A Textbook Demonstration by the Divine Monk and the Demonic Woman!

Murong Xiao took the scripture, flipped through it briefly, and seemed to understand it but not quite. After asking Li Mo and his grandfather Murong Yunhai to inform them, he waved goodbye.

"Brother Li, take care."

"Take care, Master Burial Love."

"You fucking..."

The farewell scene was filled with reluctance, Murong Xiao had so much to say but didn't know how to express it.

Li Mo smiled and returned to the Aquatic Clan Grotto-Heaven to pack up the cooking utensils and other items.

Ying Bing was still lost in thought, not even noticing Li Mo approaching her. She didn't even bother to notice a tea leaf falling into her teacup, her mind seemingly wandering off to something else entirely.

"Ice Block."

"Um."

"Let's go to the Marriage Tree again."

Ying Bing, who had been looking down, trembled upon hearing these words and suddenly came back to her senses:

"Why would we go there again?"

"I think I dropped something there last time."

All right.

Before leaving, Little Li wanted to see if he could fulfill his vow, since he didn't know when he would see that Marriage Tree again. The scene he saw in the Hundred Flavor Fruit yesterday had given him a bit of PTSD.

"Let's go look for it then."

Ying Bing patted the Big-Headed Doll and nodded.

The two walked out of the Aquatic Clan Grotto-Heaven.

"Oh, right."

"Um?"

"What do you think would happen if True Dragon and True Phoenix were to unite?"

Ying Bing, who had been walking slowly with light, graceful steps, almost lost her balance upon hearing this. When she came to her senses, she grabbed Li Mo's sleeve.

Why ask that?

"Hmm... Just curious. I don't think I've ever heard of the offspring of True Dragon and True Phoenix before," Li Mo pondered.

"That's because True Dragon and True Phoenix have never appeared at the same time."

The already confused Little Li, was even more confused.

After examining the Jade Phoenix God, Ying Bing, drawing upon her knowledge, said softly:

"Because of the Power of All Living Beings, the True Dragon and the True Phoenix were not beings that existed from the beginning, but rather arose in response to the beliefs of all living beings."

"Now that the Great Yu still exists, its national destiny is condensed into the Golden Dragon Fortune, so the True Phoenix is no longer a possibility."

"This is similar to the Spirit Observation Method; once the faith of the masses is lost, its power will continuously weaken."

After listening to Ice Block's explanation, Little Li seemed to be deep in thought.

In the memory of the mystery of the womb, the mainstream view is that dragons are also fictional creations.

It was born from the fact that various ethnic groups, each with their own beliefs, fought and conquered one another, eventually merging into one, and ultimately becoming the totem of all the descendants of Yan and Huang.

Well, he didn't have that many mysterious powers in his past life, let alone the Power of All Living Beings, which he only has a vague understanding of now.

They shouldn't be confused.

Not long after.

The two walked to the Marriage Tree.

"Huh? I fulfilled my vow?"

Li Mo clearly remembered where he had hung the brocade pouch, but the place was now empty. So he circled the Marriage Tree several times, but there was no sign of the brocade pouch at all.

"Ice Block, my brocade pouch is missing. Do you have any clues?"

"Perhaps someone picked it up?"

Ying Bing quietly turned her head to the side.

"That's so rude! What kind of bastard would do something so despicable?"

Little Li was furious.

Splat--

A sound suddenly came from beside my ear.

Ying Bing remained expressionless, her delicate hands squeezing the Big-Headed Doll until it crunched.

"It's alright, it's just a brocade pouch. I'll hang ten or eight more on it later."

Li Mo wasn't so angry anymore.

My scalp felt a little numb from being rubbed like that.

This empathy is so direct that it means...

Having already spoken with Wu Qing and his wife, Li Mo also planned to leave Southern Border with Ying Bing and return to Clear Abyss Sect.

Mount Brother has gone back to his hometown.

Li Mo couldn't rely on Ice Block to plan the route, so he asked for her map.

The two walked to a small pavilion not far from the Marriage Tree.

However, he froze as soon as he unfolded the map.

"Li Mo Village... Li Mo Mountain... Li Mo River... Li Mo Clan..."

The map is quite accurate, but many places are not marked with their names, which is normal. Maps bought from Hengtong Trading Firm are the same; they can't be so detailed as to record every single place.

But as everyone knows, the Ice Block don't know the way.

Images involuntarily flashed through Little Li's mind.

The aloof and elegant Green Phoenix Goddess got lost. She took out a map to try and find her way, but looking at the map only made her more confused. She had no idea where she was.

So I picked up a pen...

"These are the places."

Ying Bing retrieved the map, her clear eyes focused intently.

"Mmm, that's it."

Looking at the bare hand still clutching the Big-Headed Doll, Little Li nodded.

Then he took out his map, unfolded it, and began planning his way home.

After a while.

Inside the pavilion, Li Mo rubbed his temples, intending to look into the distance, when he noticed two figures appearing under the Marriage Tree not far away.

Ying Bing followed his gaze.

Not far away, they saw the Green Phoenix Clan, who always smiled happily whenever he saw them.

Shang Qinqing.

She wasn't alone; there was a monk wearing a veil beside her. They were about fifteen zhang away from the pavilion.

Pure monk?

Isn't that the Divine Monk Huai Kong?!

Shang Qinqing looked at the Divine Monk Huai Kong with a resentful expression.

"Hiss..."

Little Li gasped, realizing something was amiss, and quickly held his breath, locking in his vital energy.

A world-renowned monk, so intimate with a female demon!

This is far more complicated than Elder Xue searching for the Profound Pill with a lantern; I dare not sleep too soundly tonight.

Fortunately.

The monk and Shang Qinqing seemed to be completely focused on each other, having no time to pay attention to anyone else.

"You're finally leaving."

"Female benefactor, this humble monk does not know who you are..."

"Then open your eyes and look at me if you dare."

"..."

Huai Kong Huaikong sighed deeply.

With a sigh, he opened his eyes, his cloudy gaze clearing, and his dry skin quickly becoming rosy and elastic.

In the blink of an eye, he became a middle-aged monk.

"I knew it... otherwise you wouldn't have put the Marriage Tree in the temple."

Shang Qinqing glared at him through gritted teeth.

The Green Phoenix symbolizes love.

The same goes for the Marriage Tree. To be precise, it was because the only pure-blooded Green Phoenix in the world met its destined one on this tree that this ordinary tree was given a divine quality.

The men and women praying before the tree, the Power of All Living Beings, is certainly not just a collection of the Hundred Flavor Fruit.

This is also the reason why Shang Qinqing has retained some of her strength and allowed the Green Phoenix Clan to remain unscathed.

Huai Kong opened his mouth.

"If you're lying, I'll push the tree down and make you, like the Great Wind and the Nine-Headed Bird, a Calamity Beast."

"Don't do anything foolish..."

I wonder where the other monks in the temple went; perhaps their abbot gave them extra homework.

Anyway, Shang Qinqing grabbed the monk and started kissing him.

If the monks were here, they'd probably be terrified. Their revered abbot has been devoured by Demon Beast! Who would care?

Li Mo leans back tactically.

No wonder that Green Phoenix Clan elder was staring at him and the Ice Block; he'd been starving for a while and just wanted to feast his eyes.

See, facts prove that you can't keep yourself bottled up for too long. Like Brother Murong, he didn't even have time for delusions to get to him...

Ying Bing's clear eyes reflected the scene not far away, and she gently pursed her lips.

She remembered that day.

While he was asleep, she secretly...

Looking back now, it doesn't even seem like a kiss at all...

Is this the standard way...?

She turned her head, but couldn't help glancing at the corner of his lips out of the corner of her eye.

I'll be staying up all night to write one more chapter, so it'll definitely be available tomorrow morning. Mwah!