In the passage leaving the Death Gate Secret Realm, the illusion template was quickly removed, revealing Ling Yunpo's appearance.
He used some of the Phoenix's magical powers he copied from Junior Sister Xu and successfully exchanged the Nine-Transformation Vermilion Phoenix Pill from the Vermilion Bird Ancestor.
As for the words "sent by the clan", of course they were all lies.
You should know that in ancient times, the Phoenix clan was a collective name for the five clans: "Zhu Niao", "Qingluan", "Yuanwu", "Yuanwu" and "Honghu".
Just like the ancient Xuanwu clan, which is actually a collective name for Jiaolong and Xuangui.
However, today, these five feathered tribes have separated. The name of Phoenix was inherited by the original "鹓鶵", and the "鸑鷟" evolved into the "大鹏鸟", and they all regard each other as outsiders.
As for the clan in the Demon Locking Tower, although they also call themselves the "Vermilion Bird Clan" and the "Descendants of the Phoenix", their bloodline has long been differentiated from that of the Vermilion Bird Clan that now rules Nanzhou in the Donghuang Realm.
So much so that the Nanzhou Zhuniao didn't even consider them as their own family members.
As a joke, the Phoenix descendants in the Demon Locking Tower are actually closer to the Tiannan Xu family than the Nanzhou Vermilion Bird in the Eastern Emperor Realm in terms of blood relationship... Fortunately, Ling Yunpo simulated the Phoenix bloodline in Xu Yinglian, so they were able to recognize him as one of their own through his breath.
If we imitate the current Nanzhou Vermilion Bird, they might even regard us as foreigners!
When Ling Yunpo returned to the Demon Locking Tower, he saw An Zhisu sitting cross-legged in the middle of the hall with the Han Lie sword placed flat on her knees.
Seeing Ling Yunpo finally return, An Zhisu opened his eyes and smiled with joy.
"Senior sister." Ling Yunpo took out the Nine Revolutions Red Phoenix Pill and said, "Open your mouth."
An Zhisu opened her mouth, not caring at all about what Ling Yunpo fed her.
"This is the Nine-transformation Red Phoenix Pill." After she had digested the medicinal power, Ling Yunpo smiled and said, "It is equivalent to seventy years of Huafu cultivation."
"Oh." An Zhisu said softly.
If it were someone else, knowing that he had gained seventy years of Huafu cultivation, he would probably worship Ling Yunpo as his benefactor.
But Senior Sister An is different.
In her opinion, Junior Brother Ling could have strived for the second-grade golden elixir in order to better protect the Qingluo Peak lineage, but now he has only settled for the third grade. This is already the biggest sacrifice.
I owe my junior brother too much, and adding a seventy-year-old secret medicine from the Purple Mansion doesn't seem to be a big deal.
Therefore, she just silently circulated her true energy to digest the medicine in her stomach, and asked:
"Where do we go then?"
"Senior Sister, please follow me." Ling Yunpo said calmly.
Arriving at the 30th floor of the Demon Locking Tower, An Zhisu asked in surprise:
"Junior brother, are you going to take me to the Cloud Sea Sky Realm?"
"That's right." Ling Yunpo said with a smile.
"But doesn't the Cloud Sea Cocoon say that it can only be accelerated once?" An Zhisu said hesitantly, "It's easy to go insane if you enter it a second time..."
"That's right." Ling Yunpo comforted her, "But I have a way to solve this problem. Senior Sister, just concentrate on your cocoon training."
"Okay." Since his junior brother said so, An Zhisu stopped thinking about it.
The two of them stepped into the Jingmen passage on the 30th floor and arrived at the Cloud Sea Sky Realm again.
There was no sky above and no ground below, and there was only clear blue sky and misty clouds everywhere.
There are a large number of giant cocoons like a forest in front, supported by slender silk pillars underneath. There are also countless birds of prey and monsters hovering and screaming in the distance, but they are unwilling to approach this cocoon forest.
The two found a giant cocoon, and An Zhisu carefully crawled into it.
Soon, she fell into some mysterious sleep.
"Time is flowing through the gap, stop for me." Kunlun Mirror said lazily.
"Then what?" Ling Yunpo asked curiously.
"I have temporarily slowed down the flow of time in your senior sister's cocoon to the lowest possible speed," Kunlun Mirror replied. "Once we have gathered all the fragments, we will come back and help her readjust the flow."
"Hmph, Broken Mirror." Ling Yunpo was not happy but angry, "How much of your ability do you still have to hide from me?"
"Ahem, actually I have never hidden anything from you." Kunlun Jing said sincerely, "Some of my abilities were slowly restored after I got the fragments. As for other abilities, I didn't tell you because you didn't ask."
"So, after you gather all the fragments, I'll have you make a list and write down all the abilities you possess." Ling Yunpo said thoughtfully.
"No problem." Kunlun Jing replied, cursing inwardly.
"Where are your fragments?" Ling Yunpo looked around.
"Don't worry." Kunlun Jing said, "First, we have to find the source of these time cocoons, that is, the cloud-weaving spiders."
"The Cloud-Weaving Spider... should be at the bottom of the cocoon forest." Ling Yunpo looked down along the silk pillars supporting the giant cocoon.
"In fact, it's not at the bottom." Kunlun Mirror corrected him, "The space here is different from the usual one. You can't judge up and down based on the direction of gravity."
"A Jing, now that you mention it, I remember something." Ling Yunpo said thoughtfully, "Many Shushan cultivators have tried to explore this place, but they found that no matter up or down, front or back, left or right, there is no way to reach the end."
"That's because the space here is an unorientable two-dimensional compact manifold." Kunlun Mirror replied.
"What tight flow pattern?" Ling Yunpo was immediately dumbfounded.
"To put it simply, the space here is distorted in a higher dimension." Kunlun Mirror said simply, "There is no way to reach the boundary by moving continuously. We need to jump."
It began to teleport with Ling Yunpo. After several times, it arrived at the bottom of the cocoon forest where it had been last time.
There is an endless land under your feet and clear water that reaches almost to your ankles.
Many cloud-weaving spiders fled in panic on the water, and Ling Yunpo shot out a sword that wrapped one of them and pulled it in front of him.
I saw that the body of this little spider was only the size of a ping-pong ball, but its eight slender legs were long and thin. There was a ruby-like eyeball on its head, which kept turning around, revealing its inner fear.
Quite cute.
"The Cloud Weaving Spider has been caught." Ling Yunpo asked Kunlun Mirror, "What should we do next?"
"Let it run away, and then follow it." Kunlun Mirror replied, "See where these cloud-weaving spiders get their food from, and then weave the silk with the Avenue of Time."
Ling Yunpo did as he was told, placed the Cloud Weaving Spider on the water, and then followed it around.
About two hours later, the Cloud Weaving Spider suddenly dived into the water and disappeared.
"A Jing?" Ling Yunpo asked.
"Interesting disguise." Kunlun Mirror commented, "Do you find it strange where the water under your feet comes from?"
"Where did it come from..." Ling Yunpo just repeated it, and then he felt the world spinning around him, and soon he was teleported to another cave.
I saw that the sky here was still blue and clear, and below was the boundless ocean.
Many cloud-weaving spiders were running around on the rolling sea surface, and beneath the surging waves, schools of fish kept rushing out of the water, trying to swallow the cloud-weaving spiders into their mouths.
In the distant sky, above the clouds, the outlines of a magnificent palace complex are faintly emerging.
Huge columns of water fell from the edge of the palace complex and into the sea, forming a large number of waterfalls.
"A Jing."
"What's wrong?"
"How much do you like the palace?"