The first Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit in history had been refined by an Ancient Heaven Phoenix.
For a time, the Heaven Phoenix Clan flourished beyond measure, even suppressing the Ancient Void Dragons.
It was not until several hundred years later, when an Ancient Void Dragon senior had fortuitously obtained a Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit and successfully refined it, that this decline was reversed.
In the end, during a bloody battle, the Ancient Void Dragon and Ancient Heaven Phoenix—both possessing the Dragon-Phoenix Bloodline—perished together, and their bodies vanished without a trace.
Because she knew this history, Zi Yan did not find her own question strange.
Xiao Jin looked meaningfully at the Bodhi Ancient Tree shrouded in black mist and said in a low voice, "I think this was all the Bodhi Ancient Tree's doing."
Although Ancient Heaven Phoenixes had existed only in ancient times, Cang Yuan had likewise become a Dou Emperor twelve thousand years ago.
In other words, he had encountered the Bodhi Ancient Tree during ancient times as well.
Over such a vast stretch of time, it was not difficult to understand how the Bodhi Ancient Tree could have collected the corpses of many powerful experts.
Among them were presumably the remains of the Ancient Void Dragon that had refined the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, as well as the Ancient Heaven Phoenix.
"Xiao Jin, are you saying the Bodhi Ancient Tree collected that Ancient Void Dragon senior's remains as well?!" Zi Yan's eyes widened. That senior held immense significance for the entire Ancient Void Dragon race.
Had he not risked everything to refine the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, the Ancient Void Dragons might have long since been exterminated under the suppression of the Ancient Heaven Phoenixes.
Every generation of Dragon Emperors had an unwritten duty: to find that senior's remains, bring them back