Hidden God #2 (The Last Immortal)

5

~Chapter 5~ 

The darkness was broken, light arrived unexpectedly, and the bright valley was slowly printed in the sight.

The sky is blue with white clouds, while the mountains and lake are green. The creek gurgles as hundreds of the flowers blossom. Everything is vibrant, and the ears are tingling with newness. This scene is perfect for the first sight of the world. 

The golden sycamore leaves are warm and fragrant, and the little beast on the sycamore tree limb turns over pleasantly, half-open eyes on the new world. It yawned lazily, evidently pleased with the location of awakening. 

A white cloud fell from the sky, a black shadow jumped into a nearby creek, and the lake water splashed in all directions. A naked young man jumped out after a while. 

The little beast frantically covered her eyes with its claws, but unconsciously spread a slit, possibly to see what an unbelievable scene awaited her. When she saw the young man put on the robe and turn the barrel over, she stirred her legs, rolled over her tummy, spread her paws, and pretended to sleep. 

It does not know how to do anything else, but as a species that has slept for a hundred years, pretending to sleep is a natural and uneducated skill, quite like everyone's style. 

Gu Jin hid the Drunken Jade Dew in the bamboo workshop and then flew to the sycamore tree to look for his precious lumps, and saw that the Water Condensation Beast was sleeping sweetly with a silly face. He didn't startle it, and smiled as he carefully carried this abrasive little thing down. 

The little beast opened her eyes and caught a glimpse of the gentle smile in the young man's eyes. She was startled and quietly retracted her sharp claws under the flesh cushion. 

Although Qing Yi spoke like a child today, it reminded Gu Jin of a secret past, which made him anxious. He sighed three times and even skipped his usual walk. He drank a pot of drunken jade dew and sat in a trance on the yard, cuddling the water condensation beast. 

"Qing Yi has only been in the mountain for a few years, he has never met Hua Shu, or else he wouldn't have been attracted to the eldest daughter of that immortal's family." Gu Jin mimicked the Drunken Jade Dew and whispered, not forgetting to pat the little beast in his arms, "Little beast, liking is a lifelong thing, if you give up so easily, you don't really like it, don't you think so?" 

The little beast's paw fluttering involuntarily, hooked over Gu Jin's robe, and brushed against him in his arms. 

"Hey, you don't even know what happened back then, what's the point of me asking you." Gu Jin leaned back, looked straight up at the moon in the sky and let out a long sigh, "The day I met Hua Shu, the moon was also this big." 

The young man's childishness under his eyes faded gradually, floating over a touch of melancholy grief that did not belong to him, and even colored with a veiled self-blame regret.  

Gu Jin clearly hasn't matured enough to be able to carry certain young wrongdoings in his heart for the rest of his life, and Qing Yi's remarks chipped open the chasm in his heart like a sharp axe blow. For the first time, he held the ignorant Water Condensation Beast in his hands and began to remember the day on Wutong Island five years ago that altered his life. 

In the hundred years after the death of the True God Bai Jue, one of the rarest events in the Three Realms and Eight Wastelands was the birth of the second fire phoenix of the Phoenix Clan on Wutong Island. The Queen of the Phoenix Family from the fire phoenix lineage is well known, but since ancient times, each lineage of fire phoenix are only inherited one, rare and ruthless. So the birth of the second fire phoenix has become the top priority of the phoenix tribe. Heavenly Emperor Feng Ran even organized a banquet for it, which is known to all the Three Realms.