The woman in blue was displeased, and just as she was about to attack Lu Fuyue, the featherless little blue bird smelled a familiar scent, immediately raised its rear end, and ran to the woman, rubbing against the hem of her skirt.
"Mother, Mother~"
Feng Wu's expression softened slightly as she bent down and picked up the little bluebird. "My son has finally hatched."
The little bluebird turned its head, blinked, and looked at Lu Fuyue, "Mother, she is the older sister."
Upon hearing this, Feng Wu's face darkened immediately. "How can a lowly human be worthy of being called your sister?"
"The phoenix bloodline within her might have been obtained by refining the soul of that fellow clansman."
Lu Fuyue raised her eyes and looked directly at the other person, saying each word clearly, "Senior, I can swear on my Dao Heart that I have never refined any Phoenix Divine Soul."
"As for the phoenix bloodline you mentioned, I have never known about it, nor have I ever discovered that I have such a thing in my body."
Feng Wu snorted coldly and raised her hand, instantly immobilizing Lu Fuyue in place with a burst of spiritual energy.
"The Dao Heart?"
"I dare not trust the Dao Heart of your human race. As for whether you have it or not, a test will tell."
After saying that, her eyes turned cold, and with a flick of her sleeve, she quickly led Lu Fuyue to a snow-covered mountain cave.
...
Lu Fuyue was completely restrained and stood motionless in the cave.
Her unease reached its peak, and she quickly scanned her surroundings, secretly analyzing her situation.
The cave was entirely covered by millennia-old ice, and in the middle of the cave was a blood-red pool emitting a chilling aura.
Although she has a water elemental root, which has some similarities with ice elemental roots, she is ultimately not an ice elemental root. Over time, she will naturally find it difficult to resist the cold energy here.
Having lived for so many years, Feng Wu could tell at a glance what Lu Fuyue was up to.
She sneered a few times, "Don't dream about it. This place is the ancestral home of my Phoenix Clan."
"For our Phoenix Clan, this is an excellent place for cultivation, but for someone like you who forcibly refines our bloodline, it is a place more terrifying than the nine levels of hell."
Before Lu Fuyue could react, she suddenly felt a push from behind, and she lost her balance and fell into the blood-red pool.
The churning, blood-red pool water instantly enveloped Lu Fuyue, and her skin began to rot under its influence. A dense, throbbing pain shot through her body.
Like a sharp razor blade, it sliced away her flesh piece by piece, revealing the stark white bones beneath.
Lu Fuyue's face turned deathly pale instantly, and countless beads of sweat appeared on her forehead. She struggled to get up from the pool, but due to the restraints on her body, she could only endure the corrosive effects of the pool water.
"Senior... I really have never refined... the Phoenix Bloodline."
"I...I really didn't..."
Feng Wu stood outside the pool, and upon seeing this scene, her eyes grew even colder.
"I only believe what I see. If you didn't refine the Phoenix Blood, then why were you corroded by the pool water?"
"Stop making excuses and just enjoy it."
There are only two possibilities for a human cultivator to possess the bloodline of the Phoenix Clan.
The first possibility is that one of her ancestors mated with a phoenix and had offspring.
The second method involves cultivators forcibly stripping the phoenix's bloodline and soul, refining it to increase their cultivation level.
The first possibility is almost impossible, as the Phoenix Clan is inherently proud and is a high-ranking divine beast.
Therefore, for them, intermarrying with other races, especially humans, is a great disgrace.
Therefore, only the second possibility exists.
When Feng Wu saw that Lu Fuyue was half-dead, she quickly disappeared from the place.
She's not worth wasting her time on someone who's going to die anyway.
Because she left early, she didn't see it, and the situation took a turn for the worse.
...
After Feng Wu left, Lu Fuyue, under the influence of the blood-red pool water, finally couldn't help but slowly faint.
However, the skin, which had been decaying, began to be repaired little by little by the pool water.
At the same time, the blood in Lu Fuyue's body gradually flowed out, and in its place came the blood-red pool water, which slowly flowed into her blood vessels, repeating this process again and again.
Until the blood in her body turned completely golden red.
At the same time, within Lu Fuyue's body, countless tiny red lights emerged from every corner, continuously flying towards Lu Fuyue's dantian, slowly converging together to form a wisp of blood-red thread.
The blood-red pool outside sensed the presence of the silk threads and became even more excited, accelerating the exchange of blood with Lu Fuyue.
Lu Fuyue slowly regained consciousness, but she still couldn't open her eyes or move.
Yet she was able to clearly perceive every subtle change in her own body.
The scorching, corrosive sensation of the pool water gradually dissipated, and a mysterious power continued to grow stronger in her dantian.
After an unknown amount of time, her body began to show abnormalities, constantly shrinking, and her skin became itchy and hot.
Suddenly, something started to sprout all over her body, even her face.
Lu Fuyue panicked and struggled desperately to open her eyes to see what was happening.
Why does she feel like she has grown a lot of hair?
But she's clearly a human being...
However, no matter how much Lu Fuyue struggled, she was unable to open her eyes.
Time passed, and the crimson pool gradually calmed down. After thousands of attempts, Lu Fuyue finally opened her eyes.
A surge of joy welled up in her heart, and a hint of excitement flashed in her eyes.
But when she saw that her two hands had turned into wings, covered with dense golden-red feathers.
Lu Fuyue's pupils suddenly contracted. How could this be?
Could it be... that she really turned into something else?
Lu Fuyue immediately got up, wanting to find a place to see her current appearance clearly.
Unexpectedly, the moment she stood up, a phoenix covered in feathers appeared on the surface of the pool.
Lu Fuyue stared at this scene in disbelief; she... had truly transformed into something else.
After a long silence, Lu Fuyue climbed out of the pool and looked around at the icy stones.
The surrounding ice clearly reflected her current appearance: a small phoenix covered in fiery red feathers.
Lu Fuyue was completely stunned. She was clearly a human, so how did she turn into a phoenix after entering a pool?
But just then, a sharp, tearing pain came from her dantian.
Lu Fuyue fell to the ground without warning, spitting out mouthfuls of blood that soaked her feathers.
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