As soon as it completed the "prenatal education" and developed intelligence in its consciousness, the first heavenly tribulation immediately descended. Even Li Qingshan was taken aback. Afterwards, he smiled. It really was the divine bird phoenix after all. It had yet to be born, yet it was already able to look down on its peers. He could not help but anticipate its appearance when it broke out of the egg and danced through the clouds.
"What are we supposed to do? What are we supposed to do?" Feng Xiwu paced around frantically.
"What's wrong with that?" Li Qingshan placed down the phoenix's embryo and backed away into the distance. The heavenly tribulation was a test from the heavens. No one could replace it. If he was too close, it would instead affect the young phoenix's tribulation.
"There shouldn't be any problems, right?" He was rather worried. After all these years of incubation, he had developed some feelings for the unborn little phoenix. After all, he had put in so much effort.
"It's just an egg. If it fails the tribulation …" Feng Xiwu widened his eyes and gazed at the phoenix's embryo nearby. A sliver of fear filled his eyes, afraid that he would see the egg shatter and the phoenix die.
With a rumble, lightning flickered, illuminating the phoenix nest.
The first bolt of tribulation lightning struck the phoenix's embryo. The electricity wove into a net, covering it densely.
The phoenix's embryo shone brightly as well. The complicated and beautiful patterns seemed to flow. Through the thin eggshell, the rudimentary form of the phoenix was vaguely visible. It contended against the heavenly tribulation almost instinctively.
Feng Xiwu trembled all over, as if he was the one who had been struck by lightning.
Li Qingshan patted his shoulder in amusement. "Tribulations have always been dangerous. It's the same for everyone." Seeing how Feng Xiwu's expression became uglier and uglier, he persuaded, "Don't worry. It's just a single heavenly tribulation. It's very weak. There won't be any problems with the power you've channeled into it. Instead, it's a great opportunity for it to refine its strength."
Feng Xiwu had become flustered from his concern. With what Li Qingshan said, he eased up slightly, but he continued to stare at the phoenix's embryo.
Li Qingshan shook his head and sat cross-legged at the side. At this step, his incubation was basically completed, and the next step was up to the Little Phoenix.
With the power of the first Heavenly Tribulation, even if it failed to transcend the tribulation, it wouldn't cause any fatal damage to the young phoenix. It would only consume a large amount of energy, which wasn't a bad thing. It would just ruin the "strongest young phoenix in history" plan, so he was in a relatively relaxed mood.
Listening to the rumbling of thunder, Zhang Xuan calmed his mind and sensed the new energy in his body.
After passing the fourth stage of the Phoenix Realm, both his soul and body exuded an aura of vitality. The phoenix wings on his back stretched out even more magnificently. His entire temperament had also undergone a miraculous change. There was less of an evil aura, and more of a noble aura. This was not only because of the increase in his cultivation, but also because he had received the inheritance of the Phoenix.
However, he was not like Little Phoenix, who was a piece of pure white paper. His personality was too strong. The stubbornness of the Ox Demon and the warmongering of the Tiger Demon were deep in his bones.
As a result, the influence of the Phoenix's legacy on him was unable to achieve the effect of "turning over a new leaf" that Feng Xiwu had hoped for.
Originally, each of the four transformations of the demonic and divine, "ox, tiger, phoenix, and turtle", possessed an extremely powerful spirit. No matter which spirit he inherited, it would result in a drastic change in his personality. However, as they intertwined, they instead nullified one another, creating a wondrous balance. In the end, they only became one side of his personality. He did not lose his original heart.
Li Qingshan leaned on his hand and closed his eyes, visualizing the dancing phoenix in his sea of consciousness. The rumbling of thunder in the outside world gradually grew distant.
His cultivation and strength had both reached an unprecedented height. He could clearly sense that he was only a step away from the third heavenly tribulation, the realm of Daemon Kings. No, it was only half a step away. He only needed to balance fire and water a step further, and he would become a Daemon King. From then on, he would be able to move unhindered.
In the past, he had the opportunity to directly become a Daemon King, which was to directly push the Spirit Turtle's Method of Sea Suppression to the fifth layer. However, not only would that affect his future cultivation, but his foundation would also be nowhere near as solid as it was right now. Even if he became a Daemon King, he would only be a little stronger than regular Daemon Kings.
Right now, he had yet to undergo the third heavenly tribulation, yet he already possessed the same confidence. Once he underwent the tribulation successfully and obtained four brand-new abilities, he was curious about what kind of strength he would possess.
"After ten years of arduous cultivation, it's about time for me to move."
When the last bolt of tribulation lightning dispersed, Feng Xiwu let out a long sigh of relief and smiled in relief.
"What did I say? It's just a single heavenly tribulation. It'll definitely …"
Before Li Qingshan could even finish, he was interrupted by a crisp crack. Feng Xiwu's face stiffened. Li Qingshan followed his gaze and saw a tiny crack appear on the top of the phoenix's egg. In their eyes, it was even more terrifying than a hundred bolts of lightning.
Li Qingshan did not understand the process of a phoenix's birth, but the chick had just taken shape. It should not have hatched so quickly! Could it be that it had been struck by lightning?
He murmured, "Surely not!"
Just when he was about to rush over, Feng Xiwu had already lifted up the phoenix's egg. He stared at the crack with widened eyes and channeled his power into it furiously, wanting to repair it in a flurry.
However, the tiny crack completely ignored the great Daemon King's pleas, spreading on its own.
Crack! Crack!
The expanding crack produced streaks of resplendent light. The crack spread more and more rapidly. By the time it covered the entire phoenix's egg, what would appear before them probably would not be hatching, but shattering.
As for a "premature baby", let alone becoming the strongest in history, it probably would not even be able to keep its life.
"Li Qingshan!" Feng Xiwu's roar rang through the phoenix nest.
"Shut up! Give it to me!" Li Qingshan snatched the phoenix's egg and circulated the Phoenix's Scripture of Nirvāṇa in an attempt to mend the crack, but he was not confident at all. Having incubated the egg for several years, he knew the best that the phoenix's egg was a perfect entity. It was basically a world of its own inside. Right now, what shattered was not the eggshell, but the miniature world. The Phoenix's Scripture of Nirvāṇa alone was useless. "Spirit Turtle Suppresses the Seas, suppress it!"
The figure of a spirit turtle appeared above Li Qingshan's head, shining with peaceful light and forcefully suppressing the light from the crack. In the end, it enveloped the entire phoenix's egg, forming a blue cocoon.
By now, the crack had basically covered the entire eggshell, ripping apart the beautiful, complicated patterns. It was in an extremely unstable state.
"How did this happen!?" Feng Xiwu grabbed Li Qingshan by the front of his clothes.
"Calm down!" Li Qingshan glanced at him and sighed inside. At the end of the day, he had still underestimated the destructive power of the heavenly tribulation. In terms of power alone, the phoenix's egg was even more powerful than when he underwent the second heavenly tribulation and became a Daemon Commander. However, it was nowhere near as intelligent. It still did not know how to use its power properly. It had basically used the very tip to endure the attack, which was why it ended up like this.
All lifeforms had to go through the process of growing stronger. Sure enough, it was not without reason. Pulling up seedlings to help them grow was not fun. This level of suppression was not enough to maintain the phoenix's egg's stability!
He said sternly, "I'm going to do something next. Promise me that you won't be rash!"
"Alright!" Feng Xiwu hesitated, understanding that now was not the time to look for trouble.
Li Qingshan expanded, assuming his daemon form and swallowing the phoenix's egg in a single gulp.
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