Even hybrid monsters have their day

Chapter 317 Responsibilities

"I never imagined that the legendary Phoenix Tomb actually exists. There really is such a creature as a phoenix in this world..." Xu Ruwen said in her sea of ​​consciousness. He had a faint expectation in his heart that he would be able to see the legendary Phoenix Tomb.

Geng Miaowan's expression remained unchanged, but inwardly she was utterly astonished. Just as Xu Ruwen had said, she never imagined that Zuo Lengdan would be a member of the Phoenix Clan, the kind of phoenix that only appears in legends and is hailed as a divine bird by humans.

Compared to them, Huangfu Aohan seemed much more knowledgeable. Apart from being slightly taken aback when he first heard about Phoenix Tomb, he did not make any other unusual moves.

The path, though not short, winds its way into the heart of the mountain.

Geng Miaowan and the others followed Zuo Qin to the innermost part of the path. Zuo Qin stopped at the end of the path, held her staff, and silently chanted a few incantations. Geng Miaowan felt a fluctuation in spatial energy, and suddenly her vision brightened, revealing a vast, almost infinitely large open space.

The space had completely changed from the cramped and dark environment to a bright and spacious one. The floor was covered with soft, clean, snow-white sand. On the sand were enormous skeletons; as far as the eye could see, the entire space was filled with skeletons.

The pure white skeleton, bathed in white light, radiated an almost sacred glow.

These skeletons were enormous, resembling a small mountain. Each skeleton had its own unique form, lifelike and expressive. Looking at them, Geng Miaowan seemed to see what they looked like in life: some flapping their wings as if about to soar, some folding their wings to rest, and some lying lazily on the ground...

Regardless of their posture, they all appeared sacred and inviolable, their innate nobility remaining etched into their very bones even after death, settling into eternity with the passage of time.

As soon as she stepped into this space, Geng Miaowan felt as if countless majestic and scrutinizing eyes were staring at her, at this outsider who had entered the Phoenix Tomb, making her have to be careful with every step she took.

The moment Xu Ruwen stepped inside, he felt an intense pressure that made it difficult for him to even take a step, forcing him to retreat. He knew that this pressure was the last energy left behind by the thousands of phoenixes in the human world, containing their immortal souls.

Huangfu Aohan seemed unaffected. He followed Geng Miaowan inside.

Zuo Qin turned to look at Geng Miaowan, and seeing that her expression was unchanged, as if she didn't feel anything at all, she was slightly surprised. She thought to herself, "The person my daughter chose is indeed extraordinary."

She hadn't expected that the seemingly ordinary little white dog following Geng Miaowan could walk into the Phoenix Tomb so casually, which made her glance at it again. She didn't stop walking, however, and went straight to a skeleton.

Before Zuo Qin could speak, Geng Miaowan stepped forward and touched the white skeleton on her left, because she felt the familiar aura of Zuo Lengdan on it.

"Left Protector..." Before she could even speak, tears welled up in her eyes.

Zuo Lengdan's phoenix skeleton was enormous, larger than the average skeleton in this tomb. Its wings were slightly spread, and its head was raised, as if it was about to take flight, as if it would soar into the sky in the blink of an eye.

Geng Miaowan seemed to see her resentment in her actions.

She gently stroked each bone in her skeleton, just as Zuo Lengdan had gently stroked her when she was a child.

Suddenly, she noticed a small but noticeable crack on one side of its chest bone.

"what is this?"

"It was this slap that made my Leng'er never recover." Zuo Qin said, reaching out to touch the crack, her movements extremely light and gentle, as if she were rubbing the wound of her beloved daughter.

Geng Miaowan suddenly remembered what Luo Dongyan had said. "How exactly did the Left Protector die?"

Mentioning Zuo Lengdan brought tears to Zuo Qin's eyes again. She blinked, as if trying to hold them back, but the longing and heartache for her daughter was something she couldn't simply suppress. A single tear fell, sliding down her beautiful face, like a sparkling gem dropped into fine sand, never to be found again.

"That day she received news that someone wanted to discuss cooperation with humans, so she took only a few people and went to the vicinity of the Ru River. However, a day passed and she didn't return, so I took some people to look for her. When we found her, she was already..."

"Do you know who did it?"

Suddenly, Zuo Qin's eyes sharpened, and she said bitterly, "It was those despicable villains from the Green Mountain Sect who did it!"

"The Green Mountain Sect?" Geng Miaowan was surprised. As far as she knew, Miao Renfeng wasn't the type to kill innocent people indiscriminately. Even if he didn't intend to cooperate with them, as long as they hadn't done anything wrong, he shouldn't have harmed them.

But Zuo Qin seemed quite certain, "When we found Leng'er, she only had a few disciples from the Green Mountain Sect with her. They ran away as soon as they saw us. If it wasn't them, then who was it?"

Could it be that another traitor has emerged from the Green Mountain Sect? Geng Miaowan wondered.

It seems that to find out the truth of this matter, we must make a trip to the Green Mountain Sect.

Then she asked Zuo Qin if Zuo Lengdan had ever given her anything special, and Zuo Qin said no. Under Geng Miaowan's subtle probing, she discovered that Zuo Qin knew nothing about the Tianji Stone.

Now that Zuo Lengdan is dead, and Zuo Qin knows nothing about the Tianji Stone, and even the Tianji Stone that Zuo Lengdan originally possessed has disappeared, she is at a loss for what to do.

On the way out of Phoenix Tomb, Geng Miaowan asked some questions about Zuo Lengdan and found that Zuo Qin was not very clear about what Zuo Lengdan had been doing before returning to Phoenix Valley.

"All I know is that during the great war between the three realms more than a thousand years ago, my husband took Leng'er to the battlefield, and since then, I have never heard from them again. If Leng'er hadn't suddenly returned to the valley three hundred years ago, I would have thought she would have disappeared without a trace like her father."

"Didn't she mention anything after she came back?" Only now did Geng Miaowan realize how little she really knew about Zuo Lengdan.

Zuo Qin tried hard to recall and said, "She didn't mention anything special, but she talked a lot about you. She said that the world is your responsibility, and taking care of you is a responsibility given to her by God."

What does this mean?

Geng Miaowan couldn't understand it.

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