Today's second update: Chapter 1663! 2/2!
A betrothal gift?
Xu Kun was completely dumbfounded. Countless people looked up at that moment, watching colorful phoenixes weave all manner of patterns through the sky as they sang out the Phoenix Race's betrothal gifts amid the cries of countless birds.
The various resources were too numerous to count. They sang of them for several hours before, under everyone's astonished gazes, they transformed into a scroll of betrothal, which was presented before Xu Kun by a flock of magpies.
Among them, the most shocking gift was that once Xu Kun returned to the Phoenix Race, he would directly take over the Azure Phoenix lineage as its lord, while also becoming the second-ranking authority of the Vermilion Bird lineage and the Yuan-Chu Nine Veins, second only to the Lord of Vermilion Birds personally appointed by the Goddess of Southern Flames and the Yuan-Chu before him.
Xu Kun's expression was as strange as could be. Looking at the betrothal scroll woven from Gold Silk before him, he did not reach out to take it.
Instead, he looked at Yuan-Chu and asked, "Was this my grand... the Phoenix Lord's idea?"
Yuan-Chu's little face was flushed red, and she was incredibly shy. Just one glance at her made countless people below feel their hearts pound as if they were about to leap from their throats.
Set off by her pale yellow court gown, she was simply breathtakingly beautiful.
"Mmm... it wasn't just the Phoenix Lord's idea. It was mine too."
Xu Kun raised an eyebrow. "What's this supposed to mean? Using all this to test an official?"
Yuan-Chu looked nervous, with a trace of fear in her eyes. "Brother Xu Kun, what do you mean?"
"Heh, shouldn't I be asking you that? What, delivering betrothal gifts in