She kept shouting, and shouting, until Bai Shengyi and their team disappeared into the distance. The guards and maids under the tree then slowly came back to their senses.
"Eldest Young Lady!" they exclaimed, looking at Dong Linhuang on the tree, "How did you get up into the tree?"
Mysteriously, a biting chill suddenly struck Dong Linhuang’s back.
"Everything has changed, everything has changed..."
Ever since she wasn't recognized as the divine maiden by Divine Envoy Cui in An'yang Village, nothing matched her dreams anymore.
If that was the case, did she still need to go to the Central Region Divine Temple?
Dong Linhuang was helped down from the tree by the guards, her expression dazed, muttering to herself.
The maid thought she was possessed and was about to test her when she saw a look of determination suddenly flash across her face: "Let's go! We need to pick up the pace and reach Xianrong City before the people from the Eastern Divine Temple."
She thought beautifully, but she didn't know that Bai Shengyi's sudden move had stunned the entire Eastern Divine Temple team. For a moment, everyone in the Eastern Divine Temple team uniformly sped up.
Before evening, Bai Shengyi and their group arrived at Xianrong City, the central city under the jurisdiction of the Central Region Divine Temple.
"Divine Maiden Bai, we have arrived at Xianrong City," Divine Envoy Cui reminded her, riding his horse next to Bai Shengyi's spiritual beast carriage.
All the way, Bai Shengyi had been recalling the scenes from her dreams.
After cultivators reached the Mahayana stage, they actually didn't dream. But Bai Shengyi remembered clearly that she had indeed dreamt, so she suspected it might have been a warning from the unseen.
Unfortunately, she still couldn't recall anything.
So she thought of falling asleep again, but she hadn't slept at all on the way. Seeing that she was just getting sleepy, she suddenly woke up again upon hearing Divine Envoy Cui's voice.
Divine Envoy Cui looked at the person who descended from the spiritual beast carriage, and his heart skipped a beat. Why did this person seem even more unhappy?
He didn't dare to ask anything and said softly, "Divine Maiden Bai, as a divine maiden, you shouldn't appear in public."
"Oh," Bai Shengyi looked at him coldly, "Then why did you call me?"
Divine Envoy Cui: ...
"If you cross this street, you'll reach the Divine Temple," he said, changing the subject with difficulty, thinking to himself, "You'd better go and wreak havoc on the Central Region Divine Temple!"
He no longer thought about what Bai Shengyi was going to the Central Region Divine Temple for, he just wanted to send her away as soon as possible.
Xianrong City, as the name suggests, is a city where immortals reside. The city's name alone allows one to glimpse the aloofness and arrogance of the Central Region Divine Temple.
As they traveled from the Eastern Divine Temple, it was a world of ice and snow everywhere. However, the moment they stepped into Xianrong City, Bai Shengyi felt the distinctly different temperature and vibrant vitality of the place.
"It's because of that house. There's a familiar aura inside that house."
The Sui Xing Divine Fire emerged from her sea of consciousness and circled Bai Shengyi hesitantly. "Bai Shengyi, is that dark thing in your dantian Chongli?"
"Chongli?"
Bai Shengyi heard the name for the first time.
"It's the Divine Fire Chongli's Eye! You don't even know this? Haven't you already contracted the Nine Revolutions Reincarnation Brush? How can you not know about Chongli, one of the Nine Great Divine Fires?"
If Sui Xing Divine Fire had eyes, they would have been bulging out by now.
In just a few short days, it had become familiar with its contract master and knew that a major purpose for the latter contracting it was to awaken the Nine Revolutions Reincarnation Brush.
Unlike the soulless Shi Fang You Fire, Long Zhu Xing Fire, and Lie Yang Chi Hong Fire, Sui Xing Divine Fire had possessed intelligence and memories since its consciousness was born.
It didn't know where those memories came from, nor why it had fallen into the Lu Rong minor world. It only remembered hearing someone say in the unseen, "Divine fires gather, reincarnation turns."
"I don't even know which are the nine great divine fires," Bai Shengyi said calmly.
Initially, Bai Shengyi's cultivation was insufficient, and the Reincarnation Brush remained tight-lipped about the matter, fearing it would disturb Bai Shengyi's Dao heart. Later, the Reincarnation Brush was unable to utter the names of the other divine fires.
Every time the Reincarnation Brush mentioned the names of other divine fires, it would be censored. Later, Bai Shengyi speculated that there might be two reasons.
One, her cultivation was insufficient to know, or the time was not right.
Two, perhaps the Heavenly Dao rules of the Divine Enlightenment world did not allow her to know too much. Heavenly Spiritual Fires were already extremely rare, and Divine Fires were even rarer, even unique. For an ordinary cultivator to obtain one was already a sign of Heavenly Dao's favor, and someone destined for great fortune, let alone having already obtained three?
Bai Shengyi felt the latter reason was more likely.
Especially after coming to the Lu Rong minor world and learning the name of Sui Xing Divine Fire, her guess became even more certain.
"Are you truly the master of the Nine Revolutions Reincarnation Brush?"
Sui Xing Divine Fire couldn't help but ask, then immediately thought of the clear and lustrous brush in her sea of consciousness and quieted down.
"The Nine Great Divine Fires, in order, are Lie Yang Chi Hong Fire, Chongli's Eye, Huan Ling Divine Fire, me, Long Zhu Xing Fire, Feng Nie Heart Fire, Tao Yuan Sun Fire, Shi Fang You Fire, and Tu Shi Xiang."
As Bai Shengyi listened to the names one by one, her brows twitched. "You're ranked fourth? Who made this ranking? According to what?"
It was too strange.
At least from her perspective, she didn't think the divine fires she possessed could be ranked.
Shi Fang You Fire could eliminate residual spirit, making it an excellent fire for breaking through obstructions and alchemy. Lie Yang Chi Hong Fire had the highest temperature and could burn away resentful demonic energy. Long Zhu Xing Fire could attack the soul and consciousness. As for the newly added Sui Xing Divine Fire, it was also an excellent alchemical fire. Even though she hadn't had the opportunity to refine pills along the way, she could already sense its benefits to her.
"Huh, I don't know," Sui Xing Divine Fire pondered for a moment, then answered Bai Shengyi very bluntly.
Bai Shengyi was silent for a moment. "That dark mist inside me is not fire, don't provoke it..."
She was about to say more when she heard Divine Envoy Cui's voice from outside.
"I have met the West Divine Master."
Divine Envoy Cui looked at the other party with confusion. Why was this person, who should be staying in his Xihua City, coming to the Central Region Divine Temple?
The Western Divine Temple was the only divine temple that coexisted with the City Lord's Mansion in the same location. In other words, it was also the only divine temple that was suppressed by the City Lord's Mansion and could not turn itself around. During the annual Winter Solstice Festival, the people of the Western Divine Temple were often subjected to sarcastic remarks from people from the other three divine temples.
Could it be for this reason that this Divine Master personally came this year for the Winter Solstice Festival?
Facing Divine Envoy Cui, the middle-aged man had an ordinary appearance. If Divine Envoy Cui hadn't paid his respects, others would have simply taken him for a commoner in Xianrong City.
"You are... Little Cui?" the West Divine Master asked uncertainly.
Divine Envoy Cui felt helpless, but his face still wore a respectful smile. "West Divine Master has a good memory, it is indeed I."
"You've come at the right time. Is this your Divine Maiden's spiritual beast carriage? Take our West Divine Temple's Divine Maiden with us to the Central Region Divine Temple."
Divine Envoy Cui: ?
Before he could speak, he saw the West Divine Master push a person behind him and directly shove them into Bai Shengyi's spiritual beast carriage!
Divine Envoy Cui: !
Why didn't the West Divine Temple's Divine Maiden have a spiritual beast carriage? Why did she have to freeload on Bai Shengyi's carriage?
His heart was about to jump out!
Wouldn't Bai Shengyi get angry and erupt on the spot?
He had already thought of countless plans for how he would explain himself if Bai Shengyi made a scene and implicated him. When he snapped back to reality, he found that there was no movement from inside the spiritual beast carriage, and he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
"Little Cui, we should be going," the West Divine Master said in a tone as if addressing an old friend, very approachable. "I heard that the South and North have already arrived. If we are too late, we will definitely be punished by the Great Divine Master."
Divine Envoy Cui's mind was in a haze. Hearing this, his first reaction was: The people of the Western Divine Temple are punished every year, isn't it because they arrive too late?
Inside the spiritual beast carriage.
Bai Shengyi sized up the "woman" who had suddenly appeared.