The three blood-colored divine phoenix Dharma Manifestations looked extremely similar to the statues of the "Nine-Phoenix God" worshipped by the Lüqiu Clan.
The only difference was that the Nine-Phoenix God statue had nine heads, whereas Lüqiu Human King's Dharma Manifestation had only three.
"This is the True Spirit Dharma Manifestation of a True Spirit aristocratic family, one kind of aberrant Dharma Manifestation. Its power surpasses that of ordinary Dharma Manifestations by a notch. This is likely what Lüqiu Human King relied on in believing himself stronger than Xu Wansun."
Inside the great hall, upon seeing this scene, knowledgeable senior cultivators explained it to the juniors beside them.
Dharma Manifestations came in two forms: the "humanoid state" and the "spirit creature state."
The former served as the foundation for casting Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation, while the latter pried at the five elemental vital energies of heaven and earth, becoming the "root of heaven and earth" cultivated through borrowed spiritual roots.
Yet there were exceptions.
Some special cultivators possessed Dharma Manifestations that were neither "humanoid states" nor "spirit creature states."
These special Dharma Manifestations shared a single name: aberrant Dharma Manifestations.
And among these aberrant Dharma Manifestations, the True Spirit Dharma Manifestations of True Spirit aristocratic families were the most renowned.
There was no other reason. True Spirit Dharma Manifestations echoed the "True Spirit bloodline" within a cultivator's body and could innately wield bloodline divine abilities.
This gave them no small advantage in combat.
Take Lüqiu Human King and Xu Wansun, for example.
Lüqiu Human King could use his "Nine-Phoenix God Dharma Manifestation" to cast his bloodline divine abilities. Without question, he was far stronger than Xu Wansun, who could only use his Spirit Transformation Dharma Manifestation to cast rudimentary spells.
Even the worst bloodline divine ability was far more powerful than a rudimentary