Yuan Feng's Fear! Phoenix Clan Reforms! Spirit Characters Finally Emerge!

"What do you mean, Fellow Daoist Di Tian?"

Yuan Feng knew such matters could not be rushed.

Today, she had merely made her intentions clear, laying the groundwork for future recruitment.

Yet she had not expected Di Tian to say such words.

"Do you mean that if you do not sit upon the position of Supreme Sovereign, no one else will be able to hold it securely?"

"That the Phoenix Race's plan to rule the world will ultimately fail, bring down Heavenly Backlash, and leave them unable to recover, falling from their Overlord Position?"

Di Tian looked at Yuan Feng, whose delicate brows had furrowed and whose eyes had begun to show a trace of anger, and could not help but sigh inwardly.

She truly was a good person.

It was simply that, like Ancestor Dragon and Ancestor Qilin, her eyes had been blinded by the current false prosperity.

She could no longer see the true state of the world.

And the consequences of revealing heavenly secrets were exceedingly terrifying.

He did not wish to provoke trouble for the Phoenix Race, with whom he had no ties and whom he had only just met.

Thus, he could not openly expose the causal beginning of the Three Races Calamity and could only offer verbal hints.

But that made things rather difficult for him.

Yuan Feng had treated him respectfully and kindly, yet he had immediately hinted that if the Phoenix Race continued expanding, they would very likely face extermination.

Wasn't that the very model of an ungrateful wretch?

If word got out in the future, who would dare follow him?

"Fellow Daoist Yuan Feng, that is not what I meant."

"The world has only just endured the Ferocious Beast Calamity, and all things are still waiting to be rebuilt."

"Killing and war are what Heaven and Earth detest most. If conflict is rashly stirred up again, causing the resentment of Myriad Spirits and a sharp rise in Fierce Fiendish Qi—"

"I imagine Heaven and Earth will not be stingy in purging those who dare stand out against the tide."

"Moreover, compared to a novice like me who has only just entered the Primordial Wilderness, you, who personally participated in the campaign against Shen Ni and know the exact cause of his death, should understand the dangers of Karmic Force and Sin even better, shouldn't you?"

As Yuan Feng listened to Di Tian's question, a trace of contemplation flashed through her eyes.

Since she had been able to firmly hold her place as leader of the Phoenix Race, she naturally possessed not only peerless cultivation, but also an exceptionally sharp mind.

If there had been no reason, he would never have suddenly said such things to her.

But what exactly was the hidden meaning behind them?

Could it be that the Phoenix Race truly could not rule the Primordial Wilderness?

That the day they ascended to the Overlord Position would be the day of their destruction?

As thoughts flickered through her eyes, Yuan Feng could not help but feel a sense of urgency and lingering fear.

If things truly were as she suspected—

then she would undoubtedly be the chief culprit who had buried the Phoenix Race!

"Thank you for the reminder, Fellow Daoist Di Tian. I still have matters to attend to, so I will not keep you any longer."

"Qing Luan, take Fellow Daoist Di Tian and Fellow Daoist Wang Shu to the Guest Hall to rest. You must not neglect them."

Whether or not it was truly as she suspected—

she absolutely could not gamble with the future of the Phoenix Race!

Yuan Feng ordered Qing Luan to lead Di Tian and Wang Shu away, then immediately summoned all the Phoenix Clan Elders.

She ordered them to rein in their expansion, maintain amicable relations with the Ten Thousand Races, avoid provoking disputes unless absolutely necessary, reduce killing as much as possible, and perform more acts of kindness... along with a series of other plans and policies.

On the condition that the Phoenix Race's interests would not be harmed, they would slow their pace of expansion.

They would wait and see whether the Dragon Race and Qilin Race would encounter the situation Di Tian had described after their forces expanded to the level of overlords.

Only then would they decide whether the Phoenix Race should remain confined to one corner in the future or dominate the Primordial Wilderness!

While Yuan Feng gradually changed the Phoenix Race's grand plan for development because of Di Tian's advice—

Di Tian himself, under Qing Luan's increasingly astonished gaze and ever more respectful attitude, arrived at the Guest Hall and began secluded research into Dragon Seals, Phoenix Script, and Qilin Markings!

To create a script heritage with universal applicability, one that could be used by both Innate Lifeforms and Acquired Lifeforms—

he needed to discard the dross and retain the essence of the 129,600 script heritages, then combine them with the Heaven and Earth Inscriptions inherited by the Innate Sacred.

Only then could he create a Literary Dao heritage that would seize most, or even all, of the Script Merits!

And to ensure nothing went wrong, apart from himself and Wang Shu, whom he could absolutely trust and who roughly understood what they were doing—

no outsider could dream of interfering.

This made their workload akin to searching for a needle in the ocean!

Yet tempted by the merits of the Literary Dao, even though they knew it would be exceedingly difficult, neither of them slackened in the slightest.

129,869 years!

More than two hundred years beyond a One Yuan Number!

Di Tian and Wang Shu neglected food and sleep, even delaying their cultivation.

At last, they created Spirit Characters that could suit all living beings of the Ten Thousand Races, allow communication between Innate and Acquired Lifeforms, and pass down divine abilities and Dao methods!!

"Common 3,605, General 125,950. They match both the number of All Heavens Stars and the One Yuan Number of Heaven and Earth!"

"They are destined to seize all Script Merits! I, too, shall become the sole Ancestor of the Literary Path of Heaven and Earth, the Supreme Sage and Foremost Teacher!!"

Inside the Guest Hall, before a desk carved from the branches of the All Heavens Stars Fruit Tree, Di Tian threw back his head and roared, venting the pent-up frustration that had accumulated within him over all these years!

One had to know that in his previous life, he had been the sort who got headaches from attending school and wanted to sleep whenever he opened a book.

And now, he had spent over a hundred thousand years facing all kinds of writing every day, cutting, revising, and merging them.

The pressure he had endured was easy to imagine.

Had Wang Shu not accompanied him, and had Yuan Feng not occasionally come to visit with all kinds of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, spiritual fruits, and immortal tea—

he would probably have quit long ago.

Fortunately, all their perseverance had been rewarded!

And the compilation resting atop the desk, containing 133,650 Spirit Characters, was his ultimate masterpiece!

"Congratulations, Fellow Daoist Di Tian."

After spending more than a hundred thousand years together and witnessing the continual development of the world's great trends, Yuan Feng had grown ever more drawn to Di Tian.

Her gaze toward him was often filled with gentleness and kindness.

Wang Shu was not blind, so she naturally understood what Yuan Feng was thinking.

But she neither exposed it nor tried to stop it.

As the sovereign destined to rule the Primordial Wilderness, the Lord of the Celestial Stars, Di Tian could not possibly be bound by one person.

She had understood that long ago.

As long as Di Tian was well, that was enough.

As for everything else, she would simply let it take its natural course.

"Without the support of Fellow Daoist Yuan Feng and Fellow Daoist Wang Shu, I could not have accomplished this feat."

"If anyone should be giving thanks, it should be me thanking the two of you."

Di Tian smiled and nodded in response to them.

Yet his hands did not pause in the slightest.

He continuously took out great quantities of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, spiritual mines, strange stones, and Innate Divine Water from the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram.

These were all the various gains he had casually collected while traveling through the Primordial Wilderness.

Though they could not compare to the original Five Needle Pine, they were still fine Innate treasures.

Finally, he took out a fallen branch from the All Heavens Stars Fruit Tree, along with several pine needles stripped from the Five Needle Pine.

Only then did Di Tian stop moving.

As he looked at the spiritual materials of Heaven and Earth nearly covering the surrounding thousand zhang, excitement abruptly surged in his eyes.

Ziwei Heavenly Fire emerged in his palm. Under the control of his Divine Sense, vast quantities of spiritual materials melted away.

After three thousand years of refinement, four Acquired Treasures radiating precious light appeared within the Guest Hall!

"The Five Elements Inkstone, Zhou Tian Ink, Starry Pen, and Spiritual Text Scroll. The brush, ink, paper, and inkstone are finally all complete."