In the next moment, purple flames swept forth, and an extraordinarily magnificent purple phoenix flew out of the spatial passage, circling through the sky.
Scruffy Sparrow had also grown considerably during his time on the Central River Continent. He possessed a pure Five Phoenix bloodline to begin with, and since he was merely recovering the cultivation he had possessed before reincarnation, his cultivation had improved at an astonishing pace. From the looks of it, he was only one step away from the Great Ascension stage.
"Little Lin, where's my relative? Why don't I see her?" Scruffy Sparrow's excited gaze swept across the area, but he saw none of the expected female birds. There was only a group of cultivators staring wide-eyed at one another.
"Under that black water!" Lin Chuan said, pointing at the Gui Water lake below.
"This is... Gui Water?" Sensing the aura of the surging black water beneath him, Scruffy Sparrow quickly recognized that it was not ordinary lake water, but the extremely yin Gui Water.
"None of the Five Phoenixes are associated with Gui Water. There can't possibly be a Five Phoenix down there. Little Lin, you're messing with me... Wait... this aura, why does it feel a bit like a turtle..." As he spoke, dense purple firelight erupted from Scruffy Sparrow's eyes as he peered sharply into the Gui Water.
"Hey! There really is a turtle... Little Lin, the relative you mentioned can't be this thing, can it? How the hell does that count as my relative?" Scruffy Sparrow glared furiously at Lin Chuan.
"You both carry the bloodline of the Four Spirits of Heaven, so of course it counts as your relative!" Lin Chuan said with a smile.
"Little Lin, have you been itching for a beating lately?" Scruffy Sparrow said as he circled