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These bone wings were extremely powerful, the boost they gave to his speed was tremendous. In countless battles before, these Heavenly Phoenix Bone Wings had been of immense help to him.
Without this speed that surpassed his peers, and even those stronger by an entire major realm, he could never have achieved victories across ranks, or even across entire levels.
With these wings combined with his Fleeting Light Shadow Step technique, he could even dare to compete in speed with some Dou Zun. To just hand them over like that—he couldn't bear to.
Seeing Lin Feng reluctant to hand over the bone wings, Feng Qing'er's expression grew increasingly anxious.
She immediately said in a hurry, "I've already given you my body, do you really think I, Feng Qing'er, would harm you? Do you even know that within our Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, Dou Zun experts are countless, and even Dou Sheng—the absolute peak powerhouses of the Dou Qi Continent—we have several of them."
"If you hand over the bone wings now and let me bring them back, then nothing will happen. But if my clan's elders discover this, then when countless powerhouses come to reclaim the remains of one of our clansmen, your life will be forfeit."
At this moment, though she wished to return this senior to her clan for eternal rest, her concern for Lin Feng's safety was just as genuine.
"From Feng Qing'er's reaction, although she isn't completely devoted to me, I already hold quite an important place in her heart. And looking at the situation now, not telling her the truth isn't going to work."
With that thought, Lin Feng made up his mind.
Although Feng Qing'er wasn't wholeheartedly following him yet, that was only natural. If, in such a short time, she were willing to betray her clan and throw herself entirely into his arms, then her intelligence would be questionable at best.
Lin Feng frowned and said, "But during that auction, when the auctioneer introduced the dried corpse, he said it was an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix —an ancient beast species thought to be extinct. I didn't bother to search too deeply about it, but he said it was a creature of immense power. That was why I paid such a great price to purchase that dried corpse."
"And after buying it, my harvest was very little. Aside from these bone wings, I only obtained the beast's magic core and a few drops of blood essence. Now you suddenly tell me that this corpse was actually a Heaven Demon Phoenix, and that I should just hand everything over—how could I be willing to part with it?"
As he spoke, Lin Feng unintentionally revealed the very information he wanted Feng Qing'er to know.
"Ancient Heavenly Phoenix?!"
Feng Qing'er, who had originally wanted to persuade him further, had her eyes shrink violently again upon hearing those two words.
These two words—on today's Dou Qi Continent, perhaps many people would not recognize them. But to their Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, they could not be more familiar.
After all, when she was little, the clan elders had already taught them. The Heaven Demon Phoenix were the descendants of the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, their lineage incomparably noble.
And now, suddenly hearing the words Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, Feng Qing'er was shaken to an indescribable degree. Immediately, she grabbed Lin Feng forcefully.
Then she pressed herself against those bone wings, her delicate nose twitching as she carefully sniffed them. After more than ten seconds, she stood upright again. Looking urgently at Lin Feng, she asked, "Lin Feng, you said you also took the magic core from that dried corpse. Can you show it to me?"
"No problem."
Lin Feng nodded, then flicked his finger across the Serene Sea Storage Ring, taking out a jade box the size of a human head.
Opening the lid, he revealed the green-red colored bead inside. This bead was none other than the magic core of that Ancient Tian Phoenix.
The moment the green-red magic core appeared, Feng Qing'er's delicate body trembled violently.
For Lin Feng and Xiao Yixian, apart from sensing a surge of violent energy, there was nothing particularly strange.
But in Feng Qing'er's eyes, the moment that green-red magic core appeared in Lin Feng's hand…a bloodline pressure filled with the aura of the ancient era spread out from within that magic core.
That bloodline pressure was the same kind of suppression that a higher-ranked magical beast exerted upon a lower one. This type of suppression was something Feng Qing'er was extremely familiar with.
After all, as members of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan whose bloodline power was immensely high, they often used this move against other magical beasts. Yet now, she was the one being suppressed.
She had no doubt that if the owner of this magic core were still alive, she would already have been pressed to the ground, unable to move.
"This terrifying bloodline pressure filled with the aura of the ancient era… this magic core definitely isn't something from our Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, but from an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix!"
Staring at the jade box, Feng Qing'er murmured with eyes full of longing.
The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan took pride in being direct descendants of the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, and at the same time, they were desperately searching for traces of the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix.
After all, ever since the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix disappeared, the Heaven Demon Phoenixes had fallen to become food for the Ancient Void Dragons. Every so often, clansmen would be captured by the Ancient Void Dragons in various ways.
By the time the Heaven Demon Phoenix experts rushed to save them, those captured clansmen were often already eaten, leaving behind nothing but a pile of feathers.
It was only after the Ancient Void Dragon Clan went missing earlier that things had improved somewhat. Therefore, the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan was constantly searching for Heavenly Phoenix bloodlines.
They hoped to regress their bloodline, turning back into Ancient Heavenly Phoenixes once more. Only in this way could they escape the fate of being devoured by the Ancient Void Dragons and rise to power again.
But unfortunately, this plan had failed for thousands of years. Even many of the clan's strongest had already given up on the idea. Yet now, she had found the magic core of an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix.
At this thought, Feng Qing'er's purple-brown beautiful eyes flashed with an intense, blazing heat. Her fragrant tongue unconsciously slipped out, gently licking the corners of her pink lips.
If she could swallow this eighth-rank Ancient Heavenly Phoenix's magic core right now, and obtain the inheritance within as well as the bloodline power of the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, then both her bloodline power and her strength would make an unimaginably terrifying leap forward.
Her future achievements might even give her the chance to step into the Half-Saint realm.
At present, her bloodline power among the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan wasn't considered that high. At best, it was only at the upper-middle level.
Based on past experience, with this level of bloodline, she would be stuck circling around the Dou Zun realm for her entire life.
Unless she encountered some great fortune, or a Dou Sheng powerhouse of the clan, in their dying moments, was willing to gift her their body intact.
Only then, by devouring the corpse and bloodline power of Rank 9 Heaven Demon Phoenix, could she break her shackles and advance into the Dou Sheng realm!
However, she was unwilling to simply yield to fate.
That was why she gave up the abundant cultivation resources of the clan and the peaceful training environment, choosing instead to head to the Wind Lightning Pavilion in the Northern Region of Central Plains.
She only wanted to use the reputation of the Wind Lightning Pavilion as a cover, to indirectly seize the right to speak over most of the Northern Region.
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