The spiritual energy was restored, and he became a mortal immortal in two days.

A raging inferno erupted.

The entrance to the secret realm, transformed from Wutong Mountain, has been fully opened.

"Why haven't any members of the Wen family come?"

Among the allied families, three figures led the way: Liu Xiyue from the Liu family, Su Baoyue from the Su family, and Qin Zhengrong from the Qin family.

These three are all at the ancestral level, possessing the power of a half-step Golden Core cultivator.

"Anyway, I've passed on the message. If the Wen family doesn't come, that's their own problem."

Liu Xiyue is over a hundred years old, but she still looks like she is forty, which is obviously due to her age-preserving skills.

Su Baoyue chuckled softly: "Perhaps the Wen family has a reincarnation of Wen Bufan, and therefore looks down on the Phoenix Secret Realm here."

"This is unreasonable."

Qin Zhengrong, the most cautious of them all, shook his head. "Even if Wen Bufan is the reincarnation of the Sword Emperor, he couldn't possibly remain unmoved in the face of the Phoenix."

"Old Qin, are you coming in or not?"

Liu Xiyao urged, "If Wen Bufan really comes, we'll only get a sip of soup. Are you willing to accept that?"

"That's right. The most urgent task is to go in and loot the spiritual treasures as soon as possible. If the timing is right, we might even be able to capture that injured phoenix!"

Su Baoyue's gaze fell upon the phoenix phantom in the sky, his eyes revealing a deep greed.

If the spiritual energy were to fully recover, they certainly wouldn't dare to covet a phoenix.

However, the current world is extremely restrictive, and even a phoenix's combat power must be confined within its golden core.

"This is a golden opportunity, how could I possibly let it slip by!"

"Enter!"

Without further hesitation, Qin Zhengrong took the lead and stepped into Wutong Mountain.

Just as they suspected, the phoenix was injured and was healing itself through the power of rebirth from the ashes.

Moreover, their injuries were so severe that they had no time to worry about their intrusion into Wutong Mountain.

Qin Zhengrong quickly said, "While the phoenix is ​​still healing, let's search Wutong Mountain thoroughly, leaving no corner unchecked."

The other two nodded in agreement; this was something that had been planned before they came in.

However, before they could even begin searching the mountain, they suddenly realized something was wrong.

A pungent smell of flames mixed with the stench of blood and burnt flesh filled the air.

This burning blood and fire is unlike anything else.

Just by taking a whiff, they felt their spiritual energy surge and their blood boil, as if a supreme medicine was nourishing their entire body.

Is it really that effective just from the smell of burning?

The very source of that scent, wouldn't it be extraordinary and mysterious?

Overjoyed, they looked up, but the next moment, their pupils contracted sharply, their hearts filled with horror.

Wutong Mountain is indeed a mountain.

But once inside, they were horrified to discover that what was piled up into a mountain was not stone or vegetation, but skeletons!

It wasn't human remains, nor the remains of ordinary spirit beasts or ferocious beasts, but rather the remains of phoenixes, piled up like a mountain!

The broken phoenix wings, hundreds of feet long, were scattered among the piles of corpses; some wings had broken bones and scattered feathers.

Many phoenix necks were crooked, with clean marks remaining at the cuts. Large phoenix heads rolled into the crevices of the mountain of corpses, their phoenix eyes wide open.

Wutong Mountain, Wutong Mountain, is not the nest of the phoenix, but the tomb of the phoenix!

How did these phoenixes die?

What kind of being could kill so many phoenixes?

At the same time, Huo Lingyun and Ye Li also stepped in, and upon witnessing the scene before them, their hearts were filled with shock and disbelief.

Their shock was no less than that of Qin Zhengrong and the other two.

"A dead land... Sir, you're right, this really is a dead land..."

Ye Li gripped the Moon Frost tightly in her hand, a bead of cold sweat dripping from her forehead. The deathly silence felt like a mountain pressing down on her heart.

"How could these phoenixes die?"

"The Empress sent me here to investigate the Holy Master's whereabouts through the Phoenix... How am I supposed to explain this?"

Huo Lingyun thought about it more deeply, and at the same time, a greater sense of gloom settled in her heart.

The Empress and the Holy Master were brought together by the phoenix.

After the Empress obtained the Phoenix Body, she never saw the Phoenix again. Later, while searching for the Holy Master, she also sent people to search for the Phoenix.

How heartbroken she would be to see so many phoenixes die here?

"What are you waiting for?"

"Hurry and grab it!"

After a brief moment of stunned silence, Qin Zhengrong and the other two let out a joyful shout and, without hesitation, led their family members up the mountain of corpses.

Even a dead phoenix is ​​a rare and precious medicine.

Their lingering aura and unrotted flesh are all invaluable medicinal herbs to cultivators.

then.

These members of powerful families have gone completely mad, almost losing their reason, and they swarmed forward.

Qin Zhengrong and his two companions had a clearer objective: they immediately set their sights on the two phoenix corpses at the highest peak.

That's another mountain peak.

The mountain peak was more than a hundred feet higher than the other corpses, and from a distance, the phoenix corpses looked as if they were bowing down to them.

However, before they could reach the top, a small figure moved even faster than them.

These are chicks that came overnight from Qingcheng City.

The moment she stepped into this place, she felt the bloodline of her closest relatives, which was the two phoenixes in front of her.

It doesn't know where the Phoenix Tomb came from, nor why its parents died here. All it wants now is to take its parents away from here.

Qin Zhengrong and the other two shouted angrily, "Where did these beasts come from, daring to steal the phoenix's corpse?"

"You're the beast!"

"Your whole family are beasts!"

"I am a phoenix!"

The chick put its wings on its hips, glared back, and then quickly took out a storage bag and put its parents' remains inside.

Without lingering, it transformed into a rainbow of light, streaked across the sky, and prepared to leave.

If it were before, its bloodline power was depleted, so it naturally wouldn't have been able to escape.

But now, these old men and women are just waiting to inhale my exhaust fumes!

Intercepted halfway, Qin Zhengrong and his two companions glared angrily, but their speed was no match for this suddenly appearing beast!

"Holy crap, aren't these the chicks that Mr. [the father] raises?"

In the distance, Wang Baole, who was closely monitoring the situation, gasped in shock.

Could it be that Mr. Mo is not joking, and that he is really raising a phoenix?

"What?!"

"You're saying this bird that treated Qin Zhengrong and the other two like monkeys is Chen Xuan's pet?"

Standing nearby, An Changmin was so shocked by Wang Baole's words that he almost got burned by the cigarette.

However, just as the chick escaped the encirclement and pursuit of Qin Zhengrong and his two companions, the phoenix phantom that had remained motionless above the flames suddenly made a move.

It stretched out its huge wings and, without warning, slapped the chick with one paw.

puff!

The chick vomited blood and fell from the sky, crashing heavily to the ground. The bright iridescent light on its body instantly dimmed.

The key point is that after doing all this, the phoenix phantom stopped moving, only giving it a gloomy glance, as if it simply wanted to prevent it from leaving.

Before the chick could even get up, Qin Zhengrong and his two companions caught up, their eyes dark and menacing as they approached.

"You just said you were a phoenix?"

"Very good, even a monstrous phoenix can be considered a phoenix."

"It's quite good to capture a live phoenix. We'll join forces to capture you."

As they spoke, their greed grew, and they took out talismans to suppress the spirit beast, intending to forcibly lock the chick's soul and brand it with the mark of slavery.