Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy - Chapter 3005: Punishment
Chapter 3005: Punishment
Pearl stared at Scarlet’s cousin with a weird look on his face.
“Are you trying to pick a fight?” he asked the bird.
Feng Shizhen was taken aback by the question. “Trying to pick a fight? With a bunch of Immortals? That is so beneath me that I’m offended you even asked,” he said.
“Okay…” Pearl said. “Then what are you doing here?”
“Why are you even talking to me? I’m here to talk with my cousin,” the Phoenix said, turning to Scarlet. “Does Aunt Xianhei know you’ve let a bunch of lunatics into the palace? How is she letting you go along with them?”
“Oh, he sure likes talking a lot,” Bai Jingshen said. “Pearl, you want to practice? You haven’t had a good fight in a while, have you?”
“Can I?” Pearl asked. “Won’t he be a bit too strong for me? He’s in the Divine Realm, right?”
“Divine Creation 2nd Realm. If his battle power is average for a Heavenly Beast, that would put his actual prowess around Divine Creation 5th or 6th Realm,” Bai Jingshen said. “That’s a touch too high for you, especially with his Creation, but I’m here, so you can just give it a test.”
Pearl shrugged. “If you say so, Grandpa.”
“Hey hey, wait!” Scarlet quickly called out. “There’s no fighting allowed inside the palace. If you fight, I’m going to get punished. I’ll lose my time in the cultivation chambers because of you.”
“Ah! Then I won’t fight,” Pearl said, stepping back.
The other Phoenixes behind Feng Shizhen turned to look at each other due to the strange conversation between the cat and the White Tiger. Had they just heard an Immortal Realm cat try to fight a Divine Realm Vermilion Bird?
“I thought they were just weak, but to think they are out of their mind as well,” Feng Shizhen said. “Dear cousin, you need to get better company. Your guests can’t be a bunch of braindead idiots.”
Scarlet was about to speak when she forced herself to stop. Instead, she just smiled, letting someone else handle it.
“And what if they are my guests?” a voice spoke just then.
Shizhen turned around in a hurry to find the larger Phoenix that had managed to sneak into their space without them noticing.
“Senior Ningzhu!” a bunch of the other Phoenixes called out with a quick bow.
“Grandfather!” Shizhen said, bowing deeper than anyone else.
“You’ve grown quite the tongue on you, little Zhen. You think you’re a bigshot just because you’ve reached the Divine Realm?” Ningzhu asked. “Do you think you can disrespect someone just because of that?”
“Of course not, Grandfather,” he quickly said.
“Then what was that I just heard before?” Ningzhu asked.
“I was merely advising my cousin on what I thought was the right thing to do,” Shizhen said.
Ningzhu laughed. “You’ve got quite the glib tongue on you, don’t you, child? I think I know how I’ll punish you.”
“Punish?” the Phoenix looked up, blood draining from its face.
A talisman appeared before the older Phoenix, lighting up for a brief second before flashing forward toward Shizhen. Shizhen stood in place, letting the talisman land on his face, doing nothing to stop its coming.
The talisman glowed again. When it dimmed, it had more or less bound itself around Shizhen’s beak.
“Your punishment is that you cannot talk for the next 10 years. If you talk, the talisman will break and I will find out. If you use your Divine Sense to talk, I will find out. And when I do, I won’t do anything but simply double the period of your punishment. Do you understand?”
Shizhen was about to speak, but he stopped himself before he did and nodded instead.
“Good, now leave. All of you.”
The group scattered at once, leaving just Scarlet’s group behind.
“Thank you for the assistance, Grandfather,” Scarlet said with a bow. The rest bowed alongside her as well.
“Well, I just did what I had to,” Ningzhu said. “Besides, I might have helped him more than I helped you.”
He looked toward Bai Jingshen for a moment before looking away. The tiger grinned a little, showing his fangs.
“You have quite impeccable timing, Senior,” Bai Jingshen said.
“I don’t know if it can be called that,” Feng Ningzhu said. “I came in search of you all after all.”
“Us?” Scarlet asked. “Why?”
The Phoenix turned toward Alex. “The Matriarch wishes to meet the so-called Sun God.”
Alex’s heart skipped a beat. “The Matriarch wants to see me?”
“You told her about him, Grandfather?” Scarlet asked.
“Seemed like an important enough detail,” Feng Ningzhu said. “And she got quite curious after hearing about it, so she wants to meet him.”
“I see,” Alex said. “Let us not keep her waiting then. We should go there now.”
“Just you,” Ningzhu said. “She only wants to meet you.”
“Just me?” Alex paused, looking around. He wasn’t sure if that was a good idea at all. At a place where they didn’t believe in the Sun God, bringing the Sun God to somewhere private did not bode well with Alex.
“If the Matriarch attacks, can you save me?” Alex asked Bai Jingshen with his Spiritual Sense.
“If she doesn’t suspect the teleportation, I might be able to do it,” Bai Jingshen said. “Fighting her directly is beyond me.”
Alex nodded and looked at the Phoenix. “I’m sorry, but I won’t be meeting the Matriarch on my own. If you don’t mind, I want all of us here to be present in the meeting.”
“All of you?” Ningzhu asked, looking at them all. “Including him?”
He pointed to Whisker.
“He’s just as important,” Alex said. “So including him.”
Feng Ningzhu’s face was complicated for a moment. He looked to the side, his senses reaching far away where he communicated with the Matriarch for a bit. After a few seconds, he nodded and turned back toward Alex.
“She is willing to have everyone present,” Feng Ningzhu said. “So, if you don’t have any other concerns, shall we leave?”
