Li Shiming smiled. He saw that Xiaofeng was still alive in the flames.

Xiao Feng's condition was not very good. It was hit by a shocking thunderbolt. If it had not had the ability to transform itself into energy and used it when it was most dangerous, it would have been killed by the thunderbolt.

Even though it was transformed into energy, the power of the last thunderbolt still caused Xiaofeng to suffer serious injuries.

Xiao Feng didn't care about the injury. He looked at the thunderclouds in the sky. After the thunderclouds struck out the last bolt of lightning, they turned into thin clouds and were quickly dissipating.

It seems that the heavenly tribulation was successfully overcome, and Xiaofeng became a fourth-grade early red-gold phoenix.

After surviving the heavenly tribulation, the rewards from heaven and earth will also come.

A warm energy appeared from the void and flowed through Xiaofeng's body.

Xiaofeng's body was strengthened by this energy, and even Xiaofeng's soul was being elevated, not to mention Xiaofeng's previous injuries, which were healed in a moment.

The little phoenix floated gracefully in the air, its flaming feathers glowing with golden light, and it felt extremely powerful.

It let out a phoenix cry towards the sky, and this phoenix cry broke through the Dudong Mountain formation and echoed in the sky above the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.

The spiritual pets released by the cultivators in various places of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect were unlucky. It was because Xiao Feng had no killing intent when he made his cry, otherwise the spiritual pets of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect with weaker strength would have been scared to death on the spot by the cry.

The spirit pets all bowed their heads and showed awe, which was a sign of respect for the top bloodline.

The Phoenix-type spirit pets behaved even more humbly. All the Phoenix-type spirit pets that had not been put away lay prostrate on the ground to express their obedience.

At this moment, all the cultivators in the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect who possessed Phoenix-type spiritual pets were shocked. Judging from the current situation, if they released their Phoenix-type spiritual pets in the battle and the opponent was the owner of the phoenix cry, then it would be worth considering whether their Phoenix-type spiritual pets had the courage to fight for their master.

"Shizhen, why are you making such a big noise?" A figure appeared in Dujie Mountain. It was Master Hu, the great monk. His voice appeared first, and then the figure appeared.

However, when he saw the fourth-rank Xiao Feng, his movements paused.

"Xiao Feng was promoted to the fourth rank?" he exclaimed in surprise.

The reason why he fell in love with Li Shiming at first sight was because Li Shiming had contracted Xiaofeng, the red-gold phoenix.

He was thinking that Li Shiming had spent hundreds of years training Xiao Feng into a fourth-grade spiritual pet. Even if he took his time, Xiao Feng could be promoted to a fourth-grade late-stage spiritual pet.

But he never expected that Xiaofeng's promotion would come so quickly.

He didn't need Li Shiming's answer. He sensed Xiaofeng's situation, and the last bit of worry in his heart disappeared.

What he was worried about was that Xiaofeng was being promoted too quickly and his foundation was not solid.

Through his perception, he found that Xiao Feng's foundation was very strong, and it didn't seem like his foundation was weak at all.

"Take Xiaofeng back to the cave first. The commotion this time was quite big. You can no longer hide the fact that you have a red-gold phoenix pet. You have to be more careful in the future!" Monk Hu said helplessly.

Li Shiming owns a red-gold phoenix spirit pet, but few cultivators in the sect know about it.

Originally, Master Hu was planning to keep the news secret so that it wouldn't spread.

But the commotion Li Shiming made this time was too big to be suppressed at all.

Especially for cultivators who possess phoenix-type spiritual pets, they naturally judged from the situation of their own phoenix-type spiritual pets that another red-gold phoenix had appeared in the sect.

"Master, thank you for your help!" Li Shiming bowed and expressed his gratitude.

He called Xiaofeng back and took her away from Dujie Mountain and returned to his own cave.

Not until he sent Xiao Feng to the spirit pet room did he have time to check Xiao Feng's abilities.

Xiao Feng only has one ability, the fire ability called 'Fire of Nirvana'.

Although the 'Fire of Nirvana' is only an ability, it has many effects, such as burning the soul, flaming body, and rebirth. These are the specific effects of the 'Fire of Nirvana'.

There is no need to explain much about burning souls. Xiao Feng had this ability when he reached the third level.

The flames emitted by Xiaofeng can cause great damage to the enemy's soul.

The body of fire is what Xiao Feng used when he encountered the last heavenly thunder when he was surviving the fourth level of heavenly tribulation. He transformed himself into an energetic flame.

The Flame Body is immune to physical attacks to the greatest extent possible, and also has a certain reduction effect on most energy attacks.

The last step is rebirth. As long as the 'Fire of Nirvana' is still there, Xiao Feng can rely on the rebirth effect to be reborn from the ashes in the 'Fire of Nirvana'.

Of course, Xiao Feng's combat power is not only reflected in the 'Fire of Nirvana'. Xiao Feng's fourth-grade body is also extremely strong among the fourth-grade early spiritual beasts.

This is not long after Xiao Feng was promoted to the fourth rank. After Xiao Feng has accumulated a certain amount of experience, its fourth rank body will become even more powerful.

Xiao Feng's sharp claws and beak are equivalent to the magic weapons of Yuanying cultivators, and have the effect of breaking through spiritual defense.

In addition, Xiao Feng's defense has also become stronger. The defense of a fourth-grade spirit beast is naturally stronger than that of a human cultivator.

Thanks to Xiaofeng's defensive power, it will not suffer too much damage even if it is hit by a magic weapon of an early Nascent Soul cultivator. Its flaming feathers serve as a solid line of defense.

"Xiaofeng, this is for you, keep it well!" Li Shiming took out a space ring, fixed it on Xiaofeng's foot and instructed.

Xiao Feng knew how to use the space ring. When it found that there were a large number of third-grade top-level spirit beast enhancement pills in the space ring, it needed to replenish its energy, so it immediately started to feast on them.

Li Shiming smiled. His mountain was planted with third-grade beast saliva fruit, which was the main material for refining third-grade spirit beast enhancement pills. He also had two spirit plant husbands who were conscientiously taking care of the third-grade beast saliva fruit.

In the end, 10% of these third-grade beast saliva fruits were given to Ling Zhifu, and the rest were used by him to refine third-grade spirit beast enhancement pills.

Even though Xiao Feng and Huan Ling Long have big appetites, no matter how much they eat, with the number of third-grade beast saliva fruits, not to mention the two of them, even if there are more spirit pets, there will be resources to train them.

Li Shiming received the message and activated the formation with a smile.

Zhong Qiang, Yue Shan and Lu Heng came together. It seemed that they knew about Xiao Feng's promotion to the fourth rank.

"Congratulations, junior brother!" They congratulated in unison.

Since Zhong Qiang was promoted to the Golden Core stage, he has become much more confident. Judging from his current aura, he will be promoted to the middle Golden Core stage soon.

The reason why he could improve so quickly, besides being reborn through possession of another's body, was most importantly because Li Shiming provided him with a large number of high-quality elixirs to assist in his cultivation in the Jindan period.

"Come in and sit down!" Li Shiming led them into the hall of the cave.

He poured the fourth-grade spiritual tea that he had brewed himself for the three of them, and also put some fourth-grade spiritual fruits on top. He had no shortage of fourth-grade spiritual fruits. Not to mention the spiritual fruit trees he had planted himself, even the five-year salary given by Zhongzhou Trading Company would have given him more than a hundred spiritual fruits.

“Big Brother, take this fourth-grade spiritual tea and fourth-grade spiritual fruit back and eat them slowly. At your level, if you eat them all at once, your body might burst!” Yue Shan was more thoughtful and reminded Zhong Qiang.

"I won't be polite with my junior brother. Take whatever you can. Such spiritual objects can save me a lot of time for cultivation!" Zhong Qiang replied with a smile.

Having received so much help from Li Shiming, he even gave Li Shiming his most precious things. The relationship between him and Li Shiming had become extremely close.

In particular, all the elixirs he used for cultivation in the Jindan stage were provided by Li Shiming.

All third-grade elixirs are high-grade third-grade elixirs. This alone allows Zhong Qiang to reduce the intervals between taking third-grade elixirs and maximize the effect of his cultivation.

He had also heard of the reputation of Li Shiming's fourth-grade spiritual tea a long time ago, but due to his realm, he could not normally come into contact with this kind of fourth-grade spiritual tea.

This time, with the help of congratulations, he was finally able to taste the four grades of spiritual tea. Since he could not taste them all here, he would naturally take all the spiritual tea and spiritual fruits back, as they were the best resources.

"Where is Xiaofeng?" Lu Heng asked, looking deep into the cave.

As soon as he called out Xiao Feng's name, he saw Xiao Feng, whose body had shrunk and was happily running and flapping its wings, run out.

"Is this the red-gold phoenix?" Yue Shan and Zhong Qiang asked the same question.

Xiao Feng's appearance seems to be the same as the Red-Gold Phoenix described by the sect, but her personality is obviously that of a child, completely different from the proud Red-Gold Phoenix.

They immediately thought of it. It had only been a few years since Xiaofeng signed the contract with Li Shiming. Although Xiaofeng was already a fourth-grade spirit beast, in terms of age, Xiaofeng was still in the infancy of the spirit beast.

It was because Xiao Feng met the alchemy master Li Shiming, and because he devoured many third- and fourth-grade spirit insects in his previous battle with the Nascent Soul cultivator of the Gu Feng Sect, that the very young Xiao Feng not only reached adulthood in a short period of time, but was also promoted to the fourth grade.

Let’s look at Zhongqiang again. In fact, Zhongqiang’s situation is very similar to Xiaofeng’s.

With the help of the alchemy master Li Shiming, during the second or third grade or foundation-building and golden elixir periods, Li Shiming's second or third grade elixirs can shorten the time to several years.

"Xiao Feng, this is our gift to you!" Yue Shan smiled and took out a crown made of fourth-grade spiritual flowers and hung it around Xiao Feng's neck.

Originally, this flower crown was intended to be a hat for Xiaofeng, but Xiaofeng's body had shrunk at this time, so it could only be hung around her neck.

Although he said that the gift was given by the three of them, Zhong Qiang was only in the Jindan stage, and most of his original wealth had been lost. The remaining part in the cave could not be used before he reached the Yuanying stage. This made it impossible for Zhong Qiang to come up with a decent gift.

Lu Heng is a registered disciple. Although he has some wealth, it is still far behind Yue Shan.

"Thank you for your expense!" Li Shiming glanced at the corolla. Even though it was made of fourth-grade spiritual flowers, it was not made casually.

The fourth-grade spiritual flower has undergone some special treatment, which prevents it from withering. When forming the corolla, a refining technique is also used, making the corolla equivalent to a fourth-grade magic weapon.

The effect of the flower crown is to enhance Xiaofeng's soul. This effect is of course extremely weak, but even if it is only a slight improvement, it increases Xiaofeng's potential.

"This is for Xiaofeng!" Yue Shan waved his hand and said.

He smiled and gestured to Xiaofeng, who liked the flower crown very much and came to his side in a small jump.

It can be seen that Yue Shan is intentionally trying to please Xiao Feng.

This is not difficult to understand. Xiaofeng's future is foreseeable. When Xiaofeng is promoted to the late fourth grade, he will have the same combat power and status as Master Hu.

"Junior brother, you should be careful in the future and don't expose your whereabouts easily. Although you have become a guest official of Zhongzhou Trading Company, the greed of cultivators will always lead them to do some lawless things!" Zhong Qiang said at this time.

"Thank you for the reminder, Senior Brother. I will pay attention to it!" Li Shiming was not someone who would not listen to advice, so he nodded and said.

He knew this of course. Now the fact that he owned a scarlet-gold phoenix spirit pet was completely exposed, and the scarlet-gold phoenix was promoted to the fourth grade.

In the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, there are monks in the sect who would take risks, whether it is because they do not want their spiritual pets to be suppressed by the Red-Gold Phoenix and have the idea of ​​killing the Red-Gold Phoenix, or they want to plunder the blood of the Red-Gold Phoenix to enhance the blood of their own spiritual pets.

Outside the sect, no matter it is the hostile Yanri Sect, or other related or unrelated forces, no one would think of letting Xiao Feng grow to the late fourth grade.

If one wants to stop Xiao Feng from growing up, the most direct way is to kill its master Li Shiming.

Even if Li Shiming is a guest official of Zhongzhou Trading Company, as long as he does it secretly, Zhongzhou Trading Company will not know about it.

"Big Brother, when do you plan to enter the Cave of Ten Thousand Beasts to select a spirit pet? If you need contribution points to enter the Cave of Ten Thousand Beasts, I still have some contribution points for you!" Li Shiming asked Zhong Qiang.

Zhong Qiang's spirit pet died a long time ago, and he currently has no contracted spirit pet, which is extremely rare within the Wanshou Sect.

"Big Brother, don't be polite with him. His contribution points came easily, unlike mine, every point was earned with my life at risk!" Yue Shan said to Zhong Qiang with a smile when he heard Li Shiming say this.

"Junior brother, I will not be polite when needed, but I plan to consider it after I am promoted to the Nascent Soul stage. I will not leave the sect until I am promoted to the Nascent Soul stage!" Zhong Qiang said with a smile.

"Big Brother, when you choose a pet, don't choose a phoenix pet. You know how many phoenix pets lost their fighting spirit when Xiaofeng cried after he was promoted to the fourth rank. When your phoenix pet meets Xiaofeng, it will immediately turn to Xiaofeng!" Lu Heng said on the side.

"What other spiritual pet can fight against the Red-Gold Phoenix? Probably only the top-level dragon-type spiritual pet!" Zhong Qiang couldn't help but laugh.

He didn't have much ambition about what kind of spiritual pet he could contract. His potential was limited, and being able to recover to the middle Nascent Soul stage in the future would be the limit.

The four brothers gathered together and talked about interesting stories about the sect and the Dongqi Continent. This kind of gathering deepened the relationship between the brothers.

Li Shiming enjoyed this atmosphere, which was a rare embellishment in his lonely cultivation career. At least at this moment he was no longer alone.

In other places of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, everyone was discussing the topic of Li Shiming and the Scarlet-Gold Phoenix. Li Shiming was once again pushed to the forefront.