Vermilion Bird Star Domain, Phoenix Sky Nest.
This was the center of the Vermilion Bird Star Domain. In recent years, with the birth of the True Phoenix Heir, it had even begun to emerge as the center of the four surrounding star domains. It was the ancestral territory of the Phoenix Clan.
Where the Vermilion Bird Holy Land had once stood, ninth-rank Heavenly Wutong trees had been fashioned into nests. Layers of forbidding restrictions surrounded them, and undying flames burned throughout. The craftsmanship seemed to have stolen the heavens' own skill. This was a supreme legacy of an immortal clan, and to this day, no creature outside the Phoenix Clan had cracked the techniques used to build the Phoenix Nest.
Pure-blooded phoenixes roosted here. Even the weakest stood at the level of a fourth-step Void Refining Dao Child. With time, each would become a Seven-Tribulation Supreme. Their bloodlines innately held the ultimate limit of a branch of flame rules; they were born destined to become Supremes, an object of boundless envy.
Among humanity, overlord of the endless stars, a fourth-step Void Refining Dao Child was considered an adult cultivator in the broadest sense, with the right to take part in governing the entire race.
The Phoenix Clan had only one weakness: its numbers were too small.
Pure-blooded phoenixes were born at the level of fourth-step Void Refining Dao Children and destined to become Supremes. There were no weaker pure-blooded phoenixes. This was the very lowest they could be.
It was enough to make anyone green with envy.
The sole small comfort was that there were only a few dozen pure-blooded phoenixes. Compared with humanity, overlord of the endless stars, their numbers were not even a hundred-quadrillionth as great.
If dragged into a war of attrition and stalemate, the Phoenix Clan