"Oh?"
Zhao Fu was somewhat surprised upon hearing this. He had not expected the Dragon-Phoenix to count as a kind of condensed fortune, with effects roughly similar to a fortune dragon.
More importantly, this Dragon-Phoenix had not been directly nurtured by Zhao Fu, nor was it a personal fortune dragon. It had been formed through the Imperial Phoenix Statue, which condensed a Phoenix Crystal before nurturing the Dragon-Phoenix. It was fundamentally connected to the Imperial Phoenix Statue.
According to the golden dragon, the existence of this Dragon-Phoenix was quite special and exceedingly rare, because it was far too difficult for one to be born.
Actually, another kind of thing was quite common. It was similar to the Dragon-Phoenix: the Phoenix-Dragon. Wu Qingniang had a Phoenix-Dragon within her body.
Dragon-Phoenix and Phoenix-Dragon were two different things. The Phoenix-Dragon had the phoenix as its primary aspect and the dragon as its secondary one. Any woman born capable of becoming a ruler would possess one. The dragon represented a ruler and belonged exclusively to men, while women belonged exclusively to the phoenix. When a woman became a ruler, she had a Phoenix-Dragon.
However, the appearance of a Dragon-Phoenix was extraordinarily difficult, because a man could not possibly possess phoenix qi. Even if a man became a consort, it would not work.
There were countless nations in this world, and there were certainly nations ruled by women. In such nations, women could marry men and cast them aside, with their statuses reversed from those in ordinary nations.
If a woman was the ruler, she would have a group of male consorts. Though they could nominally serve as consorts, they were not truly so and would not receive the recognition of Heaven and Earth. A true consort possessed phoenix qi—how could a man possibly possess