Legend of the Great Sage

d.

The bright-red phoenix blood shone with the light of flames, arriving by the Featherfolk King’s side along the white stream and was directly injected into his body.

The Featherfolk Kin shut his eyes.
He emanated with red light as he seemed extremely pleased.
The pure, scorching life force was basically a fatal temptation to him who was on the verge of death.
He was almost tempted to drain all of Li Fengyuan’s blood.
He had to take a deep breath to hold back that urge.
He could not rush this. 

Only when the white stream receded did Li Fengyuan’s heart settle back down.
In that moment earlier, he was already prepared to throw his life at the Featherfolk King, but he also understood that given the current situation, even dying probably would not be that easy.

His fate was truly out of his hands now, completely at the whim of others.
This deep feeling of helplessness filled him with unprecedented fury.
He could not help but clench his fists.

“My king, how do you feel?” Bai Jie asked in concern.

“Fine, very fine, extremely fine!”

The Featherfolk King opened his eyes.
His complexion was healthy and vigorous as he answered that question three times.

Sure enough, just as the legends had foretold, phoenix blood could lengthen lives.
Furthermore, to his excitement, the dark azure feather also trembled gently with it.
He felt the bloodline merge a little more with him too. 

The feather possessed unimaginably great power, or even a legacy, but he had never been able to properly grasp this power, let alone inherit the legacy.

That was because featherfolk were not truly avians, so they were not recognised by this feather.
Despite everything he tried, he could only use a bare minimum of the power inside, or he would not have to worry about the problem regarding his lifespan anymore.

As the king of birds, phoenixes were naturally close to all avians, and what he felt right now only proved his original conjecture.
The feather was extremely close to the bloodline of a phoenix.
If his “blood transfusion” succeeded and he gained the bloodline of a phoenix, it definitely would not only lead to a longer lifespan.

Thinking up to there, he clenched his fist firmly, and the white jade cup was crushed to dust.
He smiled from ear to ear.

“Bring the alcohol!” Li Fengyuan called out, interrupting the Featherfolk King’s daydream.

“How dare you!” Bai Jie made her way over, raising her hand to teach him another lesson.

“Stop!” The Featherfolk King ordered.

“Your majesty?”

“Give him his alcohol.
Give him the finest alcohol we have, as well as a Mother Cloud pill.”

“A Mother Cloud pill!”

Bai Jie was surprised.
Mother Cloud pills were refined through gathering the essence of clouds.
The process was extremely difficult.
It could basically be regarded as the greatest pill the featherfolk could refine.
Even among featherfolk, only a very small number of them could actually ingest one.

“Go.
Just deduct it from my quota.
I know what I’m doing.” Then the Featherfolk King said to Li Fengyuan joyfully, “Don’t be angry.
I will make up for your losses on fold.”

“Not everything can be made up with pills!” Li Fengyuan said furiously. 

He was a mighty phoenix, yet he was being reared like a pig right now—no, it was even worse than a pig.
A pig only had to face the butchering blade once, and that would be the end of it.
It did not have to be carved up daily.
This sense of humiliation basically could not be put into words.

“I understand how you feel, but unfortunately, this is all that I can do.
As cultivators, isn’t longevity the exact thing that we’re all after?”

The Featherfolk King sighed as if he had no other choice, but he had already made up his mind inside.
He would never let Li Fengyuan take another step out of Clouded city.
No one knew exactly what extent a divine bird, a phoenix, could grow to.
Only by killing him would he avoid any potential problems.

He glanced at the dark azure feather.
Once he grasped the power inside, he might as well kill Li Qingshan too! Afterwards, he would destroy the Great Xia empire so that godfolk would reign over this world again.
Featherfolk would obviously become the supreme rulers.

Everything was unfolding according to plan.

At this moment, a bellow rang out in the air like a clap of thunder.

“Where be the Featherfolk King!?”

 ps： 大家久等了，休养生息了许久，今日起兵，再战一场！