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On Ancient Phoenix Island, after Ziyan completely devoured Feng Qing'er's flesh and blood, her usually flat stomach—despite countless consumed pills that had never caused any growth—unexpectedly bulged outward. Her complexion became unusually rosy, and her body radiated intense heat like a blazing furnace. Thick, violet energy surged from within her.
Not only that, but even the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit sealed within her palm began to emit a faint glow. A spectral image of a Taixu Ancient Dragon, spanning several dozen meters, along with the shadow of a Primordial Heavenly Phoenix, emerged from the fruit. These two of the world's most supreme magical beasts each let out their respective cries. Under their combined roars, the mountain-like pile of Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpses fell into utter silence. Even the other magical beasts dwelling on Ancient Phoenix Island prostrated themselves, gazing toward the island's center—toward Ziyan—with expressions of fear and reverence.
In the end, the two beastly phantoms, along with the violet energy radiating from Ziyan, converged and formed into a cocoon of light over ten feet wide, glowing with red, purple, and green hues. It fully enveloped her body, as the elemental energy of heaven and earth within Ancient Phoenix Island continuously gathered toward the cocoon.
Atop the mountain of Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpses, seated inside a massive cauldron and enduring the torment of Phoenix Heaven's refined blood, Qian Renhan glanced at Ziyan's glowing cocoon and said, "She's triggered the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit to break through into the Dou Zong realm. It seems Ziyan will gain tremendous benefits from this advancement. Once she becomes a Dou Zong, she can return to Ancient Dragon Island to fully awaken her bloodline and succeed the throne as Dragon Emperor."
After devouring Phoenix Heaven's soul, Qian Renhan gained full understanding of the cultivation methods of the magical beast race. Unlike humans who cultivate through techniques, magical beasts instead refine combat skills. This is because practicing human cultivation methods would taint their bloodline purity—something utterly unacceptable to magical beasts.
As a result, their cultivation speed, the purity and density of their energy, and future potential are entirely determined by the strength of their bloodlines. The stronger the bloodline, the faster the cultivation, and the greater the future accomplishments and combat prowess at the same rank.
Indeed, there are drawbacks. Unlike intelligent humans who can continuously innovate and grow stronger, magical beasts follow a fixed evolutionary path. Just look at the noble-blooded Feng Qing'er, who had to go to Wind and Thunder Pavilion to study combat skills, or Queen Medusa, who evolved into the Seven-Colored Devouring Python and, after spending just a few years in the desolate Northwest Continent, soared to the Dou Zun level.
In the blink of an eye, a week passed. Qian Renhan rose from the ancient cauldron filled with Phoenix Heaven's blood essence. The once vibrant cyan-red blood had turned into a clear, viscous liquid, and the fluid level had dropped from his shoulders down to his navel.
Behind him, the wings of the Fallen Angel looked lifelike, with each black feather appearing as unbreakable as jade. Strange cyan-red patterns flowed across the formerly jet-black feathers, resembling countless tiny blood vessels.
These densely packed lines gave the six pairs of wings an aura of mystery. As the wings trembled gently, a deep sonic boom rang out, and space itself cracked apart. A fierce wind burst outward from the vibrating skeletal wings.
What had once been wings the length of two arms had now expanded to over ten feet long, with a broader span as well. In the past, his six pairs of wings could barely shield him and a child. Now, they could protect multiple people at once.
Qian Renhan clenched his fist and casually punched forward at a nearby mountain peak that stood several hundred meters tall, rising straight like a pencil. With a deafening boom, the force of his punch shattered the space it passed through. A massive chunk of the mountain's waist exploded, and the entire peak split in two before collapsing completely.
The shockwave tore through the mountain and continued to fly like a meteor for over a thousand meters before finally dissipating.
After being tempered by the late-five-star Heavenly Demon Phoenix blood, and with the additional reinforcement from his external soul bones, Qian Renhan's physical strength could now rival that of Phoenix Heaven. This meant that even without employing any combat skills, he could go toe-to-toe with a five-star Dou Sheng using only his fists. With such a physical foundation, any melee combat technique he used would see its power multiplied severalfold, enabling him to face even peak six-star Dou Sheng experts.
When Qian Renhan had first arrived in the Battle Through the Heavens world and absorbed the energy of the Golden Dragon King's blood, his constitution—with the aid of nine soul bones—was only at the half-step Dou Zun level. Since then, his body had improved mainly through the enhancement of his external soul bones alongside his rising cultivation. Though he eventually reached the six-star Dou Sheng level, his physical body had remained only at the Dou Zun tier. But now, after being refined by Phoenix Heaven's essence blood, his body had fully ascended to the level of a five-star Dou Sheng—an improvement that was nothing short of terrifying!
Dressed and composed, Qian Renhan walked down from the mountain of Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpses. As his mid-stage six-star Dou Sheng cultivation flared, black Dou Qi flooded the massive pile of phoenix remains, forming a hill as it began to absorb and devour the corpses.
Just dozens of meters away from him, a huge cocoon several meters wide glowed with interweaving violet, green, and red light. Although its contents were obscured, the surging power it contained was undeniable. Whatever lay inside was clearly far from ordinary.
On the surface of the cocoon, the violet light pulsed rhythmically—brightening and dimming like the beat of a heart. The rhythm was so precise that anyone with keen senses would notice that, at the exact moment the light shifted, the elemental energy in the valley would ripple faintly. In the next instant, that abundant energy would be completely absorbed into the cocoon. Even a portion of the Dou Qi released by Qian Renhan was drawn in, causing the glow of the cocoon to become even more radiant.
Elsewhere, in the outside world, Void Devouring Flame followed the intel from Hun Miesheng, tracing a route from Central Plains to the Black-Corner Region's Jia Nan Academy, then to the Holy Pill City, and finally arriving at the Bone Mountain Range. Along the way, he inquired about Qian Renhan's whereabouts. When he sensed the residual presence of immense Dou Qi within the mountains, the corners of his lips curled up slightly as he remarked, "What an interesting person. Compared to Hun Tiandi, he might just be the better bet."
Back on Dragon-Phoenix Island, Qian Renhan had completely consumed the mountain of Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpses. His cultivation had risen to the early stage of seven-star Dou Sheng, while his soul power had reached the pinnacle of the Heavenly Realm. At the moment, he was refining his unstable Dou Qi—destabilized by the recent double breakthroughs—and quietly waiting for Ziyan to complete her transformation.
Perhaps it was the extraordinarily dense elemental energy of Ancient Phoenix Island—or perhaps the cocoon's absorption of Qian Renhan's Dou Qi—but in just half a year, the cocoon began to emit a dazzling brilliance.
As the radiance atop the cocoon grew more and more intense, a faint cracking sound finally echoed out. At that moment, the fine cracks that had formed along the cocoon's surface silently began to split open, releasing countless beams of radiant tricolor light.
From within the light came a soft humming sound—one that faintly carried the majestic pressure of both dragon and phoenix. What followed was an overwhelming bloodline aura, more than ten times stronger than that of Phoenix Heaven. The magical beasts across Ancient Phoenix Island, including even the Heavenly Demon Phoenixes living along its fringes, all dropped to the ground in submission.
(End of Chapter)