Huo Wu Arrives, Blazing Fire Academy

The Land of Extreme Flame.

A hundred-thousand-year-old Evil Fire Phoenix circled inside the volcanic crater.

This was Phoenix Emperor Mountain, Yan Buhui's habitat.

He was also the overlord here, its emperor!

Looking at the rewards the damned system had just issued,

Yan Buhui muttered in shock.

"A Transformation Pill that can exempt me from heavenly tribulation?"

"The Nirvana Fire, exclusive to the Phoenix Clan?"

"An undying body right from the start?"

"A primordial treasure: the Five Fires and Seven Birds Fan? That's my starter weapon! I can finally wave a feather fan in a silk headscarf, and reduce masts and oars to ashes while chatting and laughing..."

"A Soul Contract Scroll? Is it a scroll that establishes a master-servant relationship after forming a contract with a Soul Beast? I'll have to put it to good use. Let's see, I can consider Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena, Ice Empress, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, and Snow Empress, the Heavenly Snow Woman. Those few can be my first choices."

"But I wonder if it works on humans? Qian Renxue, Bibi Dong, and Bo Saixi can also be priority choices."

"What a great thing, this Soul Contract Scroll!"

"A Flame Pill, for evolving bloodlines... I have Evil Fire, so it's just what I need. Maybe I'll have a chance to evolve it into Ultimate Fire!"

"From now on, I might be the strongest fire-attribute Soul Beast on the Douluo Continent! Hehe!"

Yan Buhui sorted through the five items in his starter gift pack: the Transformation Pill, Flame Pill, Five Fires and Seven Birds Fan, Nirvana Fire, and Soul Contract Scroll.

He decided to use the Transformation Pill to evolve into human form first.

After all, walking on two chicken claws wasn't a pretty sight.

As the saying about a caged bird went, "No matter how high it flies, it's destined to land!"

If he kept flying, how tired would he get?

A bird would die of exhaustion!

Even though he was an Evil Fire Phoenix, anyone who didn't know better would think he was a chicken.

An indescribable chicken bro-that was him.

Phoenix, phoenix-only an undying one was a true phoenix, reborn in fire and growing stronger with every battle!

Besides, Yan Buhui had been a miserable college student in his previous life. How could he put up with walking on chicken claws?

Naturally, he wasn't used to living in a bird's body. Besides, a phoenix's dick was too small to support Yan Buhui's grand ambitions.

With this Transformation Pill, he could once again live as a human Soul Master.

Soul Beasts lived long lives, but every hundred thousand years, they would undergo a heavenly tribulation!

And Yan Buhui could sense that his true body, this Evil Fire Phoenix, had suffered terribly during its hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation and had even nearly lost its life!

Besides, a Soul Beast's age increased far, far too slowly. It had to lie low and develop its cultivation year after year. How many donkey's years would it take to cultivate like that?

It wasn't as though he were the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, who had raised his cultivation to 999,999 years by devouring other Sea Soul Beasts and sea Soul Masters.

Wouldn't that make him an Evil Soul Master, an evil Soul Beast?

Devouring the cultivation and years of others to improve himself.

That wasn't Yan Buhui's style.

With an undying body and the cultivation speed of a human Soul Master, he would be the new generation's Phoenix God.

No! Even the Fire God!

Even a muggle like Ma Hongjun would have to kneel and acknowledge him as his ancestor.

In the original story, Snow Empress, a member of the Heavenly Snow Woman race, ranked third among the ten great Ferocious Beasts and was the foremost of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North.

Unable to break through the 700,000-year bottleneck, she transformed into human form. She was captured during the transformation and, after a series of twists and turns, became Huo Yuhao's first Soul Spirit.

Later, after becoming a god with Huo Yuhao, she inherited the emotion of sorrow and ascended to the Divine Realm with Yuhao.

That showed just how important it was for a Soul Beast to transform into human form. At the very least, it wouldn't have to endure the suffering of heavenly tribulations.

With that said,

Yan Buhui took the Transformation Pill and Flame Pill from their jade bottles and swallowed them both.

Because Yan Buhui also wanted the combat ability of Ultimate Fire.

The Five Fires and Seven Birds Fan alone was enough to destroy this place.

But dealing with these low-level Soul Masters didn't warrant bringing out his treasured weapon.

A single burst of flame would be enough.

In an instant, a blaze of fiery light flashed. His golden-red feathered wings immediately turned into a pair of hands, and his sharp, fiery phoenix claws became feet!

In the blink of an eye, his bird's head vanished, replaced by a living, breathing human.

He was a young man who looked under twenty, handsome and dashing, with an unworldly bearing and extraordinary noble air. A fiery presence surrounded his entire body, and he naturally bore the countenance of an emperor. He looked just like the Ancestral Dragon Ying Zheng in his youth!

"Mm! This phoenix lad has become a man."

Yan Buhui examined his body, secretly delighted.

Fortunately, he wasn't like Marshal Tianpeng, who had needed to drink three bowls of dew to transform into human form, only for the local earth god to knock one bowl over, leaving him a monster with a pig's head and a human body.

Fortunately, the earth god had been fairly decent and compensated Zhu Bajie with Cloud Path Cave on Fuling Mountain as a place to rest and settle down.

Next, Yan Buhui felt a surge of heat erupt inside him. His bloodline evolved as well, changing his uncontrollable Evil Fire into Ultimate Fire he could control at will. He no longer feared even the elements that countered him, such as ice, water, and rain!

Then Yan Buhui sent the Nirvana Fire into his body as well!

This Undying Fire had effects comparable to Heavenly Flames. Although Nirvana Fire had no offensive power, it was extremely useful for nurturing the body. Moreover, his true body was still an Evil Fire Phoenix, and its effects were even greater on the fire-attribute Phoenix Clan.

"More Children, More Blessings System! At least you've been decent to me."

Seeing this, Yan Buhui said with feeling, "I've really hit the jackpot right from the start!"

"Now all I have left are three Soul Contract Scrolls and the Five Fires and Seven Birds Fan."

"That's enough, too."

For Yan Buhui,

dealing with Titled Douluo below level 95 was now no problem at all.

Even if he encountered Peak Douluo at level 96 or 97, he could still put up a fight!

Even if he were beaten to death, that would only make him stronger!

Every death made him stronger. That was the true secret of the Phoenix Clan's rebirth in fire and the Nirvana Fire.

More children, more blessings?

His task now was to have lots of children!

But to have children, he needed a good woman.

A good woman had to be curvy in front and back, intelligent, talented, capable, and have a big butt for bearing children.

Have them!

Have as many as possible!

Have a whole nest of phoenix eggs.

The most pressing task was to find himself a partner.

After all, a man and a woman working together never tired, and as a member of the Phoenix Clan, he was still running at full throttle.

Without the Transformation Pill, a Soul Beast had to reach a hundred thousand years and endure the lightning of heavenly tribulation before it had even the slightest chance of taking human form. Xiao Wu, the Soft Bone Rabbit, was a fine example.

Yan Buhui planned to leave Phoenix Emperor Mountain. At its foot, a group of Soul Beasts tens of thousands of years old were stationed there, cultivating.

When they saw Yan Buhui emerge as a handsome young man, the Soul Beasts were all astonished and curious!

Yan Buhui raised a hand lightly and called out:

"Don't be alarmed. It is I, your emperor!"

The Soul Beasts, each tens of thousands of years old, stared in a daze. Had their boss, the Evil Fire Phoenix, really undergone heavenly tribulation and taken human form?

Clearly, these Soul Beasts could sense the familiar fiery presence on Yan Buhui. It came from none other than the Evil Fire Phoenix Emperor, the overlord of extreme flame!

"Congratulations on your successful transformation, Your Majesty."

The Soul Beasts, each tens of thousands of years old, spoke to Yan Buhui in the beast tongue and offered their congratulations.

"You lot guard Phoenix Emperor Mountain well. I must go out and look for prey..."

Yan Buhui called out his orders to his Soul Beast underlings.

"Yes, Your Imperial Majesty!"

Yan Buhui looked up at the sky ablaze with sunset clouds and spoke with a cold chuckle:

"I suppose I'll make do and start with Huo Wu of Blazing Fire Academy!"

"Feng Xiaotian, king of simps, don't blame me!"

"It's not that this big brother isn't human; it's just that your woman is too alluring."

Then again, this group from Blazing Fire Academy had delivered themselves to his doorstep. They even dared to hunt Soul Beasts in the Land of Extreme Flame. Wasn't that a challenge to his authority?