Chapter 778
Slaughter of the Phoenix Clan
"presumptuous!!"
On the chariot, the Heavenly Phoenix Commander glared at the enormous remains of the ancient god in front of him, as well as the green-robed figure standing on the bronze cauldron, his eyes blazing with uncontrollable fury.
"Who dares to trespass on the ancestral land of my Undying Phoenix Clan, and even attempt to steal our clan's Nirvana Divine Fire?!"
The Heavenly Phoenix Commander looked down at Su Chen with an air of superiority, as if he were a worthless insect. In the Phoenix Clan's millions of years of understanding, they were divine birds born at the beginning of time, with unparalleled noble bloodlines. Mortals of this world did not even have the right to look up to them!
"How dare a mere human ant set up a cauldron here? It's utterly ridiculous!"
Commander Tianfeng suddenly slammed his flaming spear into the void, unleashing a deafening roar.
"Kneel down immediately! Crush your cultivation! Offer up this remnant body of an ancient god as an apology, and this commander might show mercy and spare a wisp of your soul to serve as a guard dog under the phoenix tree in my Phoenix Nest!"
Upon hearing this, the Phoenix Guards let out contemptuous sneers. Some of the Heavenly Phoenixes even arrogantly preened their seven-colored feathers, completely disregarding the demon army before them.
However, faced with such humiliation from a superior position.
Standing atop the bronze cauldron, Su Chen not only didn't get angry, but instead grinned, revealing an extremely bright, even "drooling" smile.
His divine eyes, which seemed to merge with the sun and moon, were fixed on the nine pure-blooded phoenixes pulling the cart, as well as the arrogant phoenix commander. His gaze swept over them as if he were selecting the fattest poultry at a market.
"Tsk tsk tsk..."
Su Chen stroked his chin and let out a satisfied click of his tongue.
"Look at the luster of these feathers, look at the abundance of their blood and energy... No wonder it's a purebred breed raised in the Southern Fire Sea. Its flesh must be firm and chewy, many times better than those domesticated animals!"
Although Su Chen's voice was not loud, it sounded particularly jarring in the silent sea of fire.
Commander Tianfeng was stunned.
He thought he had misheard.
This human from the lower realm, instead of kneeling and begging for mercy, is... evaluating the quality of their flesh?!
"Extremely arrogant!!"
The Heavenly Phoenix Commander flew into a rage, his handsome face contorting into a furious crimson.
"You lowly blood offering, how dare you blaspheme the divine bird with such filth! Kill him! Burn him to ashes!!"
"Wow!!"
Hundreds of Phoenix Clan guards cried out in unison, revealing their true forms as Heavenly Phoenixes. In an instant, the sky was filled with enormous firebirds, each thousands of feet long, swarming down upon Su Chen, unleashing a terrifying rain of Nirvana Fire, determined to incinerate this arrogant fool into nothingness!
"My lord!" the Demon Lord of Chaos roared, preparing to lead his army to meet the enemy.
"Step back. If you bunch of brutes ruin the appearance of this fine game, how will we be able to eat it?"
Su Chen gave a soft shout, stopping the demon army.
Then, he slowly raised his right hand.
"A few pheasants with a few stray feathers dare to act like kings and tyrants in front of me? They even dare to call themselves divine birds?"
Su Chen sneered repeatedly, his purple-gold blood energy bursting out of his body and transforming into a gigantic hand that covered the sky for tens of thousands of miles. It completely ignored the rain of Nirvana fire and, with an unreasonable and overwhelming attitude, fiercely probed into the group of Heavenly Phoenix Guards!
"This is impossible! How can he not be afraid of the Nirvana Fire?!"
Commander Tianfeng stared in horror as his proud innate divine fire failed to burn even a single hair on the giant purple-gold hand!
"Noisy!"
Su Chen clasped his five fingers together like pillars of heaven.
boom! boom! boom!
In mid-air, the hundreds of enormous celestial phoenixes were as vulnerable as chicks being squeezed by the giant purple-gold hand. No matter how pitiful their cries or how frantically they struggled, they couldn't budge the giant hand an inch!
"Snap!!!"
The sickening sound of bones cracking echoed throughout the star field.
Su Chen suddenly shoved his large hand through the air.
"Rip—!"
A flurry of colorful feathers fell from the sky like a blizzard. Those once proud and invincible celestial phoenixes were instantly stripped of all their feathers by Su Chen's terrifying brute force!
Not only that, Su Chen moved his fingers slightly and broke off their proud wings with unparalleled precision.
"Aaaaaahh ...
A piercing scream replaced the previous high-pitched phoenix cry. Hundreds of plucked, wingless birds fell around the bronze cauldron like dumplings.
Su Chen withdrew his large hand, patted the dust off his hands, and looked at the Heavenly Phoenix Commander who was completely terrified and trembling all over.
"A divine bird? That's all?"
A cruel glint of pleasure flashed in Su Chen's eyes. He pointed to the still convulsing "bare-bones chickens" on the ground and ordered the Hun Tian Demon Lord behind him:
"Hun Tian! What are you all standing there for?"
"Wash these plucked chicken wings and drumsticks clean for me!"
"These fat ones, rub them with the divine medicine we just dug up in the Dragon Tomb, put them on the edge of this sea of fire, and let me slowly roast them!"
"As for those thin ones..."
Su Chen kicked over a Heavenly Phoenix that was trying to get up, sending it flying into the boiling bronze cauldron.
"Put it straight into the pot! Today, I, the Venerable One, will savor this unparalleled delicacy of 'two ways of cooking chicken' in the Southern Star Region!!"
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"Sizzle... sizzle..."
On the outskirts of the Southern Starfield, at the edge of the Nirvana Fire Sea that was originally enough to incinerate a Great Luo Golden Immortal, a strange fragrance was now wafting through the air, making people unable to help but swallow their saliva.
The broken bronze cauldron was glowing red-hot, its contents bubbling with boiling water. The Taiyi True Water, mixed with numerous ancient divine medicines, simmered into a pot of golden, thick soup. And floating atop this soup were none other than a dozen celestial phoenixes, their seven-colored feathers plucked and wings broken!
"Aaaaaahh ...
The half-step fifth realm Celestial Phoenix Commander was being pierced from head to tail by a thick iron skewer made from the ribs of a Star-Devouring Whale. He was placed on the edge of the sea of fire above the giant cauldron, his entire body covered in a sauce made from crushed [Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Spirit Pepper]. Under the scorching heat of the divine fire, his flesh sizzled, dripping golden phoenix fat into the cauldron below, stimulating an even richer, more exotic aroma.
He roared in despair. His once lofty dignity as a divine bird was mercilessly trampled into the mud, turning him into a piece of "roasted meat" to be seasoned.
"Noisy."
Su Chen sat upright on the purple-gold throne, his brows slightly furrowed. With a casual wave of his hand, a purple-gold energy burst forth, striking the Heavenly Phoenix Commander directly in the cheek and shattering half of his sharp phoenix beak.
"The meat is still dry and tough, what are you yelling about? You're disturbing my enjoyment of the meal."
Su Chen turned to look at the Demon Lord Hun Tian below, who was diligently roasting the phoenix meat, and reprimanded him indifferently:
"Hun Tian, hurry up. The meat of this kind of plucked pheasant is very delicate. If it is cooked too long, it will lose its tenderness. Remember to brush it with more of the [Blood-Weeping Dragon Marrow Liquid] dug out from the Dragon Tomb. The Dragon and Phoenix Bring Auspiciousness, which can neutralize the fire poison in this feathered beast's body."
"Yes! Rest assured, my lord! Back in the mortal realm, I was the best at roasting golden pheasants. Although this Heavenly Phoenix is large, in my eyes it is just a larger chicken!" The Demon Lord of Chaos grinned with his blood-red mouth, holding a brush in his hand, and diligently smeared dragon marrow liquid on the huge body of the Heavenly Phoenix Commander.
Those Phoenix Clan guards who were lucky enough to survive, but were plucked and left to be slaughtered by the cauldron, were terrified to see their once high and mighty commander being turned over and over like a roasted chicken. Their hearts were completely broken, and they even lost the courage to self-destruct their souls.
However, just as the phoenix meat was about to be roasted to a golden brown and crispy state.
Rumble—!!!
The entire Southern Starfield was engulfed in flames, which suddenly erupted without warning!
The void, spanning billions of miles, was instantly dyed a dark red, like drops of blood. A terrifying aura, tens of millions of times stronger than that of the previous Heavenly Phoenix Commander, erupted from the deepest part of the Phoenix Nest Ancestral Land, like a dormant ancient volcano finally awakening!
"How dare you, you brat!!!"
A hoarse, furious, and infinitely powerful roar pierced through the barriers of space and resounded above the Eternal Heaven!
The voice, filled with extreme humiliation and murderous intent, caused the bronze cauldron to vibrate and hum.
Immediately afterwards, the sea of fire tore apart to both sides, and a magnificent scroll that would make all the races of the starry sea tremble slowly unfolded.
Those are millions of pure-blooded Heavenly Phoenixes!
They blotted out the sky, each one as large as a star, their wings flapping to create spatial storms powerful enough to tear apart the world. And at the very front of those million celestial phoenixes, hovered eight ancient phoenix shadows of indescribable size.
These are the eight Supreme Elders of the Undying Phoenix Clan! They are all ancient beings who have lived for millions of years, and all of them are powerful figures at the early stage of the Fifth Realm (Divine Bone Realm)!
They were in seclusion under the sacred phoenix tree, comprehending the path to Nirvana. Unexpectedly, their own guards, sent out on patrol, were plucked naked and roasted in a sea of fire! The enticing aroma of roasted meat even wafted into the Phoenix Nest's secluded meditation chamber!
This is an unparalleled humiliation! This is an unprecedented humiliation that the Undying Phoenix Clan has never suffered since its birth in ancient times!
"You lowly human insect! How dare you treat the noble descendants of my divine birds as food in a cauldron?!"
The leading elder, his eyes practically spitting out divine fire, stared at the Heavenly Phoenix Commander skewered on a stick, sizzling and dripping with oil. He was so enraged that his feathers stood on end, and even his proud phoenix tails trembled violently.
"You blasphemer! Today, in heaven and on earth, in all the realms, no one can save you! I will extract your divine soul and suppress it within the Nine Netherworld Divine Fire Eye, so that you may wail for countless eons!!"
Faced with such a terrifying lineup that could wipe out the entire world.
The tens of thousands of demon soldiers on the Eternal Heaven felt a sense of suffocation. A million Heavenly Phoenixes had appeared simultaneously, and eight powerful beings at the fifth realm were also present to support them—such a force was truly astonishing!
However, Su Chen, who was sitting on the purple-gold throne, merely lazily raised his eyelids.
Instead of getting up, he stretched out his little finger and gently picked at his ear.
"Are you done talking?"
Su Chen flicked the dust off his fingertips, his gaze sweeping over the eight supreme elders. There was no fear in his eyes, only a kind of scrutiny like a farmer inspecting his chicken farm.
"I thought there were only fledglings left in the Southern Star Region, but it turns out there are still old hens that have lived for many years."
"It's a bit old, and it might be a bit tough to chew when stewing soup, but it's barely usable for making stock base."
Su Chen's extremely arrogant words were like adding fuel to the fire, completely igniting the fury of the Phoenix Clan's million-strong army.
"Arrogant!!! Kill him!!!"
The Grand Elder was enraged and could no longer suppress his killing intent. He suddenly let out a phoenix cry that shattered the stars.
"All phoenixes, heed my command! Form the [Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Formation]! Summon the essence of Nirvana from the Nine Heavens, and refine this demon and that disgusting corpse together into ashes!!"
唳————! ! !
A million celestial phoenixes cried out in unison, their massive bodies darting wildly through the void along some ancient and mysterious trajectory. Each celestial phoenix transformed into a burning flame array pattern.
In the blink of an eye, an unparalleled formation encompassing an area of tens of millions of miles was formed!
As soon as the grand formation was completed, the Nirvana Divine Fire throughout the entire Southern Starfield seemed to receive some supreme summons, frantically converging towards the center of the formation. At this moment, all the fire-elemental laws of heaven and earth were completely drained by this grand formation!
"boom!"
At the very center of the great formation, a phantom image of the Ancient Phoenix God, tens of millions of feet tall and formed entirely from the purest Nirvana essence, slowly took shape.
This phantom phoenix, with its wings spread wide enough to cover more than a dozen star systems, lowered its head, its empty, fiery eyes fixed on Su Chen and Chang Sheng Tian at the center of the formation.
"Refine!!!"
The eight supreme elders simultaneously spat out a mouthful of their natal phoenix blood, pushing the great formation to its limit.
In an instant, the phantom of the phoenix god opened its enormous maw, spewing out a strange, pure white [Origin Nirvana Fire]!
This is no ordinary fire, nor divine fire, but the ultimate destructive force capable of returning all things to their origin and turning them into cosmic dust!
The temperature was so high that even the void itself was scorched into crystals resembling glass. The outer array of the Eternal Heaven, upon touching the white flames, shattered under the immense pressure.
"It's over... My lord, even a true god of the sixth realm would have to temporarily avoid the brunt of such a powerful formation!!" Under the pure and intense Yang flames, the Skeleton Lord's soul began to evaporate uncontrollably, and he let out a desperate wail.
Trapped in the center of the formation, Su Chen watched the cascading white waterfall of fire, and the languid look on his face finally faded away.
Instead, there was a chillingly maniacal smile, suppressed to the extreme.
"A hundred birds paying homage to the phoenix? Rebirth in the Nine Heavens?"
Su Chen suddenly stood up, opened his arms, and let the white flames, powerful enough to vaporize a divine artifact, completely engulf him.
"Good timing!!!"
"My heart's sacred treasure is lacking enough fuel to ignite!"
"Today, I will show you, you bald, hairy beasts, what it truly means to...devour fire and consume the heavens!!"
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...(End of this chapter)