Nine Phoenix Sons, God King Level, the Gift of the Ice Fire Dragon Kings

Bone-piercing ice, body-scorching flames.

The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, one frigid and one blazing, ravaged him in alternation.

Ye Chen's body was repeatedly torn apart, then swiftly reconstructed under the tempering of the same-source power of ice and fire. His flesh and blood, bones, and meridians were all reforged.

Untouched by extreme cold, unhurt by raging flames, immune to all poisons!

After a long while, the ice and fire powers of the two Immortal Herbs completely merged. No longer violent, they instead transformed into a warm yet majestic force that flowed through his limbs, bones, and extraordinary meridians.

Ye Chen slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of foul air.

The Ice Fire Alchemy Body was complete!

His body had undergone a complete transformation, and a powerful physical aura swept in every direction.

Next, Ye Chen raised his hand and took the third Immortal Herb—the Azure Feather Luan Soul Flower.

He opened his mouth and swallowed it. A gentle yet vast power of bloodline poured into his body like a clear spring, charging straight toward his Qing Luan Martial Soul.

The Qing Luan Martial Soul instantly possessed him. Its wings spread wide, radiating boundless Golden Light.

Under the effect of the Luan Soul Flower, his original bloodline power was continuously purified and sublimated. Its concentration rose steadily, far surpassing what it had been before.

"Cry—!"

An incomparably clear Phoenix Cry that pierced the heavens erupted from within Ye Chen.

Its sound shook the lands for thousands of miles and shot straight into the sky!

Qing Luan Douluo, standing nearby, actually felt his Martial Soul begin to tremble. A sense of awe and suppression rose from the depths of his bloodline, as though he were facing the progenitor of the Azure Luan bloodline.

"This is... another bloodline evolution!"

The Qing Luan Martial Soul was utterly shocked.

Originally, Ye Chen's Qing Luan Martial Soul had already surpassed his own Qing Luan Martial Soul. Now, it had evolved once more...

And this was merely the beginning.

In ancient times, before the Dragon God's chaos, the God Realm had once possessed a supreme race that stood alongside the Dragon Clan—the Phoenix Clan!

The first Phoenix God had even been a supreme God King on the same level as the Dragon God.

He ruled over all birds and commanded the laws of life, flame, space, and more.

Under his command were nine great Phoenix Sons, who respectively controlled the laws of fire, wind, light, darkness, space, time, life, lightning, and ice. They were known as the Nine Phoenix Sons.

Each of the Nine Phoenix Sons possessed God King level combat power, standing opposite the Dragon Clan's nine great Dragon Kings.

Washed endlessly by the medicinal power of the Immortal Herb, the Qing Luan Martial Soul released an incomparably crisp Phoenix Cry that transcended the mundane world.

The original Azure Luan bloodline shattered and reassembled layer by layer at that very moment—not a simple evolution, but a direct return to the most ancient phoenix bloodline origin from the era of the Dragon God!

The Azure Luan phantom exploded with a boom, replaced by a divine bird wrapped in the laws of wind.

With a spread of its wings, hurricanes tore through space. Wind blades descended like divine punishment, and every wisp of air carried the bloodline aura unique to the Nine Phoenix Sons!

Within Ye Chen's Sea of Consciousness—

Zhou Lan looked at the evolved Qing Luan Martial Soul and nodded in satisfaction.

"Not bad. My purification of this Qing Luan Martial Soul's bloodline was not in vain. Now that its bloodline has returned to its ancestors, it has reached God level. It is barely worth looking at!"

Ten thousand zhang beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Geothermal Magma and Extreme Cold Ice Marrow intertwined, forming a small world isolated from heaven and earth.

From the dome hung Ice Crystal Pillars that had not melted for hundreds of millions of years, while Red Flame Earth Fire that would never be extinguished flowed across the ground.

At the center lay two colossal skeletons stretching across thousands of miles, sleeping silently—

The Ice Dragon King's remains were crystal-clear like ancient mystic ice, while the Fire Dragon King's bones were crimson like flames that could burn the heavens. Every inch of bone pattern bore the domineering Dragon Might capable of incinerating the firmament.

The corpses of the two Dragon Kings lay stretched across this place.

Even after being dead for hundreds of thousands of years, their Dragon Might still suppressed the entire small world.

At that moment, an ancient aura that stood above all birds, originating from the Phoenix Ancestor, pierced through ten thousand zhang of rock and descended upon this silent land.

It was the primordial pressure of the Nine Phoenix Sons, a supreme bloodline that stood shoulder to shoulder with the Dragon Clan!

"Buzz—"

The Ice Marrow trembled, and the crimson flames surged.

Two lingering souls that had nearly dissipated slowly awakened from deep within the skulls of the two Dragon Kings.

First came a point of icy-blue spiritual light, then a cluster of crimson soul flame. Weak yet tenacious, like candles flickering in the wind, they suddenly swelled the instant they sensed that trace of phoenix aura!

"Roar..."

The lingering soul of the Ice Dragon King released a low, ancient dragon roar. There was no hostility in it, only endless loneliness and melancholy.

"Phoenix... the bloodline of one of the Nine Phoenix Sons..."

"The Wind Phoenix Son."

The Fire Dragon King's lingering soul awakened as well. Its soul flame, like heaven-burning fire, flickered faintly as memories of its past battles against the Phoenix Clan surged forth.

The killing intent that should have been fierce instead calmed.

In ancient times, before the Dragon God's chaos, the Dragon Clan and Phoenix Clan had indeed fought savagely for supremacy over the God Realm. The nine sons faced the nine Dragon Kings, locked in a struggle to the death.

Yet after that great war, their true enemy had not been one another.

The gods of the present God Realm had joined forces to purge the ancient Divine Beast races. The Dragon Clan had been slaughtered to extinction, while the Phoenix Clan had vanished without a trace.

The two supreme races had both nearly suffered the fate of annihilation.

They were fellow wanderers at the ends of the earth.

Enemies of old had become survivors sharing the same affliction.

The Ice Dragon King's lingering soul gazed upward toward the small world. The phoenix aura piercing through the rock layers grew ever purer and stronger.

"Never did I expect... that after our fall, the primordial origin of one of the Nine Phoenix Sons would appear in this world once more..."

The Fire Dragon King's lingering soul sighed, its voice rolling through the small world like thunder.

"Though this Wind Phoenix Son has become a human's Martial Soul, he possesses limitless potential... Perhaps he is the final hope of the ancient Divine Beast race."

The two lingering souls exchanged a glance as the powers of ice and fire silently merged.

They formed an Ice Fire Twin Dragon Mark, which slowly emerged above the skeletal remains.

This was the gift of the two Dragon Kings, the Dragon Clan's final recognition of the phoenix lineage, fellow ancient divine beings.

"Our lingering souls no longer have the power to turn back the tide. Then we shall grant this final trace of origin, this sliver of Dragon God Bloodline, to this phoenix descendant."

"May he... restore the glory of the Divine Beasts, and allow our Dragon Clan and Phoenix Clan to return to the God Realm."

As their voices fell, the Ice Fire Twin Dragon Mark transformed into a streak of light, broke through ten thousand zhang of rock, and shot toward Ye Chen above the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well!

Just as the Ice Fire Twin Dragon Mark turned into a streak of light and was about to touch Ye Chen's brow—

A vast, boundless force of darkness forcibly blocked the mark containing the origins of the Ice Fire Dragon Kings!

The streak of light trembled violently, yet could not advance even an inch.

Even the origin powers of the two Dragon Kings quivered slightly before this force.

At that moment, Ye Chen opened his eyes. The lingering phoenix origin aura around him resonated with the Dragon King mark.

"This is... the Dragon Clan's origin?"

Ye Chen muttered softly. The first thing that surfaced in his mind was the remains of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Before he could think further, Zhou Lan's figure slowly emerged within his Sea of Consciousness, confirming his guess.

"Correct."

Zhou Lan spoke calmly. "Ten thousand zhang below lie two dragon corpses, one ice and one fire. These two auras were left behind by their lingering souls."

Ye Chen's heart shook. It was indeed as he had suspected.

Zhou Lan continued, "Your Martial Soul evolved just now, and your bloodline returned to its ancestors. Its aura alerted the lingering souls of the two Dragon Kings, who have slumbered for hundreds of thousands of years. They have bestowed their final trace of origin upon you."

Zhou Lan's power was unfathomable. Though he was far from his peak, he could discern the truth with a single thought.

Zhou Lan continued:

"This power will greatly aid your future ascension to godhood. Whether you accept it is for you to decide."

Zhou Lan had blocked the mark only to give Ye Chen the chance to choose for himself. He would not interfere with Ye Chen's decision.