The Long Journey to Immortality

I admire Senior Feng Wushuang for acting on a whim, doing something so bold that even today's phoenixes cannot imagine it in an era when thinking was not yet fully open.

I am amazed by Senior Feng Wushuang's extraordinary charm; so many men are willing to risk their lives for her.

I admire Senior Feng Wushuang's brilliant writing; even if she didn't cultivate, she would surely become a master if she devoted herself to literature.

Finally, he praised Feng Wushuang's extraordinary talent, saying that she had received a lot of valuable experience in practicing the "Harmony" secret technique.

Holding the jade pendant, Han Lu lowered her head slightly, lost in thought.

"Like Feng Baizhi, Senior Feng Wushuang also made many inferences based on her own situation."

"Senior Feng Wushuang mentioned that if one pays attention to the five elements of the location of the harmony during the process of cultivation, the success rate of the harmony can be increased."

"Not only that, but if, like human cultivators when they form their core, they use divination to follow the will of heaven and provide some assistance, it should also be effective."

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Han Lu diligently extracted the information she needed from a large number of "color stories" unrelated to spiritual practice and summarized them.

Although these were also Feng Wushuang's conjectures and had no proof of their correctness or authenticity, Han Lu still meticulously recorded them all.

However, what Han Lu values ​​most is the scene when Feng Wushuang and Ming failed when they reached the fifth bloodline.

The success of successful people is difficult to replicate or directly learn from, but their failures are absolutely worth remembering and learning from for Han Lu.

The story of Feng Wushuang and Ming's fifth bloodline is actually not particularly special; at least Han Lu hasn't found any obvious problems with it yet.

As before, Feng Wushuang seemed to be "forming a golden core," so she found an auspicious day and a propitious place, and after harmonizing the five elements of the surrounding environment, she then performed the harmonious recitation.

Despite making such thorough preparations, she still ended in failure, declaring that she could no longer continue down the path of the Harmony bloodline, a path that might have allowed her to recreate the True Phoenix.

With her arms crossed over her chest, Han Lu recalled the description of Feng Wushuang's internal condition when she connected with Ming's fifth bloodline in the jade tablet. She tried to figure out what mistake Feng Wushuang made in dealing with it, and what countermeasures she could take.

Chapter 971 The Banquet

However, such things cannot be answered in a short period of time.

Han Lu read the jade tablet repeatedly, examining Feng Wushuang's actions during the fifth harmony, but ultimately couldn't find the key point and didn't know where to begin.

It took almost a quarter of an hour and we still had no clue.

Han Lu was very frustrated and scratched her hair hard to vent her displeasure.

"Forget it, maybe we were going in the wrong direction at all. Maybe Senior Feng Wushuang just lacked some luck, which is why she failed when she was trying to reach the fifth bloodline of Heming."

Han Lu found herself a reason to give up.

"This problem is too complicated. Let's think about it later."

With a long breath, Han Lu once again used her artifact manipulation technique to "fly" the jade pendant in her hand back to the bookshelf and place it steadily.

"Let's look for other people's autobiographies and see if there is any more accurate information that can verify this."

With her lips pursed and her head slightly shaken, Han Lu's body language revealed that she didn't believe such a needle-in-a-haystack search had any chance of finding gold.

After all, if even Feng Wushuang's autobiography is like this, how much help can those other phoenixes that only share one or two bloodlines provide for her?

There are quite a few phoenixes that are not good at expressing their inner thoughts and feelings.

Perhaps only those ancestors from the pre-True Spirit era who had seven or eight bloodlines in harmony could provide Han Lu with clear assistance in this regard.

Unfortunately, all that our predecessors left behind were legends and stories; there wasn't even a single page of detailed records.

With a "let's try our luck" attitude, Han Lu continued to search through the bookshelves one by one.

He found the autobiography of a senior who had tried the Harmony Secret Technique and sat down to read it carefully.

In the blink of an eye, a night had passed, and the midday sun shone through the wooden windows of the library onto Han Lu, who was still working hard in front of the bookshelves.

Overnight, Han Lu carefully read through the autobiographies of thirty senior Phoenix Birds.

The help that the twenty-nine seniors could possibly give Han Lu after that was not as great as that given to Feng Wushuang alone.

Realizing this situation, Han Lu set a target of "thirty".

Otherwise, if her goal is to "gain something," she might have to keep flipping through books until the banquet begins without ever achieving her objective.

Fortunately, Han Lu was a Golden Core cultivator with extraordinary energy and no sense of fatigue.

If it were a Foundation Establishment cultivator, they would probably be dizzy and lightheaded by now, and would need to sleep for seven or eight hours to recover.

After reading the last line of text on the jade pendant in her hand, Han Lu stretched lazily, sighed, and dragged her feet as she returned the jade pendant to its original position.

"As expected, it's just as difficult as I imagined."

"That makes sense. If it were really that easy to find some unique secret manual, it would probably have spread throughout the clan by now."

"Over the past 100,000 years..." Han Lu looked up at the bookshelf and thought to herself, "I'm afraid countless people have tried to search for the things I'm looking for in the memories of our ancestors."

It was only a waste of five or six hours, which was nothing to Han Lu, who had a lifespan of thousands of years.

After a brief moment of feeling down, Han Lu stopped dwelling on the matter.

That evening, a grand welcome banquet was held in Sanfeng Forest.

The guests from the Peng and Peacock clans who arrived at Sanfeng Forest the previous day, as well as the spirit beasts from the three clans who arrived on this day, were all invited to attend.

The banquet was divided into small and large tables. The small table had only twenty people seated, all of whom were high-ranking members of various ethnic groups.

The grand banquet is for all guests except the fledglings, and all the phoenixes in the Three Phoenix Forest are entitled to dine at the banquet.

As Feng You's daughter, Han Lu was not allowed to sit at the small banquet table, so she was naturally arranged to appear in the main banquet hall as a representative of Feng You and the Illusion Phoenix clan, and together with two other representatives of the Ice Phoenix and Fire Phoenix clans, she controlled the progress of the banquet.

Although it was called a banquet, it was more like a cocktail party, with the vast majority of guests coming for the wine stored in Sanfeng Forest.

As a "representative," although Han Lu did not like drinking, she still had to hold a wine glass and, accompanied by a clansman who was familiar with the other True Spirits, go around toasting and chatting.

Han Lu recognized many talented young people from other races, and even a member of the Peng bird clan from the Central Plains who was also of mixed race.

Wash the cups and drink more.

Fortunately, Han Lu, who was holding the "inferior wine," was ultimately representing Huan Feng, and none of the true spirits and magical beasts present were tactless.

Holding a wine glass filled with ordinary fine wine, Han Lu did not encounter the slightest difficulty.

The drunken madman who liked to urge others to drink never appeared in front of Han Lu.

Some sycophantic foreigners even called Han Lu's act of drinking "ordinary fine wine" "a unique taste" and took the initiative to ask Han Lu for some. They bought several bottles of ordinary fine wine, saying they wanted to take them back and savor their wonderful taste.

Han Lu, of course, couldn't "sell" them. Instead, she gave them a few bottles of fine wine, served in glass containers made in the Central Plains, and then sent away these passersby who had tried to get close to her.

The banquet lasted for about two hours, and most of the guests left drunk.

Some people become unruly when drunk and like to act crazy. As soon as they show signs of this, they are gently subdued with illusion magic to prevent them from embarrassing themselves in public.

Occasionally, one or two True Spirit Beasts would get so drunk that they collapsed on the ground and fell asleep there. The Phoenix Clan had already arranged for someone to help them return to their lodgings.

Everything was handled perfectly under Han Lu's clear-headed arrangement.

Although Feng Rubing also helped, the greatest credit belongs to Han Lu, who is more famous among the other alien races.

If Xuan Chengzi of the Zhengyi Sect were to see this scene, he would probably exclaim on the spot that Han Lu has the talent to manage and be the sect leader, and would wish to appoint Han Lu as the next sect leader of the Zhengyi Sect.

This banquet was held three times before the Bird Festival began, and Han Lu's performance improved each time.

Taking advantage of this social occasion of eating, drinking, chatting and laughing, many spirits and magical beasts who were not originally familiar with each other formed nodding acquaintances before the Hundred Birds Gathering began.

This can be said to have set a good precedent for the upcoming bird festival.

With the arrival of five belated guests from the Spirit Rhinoceros Insect Clan, who brought a large number of gifts, on the last two days, all the guests from various clans participating in this Hundred Birds Gathering had arrived in the Three Phoenix Forest.

The Three Phoenix Forest, which originally housed fewer than three hundred phoenixes, was suddenly flooded with nearly two thousand guests, making it difficult to distinguish who was the host and who was the guest.

With so many participants, it was impossible to find a good place in the Three Phoenix Forest to hold the so-called "opening ceremony," but Fengyou had made preparations in advance.

Signaled by a magical performance that affected every corner of the Three Phoenix Forest, Feng You transformed into his true form and gave a brief speech in the air, thus announcing the official start of the Hundred Birds Gathering, which takes place once every two hundred years.

Chapter 972 Illusory Garden Tour

The specific arrangements for each activity were compiled into a schedule and delivered to each bird spirit and magical beast the moment they arrived at Sanfenglin.

Most of the True Spirits and Monsters who wanted to participate in beauty pageants or other events immediately contacted the Phoenix Bird, who was in charge of organizing various competitions, to complete their registration.

Even if someone is careless, unless it's a competition like chess where you directly compete against other true spirits or magical beasts, as long as you register before the start of the competition, the Hundred Birds Gathering, which emphasizes a relaxed atmosphere, will not refuse your participation.

As Han Lu suggested, the "Illusory Garden Tour" event, organized by Feng You and the elders of the Illusory Phoenix Clan, was to be the main event throughout the Hundred Birds Gathering.

Based on Han Lu's original idea, "Fantasy Park" underwent numerous modifications and adjustments, and the rules were clarified.

Even Han Lu, the "author," spent some time carefully reading the rules before she knew how to navigate the temporary illusion array in the Three Phoenix Forest to seize the treasure.

Unlike events with a stronger competitive element, "Fantasy Park" will remain open to the public for half a month.

Each guest was allowed five chances to enter and undergo the test.

If you pass a test, you will be able to obtain a special feather that has been marked with a restriction.

These feathers are considered a form of currency, which can be exchanged for various resources from the Phoenix Clan during the Hundred Birds Gathering.

Each time you attempt a challenge in the "Fantasy Park," you will be sent out of the fantasy world and your game journey will end if you fail a second time.

In addition to these basic rules of the game, all guests entering the illusion are also required not to use spiritual power or supernatural abilities and to empty their minds.

Otherwise, for those true spirits and demonic beasts whose cultivation is comparable to the Nascent Soul Realm, this hastily erected illusion array would definitely have many loopholes that they could see through.

Whether or not those "veterans" exploited loopholes, it created unfairness and affected the mood of all guests playing the game.

If anyone tries to cheat, they will be immediately teleported out of the "Illusory Garden" because of their use of spiritual power, and their qualification and spoils will be confiscated.

Just looking at the rules, Han Lu felt a surge of excitement, hoping that the visiting guests would enjoy this new event she had conceived.

Each time a new activity appears at the Bird Festival, it attracts the attention of the guests.

This time, the "Fantasy Garden Tour" event was launched as the highlight, which naturally aroused the curiosity of most of the guests who were interested in it, and they were full of expectations for this event that was valued by the phoenixes in the Three Phoenix Forest as soon as it was launched.

Not to mention, you can also directly obtain various resources from it.

These resources, which are not expensive for the Phoenix Clan, are a considerable fortune for other magical beasts. Who would complain about having too much?

Therefore, immediately after Fengyou announced the start of the Hundred Birds Gathering, many guests arrived at the Illusion Array and lined up in an orderly manner under the organization of the two phoenixes.

Each guest receives a jade pendant before entering, which is used to record some information.

Although the illusion array was built to a very large scale, it could only accommodate about two hundred true spirits and magical beasts at a time.