Chapter 1759 — A Strange Turn of Events (Part Two)
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Suddenly, Gu Mengyao gave a clear, piercing cry—bright and lovely, like the call of some bird of flight—and Wei Zhao and the others all felt their spirits lift. Then the golden radiance around her began to fade, the pair of golden wings at her back vanished, and her skin returned to its normal hue. At last her body swayed once, and she crumpled to the ground.
The whole process had lasted roughly half an hour.
Only then did Wei Zhao dare to hurry over. He lifted Gu Mengyao from the floor, laid her on the bed, and quickly began examining her condition.
Yet when he finished, he found nothing out of the ordinary. Gu Mengyao's pulse was entirely normal, her belly was not distended, and her stomach remained flat—heaven only knew where that black phoenix had gone, or whether it had simply been digested during those thirty minutes.
"Brother Arrow, how is Sister Yao Yao?" Shen Yushu asked anxiously.
"She looks perfectly normal." Wei Zhao shook his head. "I haven't found anything wrong..."
"Then what just happened..." Recalling it all, Tang Zhi still felt a lingering chill of dread. It had been far too eerie—as though in that moment Gu Mengyao had become a phoenix... In her daze, she had been struck by exactly that illusion.
"I don't know. It may be an aftereffect of eating that black phoenix, but for now she seems fine..." Wei Zhao said.
"Then when... when will she wake up?" Shen Yushu asked.
"I don't know. Right now she seems to be sleeping—we can only wait for her to wake naturally..." Wei Zhao smiled wryly, for he had never seen anything like this either. Had he known how bizarre it would be, he would never have bought the black phoenix; if Gu Mengyao came down with some illness from eating it, the fault would be his.
"Then for now..." Shen Yushu breathed a sigh of relief at hearing that Gu Mengyao was all right.
"For now, I don't know either. But to avoid any mishap, it's best to wait for her to wake on her own." Wei Zhao did not dare force her awake; he too feared something might go wrong.
"All right... I'd actually wanted a taste of that black phoenix myself, but now it looks so frightening that I'm glad I didn't." Shen Yushu patted her chest. "Sister Yao Yao kept it all to herself, and look what a mess it turned out."
"That doesn't seem to have been her intention. She wouldn't answer us when we spoke to her—she seemed to have no will of her own at the time." Tang Zhi had stayed in the room the whole while watching over Gu Mengyao, so her observations were the most careful of all.
"True enough, Sister Yao Yao isn't the type to keep things to herself..." Little Shu nodded. "But what happened just now really was terrifying, and I can't imagine what went wrong..."
"All we can do is wait for Yao Yao to wake up." Wei Zhao, equally at a loss, shrugged. "Everyone should get some rest early—dinner's off the table, ha ha."
"Right, let's rest then... and wait for Sister Yao Yao to wake tomorrow..." Shen Yushu nodded.
In truth, Wei Zhao was full of questions too, but there was no way to get answers now; they would have to wait until tomorrow. Perhaps that black phoenix truly was some spirit beast that could not be eaten at random, yet Gu Mengyao had swallowed it through a strange twist of fate, bringing about what had just happened...
Fortunately, apart from the visions she had displayed earlier, nothing else had gone wrong, which set Wei Zhao's mind somewhat at ease.
After returning to his room, Wei Zhao resumed his cultivation...
Yet none of those present—Wei Zhao included—had any idea that a world-shaking event had occurred tonight.
In the Palace of the Dark Night, at the very moment Gu Mengyao swallowed the black phoenix.
The Grand Elder hastily summoned the Palace Mistress, Wan'er, Elder Li, and the other elders together.
"Did any of you feel it?" the Grand Elder asked, brows tightly knit.