The Celestial Phoenix Has Too Much Lust-Chapter 44: My Phoenix Has Obtained the Balance Infant

When they ascended to the third floor of the palace, there was a door at the end of the hallway featuring a painting of a red dragon with beautiful golden antlers, resembling those of a deer, with its mouth open. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

A maidservant bowed before them. "Master Byeong is expecting you."

As they followed her steps, they walked through masterfully decorated corridors. The maid knocked on the door almost mechanically.

"Enter..."

The maid pulled the door aside, revealing a room with an extremely elegant charm. The fragrant scent of tea mixed with delicate incense smoke covered the place, as if it were some sacred sanctuary.

"Ling Niang... Maid Mi-un... you may leave."

Ni Ni Layan watched as the two bowed, withdrew, and closed the door behind them. Her gaze was now fixed on a man with a thick beard covering half his face down to his neck, wearing white decorated clothes with a maroon robe. It was clear he was in the Mid-Stage of the Nascent Soul.

"Why are you standing there? You may sit."

Ni Ni Layan didn’t listen to him. She kept staring at him with distrustful eyes. He remained with his eyes closed, sipping his tea. Before speaking, Ni Ni Layan spread her spiritual sense everywhere to ensure they weren’t being monitored or that an ambush wasn’t being prepared.

"I am not here to sit. Furthermore, I don’t need anything from any of you. So, don’t waste my time and save your gratitude."

The Elder didn’t seem focused on her as much as he was on his teacup. However, he spoke while sitting on the floor before the tea table.

"I understand your resentment. Naturally, a genius like you would consider this place a chicken coop. But I truly wondered what kind of genius the Young Lady is, so don’t worry—I’m not here just to thank you."

Ni Ni Layan was on the verge of losing her patience. "Then I shall take my leave and wait for Morse to arrive."

The Elder stood up from his seat.

"Wait... I’ve already prepared the tea. There’s no harm in sitting and drinking it. Also, I have a job offer for you."

Ni Ni Layan smiled as she thought about the kind of job offer he would present... but she decided to refuse anyway. She wasn’t interested. She didn’t care for money, and nothing he possessed could stir her interest.

"I don’t want to. You can drink the teacup yourself."

Ni Ni Layan was just about to open the door to leave...

"You may leave... but I heard you are looking for information about Morse. That the reason for your intrusion here was to discover details about him... Believe me, you won’t regret staying."

Ni Ni Layan’s hand retreated, returning to her side as she turned back, looking slightly resentful. She didn’t know how this Elder knew what she had come for in the first place—searching for the truth about Morse’s identity.

"Have you heard the joke about the swimming pool...?"

The Elder said something extremely strange while smiling. He stepped away from the tea table and went to a shelf, moved some pieces, and revealed a secret compartment.

"No... I haven’t heard it."

"Neither have I... but since it sparked your interest, I have something even more intriguing. If you help me, I will tell you the joke about the Strange Man."

Ni Ni Layan felt a sense of aversion, yet she decided to proceed.

"Oh... and I have another joke. I could tell the joke of the lascivious woman."

Elder Byeong looked at her as he pulled out the spherical crystal before his eyes...

it was completely transparent, like a piece of perfect ice. He raised his hand for her to see it clearly, then tossed it toward her.

The crystal ball reached her hands, and as she examined it, she noticed a complex energy emitting from within.

"This is a crystal I found in a secret realm hidden in the Blue Mountain... a very famous secret realm. I have not found anyone expert enough in arrays; you can unlock it. And, of course, you can ask any question afterward."

Ni Ni Layan looked at the crystal. She channeled her spiritual energy into it and began to inspect it down to its finest details. Ni Ni Layan smiled inwardly, thinking...

This man was stupid. This crystal carried within it a fully grown Demonic Child.

He simply wanted to control her through the child, unaware that she had devoured a Demonic Child before. In other words, this Demonic Child would not affect her.

"So I can ask any question... if I unlock the crystal’s array?"

The old man smiled.

"Certainly... anything at all."

Ni Ni Layan didn’t know why, but she felt a sense of foreboding.

"I can unlock the array... but surely you’ve met other experts before me who tried to unlock this. What were their observations?"

The Elder raised his hands. "You are very sharp. Certainly, someone saw it before you, but as you know, no one reached the required level to open it. Why? Are you facing some kind of trouble?"

Ni Ni Layan laughed inwardly. She thought she had already discovered his trick—that he intended to control her via the Demonic Child. Therefore, she decided to show him a glimpse of terror so he would know he was messing with the wrong person.

Ni Ni Layan poured her spiritual energy into the crystal; her energy, which was truly staggering to the Elder, flooded the crystal and lit it up completely. The array was indeed unlocked.

"Heh... look at this, you fool..."

Despite the fact that she had just insulted him, he didn’t even bat an eyelid as he watched the red energy emerge from the crystal before Ni Ni Layan, who was fully controlling the energy and subduing it.

{Noooo! You bastard, you tricked me!} The Demonic Child screamed as it was being completely absorbed.

"Do you think I’m a fool? I’m not affected by this nonsense, you idiot..."

But she felt a strange sensation as she looked at Elder Byeong, who didn’t move a muscle, acting as if nothing was happening. She had already absorbed the strange red aura and digested it completely.

{Demonic Child has been absorbed by the Host... and fully digested by the Host’s soul. Skill gained: [Yang death]. Skill merged with [Too Much Lust].}

"What does this mean...?"

Suddenly, for the first time since her reincarnation, Ni Ni Layan felt... cold. A coldness from the inside out. The balance within her body was collapsing entirely. She began to enter a state of urgent, desperate need for Yang to compensate for the void.

Her legs gave out, and her body began to collapse.

"Do you know now who the fool is? This is no ordinary Demonic Child.

It is from the remains of the most powerful person in the history of the Xuan family.. Shi Ning Xuan, who possessed the only complete version of the technique...Here, lust becomes based on the very existence of the entity rather than a mere need. It is a curse."

Ni Ni Layan couldn’t believe it. She was the Celestial Phoenix... the Phoenix of Fire... the Phoenix of the Sun. How could her Yang be shattered so easily? She hadn’t realized that the Demonic Child Technique was this sinister.

"But... how? You knew... you knew that I had already absorbed a Demonic Child, so you knew an ordinary one wouldn’t work."

Elder Byeong laughed a booming, thunderous laugh.

"Hahaha! Please... do not call it a ’Demonic Child’ again. That is a wretched name. It wasn’t even a demonic technique to begin with. Its true name is the Balance Infant; it is a technique of the Transcendence Level."

Ni Ni Layan was shocked. Techniques of that level were national treasures for entire sects; how could a technique like this exist in this clan?

She was in real trouble now. She could barely fight in this state, and with her falling into this condition of intense lust, she was in a crisis. The Elder began to approach her.

"Wait... didn’t you tell me I could ask anything?"

"Yes... you can."

"Then what is the joke about the ’Strange Man’?"

The Elder was surprised by her question; he hadn’t expected it. But he decided to answer, since he was speaking about himself.

"Have you ever heard of a strange man who lived his life and didn’t die at the expense of an ordinary person? You have. Then, have you heard of a strange man who lived instead of a young man full of health and strength? You could be like that. But have you heard of the strange man who lived off the life of a young talent?"

Ni Ni Layan didn’t understand. Who was this strange man? Why did he keep saying "Have you heard"? Did this have a meaning?

"You might have heard, but I have seen him... but he began to go mad, believing he had transcended the limits of the world... he began to ascend..."

Ni Ni Layan started to laugh. "Hahaha... that is truly funny. How is that possible? He really is a strange man."

What the hell? Nothing is funny—why is she laughing?

The Elder’s eyebrows twitched, but he didn’t notice... that the ceiling was melting.

In an instant, the ceiling above him was pierced. He moved away immediately as a man plummeted through, radiating Yang energy. His eyes were glowing, his heartbeat was audible, and his presence overflowed with a majestic Yang aura that resembled the presence of the sun.

The door behind Ni Ni Layan burst open, revealing dozens of high-level warriors, while others stood behind the hole in the ceiling.

" move your flabby hand away from my Phoenix!"

When he opened his mouth, a sharp light emerged from within, as if he had swallowed the sun itself. It was as if the two energies had found the other side of their coin: Solar Yang and Lunar Yin. Their coexistence was utterly majestic.

"What is the Thirtieth Elder doing here? Didn’t you say we could convince her ourselves... that we wanted her as a disciple? You are breaking your promise!"

Morse didn’t know what to say. It was as if he had entered like a hero to save the heroine, but he only wanted to calm his own Yang energy—and accidentally stopped an evil conspiracy.