

Ever since Wenren Shiqi, Rong Qing and the others came out of the teleportation array, the man sitting upright looked at them with cold blue eyes and asked, "Who are you?"

……

Wenren Fourteen and Taoist Phoenix both quietly watched the video recording of Wenren Seventeen's memory.

"You're being a little reckless."

The first sentence Wenren Fourteen said after reading it made Wenren Seventeen immediately lower his head nervously.

"Yes, next time I will..."

Wenren Shisi interrupted her: "If this person wants to kill you, you won't survive. Of course, I believe he doesn't dare to kill you, but he didn't even punish you? You can't be so lucky every time."

"When Senior Brother Zhizheng joined Juntian Sect, the Sect Master made him swear an oath: not to kill unless it is absolutely necessary."

Fenghuang suddenly spoke up and revealed a secret of the Juntian Sect. Judging from Xi Zhen's surprised expression, even she, the daughter of the city lord, didn't know about this.

"Since the Taoist master can make such a request, it seems that this person has an extraordinary background." Wenren Shisi said with a smile: "Does Phoenix know where his merman bloodline comes from?"

Even though he hadn't sensed the other person's aura in person, Wenren Shiqi was certain that the other person had merman blood, so he thought he was right, because their Wenren clan had raised mermen before.

Phoenix's body stiffened imperceptibly.

This was the first time that Wenren Shisi had called her by her name in a somewhat intimate way. In the past, he had always called her "Fellow Daoist Phoenix" in a friendly way.

"I don't know how he got here. It was Juntian Dao Master who brought him back to Juntian Sect. Senior Brother Zhizheng has been growing up and practicing in Juntian Dao Sect. We in Phoenix City only know a little about Juntian Dao Sect, but it's impossible for us to know everything about it."

Fenghuang's master, the Taoist Master Qinghuang, once watched from afar in Fenghuang City as Taoist Master Juntian held the hand of a little boy and came to Xuanyi Peak. She watched the boy grow up, and his face did not resemble someone more and more as she thought. He practiced in an ordinary way, broke through in an ordinary way, and then... survived in an ordinary way.

Juntian Dao Sect protected him very closely, although sometimes protection could be seen as a form of supervision or fear.

Fenghuang had no idea what Taoist Qinghuang was thinking or how much he had revealed to her.

But one thing Fenghuang could be sure of was that the first disciple of Elder Xuan Yi was a big trouble. Even her own master was unwilling to mess with him. Perhaps it was a good thing that she only had a limited understanding and did not grasp all the secrets.

(End of this chapter)