Chapter 46: The Immortal Sparrow

  "It seems something is off, let's not enter the Sparrow Fairy Forest for now, and observe from outside first." said Bai Cangdong.

  "What a coward, even if there's something strange, what's there to be afraid of?" Li Xiangfei originally felt that something was off and hadn't planned on entering the Sparrow Fairy Forest immediately, but for some reason, after hearing Bai Cangdong say this, she became enraged and directly charged into the forest.

  Bai Cang Dong pondered for a moment, then followed and walked into Que Xian Lin. After all, according to the data, there was only one Viscount-level immortal sparrow in Que Xian Lin, and apart from that, not even an ordinary undead creature existed.

  "See, nothing's happening at all. I don't know what you're afraid of." The two walked through the forest for a while without anything out of the ordinary happening, and Li Xiangfei couldn't help but mock Bai Canghai with some delight.

  "It's better if nothing happened." Bai Cangdong looked at those sparrows flowers, still pink, without turning into crimson: "According to the date calculation, these sparrow flowers should have turned crimson yesterday, and the immortal sparrow should have been resurrected at that time. Now the sparrow flowers are still pink, and it's unknown whether the immortal sparrow has been resurrected or not."

  "Go and see for yourself, Xian Que is always reborn on that ancient Xian Que tree, it's not far from here."

  Bai Cangdong and Li Xiangfei followed the map and soon arrived in front of the oldest Bird Fairy Tree, but the scene before their eyes left them stunned.

  An ordinary bird's paradise tree is only one person high, but this bird's paradise tree is tens of meters high. What's more important is that the ancient bird's paradise tree doesn't know what was hit and broken, lying horizontally on the ground, and the flowers on the tree have all withered and turned into dead wood.

  "What kind of person would push down the Bird Fairy Tree? This must be why the Bird Fairy didn't revive," Li Xiangfei said with a frown.

  "It doesn't look like it was done by a person." Bai Cangdong observed the broken part of the bird's nest tree at close range: "The shape of the fracture is irregular, and it doesn't seem to have been cut off by a weapon. Instead, it looks like something has forcibly snapped it off."

  "The sparrow immortal tree is so thick and big, and it's said that the wood of this sparrow immortal tree is extremely hard, even a viscount-level armed man can't leave any marks on it. What kind of thing could actually break it? This is also too unbelievable."

  "Let's hurry up, this place is really a bit strange." Bai Cangdong felt something was off and didn't dare to linger, pulling Li Xiangfei as they walked out of Que Xianlin.

  "What's the hurry to leave?" The ethereal voice came from an unknown place, and Bai Cangdong and Li Xiangfei only felt that their bodies had lost control in an instant, standing still on the spot.

  Roar!

  A gigantic white bear, like a prehistoric giant beast, rose from the sea of flowers and roared at Bai Cang and Dong, its massive voice almost causing them to vomit blood.

  "An undead of the Earl rank? How can there be an undead of the Earl rank here!" Bai Cangdong saw the noble crest on the white bear's body, and it was actually of the Earl rank.

  Li Xiangfei was also speechless. The undead of the viscount level were still manageable, but the undead of the earl level, they didn't even have a glimmer of hope for escape.

  "What kind of crappy intelligence did Lady Honglian provide, saying that there wasn't even a single ordinary undead besides that viscount-level phoenix? Now suddenly a count-level undead pops out, isn't this going to take my life?! Bai Cangdong's face turned ashen pale, and even if he wanted to escape with his life, his body wouldn't listen to him, as if it was bound by something, unable to move even a finger."

  "Little White, be good and don't scare these two little friends to death." Just as Bai Cangdong and Li Xiangfei thought they were doomed, the white bear suddenly slowly lay down, its enormous head, like a room-sized house, pressed against the ground in front of them. A man dressed in white walked down from above.

  "What kind of person are you?" Li Xiangfei asked with some shock after the man appeared, and Bai Cangdong immediately regained control over his body.

  "My title is White Robe Earl, and what about you two?"

  "I should have thought of it earlier, the power that bound us just now must be the Judgment among the three great privileges." Bai Cangdong said to himself.

  "I am Viscount Jianxiangzi, he is Baron Fist." Li Xiangfei reported their titles.

  "I didn't scare you guys, did I? I traveled here and found that bird fairy tree, which is an excellent fuel for the alchemy furnace fire, so I had Xiaobai push it down to prepare to take it away. Didn't disturb you guys, right?" said the white-robed earl, pointing at the fallen ancient bird fairy tree.

  "No." Bai Cangdong and Li Xiangfei replied in unison.

  "That's good, I was afraid this ancient tree was owned by someone, Xiao Bai..." The white-clothed earl called out, and the giant white bear immediately ran over to carry the bird immortal tree on its back.

  "I'm leaving now, it's fate that we met, so I'll give you some small things." The white-robed earl popped out two jade bottles which fell into the hands of Bai Cangdong and Li Xiangfei, then directly floated onto the head of Bai Xiong, driving him to leave Jixianlin with a series of shocks.

  "It's Yu Jing Wan!" Bai Cangdong opened the bottle and took a look, inside was actually the same Yu Jing Wan that Hong Lian Furen had given him last time.

  "I remembered, this White Robed Earl I've heard of, is skilled in refining Dan medicines. Many kinds of Dan medicines used in our Earl's residence, including the Jade Essence Pill, were all refined by him,"

  Bai Cangdong put away the Jade Essence Pill, but his mind was still thinking about that giant bear called Little White by the White-robed Earl. It was clearly a Duke-level undead creature, yet it had become his pet. He must have obtained the Undead Egg after killing the Undead and then hatching it.

  "What a good fortune!" Since learning about the Undead Eggs in Ice Mist Cave last time, Bai Cangdong had intentionally looked up a lot of information about the Undead Eggs.

  The undead egg is extremely rare in the armed forces, and each type of undead may drop it after death, but the higher the level of the undead, the lower the probability of dropping the undead egg. Not to mention the earl-level undead egg, even the undead without a title have a low chance of dropping the undead egg. At least Bai Cangdong himself has never seen one, and even Ma Fei's parents, who are viscounts from a wealthy family, do not have an undead egg.

  Even a count's daughter like Li Xiangfei does not possess an Undead Egg, which shows just how precious the Undead Eggs are.

  "What should we do now? The Sparrow Fairy Tree is gone, will the fairy sparrow revive?" Li Xiangfei looked at the remaining tree stump of the Sparrow Fairy Tree, somewhat unsure of what to do.

  Bai Cangdong was also silent, and no one could have imagined that the ancient tree of Que Xian would be pulled away by a count to become firewood. Whether Que Xian can come back to life is really unpredictable.

  Just as the two were hesitating about whether to leave, a sudden change occurred. The ancient tree burst at the broken place and shot out red flames like fireworks. Then all the birds of paradise flowers in the Birds of Paradise Forest ignited, turning into flame-like flowers. The entire forest turned into a sea of fire.

  Scorching heat forced people to almost melt, Li Xiangfei hastily raised her life-saving divine light shield, protecting the two of them.

  "I told you so, you're just a burden. Look now, I have to protect you." Li Xiangfei said with a hint of smugness.

  Who would have thought that Bai Cangdong suddenly jumped out of her divine light range, and took out a fiery red gemstone. The gemstone dropped down a string of red light, the flames and heat hit the gemstone, and were instantly absorbed into the gemstone, making it even more dazzling.

  "It seems I don't need Miss Xiang Fei's protection anymore." Bai Cangdong smiled.

  Li Xiangfei felt angry in her heart, turned her head away and ignored him, staring at the broken part of the ancient tree.

  A strange cry echoed from the jet of flames, a large bird with a fiery red body and long green tail feathers spread its wings and flew out, with clusters of scarlet flames between the opening and closing of its wings.

  "This is somewhat different from the Xian Que in the data!" Bai Cangdong looked at the strange firebird and compared it with the Xian Que in the data, finding many differences.

  For example, this firebird is almost entirely composed of flames, while the immortal sparrow in the data is flesh and blood. Moreover, the immortal sparrow in the data can only spit out undying light like flames from its mouth, whereas this firebird's undying light spills everywhere as it flies.

  "Even if it's different, it's still a Viscount-level undead, what's the difference with Xianque?" Li Xiangfei said, pointing to the noble crest on Huoniao's body.

  Before Bai Zhan could say anything else, the firebird discovered the two of them. It let out a strange cry and flapped its wings as it flew towards them, spewing flames from its mouth like a volcanic eruption.

  "Take care of yourself." Li Xiangfei summoned her own armed forces and charged towards the Firebird.

  Bai Cangdong flashed to one side and watched Li Xiangfei and the firebird engage in a fierce battle.

  It's been a while, and Li Xiangfei is no longer comparable to her past self in terms of combat skills and experience. She was able to fight on par with the Firebird without falling behind.

  After a while, Bai Cangdong furrowed his brow. The battle between the two was intense, with neither gaining the upper hand. However, Bai Cangdong noticed that the firebird seemed to be using its Undying Light without any signs of exhaustion, each attack bursting forth freely. On the other hand, Li Xiangfei had already mastered the use of her Life Spirit Light, using it precisely and conserving it well, yet he could still sense that her Life Spirit Light was being rapidly depleted.

  Bai Cangdong observed for a moment, and finally saw the clue. Those burning Xian flowers and the flames spouting from the broken ancient tree were all merging into the body of the fire bird, making it not only not consume but stronger.

  "We can't stay here and fight it," Bai Cangdong roared at Li Xiangfei.

  Li Xiangfei also felt that something was wrong, hearing Bai Cangdong's shout, she forced the firebird back with one sword and turned to run. She herself became weaker as she fought, while the firebird grew stronger, if this continued, she would undoubtedly die.

  The phoenix, however, refused to give up and flapped its wings, flying towards the two of them.

  Bai Cang Dong dodged to the side, avoiding the firebird's attack. However, upon seeing the crest on the firebird's body, he revealed a look of shock and horror.

  The crest badge was now radiating a sharp light, and the pattern on it was changing unpredictably. The original pattern representing the viscount was transforming into another pattern.

  "This phoenix is actually going to be promoted to earl!"

  PS: Thanks to Just Love Doupo Cangqiong, I'm old, Feng Shuang ~ Ye Luo's reward. The results of "Jianzhuang" are still okay so far, and it should be written with confidence. I also hope to write out all my ideas and settings, writing tens of millions of words.