Chapter 542 - 292: Xia Qingying: Young Master Ling, You Wouldn’t Want...

"Master, you... have you finally returned?"

A gentle, beautiful voice, filled with a sense of ancientness, echoed faintly.

Amidst a low rumble, the entire Bronze Gate began to slowly sink, retracting into the ground after a dozen breaths.

Only then did Ling Changqing see that the Bronze Gate was nine feet thick. Furthermore, the material of this gate was undoubtedly Star Meteorite Heavy Crystal Iron.

Star Meteorite Heavy Crystal Iron was the final essence of embers left behind after stars in the sky met their end. It was then refined and forged by a Great Power using supreme Magical Power, and its hardness was beyond imagination.

If one were to attack it by force, even a joint effort by numerous Great Powers at the Refining Void or even Integration Realms, armed with Heavy Artifacts, would find it difficult to breach this gate.

However, he no longer had the mind to pay attention to the gate. His gaze was involuntarily drawn to the scene inside the hall.

In the very center of the Secret Hall, a great bell hovered in the air. It was purplish-blue all over, and within it, countless dark-gold Ancient Celestial Book Talismans flickered and flowed. It floated about thirty feet off the ground, exuding a vast and majestic pressure that washed over them.

This was the Flint Fire Divine Bell, the signature Heavy Artifact of the Hongmeng Divine Hall from long ago. Ling Changqing had seen its projection in the plaza earlier.

Beneath the great bell sat a graceful and slender figure. A seven-layered, ethereal, purplish-blue curtain of light, as thin as gauze, descended from the bell itself, enveloping her within.

Ling Changqing focused his gaze and saw a young maiden with crescent-moon brows and star-like eyes. Her jade-like face was ethereally beautiful, and her gorgeous eyes, as clear as autumn waters, were already open and looking toward the entrance.

When she gracefully stood up, her nearly naked, voluptuous, and enchanting body was dazzlingly fair. Only the most crucial areas were covered by shimmering Ice Blue Qilin Armor. She had a pair of perfectly rounded, stunningly long legs, and a waterfall of black hair that fell all the way to her feet.

"Qingsi, you’ve already hatched? How long have you been sleeping here?"

Seeing that it was her, Meng Feiyu breathed a sigh of relief, her beautiful eyes filled with joy.

The maiden called Qingsi smiled brightly. "Master, you were gone for too long. Protected by the mighty power of the Flint Fire Divine Bell, I finally hatched about ten thousand years ago. Since then, I’ve been sleeping here, waiting for Master’s return."

"So you’re not human..."

Ling Changqing could also see what was going on now. The life force within this maiden was simply terrifying—as vast and unfathomable as a glacial ocean.

This was by no means an endowment a human Cultivator could possess. Even Ling Changqing himself, as he was now, was far from her equal.

"This is a Kunpeng Egg that I went to great trouble to obtain back then,"

Meng Feiyu explained, "The time required to hatch her was far too long, and the resource requirements were a near-bottomless pit. It nearly exhausted the last reserves of the Divine Land."

"And she still hadn’t hatched by the time I decided to reincarnate. Left with no other choice, I had to leave her here..."

This maiden, Qingsi, was a true pure-blooded descendant of the Ancient Divine Beast, the Kunpeng. Because of this, she was madly fought over by all the Great Powers of the Ancient Era, sparking countless bloody conflicts.

In the end, Meng Feiyu’s past self had the last laugh. She schemed for a thousand years, employing a series of incredible, heaven-defying tactics to deceive all the great deities and successfully claim the Kunpeng Egg for herself.

But just to get her to hatch, the Hongmeng Divine Hall had invested a colossal amount of various Heavenly and Earthly Treasures and rare resources. Yet even as Meng Feiyu was about to reincarnate, she still hadn’t been born.

"Master, you mentioned to me back then that the outside world is too dangerous. Even after I was born, I was not to go out alone. I had to wait here for Master to return!"

The maiden Qingsi said shyly, her beautiful face blushing slightly.

"Mm, you’ve done well!"

Meng Feiyu said with satisfaction. ’It seems that with my husband by my side, my luck is truly unbelievable.’

After all, that Celestial Monarch Luo Qi’s abilities were no joke. If Meng Feiyu had returned a few centuries later, it was quite possible Luo Qi would have already deciphered the secrets of the Divine Land Ruins’ core area and beaten her to it.

"Eh? And you are?"

At this moment, the maiden Qingsi finally noticed the handsome, purple-robed youth beside Meng Feiyu. She curiously moved closer to size him up for a moment.

"...What a dense Qi of Creation! You must be a Child of Destiny, right? Were you also found by Master and brought back here?"

With the innate gifts of a Kunpeng, Qingsi naturally saw Ling Changqing’s extraordinariness at a glance. A special existence like him was nothing more than a legend, even in the distant Ancient Era.

"You’re right. He is my husband now, which means he is also the master you must serve for life!"

Meng Feiyu’s eyes shimmered, her heart filled with an indescribable pride and satisfaction.

"Then... very well! Qingsi greets Master!"

Qingsi curtsied gracefully, her undulating, seductive, and fiery curves on full display.

"There’s no need for such ceremony. Rise."

Ling Changqing said gently. After a moment of thought, he took out a set of magnificent, dark-cyan embroidered palace robes from his Storage Bracelet and handed them to her.

"It wouldn’t be convenient for you to go out looking like this. You should put on some clothes first."

"Mm, from now on, you must wear clothes at all times, except when you are before your husband. You cannot let any other male creature see your body or your face. Understand?"

Meng Feiyu said with a straight face, trying to hold back her laughter.

"Oh, Qingsi understands!"

The Kunpeng Maiden nodded, somewhat bewildered. Having been asleep ever since she was born, she naturally didn’t understand certain human ethics and morals.

’But that was fine. There’s plenty of time,’ Ling Changqing thought. ’I can slowly "educate" her in the future.’

Nearby, Bai Qingyi and Su Qinglian exchanged a look, marveling inwardly at Ling Changqing’s heaven-defying Blessed Fortune.

This legendary pure-blooded descendant of an Ancient Divine Beast possessed immense destiny of her own. Once she matured, she was bound to become one of the masters of great power who commanded the winds and clouds, standing at the Peak of this world.

In this day and age, forget pure-blooded descendants of Ancient Divine Beasts; even subspecies of Exotic Beasts with thin bloodlines were a rare sight.

In the Royal City of the Da Xia Divine Dynasty, a descendant of the Divine Beast Pixiu was kept. Despite its bloodline being quite diluted and its advanced age, it still possessed considerable power and served as the guardian Divine Beast of the Divine Dynasty’s Royal Family.

"...The resources I stored here are almost all gone. Don’t tell me you secretly ate them all?"

Meng Feiyu glanced around, and when she saw the empty chests, she understood most of what had happened.

Qingsi, having clumsily changed into the clothes, looked bashful and uneasy. She whispered,

"Master, when I was just born, I was terribly hungry, so I..."

As an Ancient Divine Beast, one could only imagine the terrifying appetite of a Kunpeng. She could digest not only Spirit Medicine and Spiritual Herbs and all sorts of Elixirs, but even various hard Spirit Gold Materials, Spiritual Treasures, and Magical Treasures.

If the body of the Flint Fire Divine Bell itself hadn’t been too hard, she might have even gnawed on this Heavy Artifact.

In the end, having only eaten until she was about half-full, she could only reduce her energy consumption by sleeping for long periods, waiting for the day Meng Feiyu would return.

"Forget it. What’s eaten is eaten."

Meng Feiyu sighed. "It’s all my fault for being inconsiderate and not preparing more food for you."

Fortunately, the few Lifebound Spiritual Treasures she had once used, as well as her Command Tokens, were still there. They were hidden in a secret compartment somewhere in the Secret Hall and hadn’t been found by Qingsi.

As streams of awe-inspiring light surged into her body, Meng Feiyu’s aura climbed steadily. She soon stepped into the Divinity Transformation Realm, only stopping temporarily when she reached the level of Divinity Transformation Peak.

The secret compartment was quite large. Inside were the core Cultivation Method Scripture inheritances of the Hongmeng Divine Hall: twenty-four shimmering, golden-green Silk Scrolls.

There were also hundreds of Jade Slips and Jade Books, Jade Steles and Jade Tokens, Beast Skin Ancient Scrolls, and Inscriptions on Metal and Stone—all part of the Hongmeng Divine Hall’s most precious and essential cultivation technique inheritance.

"I’ll hold onto these for now. After we get back, I’ll give them to you, husband. The sisters can also come and study them for their cultivation in the future."

Meng Feiyu said softly. The Hongmeng Divine Hall was now a thing of the past, and she had no intention of rebuilding its legacy. Following Ling Changqing was the most suitable path for her now.

"So now, can we deal with those Cultivators outside?"

Ling Changqing said. He still didn’t want those outside Cultivators running amok in the training grounds.

"Mm, I can now freely control all the Array Restrictions in the training grounds. Trapping them shouldn’t be difficult."

Meng Feiyu said.