The Long Journey to Immortality

Ascending the wooden staircase, Han Lu easily bypassed the restrictions using her phoenix identity and arrived at the third floor of the library.

Generally, only some relatively secret books that require certain permissions to be accessed are placed on the third floor of the library, and only the Illusion Phoenix, Fire Phoenix, and Ice Phoenix in the Three Phoenix Forest can bypass the restrictions and enter directly.

While family genealogies may not be important to outsiders, they are indeed the kind of information that is not suitable for public disclosure.

After searching for a short while in the small space on the third floor, Han Lu found a bookshelf containing more than fifty jade plaques.

The information recorded on these jade tablets is the genealogy of the three phoenix clans in the Three Phoenix Forest.

Each jade tablet is bound by a restriction; only a phoenix that has dripped blood to confirm its name is on the tablet can pick it up and examine it.

Han Lu casually scratched the tip of her middle finger with her fingernail and dripped a drop of blood onto the jade tablet that recorded her family's genealogy.

The blood briefly broke the seal upon contact with it.

In those mere three seconds, Han Lu took out the jade pendant and held it in her hand.

Reading the information from the jade tablet, a complex family tree appeared in Han Lu's mind.

At the very top of the tree are the legendary Zhenfeng couple, while at the very bottom are the young people of Han Lu's generation.

Feng You is the patriarch of the Illusion Phoenix Clan. Based on the Illusion Phoenix Clan's rule of primogeniture, naturally, Han Lu's Illusion Phoenix lineage is the most prestigious lineage in the Illusion Phoenix Clan.

As long as Han Lu followed the branch of Huanfeng downwards, she soon found several familiar names.

"Fengyang".

"Feng Jiao".

"The phoenix soars, the phoenix is ​​like ice."

"Me and Feng Hong..."

After finding her place in the family tree, Han Lu scrolled up to see if any of her close relatives were phoenixes of other species.

The jade plaque contains more than just pictures; it also includes simple records of the personal information of each member of the family tree.

This saved Han Lu a lot of trouble.

In just three breaths, Han Lu had her answer.

Going back three generations, Han Lu does indeed have several relatives from other Phoenix clans.

Not to mention the Fire Phoenix and Ice Phoenix, which also belong to the Three Phoenix Forest, even the Fiery Phoenix and Rock Phoenix have blood relatives of Han Lu, and there is even a distant relative of the Rock Phoenix clan who is still alive.

"This..." Han Lu held the jade token and pondered for a moment before saying, "It seems that next, I should try to combine the bloodline of the Mingyan Phoenix."

This judgment stemmed from Feng Baizhi's conjecture, so at this point, Han Lu only considered it as an alternative.

She will make her final decision when she advances to the Nascent Soul Realm and tries to harmonize again.

Holding the jade pendant, Han Lu didn't want to put it back anytime soon.

Reading the contents again with her divine sense, Han Lu began to trace her roots and examine the messages of her ancestors.

First, Han Lu found the name Feng Yang.

As the last patriarch of the Phoenix Clan in the True Spirit Era, Feng Yang is undoubtedly a prominent figure in this clan genealogy due to his outstanding strategic vision.

The genealogy records Feng Yang's deeds in the human world in nearly three thousand words, presenting half of his life to Han Lu.

Because of the Moon Pearl, which allowed her to witness the stories that happened during the True Spirit Era, Han Lu could roughly imagine the scene of Fengyang's rise to power just by reading the text.

The ending of Fengyang is to be continued.

No more than ten years after the end of the True Spirit Era, Feng Yang had to ascend to the Spirit Realm as a "master" due to the decline in the world's carrying capacity, bidding farewell to his daughter who had just started a family.

For a cultivator, ascension is merely entering the next stage of life.

Therefore, the fact that Fengyang's life or death is not noted next to his portrait in the family genealogy is undoubtedly a kind of hope for Fengyang.

They hoped that after he ascended to the Spirit Realm, he would make countless further progress, reaching a level of cultivation unimaginable to cultivators in the mortal realm, and continue his story at an even higher level.

In Han Lu's mind, nearly half of her ancestors "lived" on the family tree in this way.

Han Lu noticed that Feng Yang's daughter, Feng Jiao, was not included in this list.

Not only that, the fox clan member who married Feng Jiao also did not leave his name on the tree.

Although the detailed reasons were not recorded.

But in an era when the mindset was still firmly bound by the end of the True Spirit Era, Han Lu was not surprised at all that Feng Jiao, who fell in love with a fox, would have such an outcome.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that Feng Jiao had indeed been the clan leader for over two thousand years and had given birth to two children, she might not even have been able to climb this tree.

Han Lu looked at the great achievements of her ancestors from top to bottom with reverence.

In the blink of an eye, a quarter of an hour had passed.

Having found the answer in her heart and received a wave of "patriotic" education through the family genealogy, Han Lu used her blood to break the seal again and put the jade tablet back.

Unsure whether her name was recorded in Feng Rubing's lineage's genealogy, Han Lu hesitated for a moment before deciding not to attempt to break the restriction, lest she trigger it and cause some minor trouble.

With one matter settled, Han Lu pondered for a moment before deciding to go help her father first.

Between the two, it's simpler to find some questions to use in the illusion game of the Hundred Birds Gathering.

Back on the second floor, I browsed through many miscellaneous books that were not included in the Chengyu plaque.

These books were not transcribed into the jade tablet so that the young phoenix could easily browse them and find enjoyment.

As Han Lu looked through the exhibits, she took out a jade tablet to record the interesting questions and knowledge points so that she could share them with her father for his use.

Scattered throughout, Han Lu recorded about two hundred points of knowledge, which she felt was enough to serve as a starting point for further discussion.

"Alright..." Han Lu put away the jade pendant, sighed, and murmured to herself, "Now it's time to complete the most difficult task."

Han Lu walked through most of the second floor, past nearly fifty bookshelves, and finally arrived at another area.

This place contains a large number of autobiographical texts left by phoenixes, many of which involve their experiences and insights during their cultivation.

What Han Lu was looking for were the autobiographies left behind by those predecessors who had at least one successful collaboration, hoping to find a treasure among them.

[Author's Note] October is just around the corner. How many days off will you all get for the National Day holiday?

Chapter 970 Phoenix Without Twins

Describing this job as finding a needle in a haystack is not an exaggeration at all.

Over the course of 100,000 years, there have been quite a few phoenixes who have thought of quietly telling and sharing the ups and downs of their lives with outsiders.

Among these, the vast majority of the phoenixes would mention things unrelated to cultivation but only related to their life experiences in the autobiographies of these jade plaques displayed on the bookshelves.

Only a small number of phoenixes mention spiritual practice in their autobiographies, or even directly share their experiences and insights.

Among this small group of phoenixes, only a very few successfully sing in harmony with at least one other phoenix's bloodline, and they may mention that scene and share their experiences in their autobiographies.

What Han Lu had to do was to find the autobiographies written by this small portion of the phoenixes from nearly a thousand autobiographies.

Once found, whether or not Han Lu can find what she wants depends on her own fate.

Considering this was a huge project, after a moment's thought, Han Lu decided to first use a paper sword to carry the jade tablet and send the large number of questions she had copied to her father, so that he and several elders could use illusion magic to make deeper modifications to the illusion array that was already mostly completed.

After completing this step, Han Lu put her hands behind her back, tilted her head back, and used both her eyes and her divine sense to try to find a familiar name among the entire shelf of jade tablets.

The owner of this name was a phoenix born more than 50,000 years ago, named Feng Wushuang.

Why search for him? Because Han Lu is the only four-winged true phoenix in the last 50,000 years, and this ice phoenix named Feng Wushuang is the other four-winged true phoenix who stopped Han Lu's "title" from being established for 50,000 years.

Han Lu's thinking was simple.

Firstly, because Feng Wushuang has achieved great things.

If she can learn even a little something from her, it will definitely be a great gain for her.

Secondly, because Feng Wushuang is a big target.

Finding her is much easier than searching for a needle in a haystack or looking for other phoenixes that have successfully sung in harmony.

With this in mind, Han Lu searched the bookshelf for a while.

In about ten breaths, she found the jade tablet behind the three characters "Feng Wushuang," casually used her artifact control skills to take it down, and held it in her hand.

Han Lu had heard some basic information about Feng Wushuang within the clan.

It seems that none of the phoenixes in the Three Phoenix Forest are willing to talk about this great figure from 50,000 years ago.

Several times when asked about the mother of Feng Wushuang and Bingfeng, Feng Rubing only gave Han Lu a brief introduction and was unwilling to say more.

It's as if this four-winged phoenix is ​​some kind of taboo word.

There must be a reason for that.

"I hope what I need is inside."

Filled with curiosity, Han Lu muttered something under her breath before channeling her consciousness into the jade tablet to read its contents.

Soon, after reading nearly a third of the information in the jade tablet, Han Lu was shocked by the information and vaguely understood why Feng Wushuang's story was rarely mentioned by other phoenixes in the Three Phoenix Forest.

The reason for this is that Feng Wushuang is unruly by nature and has a personality that is completely different from other phoenixes.

Especially in terms of views on choosing a partner and dating.

After reading only a third of it, Han Lu noticed that Feng Wushuang had already had sexual relations with at least five men in her autobiography.

Not only were there many participants, but the number of times was also quite high.

If the book hadn't been narrated in the first person and told from Feng Wushuang's perspective, Han Lu would have almost thought she had picked up the wrong book, that she was holding a "colorful booklet" instead of an autobiography.

Although Han Lu didn't blush, her heart was pounding wildly.

Temporarily shifting her attention away from the jade pendant in her hand, Han Lu looked around and, seeing that no one in the library was paying attention to her, pretended to be nonchalant as she strolled over to a chair and sat down.

Pretending to be serious and nothing happened, she continued reading this somewhat risqué autobiography.

It must be said that Feng Wushuang is indeed a talented person.

Aside from these interesting emotional aspects, she also recorded a lot of her experiences and insights regarding her own spiritual practice and the secret arts of harmony in her autobiography.

The existence of these things may be the reason why the phoenixes did not hide this autobiography, which seems somewhat inappropriate for children, in a more secret corner.

Noticing the information she needed, Han Lu found a reasonable reason to continue reading the autobiography.

And so, with a few serious passages here and there, and a few risqué ones there, Han Lu was torn and spent a full two hundred breaths reading through this massive work of nearly two hundred thousand words.

After reading the last word, Han Lu was filled with emotion.