Chapter 107 – The Phoenix Ode to the World Canon Remnants (II)

Passing through the sealing formation, Yun Che was surprised to find that this place was actually a flat stone chamber. The stone room was unusually wide, and was a hundred meters long both vertically and horizontally, not to mention the two hundred or so people, even if it was ten times that, it would be enough to accommodate them. Both sides of the stone room have a long stone ladder, it seems that there is a layer above. And right in front of the stone room, there was a long passageway. The passage was roughly dozens of meters long, and at the end of it, there was clearly a slowly rotating, red formation that was the same as the sealing formation outside.

The formation that sealed the entrance cut off sight, but it did not cut off sound. The howls of the Black Demon mercenaries outside came in clearly and continuously.

“Blast this formation away!” This was the Black Demon’s voice.

With that, a slight crashing sound came in from outside before a pig-killing scream suddenly rang out, “Ahhhh! Fire! My hand is on fire, ah ah~~~”

“Back off! All of you back off! Damn it! This sealing formation is so weird, there must be some heavenly treasure hidden inside! Give me shifts to guard here! I don’t believe they won’t come out!”

Although they had arrived at a safe place, the shadow of fear still enveloped everyone in the Phoenix Remnant Clan, and the voices coming from outside caused their hearts to despair even more. Yun Che frowned tightly, and after thinking for a long time, he said to Lan Xueruo, “Senior sister, roughly how long will it take for your Giant Snow Eagle to wake up.”

Lan Xueruo shook her head and said worriedly, “I don’t know either. Little Snow has overdrawn not only its strength but also its life force this time, so perhaps it will take a long time to wake up, maybe a week, maybe a month …… and possibly longer.”

“If it can wake up, how many people can it fly out with at once?”

“Ten people shouldn’t be a problem.” Lan Xueluo said.

“Ten people ……” Looking at the more than two hundred people in the stone room, his brows tightened more and more. If the Giant Snow Eagle woke up, it would not be a problem at all for him and Lan Xueruo to escape. But he believed that with Lan Xueruo’s temperament, she would never be willing to leave these people behind …… although their deaths and lives could be said to be irrelevant to her.

“Finally, I still hid here, I hope I won’t offend the Phoenix’s deity.” Feng Baichuan stood at the entrance of the cave, his face full of sorrow and resentment, as well as sadness and hopelessness.

“At least you can save your lives for the time being, the phoenix is a divine spirit, it’s unlikely that it would blame you for something like this.” Yun Che said as he walked to his side.

“Let’s hope so.” Feng Baichuan sighed, “For these many years, our clan has been at peace and trembling with fear, never daring to do anything that might anger the Phoenix Spirit, because we are truly afraid, I didn’t expect that today is still the day……. And even if this is the case, it can only be a temporary peace of mind, and you’ve heard the voices of these evil thieves It was. They are obviously going to keep guarding the cave entrance all the time. There is no food and water here, we simply can’t support a few days, the old people and children are even more …… alas.”

“For food and water, I do have some here, more than two hundred people, if we save them, we can support them for ten days and half a month.” Yun Che said.

“You?” Feng Baichuan looked at Yun Che with a look of disbelief. Yun Che’s body was clearly clean, he hadn’t brought anything with him, so how could he have water and food that could support more than two hundred people for ten days?

Yun Che didn’t make any nonsense, and with a wipe on his left hand, he handed over six cyan-colored space rings to Feng Baichuan. The disaster passed.

Feng Baichuan explored the spatial ring, followed by a look of surprise on his face. At that moment, Yun Che’s voice came from his ears, ”Clan Chief Feng, there are a few things I don’t understand. Your clan has a phoenix bloodline, and the phoenix is an ancient divine beast, so the phoenix bloodline is far more powerful and honorable than mortal bloodlines, so why is it that your Xuan Power is unable to even break through to the Primordial Xuan Realm? I remember you said ‘curse’ before, could it be related to the curse?”

Feng Baichuan’s expression was stunned, but he did not speak for a long time.

“It’s me who took the liberty, this should be your family’s secret, I shouldn’t ask more.” Seeing Feng Baichuan’s silence, Yun Che immediately said.

“No!” Feng Baichuan shook his head and laughed self-deprecatingly, “What kind of family secret is this, but it is just the punishment and retribution that we have suffered.”

“Punishment? Retribution?” Yun Che was surprised.

Feng Baichuan closed his eyes slightly and said with a heavy face, “The phoenix is an ancient divine beast, back then, it had descended to the Tianxuan Continent, and in order to leave its flames in the Tianxuan Continent, it thus left behind a number of places of trial, and those who passed the trial would be able to obtain the bloodline inheritance. And this silk phoenix bloodline can be passed on in reproduction. Thus, the phoenix clan was born. According to the ancestor records, the phoenix that year in the Tianxuan continent left a total of two places of trial, one, is in the distant divine phoenix empire, another, is here. Only, the divine phoenix empire of that place is known to the world, and achieved a powerful and incomparable ‘phoenix god clan’, while the pale wind empire of this place, but the ancestor unintentionally found, not known to the world at all. Nor would anyone have thought that this desolate and dangerous Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range would actually exist as a remnant of an ancient divine beast.”

“That is to say, this is just a place of trial and not at all some treasure that those evil thieves outside are guessing?” Yun Che nodded his chin and said.

“That’s right.” Feng Baichuan nodded, “The ancestor passed the trial here back then, and at that time, the Divine Phoenix Empire’s ‘Phoenix Divine Sect’ had already become the Divine Phoenix Empire’s Protectorate Sect, with its power overshadowing the heavens, and even the name of the empire had been changed to ‘Divine Phoenix’. That place of trial had also become the highest forbidden place of the Phoenix God Sect, and only the highest level disciples were qualified to enter. The Phoenix bloodline, moreover, is their greatest pride and honor, and if they were to know that there is also a Phoenix bloodline in other places, what might be invited is not the same bloodline, but destruction.”

Yun Che secretly nodded his head, deeply convinced. The Divine Phoenix Empire was originally known as the He Luo Empire, and then the Phoenix God Sect rose strongly and supported a new royal family, and even the name of the country, was changed to the Divine Phoenix Empire. Thus, the Phoenix bloodline became the glory and exclusive symbol of the Divine Phoenix Empire. If it was truly discovered that there were other Phoenix bloodlines in existence, then they would absolutely do whatever they could to expunge them.

“After passing the trial, the ancestors passed down the Phoenix bloodline from generation to generation, and when it was passed down to the twelfth generation, it had developed into a clan with a strong power, but it never referred to itself as the Phoenix clan, and the Phoenix mark between its foreheads had always been hidden in front of people. And in that generation, an ancestor fought someone with the Phoenix Flame, and the monstrous flames unintentionally spread to a small town, incinerating all 32,000 innocent people in the town.”

Yun Che: “……”

“This monstrous crime attracted the wrath of the Phoenix Spirit of the Trial Land, and was sent down a cruel punishment, placing a cursed mark in the phoenix bloodline of all the clansmen of that generation, causing all the clansmen’s xuan power to be forcibly suppressed to the tenth level of the Primordial Xuan Realm, and not being able to step forward any further in their entire lives. Moreover, even the Phoenix Seal turned dark red and could no longer be hidden, seemingly using this mutated seal to make all the clansmen remember the heinous sins they committed.”

“The ancestors had numerous enemies with great power, and their power was suppressed to such a low level that they had to choose to hide …… Later, they were shocked to discover that this bloodline curse would actually be forced to be passed on, and their offspring carried the dark red phoenix mark on their foreheads for their entire lives, and their xuan power. The same lifelong inability to break through the Primordial Xuan. Ancestors have thought of countless ways to lift the curse mark, but that is the phoenix deity left, and how can humans interfere, now a thousand years later, the curse mark still remains in our bloodline, has never disappeared. Our clan can only hide in this Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, keeping our peace, praying every day to atone for the sins of our ancestors, and praying for the Phoenix Deity’s forgiveness.”

“To this day, our clan has withered into this appearance, a small mercenary group can force us to this desperate point, heh ……” Feng Baichuan gave a very sad and miserable laugh, in his heavy voice, there was too much helplessness and unwillingness.

This was indeed originally a secret that could not be told to people of the outer clans, but at this miserable and withering point now, the so-called bloodline, the so-called secret of the race had become a joke. Perhaps the greatest desire of all their clansmen was that they were not born carrying the phoenix bloodline, but as an ordinary person. He also suddenly understood why even when faced with the huge crisis of the entire clan being slaughtered, Feng Baichuan still didn’t think of letting the clan hide in the Phoenix Remnant at the first time. That’s right, they were afraid, their clan had spent thousands of years and dozens of generations to atone for their sins, dreaming of longing for the Phoenix Deity’s forgiveness, and how would they dare to do half of the things that might be disrespectful to the Phoenix Deity.

He turned around and looked at the red sealing formation at the end of the passageway and said, “Phoenix Patriarch, behind that sealing formation, isn’t it the place of trial left behind by the Phoenix?”

“That’s right.” Feng Baichuan nodded, “These two seals, left behind by the ancestor back then, can only be unlocked by the phoenix bloodline, in order to prevent outsiders from entering.”

Yun Che instantly made up his mind and said, “Then can you help me unlock that seal.”

“…… Could it be that you want to?” Feng Baichuan sidled his gaze.

“That’s right!” Yun Che nodded, “I want to see what kind of trial this Ancient Divine Beast Phoenix left behind. Now that there is such an opportunity, I certainly want to try it.”

Feng Baichuan didn’t reject it right away, but asked, “Little brother, what is your current Xuan power level?”

“Entry Xuan Realm Level 1.” Yun Che answered truthfully.

“Absolutely not!!!” Feng Baichuan’s eyes showed disappointment before flatly refusing, “It’s not that I’m unwilling to let you enter. Rather, it is …… that when the ancestor passed this Phoenix’s trial, his Xuan power had already reached the Spirit Xuan realm, and he was equipped with a fire Xuan Gong, and even so, it was extremely difficult to pass, and only then did he obtain the Phoenix’s blood and the Phoenix God Dan. Later on, there were also some ancestors who passed the trial and obtained the Phoenix God Dan, but none of these ancestors’ Xuan power cultivation was below the Spirit Xuan realm.”

“After the bloodline curse descended, there was no one else who passed the trial. No one could even pass the first trial. After all, how could a power at the tenth level of the Primordial Xuan Realm possibly resist the Phoenix Flame trial. And over the years, some of the clansmen who wanted to force their way through the trial even died inside and never came out again. You only have the power of the first level of the Entering Xuan Realm, there is no possibility whatsoever for you to pass the trial, and you might even suffer the risk of losing your life.”