Ji Yuan split off part of his divine sense to inspect the panel, then ruled out the [Phoenix Nest] first.
It was not that this building was weak. Quite the opposite—the [Phoenix Nest] had extremely powerful spirit effects.
In particular, spirit effect 4, called "Phoenix Rebirth," was heaven-defying enough simply for its ability to let him undergo Phoenix Rebirth and return from the dead.
The reason Ji Yuan ruled it out was its upgrade requirements.
[Upgrade requirements: reach the Void Refinement Realm; Mid-Grade Purple Spirit Stone ×1; low-grade purple spirit stone ×10; phoenix blood ×3 drops; refine the embryonic Phoenix Nest with nine true phoenix feathers. (Unfulfilled)
The cultivation requirement alone had him stuck.
As for the remaining phoenix blood and true phoenix feathers, there was no need to waste merit points on them here.
The three drops of phoenix blood went without saying. Ji Yuan could provide those himself. Never mind three drops of ordinary blood—he could withstand losing even three drops of blood essence.
He needed nine true phoenix feathers for the rest—he had obtained three when he killed Feng Yudao earlier.
That left six more. Once he entered the Kun Ruins, perhaps he could find a way to get them for free. Some blind fool from the Phoenix Clan might insist on giving him their true phoenix feathers even at the cost of their life.
In that case, he could only reluctantly accept them.
If that still did not work—at worst, he could pluck the three from his own tail, though doing so would leave him weakened for a while.
But it was not as though he could not recover.
If a few bowls of dragon-flame blood did not do the trick, he would drink a few more!
Still, if it really came to that,