Three days later, Fu Xiangfeng and Fu Bolao returned to Coiling Dragon Island with the phoenix bird.
Seeing the phoenix bird on their shoulders and palms, Fu Danwei sighed. "I told you to deliver the phoenix to the Tribulation Immortal's seat, yet you insisted on bringing it back. Wasn't this three-day journey nothing but needless trouble?"
"Grandfather, it wasn't us causing trouble. Fellow Daoist Tianqi simply refused."
Tianqi was the phoenix bird's name.
He stubbornly refused to meet Canglan, the Tribulation Immortal. He had even taken the initiative to form a contract with Fu Xiangfeng, and the two cultivated the Dao of Heavenly Wind together.
Seeing how obstinate the phoenix bird Tianqi was, Tianxuan Zi and the others could not press him too hard. They therefore had the bird temporarily sent back to Coiling Dragon Island, where the Fu Family would help record the phoenix's growth.
Because of this, Fu Danwei was personally invited by Canglan, the Tribulation Immortal, to join the vast sea of natural-history appraisal. When Fu Henghua learned of it, he repeatedly cried out over his good fortune, having finished the dragon compendium one step ahead.
Fu Danwei looked at the phoenix bird.
Yet the phoenix bird showed not the slightest fear before Fu Danwei. After looking him over from head to toe, he flapped his wings and flew onto Fu Danwei's shoulder, carefully studying him.
Wind Spirit energy? He... he was very similar to me in essence.
Fu Danwei smiled faintly. Golden light enveloped his entire body, and he promptly transformed into a golden phoenix slightly taller than the phoenix bird.
"Chirp, chirp?" Tianqi grew even more delighted at the sight, hopping and bouncing nonstop beside the larger phoenix.
Fu Xiangfeng suddenly understood and exclaimed in delight, "Grandfather, have you completed the Phoenix Transformation Tribulation-Evasion Method?"