Ultragene Warlord

Chapter 1545: The True Immortal Phoenix

Under ordinary circumstances, this environment would be particularly beneficial to Feng Xian.

Feng Xian was currently trying to contest Sun Mengmeng, who had just unleashed an arrow that represented the pinnacle of fire attunement. Not only could Feng Xian not absorb the strength of these meteors, they even served as the straw that broke the camel's back.

The meteors crashed into the flaming ground. The ground, filled with Sun Mengmeng's flames, absorbed the strength of the meteors and grew even hotter. Feng Xian's flames were suppressed as they were overwhelmed and overcome.

Feng Xian gritted her teeth as she absorbed more of the black flames around her to strengthen herself.

Sun Mengmeng's third arrow landed.

"[Lunarflame Shot: Shattered Comet]!"

Blackflame exploded as galaxies burned.

The arrows shot out and arced across the sky like comets.

The comets blazed and gave off pitch-black starlight. Long tails split in the air, igniting all the fire on the ground.

With a huge crackling noise, the fiery sea of pitch-black flame exploded, devouring everything in sight like the abyss. Feng Xian was unable to hold on any longer. The shining light all over her body shattered—her moonlit barrier and mental radiance both dissipating.

Sun Mengmeng's sea of flames was simply too intense and too strong for the likes of Feng Xian to counter in her current state.

Her golden cauldron emerged, giving off radiant beams of light as it protected her. It shook violently against the flames that came from the pitch-black abyss, devouring everything in sight.

"[Lunarflame Shot: Nova Burst]!"

Sun Mengmeng continued to attack, shooting a single empowered arrow at her opponent.

The arrow burst like a supernova, causing the golden caudron to shake violently. A crack appeared on its surface.

The pitch-black flames spread, devouring everything around even more quickly. Feng Xian blanched as she infused her mental strength into the cauldron to maintain its defenses.

"[Lunarflame Shot: Blazing God]!"

Her left hand the sun, her right hand the moon, Sun Mengmeng seemed to transform into a god-king of legends. She blazed with resplendent light, and the sun and moon embedded themselves on her bow. Black flame roared into the void as a pillar, and all of it gathered around Sun Mengmeng.

Destructive flames and a pitch-black sea surged toward Sun Mengmeng, transforming into a dark golden arrow, a construct of pure energy that glowed with the luster of metal.

It was filled with destructive energy. As Sun Mengmeng released her fingers, the arrow flew out, scorching everything before it. The entire altar was lit up in flames as the arrow pierced through the void. The golden cauldron was unable to bear its strength. It shattered atop Feng Xian's head as countless golden shards flew out from it.

The black arrow was able to penetrate even the image of a phoenix flower that bloomed behind her, swallowing everything up in destructive flames.

As black flames emerged from the hole in her chest, Feng Xian's body was obscured. The destructive flames turned her body to ash little by little.

Sun Mengmeng kept her garuda bow, thinking that she had finished off her opponent.

However, the phoenix flower that rose up behind her swayed as it absorbed the flames from her vicinity and bloomed anew. Feng Xian's body radiated with light.

A shimmer of moonlight emanated from her, which transformed into a starburst of light, into the rosy flames of fortune. Her mental energy transformed into golden beams, as ardent as sunlight. The combination of moonlight and sunlight, in conjunction with the phoenix flower that had absorbed the destructive black flames, cleared the entire hall of fire.

Then, as though unable to withstand the might of Sun Mengmeng's destructive flames, the phoenix flower itself began to burn up.

However, it didn't seem to be undergoing destruction. Petals blossomed despite the flames, in moon-white, gold, and black, respectively representing Feng Xian's own cultivation, mental power, and Sun Mengmeng's flames. The huge flower looked like a phoenix with wings unfurled, preparing for flight. A deific air surrounded it; it glowed with light and gave off an alluring stench.

All the flames that it had absorbed were transferred to the flowerbud as energy, causing it to glow with such resplendence that it caught everyone's attention.

The vital energy inherent to the flower seemed to be increasing rather than decreasing, as though it had resurrected amidst the flames. A deep well of vitality allowed the flower to begin gestating something or another.

Shortly thereafter, as it released rays of blinding light, all that fire concentrated within its bud. A half-ethereal, half-physical phoenix unfurled its wings. Blazing mental energy covered it. Moonlit radiance became its feathers, and pitch-black flames its tail. With a bright, fiery-red body, it looked just like a real phoenix—no, it was a real phoenix.

Feng Xian stood at the heart of the phoenix. Despite the fact that Sun Mengmeng's arrow had penetrated her chest, she seemed wholly unharmed. She had been resurrected in flame.

Sun Mengmeng's eyes widened. "How could this be?"

A drop of phoenix's blood had appeared on the center of Feng Xian's forehead. She smiled with dazzling beauty. "I have to thank you for helping me take the final step of this transformation."

Compared to before, the Feng Xian of the present was clearly different.

She was more elegant, as though intrinsically a noble being that flew through the air, above all other lifeforms in breeding and status, like a graceful and flamboyant phoenix.

Feng Xian had obtained plenty of benefits within the tournament, and had elevated her understanding of natural law as it pertained to life.

Zhang Lie's silver-dragon lotuses and bug emperor allowed him to undergo a metamorphosis and intuit the nature of life. Feng Xian had started out with an improved understanding over Zhang Lie and the members of Team Zenith, and had obtained even greater boons over the course of the competition. That was how she had managed to catch up to Zhang Lie and reach parity with the members of Team Zenith in just a short period of time. Otherwise, she would never have been a match for the hunters.

Feng Xian had charted a path toward resurrection and rebirth, but didn't have the strength or resolution to go through with it.

Just like a phoenix, her plan was to undergo death and be reborn through flame.

Feng Xian had calculated that undergoing this transformation would require the pinnacle of flame—flame sufficient to immolate her and serve as energy for her rebirth.

She was, innately, a phoenix flower with incredible resistance to heat. What she had learned from Starbright Academy meant that ordinary flames couldn't even harm her, let alone kill her.

She intended to borrow the strength of the man in dark green robes at the top of the altar to advance toward a higher realm of life, to fulfill her own desires and transform into a true phoenix.

She hadn't expected to encounter such strong opponents among the hunters of Team Zenith. Before the man in dark green robes could enact his plan, Feng Xian had found herself positioned against Sun Mengmeng, who boasted incredible fire-attuned genetic energy.

During Feng Xian and Sun Mengmeng's heated fight, she came up with the idea of borrowing Sun Mengmeng's flames to enact her rebirth.

In the end, owing to Sun Mengmeng's flames, she had taken that final step of her transformation.

"To thank you, I'll let you be the first to experience my newfound strength."

Feng Xian had advanced toward the realm of a perfect lifeform, one which integrated her mental energy, physical energy, and soul.

She was no ordinary phoenix, but a true immortal phoenix.