Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 1222 - 23: Can a Phoenix Really Lay Eggs? (Part 2)
Why is such a nice girl so eager to get married? Her husband must be a scumbag, especially good at sweet-talking women.
Yin Nan quickly thought of various plans to save the fallen wife, but naturally didn’t show any of it, walking over with a serious expression and bowing his head in greeting.
"Junior Sister Chu, Little Butterfly."
"Senior Brother Yin..."
Li Mumu glanced at the peach in his hand.
Are you here to eat peaches too?
Yin Nan looked at the peach slices in Li Mumu’s tray and couldn’t help but chuckle dryly twice.
Professor Chen’s flat peaches aren’t just for anyone to eat freely. Who knows what weird things she grafted onto that peach tree.
If you eat it raw with the skin, the laxative effect is guaranteed to be more significant than Wallace’s.
Li Mumu could eat them in slices, but with Yin Nan’s cultivation, it was definitely out of the question. He tried to eat a piece earlier and only felt dizzy, his nose bleeding uncontrollably.
After thinking it over, he decided to go to the cafeteria to find a bottle to soak the peach in wine.
Soaking in wine is also an indispensable part of traditional Ming Country cuisine.
"Junior Sister Chu, did you hear even the senior sister guarding Hokkaido has been called back by Professor Chen?"
Yin Nan returned with a wine bottle, sat beside Li Mumu, and winked, "Professor Chen even brought out the flat peach to invite you guys into action. It seems like she’s intent on achieving her goal this time."
Although Li Mumu didn’t really want to engage with him, she was genuinely curious about this matter, so she asked, "Professor Chen only mentioned going to Xiangjiang for a project. Could it be that Senior Brother knows the specifics?"
"It’s not really a secret, but it doesn’t sound nice if it’s told."
Yin Nan said with a smile, "Isn’t Senior Brother just having gone through a tribulation? You know he’s of phoenix lineage, and suddenly felt inspired to see an opportunity related to the phoenix bloodline appearing in Xiangjiang."
"What opportunity?"
"There’s a phoenix egg there!"
Whose?
That was Li Mumu’s first reaction.
If there’s a phoenix egg, there must be a mother phoenix, right? Did Senior Brother have a thing for the mother?
But a second later, she suddenly realized.
No, a phoenix egg doesn’t necessarily have a mother.
After all, according to mythology, when a phoenix undergoes nirvana... Wait, that’s not right either, I’ve never heard about a phoenix laying eggs during nirvana. Aren’t they supposed to be like Senior Brother Ji Yan, losing all their feathers before growing them back?
Could it be an Azeroth species?
Li Mumu’s thoughts were too scattered, causing her to be momentarily tangled up.
"Surely not Senior Brother’s own, right?"
"That can’t be ruled out."
Yin Nan’s face was full of Eight Trigram: "If it weren’t his, how did he suddenly get inspired to discover it?"
"It’s definitely not mine."
Ji Yan’s voice suddenly sounded behind Yin Nan, making him stiffen all over.
"Junior Brother Yin, can’t you stop gossiping behind my back?"
Ji Yan said helplessly.
"Heaven and earth, Senior Brother!"
Yin Nan’s face turned red: "I said it because Junior Sister Chu asked me!"
"You added that last part yourself."
"Sorry!"
Yin Nan quickly bowed his head to admit his mistake.
Ji Yan snorted coldly: "If you dare speak nonsense in front of your senior sister, I’ll break off relations with you!"
"What did he say to me?"
Xu Changge’s voice came from the cafeteria entrance, leaving Ji Yan stiff as well.
Everyone at Penglai Immortal Academy knew Ji Yan admired Xu Changge.
With both talent and looks, they indeed matched well on paper, but this wasn’t a matchmaking service.
Xu Changge wasn’t here to find a husband or be betrothed.
Senior Sister is the type of career-driven woman with a particularly aloof personality, having no interest in matters between men and women. The so-called connection between man and man would only slow her down when drawing her sword.
Meanwhile, Senior Brother is someone whose head is addled by too much reading.
A Ghost Car with a fearsome reputation among Mythical Creatures, yet brainwashed by the Saint’s Scripture, wanting to tattoo the Five Virtues on his back.
He prefers being passive, adhering to the saying "In books, there’s a beauty," aiming to demonstrate his excellence and wait for either a teacher or the other party’s parents to propose marriage.
Instead of being a turtle guy who actively licks.
But Xiao Tingyun has no intention to manage this matter, and Xu Changge’s parents are indifferent, possibly unaware.
Their relationship just stagnated here.
On the day of ascension to Earth Immortal, suddenly sensing distant causation, Ji Yan’s initially good mood felt as if it had been drenched with a bucket of cold water.
I’m a man; where’s an egg supposed to come from?
No, that’s ambiguous... I mean, how could I lay an egg? With whom would I lay it?
Getting into physiological knowledge territory touches on the blind spots of the Saint’s Scripture, so upon his return, Ji Yan immediately sought out the authority on the island - Heavenly Monarch Chen - for consultation.
In biology, whether it be animal or plant, or Mythical Creature, among Penglai Island’s ten Heavenly Monarchs, Heavenly Monarch Chen is the absolute expert.
Upon hearing Ji Yan’s explanation, she said two things that made his hair stand on end and filled him with fear.
The first sentence was: "What do you think phoenix eggs taste like?"
The second sentence was: "It’s easier to explain if it’s not your egg, but if it truly is yours, that’s a big problem."
The problem must be huge; otherwise, Heavenly Monarch Chen wouldn’t go to the trouble of making this trip himself and even call Xu Changge back from Hokkaido.
But even after Ji Yan explained, everyone remained puzzled, not understanding.
"To sum it up, it’s like you suddenly have a child?"
Xu Changge’s soul-questioning made Ji Yan sweat coldly from his brow.
Perhaps realizing he couldn’t clearly explain the issue, his brain worked rapidly at that moment.
"Changge, how’s the situation over in Hokkaido?"
"Calm and peaceful."
In fact, Xu Changge had been in Hokkaido for not even half a month, just barely settled in when Heavenly Monarch Chen urgently summoned her back.
"Didn’t you say this year there’d be a war with the Sea People?"
"It already started, and the war is going well."
Mentioning this, Xu Changge couldn’t help but reveal a strange expression on her face.
"This year, the Northern Fleet used a new strategy... a very sinister tactic. They specifically crafted a batch of plastic armor. The Sea Serpent Clan swallowed it, unable to digest or eliminate it, eventually dying from fatal constipation. Then their corpses were unknowingly consumed by their kin, causing even more casualties."
Not only was the effect good, but extremely good.
After all, everyone was initially unfamiliar with the Sea Serpent Clan, unaware that they would eat each other. Previously they might not eat it simply because they couldn’t swallow.
This time, upon encountering kin that consumed undigestible material, the subsequent chaos drained their energy until they became emaciated. Then other sea snakes saw this, felt no sympathy or caution, and rudely swallowed their kin whole as if they were intestine sashimi.
In the South, snake-eats-snake may not be new, but for Northern people, it’s quite curious. Many Northerners may have never seen what a snake looks like, let alone imagine such a scene appearing.
When the post-war loss statistics were released, both sides were astounded.
How did it end up like this?
The Guanyin followers of Gray Leather planned to incite large-scale riots along the coast of Fusang, coordinating attacks with the Deep Sea Sea People Tribe, but suddenly vanished.
What rebellion? Our deity’s offspring is gone!
The Guanyin followers also needed to cover up and suppress internal panic, vigorously propagating the sinking of ten Ming Country Northern Fleet’s ironclad ships to conceal the damage... There was no time to stir trouble, making Xu Changge’s guard in Hokkaido pointless.
Xu Changge was disappointed. Her big blade was already eager and ready, yet she sat idly for half a month without cutting anything.
So when she received Heavenly Monarch Chen’s urgent telegram, she immediately returned from Hokkaido non-stop, afraid she’d miss the project.
"Shouldn’t we notify Senior Xiao about this?"
Li Mumu asked softly.
After all, the true master of Penglai Immortal Academy is Xiao Tingyun, and we’re mobilizing so many people without informing the master?
"Don’t worry, Junior Sister Chu. I’ve already contacted Master, and he asked me to follow Professor Chen’s arrangements for everything."
Ji Yan smiled wryly: "Master said ten Heavenly Monarchs each have their own strengths, being authorities in their respective specialized fields. Precisely because they’re geniuses, they appear peculiar in character, acting differently than ordinary people. If we can’t trust them, how could we learn their true skills?"
"As the saying goes, there’s always someone better, and beyond each capability lies another. This time, accompanying us on an expedition led by Professor Chen and Professor Zhou provides us a chance to witness their true expertise."
