Chapter 520 – Obtaining the Phoenix Feather (2/2)

Golden Cicada originally wanted to investigate the origins of their legacies out of curiosity, but now, he had instead given up on that.

The person who could plant these two seeds was definitely well beyond what his current level of cultivation could fathom. If it were not for the fact that he had already arrived on the edge of the well and could catch a glimpse of the world outside, he would not even be able to understand what they represented.

In particular, Xiao An possessed a strange and erroneous buddhist truth about her, completely divergent from all of his understanding of buddhism and even defying it. However, it also conformed to it perfectly, making it impossible to pick out anything wrong.

He absolutely refused to think too much about it. It would bring absolutely no benefit to his cultivation, but be detrimental instead.

To the other side, Li Qingshan held the phoenix feather, but he was unable to draw out the power inside. He tried using the Phoenix’s Scripture of Nirvāṇa. In his sea of consciousness, the figure of the phoenix spread its wings and produced a long cry.

In that instant, the phoenix feather exploded with light, enveloping Li Qingshan.

A powerful life force poured into Li Qingshan’s body endlessly. His flesh and blood rapidly grew and merged together at a visible rate.

In the blink of an eye, Li Qingshan had made a full recovery. His scarlet hair draped down as he clenched his fists. Never had he felt so at ease before.

Whether it were the hidden wounds from Lolth or the residue from consuming pills, all of it had been wiped clean.

The phoenix feather in his hand had only dimmed slightly. Let alone the other uses, even if he only treated it as life-saving medicine, he would basically gain a few extra lives.

“You really have gained the phoenix feather’s recognition.” Golden Cicada sighed. In other words, that was four bloodlines, four different powers. All of them were the most powerful legacies.

Earning the “recognition” seemed extremely easy to Li Qingshan, but if regular people rashly used the power in the phoenix feather, they would face the risk of being incinerated to death.

Perhaps because it was for healing, or perhaps because the power in the phoenix feather was relatively mild, the spirit turtle had not reacted intensely, which made Li Qingshan overjoyed. He felt like he had found a door right when he had been driven into a corner. As long as he pushed through the door, he would arrive in a brand new world.

Li Qingshan was greedy. “There’s… just this one?”

“Hopefully you uphold your word soon! This is for your little friend.”

With that, Golden Cicada fell silent. A śarīra glistening with golden light flew out of the magma lake, landing in Xiao An’s hand.

Li Qingshan breathed out deeply. “Don’t worry, I hate owing people favours!”

Li Qingshan and Xiao An returned to the flooded Cobweb city. Lolth had already vanished, but she had been heavily injured and the web, poison suit, and poisonous whip she had gone to such great lengths to weave had all been destroyed.

It was probably impossible for her to make any trouble for now, and by the time she recovered, Li Qingshan would have climbed to somewhere higher already.

Xiao An took out a snail shell.

“This is Dragonsnail’s shell!”

Li Qingshan was surprised inside. In his eyes, Dragonsnail had already been relatively mysterious. Naturally, he seemed relatively powerful too, so Li Qingshan never expected Xiao An to kill him so easily.

Dragonsnail was powerful among Daemon Generals, but Xiao An’s strength approached Li Qingshan’s. Actually, if Li Qingshan wanted to kill Dragonsnail, it would not take him much effort either.

Moreover, Xiao An’s Samādhi Flames of White Bone had a crushing advantage in terms of destructive power over weaker opponents. Once the flames contaminated them, they would be done for unless they were Daemon Commanders like Lolth who could use their powerful and pure daemon qi to forcefully purge it.

Dragonsnail obviously did not have the necessary strength, so the Samādhi Flames of White Bone had frozen his soul, and his flesh and blood had been set alight. He did not last very long before dying.

In the end, he only left behind this snail shell and a daemon core.

Just like that, all three powerful Daemon Generals under Lolth’s command had died at Xiao An’s hands.

Xiao An placed the snail shell in Li Qingshan’s palm. Li Qingshan shoved it into his hundred treasures pouch casually, but he discovered he was unable to shove it in. Only after a close inspection did he discover the snail shell possessed its own space. It was like a large hundred treasures pouch with many items stored inside.

After Bloodshadow and Strongboulder had died, Dragonsnail took over, especially ambushing and killing powerful human cultivators. The spoils of the battles had been rather abundant, with many precious spiritual herbs obtained. Clearly, it was all because of Dragonsnail’s relatively greater intelligence, allowing him to plan and scheme very far into the future, but now, Li Qingshan benefited from it instead.

Dragonsnail might have been a wiser one among the daemons, but he could neither disobey Lolth’s orders, nor was he Xiao An’s opponent. Before absolute strength, resourcefulness often seemed useless.

“The snail shell should be a good material for forging artifacts.”

Having dealt with a great problem bothering him and obtaining the phoenix feather he had been yearning the entire time, Li Qingshan was completely satisfied. Now, he needed to find a way to completely refine the phoenix feather and merge with it so that he could reach the first layer of the Phoenix Transformation.

He also had to continue expanding his water territory. If it were not for the Water God Seal today, he would have never been able to deal with Lolth even if he worked with Xiao An. As a matter of fact, he would have faced the danger of running out of daemon qi and being killed instead.