Chapter 61: The Emperor Feather
This path was too quiet, quiet to the point of being unsettling.
As far as the eye could see, besides the faint reflection from the Demon Emperor’s restriction, everything else was a dazzling white.
The vast sacred mountain was devoid of any living creatures, appearing exceptionally empty and somewhat eerie.
Not long after ascending the sacred mountain, Mingyan vaguely felt as if something was watching him, sending a chill down his spine.
He couldn’t feel the cold on this path. The path was enveloped by a restriction, effectively isolating it. But he felt a coldness from within. There was something strange on this mountain. He frowned, quickly composed himself, and continued upwards.
So what if there was something strange? He was protected by the restriction left by the Demon Emperor. Whatever ominous thing had affected that Demon Emperor, it definitely couldn’t have the strength to confront a Supreme Dao existence head-on. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have waited until the Demon Emperor’s later years to appear. So, he continued upwards without fear.
The sacred mountain was too high. He used the “Star Gap” movement technique all the way, speeding upwards, and it still took him three days to vaguely see the summit. He was a little surprised. Could the top of this Li Jing Sacred Mountain really reach the sky?
It was now night. He felt the sky had never been so close. He raised his hand but found he couldn’t touch the starry sky.
…Although he was closer to the sky than ever before, he still couldn’t touch it.
It seemed that this saying was just a figure of speech.
It took him another day to finally reach the summit.
That cold feeling had followed him all the way. It wasn’t until he reached the top that the chilling sense of being watched disappeared.
He turned and looked down.
It was too high here. He couldn’t see the situation at the foot of the mountain at all. It was shrouded in clouds and mist. And all he could see was white, and still white.
He turned his head and observed the mountaintop.
There was a stone tablet on the summit, the characters on it already blurred. Besides that, there was a dilapidated wooden hut standing here. He frowned, walked to the tablet, and examined it carefully. He could vaguely see the characters, but they were completely different from the characters used now, more ancient and primitive. The Demon Clan had probably been born millions of years ago, or even earlier. The characters used at that time were completely different from the ones used now.
He couldn’t understand these characters and quickly gave up studying them. He then walked to the dilapidated wooden hut and found some beautiful crystals scattered on the ground. He squatted down, scooped up a handful, and frowned. Was this what he was looking for? Weren’t they a bit too small? They were all fragments.
Jade Peony had said that these crystals were the leftover material from when a certain Supreme Dao existence refined a star.
These Great Emperors who had reached the Great Dao realm were too terrifyingly strong. They could refine a star into a treasure with their supreme power. These crystals were just by-products, with no unique features besides being beautiful.
But these were too small. To give them to his master as a gift seemed a bit inadequate.
He let the crystals slide through his fingers and then walked into the wooden hut.
Inside the dilapidated hut, there was not a speck of dust. It was old yet clean. This feeling seemed a bit contradictory…
On the table in the hut, there was a feather. It was a bright red, completely out of place with the rest of the room. He felt a little strange, walked closer, and picked it up.
The feather seemed to have no weight at all, not feeling like a solid object in his hand. This strange feeling made him examine it with curiosity.
There was a familiar aura on it, as if he had seen this kind of feather somewhere before, or had felt the aura on it.
The feather was getting hot, becoming fiery. Only then was he certain. This aura, it seemed he had felt it on both Feiyan and the Temptress Sister. This was the aura of the Huang Family? Or the aura of a phoenix?
He held the feather in his hand, and it suddenly burst into flames. In an instant, a scene appeared before his eyes.
On a certain battlefield, blood flowed like a river, and bodies were everywhere. And in the mountain of corpses and sea of blood, a woman in armor lay on her back. The helmet on her head was broken, revealing half of her incomparably beautiful face. Her eyes were dim, her abdomen pierced by a long spear, pinning her to the ground.
In her right hand, she tightly gripped a broken sword, on which there was a strange black blood residue. And in her left hand, she held a feather that bloomed with a brilliant fiery light.
Her lifeless eyes seemed to be looking at him. She seemed to have something to say but couldn’t. Until her eyes completely blurred, he was suddenly jolted awake!
What happened just now? What was that scene?!
Wearing armor, holding a feather… The feather in that scene just now, could it be the one I’m holding now?
He looked down at the feather in his hand. It had lost its light and was no longer burning.
He remembered that Huang Feiyan had once told him about an ancestor of the Huang Family and a lost Emperor Feather.
This… could this be the Huang Family’s Emperor Feather?
But how was that possible? If this was really that Emperor Feather, it should have been lost in the Forbidden Zone. Besides a Great Emperor, no one could enter the Forbidden Zone to retrieve it.
Could a later Demon Emperor have taken it out of the Forbidden Zone? But an Emperor Feather was just placed here like this??!
It couldn’t be so casual, right? If a Supreme Dao Demon Emperor had retrieved it, they should have known what it was. It shouldn’t have been placed here so casually.
The Huang Family and the Demon Clan had a good relationship. After all, they were descendants of the ancient God Clan—the Phoenix Clan. The Dragon and Phoenix, the two ancient God Clans, were in a sense also demons, just the two most powerful clans of the Demon Clan.
Since they had already taken out the Emperor Feather, they should have returned it long ago… It shouldn’t have been placed here so casually.
No matter how he thought about it, he couldn’t understand. If there was an Emperor Feather here, Bai Ze should have told him before he came up the mountain. But she hadn’t mentioned it at all…
The more he thought about it, the more puzzled he became. After a moment of thought, he decided to take the Emperor Feather with him and let the Temptress Sister see it first, to see if it was indeed the Emperor Feather of the Phoenix Clan. Since Bai Ze hadn’t mentioned the Emperor Feather, she seemed to not care about it or might not even know about it. So, he couldn’t be bothered with so much.
He stored the feather in his Qi Sea. As soon as it entered, it burned brilliantly again, hovering in his Qi Sea, next to the * and # symbols, as well as the Emperor-level artifact, the Yin-Yang Concentric Pendant. This made him even more certain that this was an Emperor Feather.
