Today's first update: Chapter 2321! 1/2!
Without legitimacy, one could not speak with authority. From Red Phoenix's explanation, Xu Kun roughly understood that the Myriad Feather Garment represented the Phoenix Race's supreme authority.
It was equivalent to a functional Imperial Jade Seal, the Nine Bestowments!
If Xu Kun had followed his grandmother's original plan and taken charge of Phoenix Courtyard, then with the Myriad Feather Garment—whether its own enhancements or its status as a supreme divine artifact in the hearts of countless Phoenix descendants...
Once it was bestowed upon Xu Kun, he would be able to naturally succeed the Phoenix Lord and lead the entire Phoenix Race.
Yet he had now cut off his own path of retreat and could never return to the Phoenix Race. If he obtained such a divine artifact that combined power, status, symbolic meaning, and practical benefits, it would stir up cries of condemnation throughout the Phoenix Race.
One word described it perfectly: usurpation!
Xu Kun suddenly thought of a term. "Could it be that the Myriad Feather Garment is the artifact that suppresses the Phoenix Race's fortune?"
Red Phoenix smiled without answering. Clearly, Xu Kun had guessed correctly.
Seeing this, Xu Kun could not help but draw in a sharp breath.
Anything involving artifacts could not be judged by ordinary standards. A divine artifact forged from the fortune of an entire nation was already extraordinary.
An artifact that suppressed an entire race was even more exceptional.
And if one added another condition to that—the Phoenix Race's clan-suppressing artifact...
Putting himself in their shoes, it was equivalent to humanity handing divine artifacts on the level of the Pangu Axe and Xuanyuan Sword over to an outsider race.
If Xu Kun had the authority to dispose of such divine artifacts, he would absolutely never do