Reversing the Innate

As soon as he finished speaking, he exhaled streams of Primordial Violet Qi and merged them into the phoenix egg.

The immortal egg, covered in phoenix patterns, devoured the treasure greedily, absorbing nine streams of Primordial Violet Qi in succession before finally stopping.

After absorbing those nine streams of Primordial Violet Qi, the phoenix patterns upon its shell became increasingly lifelike, and a faint trace of innate intent began to gather within.

Immediately afterward, a dazzling streak of light flew out from the egg and surged into Chen Nianzhi's sea of consciousness.

"This is..."

Chen Nianzhi's gaze shifted slightly, and he instantly understood what it meant.

The phoenix egg had received his karma. In the unseen depths, a hazy consciousness had awakened and formed an immortal spirit contract with him.

This greatly surprised Chen Nianzhi. Generally speaking, immortal spirit contracts were agreements forged between immortals and divine beasts of the Immortal Realm.

For this phoenix egg to be willing to form a contract with him meant that it had acknowledged him as its master of its own accord. This was truly beyond his expectations.

Yet moments later, through the immortal spirit contract, Chen Nianzhi gained a certain understanding of the phoenix egg and roughly grasped why it had chosen to form this contract with him.

It turned out that mythical immortal species such as true dragons and immortal phoenixes possessed vastly differing bloodlines and foundations.

Leaving aside mythical immortal species that had yet to become immortals, even among phoenixes at the immortal level, there were enormous differences in their foundations.

Ordinary phoenixes were merely acquired lifeforms. Though their bloodlines were extraordinary, constrained by those same bloodlines, most could cultivate no further than the Earth Immortal realm.

Beyond them were the exceedingly rare innate phoenixes, whose bloodlines and foundations were astonishing,