"This is Celestial Phoenix Mountain."
"Ugh, thereâs actually an array. So troublesome!"
Below Celestial Phoenix Mountain, Little Hammer looked up at the majestic mountain resembling a phoenix spreading its wings, wielded his large hammer, and struck fiercely.
A loud boom!
A giant array appeared around the entire Celestial Phoenix Mountain, this array was quite unique, with golden flames burning on the outside, akin to the fire of an Ancient Divine Phoenix.
Little Hammer screamed, threw away the hammer, his hands trembled uncontrollably, and he shouted:
"Ahhh, this is maddening, what kind of lousy array is this? My hands are numb!"
"Qiu Zhihe, arenât you an Array Master? Can you break it?"
Qiu Zhihe observed for a moment, showing surprise: "The Guardian Array has an imprint of Ancient Phoenix fire on it."
Jian Yue said: "Madam, did you see it wrong? Phoenixes went extinct in Ancient Times, where is there Phoenix fire?"
Little Hammer shouted: "I donât care what kind of fire it is, anyway Iâm going up the mountain to hammer birds!"
Qiu Zhihe slowly flew into the air, his hands moving in a pattern, chains of complex array patterns flew towards the array.
Once the array patterns touched the array, the flames on the array rekindled, blocking the breaking array patterns.
Qiu Zhihe said to the two women below: "Work together to suppress the Phoenix flames within the array!"
"Yes, madam!"
"Got it!"
The two replied simultaneously, sword aura and lightning struck the array, making a loud crash, and the flames on the array immediately contended with the force of the two.
On Celestial Phoenix Mountain.
"What happened?"
"The Guardian Array has been sabotaged?"
"Quickly report to Phoenix Maiden and Sister Zhu Lin!"
"No, Phoenix Maiden is performing a secret technique, she cannot be disturbed, letâs go and see!"
Instantly, countless members of the Celestial Phoenix Race unfolded their wings and flew towards the base of Celestial Phoenix Mountain.
In the Divine Temple.
"Sorry, I already have a wife, cultivation is very important to me, I cannot accept."
Qin Gengyun said to Zhu Lin and Phoenix Maiden.
Zhu Lin seemed to have anticipated his answer, she continued: "If Taoist Friend Ruo already has a wife, I am willing to be a concubine, I can guarantee that all the powers of Celestial Phoenix Mountain will be at your disposal, as long as it doesnât go against the interests of Celestial Phoenix Mountain."
"If you are unwilling to give up cultivation, I can also bear children for you, so your children can cultivate on your behalf, and fulfill the goal of ascension to immortality."
"As long as I am here for one day, I will not let anyone bully you; your life might be even more exciting than when you had cultivation."
Qin Gengyun smiled and shook his head: "Cultivation is within me, the road ahead is my choice; without cultivation, I wouldnât even have the right to choose a path, where is the excitement?"
He paused, his tone mocking: "If Iâm not mistaken, you have no confidence in the success of this secret technique, thatâs why you promise such compensation to me, right?"
"Because you know, I am bound to be nine deaths and only one life!"
Zhu Lin sighed gently, then her expression turned cold: "In that case, we can only use force, I am sorry."
"Huang!"
She called out, Phoenix Maiden hesitated a moment, then stepped forward, placing her palm on Qin Gengyunâs forehead:
"You, youâd better cooperate with me, if we succeed, it would be beneficial to both of us."
Qin Gengyun tried to rise, but was once again caught by the huge talons of the transformed Phoenix Maiden, unable to move.
Soon after, her palm heated up, a tremendous suction force appeared, wildly absorbing the essence from Qin Gengyunâs body.
This was different from when Zhu Lin absorbed Chun Ningzhiâs essence with restraint before; now this suction acted like a bottomless pit, continuously devouring Qin Gengyunâs essence.
Sweat dripped from the Phoenix Maidenâs forehead, an unnatural flush appeared on her face, clearly this secret technique was a great burden on her as well.
Qin Gengyun showed an expression of pain, shouted loudly: "If you stop now, thereâs still time, otherwise donât blame me for being impolite!"
Zhu Lin apologetically said: "Sorry, once the secret technique is unleashed, it cannot stop, you should calm your mind, cooperate well."
After she finished speaking, she walked behind Phoenix Maiden, placed both palms on her back, a light gleamed, injected into Phoenix Maidenâs body.
Qin Gengyun instantly felt his essence draining faster, even his Spirit Field quivered; at this rate, his foundation would be shaken!
He immediately operated the magic technique to counteract the Celestial Phoenix Technique taught by Qiu Zhihe.
The spiritual energy within his body reversed, forming a vortex inside the Spirit Field, rotating opposite to the vortex absorbing essence from Phoenix Maidenâs palm.
Moreover, this vortexâs rotation speed was much faster than the Celestial Phoenix Technique!
As a result, the conditions inside Qin Gengyun and Phoenix Maidenâs bodies quickly reversed.
The essence being absorbed from Qin Gengyun flowed back from Phoenix Maidenâs body.
Not only that, these essences, after revolving inside Phoenix Maidenâs body, carried a layer of golden flame.
This was the Divine Phoenix power from Phoenix Maidenâs body, which at this moment was being reversely absorbed into Qin Gengyunâs body!
"Ah!!"
Phoenix Maiden exclaimed in surprise, her face instantly turned pale, in horror she tried to remove her palm, but found it stuck firmly to Qin Gengyunâs forehead, unable to detach!
Zhu Lin also sensed something was wrong, her expression drastically changed: "How could this be?!"
Phoenix Maiden suddenly felt a familiar power in Qin Gengyunâs body, suddenly recalled the most painful defeat of her life, that terrifying figure flashed in her mind:
"Itâs, itâs Xia... Ah!!"
At this moment, a drop of blood shimmering with golden light was forcefully extracted from her Spirit Field, flying into Qin Gengyunâs body!
"No! Thatâs Divine Phoenix Blood!"
Zhu Linâs face turned pale, desperately activated her spiritual power to help Phoenix Maiden fight against the terrifying reverse vortex in Qin Gengyunâs body.
Each generation of Phoenix Maiden contains the purest drop of Ancient Divine Phoenix Blood.
And this generationâs Phoenix Maiden had exceptionally high talent, possessing two drops of Divine Phoenix Blood in her body.
Just like the Phoenix Maiden who successfully transformed into a Divine Phoenix five hundred years ago!
Thus, the entire Celestial Phoenix Mountain held great expectations for her.
As Phoenix Maidenâs elder sister and the actual manager of Celestial Phoenix Mountain, Zhu Lin knew exerting the secret technique was unfair to Qin Gengyun, but still went against her principles, forcing Phoenix Maiden to absorb his essence.
But unexpectedly, a terrifying change suddenly occurred within Qin Gengyunâs body, at this moment even with combined efforts, they could not combat this reverse suction.
They could only watch helplessly as that drop of purest Divine Phoenix Blood was absorbed by the other party.
However, the terrifying reverse vortex continued rapidly spinning, constantly reverse-absorbing the Divine Phoenix power from Phoenix Maidenâs body.
Subsequently, the second drop of Divine Phoenix Blood from Phoenix Maidenâs Spirit Field was also drawn out, flowing into Qin Gengyunâs body!
"Huang!" Zhu Linâs face turned pale, eyes were about to burst.
Phoenix Maiden screamed in agony, and fainted.
At the base of Celestial Phoenix Mountain.
Boom!
The Guardian Array was breached, the Divine Phoenix flames on the array vanished.
"Who are you? Why are you sabotaging our Grand Array?"
Countless members of the Celestial Phoenix Race hovered in the air, glaring at Qiu Zhihe, Jian Yue, and Su Hongling.
However, Qiu Zhihe seemed to ignore them, her gaze penetrating layers of clouds, seeming to see through everything, her lips curved up slightly:
"Succeeded."