The struggle on the level of will seemed slow, but was in fact extraordinarily swift.
Liang Zhaohuang had no intention of wearing it down bit by bit. Divine abilities, Five-Colored Buddha Light, Five Viscera Gods, Kunpeng Dharma Aspect, and all manner of methods were unleashed as he battled and contended against the phoenix silhouette stretching across the sky.
There was no peaceful coexistence here—only victors and submission. Either Liang Zhaohuang subdued the phoenix's will, or the phoenix's will expelled him. Should he fail to refine the phoenix bloodline, he would suffer the backlash of the Five Virtues Fire and be grievously injured.
This was an exceedingly dangerous process. The Beast Taming Sect's inheritance might have contained secret techniques and methods to improve its disciples' success rate and safety in refining demon beast bloodlines and subduing demon beast wills.
But the Beast Taming Sect inheritance Liang Zhaohuang had obtained was incomplete. He could only draw upon the materials and experience he had gathered over the years to study, deduce, and assemble a method of his own.
At this moment, he watched his many methods battle the phoenix silhouette in midair. The Five-Colored Buddha Light repeatedly swept over it, yet could never fully suppress or subdue it.
Liang Zhaohuang's brow furrowed deeply. With every method unleashed like this, he could not hold out much longer. If he could not swiftly subdue the phoenix's will, then this attempt to refine the phoenix bloodline would truly fail, and he would suffer the Five Virtues Fire's backlash.
Liang Zhaohuang stopped hesitating. With a shift in his hand seals, the Five Viscera Gods besieging the phoenix silhouette in the sky let out cries in unison. Their forms directly collapsed, transforming into the most fundamental five-element essence qi and rushing together into the phoenix silhouette.
The refinement