Wen Family of the Northern Domain

The Wen Family of the Northern Domain was a superpower that had risen to prominence only within the past thousand years.

Its history was relatively short, neither outstanding among the greatest nor inferior to the lesser ones.

After all, quite a few factions with inheritances spanning over a thousand or even ten thousand years were still weaker than the Wen Family.

She was a girl dressed in plain training clothes.

Her figure was tall and slender, especially her straight, shapely jade-like legs, whose breathtaking beauty was accentuated by her fitted trousers.

Her dark hair was tied into a ponytail, each strand fine and lustrous.

The girl possessed a bright, captivating beauty, yet she lacked the frailty common to ordinary women. Instead, she had a refreshing, heroic air.

However, she was currently drenched in fragrant sweat, with a trace of struggle on her face. Clearly, her cultivation was not progressing smoothly.

Granny He of the Wen Family glanced at the girl, unable to stop herself from sighing mournfully.

Was the Wen Family's peerless daughter of this generation truly going to fall just like this?

Wen Qingxuan sighed softly. When she had attempted to break through to the Sovereign Stage, the beast soul she had refined had granted her an inheritance.

Such a circumstance was exceedingly rare. It would only occur when one's compatibility with a beast soul was utterly perfect.

Everyone knew that after entering the Divine Soul Stage, every person gained the ability to refine the essence soul of a spirit beast.

It was precisely through this essence soul power that Divine Soul Stage experts could borrow the strength of spirit beasts.

However, to a certain extent, this ability was not permanent.

Even a spirit beast's essence soul would eventually see its power dissipate.

Furthermore, as a cultivator's strength continued to rise,

and they successively broke through the Divine Soul Stage, Fusion Heaven Realm, and Heaven Transformation Realm, their strength would increase accordingly.

At the same time, the power of the spirit beast essence souls they had once refined would gradually be replaced.

Of course, not every spirit beast essence soul that someone had refined would dissipate.

If one could achieve an extremely high degree of compatibility with a spirit beast essence soul, its power could remain forever.

It was simply extraordinarily difficult to achieve.

Spirit beast essence souls were innately repelled by humans. Even after a spirit beast had been slain, its lingering instincts would still resist.

Only if the spirit beast willingly allowed itself to be refined could its essence soul power remain with the refiner forever.

But how could proud and unruly spirit beasts willingly let humans refine them after death?

Thus, as most people grew stronger,

the spirit beast essence souls originally within their bodies would gradually dissipate, and their essence soul power would slowly be replaced by greater power.

Only a very small number of people could preserve their essence souls forever.

Some among them possessed bloodline connections with spirit beasts.

Wen Qingxuan clearly did not belong to that category. She had only gained this insight when she broke through to the Sovereign Stage.

Moreover, what Wen Qingxuan had refined was the essence soul of a Golden Saint Phoenix, ranked sixth on the Earth Ranking of the Spirit Beast Ranking.

Legend had it that the Golden Saint Phoenix was a spirit beast possessing true phoenix bloodline.

A Golden Saint Phoenix cultivated to its peak possessed terrifying strength comparable to a Heavenly Sovereign.

The inheritance Wen Qingxuan had obtained was the "Golden Saint Phoenix Art."

Once this art was successfully cultivated, it could reconstruct an unparalleled physique and grant one an invincible bearing.

Without thinking too much about it, Wen Qingxuan had taken the initiative to cultivate this technique.

Yet the technique was far too overbearing. Its very first step required her to destroy her own Supreme Sea.

One had to seize fortune from destruction in order to reconstruct one's physique.

Only after cultivating it did she discover that she was not a Golden Saint Phoenix.

She was merely a human who had refined the essence soul of a Golden Saint Phoenix.

Moreover, after she advanced to the Sovereign Stage and obtained this inheritance from the beast soul, the essence soul power had instead completely dissipated.

It was not as though she had not tried refining another Golden Saint Phoenix essence soul, but it had been utterly useless.

Just then, a streak of black light tore through the sky and landed in Granny He's hand.

Granny He's expression changed slightly, and she could not help sighing inwardly. What was meant to come had finally come.

Not long ago, Futu Yun had brought Qingling to Ji Xuan to annul their engagement, even driving Ji Xuan into cultivation deviation.

At the time, everyone in the Wen Family had speculated that the Pagoda Ancient Clan might soon come to the Wen Family to annul Futu Yun's engagement with Wen Qingxuan.

After all, not long after Ji Xuan had been crippled, Wen Qingxuan had also been crippled, and even more thoroughly than Ji Xuan.

Although Futu Yun had only been in the Heaven Transformation Realm at the time, every Heavenly Sovereign had already acknowledged that he possessed the potential to become a Heavenly Sovereign.

How could someone like that tolerate having a cripple who could no longer cultivate as his dao companion?

To be honest, they had long been mentally prepared.

But when reality truly arrived, they still found it somewhat difficult to accept.

After all, Futu Yun had disappeared after helping Qingling annul her engagement to Ji Xuan.

He had not immediately come to annul his engagement with Wen Qingxuan, leading many members of the Wen Family to believe that he probably would not break off the engagement.

This had allowed everyone to cling to a faint hope, perhaps because he did not wish to completely fall out with the Five Great Academies.

But now, that last shred of hope had been utterly shattered.

Futu Yun was actually coming in person?

Furthermore, as a Heavenly Sovereign, Granny He naturally knew what Futu Yun had been doing during this period.

He had been repeating his old methods, continuously guiding Lower Planes into the Great Thousand World.

Every Heavenly Sovereign could sense that a vast number of continents had been placed one after another around the Futuo Continent, where the Pagoda Ancient Clan was located.

Although those continents were all far smaller than the Futuo Continent, there were simply too many of them.

Now, if one looked down from the skies, the Futuo Continent had practically become an archipelago!

Other than the Futuo Continent at the very center, nearly every other island was a Lower Plane that Futu Yun had guided up!

And recently, Futu Yun's actions had gradually slowed.

This indicated that nearly all the Lower Planes he could detect had already been guided up.

Having finished all those matters, it was time for Futu Yun to come to the Wen Family and annul the engagement, wasn't it?

Even so, they still had to give the Pagoda Ancient Clan due respect.

After receiving the visiting card, the Wen Family continued making intensive preparations for the venue.

Expensive red carpets were laid out for a great distance, while silks and brocades hung from the trees on both sides of the road.

After all, this was the Pagoda Ancient Clan!

The Wen Family's elders, guest elders, and all others of status arrived in full formal attire.

Standing behind Granny He, they barely even dared to breathe.

Many Wen Family disciples had also been summoned by their teachers and elders to join this grand welcoming procession.

Seeing Granny He and the various elders looking so solemn,

and the welcoming ceremony so extravagant, many disciples who did not know the inside story began discussing it in surprise.

"Do you know who's coming? Why are they making such a huge display?"

"Even when the young lady of the Boundless Fire Territory visited last time, they didn't welcome her this solemnly!"

"Could the person coming today be even more formidable than the young lady of the Boundless Fire Territory?"

"Tch, what do you know? I heard that the one coming today is Futu Yun, the young clan leader of the Pagoda Ancient Clan!"

Upon hearing that explosive news, the already noisy crowd instantly erupted.

The Pagoda Ancient Clan was one of the Five Great Ancient Clans to begin with, and in recent years, its momentum had only grown stronger.

If it had not lacked one Saint-grade Heavenly Sovereign compared to the Maha Ancient Clan, it would likely have long taken the top seat among the Five Great Ancient Clans.

And as the young clan leader of the Pagoda Ancient Clan, Futu Yun had recently been acknowledged as possessing the potential to become a Heavenly Sovereign.

One had to know that even many Saint-grade Heavenly Sovereigns had never received such an evaluation before breaking through to the Heavenly Sovereign realm.

And now, this divine dragon of the nine heavens was actually descending here?