Meng Zhao pretended not to understand.
"Uncle Ying, I know the Phoenix Nirvana Scroll has problems. A former clan chief once died suddenly because of it, leaving this art riddled with obstacles and traps. Many gifted people suffered Qi Deviation while cultivating the Phoenix Nirvana Scroll.
But is it truly impossible to extract its essential cultivation insights and use them to assist members of our Feather Clan in their cultivation?"
This was what Meng Zhao found most perplexing. The Phoenix Nirvana Scroll was clearly a vast treasure trove. Even with its many traps, it was still worth anticipating.
For example, the current Phoenix Nirvana Scroll was like a huge cake tainted with poison. Surely it was possible to cut out a safe portion and eat it.
After all, the Feather Clan was not lacking in capable people. Those who had tried to remedy the Phoenix Nirvana Scroll's flaws emerged one after another. There could not possibly be no one capable of extracting its crucial cultivation principles.
Dan Ying's expression darkened somewhat.
"If it were truly as simple as you imagine, our Feather Clan would not have declined with each passing day.
The Phoenix Nirvana Scroll is exceedingly strange. Even its partial essentials contain a mysterious power. So long as you cultivate them, you will inevitably condense a flower of Nirvana Fire within your body. Yet this Nirvana Fire is extraordinarily sinister. It will continuously burn away your vitality until you die, and the process cannot be reversed—not even by Celestials, not even by Gods and Devils.
That is why the Phoenix Nirvana Scroll must never be seen by clan members of low cultivation."
Meng Zhao immediately understood where the issue lay.
The so-called extraction of cultivation essence from the Phoenix Nirvana Scroll was, in truth, a false proposition.
How could