Immortal Volcano was also a blessed land of the Primordial World, with exceptionally abundant spiritual qi.
However, the spiritual qi here was fiery red.
More precisely, it was fire-attributed Innate Spiritual Qi.
Feeling the spiritual qi around him, Lu Ya felt like a fish in water.
Yuan Feng accompanied Lu Ya as he looked around. She had originally been in seclusion, but upon discovering that Lu Ya had arrived, she emerged early.
This showed just how much Yuan Feng valued Lu Ya.
A Grand Unity level powerhouse was worthy of Yuan Feng's attention.
Immortal Volcano contained more than just subterranean fire and magma; it also concealed many wondrous immortal sights.
For instance, when Lu Ya crossed a layer of barrier, the scene before him suddenly changed.
Lush mountains and clear waters, strange flowers carpeting the ground, exotic blooms in full blossom, and Misty Vapor filling the air.
Mountains of varying sizes floated in midair, each more bizarre than the last.
Tens of thousands of mountains hung suspended in the air. Looking closely, every floating mountain bore a Wutong Tree, though they were all Postnatal Spiritual Roots.
Lu Ya looked up at the suspended mountains and the Wutong Trees.
Though the Wutong Trees he saw were all Postnatal Spiritual Roots, they possessed their own unique charm.
If Lu Ya's guess was correct, these postnatal Wutong Trees had all differentiated from the branches of the Innate Wutong Tree.
Since Pangu's Creation, Innate Spiritual Roots had been exceedingly rare. The Innate Wutong Tree was one of them, and it qualified as a top-tier one.
"The phoenix cries upon that lofty ridge; the Wutong Tree grows beneath that morning sun," Lu Ya remarked casually.
Yuan Feng glanced sideways at him, a flash of wonder appearing in her beautiful eyes.
The largest suspended mountain rose ten million zhang high. The Wutong Tree growing upon it stood ten thousand zhang tall, its branches lush and leaves luxuriant, its crown like an enormous canopy.
Truly, the verdant Wutong Tree carried an ancient grace. Its leaves were like jade clouds, its bearing magnificent and exceptional; its roots lay in pure springs, its purple blossoms bloomed under Heaven's opening, stars rested above it, and beautiful birds came to sing.
Among the thousand-ridge suspended mountains, all manner of birds could be seen.
Some were known to Lu Ya, while others he had never even heard of.
Too many races had already gone extinct in the Primordial Time River, and there would only be more in the future.
Under the workings of the Heavenly Dao, some extinct races might also revive.
After strolling through this secret realm, Yuan Feng led Lu Ya elsewhere.
The Phoenix Clan had opened far too many secret realms, and those within Immortal Volcano were only a portion of them.
Other than several particularly important secret realms, all the rest were open to Lu Ya.
Compared to last time, Yuan Feng's feelings were different this time.
After all, last time had merely been one of Yuan Feng's avatars.
Furthermore, this time, Yuan Feng saw that Lu Ya possessed Golden Immortal cultivation, yet there was even more about him that she could not see through.
Yuan Feng did not believe that Lu Ya truly possessed only Golden Immortal cultivation.
There were not many below Grand Unity who could defeat Vermilion Bird.
And those capable of easily defeating Vermilion Bird were at least Grand Unity level.
Vermilion Bird, who had fought Lu Ya, had the right to speak on the matter.
According to Vermilion Bird, Lu Ya's mana was no weaker than Yuan Feng's.
Yuan Feng was a genuine Grand Unity Golden Immortal. Not only had both her Body Cultivation and Primordial Spirit Cultivation reached the Grand Unity level, but she had also attained the Grand Unity Dao Fruit.
Looking across the Primordial World, Yuan Feng was among the very top echelon.
After touring several secret realms in succession, Lu Ya suddenly looked into the distance.
The distant scene was strange and dazzling, space-time was distorted, and several Great Thousand Worlds were bound by Void Power.
There were also changes in dimensions, along with flickering Primordial Spiritual Light.
Talismans formed from Innate Li Fire were densely packed together.
They formed restrictions and arranged themselves into formations.
"That is..." Lu Ya turned to Yuan Feng.
In truth, merely by looking at the distant scene, Lu Ya had already understood part of it.
"Accelerating the gestation of an Innate Spiritual Treasure," Yuan Feng said calmly.
Yuan Feng did not elaborate, but Lu Ya already understood.
There was an embryonic Innate Spiritual Treasure in the distance.
If an Innate Spiritual Treasure were allowed to gestate naturally, who knew how many Cosmic Epochs it would take.
And Innate Spiritual Treasures were things one could encounter only by chance.
Even a low-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure would be of considerable help to the Phoenix Clan.
Thus, there was nothing unreasonable about accelerating the gestation of an Innate Spiritual Treasure.
They used the origins of several Great Thousand Worlds to nourish the innate embryo.
This would result in the destruction of several Great Thousand Worlds, but was that a major matter to the Phoenix Clan?
It was merely a trivial matter.
Moreover, the innate embryo in the distance was rather powerful and could give birth to a Mid-grade Primordial Spiritual Treasure.
For the sake of bringing a Mid-grade Primordial Spiritual Treasure into the world sooner, what did the destruction of several Great Thousand Worlds amount to?
However, the dimensions of Great Thousand Worlds were not necessarily on par with the Primordial World.
Among the several Great Thousand Worlds in the distance, the dimensions of three worlds could not match that of the Primordial World.
Thus, a group of Phoenix Clan powerhouses joined forces and set up formations to invoke the power of heaven and earth, raising the dimensions of the Great Thousand Worlds.
Yet how could raising the dimension of a Great Thousand World be easy, even by the slightest amount?
Therefore, what lay in the distance had already continued for ten thousand years.
As the Phoenix Clan developed and grew stronger, raising the dimensions of Great Thousand Worlds would become increasingly easy.
To the countless living beings within those Great Thousand Worlds, it was cruel and unfair.
But weakness was the original sin.
If I destroyed you, what did it have to do with you?
Allowing a Mid-grade Primordial Spiritual Treasure to emerge ahead of time was the value those several Great Thousand Worlds held in the eyes of the Phoenix Clan.
After watching for a while, Lu Ya withdrew his gaze.
Sympathy?
Would humans sympathize with ants?
Different levels of life and different positions led to changes in mindset and perspective.
It had to be said that not many in the Primordial World could use the origins of Great Thousand Worlds to nourish an innate embryo.
This also showed the Phoenix Clan's strength.
Speaking of which, only the Dragon Clan was slightly stronger than the Phoenix Clan.
The Kirin Clan beneath Buzhou Mountain was somewhat inferior to the Phoenix Clan.
As for the Fierce Beasts, they were a scattered mob; it was a stretch to even call them a clan.
From the perspective of racial strength, the Phoenix Clan could currently be called the second strongest in the Primordial World.
With Lu Ya joining the Phoenix Clan, the clan's strength rose another level.
What? Using the origins of Great Thousand Worlds to nourish an innate embryo would be like pulling up seedlings to help them grow?
If an innate embryo could be forcefully accelerated, that would be an achievement in itself.
Once one understood what an Innate Spiritual Treasure was, one would understand just how difficult it was to apply the words "pulling up seedlings to help them grow" to an innate embryo.
At the very least, the current Phoenix Clan found it difficult to accomplish.
Time flew by, and the years slipped away.
Several decades passed quietly.
Lu Ya had already spent several decades at Immortal Volcano.
Over these decades, Yuan Feng had familiarized him with Immortal Volcano and told him much about the Phoenix Clan.
Of course, the Phoenix Clan's core secrets had not yet been revealed to Lu Ya.
Yuan Feng's regard for Lu Ya was plain to see; she treated him with the utmost courtesy.
This astonished many beings within Immortal Volcano.
Even Grand Unity Golden Immortal level beings could not see through Lu Ya.
Some Phoenix Clan higher-ups privately questioned Yuan Feng as well.
Yuan Feng revealed a little to the clan's upper ranks.
The news that Lu Ya was a Grand Unity level powerhouse soon spread without wings.
Being on the same level as Yuan Feng was enough to inspire awe among the Phoenix Clan's upper ranks.
Even if his strength was inferior to Yuan Feng's, since they were at the same level, the gap could not be too great.
And what did it mean for a Grand Unity level being to join the Phoenix Clan?
It was entirely understandable why their clan leader treated Lu Ya with such courtesy.
Lu Ya could clearly sense the change in the attitudes of many Phoenix Clan members toward him.
At first, most had merely been curious, but gradually, more and more came to revere him.
The Primordial World was, after all, a place where the weak bowed low and the strong flourished. Strength determined one's status.
Yet there were also increasingly many guesses about Lu Ya's origins.
Some believed that Lu Ya had attained the Dao as Innate Li Fire Essence.
As for whether Lu Ya was a bird, no one knew.
Even Yuan Feng was curious about Lu Ya's origins, but she could not ask directly.
Though Lu Ya had joined the Phoenix Clan and thus become Yuan Feng's subordinate, she could not rashly ask about his origins.
Asking about another's origins was a major taboo.
During these decades at Immortal Volcano, Lu Ya lived with ease and leisure.
Every day, he wandered through mountains and rivers.
At night, he sat with Yuan Feng and discussed the Dao.
Their relationship grew considerably closer.
It was only because Yuan Feng believed Lu Ya possessed Grand Unity level cultivation that she was willing to treat him as an equal.
As for those at the Grand Unity level, Yuan Feng would merely take them seriously.
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