Little Phoenix: Is It Not Okay for Me to Just Not Hatch

The Little Phoenix was completely dumbfounded!

She hadn't even hatched yet, but she already owed such a massive debt?

The most outrageous part was... she had never even seen her father once. Before she even developed consciousness, she was sealed by Huang Yu, slumbering in the Dao Source for a million years... and the very first person she saw upon waking up was Jiang Che.

"Then I guess I just won't hatch..."

A soft and sweet voice sounded. Although this Little Phoenix was born with consciousness and had quite the intellect before even hatching, it was only limited to this extent.

"Haha..."

Jiang Che couldn't hold back his laughter. This Little Phoenix was indeed quite amusing.

Raising her as a mount wouldn't be a bad idea.

"Husband, this is an ancient phoenix. Her bloodline is incredibly high. Even during the Heavenly Court's most prosperous era, a phoenix of this caliber never appeared."

Di Zhao stepped forward, her scrutinizing gaze fixed on the immortal egg in Jiang Che's hands. Although she really didn't want to admit it, this immortal egg indeed had intertwined fates with Jiang Che.

Although the Little Phoenix inside the eggshell hadn't fully developed yet, her divine sense could already perceive the blurry outside world.

She instinctively felt that something was wrong; she didn't want to hatch anymore.

Jiang Che glanced at the immortal egg. "Phoenixes love to perch on Wutong branches. Coincidentally, I have an immortal herb here, a Wutong branch."

Holding the immortal egg, Jiang Che arrived at the Immortal Herb Garden and lifted the garden's restrictions.

His Immortal Herb Garden was now incredibly vast, planted with all the spiritual herbs he had robbed... oh wait, "taken".

Its area had expanded from the original few acres to a massive garden of tens of thousands of acres!

Almost everything was planted in immortal soil. In the center of the garden, there was a small lake formed by an immortal-grade spiritual spring. The core area of the garden was precisely Yao Yao's true form, the Longevity Immortal Peach Tree!

Even though Yao Yao was rarely in the garden all day now, her true form was growing wildly here.

The lowest quality plants here were now divine herbs. According to statistics, there were over nine thousand types of divine herbs in the Nine Heavens, and Jiang Che had over seven thousand of them in this spiritual herb garden; he had almost collected them all.

As for immortal herbs, there were nearly seventy of them in the garden. He had practically gathered all the immortal herbs in the entire Nine Heavens.

However, these precious immortal herbs were merely bargaining chips used by those top-tier immortals to bid for the forbidden life-extending pills.

There were even five or six half-step Dao herbs.

Jiang Che's gaze turned toward the phoenix Wutong branch in the garden. It was a Wutong tree about three meters tall, looking so ordinary that no one would ever associate it with an immortal herb.

The Immortal Wutong Branch, a phoenix's favorite place to perch. Although it looked short, ugly, and perfectly ordinary in the Immortal Herb Garden—let alone a phoenix... even a chicken would struggle to stand on it.

But once its true form unfurled, it would blot out the sky and cover the sun!

Immortal herbs were comparable to immortals. One must know that even the true forms of Great Emperor-level demonic beasts were as massive as stars, let alone an ancient phoenix.

There was once a Dao herb World Tree; when the World Tree expanded, it could hold up an entire galaxy.

"Wutong Branch!" Jiang Che called out directly.

"Present!"

The immortal herb Wutong tree responded immediately!

"You don't need to live in this Immortal Herb Garden anymore. Find a place to take root in the inner world of the immortal boat... Later, when this little one hatches..."

The Wutong branch looked at the immortal egg in Jiang Che's hand, its pupils suddenly shrinking.

Countless thoughts instantly rose in its mind!

[I'm taking off! Taking off! This overwhelming wealth has finally fallen into my lap, haha!]

[A phoenix immortal egg with such terrifying bloodline purity must be Young Master Jiang's blood descendant. If I take good care of this little ancestor... will glory, wealth, and ascending to become a Dao herb be far away?]

In the Immortal Herb Garden, the person these immortal herbs revered the most was Young Master Jiang.

Because Young Master Jiang had the good stuff in his hands!

Various immortal dews that far surpassed immortal-grade spiritual springs. Even some half-step Dao herbs from the ancient era had never seen such divine items. For example, they had personally witnessed Young Master Jiang feed that little peach demon a drop of Taiyi Divine Water. A single drop instantly elevated the immortal herb's origin infinitely, allowing it to completely break free from the shackles of an immortal herb and become a peerless Dao herb.

It made their eyes shine with envy.

"Rest assured, Young Master Jiang. Even if I have to grind my bones to dust, I will protect the little master!"

[I don't want to, he's too ugly.]

Suddenly, the Little Phoenix inside the immortal egg transmitted her voice, her tone slightly arrogant and spoiled.

Immortal Wutong Branch: "......"

Thank you, I feel insulted!

"Heh, didn't you say you didn't want to hatch earlier? You have to hatch even if you don't want to. Hurry up and come out to pay your father's debt!" Jiang Che threatened viciously.

However, he really did manage to scare this Little Phoenix.

[Don't scare me, I'm a phoenix!]

Jiang Che chuckled softly, then handed the immortal egg to Di Zhao.

"Zhao Zhao, I'll leave this little thing to you for now. Once she hatches and grows up, she'll be your mount."

Di Zhao took the immortal egg and examined it seriously.

"Y-you guys... I don't want to be a mount."

The phoenix immortal egg was terrified. Her mental age was just that of a four or five-year-old child.

She was naturally intelligent, but the person in front of her was an old fox.

"Phoenix, the person before you is the upright and dignified Heavenly Emperor, the sovereign of myriad Daos... Becoming his mount is a supreme honor,"

Di Zhao said earnestly.

"Heavenly Emperor?" the Little Phoenix asked in confusion.

Di Zhao nodded.

"What is a Heavenly Emperor? No Emperor can make me a mount, I don't even know how to fly yet..."

She truly felt like her world was collapsing. What a disastrous start—becoming someone's slave before even being born.

It was too scary!

......

"What? Palace Master Tian's Dao Heart has shattered too?"

A stunningly beautiful woman with snow-white hair and a long robe slightly opened her eyes, a hint of crimson flashing in their depths.

It was precisely the Lunar Profound Maiden, Gu Wantang.

"Haha, really? This leader of the righteous path has too fragile a heart, doesn't she?" The persona of the Lunar Profound Maiden manifested.

After Gu Wantang became an Emperor, under Jiang Che's unreserved instruction, Gu Wantang's main persona and her inner demon, the Lunar Profound Maiden, had completely separated. The yin and yang forces in her body had achieved perfect balance, and she now existed in a state of one body with two souls.

"Husband, listen to me... That Tian Chan is definitely a hypocrite; maybe she also has an inner demon persona."

"For a self-righteous woman like her, Husband, you must take a different approach..."

The Lunar Profound Maiden grew intrigued. She was born of evil thoughts to begin with, and being able to see the leader of the righteous path fall into depravity... was simply too thrilling!

"Tai Xuan! Speak less..." Gu Wantang chided playfully. Because of this inner demon persona, her originally aloof and arrogant image had completely shattered.

She was actually originally a cold and frosty person, but whenever she thought about the things the Tai Xuan persona did while controlling her body, she wanted to die of embarrassment.