Chapter 208: A Ray of Light Goes to the Sky

Mo Xiangbin just finished his words.

A hurried and sharp chirp suddenly appeared, and all people watched a ray of bright and colorful light rush out of the bird cage quickly.

It made a beautiful arc on the platform and flew over it, and then it slowly fell on a tall bodhi tree at the other end of the platform.

Then it disappeared.

“It’s the colorful phenix!”

Somebody in the crowd shouted, and then all people had reactions gradually.

But they still looked dull and hadn’t come back to earth from the wonderful view. They mumbled involuntarily, “How fantastic!”

Even the people from the Mo Country who knew that the colorful phenix had died couldn’t help but rub their eyes after seeing that.

They couldn’t believe that the colorful phenix was still alive.

After a long time, Yelü Anchen finally came to his senses and didn’t forget to stretch out his neck to check the bird cage, hoping to see the wonderful view once more.

However, after Shi Qingxue told some people to take away the black cloths outside the bird cage and the platform, the scene didn’t show up again.

The bird cage was empty, and the colorful phenix had flown away.

Yelü Anchen didn’t believe it and asked, “Where is the colorful phenix?”

“Of course it has flown away. Didn’t you see it?” Shi Qingxue answered in an instant.

“No! I have seen that the colorful phenix fell on that bodhi tree. Do you want to keep it in your country?” Yelü Anchen pushed hard and demanded Shi Qingxue to show them the colorful phenix.

Seeing is believing.

At the moment, he finally believed that the colorful phenix was still alive, and he just wondered how to get it so that he wouldn’t let his brother down.

Hearing that, Shi Qingxue blinked in surprise and asked in reply, “Prince, didn’t you say that you have read the book About the Qin Continent? Why don’t you know that the colorful phenix flies after entering the nirvana realm?”

“What?” Yelü Anchen certainly had never read such a boring book. What he knew about the colorful phenix came from Lord Ying’s instruction and the legend which was often heard and well remembered.

He didn’t know about the nirvana at all.

Then Shi Qingxue took out a book About the Qin Continent and put it in front of Yelü Anchen, turning the pages to the chapter of The Colorful Phenix, Nirvana and Rebirth.

She pointed at the sentences on it and read every word, “The colorful phenix shows up rarely, once in one thousand years. Now it has been in the world for more than ten years and made the countries and people peaceful, with a lot of contributions. At noon on the tenth day of Lunar August, its nirvana becomes a beam of colorful light and goes back to heaven…”

After she finished reading, she explained as she saw the others’ confused expression, “Today is the tenth day of Lunar August and the time for the colorful phenix to fly to heaven as the nirvana. Didn’t you see that it became a beam of colorful light and flew to the sky?”

“But it’s said in the book that one thousand years ago, the colorful phenix went to heaven after being in the world for more than ten years. However, this time, only two or three months passed since the colorful phenix was found. How can it become nirvana so soon? It’s just that your country wants to occupy the colorful phenix, and you hide it intentionally.”

Yelü Anchen didn’t know about these records in the book About the Qin Continent and thought that there was something wrong by instinct.

Shi Qingxue was evasive and responded simply, “We found the colorful phenix not long ago, but it doesn’t mean that it just arrived at the Qin Continent, right? However, you have seen that the colorful phenix became a ray of light and flew to the sky, and it is true.

“If you don’t believe me, you can go to look for it under the bodhi tree and check if it is hidden in the tree by us.”

She spoke calmly and even stepped aside to make the opposite big bodhi tree exposed in Yelü Anchen’s eyes.

Seeing that, Yelü Anchen was hesitant and asked, “Who knows if you secretly sent people to hide in the tree and conceal the colorful phenix when it stopped there for a rest?”

Shi Qingxue expressed that she couldn’t make it as Yelü Anchen guessed.

Although the bodhi tree was tall and big and could cover all the sky, its trunk was straight and if somebody was hiding in it, he couldn’t flee secretly under all people’s eyes.

Obviously, Yelü Anchen knew this point and was rendered speechless by Shi Qingxue.

But he was reluctant!

Flying to heaven must be a lie.

He turned to Wu Yalei, and the latter stepped forward, saying, “Lady Qingxue, since you have said that we can check the bodhi tree, then we will do as you say.”

Shi Qingxue frowned slightly and didn’t expect that Wu Yalei was so persistent, but she didn’t refuse his request.

She moved one step backward and made way, with a gesture to invite him.

“Help yourselves.”

Wu Yalei was not as confident as before after seeing Shi Qingxue’s calmness.

He believed that the colorful phenix must have been hidden in some place, and at the same time he thought that Shi Qingxue was so calm and wouldn’t give them a chance to find the evidence against her.

With hesitation, Wu Yalei led some people to walk along the path that the colorful phenix had passed and then circled around the bodhi tree.

And he even told somebody to fly to the tree and check for quite a while.

Then Wu Yalei came back slowly and reported to Yelü Anchen, with a grim face. “Your Highness…”

“What? Have you found the colorful phenix?” Before Wu Yalei finished his words, Yelü Anchen asked in a hurry.

“We have checked everywhere that the colorful phenix might be hidden, but…” Wu Yalei paused for a minute.

He spoke out his conclusion helplessly. “But we found nothing.”

“No way! The colorful phenix must be hidden somewhere!” Yelü Anchen didn’t have any evidence but insisted that the people in the Mo Country had hidden the colorful phenix.

Then he declared that he would send more people to search more places.

Under the situation, not only the people from the Mo Country thought that Yelü Anchen was unreasonable, but Zhao Haoran also got impatient.

“The ins and outs are mentioned in the book About the Qin Continent, but you repeatedly doubt that His Majesty has hidden the colorful phenix, while you can’t show any evidence, Prince. I am afraid that others would think that you have some plots.”

Yelü Anchen jumped as if somebody stepped on his tail. “I just worry that somebody wants to privately take possession of the colorful phenix. What plot can I have? Prince Haoran, aren’t you afraid that something like this would happen?”

Zhao Haoran kept silent for a while. He wasn’t afraid at all.

Especially after he saw the amazing scene that the colorful phenix flew to heaven as the nirvana, his only thought was that he had finished his job.

“I just believe what I have seen. Just now all of us saw that the colorful phenix became a beam of light and flew to the sky. What should we worry about?”

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Zhao Haoran’s tone was cold and he just temporized.

He didn’t want to go along with Yelü Anchen in the evil deeds. No matter how aggressive Yelü Anchen was, he couldn’t be too reckless under people’s watchful eyes.

Yelü Anchen got furious and waved his sleeves to leave once more.

Zhao Haoran also stood up and bowed to Mo Xiangbin. “Your Majesty, I came to your country under orders to celebrate your birthday and to see the legendary holy bird, the colorful phenix. Now I have achieved both goals. Please allow me to return to the Zhao Country with the envoys.”

Mo Xiangbin wanted Zhao Haoran to leave quickly, so he agreed at once and gave a lot of gifts to this prince and Wei Shuye who also asked to return home.

As soon as the outsiders left, Mo Xiangbin couldn’t wait to summon Shi Qingxue.

He asked in a hurry, “Qingxue, where is the colorful phenix? Where did you hide it?”

“Your Majesty, the colorful phenix’s carcass is still in King Rui’s mansion, and we didn’t bring it here,” Shi Qingxue answered honestly.

She thought, “If we brought the colorful phenix’s carcass here openly, wouldn’t we give Yelü Anchen a chance to question us?”

But Mo Xiangbin didn’t believe her and stated, “There is no outsider here. Don’t cheat me, Qingxue. You have obviously saved the colorful phenix. Let it out quickly!”

“I didn’t cheat you. The colorful phenix has died, and you have seen it, Your Majesty. Why…” Shi Qingxue was more puzzled than Mo Xiangbin.

At that time, Mo Xiangbin had personally sent somebody to check the colorful phenix’s carcass, but why did he think that it was still alive like Yelü Anchen did?

“But just now you…” Mo Xiangbin didn’t finish his words and showed a doubtful expression.

Just now all people had seen the colorful phenix fly out of the bird cage to the bodhi tree.

Shi Qingxue couldn’t help laughing and then explained helplessly, “Your Majesty, you have misunderstood. That was only a small trap. I just read the story about the colorful phenix’s nirvana one thousand years ago from the chapter of The Colorful Phenix in About the Qin Continent, so I was inspired and figured out a way to make everybody think that the colorful phenix flew to heaven as nirvana on the tenth day of Lunar August once more.”

“Then what did we see just now?” Even though Shi Qingxue made it clear, Mo Xiangbin still hoped.

Maybe the colorful phenix was still alive.

“There was no colorful phenix just now. What you saw was just a ray of colorful light.”

Ling Ruiyin thought back and nodded, “It was a ray of colorful light indeed, but wasn’t it the colorful light that the colorful phenix became after its nirvana?”

“Of course not. It was just the water light that I asked Wei Zichao to make with a skill.”

Shi Qingxue revealed the fact, but all the others present except Mo Junyang were still confused.

She couldn’t explain it clearly, so she had to ask Wei Zichao to arrange the platform again.

Music appeared again and everything was like before.

Then a chirp rushed to the sky, and all people’s eyes focused on the bird cage covered with black cloths again.

Next second, another beam of colorful light shot to the sky from the bird cage.

Something more magic happened. This time, the colorful light didn’t disappear but stopped in the high sky all the time and made a beautiful and colorful arc.

“Wow!”

All people exclaimed again and looked at the colorful light, unable to take their eyes off it.

Then Shi Qingxue told the servants to turn off the music.

Everybody still stared at the colorful light for a while. Suddenly somebody found something wrong.

Ling Ruiyin turned her head and looked around. Then she listened carefully before asking in confusion, “Why is there water sound? Have you heard it?”

Others nodded one after another, showing that they also heard the strange sound.

Shi Qingxue told somebody to take away the black heavy cloth.

And what happened on the platform could be seen in a glance.

Wei Zichao stood next to the bird cage with a long water tube in his hand.

The water sprayed out of the tube, and the so-called colorful light was added on the mark of the water.

“How is it like this?” Ling Ruiyin marveled at it.

All people understood that after the mystery was revealed that the colorful phenix became the light, and it was just the inconspicuous water light. If Shi Qingxue hadn’t intentionally played the loud and exciting music, it might have been exposed as soon as the water sound appeared. But why was the water light colorful?

Shi Qingxue smiled slyly and pointed to the sun at noon. “Because of the sunshine. When the sun is burning after the rain, we can occasionally see the colorful rainbow. It’s mysterious and attractive, regarded as the good omen.

“But when I was a child, my grandpa took me into the deep mountains to exercise, and I once saw a colorful rainbow which lasted for a long time under a waterfall because the waterfall fell with its back to the sun and the reflected sunshine formed a beam of beautiful and colorful light.

“So I asked Wei Zichao to make the water pillar shot opposite to the sun with his internal force. Under the scorching sun, the scene was formed before your eyes.”

All people finally showed that they were suddenly enlightened and clapped to praise Shi Qingxue for her wisdom as she could think of such a wonderful way to make the false impression that the colorful phenix flew to heaven as nirvana.

“You deserve to be Elder Duke Shi’s most loved granddaughter. Your courage and intelligence just take after him!” Shi Qingxue just saved Mo Xiangbin from embarrassment, so he was generous to highly praise her and then gave her lots of gifts for girls.

Afterward, he paid her a high compliment.

Shi Qingxue was modest and didn’t take the credit for herself. She said that it was the ancestors’ idea and she just borrowed it.

Ling Ruiyin grabbed Qingxue’s hand with satisfaction and complimented, “Don’t be modest. Even if something like this happened in the past, why didn’t others figure out such a way? Girl, you didn’t let me down!”

“Your Majesty, thanks for your words.” Shi Qingxue scratched her hair with shyness.

Shi Qingxue gave a play about the colorful phenix flying to heaven as nirvana and concealed the fact that it had been poisoned to death. Yelü Anchen planned to find fault but couldn’t make it, so he had to endure it.

After the people from the Zhao Country and the Wei Country returned home, he had to go back to his country resentfully with the envoys.

Before leaving, he specially went to King Rui’s mansion and spoke to Mo Junyang cruelly. “Mo Junyang, wait and see. I will make you suffer a living death sooner or later.”

Mo Junyang ignored him and turned around to return to his room.

Qu Yuebai was afraid that the prince would go crazy after seeing him so furious, so he said something pleasant to hear and sent him away.

Yelü Anchen returned without accomplishing anything, so he hated Mo Junyang and even all people from the Mo Country and swore that he would destroy this country someday.

Nobody knew how much trouble he would cause in the future.

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