Chapter 120: Cold on the Outside, Warm on the Inside
The only way to solve this was to rely on himself.
After returning to the Huang family with Huang Feiyan and Huang Qingfei, Mingyan went alone to the family’s ancient records library.
The library was first established by the Phoenix Clan and was inherited by the Huang family after the clan’s extinction. Inside, there were naturally records of that phoenix. To know oneself and the enemy is to be victorious in a hundred battles. To persuade the phoenix, Mingyan must first understand her.
On the other hand, Mingyan also hoped to investigate whether there were any records of the birth of life in the library. This might help him break through to the Divine Gate Realm.
Mingyan’s current strength was probably not a match for those two top existences—Gu Hanshuang and Jade Peony. To mediate the conflict between them, Mingyan had to have enough strength to ensure that he had the ability to forcibly mediate in a desperate situation.
And it was very necessary to improve his strength as soon as possible. Waking up his sister and the seemingly imminent Dark Era made Mingyan feel that time was a little tight.
Mingyan asked the administrator of the library. The other party didn’t let Mingyan search and directly brought the records to him.
Mingyan was a little overwhelmed by the favor. “Thank you, Senior…”
“No need to be polite. You are now the son-in-law of the Huang family,” that senior was a Rotating Core Realm expert and had not yet entered the half-step Human Gateway Realm. She had a smile on her face and gave a very gentle feeling.
To be honest, after knowing the Huang family for so long, besides the first meeting when Huang Junru had directly killed Yun Ling and that Rotating Core Realm elder with a raise of her hand, Mingyan seemed to have rarely seen the domineering side of the Huang family. Besides, the scene at the first meeting was not considered domineering. After all, it was Huang Junru’s daughter who was being hunted down. Retaliation was only reasonable. Mingyan even began to doubt whether the outside world’s perception of the Huang family’s “domineering” was correct.
As for the identity of “son-in-law,” Mingyan was a little embarrassed.
After all, he was actually fickle, not only having good feelings and admiration for Huang Feiyan, but also liking his senior sister…
But no matter what, he had found what he wanted and didn’t waste any more time, starting to investigate the life of the phoenix.
As the last member of the Phoenix Clan, her early life was not recorded. Most of the related records could only be found after she became famous.
This phoenix was definitely a fierce person. Before she became an Emperor, she had once destroyed a Sacred Land.
The end of the Phoenix God Clan seemed to be very bleak. Many were even enslaved. According to some speculations, this phoenix should have spent her youth cultivating while wandering and fleeing, so after she had raised her cultivation, she began her revenge.
She was the last glory of the Phoenix Clan, letting the name of the phoenix reappear in the world, reaching the pinnacle, and stepping into the position of a Supreme Dao Great Emperor.
The Dragon Clan next door was not so lucky. After the Dragon Clan declined, it never recovered, until its extinction.
But the reason why the phoenix’s last glory was the last glory was also because this phoenix did not leave any descendants, and the other clan members had already died.
From the records, it was not difficult to see that this phoenix was indeed proud and was unwilling to defile the bloodline of the phoenix. In the absence of other phoenix clan members, she did not choose to select an outside bloodline to continue the Phoenix Clan.
Although it was said that an outside bloodline might defile the phoenix bloodline, at the Great Dao level, it didn’t seem too difficult to purify the bloodline, right?
Bloodline was something that could be kept pure through certain means, but physique could not. And the strength of a bloodline could be continued, while a physique could not. This was also the reason why the Huang family had been prosperous for so long.
The reproduction of the Phoenix God Clan at that time was very difficult. It might be because their strength was too powerful, so their reproduction speed was slow, and it was very likely that they would have no offspring in their lifetime. The same was true for the Dragon Clan. Although the Dragon Clan was… their private life was chaotic, it was very difficult for a dragon and a dragon to give birth to a pure-blooded dragon. It was easy for a dragon and an outside race to give birth to offspring.
The demise of the Dragon Clan was not unrelated to these illegitimate children from interbreeding with outside races.
The Huang family could continue for so long because their reproduction was too simple. Because they were a race created by the phoenix, they only needed to drink blood to reproduce.
However, the experience of the Huang family’s birth could not be replicated. In the long years, it was not uncommon for people to give birth by drinking blood, but a family that was so powerful by drinking blood to give birth was only the Huang family.
The phoenix herself had a cold personality, somewhat similar to Huang Junru. But Mingyan felt that his own mother-in-law was actually cold on the outside and warm on the inside. Wasn’t there a saying that no matter how cold a woman’s personality was, she was warm on the inside?
Hmm, this saying should be appropriate here, right?
Maybe this phoenix was also cold on the outside and warm on the inside?
But to experience the warmth inside, one still needed to gain enough of the other party’s trust…
Mingyan felt that he shouldn’t put himself on the opposite side of the phoenix. If possible, or if conditions allowed, he might be able to make friends with the phoenix and gain her trust. This way, she would listen to his words.
The phoenix seemed to have an obsession with lifespan. She had been in power for about twenty thousand years. In her later years, she seemed to have been studying the elixir of immortality. Obviously, she was planning to live a third life.
And in the records, the phoenix was alone all her life, without any relatives or friends. Why did she want to live for so long…
Mingyan thought for a moment. If he had no one he cared about around him, would he live alone for tens of thousands of years?
But Mingyan had never reached that realm and couldn’t really put himself in her shoes, so he wasn’t sure about the phoenix’s thoughts.
A person who had lived for two lives and had even tried to live a third, and had actually lived a third life as a Supreme Dao Great Emperor… such a person must have a deep obsession with longevity and even eternal life.
And coincidentally, his sister’s existence seemed to have given Mingyan a common topic with her…
Wang Qingchu seemed to have achieved immortality to some extent. His sister had once said that she felt her lifespan had no end. She could have actually lived in the world waiting for his appearance, but perhaps she didn’t want to wait that long, or she was worried that if she was always in the world, he, this younger brother, would not be able to appear, so she chose to sleep.
Mingyan didn’t know if his sister’s method could be shared with the phoenix…
Whether it could be done was another matter. The key was that with a common topic, the two of them could communicate. As long as they could communicate, everything was fine.
The ancient records did not directly record the phoenix’s preferences, but Mingyan could analyze some content from them. But whether it could be of any use was not certain. The other party’s best interest and hobby was definitely longevity or eternal life.
Besides the information on the phoenix, Mingyan also looked at the records on the origin of life.
On this point, in the ancient records of the Phoenix God Clan, there were still no clues. The human and demon races, including the Dragon and Phoenix clans, did not originate from the Yao Guang star. There were no records of earlier history.
“Have you found the information you were looking for?”
A gentle voice brought Mingyan back from his deep thoughts. Mingyan looked up and found that it was actually Huang Qingfei. Mingyan quickly stood up. “Little Aunt, why are you here?”
Huang Qingfei wore a green long dress, gentle and elegant, her eyes and brows filled with a peaceful color. She smiled lightly and pressed her hand down, motioning for Mingyan to sit down. “It’s nothing. I just came over to have a look.”
Mingyan asked curiously, “You must have something to talk to me about, right, Little Aunt?”
“Hmm… strictly speaking, there is a little something. Will it bother you if I say it now?” Huang Qingfei thought for a moment this time and changed her words. Mingyan smiled. “Please speak, Little Aunt.”
Huang Qingfei smiled slightly, then gathered her skirt and sat down beside Mingyan. “You should know that I have already broken through to the Human Gateway Realm, right?”
Mingyan nodded, and Huang Qingfei continued, “In the past, the strength and age ranking among us three sisters were the same. Big sister was the strongest, second sister was the second, and I was the youngest. Now I have broken through to the Human Gateway Realm, and second sister… is still stuck at half-step Human Gateway. I’ve seen her a little distracted recently. Although she has never said it, she must have some melancholy in her heart, right?”
Mingyan blinked. Thinking about it carefully, the Temptress Sister definitely wouldn’t feel jealous or unhappy, but her sisters had both broken through to the Human Gateway Realm, while she herself was still a half-step. It would indeed put some psychological pressure on her…
“And, I noticed that you seem to have been deliberately keeping your distance from second sister recently. Can you tell me why?” Huang Qingfei looked at Mingyan from the side, her expression quite serious. Mingyan had rarely seen Huang Qingfei show such an expression.
“I haven’t deliberately kept my distance from Sister… ahem, Second Aunt, have I…?”
“You can call her sister in front of me. It doesn’t matter,” seeing Mingyan change his words, Huang Qingfei shook her head with a light laugh. “Before, second sister often liked to cling to you. Now she’s always drinking alone. Are you sure?”
“…” Mingyan was also not good at saying it. Ever since he had decided to marry Huang Feiyan, Mingyan had indeed intentionally or unintentionally wanted to keep a distance from the Temptress Sister. But although he thought so, it seemed he had never done so…
Or was it that, because Mingyan thought so, his subconscious had already been doing so, and he himself had not felt it?
“I know you may think that after getting married to Feiyan, it might not be good to be so close to my second sister. But if because you got married to Feiyan, you on the contrary keep your distance from other Huang family members, it would be a loss that outweighs the gain. The purpose of letting you marry Feiyan was to make you closer to the Huang family and eliminate the sense of distance,” Huang Qingfei said. “You shouldn’t keep your distance from my second sister.”
“Also, if you’re worried about Feiyan getting angry, then there’s no need. I will convince Feiyan,” Huang Qingfei chuckled lightly.
“…I understand,” Mingyan felt that the Temptress Sister had always been very good to him. Because he was married to Huang Feiyan, to keep his distance from the Temptress Sister was indeed a bit unfair…
“Also, as I just mentioned, the matter of my second sister’s strength…” speaking of this, Huang Qingfei’s tone was slightly hesitant.
