Seeing the puzzled look on Xiao Boqi's face, the young girl Li Miaoru smiled slightly.

He then took out a pill and tossed it into the air.

Just as the pill was about to fall due to exhaustion, a transparent flame suddenly appeared and swallowed the pill.

This is a bird.

An ugly bird, only the size of a fist, but covered in transparent flames.

The bird was truly ugly, uglier than any bird that Huang Boqi had ever seen.

But the transparent flames enveloping the bird's body exuded an aura that even he found somewhat alarming.

The moment he saw the bird, Xiao Boqi's eyes narrowed sharply.

Because this thing is called a phoenix.

Despite having the character "凰" (huang) in its name, it has absolutely nothing to do with auspiciousness.

Because this phoenix is ​​one of the ten most ferocious beasts of antiquity, wherever it appears, endless slaughter and death are sure to follow.

Therefore, it also has another name: Death Bird.

It's like a god who controls death; the moment it appears is the moment it reaps lives.

What shocked Ye Boqi the most was that the phoenix bird fed on birds.

All birds are merely food in its presence, regardless of rank or species.

It will prey on even the most common sparrows, and it also has a range of prey on birds and monsters of extremely high rank.

Even the legendary fire-type divine beast, the Vermilion Bird, is its prey.

For this reason, the Phoenix is ​​also something that the Vermilion Bird Temple, which governs the southern divine land of the continent, has been trying to kill.

Its existence poses the greatest threat to the Vermilion Bird Temple.

According to the records of the Azure Sky Academy, no trace of the Phoenix Bird has been found on the continent for thousands of years.

Everyone believed that the Death Bird, which was already extremely rare and defied the laws of nature, was already extinct.

But today, this thing is actually standing right in front of me.

And it was just a fledgling bird.

The ugly baby bird was very affectionate towards Li Miaoru, its extremely sharp beak rubbing against the little girl's palm.

That look, which evoked disgust and fear, contained a hint of ingratiation.

Amidst the girl's giggles, the young phoenix, having obtained another elixir, flew back to the main hall atop the mountain, completely satisfied.

He plunged headfirst into the large pit filled with the national fortune and the power of faith of Daqi and went to sleep.

"Your Highness, I discovered the existence of this phoenix bird by chance."

As Li Miaoru spoke, she took out a teacup from the table for Xiao Boqi from her storage ring.

After Ye Boqi sat down, the little girl knelt beside him and began to recount her encounter with the phoenix.

Because the Great Sun Heavenly Fire had been dormant here for thousands of years, the entire ruins were also imbued with its aura.

The most obvious example is subterranean fire.

Li Miaoru found three earth fires within the ruins. It was these three earth fires that enabled Daqi's Pill Palace and War Weapon Hall to operate so efficiently.

However, as Daqi's fortune surged rapidly in a short period of time, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the power of stars filled the entire Daqi.

This has led to the increasing quality of spiritual herbs and medicines within Daqi, and the high-grade spiritual herbs that Xiaoboqi and others brought back from other divine realms are piling up like mountains.

After some were planted, the rest urgently needed to be refined into pills to enhance the strength of the people of Daqi.

However, this also led to a situation where the level of subterranean fire was insufficient.

Without a matching flame, not only will the medicinal power of a high-grade elixir be unleashed, but it will also result in a great waste.

Therefore, Li Miaoru began to wander around Daqi in hopes of finding a higher-level flame.

But after traveling all over Daqi, she still couldn't find the kind of flame she was looking for.

Just as she was preparing to return to the ruins and report what had happened to Ye Boqi.

She found an egg at the core of the subterranean fire within the ruins.

An egg, no bigger than a skull, lay hidden deep within the fiery magma, its entire body ablaze with terrifying heat.

Since the spiritual energy of the world in Daqi surged and the power of the stars continued to pour in, many species that had never been seen before have appeared in Daqi.

To this end, the Azure Sky Academy specially dispatched a large number of instructors, armed with the Myriad Beast Manual, to subdue such beasts, and even opened a special place within the Azure Sky Academy to raise such monsters.

Because all of these suddenly appearing monsters are of high rank.

High-level demonic beasts are not only valuable from head to toe, but if they are tamed and trained, they can also become an extremely powerful fighting force.

The true strength of a power lies not in becoming rich overnight, but in using that wealth to cultivate and nurture its own foundation.

High-level demonic beasts are one of the foundations of this power.

The incredibly high-grade spiritual herbs that grow in the sacred mountains and great rivers are also cultivated by the Pill Palace.

This is a positive development.

So after seeing the egg hidden deep in the Earth's core magma lake, Li Miaoru didn't pay much attention to it.

Just as she was about to leave and notify the Sky Academy to come and retrieve the egg, a soft cracking sound suddenly came from it.

Immediately, an ugly bird that hadn't even grown out of its shell hatched, like a little chick with bound feet begging for food, hovering and chirping around Li Miaoru's feet.

This newly hatched bird eats everything. Even if Li Miaoru casually throws it a spirit crystal, it can crunch it up and swallow it whole.

But his favorite food is pills made from fire-attribute spiritual herbs.

Perhaps because it was born by Li Miaoru's side, this phoenix now only eats elixirs.

Moreover, he only eats the pills fed to him by Li Miaoru.

One day, after feeding it, the ugly bird bit Li Miaoru's wrist hard.

The process of the ancient ferocious beast recognizing its master in its juvenile form was thus hastily completed.

Li Miaoru also learned about the origin of this phoenix.

As he sipped his tea and listened to the young girl's story, Yi Boqi nodded slightly.

After obtaining the core of the constellation Spica, Huang Boqi's perception of destiny became increasingly acute.

The reason Qin Feng, Xiao Jiu, and the others were sent to other divine realms was because of this perception of destiny.

This perception became increasingly pronounced after absorbing the Fire Nether Marquis's fortune and continuously drawing other star cores into his body.

He had previously told Li Miaoru that she was different from Xiao Yu and Jin Mantang; her opportunity lay in Daqi.

But at the time, he had no idea how Li Miaoru's opportunity would come true, or what kind of opportunity it would be.

But one thing is certain.

Li Miaoru's opportunity will surely bring great benefits to the national destiny of Daqi.

All of this is feedback from the Book of the Thief, and the scene before us is a confirmation of that feedback.

Because the battlefield between the Azure Dragon Divine Land and the Vermilion Bird Divine Land has never ceased.

Azure Dragon Divine Land has always been on the defensive.

He will soon launch a war against the Azure Dragon Temple.

Once the Azure Dragon Temple is overthrown, it will inevitably clash with the Vermilion Bird Divine Land.

Thinking of this, Xiao Boqi rubbed his chin helplessly.

This is the legendary one.

When you're sleepy, someone brings you a pillow; whatever you wish for comes true.