Deployment Settlement, Dragon Phoenix Royal Bloodline

[The deployed avatar has died. Settling this deployment.]

[Settlement complete.]

[Settlement evaluation: Born a defective Dragon Phoenix, you lost both parents to violent deaths, rose from humble beginnings, and finally became a true Dragon Phoenix.

Among the Magical Beasts, your lifespan was extremely short, but in that extremely short life, you successfully raised the ceiling for all Magical Beasts.

With late-stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng cultivation, you defied the odds and slew the Stone Clan's Dou Di.

You personally wiped out the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Clan, one of the two great Magical Beast clans.

You indirectly destroyed the Stone Clan, a Dou God Clan.

You adopted Shi Huang, rewriting his fate and creating a Huang Di, allowing the Huang Emperor Clan to endure through the ages.

Your name will live on in the Dou Qi Continent, and you will become an object of reverence and fear for all Emperor Clans and Magical Beast families.

You are... a dead legend.]

Looking at the panel before him, Xiao Ce remained silent for a long time.

This time, he had broken through the ceiling of his previous two deployments, successfully raising his strength to the Dou Di level and even killing a Dou Di.

Most importantly, he had actually destroyed the Stone Clan. Although the Stone Clan had little presence in the original story and had merely served as a backdrop in his previous two deployments, it was still an Emperor Clan with a legacy stretching back who knew how many tens of thousands of years.

Now, Xiao Ce was curious about just one thing: did the Stone Clan still exist in reality?

This Deployment System claimed to deploy avatars into the past, but did it create new timelines, or dynamically change the world he inhabited?

Xiao Ce reached out and tapped the Ninth Grade Golden Pill hanging against his chest, asking, "Golden Pill, do you know the Stone Clan?"

The Ninth Grade Golden Pill took human form and immediately responded, waving her fists. "The Stone Clan? Is that some family here in the Northwest Continent? Did they offend you before? Would you like me to take revenge for you?"

They really were gone!

Xiao Ce's mind reeled.

With the Ninth Grade Golden Pill's cultivation, she ranked among the very strongest on the entire Dou Qi Continent. Over hundreds and thousands of years, there was no way she could never have heard of the Stone Clan.

Considering that the Ninth Grade Golden Pill would not deceive him, and her tone did not sound teasing either.

There was only one possibility: the Stone Clan really no longer existed!

Xiao Ce forcibly suppressed the emotions in his heart and changed the subject with a smile. "It's nothing. I just read about that family in an ancient book before, so I thought I'd ask."

The Ninth Grade Golden Pill asked no further questions, simply giving two adorably blank "ohs."

Xiao Ce thought for a moment, then asked without leaving any holes in his wording, "By the way, Golden Pill, do you still remember the Huang Clan?"

The Ninth Grade Golden Pill replied in her usual tone, "Are you curious about the Huang Clan, Father? Would you like me to tell you about them in detail?"

Xiao Ce nodded. "Yes, tell me.

"Oh, and tell me everything you know about the Huang Clan. I need to confirm some information."

The Ninth Grade Golden Pill was not the least bit impatient. On the contrary, she enjoyed talking to Xiao Ce, and even her tone grew a little more cheerful.

So, more than happy to oblige, she started from the very beginning.

"The Huang Clan is famous for tempering their bodies through external training. Their bodies are even tougher than those of Magical Beasts at the same level. It's said that only the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, the dominant clan of the Beast Realm, possesses physical strength that can rival theirs at the same level.

"As far as I know, the Huang Clan's first Dou Di, Huang Di, was an extraordinarily powerful figure. He lived for a full twenty thousand years and held the entire Dou Qi Continent under his might for twenty thousand years as well. Even when Dou Di emerged from other clans, they were no match for him.

"While he was alive, he even brought the entire Huang Clan to the glorious height of having five Dou Di in a single clan.

"Only after Huang Di died did the Huang Clan return from its transcendent position to stand on equal footing with the other Emperor Clans.

"Now, the Huang Clan ranks just below the Gu Clan and the Hun Clan among the Emperor Clans, I suppose. Their clan leader is an early-stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng. Although he falls short of Gu Yuan, the Gu Clan's leader, and Hun Tiandi, the Hun Clan's leader, he still counts as the continent's third-strongest expert."

As he listened to the Ninth Grade Golden Pill, a hint of gratification inexplicably appeared in Xiao Ce's eyes.

Seeing this, the Ninth Grade Golden Pill thought her clear account had earned Xiao Ce's approval, so she became even more thorough.

"Father, according to my observations and some things I've heard, there are two statues in the Huang Realm. One is of the first Huang Di, and the other is of a majestic, imposing ancient Dragon Phoenix. They say that Dragon Phoenix could defy the odds and slay a Dou Di with late-stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng cultivation. He was a legendary figure too, honored as Huang Di's elder brother.

"Thanks to that connection, the Huang Clan and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan have always maintained a good alliance."

Xiao Ce's eyes stirred with emotion. He had never expected his statue to truly survive with the Huang Clan from ancient times to the present.

He just did not know whether his heart was still inside the statue.

The Ninth Grade Golden Pill continued speaking, recounting how many Dou Di the Huang Clan had produced, which prodigies had emerged in the clan over the past thousand years, and what arrangements they had in the Central Plains.

Xiao Ce committed it all to memory. Listening to the Ninth Grade Golden Pill's account, he reached out and stroked her head. "Thank you, Golden Pill."

The Ninth Grade Golden Pill smiled shyly. "Hehe, pet me some more, Father."

Xiao Ce nodded with a few murmurs of assent and stroked her for a while, only withdrawing his hand once the Ninth Grade Golden Pill was satisfied.

The Ninth Grade Golden Pill returned to pill form and continued hanging against Xiao Ce's chest.

Xiao Ce let out a breath. It kept feeling like he was looking after children.

"Master..." The Mysterious Yellow Flame's voice suddenly rang out.

Xiao Ce turned his head and chuckled. "Looks like you can't sit still."

Only after stroking the Mysterious Yellow Flame for a while did Xiao Ce finally have some time to himself, though he did not find it annoying.

The pill and the flame actually both felt quite nice to the touch.

In just that short while, he felt that much of the gloom he had accumulated while immersed in the deployment had eased.

If not for the deployment rewards, he would not have minded stroking them a while longer.

At that thought, Xiao Ce's expression grew a little more serious. He opened the panel again and looked at the deployment rewards.

[Choose two of three rewards. Available rewards: Dragon Phoenix Royal Bloodline, Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, Breath-Concealing Technique (final perfected version)]

The Dragon Phoenix Royal Bloodline! Xiao Ce's heart trembled, and he almost cried out in excitement.

The dragon-phoenix bloodline was already the supreme bloodline of the Beast Realm. At the late stage of Nine-Star Dou Sheng, it could clash head-on with a Dou Di. In this era without origin qi, a Dragon Phoenix that grew to the continent's upper limit would be the strongest!

All the more so with his dragon phoenix royal bloodline.

The strength of this bloodline had been fully demonstrated during the deployment. At the middle stage of Nine-Star Dou Sheng, he could narrowly defeat the Stone Clan's Dou Di, and at the late stage, he could even crush the Dou Di of the ten clans. Even after using all his trump cards, the Stone Clan's Dou Di had been forced to self-destruct.

It could be said that as long as he had this dragon phoenix royal bloodline, once he reached Nine-Star Dou Sheng, even if Hun Tiandi became a Dou Di in the future, he could not possibly be his match!

Of course, as long as he kept the Ancient Jade firmly in his grasp, Hun Tiandi could forget about becoming a Dou Di!

Xiao Ce confirmed one of the choices without hesitation, but the remaining two left him in a dilemma.

Between the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and the Breath-Concealing Technique that Shi Huang had thoroughly perfected, the former was not necessarily more valuable.