Phoenix Rebirth, Obtaining the Mysterious Ice Jade Marrow!

The system notification sounded in his mind, and Lu Yuan was startled.

A thousandfold return, the Phoenix's life essence blood.

This was infinitely better than he had expected.

Without lingering, he immediately activated the formation, sending himself back to his cave on Changsheng Peak.

Inside the cave, Lu Yuan opened his palm, and a drop of golden blood, radiating a crimson halo and containing endless sacred and noble aura, floated quietly in his palm.

Just looking at it, Lu Yuan could feel his own life force about to die out, and a flicker of longing arose within him.

Without the slightest hesitation, he opened his mouth and swallowed the drop of phoenix blood.

boom.

An indescribable, terrifying heatwave exploded within his body in an instant.

Lu Yuan's physical body, meridians, and even his nascent soul covered in cracks began to shatter and disintegrate inch by inch in the face of this power.

Intense pain swept over him, but his Dao heart remained steadfast, and he held fast to the last shred of clarity in his mind.

In a daze, he seemed to see a phoenix that blotted out the sky, singing loudly amidst the raging divine fire.

Its wings spread, dimming the stars, and then it transformed into a beam of light, rushing straight into his sea of ​​consciousness.

Phoenix rebirth is an instinct passed down in our bloodline; at the end of destruction lies new life.

Outside Lu Yuan's cave, the spiritual energy of the entire Changsheng Peak began to surge violently.

Above the sky, the wind and clouds changed color, and faintly, it seemed that the glow of dawn pierced through the clouds, and a high-pitched and melodious phoenix cry resounded throughout the heavens.

This strange phenomenon came and went quickly, disappearing without a trace before the others in the sect could react.

Inside the cave, Lu Yuan's body was enveloped in a ball of crimson flames, and his withered flesh was rapidly melting away, turning into ashes.

But from the ashes, a brand new skeleton, brimming with powerful vitality, is being reshaped, its veins like dragons, its flesh and blood growing.

Within his sea of ​​consciousness, the shattered nascent soul was also enveloped by the Phoenix True Fire.

All the cracks, Dao wounds, and traces of erosion by the power of space were removed one by one under the burning of this divine fire, and then reassembled in a more perfect way.

After an unknown amount of time, the flames died down.

Lu Yuan slowly opened his eyes, and a crimson divine light flashed in his eyes.

He stood up, feeling the Nascent Soul stage mana within him that he had regained and that was even more refined than at its peak. A feeling of control over everything returned to him.

The wound has healed.

His cultivation level has recovered to the late Nascent Soul stage.

Upon careful observation, he realized that his lifespan, which was originally less than three years, had been restored to one hundred years after this rebirth.

Although the number was still small, they were finally out of danger of dying at any moment.

"The phoenix rises from the ashes, truly defying the heavens," Lu Yuan murmured.

Then, with a thought, he summoned the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame.

With a slight thought, Lu Yuan slowly absorbed streams of pure life essence into his body, nourishing his newly reconstructed physical body and nascent soul, and replenishing his lost vitality.

A quarter of an hour later, Lu Yuan had refined about one-tenth of the origin of the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame.

That vitality steadily increased his lifespan from one hundred years to two cycles of sixty years.

After doing all this, Lu Yuan finally took a look at the changes in himself.

His once dry skin has now become smooth and supple again. Although he still looks like a middle-aged man, he no longer shows any signs of aging.

His head was full of white hair, nearly half of which had turned as black as ink. His eyes were deep and calm.

……

Meanwhile, in the capital of Zhao, the Four Seas Merchants Association...

Gu Qingxue easily found the dusty Xuanbing Technique jade slip in an inconspicuous corner on the third floor and successfully bought it.

About half an hour after she left the Chamber of Commerce.

A handsome young man with a resolute look in his eyes that belied his age walked into the Sihai Chamber of Commerce.

He was Xiao Fan, an inner disciple of the Qingyun Sect.

He went straight to the third floor and, following the guidance of his master in his mind, searched among the shelves.

However, he searched the corner his master had mentioned, but still couldn't find the so-called "Mysterious Ice Technique" jade slip.

"Master, no, there isn't any." Xiao Fan asked anxiously in his mind.

Within his ring, an aged, remnant soul also let out a soft exclamation.

"Strange, although my spiritual power is not as strong as it used to be, it is not so strong that it would make a mistake. It was just here a moment ago, how could it have disappeared?"

"Could it have been bought by someone else?" Xiao Fan said, somewhat unwillingly.

"Perhaps, such an opportunity, if it is slight, can lead to a huge mistake."

"Very well, perhaps your time has not yet come. We will seek other opportunities." The old voice comforted him.

Xiao Fan nodded, a hint of disappointment flashing in his eyes, before finally turning and leaving.

After stabilizing his cultivation in the cave, Lu Yuan did not linger at all.

Based on the coordinates provided by the system, he arrived at the Northern Frosty Plains in the northern border of the Zhao Kingdom.

This place is perpetually snowy and bitterly cold.

Ignoring the monsters on the icy plains, he went straight to the location of the coordinates, unleashing the powerful magic of a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, and slammed his palm into the ground.

The thick layer of ice, thousands of feet thick, cracked in response.

He went deep underground and easily found the milky white chalcedony that was radiating extreme cold in the core of the ice layer.

Millennia-old jasper.

After acquiring it, Lu Yuan immediately returned to his sect.

He had barely returned to the forbidden area of ​​Changsheng Peak when Gu Qingxue's presence appeared outside the cave.

"Disciple Gu Qingxue requests an audience with the Ancestor." Gu Qingxue's voice rang out outside the cave.

The stone door opened, and Gu Qingxue stepped inside.

When her gaze fell upon the figure in the center of the cave, she was struck dumb, frozen in place.

Before me was still the ancestor Lu Yuan.

But after only half a day, he was replaced by a handsome man who, although still middle-aged, had an upright posture.

His long hair was half black and half white, casually draped over his shoulders. His eyes, when they opened and closed, held a restrained, deep light, as profound as the starry sky.

Most importantly, the immense magical power emanating from him, characteristic of a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, was thick, solid, and showed no signs of weakness whatsoever.

This... how is this possible?

Gu Qingxue's mind went blank; she even wondered if she had fallen into some kind of illusion.

Before she left, the old ancestor looked like he might pass away at any moment. How could such a drastic change have occurred in just a few hours?

"You're back." Lu Yuan's calm voice rang out, snapping her out of her shock.

"Ancestor... Ancestor." Gu Qingxue snapped out of her daze and quickly stepped forward, her voice filled with disbelief and surprise. "Your injuries..."

"She's out of danger." Lu Yuan nodded calmly, his gaze falling on the jade slip in her hand.

"Have you retrieved the items?"

"I have fulfilled my mission." Gu Qingxue quickly presented the jade slip containing the Xuanbing Manual with both hands.

She had countless questions in her mind at that moment, but since the ancestor didn't answer, she didn't ask any more.