I am the son of the Dragon God in Douluo Continent.

Seeing Ma Xiaotao's pale face, Xu Xingyu began the treatment process.

First, Xu Xingyu raised the object he called the Vermilion Bird Pearl. With the infusion of his soul power, the Vermilion Bird Pearl began to emit a vermilion light. Finally, under Xu Xingyu's control, the Vermilion Bird Pearl merged into Ma Xiaotao's body.

The moment the Vermilion Bird Pearl merged into Ma Xiaotao's body, the Vermilion Bird power contained within the pearl sensed the power of the Vermilion Bird feathers, as well as the pure Phoenix bloodline power of Ma Xiaotao.

It was at this moment that the Vermilion Bird Pearl began to work with the Vermilion Bird Feathers to try to take away all of Ma Xiaotao's life force.

However, at this moment, Xu Xingyu made his move, releasing his Dragon God Martial Soul to forcefully suppress the Vermilion Bird Pearl and Vermilion Bird Feathers.

He came to help, not to take Ma Xiaotao's life.

When the Vermilion Bird Pearl and Vermilion Bird Feather sensed Xu Xingyu's aura of the Dragon God, or rather, the aura of the Starry Dragon Emperor unique to Xu Xingyu, the originally chaotic Vermilion Bird power stopped its actions and waited for Xu Xingyu's judgment like an obedient soldier.

Xu Xingyu breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this. Fortunately, the divine power left behind by the Vermilion Bird was still quite familiar with her aura. Otherwise, with her current strength, Xu Xingyu would not have been able to control the Vermilion Bird's divine power, which possessed the quality of a first-level god, solely based on her own abilities.

Xu Xingyu is able to command the power of the Vermilion Bird Gods now purely because the Vermilion Bird Gods are his subordinate deities. Otherwise, how could a Soul King like him have the qualifications to command the Vermilion Birds to do things?

Under Xu Xingyu's instructions, the Vermilion Bird's divine power stopped absorbing Ma Xiaotao's life force and began to devour her phoenix bloodline power.

As the phoenix bloodline was devoured, Ma Xiaotao became restless and instead showed a very painful expression. There was no way around it; what Xu Xingyu was doing now was no different from dismantling her bones and putting them back.

Therefore, this pain is not something a human should be able to endure; it is basically the same kind of pain as the side effects that occurred when Xu Xingyu fused with the Golden Dragon King's divine power.

It was precisely because of this pain that her body began to retaliate involuntarily. Not only was her restless body constantly moving around, causing Xu Xingyu to passively endure some benefits, but the phoenix flames that sensed the threat also began to roam around.

Therefore, Xu Xingyu had no choice but to fully activate her Dragon God bloodline, enter a dragon-transformation state, and become a half-dragon human, so that she wouldn't have to worry about those troublesome phoenix flames.

To prevent Ma Xiaotao from moving around again, Xu Xingyu had to use extreme ice to freeze her limbs, thus preventing the treatment from being interrupted.

The only remaining problem is that the woman screamed loudly due to excessive pain during treatment.

To be honest, Xu Xingyu really wanted to just stuff a rag in her mouth, and in fact, that's exactly what Xu Xingyu did.

Although it's not usually a good thing to do this, Xu Xingyu was annoyed by helping Ma Xiaotao, so she resorted to this seemingly villainous approach.

After gagging Ma Xiaotao, although some sounds could still be heard, Xu Xingyu was finally able to calm down and complete the treatment process for Ma Xiaotao.

As time passed, Ma Xiaotao's phoenix bloodline power was completely devoured by the Vermilion Bird Pearl, and at that moment, Ma Xiaotao's martial spirit was also completely shattered.

Xu Xingyu was not surprised by this result, after all, her martial spirit only appeared because of her phoenix bloodline. Without the phoenix bloodline, Ma Xiaotao was no different from a chicken.

So the next step is to integrate the power of the Vermilion Bird into her bloodline and reforge her martial soul.

Generally speaking, actions like creating a martial soul usually require god-level power, and this also depends on the quality of the martial soul to be created.

If it's a low-quality martial soul, then that god can be created with ease. But if it's a divine beast like the Vermilion Bird, then the energy required is considerable.

Once a divine beast-level martial soul is truly created, the effort and energy required to create that god will be enormous.

The biggest example is the Goddess of Light Butterfly martial soul that Wang Dong'er once possessed. Since neither Tang San nor Xiao Wu's bloodline has anything to do with butterflies, it is obvious that this martial soul was created by Tang San and given to his daughter due to acquired factors.

When Tang San was creating the Goddess of Light Butterfly Martial Soul, in order to avoid excessive consumption of his energy, he directly dug up the tomb of the first Butterfly God and used the Butterfly God's residual power to create it.

Xu Xingyu is doing something similar in a way, using the power of the Vermilion Bird Pearl to create a Vermilion Bird Martial Soul for Ma Xiaotao.

However, the difference is that Xu Xingyu sought the other party's consent.

A red figure emerged from Ma Xiaotao's fusion with the Vermilion Bird Pearl; it was a beautiful woman with long, golden-red hair.

She is about 1.9 meters tall, and her figure is the kind that is prominent in the right places and curvy in the right places. She can be described as a rare beauty.

This person was Xu Xingyu's subordinate in her previous life, the Vermilion Bird God among the Four Sacred Beasts, and the one in front of her was the afterimage left behind by that one.

The afterimage of the Vermilion Bird God looked at the bewildered Ma Xiaotao and said with interest, "My lord, is this the successor you chose for me? Although his talent seems decent, I feel there are still some issues with his personality."

Xu Xingyu said helplessly, "There's nothing I can do. I can't guarantee that I'll find another person like Ma Xiaotao in this Douluo Continent who can use both Yin and Yang Fire at the same time. It's because you didn't marry anyone and didn't leave any descendants like Xuanwu, Baihu, and Qinglong."

For some reason, the Vermilion Bird Goddess looked at Xu Xingyu with a somewhat sullen expression and said, "Please don't compare me to those roughnecks. As the only female among the Four Heavenly Beasts, I personally have very high standards for my partner. It's just that I haven't met the right one yet."

"So you're just going to stay single like this until the Dragon God War ends with you dying without a male heir?"

Upon hearing Xu Xingyu's words, Zhuque immediately became furious: "What do you mean by 'dying without a man'! It all comes down to the fact that all those who pursued me were cowards! And the only one who even looked down on me was you!"

"What?" Xu Xingyu scratched her head and asked, "What did I do in my past life?"

Seeing Xu Xingyu's expression, Zhuque didn't want to say anything more. She could only mutter under her breath about why her only favorite boss was so oblivious in this regard, even though he had a girlfriend.

Although Xu Xingyu was a little confused about what Zhuque was trying to say, she decided to focus on the important matter first.

"Anyway, this whole mess was caused by your feather, so it's only natural that you'd have to clean it up, right?"

"Leave it to me with confidence. Although this girl has some personality issues, she's generally a good girl. I hope you won't let her down."

After finishing his sentence, Zhuque began his work under Xu Xingyu's puzzled gaze.