Chapter 235: Chapter 205: Divine Phoenix Clan
Chapter 235: Chapter 205: Divine Phoenix Clan
In the grand hall of the Azure Blue Mansion, the interior was starkly different from the outer grand hall!
On the four walls of the entire hall, countless ice-blue stones were embedded, making the whole central hall resemble an ice-blue palace, resplendent and magnificent.
Ye Chen and Jiang Yao had been teleported to this hall by the Sky-shocking Giant Spider, and upon seeing the peculiar sights of this grand hall, they were filled with amazement. Suddenly descending before the two of them from the deepest part of the Azure Blue Mansion was an eight-foot-long mystical ice-blue Phoenix Feather, which completely captivated their gaze.
This ice-blue Phoenix Feather was incredibly beautiful!
It floated in the void, casting a faint ice-blue glow, twinkling like stars.
Ye Chen and Jiang Yao both felt that the countless ice-blue stones of the entire central hall were emitting endless light. In the midst of this endless light, every strand of down and every feather on the Phoenix Feather began to sway with strange Divine Light, as ice-blue Spiritual Patterns started to appear on it.
"This... these patterns..."
Upon seeing the Spiritual Patterns on the ice-blue Phoenix Feather, both Ye Chen and Jiang Yao exclaimed in astonishment.
Because the peculiar patterns on this Phoenix Feather were exactly the same as the ice-blue Spiritual Patterns that appeared on Jiang Yao's forehead when she used her Bloodline Secret Skills!
"Could it be that this is the 'Phoenix Spirit' that the Sky-shocking Giant Spider spoke of, wanting to meet me?"
"Could it be that what has been calling me is this feather, and it's connected to me?"
Jiang Yao, looking at the ice-blue Spiritual Patterns on the mystical Phoenix Feather, felt her heart pounding at an extreme rate.
In the midst of their astonishment, Ye Chen and Jiang Yao heard a voice emanate from the ice-blue Phoenix Feather, shimmering with Divine Light, as its down and feathers gently swayed. "You have arrived," it said.
The voice belonged to a woman and was exceedingly elegant and refined.
But this voice startled both Ye Chen and Jiang Yao greatly when it reached their ears.
A talking feather?!
They had never seen a feather that could speak, even though it looked incredibly extraordinary, resembling the feathers of the legendary spiritual divine beast, the Phoenix!
The Phoenix Feather didn't mind the astonishment of Ye Chen and Jiang Yao. It gently swayed and continued to speak, "Jiang Yao? Ye Chen? Your names were just told to me by the Spiderling. You may call me 'Phoenix Spirit'."
Phoenix Spirit!
This feather was indeed the Phoenix Spirit able to command the Sky-shocking Giant Spider!
The Sky-shocking Giant Spider that Ye Chen and Jiang Yao had just seen, a powerful monster capable of driving back even a Heavenly Saint, was actually obeying the orders of such a tiny feather?
What kind of extraordinary being was this Phoenix Spirit, could its strength be even greater than that of the Sky-shocking Giant Spider?
Ye Chen and Jiang Yao were filled with a myriad of questions.
"Phoenix Spirit senior, was it you who instructed that Giant Spider senior to teleport us here?"
"It said that you had something to discuss with Jiang Yao. May I know what it is you wish to convey, senior?" asked Ye Chen as he held Jiang Yao's hand tightly, addressing the enigmatic Phoenix Feather.
The Phoenix Feather swayed gently as if it had eyes staring at Jiang Yao, and it slowly said, "Indeed, I had asked Spiderling to bring you here."
"As for the reason for your coming here, it is, of course, to verify a doubt of mine."
A doubt?
Before Ye Chen and Jiang Yao could comprehend the meaning of the Phoenix Feather, the feather floating in mid-air gently touched Jiang Yao with its faint Divine Light.
Instantly.
Jiang Yao's entire being shone with a strange ice-blue light, and within that light, her waist-length hair began to grow wildly, reaching the length of several meters in an instant!
Her meters-long black hair began to drift within the grand hall, and one could see each strand slowly turning from black to ice-blue.
At the same time, an ice-blue Spiritual Pattern starkly emerged on Jiang Yao's fair forehead!
As her hair grew and danced wildly, and the ice-blue Spiritual Pattern appeared, inside Jiang Yao, there unfurled a more than a hundred meters long ice-blue Phoenix Spirit shadow!
All this was an anomaly that would manifest when Jiang Yao performed her Bloodline Secret Skills; yet now, without her own volition, it was involuntarily triggered by the mere touch of this Phoenix Feather!
Ye Chen had seen the anomaly of Jiang Yao's bloodline before. As he watched the giant ice-blue Phoenix Spirit shadow outside Jiang Yao, he turned his gaze back to the shimmering Phoenix Feather, and a strange sensation suddenly surfaced in his heart.
It was as if the Phoenix Feather was a part of the giant ice-blue Phoenix Spirit shadow emerging from Jiang Yao!
A peculiar thought flashed through Ye Chen's mind, and Jiang Yao was also incredibly excited. She could sense that as her Bloodline Secret Skills were activated, the aura of the ice-blue Phoenix Feather before her became familiar.
It seemed that this Phoenix Feather was indeed related to Jiang Yao's Bloodline Secret Skills!
At this moment, the Phoenix Feather, seeing the giant ice-blue Phoenix Spirit shadow outside Jiang Yao, became even more excited in its voice.
"It really is the 'Divine Phoenix Clan' bloodline! It really is the 'Divine Phoenix Clan' bloodline!"
"I wasn't mistaken, I actually found the 'Divine Phoenix Clan' bloodline in the Lower Realm!"
"Senior." Ye Chen and Jiang Yao both looked at the marvelous Phoenix Feather, and the words "Divine Phoenix Clan bloodline" within the Phoenix Feather's speech made them both tighten their breaths.
It was very likely that these five words referred to Jiang Yao's bloodline!
After the Phoenix Feather excitedly uttered those words, its emotions finally calmed down, and when it looked at Jiang Yao and Ye Chen again, its voice had taken on a different tone, "You two must have many questions, don't worry, after I explain some things, you will understand a lot."
Ye Chen and Jiang Yao both nodded, their gazes unwavering on the Phoenix Feather, knowing that it would reveal many things they were completely unaware of.
"You must know, the world you are in right now, above the Barbaric Wilderness Continent, there is an upper realm, known as the Minor Spirit Realm," said the Phoenix Feather.
Ye Chen and Jiang Yao nodded simultaneously.
Both had heard of the Minor Spirit Realm; the Azure Blue Mansion was an artifact that the owner of the ancient tomb had obtained from the upper realm, the Minor Spirit Realm.
Moreover, Ye Chen had some connections with the Minor Spirit Realm; although he had never been to the Minor Spirit Realm, he had entered the Thousand Lotus Cave Abode. The owner of that abode, Heavenly Saint Qian Ji, had gone to the Minor Spirit Realm.
Additionally, the Ancient God Tower that Ye Chen had ventured into during his exploration of the ancestral secret grounds was from the Yan Clan, one of the six Ancient Clans in the Minor Spirit Realm.
The Layer Guardian Ye Chen had fought on the eighteenth floor of the Ancient God Tower was the grandaughter of an ancient king of the Yan Clan, "Yan Ling'er," who had left behind a Divine Sense Illusion in the Ancient God Tower.
Furthermore, Ye Chen still had "Yan Clan's Ancient Order" given to him by Yan Ling'er, which he could use to enter the Minor Spirit Realm in the future if he wished.
Now, according to the implications of the Phoenix Feather, could it be that the Phoenix Spirit was also from the Minor Spirit Realm?
Ye Chen and Jiang Yao both speculated in their minds.
As if Phoexix Spirit read their thoughts, she sighed and said, "You're not wrong, I indeed come from the Minor Spirit Realm, and specifically, from one of the six Ancient Clans in the realm—the 'Divine Phoenix Clan!'"
The Divine Phoenix Clan of the six Ancient Clans!
Ye Chen knew that there were six supremely powerful forces in the Minor Spirit Realm, the six Ancient Clans, among which he was familiar with the Yan Clan, one of these six Ancient Clans.
Unexpectedly, this Phoenix Spirit was also from one of the six Ancient Clans, and from another called the 'Divine Phoenix Clan'!
Recalling what the Phoenix Spirit had earlier about Jiang Yao's bloodline being that of the Divine Phoenix Clan.
Could it mean Jiang Yao's background was linked to the 'Divine Phoenix Clan'?
But if the 'Divine Phoenix Clan' was one of the six Ancient Clans, they must be incredibly powerful. If Jiang Yao truly belonged to the Divine Phoenix Clan, why would she appear in the Lower Realm?
Ye Chen and Jiang Yao could not help but want to hear more from Phoenix Spirit about the Divine Phoenix Clan.
"The Divine Phoenix Clan was once the most powerful among the six Ancient Clans, almost considered the first among them!" said the Phoenix Spirit with immense pride in her voice. "Because the Divine Phoenix Clan inherits the legacy of the true divine phoenix and possesses the two most precious treasures in the entire Minor Spirit Realm—the 'Nirvana Pool' and 'Phoenix Divine Blood!'"
"With the help of these two treasures, the Divine Phoenix Clan had countless powerhouses, not to mention Heavenly Saints, even those surpassing the level of Heavenly Saints, the 'Void Sky True Gods,' were the most numerous in the whole Minor Spirit Realm!"
Void Sky True God!
The term mentioned by Phoenix Spirit made Ye Chen and Jiang Yao's hearts jolt.
They had heard that beyond the "True Qi Realm," "Spirit Sea Realm," "Spinning Dan Realm," and "Heavenly Saint Realm," the next breakthrough would be the legendary realm of True Gods.
The realm of True Gods was indeed the stuff of legends, with not a single existence like a Void Sky True God on the entire Barbaric Wilderness Continent, only in the upper realm of the Minor Spirit Realm could such a level be attained!
This 'Divine Phoenix Clan' even had many Void Sky True Gods!
"My 'Divine Phoenix Clan' had always been invincible, but because of our constant power, we slowly lost our vigilance against other clans, and eventually, disaster struck," continued Phoenix Spirit, her voice gradually becoming grave.
"Several predecessors of our clan, in their attempts to break through to a realm even more powerful than the 'Void Sky True God,' the 'Time-Space God King,' ventured into the outer cosmic space, only to have the news of their demises reach us. Thereafter, two other Ancient Clans, the 'Zhu Yan Clan' and 'Fei Ling Clan,' unexpectedly banded together and waged war against my 'Divine Phoenix Clan!'"
"Had the clan's predecessors remained, these two clans combined wouldn't have dared to offend our clan. However, with the predecessors gone, the force left within the clan was nowhere near a match for these two Ancient Clans. Combined, they caused the Divine Phoenix Clan to suffer defeat after defeat!"
"Approximately three thousand years ago during a major battle, even one of the ten great holy lands of my 'Divine Phoenix Clan,' the 'Zhenlong Holy Land,' was completely overtaken. In that battle, three 'Void Sky True Gods' perished alongside countless Heavenly Saints!"
Phoenix Spirit's words weighed heavily on Ye Chen and Jiang Yao.
The image of two formidable Ancient Clans ganging up against another clan which had lost its strong members, with countless clansmen dying or injured, was horrific to even imagine.
"Phoenix Spirit senior, was it during this battle that you came to the Barbaric Wilderness Continent?" Jiang Yao's beautiful eyes were slightly reddened as she asked Phoenix Spirit.
The girl understood that her origins might truly relate to the Divine Phoenix Clan.
Perhaps she ended up in the Barbaric Wilderness Continent because of the great war among the three Ancient Clans!