"You're saying my mother was the legitimate heir?"
Yuan-Chu looked at Xu Kun. "More precisely, Fifth Sister was the only legitimate heir. In that bygone era, she was also the strongest member of the Phoenix Race beneath the Phoenix Lord. The so-called Luan-Phoenix Harmony referred to the two supreme experts of the Phoenix Race—the Phoenix Lord and Fifth Sister."
"Why?"
"Why..." Yuan-Chu smiled faintly. "The Red Phoenix lineage was formed from the Phoenix Lord's essence blood before she attained the Dao. The yellow Yuan-Chu, white Honghu, and purple Yue-Zhuo, however, were nurtured after she attained the Dao, born through her union with the world's great laws. Conceptually speaking, that was what one would call asexual reproduction."
One person gave birth and raised the child. Grandma was amazing—there was no need to say more!
"You mean my mother wasn't born through asexual reproduction? Then her father... my maternal grandfather, who was he?"
Yuan-Chu nodded. "The Wind Origin God!"
Xu Kun's pupils contracted sharply. "You mean the Phoenix Lord and the Wind Origin God..."
"This was originally a closely guarded secret of the Phoenix Race. But given your status, Brother Kun, you would learn of it sooner or later. Telling you now isn't a big deal."
Then what did that make him... the Wind Origin God's grandson?
"The Phoenix Lord was the first phoenix in the world, the ancestor of all birds. She was born amid chaos and awakened at the beginning of the era. She gave birth to five phoenixes. Eldest Sister Red Phoenix was the eldest illegitimate daughter, while Fifth Sister Azure Phoenix, though the youngest, was the true eldest legitimate daughter."
"Though Eldest Sister oversees the Red Phoenix lineage, everything they do follows the Phoenix Lord's will."
"The Azure Phoenix Lineage is also known as the direct lineage of