"Heavenly Master Sun En!"
"And Bai Yujing! You truly deserve death, daring to ruin my grand undertaking!"
"Had I known, I should have eliminated you before you had grown!"
The figure murmured, his gaze icy.
His long hair hung loose, and a white mask carved from ice reflected a cold gleam in the sunlight.
This man was none other than Di Shitian, who had returned after leaving!
At that moment, he was utterly furious.
Back then, he had concealed the truth from the First Emperor and kept the Phoenix Blood for himself.
But he had wounded the Phoenix during its rebirth through nirvana and seized most of its essence blood. As a result, the Phoenix Blood fiercely rejected him, preventing him from ever refining it completely.
Even so, merely refining a portion of the Phoenix Blood had greatly increased his power. After hundreds of years of painstaking schemes, he had gathered the martial arts of a hundred schools and created the supreme technique, the Sacred Heart Art, vaulting into the Heavenly Being Ninth Heaven Realm and becoming one of the few supreme experts in the world.
But as the saying went, Phoenix Blood had made him, and Phoenix Blood had undone him.
The Phoenix spirit within the Phoenix Blood bore too much resentment toward him and rejected him fiercely. Even after reaching the Heavenly Being Ninth Heaven Realm, he still could not erase that trace of the Phoenix's spirit, completely refine the Phoenix Blood, and merge with it.
And unless he could merge with the Phoenix Blood, he would remain at this level for the rest of his life, unable to advance any further.
Naturally, he was deeply unwilling to accept that.
After many years of investigation, he had eventually devised a method to refine the Phoenix Blood completely-
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