Gu Yuena hurried over, drawing on the spiritual wisdom she had inherited from the Dragon God to analyze the situation.
An hour ago, Jiang Mingyuan had not been like this. What had he done in that hour? He had absorbed the Evil Fire Phoenix soul spirit.
But Gu Yuena had already examined that Evil Fire Phoenix soul spirit. There had been nothing wrong with it at all. It was merely an avian soul beast fortunate enough to have awakened the phoenix bloodline within its body.
Then the cause could only lie within her brother himself. Absorbing the soul spirit had merely been a catalyst, triggering something inside him.
Gu Yuena suspected that her brother harbored some kind of powerful bloodline.
Phoenix.
The thought immediately struck Gu Yuena. Her brother's martial soul was the Phoenix. Setting aside whether he was human or a soul beast that had taken human form, he most likely harbored an extremely powerful phoenix bloodline. Perhaps it was the earlier infusion of energy from the Golden Tree, or perhaps this little Evil Fire Phoenix had worked another miracle. Or perhaps it was both.
In any case, the bloodline within her brother had been awakened. Whatever the case, he could no longer be considered entirely human.
"Big brother, are you all right? Does anything feel uncomfortable?" Gu Yuena stepped forward and asked with concern.
Jiang Mingyuan shook his head.
"No. I don't feel any discomfort. In fact, I feel better than ever."
It was a feeling that was difficult to describe. All living beings were subject to all manner of restraints from the moment they were born, or even before their birth.
Jiang Mingyuan felt like a tiger entering the deep mountains or a dragon swimming into the open sea, having broken free of most of his restraints.