Ten Thousand Soul Banner: Deceased, do you have any unfulfilled wishes?-Chapter 889 - 885: Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix
Hong Wenqing was still doubting himself, but Huang Yuntao had already quickly stepped forward to help open the car door.
Shen Siyuan carefully helped Ruan Hongzhuang into the car, while Taozi, without much hesitation, naturally opened the front passenger door and got in.
Huang Yuntao saw this but naturally didn’t say anything.
He already knew Taozi and was aware of her relationship with Shen Siyuan, so he neither deliberately pointed it out nor found it surprising.
In his view, ethics and morality mostly only constrain ordinary people.
Once someone stands at a high enough position with enough wealth in hand, those invisible constraints will always be quietly broken.
As long as the legal red lines aren’t crossed, others at most can only comment on a moral level, but they can’t actually intervene.
And those who can truly maintain their integrity at such a level are very rare. "Let’s go." Seeing that Huang Yuntao also got in the car, Shen Siyuan directly ordered, with a hint of urgency in his tone—there was already a house full of people waiting at home, and there couldn’t be any more delays.
The convoy started slowly, the wheels stirring up a subtle wind, and it was only then that Hong Wenqing suddenly snapped back to reality.
He widened his eyes, instinctively spreading his hands, and his voice was full of confusion: "Hey, I haven’t gotten in the car yet!"
Fortunately, he didn’t stay stunned for long, as another wedding car slowly pulled up in front of him.
Sitting in the back seat was a bridesmaid, who smiled and waved at him, signaling him to get in.
"Thank you."
Hong Wenqing opened the car door and sat inside, immediately thanking the bridesmaid, and accidentally noticing her striking figure.
Possibly bored on the road, the bridesmaid spoke first, with a hint of gossip in her curiosity: "Are you colleagues or classmates with Ruan Hongzhuang’s husband?"
"We’re university classmates," Hong Wenqing answered truthfully.
"That’s quite a connection!"
The bridesmaid smiled and introduced herself proactively.
"My name is Wu Yuru, a high school classmate of Hongzhuang. Nice to meet you."
With that, she extended her hand—her ten slender, fair fingers looked like carefully carved green onions, her features were neat, and her aura fresh, truly proving the saying "beautiful people always hang out with beautiful people."
"Hong Wenqing."
He stated his name, gently shook hands with her for a brief moment before retracting.
"Oh, right."
Wu Yuru suddenly remembered something, her eyes filled with curiosity,
"Was that lawn arranged by you in advance? It’s so beautiful, how did you manage it?"
"Uh..."
Hong Wenqing was momentarily speechless at the question, unsure of how to explain.
Not to mention Wu Yuru’s curiosity, even he was almost doubting his mental state because of the sudden blooming flower bed, how could he explain the reason behind it?
As he was racking his brains to find an explanation, the driver up front suddenly let out a low "huh," filled with surprise.
Hong Wenqing seized the topic immediately, diverting the conversation: "Driver, what’s up? Did something happen?"
"Look up ahead, where did all these birds come from?"
The driver said, stretching his neck to look ahead, his gaze fixed on the sky, his tone full of puzzlement.
"Birds?"
These words instantly piqued the curiosity of both Hong Wenqing and Wu Yuru.
The two of them simultaneously rolled down the windows, and the sound of chirping immediately poured into the car, crisp and bustling.
Following the driver’s gaze outside, they were both stunned by the scene before them—a dense mass of birds filled the sky, sparrows, pigeons, and some unidentifiable small birds, all gathered densely together, hovering directly above the leading wedding car.
As the wedding car moved forward slowly, the flock of birds followed along, creating a long, wavering "bird trail" that accompanied the convoy forward.
"Holy sh*t." Hong Wenqing couldn’t help but let out a vulgar word, genuinely shocked.
"How did you do this?" Wu Yuru was equally amazed.
"I have no idea," Hong Wenqing replied with a wry smile.
Previously, he wondered if he was mentally unstable, but the series of occurrences led him to suspect otherwise, after all, he wasn’t an idiot.
If he wasn’t the one with the problem, then it was either the world or others who had issues.
He was more inclined to the latter, and the answer to who it might be seemed imminent.
"Aren’t you friends? Don’t you have any idea?" Wu Yuru asked, somewhat skeptically.
Admittedly, what she said was a bit impolite, considering they had just met.
But her curiosity was insatiable, this was practically magical, completely defying common sense, stoking her curiosity even further.
"I’m not familiar with him," Hong Wenqing replied.
Wu Yuru: →_→
"Fine, if you don’t want to say."
"I really don’t know," Hong Wenqing said helplessly.
"Besides, he left me behind without a word when he got into the car himself."
At this point, Hong Wenqing felt a slight annoyance.
I treated you as a brother, but you regard me as an amoeba?
"What’s going on outside?"
The people in the lead car naturally noticed the anomaly in the sky too, prompting Huang Yuntao to drive more cautiously, afraid of hitting any birds.
Not that he feared hitting them, but on such a joyous day, it would be very unlucky to accidentally kill a bird.
So, he was particularly careful.
"Don’t worry, they won’t fall, just drive," Shen Siyuan reassured.
Ruan Hongzhuang gently lifted a corner of her red veil, her gaze surpassing the window to look at the unusual scene outside, her voice full of curiosity: "What’s with these birds?"
"They’re here to congratulate you on your marriage," Shen Siyuan turned his head to look at her warmly. Ruan Hongzhuang listened, chuckled slightly but didn’t question further.
Her mind was clear like a mirror, recognizing his words as mere pleasantries—since when do birds randomly come to congratulate marriages? She assumed Shen Siyuan used some method to draw these birds over, unbeknownst to her that it wronged Shen Siyuan.
In fact, the real reason these birds had gathered was because of her wedding attire.
This attire was no ordinary wedding garment; it had a special name, "Phoenix Robe"—not merely referring to embroidered phoenix patterns, but was a truly extraordinary treasure forged with Phoenix Blood.
Tracing its origins, it involves a sect named Qingxu Sect located in the Great Wilderness.
In those years, the Qingxu Sect’s Sect Master married a woman from an ancient tribe in the Great Wilderness, and this Phoenix Robe was one of the bridal gifts he prepared.
He planned to marry a woman from a tribe called the Sea Tide Tribe, known for their extraordinary legacy: the tribe’s bloodline was ancient, rumored to be descendants of ancient gods.
Even more peculiar, every tribe member, male or female, could awaken innate divine skills after coming of age.
This kind of bloodline legacy caught the attention of the Jiuyou Demon Lord.
Added to the fact that he had old grievances with the Qingxu Sect, compounded with new animosities, he intercepted and seized the bride halfway during the Qingxu Sect Master’s wedding.
After the upheaval, the Phoenix Robe fell into the hands of the Jiuyou Demon Lord.
However, despite its mythical properties, the Phoenix Robe didn’t impress the Jiuyou Demon Lord, who casually tossed it into the Ten Thousand Soul Banner’s Storage Space, gradually forgetting about it.
The internal structure of this Ten Thousand Soul Banner was rather peculiar, shaped like a beehive, with nine layers of restrictions, of which the restrictions from the second to the eighth layers were the most damaged, corresponding precisely to the middle area of the banner’s surface.
Previously, Shen Siyuan had been using only the second layer of the Ten Thousand Soul Banner as a Storage Space, where he even found the Netherworld Fire Fireflies from this layer.
Later, having accumulated a vast amount of merit, the Ten Thousand Soul Banner began to repair itself using the power of merit, gradually restoring the damaged areas, allowing him to control more layers of the space.
It was from one of these leftover old Storage Spaces that the Phoenix Robe was retrieved. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
However, since the Phoenix Robe was crafted from Phoenix Blood, it contained excessively dominant power, which an ordinary person couldn’t bear, let alone wear.
Luckily, Shen Siyuan was meticulous, meticulously neutralizing the violence in the Phoenix Robe with Merit Golden Thread, concealing its miraculous properties, allowing Ruan Hongzhuang to wear it without concern, as its supernatural features were entirely hidden away.
