Upon arriving at the crater, Chi Xuanshan pointed to the lava lake below. Gu Yifeng immediately activated his Crimson Phoenix Body Technique, and a crimson feather robe instantly covered his body before he leaped into the lava.
"Good lad, just you wait."
Chi Xuanshan laughed loudly, then jumped into the lava. The two sank down, and with a Dao Integration Realm expert leading the way, they reached the bottom of the volcano in just the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.
The surrounding lava was even darker in color, and even with the crimson feather robe blocking the view, Gu Yifeng could still sense a wisp of intense heat and a heavy sense of oppression.
At the bottom of this volcano, there is an altar surrounded by lava, arranged in a circle, with nine huge rocks at the edge, three of which have lifelike feather fossils.
Chi Xuanshan arrived at the altar, clasped his hands together, and silently recited a few incantations. Then, a seven-colored ray of light shot out from his palms.
As the palms opened, a feather pendant slowly floated out and landed on the altar, landing precisely in a hole in the center of the altar. The altar instantly activated, and a column of energy surged out, dispersing all the lava around the altar.
With a bird's cry, a spatial vortex slowly opened at the altar, without engulfing Crimson Profound Mountain.
While Gu Yifeng was still pondering, a pulling force emanated from the spatial vortex, winding upwards and finally enveloping him, pulling him into the spatial vortex.
When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in a crimson space. He was standing on a mountaintop, looking around and seeing only barren, crimson mountains.
This place is practically a world of volcanoes.
Gu Yifeng observed for a long time. Just like the previous three secret realms, there was no one else in this secret realm of Vermilion Bird Mountain, only his aura.
Just to be on the safe side, he summoned the One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones to protect his main body, then sat down cross-legged and began to sign in.
"Ding! Congratulations on successfully checking in. Check-in location detected: Vermilion Bird Secret Realm. Reward: Vermilion Bird Feather."
As the system voice announced, a crimson feather, subtly reflecting seven-colored light, fell into Gu Yifeng's hand, and the appraisal function of the Hidden Eye activated on its own.
"Vermilion Bird Feather: The natal feather of the Vermilion Bird, a sacred beast, contains the most essential bloodline power and cultivation of the Vermilion Bird. Because it contains the power of true fire, it cannot be added to the pill formula. It can be forcibly refined with the help of a different kind of fire, or placed in the dantian for nurturing."
"Note: Activating it with a mixture of essence blood and spiritual power may bring surprises."
Looking at the information transmitted by the Eye of Concealment, Gu Yifeng was unable to understand for a moment. It seemed that his feather could not take effect immediately, and it was somewhat of a chicken rib, tasteless to eat, but a pity to throw away.
However, recalling the system's daily mantra, "System products are always top-notch," he couldn't ignore it.
Thinking of this, Gu Yifeng immediately summoned the Dragon Phoenix Flame. Under the scorching heat of the strange fire, the Vermilion Bird Feather only curled up slightly, and after an incense stick's time, there was still not much change.
Left with no other choice, he could only force out a drop of his essence blood to fall onto the Vermilion Bird Feather. Instantly, a seven-colored divine light burst forth, and a mysterious aura spread out continuously.
The Vermilion Bird Feather seemed to come alive, fluttering continuously for a full incense stick's time before finally stopping. As Gu Yifeng's spiritual power surged forth, a contract was instantly formed, and then the crimson feather flew directly into his dantian and settled down.
Before Gu Yifeng could react, a pure yellow flame, without any other aura, appeared directly in his dantian and remained quietly in place.
Long Huangyan was instantly drawn to the flame. Before he could even sense it, he swallowed it whole. The original purple flame turned black. Although the color looked strange, there was no trace of darkness in the flame.
After the true fire was devoured, a new cultivation technique, a fire control method, a movement technique, and even his physical body seemed to be being scorched by invisible flames, constantly being tempered and strengthened.
About an incense stick later, a crimson soul slowly emerged in his sea of consciousness, condensing into a soul bead, utterly still.
"It's the legacy of the Vermilion Bird!"
Gu Yifeng finally realized that after signing an unnamed soul contract with the Vermilion Bird Feather, he received a return gift from the Vermilion Bird Feather, and the reward for this return gift was the Vermilion Bird inheritance.
Whether it's the Vermilion Bird's true fire, the cultivation techniques, or even the pure flame soul power, all of these are feedbacks from the Vermilion Bird Feather.
In exchange, Gu Yifeng lost 80% of his spiritual power. All the spiritual power in his dantian was absorbed by the Vermilion Bird Feather, eventually turning into a crimson egg that lay quietly in his dantian, its hatching time unknown.
The only thing he was certain of was that an extremely powerful aura was dormant within the egg, and that aura would awaken once the egg was hatched.
"Damn! Could it be Suzaku?"
Gu Yifeng scratched his head in despair, then looked like he was about to cry. He never expected that a system sign-in reward could cause such a commotion. If it really was related to the ascension of the Vermilion Bird, then the fortune or misfortune was unpredictable.
"Fine, let's unify the five elements first. If I'm strong enough, I won't die!"
Gu Yifeng shook his head helplessly. What's done is done, and there's no use going back now. Besides, he has no chance to change it. The egg has already taken root in his dantian. If he forces it out, his cultivation foundation will be damaged.
Anyway, the power of the contract is still there, so at least we won't be killed immediately.
After figuring things out, Gu Yifeng calmed down and the dragon soul in his sea of consciousness awakened. He swallowed the crimson soul pearl in one gulp. As the last of the five elements divine souls was completed, he felt the power of the dragon soul rapidly increasing.
Based on the comparison of realms, his dragon soul realm has now soared to the mid-stage of the Taixu Realm, and is even still improving.
About an incense stick later, the power of the dragon soul finally stopped, and its realm stabilized at the peak of the mid-stage of the Tai Xu Realm. At the same time, a new space was opened up in its sea of consciousness.
However, this was just the beginning. With a thought, Gu Yifeng slowly condensed the five elements within his dragon soul, and almost simultaneously, a beam of five elements light shot out from his crown chakra.
The five beams of light converged, merging into black and white, and soared straight into the sky. The Vermilion Bird Secret Realm was unable to stop the rise of this beam of light. It quickly passed through the secret realm, rushed out of Vermilion Bird Mountain, and truly traversed the sky of the Continent of Light.
Gu Yifeng himself was completely unaware of this, only knowing that his consciousness was drawn into a channel, and after a rapid journey, he arrived in the universe.
Before his consciousness was a starry sky, and at its very center were dense streams of chaotic energy, the grayish-white aura slowly undulating as if it possessed life.
This is what the many worlds in the universe looked like before they were created. Chaos was about to open, but the Heavenly Dao had already given birth to some intelligence.
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