Chapter 810: The Struggle for the Righteous Wife
"Whew—! Finally settled down..."
Chen Huaian looked at the motionless Vermilion Bird lying on the ground and let out a sigh of relief.
This was his first ti becoming a Void Fusion Realm cultivator, his first ti condensing his own world. He had been extrely nervous, afraid his world wouldn't be strong enough, or that it would be connected to the miniature worlds of the Cangyun Realm, potentially dragging the Moon Shadow Sect to Earth Star...
There were pros and cons.
He didn't want the Moon Shadow Sect disciples to beco entangled in the karma of Earth Star's cycle of reincarnation.
But if the Moon Shadow Sect could truly co to Earth Star, it would undoubtedly lessen his burden and increase his chances of dealing with the Celestial God Clan.
Fortunately, his main body's world and his avatar's world were not connected.
He would just have to see how the worlds would rge when his main body and avatar fused in the future.
Chen Huaian took out the dicinal pill he had prepared in advance and stuffed it into the Vermilion Bird's mouth. This Celestial-grade pill was truly miraculous. Even though the Vermilion Bird was unconscious and unable to swallow, the pill lted upon entering its mouth, transforming into a wisp of pale golden energy that instantly spread throughout the Vermilion Bird's entire body.
The pale golden energy finally coalesced at the location of the Vermilion Bird's heart. That heart, which had already stopped beating, beca active once more.
Thump-thump-thump—!
The heartbeat grew stronger and more powerful, shaking the entire upper level of the Demon Sealing Pagoda.
Seeing the resplendent feathers regrowing on the Vermilion Bird's body and its aura gradually shifting from chaotic and violent to gentle and auspicious, Chen Huaian knew the Vermilion Bird's incomplete soul was gradually returning with the help of the Celestial-grade pill.
Simultaneously, a scorching heat washed over him.
—Samadhi True Fire ignited on the Vermilion Bird's body, its aura already climbing to its peak state.
Its tightly shut eyes suddenly opened.
A fleeting flash of flowing, fiery gold.
In the next second, the Vermilion Bird vanished from before Chen Huaian's eyes.
Whoosh—!
A gale carrying embers whipped up Chen Huaian's robes.
By the ti he reacted, the Vermilion Bird had already appeared before him. Its massive body stood behind him, its broad wings casting a pitch-black shadow. Its slender head twisted at an absurd angle, looking at him upside down.
"You... have the scent of that old beast and that wretched woman on you!"
Old beast and wretched woman?
Chen Huaian barely needed to think to know who the Vermilion Bird was talking about.
The Azure Dragon and the Phoenix.
Legend said the Vermilion Bird and the Phoenix were at odds. He had thought it was just a joke, but it seed it might actually be true.
"As the inheritor of the Ancestral Dragon, This Venerable One naturally adopts an inclusive attitude towards all Auspicious Beasts, regardless of whatever grudges exist between you." Chen Huaian said sternly with a straight face.
The Vermilion Bird narrowed its eyes, sizing up Chen Huaian up and down, then suddenly said, "That wretched woman bestowed upon you the Phoenix Divine Fire?"
"Correct." Chen Huaian nodded honestly.
"You cannot have her fire. You must have mine!" The Vermilion Bird stamped its claw on the ground forcefully. The flas dancing in its fiery eyes flickered, clearly indicating its mood was not pleasant.
"This Venerable One also thinks your fire is excellent. We are all adults. To beco stronger, one naturally wants both..." Chen Huaian rubbed his nose, unable to understand where this Vermilion Bird's possessiveness and competitive spirit ca from.
Compared to the Phoenix's temperant, the Vermilion Bird seed a bit like the original spouse facing a mistress crisis after marriage, its entire bird-body radiating resentnt.
"No, you must choose one!"
The Vermilion Bird stared fixedly at Chen Huaian. "Since she bestowed the Phoenix Divine Fire upon you first, your mastery of the Fire Dao must already be fifty or sixty percent. Why not test whose fire is more powerful!"
Upon hearing this, a strong sense of foreboding surged in Chen Huaian's heart.
The next second.
Screeeech—!
With an ear-shattering shriek.
Chen Huaian's vision was engulfed by a sea of raging flas.
Before he rescued the Vermilion Bird, it breathed fire at him.
After he rescued the Vermilion Bird, it still breathed fire at him.
And not only did it breathe fire, but the power was now more than double what it was before the rescue?
Chen Huaian felt like he was going to crack.
After the Vermilion Bird regained its sanity, given its status as an Auspicious Beast, Chen Huaian had hardly been on guard against it. He had allowed it to approach freely. Now that the Vermilion Bird suddenly attacked, even if he wanted to summon his sword, it was already too late. He could only watch helplessly as he was subrged by the sea of fire.
However, that unbearable sensation of scorching heat did not appear.
Another clear cry, distinctly different from the Vermilion Bird's, rang out.
A pair of fiery wings composed of flas unfolded behind Chen Huaian. The wings curled inward, forming a shield-like shape to protect him.
Simultaneously, another, more profound fla began to burn upon Chen Huaian's body.
"You wretched woman, you're still here after all!" Seeing the fiery wings, the Vermilion Bird was both shocked and furious, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. It leapt up and flapped its wings at Chen Huaian again, instantly causing the storm of flas descending upon him to beco even more violent.
Before Chen Huaian, the deep crimson phoenix wings ford from the Phoenix Divine Fire violently swayed and flickered under the impact.
But they ultimately managed to block the Vermilion Bird's flas.
Seeing this, the ferocity in the Vermilion Bird's eyes intensified. Its eyeballs transford, and it dove down as a pure firebird composed entirely of Samadhi True Fire.
Chen Huaian felt a wave of heat in his body.
As if sothing scalding had invaded him.
The next second—
"Bitch! You still dare to protect him!"
The Vermilion Bird's voice actually exploded directly within his Sea of Consciousness, full of fiery anger.
"Shut up!" Another cold, haughty female voice imdiately followed. "Is throwing a tantrum all you can do when your skills are inferior?"
Chen Huaian felt as if two shrews were quarreling inside his head, creating a buzzing noise.
Even worse, the clash between the two divine fires outside his body suddenly escalated.
The fiery gold Samadhi True Fire and the deep crimson Phoenix Divine Fire were no longer content with external confrontation.
As if possessing life, they transford into two torrents of blazing heat and violently surged into the ridians and marrow throughout his body.
"Argh—!"
Despite Chen Huaian's resilient will, he couldn't help but let out a muffled groan.
His body instantly beca a battlefield for the two great Auspicious Beasts.
On his left side, the Samadhi True Fire rampaged violently. His ridians felt as if they were being scoured by molten lava. His skin took on a terrifying fiery gold hue, emitting scorching white steam, making him look like half a sun that had fallen to the mortal realm. On his right side, the Phoenix Divine Fire burned with a profound heat. That warmth felt capable of scorching the soul. Deep crimson fla patterns spread beneath his skin, making him look like a fire demon stepping out from the abyss.
Two completely different fla powers wildly clashed and tore at each other within his body.
Wherever they passed, his ridians felt on the verge of splitting, his flesh and blood seed about to be incinerated to ash.
Extre pain nearly drowned his consciousness.
"Get out! This is mine and the Azure Dragon's territory!" The Vermilion Bird's will rampaged arrogantly.
"A joke! Since when has the Dragon Soul inheritor beco your private property?" The Phoenix did not retreat a single step.
Chen Huaian felt dizzy from the noise, and his internal state was like hell.
He knew he couldn't continue like this. Otherwise, before they determined a winner, he would explode and die first.
Everything had been going so smoothly before.
He really didn't want to fall here.
Fall in the struggle for the position of 'main wife' between two Auspicious Beasts.
"All of you... be quiet!"
He gritted his teeth fiercely, a flash of ruthlessness in his eyes, and began operating the Heavenly Demon Art at full power.
Since he couldn't expel them, he would devour and refine them!
Pitch-black Demonic Energy surged from his dantian.
Instead of confronting the two divine fires head-on, it wound around the most intense nodes of the fla clash like a vicious, sinister serpent, forcibly peeling off and devouring wisps of the dispersing fire source energy! This process multiplied the pain, like pouring ice water over red-hot branding irons. Extre heat and extre cold wreaked havoc alternately within his body.
Chen Huaian's face turned deathly pale, sweat poured down like rain, and his body trembled uncontrollably.
Yet, amidst this inhuman tornt, under the domineering refining power of the Heavenly Demon Art, a subtle change quietly occurred.
The originally distinct and mutually exclusive Samadhi True Fire and Phoenix Divine Fire, in the process of being forcibly blended and refined by the Demonic Energy, began to show a strange fusion at the most fundantal level of their Fire Dao.
It was no longer simple opposition. On the brink of destruction and rebirth, sothing deeper was being nurtured.
An extrely faint, chaotic-colored fla spark, seemingly containing the true essence of all flas between heaven and earth, quietly sprouted deep within Chen Huaian's dantian, born amidst endless agony.
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