Chapter 1037 - 1445: First Intimate Encounter_2

A moment later, he opened his eyes and took out a Copper Mirror from the Qiankun Bracelet to take a look.

He seemed to have become a bit younger.

The Vajra Longevity Skill is not only an External Skill for Body Refining but also an Inner Strength technique for health preservation.

One of its effects is rejuvenation.

There's a saying that no man can remain eighteen forever.

But he can.

When he cultivated the Vajra Longevity Skill to the Basic level, he didn't feel this change, but now at the Intermediate level, he found this change particularly noticeable.

It's a pity that the Golden Scale Grass is gone.

"No, the Golden Scale Grass is gone, but I still have the corpses of several Second Realm Demon Beasts."

Chen Mo recalled a book called "Ten Thousand Recipes" which records that every part of a demon beast is precious. It's said that during the Celestial Court period of the Spirit Race, they even used Divine Beast Dragon and Phoenix as ingredients to strengthen themselves, and consuming Demon Beast Meat also enhances one's physical body.

Chen Mo acted quickly, leaving the tent and took out the corpse of a wolf-shaped Second Realm Demon Beast from the Qiankun Bracelet. He burned the fur clean with fire, cut it into chunks of meat, and fetched a bucket of water from the lakeside to wash them.

Then he took out pots, bowls, and utensils from the Qiankun Bracelet, quickly lit a fire, added seasoning, and began to stew them.

As a transmigrator who has read many novels, after knowing that there are demon beasts in the Secret Realm, before entering, Chen Mo had already brought pots, bowls, utensils, and various seasonings on the ship, planning to hunt a demon beast inside for cooking.

He just didn't expect that before a day had passed, the Secret Realm fruit hunt would be over.

As the temperature in the pot rose, the aroma of meat suddenly wafted out, truly fragrant.

Chen Mo took out a small knife and poked it into the pot to check the doneness.

Seeing it was almost cooked, he suddenly remembered something and got up to walk towards the Phoenix Tree.

How could he eat a big meal without inviting Huang Yi? That would be too impolite.

When Chen Mo arrived under the Phoenix Tree, he saw a scene like an Immortal Realm.

A round moon hung high in the night sky, its moonlight piercing through the branches of the millennium-old Phoenix Tree, dyeing the cyan tiled eaves into flowing mercury.

A woman was sitting cross-legged atop the ridge of the roof, but upon closer examination, her body was hovering, about half an inch above the highest part of the ridge. Her raven-blue attire draped over the snow-colored lower garment spread out like a lotus. She was barefoot, exposed feet gathering starlight, giving a somewhat unreal feeling.

Her hands rested on her knees, forming a seal towards the sky. When Chen Mo looked, she was gazing up at the moonlight penetrating through the leaf gaps, the shimmer on her body suddenly disappearing, yet the snow-colored lower garment in the moonlight emitted a faint blue.

The branches of the ancient Phoenix Tree unfolded in the moonlight, her red lips lightly parted, actually absorbing moonlight.

As the night wind raised her wide sleeves, the still posture of the woman and the fluttering sleeves formed a beautiful dynamic tension.

"So beautiful."

Chen Mo's heart thumped hard, he didn't disturb her and quietly appreciated.

After a while, Huang Yi's body, hovering half an inch above the highest point of the ridge, continued to rise until it was higher than the entire Phoenix Tree, no longer shadowed by any tree, completely enveloped by moonlight.

At this moment, a slightly bright beam of light shone obliquely upwards under Huang Yi's body.

Chen Mo couldn't help but look back. This beam of light was projected from the lake.

The lake also had a round moon, a reflection of the sky's moon, but now, this reflection seemed to come alive, the lake surface rippling with star-light.

The bright moonlight, as if made tangible, was being inhaled and exhaled by her.

Unsure of how much time passed, when the moon passed through the Phoenix Tree branches, the silver light around her suddenly solidified, frost patterns formed on the green tiles of the wooden rooftop below.

A moment later, atop the tree canopy and the base of the wooden house, a Cyan Lotus array suddenly appeared.

And as the array appeared for a split second.

Huang Yi, who was absorbing moonlight, suddenly let out a tweet.

The next second, Chen Mo saw Huang Yi's pale bare feet suddenly transform into sharp claws of a bird-beast.

Huang Yi began to transform from the bottom up.

Her legs turned into Chi Yuan's feet, her hands turning into Chi Yuan's wings.

The light before Chen Mo's eyes dimmed, a bird-beast over ten zhang in size hovered atop the Phoenix Tree, covering the entire ancient Phoenix Tree, with not a single ray of moonlight falling.

Chen Mo unconsciously stepped back, he noticed that not only the light under the Phoenix Tree dimmed, but also the places not shaded by Huang Yi grew darker.

It seemed that the moonlight of this world had all been absorbed by Huang Yi.

Her aura was rising.

Chen Mo saw on top of her head.

The string of "4999999" was rapidly increasing.

Soon, it reached 6000000.

Chen Mo realized Huang Yi should be undergoing a breakthrough, and was even more cautious not to disturb her, nor did he leave.

He understood that even a slight disturbance might interfere with Huang Yi, so he didn't breathe heavily.

After a while.

The string of numbers reached 6998888.

About to cross the seven million threshold.

And at this moment, Huang Yi's appearance also changed.

Her wings were initially cyan, but now, they changed, her neck seemed to flow with crimson gold, her feathers like molten amber, and the spread tail feathers transformed into cloud brocade cut from rosy hues, each strand imbued with glimmers of cinnabar, verdelite, and lapis lazuli.

Suddenly, the celestial moonlight also seemed to form a beam of light, beckoning Huang Yi to fly upwards, and as she swept past the void, the sky rippled with multicolored lights.

Just as Chen Mo thought Huang Yi could surpass the nine layers of clouds and complete the breakthrough.

An accident occurred.

The string of "6998888" red numbers began to rapidly decrease.

The crimson gold flowing from her neck disappeared, her feathers returned to their original color.

Only her tail feathers remained unchanged.

Her Power plummeted from 6998888 to 5000001 before stopping.

As her Power halted, her body, soaring into the clouds, also abruptly stopped, then quickly fell.

"Failed again..."

Huang Yi murmured to herself, then slowly closed her beast eyes, seemingly disheartened, motionless as she allowed her body to fall.

Because her eyes closed, as a burst of rosy light flickered, Huang Yi reverted from beast form to her human shape.

But Chen Mo didn't know, thinking Huang Yi was in trouble.

After all, her transformation resembled failing during cultivation.

As Huang Yi swept past the Phoenix Tree's tips, Chen Mo tapped his toes and leaped up, and when Huang Yi was still a zhang away from the ground, he caught her firmly in a princess hold.

"So light."

This was the first thought in Chen Mo's mind upon grasping her, how to describe this feeling, it's like holding a bundle of soft, fragrant air.

"Fairy Yi, are you okay?"

After landing, the first thing Chen Mo did was to lower his head to check on Huang Yi.

And Huang Yi happened to open her eyes, a hint of confusion appeared in them.

Four eyes met.

It was the first time Chen Mo saw Huang Yi from this angle, her beauty caused even the wind to hold its breath.

Chen Mo's mind surged with two strong impulses; one was to kiss her immediately, and the other was a feeling of unworthiness, thinking that kissing her would be a desecration of something beautiful in the world.

This contradiction and sense of conflict led Chen Mo to release Huang Yi with a throwing gesture.

Huang Yi did not fall because of this, but rather stood firm, looking at Chen Mo with puzzled eyes.

"Fairy Yi, it's great that you're okay, I thought you had a mishap during cultivation and had gone mad."

Chen Mo relayed what he observed to Huang Yi, of course omitting the detailed transformation in Power.

"Tail feathers..."

Upon hearing Chen Mo's words, Huang Yi no longer minded Chen Mo's act of catching her, instead she found the focus in his words.

She quickly closed her eyes to feel, and upon reopening them, Chen Mo clearly observed a glint in her eyes.

"I didn't fail, it seems I didn't choose the wrong path, this path is doable..." Huang Yi thought to herself.