A thick, pungent stench of blood filled Mo Tang's senses, yet within this stench, there was also a faint, eerie fragrance.
Standing beside the blood pool, Mo Tang felt that strange, terrifying power. Far from feeling any discomfort, his blood was actually flowing rapidly within him…
Faintly, he seemed to hear some desperately eager cries of joy.
"Go in, let me see just how far you've grown…"
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Huang Tian's gaze suddenly became subtly fervent, making Mo Tang suspect that this old man harbored ill intentions towards him.
Shaking his head, he banished these random thoughts from his mind. Looking at the blood pool radiating terrifying energy beneath his feet, he took a single step and arrived at its center.
The moment Mo Tang entered the blood pool, it began to fluctuate violently!
Threads of crimson energy, like needles, pierced his body, forcefully penetrating his pores and rushing into his flesh.
"Hiss..."
The sudden, sharp pain made Mo Tang's face turn pale instantly, and he couldn't help but gasp.
"Be careful! This blood pool contains the terrifying bloodline power of successive Heavenly Phoenix Demons. If you have any tricks up your sleeve, use them quickly, otherwise, even in your current Phoenix Demon form, you'll be burst apart by this power!"
Huang Tian's voice rang out again.
Mo Tang didn't answer, but immediately activated the system.
"A large amount of bloodline energy has been detected. Do you wish to spend high-level energy to fuse and enhance your own bloodline?"
"Yes/No."
"Prompt: Because this fusion and enhancement requires a large amount of energy points, the system suggests that the host allow the system to automatically absorb and convert the bloodline energy for use."
Mo Tang couldn't help but roll his eyes...
What is this, self-production and self-consumption?
"Allow automatic energy conversion, let's begin."
As soon as Mo Tang finished speaking, the originally quiet blood pool instantly began to churn, and then the essence blood of the demon phoenix in this pool actually formed a small vortex, and at the center of the vortex was Mo Tang's body!
Outside, Huang Tian, who had been watching all this, flashed a look of astonishment in his eyes.
"This guy... such a fast absorption speed, isn't he afraid of indigestion?"
With Huang Tian's soul power, he could naturally clearly perceive that the bloodline power in the blood pool was rapidly disappearing, while the bloodline aura on Mo Tang's body was getting stronger and stronger!
"Looks like this time it really will give me a surprise!" A
look of joy slowly spread across Huang Tian's face. He then sat cross-legged not far away, quietly watching Mo Tang's transformation.
Days passed, and a month had gone by in the blink of an eye.
At this moment, Mo Tang's aura had reached its peak!
The next moment…
a sharp phoenix cry instantly resounded throughout the entire space.
"Screech!"
Mo Tang suddenly rose from the blood pool, his entire body completely enveloped in gold, and let out a phoenix cry towards the sky.
Beside him, Huang Tian's eyes were filled with surprise and shock.
On Mo Tang's body, a large golden bird with golden flames emanating from its wings and tail feathers was soaring high…
This image was all too familiar to Huang Tian; it was the legendary Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, which had long since disappeared from this Dou Qi Continent!
And it was the Golden Flame Heavenly Phoenix, the noblest of bloodlines!
"It's a success… it's really a success…!"
Huang Tian was so excited his body trembled...
For tens of thousands of years, he had endured the loneliness of being the only one left in his entire race!
"Hahaha... The second Ancient Heavenly Phoenix!"
"Next, as long as this kid works hard to have children, and then uses that strange power of plunder and fusion with this blood pool, he can cultivate more Ancient Heavenly Phoenixes. Sooner or later, the Ancient Heavenly Phoenixes will once again stand at the pinnacle of this continent!"
This was what Huang Tian had always hoped for: for the Ancient Heavenly Phoenixes to return to the Dou Qi Continent and become a true supreme family like the Primordial Void Dragons and the Eight Ancient Clans, instead of this group of incongruous Heavenly Demon Phoenixes!
Of course, Mo Tang had no idea what the Huang Tian patriarch was thinking, otherwise he would definitely protest against being treated as a mere breeding tool...
Of course, if the other party could find him women like Yun Yun, Little Fairy Doctor, or Queen Medusa, then Mo Tang wouldn't mind having many offspring.
It was all for the rise of the race!
... At this moment
,
Mo Tang's transformation was not yet complete...
After the Golden Flame Heavenly Phoenix fully took shape, Mo Tang actually opened his mouth, and the phantom of the Heavenly Phoenix once again emitted a terrifying phoenix cry...A hazy gray halo spread outwards, enveloping the entire space.
Instantly, even a five-star Dou Sheng like Huang Tian was momentarily stunned, seemingly losing consciousness, his entire soul entering a special state.
However, this time was extremely short, and Huang Tian recovered.
But this did not surprise him; instead, it filled him with joy again...
"This is the power of time! The power of time that only the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix can control!"
Like the spatial power of the Ancient Void Dragon, the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, as a supreme magical beast of the same level as the Ancient Void Dragon, naturally also controlled its own special power.
The Ancient Void Dragon controlled space, the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix controlled time...
Although this so-called power of time was somewhat misleading in essence, only able to slightly alter the speed of time around a target, it was already incredibly terrifying!
As the last pure-blooded ancient phoenix on this continent, Huang Tian naturally possessed this ability. Therefore, although he was only a five-star Dou Sheng, his control over time allowed him to fight even a six-star Dou Sheng.
However, this power was not easy to master. He himself only truly awakened it upon breaking through to the Dou Sheng level, a far cry from the spatial abilities mastered from childhood by the Taixu Ancient Dragon clan.
But the power of the ancient phoenixes was not limited to this. Besides the extremely demanding time power required to awaken, what truly made them terrifying was their control over destructive power!
Thunder and fire were both highly destructive forces in this world, and the ancient phoenixes were born with the power to control both, making their attacks incredibly destructive.
For example, the golden flame Mo Tang was currently wielding was the strongest destructive thunder flame of the ancient phoenixes, its terror comparable to the top five flames on the Strange Flame Ranking!
However, because of its immense destructive power, it was somewhat unsuitable for alchemy or similar purposes, but rather more suitable for combat.
Among the current Heavenly Phoenix Clan, the Phoenix is the strongest because it inherited the Phoenix Flame, a simplified form of the Destructive Thunder Flame from the ancient Heavenly Phoenix…
while the Kun Phoenix and Eagle Phoenix both inherited abilities related to speed, essentially super-simplified versions of the power of time.
However, each of these three possesses unique abilities, which is what has made the Heavenly Phoenix Clan what it is today!
(End of Chapter)