Unlike refining an ordinary body, the Heavenly Demon Phoenix's skeleton belonged to a magical beast. To fuse Hua Yu's soul with it, he first had to refine it into human form.
In the past, Xiao Yan would have struggled to accomplish this. After all, he knew little about magical beasts and did not understand the mechanisms behind their transformations.
But now, as an eighth-tier Dragon-Phoenix, he had already mastered the relevant knowledge of magical beast transformations. Moreover, Dragon-Phoenixes possessed the Ancient Sky Phoenix's bloodline, so he was quite confident about refining the Heavenly Demon Phoenix's skeleton.
However, the skeleton itself did not contain enough energy. Changing its form would require him to refine some heavenly demon phoenix blood essence into it as well.
Thus, Xiao Yan poured an entire bottle of blood essence over the Heavenly Demon Phoenix's skeleton and began refining it.
With the six-harmony heaven-annihilating flame at his disposal, this process was hardly difficult for Xiao Yan. Before long, the enormous avian skeleton became an exquisite, tall, slender human skeleton resembling blue-and-red jade.
"Senior, give me a strand of your soul power."
Xiao Yan turned toward Hua Yu.
Hua Yu did not hesitate. Lowering her eyes slightly, she separated out a strand of soul power, which Xiao Yan promptly slapped into the humanoid skeleton formed from the Heavenly Demon Phoenix.
Immediately afterward, Xiao Yan opened another bottle of heavenly demon phoenix blood essence, turned it into a bloody mist, and sprinkled it evenly over the skeleton that resembled blue-and-red jade.
The blue-and-red bloody mist rose with a sizzling sound.
Sensing the energy fluctuations within the skeleton, Xiao Yan frowned slightly.
He could feel that even after two bottles of heavenly demon phoenix blood essence, it still was not quite enough.
The skeleton's refinement was still missing something.
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