Chapter 802

"Candle Dragon Scales aren't enough? Then what if I add this as well?"

As he spoke, Forget Demon Venerable took out another item.

It was a feather...

No, to be precise, it looked more like a fossil.

On the surface, it resembled a black honeycomb coal lump, layered over with secretions of unknown origin and carrying the aura of immense age. Yet at its core—within that fossil—lay an incomparably illusory, crystal-clear crimson feather, neither quite real nor quite false.

"This is..."

Lin Chen examined it carefully, then a trace of astonishment entered his voice.

"One of the Four Great Divine Beast Races of antiquity—the Nirvana Feather of the True Phoenix Clan?"

The phoenix was one of the four great divine beast races of the Primordial Era, born from the fortune of Heaven and Earth. It was a genuine Innate Strange Species. Once it reached adulthood, it could easily possess Spirit Transformation-level strength. Even among the Ancient Myriad Races, it was a great race capable of ranking among the top ten between Heaven and Earth.

And the phoenix race's most renowned trait was... nirvana!

No matter what condition they suffered—be it curses, near death, even their souls scattering or the end of their lifespan—as long as they possessed a Phoenix Feather, they could reverse it all, raise the dead, and return to the peak state of their life!

Even in the peril-ridden Primordial Era, Phoenix Feathers had been among the foremost Life-Saving Supreme Treasures between heaven and earth!

As far as Lin Chen knew, every being of the True Phoenix Clan could nurture only three such feathers in its lifetime. Each one represented the source of its life and was incomparably precious. Losing even one meant being greatly injured.

If the phoenix race had not also stood at the pinnacle of