"what are you up to?"
Suddenly, when she felt the profound energy in Yun Che's body flowing in a rather abnormal way, Jasmine immediately became alert and said in a deep voice, “You want to force yourself to comprehend the fifth and sixth stages of the World Ode of the Phoenix? Are you crazy?!”
"I have only one chance in my life. If I don't try, I will never give up!" Yun Che said with his eyes closed. His mind and thoughts were completely immersed in the soul mark in the jade. This "Ode to the Phoenix" is recorded in the soul mark and can only be read with soul power. If you can successfully comprehend it, then it will be truly recorded in your soul. If you can't comprehend it successfully, after leaving this place, you will not be able to remember the words, images, and the flow of profound energy contained in it. Therefore, Yun Che only has one month to comprehend this fragment. It is impossible to memorize it and comprehend it after finding the first four levels in the future.
"Without the first four realms, how can you comprehend the fifth and sixth realms? Without even the root, you want to directly obtain the fruit? If you force yourself to go against the path, the most likely result will be that your profound veins will be twisted, your meridians will be in chaos, and even your fully opened profound gates may close one after another."
“If I don’t have the foundation from the first to the fourth level, then I will build it myself!” Yun Che said in an extremely calm manner.
“Build your own foundation? Do you know how many tens of thousands of years it took the ancient Phoenix Clan to create the World Ode of the Phoenix? How many times has the World Ode of the Phoenix undergone changes, modifications, and evolutions since its publication? You only have a month at most, but you want to build your own foundation and directly comprehend the fifth and sixth levels?” Jasmine shook her head. “Even if you are truly a peerless genius, you can’t do it!”
“At least let me try!” Yun Che whispered stubbornly. Then he cut off all other consciousness and completely immersed himself in the soul mark of the World Ode of the Phoenix…
At this moment, he did not notice, and Jasmine did not notice either, that underneath his coat, on the pendant that he had worn since childhood, a strange light suddenly shone... and then disappeared.
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Outside the seal array, Lan Xueruo had been waiting anxiously. Half an hour had passed... an hour had passed... six hours had passed... a whole day and night had passed... her expression had already turned dim. Feng Baichuan's heart had also completely sunk.
"Will this trial really kill people?" Seeing Feng Baichuan walking over again, Lan Xueruo turned sideways and asked with a dull look. She had asked the same question more than a dozen times.
Feng Baichuan sighed deeply in his heart, and could only reluctantly comfort him, "Some clan members did die in this trial. But...but we don't need to be so pessimistic. Maybe Brother Yun has passed the trial. Among those ancestors who passed the trial, the longest one stayed in there for more than ten days before coming out. So...wait a little longer, maybe he will come out soon."
When saying these words, Feng Baichuan, who had personally experienced the Phoenix Trial, knew very well that it was impossible to pass this trial with the strength of the first level of the Nascent Profound Realm. Yun Che had not come out yet, and in his opinion, the only possibility was that he had been buried in the trial ground. But at this moment, he could only comfort Lan Xueruo with these words, so that she could continue to hold on to a glimmer of hope.
"Phoenix Patriarch, is there any way for me to go in?"
Feng Baichuan shook his head: "Only one person can enter the trial area per month. I have no choice."
Lan Xueruo bit her lip and said nothing more. She stood quietly in front of the trial gate, staring blankly ahead, longing madly for that figure to appear... She didn't know what was wrong with her that she was so worried and distressed. Thinking that he might die in the trial ground, her heart ached.
The Black Devil Mercenaries were blocking the way outside, the Thousand Mile Sound Transmission Notes had run out, and the Giant Snow Sculpture hadn't woken up... None of these had made her panic. But the fact that Yun Che hadn't come out for a whole day had made her panic and unable to calm down.
Two days passed... three days passed... ten days passed... fifteen days passed...
Yun Che still did not appear.
Lan Xueruo could no longer harbor any illusions and had to painfully accept the fact that Yun Che had died in the trial ground and would never come out.
These days, she had been passing through the darkness, and the pain in her heart could not be stopped day or night. Originally, she thought she was grieving for the loss of a "hope" that she had finally found, but when this pain could not be calmed down, and her heart twitched with pain whenever she thought of Yun Che's face, she gradually became confused, because she felt that this pain had completely exceeded the scope of regretful pain, but she didn't know what the part beyond was, because this feeling was very unreal and very unfamiliar.
"Damn it, it's been half a month and they haven't come out yet! They obviously have food in this cave!"
"Why are you in such a hurry? Even if they have more food and water, they will eventually run out. Humph, let's see how long they can hold out."
The Black Magic Mercenaries still haven't left. They are sure that there must be huge treasures inside. Two shifts take turns guarding it every day and they never leave for a moment.
At the beginning, Yun Che left food and water for Feng Baichuan. Under Feng Baichuan's frugal distribution, less than one-third of it was left after half a month. He frowned every day, thinking hard about how to escape, but facing the absolutely overwhelming strength outside, he was helpless even if he racked his brains, and could only hold on.
Twenty days passed... Twenty-five days passed...
A month passed.
Under the protection of the sealing formation, the Phoenix clan struggled to hold on for a whole month, but finally reached the end of their rope.
The spatial ring that Yun Che had given to Feng Baichuan had been completely emptied two days ago, without a single grain of food or a single drop of water. The adults, with their low-level profound strength, could still barely hold on, but the elderly and children fell one after another in hunger, thirst, and the fear that had never dissipated. Once they fainted, they could no longer be awakened.
Feng Baichuan's eye sockets were deeply sunken. He sat in a cold corner, feeling suffocated by a deep sense of powerlessness and despair. At this point, he didn't know where to go next... If they continued to stay here, their entire family would starve to death, and if they left here, those vicious villains outside would kill them all... Maybe they would be tortured and abused in every way because they couldn't hand over the so-called treasures, and their death would be even more miserable.
"Everyone inside, listen carefully. As long as you come out obediently and hand over the treasure and the woman, we can promise that no one, young or old, male or female, will be touched, and you will never enter this place again."
"What a bunch of stupid guys! What's the point of you just holding on like this? Don't you care about your own lives? Don't you care about the lives of your family and children? You will die in there sooner or later. Come out and surrender obediently, and then meet our conditions. We promise that no one will die, and we will let you have a good meal first!"
As everyone was in despair, the shouts of the Black Demon Mercenaries became increasingly irresistible to them. At this time, an old man stood up tremblingly and said, "Chief, they are right. We will all starve to death here sooner or later. At this point, it is meaningless to hide any longer. We should go out and surrender. They may not hurt us as they said."
“No!” Feng Baichuan shook his head and said sadly: “You should have sensed before that they all have some degree of hostility. They are a bunch of vicious people who don’t take their lives seriously. If we go out, we will only die more miserably and suffer humiliation. Hold on for a while longer… Miss Xueruo said that her contracted spirit beast will soon wake up, and then we will have hope of being rescued. Even if I still have to die in the end… I would rather starve to death than die in humiliation!”
"Zhu'er~~Xian'er!!!"
As soon as Feng Baichuan finished speaking, Feng Caiyun's heart-wrenching cry suddenly rang out. Feng Baichuan stood up suddenly and rushed to his wife Feng Caiyun... Feng Zuer and Feng Xianer fainted in Feng Caiyun's arms, their faces were pale and sallow, and no matter how Feng Caiyun shouted, they did not respond.
"Zu'er, Xian'er..." Feng Baichuan's fingertips were bleeding, his eyes were filled with tears, he raised his hands and slapped his head hard, almost fainting from despair.
Lan Xueruo, who had been huddled in the corner, slowly stood up. Perhaps because she had overdrawn herself too much, a month had passed and the giant snow sculpture still hadn't woken up. At this point, she knew that if she didn't think of a solution, she wouldn't be able to survive even a day.
"Phoenix clan leader, please temporarily open the seal formation outside. I will go out and grab some food."
After hearing what Lan Xueruo said, Feng Baichuan was stunned, then quickly shook his head: "No! It's too dangerous. There are so many people outside, how can you snatch food from them?"
Lan Xueruo said with a firm look in her eyes: "After all, I have the profound strength of the True Profound Realm. As long as their leaders in the True Profound Realm are not here, there will be no danger. Right now, the children can no longer hold on. If we don't get some food, they will...
Feng Baichuan moved his lips, and looking at the unconscious Feng Zuer and Feng Xianer, he finally nodded and said bitterly: "Miss Lan, you must be careful... There are so many grown men like us who are powerless here, but we can only let you, a girl, take such a risk for us, it's really..."
"You don't have to say that, Chief Feng. I believe that if Chief Feng has enough power, he will be the first to go out... Close the seal immediately, and I will open it as soon as I get out. After I get the food, I will use voice to tell you to close the seal again."
Although it was accompanied by extremely high risks, this seemed to be the only temporary solution in the desperate situation. Feng Baichuan stood at the entrance of the cave, bit his mouth, and sprinkled blood on the seal array, and said worriedly: "Be careful!"
As Feng Baichuan spoke, the red sealing array flashed, and then slowly disappeared. Lan Xueruo held a sword in her hand, and her body suddenly became a swift white shadow and flew out.
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