Tears still glistened on the girl's eyelashes, but she softened her voice and coquettishly begged for mercy. Chongming's hand that was holding her ankle trembled slightly, then he calmly adjusted her shoes and socks.
Yaohua carefully sized him up. Seeing that his expression remained cold, she puffed out her cheeks and said, "Master, don't be angry anymore. Mortals say that smiling can make one look ten years younger. If you always frown, won't you age a lot?"
Chongming kept a straight face and said nothing. She tilted her head, and her laughter was as clear as a silver bell. "But it doesn't matter. Master is so handsome, with extraordinary bearing, outstanding cultivation, and excellent character. Your charm will surely not be diminished by age. Men and women, humans, demons, and immortals from the age of three to eight thousand will all be deeply infatuated with you~"
Chongming didn't expect her to say such things. Speechlessly, he said, "I haven't even scolded you yet, but you're making fun of me? So disrespectful!"
Although he said so, his expression softened a lot.
Seeing this, Yaohua said, "Right now, Zhao Wu is probably still searching everywhere for my whereabouts. We should go back first."
"Back to the Phoenix Clan?" Chongming asked.
She paused for a moment, and her eyes flitted across his face. As the leader of the Phoenix Clan, it was only natural for her to return to the clan when she was injured. But his sudden question must hide something.
"If Master doesn't mind, you can also take me back to the Cangling Hall. I'm injured now and don't want my clansmen to worry." She said slowly.
Under normal circumstances, Chongming would surely not have agreed to her request.
However, now he just silently nodded, then picked her up and headed towards the Immortal Realm.
Yaohua let out a soft click of her tongue. Master must be planning to let her father and the others regain control of the Phoenix Clan while she was away.
However, she had already established a foundation in the clan these days. Even in the Immortal Realm, she could still transmit information through spiritual tablets.
It wouldn't be so easy for them to take away her power!
Since Master was being unusually gentle, she didn't want to argue with him about this. Moreover, as the highly - regarded leader of the Phoenix Clan, the people in the Immortal Realm no longer looked at her with strange eyes.
The two of them spent a happy time in the Cangling Hall.
One day, Yaohua was replying to the spiritual tablet messages from the clan when she suddenly heard footsteps.
Chongming came over with a tea tray in hand, frowning as he looked at her.
She burst out laughing.
"What are you laughing at?" Chongming placed the tea tray on the stone table and picked up one of the tea cups.
Yaohua simply put down the spiritual tablet and looked at him with a smile, propping her chin on her hand.
"Every time I'm dealing with clan affairs, you always have this expression on your face. But you're afraid of making me angry, so you don't say a word. You can only come and pour tea for me on purpose when I'm handling things... It's really pitiful and cute for a great god like you to look like this."
Chongming's hand holding the tea cup trembled slightly. "More and more disrespectful! What pitiful and cute... If you don't know how to describe someone, then copy three hundred volumes of the books in the library as punishment."
Yaohua couldn't help but gasp. "So harsh?"
Chongming snorted. "If it's not harsh, how can you learn your lesson? Are you not willing?"
"It's a pleasure to copy books in my leisure time if I can be with Master." Yaohua said with a smile. "It's okay. Bring me the writing brush and ink!"
She wasn't lying. She was willing to do anything as long as she could stay in the Cangling Hall.
Just as the saying goes, with long, delicate eyebrows, slightly slanting glances full of charm, giving one's soul through looks, and feeling happy just by being on one side...
Giving one's soul through looks, showing affection with the eyes... When she wrote to this part, her pen tip trembled involuntarily, and a big ink blot dropped. She couldn't help but feel annoyed. "What kind of lousy books did Rong Chu find? How can there be such words?"
She crumpled up the paper and threw it aside, then stuffed this mortal book, *Ode to the Shanglin Garden*, under the pile of books. She shook her sore wrist and was about to go out for some fresh air.
Unexpectedly, she heard a furtive conversation.
In the main hall, Rong Chu sighed. "Due to the theft of the Exquisite Pagoda and the escape of the Heavenly Demons, the chaos caused by the Heavenly Demons is becoming more and more rampant."
Chongming said in a deep voice, "Aren't there other magic tools for suppression? I've already said that the theft of the Exquisite Pagoda must be the work of an insider. If we want to fight the outside enemy, we must first deal with the internal problem."
"But the Divine Lord and the others don't think so." Rong Chu said helplessly. "The Divine Envoy Tu Yang has secretly sent people to invite the little princess three or four times, ordering her to go and suppress the Heavenly Demons. But you've been hiding all these things from her. I'm afraid this isn't a good idea."
Chongming's voice turned slightly cold. "Yaohua has only been the leader of the Phoenix Clan for a few days, and they're already using her at will. Now they want her to fight against the Heavenly Demons! If anything happens to her, who will be responsible?"
"But if you insist on protecting the little princess, you'll surely be punished again." Rong Chu said anxiously. "Although we all like the little princess very much, you've suffered so much for her over the years! It's obvious that the Divine Lord won't tolerate you..."
"Stop. How dare you talk about the Divine Lord casually?" Chongming immediately said. "The current situation inside and outside is unclear. Both I and the leader Qingcang only hope that Yaohua will be safe. If anything happens, we'll step up. She doesn't need to risk her life."
The conversation in the palace continued. Yaohua quietly left, and the things that happened in the secret realm involuntarily came back to her mind.
These days, she had been immersed in managing clan affairs and the relationships with other clans, and she had almost forgotten that the power of the Heavenly Demons was growing at an extremely fast pace.
If she could find the Exquisite Pagoda as soon as possible, she could lock the Heavenly Demons in it earlier, delay their offensive, and also prevent Master from being troubled by the Divine Lord.
She flipped her hand, and a small spiritual tablet appeared, which contained several clues about the Exquisite Pagoda.
At this time, the system suddenly spoke up. "Are you sure you want to go find the Exquisite Pagoda?"
She asked, "Do you know where it is?"
The system said, "The information is absolutely true, but I want 50% of the demonic energy from this trip!"
"30%. No more." Yaohua waved the spiritual tablet in her hand. "Anyway, I have my own sources of information."
The system reluctantly said, "Alright then... The Exquisite Pagoda is actually in the hands of Zhao Yue, the princess of the Heavenly Demon Clan, in the northern part of the Heavenly River."
Yaohua raised her eyebrows and looked at the spiritual tablet in her hand. The third location clue on the spiritual tablet was exactly the northern part of the Heavenly River.
"You're making this demonic energy easily." She spread her wings and headed towards the north of the Heavenly River, not forgetting to mutter to herself.
The system retorted, "Even if you have the location clues, it's still difficult to distinguish the real location from them. 30% of the demonic energy is already very cheap."
Maybe because the Exquisite Pagoda was about to be obtained, there was a rare excitement in its words.
Yaohua asked, "Is Zhao Wu in the north of the Heavenly River?"
"He's busy searching for you all over the world. Where does he have time to go back to the base?" The system urged. "Hurry up. If you're late, he might really come back."
The water of the Heavenly River roared against the shore, bone - chillingly cold. Yaohua lowered her eyes and casually glanced at the bottom of the river. In the secret realm, she had been imprisoned here for who knew how many years.
The system noticed something. "You have complex feelings for this river? Have you been here before?"