True Phoenix Precious Technique

"So, you want me to retrieve that True Phoenix bone for you? It seems to be imprinted with the complete True Phoenix Precious Technique. I never expected such an item to exist within the Void God Realm."

Willow Deity's gaze finally settled upon the phoenix bone, showing a hint of interest.

"Yes, Willow Deity. It's just that these beings were supreme existences in their lifetimes, hailed as invincible and worshipped in the temples of the heavens. I'm not sure if..."

An Immortal King is a supreme titan; even a sealed primordial spirit possesses heaven-reaching power. Little Shi was uncertain if the Willow Deity, not yet fully recovered, could suppress them.

"It is of no consequence. While I am not the me of those years, they are also not the them of those years."

The white-clad divine figure manifested by the Willow Deity chuckled, then flashed into the formation without a moment's hesitation.

"Roar! Roar! Roar!"

At the same time, the stone statues bound by dense chains of order moved, emitting earth-shaking roars as if invincible beings had awakened from the most ancient of eras.

From dozens of pitch-black jars, blood-stained hands and arms reached out, slamming toward the strange intruder with a thunderous boom, closing in from all directions.

"Hmph, a pack of fallen wretches, how dare you act so brazenly!"

The ethereal divine body of the white-clad figure glowed brilliantly, recovering to its peak. A slender, jade-like hand thrust out from the halo, fingers flicking in succession. One hand formed the True Dragon Seal, the other the True Phoenix Seal, unleashing a heaven-shocking phenomenon of dragon and phoenix striking in unison.

True Dragon, True Phoenix, Kunpeng, Heaven-Horned Ant, Qilin... the phantoms of the Ten Archaic Evils appeared in the void one after another like a revolving lantern, then roared in unison, joining forces to suppress the pervasive strangeness and ominousness.

The white-clad figure, fighting back and forth through the formation, was as elegant as jade, revealing a peerless demeanor that looked down upon the masses and gazed across the ages.

Fighting until no one dared speak of victory! Fighting until no one dared claim supremacy!

By the end, the various manifestations of strangeness dared not approach, only able to stir the eerie, faint black mist from afar in an attempt to corrupt the Willow Deity.

Countless divine flames swirled around the white-clad figure, burning wildly. Within them, the chanting and sacrificial sounds of seated divine phantoms grew increasingly grand, constantly bowing toward the hazy figure at the center.

The black mist dissolved rapidly, unable to even breach the phantoms of the three thousand divine kingdoms protecting the figure.

Finally, all things fell silent, and everything returned to stillness.

The white-clad figure seated in the void smiled silently, full of mockery, and descended with the ease of one walking through an empty land, taking the phoenix bone.

"Impressive. This old man is now more certain than ever that He is an old acquaintance we knew back in the day..."

The two lords crouching in the corner of the ancient hall watched with glowing eyes.

The white-clad figure held the phoenix bone, closing their eyes to immerse their spirit.

In an instant, countless immortal scripts broke out from the bone, manifesting phoenixes dancing and striking across the sky around the figure.

Before long, the True Phoenixes fell, and crimson divine fire soared into the sky.

A primordial phoenix broke out of a shell within a newborn universe, reopening the cosmos and manifesting scenes of the primordial universe's great destruction and great nirvana.

Finally, the heavenly phenomena dissipated, and He opened His divine eyes.

"Hehe, about that, Willow Deity, you cannot take this phoenix bone away. We two old fossils rely on it as the formation eye to suppress the strangeness. If it leaves, we will fall completely into the boundless darkness."

Lord Bird and Lord Essence Jade scrambled to their feet, smiling sheepishly.

"The original bone of an adult True Phoenix... I just wonder if its owner is the same one I encountered back then..."

The Willow Deity stroked the phoenix bone in hand for a moment, then tossed it away without a hint of attachment, causing the two to scramble in a panic to catch it, offering endless thanks.

"Let us go. The True Phoenix Precious Technique has been obtained; it is time to return."

Specks of rosy light fell, and the white-clad figure and Little Shi vanished together.

Reality, Stone Village.

"Boom!"

Endless divine radiance descended, and a vast will returned from beyond the heavens to the willow tree's main body. The hazy portal behind it vanished as well.

Under the heaven-reaching willow tree, a handsome youth slowly opened his eyes.

Looking at the phantom of the white-clad figure merging into the willow tree, Little Shi could not suppress the doubt buried in his heart for so long: "Willow Deity, are you... a man or a woman?"

"I am a primordial deity born from the endless chaos. The distinction of gender among humans holds no meaning for me. I am simply I."

The white-clad figure looked back with a smile, and the divine body dissipated completely.

"Hmm, so that means you can be either."

The youth muttered to himself, lost in thought.

"Scram!"

A chain of order radiating rich divine light lashed down, catching the youth off guard and sending him flying instantly, crashing deep into the village.

"Ahhh! Thank you, Willow Deity, for the gift of the technique!"

That long, shrill scream was laced with a hint of pleasant surprise.

After returning from the Void God Realm, Little Shi began a journey of secluded cultivation.

Upon learning of the existence of the Void God Realm, the old village chief, Shi Yunfeng, specifically requested the Willow Deity to open a semi-permanent portal in Stone Village, allowing the children of the village to clash with the geniuses of the major powers from the Eight Regions and temper themselves.

In the words of the old village chief, every child in the village possesses several precious techniques of pure-blooded creatures; they are no worse than the holy sons of great sects or the direct descendants of noble families.

For a long time to come, the Stone Village brat brigade would sweep through the Initial Ground.

Several months later, Shi Hao, having achieved initial mastery of the True Phoenix Precious Technique, emerged from seclusion.

There was still over half a year until the opening of the Baiduan Mountain Secret Realm, and Little Shi had no desire to go to the Heaven Mending Pavilion; he looked down upon the bones of the Kunpeng descendants and the counterfeit Kunpeng Technique.

Moreover, he already possessed the flawless precious techniques of the archaic demonic birds, the Azure Heaven Roc and the Golden Winged Roc, so he was certainly not lacking in roc-type techniques.

Both the Azure Heaven Roc and the Golden Winged Roc were descendants of the Kunpeng; although not direct bloodlines, their ancestral origins were extremely profound.

When the Kunpeng Son wreaked havoc in the Upper Realm, two Roc Lords from the lineages of the Azure Heaven Roc and the Golden Winged Roc—two ancient giants at the sect leader level—came to assist, addressing the Undying Being, the biological son of the Kunpeng, as "Grand-Uncle," which clearly shows the depth of their connection.

Restless from his long period of stillness, Little Shi thought of the True Dragon Nest in the Desolate Region and thought of Red Dragon Gegu.

Thus, he suddenly had a bold idea!

However, although Little Shi knew that the Red Dragon Gegu would emerge in over twenty years to head to the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital to challenge "him" upon his return from the Upper Realm, he had no way of knowing the specific location of the True Dragon Nest.

The only information currently known was that the True Dragon Nest was in the Desolate Region, buried within a small world beneath a nameless mountain range, a full eight million li away from the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital.

Yet, this did not stump Shi Hao.

Taking the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital as the center and radiating outward for eight million li, the True Dragon Nest lay somewhere on that vast outer circle, which would significantly narrow down the search area.

Consequently, he made an excuse that his cultivation had slowed down and planned to travel for a year, requesting the Willow Deity to refine a precious artifact capable of detecting various divine object grotto-heavens.

The Willow Deity, finding him bothersome, casually tossed a precious mirror to Shi Hao.

Little Shi took the mirror and set off in high spirits, riding an adult Azure Heaven Roc at the Array Formation King Realm, searching mile by mile along that massive circle eight million li from the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital.

Hard work pays off; over half a year later, the precious mirror in Little Shi's hand finally lit up, erupting with unprecedented, brilliant divine radiance.

ps1: The Willow Deity forms the True Dragon Seal and True Phoenix Seal with her hands here, but these are merely two loose techniques, not flawless methods; she does not know the complete Ten Fiends precious techniques.

As for summoning the phantoms of the Ten Fiends, it is merely symbolic, so do not over-interpret it.

It should be perfectly normal for a supreme giant to casually manifest a phantom of a Ten Fiend or other heavenly-tier ferocious beast.

The complete Kunpeng Technique that the Willow Deity knows was obtained by Little Shi from the Kunpeng Nest and subsequently gifted to her by him.

ps2: These stone statues are Immortal Kings from the Immortal Domain who were eroded by darkness and, following the foreign realm, turned to attack the Immortal Domain, which is why they were suppressed.

See Chapter 1961 of the original work: the Immortal Kings who escaped from the Void God Realm said they were dark creatures all along, merely residing in the Immortal Domain; the so-called "eroded by darkness" was just a cover, as they were essentially undercover agents for the foreign realm.