Chapter 177: She Can Only Uncover The Truth With Her Own Hands, Again And Again
In the ancient era, the primordial wilderness had just formed, and the myriad heavens were just established. To create all things, the heavens and earth specially created divine beasts.
Among them, the Dragon and Phoenix races were the most astonishing and reproduced the most. Therefore, the Phoenix race and the Dragon race became symbols of the Divine race. As for those Vermilion Birds, Black Tortoises, Qiongqi, and Hundun, those were matters of later times.
At that time, Fusang, the leader of the Phoenix race, held up the morning sun and the bright moon, nurturing all things in the heavens and earth. Nuwa, the leader of the Dragon race, created various human races, giving birth to the Great Dao of the world. Thus, the complete Thirty-Six Heavens came into being.
Later, Fusang and Nuwa exhausted their divine power and withered away, slumbering between heaven and earth.
Thus, the Dragon and Phoenix races divided the world. The Phoenix race was dominated by females, and the Dragon race was superior to males. The two races stood in opposition, refusing to yield to each other.
At the same time, the conflict between the Dragon and Phoenix races intensified, reaching a breaking point.
Just then, a pair of dragons and phoenixes formed a marital alliance between heaven and earth, becoming the fuse for the Dragon-Phoenix War. The two most powerful races in the Thirty-Six Heavens then engaged in a fierce struggle.
In those days, there were no strategies or wisdom; it was purely about using powerful divine power to destroy heaven and earth.
After this war, heaven and earth collapsed, the sun and moon were overturned, the Phoenix race disappeared, and the Dragon race was on the verge of death. Many divine beasts in the myriad heavens were affected and became victims of this great war.
Fusang and Nuwa, who originally supported the heavens, earth, sun, and moon, were awakened by such violent commotion. At that time, they had little divine power left, but they looked at the children they had nurtured: the Human race, Demon race, Devil race, and Ghost race. Being naturally weak, they became victims of the War of the Gods and were in a state of extreme suffering.
They could not bear to witness this scene, so they chose to exhaust all their divine power.
One person gathered five stones to mend the cracks in the sky, and another carried the sun and moon to the celestial palace.
They pitied all sentient beings and thus vanished.
They became the last legend of the Cultivation World.
Thus, the ancient era ended, and the Immortal Calendar of Cultivation began.
The Dragon race won the Dragon-Phoenix War. Although they were greatly weakened, after a brief period of turmoil, they once again roamed the Thirty-Six Heavens, becoming the foremost race in the history of the myriad heavens.
However, they did not lower their guard, because as everyone knows, the greatest ability of the Phoenix race is to be reborn from the ashes.
Especially the Phoenix clan bloodline, which is like blazing fire and cannot be extinguished.
Therefore, the Dragon race split the corpse of the Phoenix race, separating the Phoenix feathers, Phoenix bones, and Phoenix blood, placing them in the three most distant locations in the world: Penglai Immortal Island, Lapis Lazuli Azure Sea, and Setting Sun Mountain Range.
Furthermore, they used Dragon Horns to guard the Phoenix Blood and utilized the perpetual glaciers of the Setting Sun Mountain Range to prevent the Phoenix Blood from being reborn from the ashes.
And the place in front of Ming Zhaoshuang is the Phoenix Pool formed by the convergence of Phoenix Blood, and also the place where Feng He Du Xian underwent blood exchange and marrow cleansing tens of thousands of years ago.
Before Ming Zhaoshuang could get closer, she could already feel the immense energy contained in this place, like magma.
In such an Icy Heaven and Snowy Land, she could still sweat from her forehead, which showed the power of this Phoenix Pool and how glorious the Phoenix race was in the past.
Ming Zhaoshuang furrowed her brows and asked, “Since heaven and earth created the Dragon and Phoenix races, why could they not balance their relationship? Even the four ferocious beasts and four auspicious beasts are evenly matched, so how could the Phoenix race be completely annihilated by the Dragon race?”
Even with rebirth from the ashes, they shouldn’t have been wiped out so completely by the Dragon race.
The System said, “Actually, since Fusang and Nuwa jointly created the world in the ancient era, there haven’t been new Divine races born for a long time. Even if there were, they would need to cultivate to gradually gain that divine power.”
“Of course, these Divine races that require cultivation are much stronger than ordinary races. The most important point is that they can break the restriction of Divine races being unable to reproduce, marry each other, and produce bloodlines.”
The first generation of Divine race, born from heaven and earth, possessed the innate ability to destroy heaven and earth but lost the right to reproduce.
The second generation of Divine race, born from heaven and earth, needed to acquire the ability to destroy heaven and earth themselves, but they could reproduce the next generation, allowing the race to continue.
Following that, came the third generation of Divine race, produced by the second generation. They possessed the abilities of the second generation but would be weaker than the second generation due to the inheritance.
Ming Zhaoshuang listened and understood, “Heaven and earth no longer needed the Divine race to help maintain order, so naturally there were no longer divinities born from heaven and earth. When Divine races interbred with other races, the divine bloodline would become increasingly diluted, thus slowly annihilating the existence of the Divine race.”
For example, Heaven Rank Spiritual Beasts are variations resulting from the interbreeding of Divine races and other races. Although they are powerful, they are not as incomprehensible as the Divine race.
Therefore, the demise of the Divine race was an inevitable trend in historical development. The Dragon-Phoenix War merely greatly accelerated this trend, and the annihilation of dragons and phoenixes was all predetermined.
Although the Phoenix race spoke of rebirth from the ashes, there was no possibility of regeneration left.
And she also heard from Ming Zhaoxue that the entire Dragon Domain had no females, making reproduction impossible. Therefore, they could only seek marriage alliances in the three great regions, which would only lead to their bloodline power becoming weaker and weaker.
Sooner or later, the Dragon race would also completely disappear.
These so-called Divine races would ultimately be buried in the long river of time.
The Phoenix race is like this, and so is the Dragon race.
The System agreed, “Indeed, it is so. Just like Qin Feilong, although he inherited Ao Tian’s bloodline, his physical strength is much lower than Ao Tian’s, and even significantly lower than Ming Zhaoxue’s. Therefore, even if he inherits the bloodlines of the Dragon and Phoenix races, he cannot inherit the divine bones of the Dragon and Phoenix, nor anything else of the Dragon and Phoenix.”
Ao Tian is a second-generation Divine race, and Ming Zhaoxue is a third-generation Divine race. The latter is clearly no match for his father.
Not to mention, ordinary people can only inherit bloodlines.
Moreover, those ordinary people were not ordinary at all. Ao Tian’s drop of essence blood remained in the Dragon King’s Secret Realm for a full ten thousand years, and only then did Qin Feilong appear.
As for Feng He, she endured three full years of suffering, abandoned her Dao, and re-cultivated before she could possess such an incredibly powerful bloodline.
Ming Zhaoshuang slowly walked towards the plum branch with blood-red petals falling, and before even getting close to the Phoenix Pool, she could feel her whole body becoming extremely uncomfortable. The air seemed to have solidified, remaining still before her, and the explosive spiritual energy seemed to have distorted space-time.
The closer she got, the more she could feel it.
It was too intense.
This purest Phoenix bloodline seemed to be beckoning her to do something.
The System said, “I feel that the seal within you is unusual. You may have to follow Feng He’s old path.”
Marrow cleansing and blood replacement, abandon Dao and re-cultivate.
Ming Zhaoshuang stopped and slowly exhaled. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to move further towards the Phoenix blood pool, but she felt a spiritual flow appearing before her, obstructing her progress.
Even if she activated the spiritual power throughout her body, she could not advance an inch.
She lowered her eyes, re-examined the Phoenix Pool, and said, “You are right. I am likely an Innate Dual Spiritual Root. However, after splitting my divine soul, I simply could not withstand such powerful talent. Therefore, the person my parents mentioned sealed one of my spirit roots.”
Ming Zhaoshuang could guess, she had an eighty percent certainty that she was an Innate Dual Spiritual Root.
With the Mountain River Brush appearing, Ming Zhaoshuang began to decompose the formation before her. Strands of golden patterns slanted down from her hand, falling into the snowy ground, shimmering as if illuminated by sunlight.
Ming Zhaoshuang said unhurriedly to the System, “I have returned now, but Chen Xing is stubborn and won’t tell me. Therefore, my origins can only be discovered by myself.”
She did not want to be kept in the dark, nor did she want to force those she cared about.
She could only rely on her own efforts to repeatedly seek the truth.
