Inside a cave.
Mu Hen's confidant used a meteorite dagger to pierce the claw skin of the Phoenix, which had been poisoned to the brink of death.
In the end, he obtained a drop of blood.
He had never expected to kill the Phoenix.
That was a divine beast.
After obtaining that drop of blood, he did not consume it himself right away.
He had originally been an alchemist and knew quite a bit about medicinal principles.
No medicine could be swallowed directly. At the very least, he needed to test it on a dog.
So he separated out a tiny bit of Phoenix blood.
Sure enough, the poor dog was burned to death the very next moment.
Not even a speck of ash remained. It was as though it had vaporized.
And that tiny bit of Phoenix blood surfaced again.
At the sight, he was so frightened that he nearly threw away the jade vial containing the Phoenix blood.
Fortunately, he steadied himself.
It was clearly not hot, yet once inside the body, it could burn a person to death.
It truly was a divine substance.
After thinking it over, he collected the Phoenix blood again and decided to find something else to neutralize its medicinal properties.
Scorching heat needed to be paired with extreme cold.
That was the most basic principle.
He went to a snow-covered mountain and found a Snow Lotus.
The two exploded the instant they came together.
Fortunately, he dodged quickly, but he still lost an eye.
"Damn it, why can other people just stuff heavenly treasures straight into their mouths?"
"I went through hell to get this, so why do I have to put in so much more effort?" Mu Hen's confidant said angrily.
"This isn't right!"
"In those storybook novels, the protagonist just