Dominating Martial King

His lips slightly curled up, his eyes filled with meaning: "Instead of worrying about her life and safety, you might as well think about how to gain her forgiveness and resolve the resentment left by Tian Nai Luo.

No, Star Lord, you’re in such a hurry, it shouldn’t just be that there’s an issue with your Parasol Ancestor Tree, right? It seems the impact of Tian Nai Luo on your clan is far more severe than I thought."

The Vermilion Bird Star Lord let out a light hum.

Was she truly worried about Si Huangquan’s safety because of this?

However, the current situation within the Phoenix Clan is indeed quite critical.

Not only has the Parasol Ancestor Tree encountered a problem, preventing them from producing pure-blooded Phoenix Clan descendants.

Even the Nirvana Technique has encountered significant issues.

Since she, along with Nine Phoenix, Qingluan, and Honghu among others, all those with impure bloodlines who have not reached the Middle Eternal, cannot complete ’Nirvana’.

They had never found the reason before, but now she knew, it was Tian Nai Luo, the former Death Saint, who interfered with the Parasol Ancestor Tree, blocking their Nirvana bloodline.

And it’s said that only the one who ties the knot can untie it.

They want to resolve this matter, and only ’Netherworld Phoenix’, who possesses the power of death, can do it.

—Or perhaps erase it, completely removing this source of calamity.

Of course, this is no easy task, as Tian Nai Luo, being the Death Saint, left traces in the Death Heavenly Rules that are hard to erase.

"Has the Star Lord calmed down?" Li Tan pouted, his eyes curious: "How about we have a chat, I’m actually quite curious, why did the Nine Phoenix betray our clan with you Phoenix Lineage? What benefit do you gain? What really happened tens of millennia ago?"

Few people in this world know that the Dragon and Phoenix races share the same bloodline origin.

Yu Jia gave birth to Yeen Dragon, Yeen Dragon gave birth to Phoenix.

This ’Yeen Dragon’, of course, does not refer to the current Yeen Dragon, ’Long Kui’.

But rather the Ancestor Dragon that once nurtured Pangu, whose one of the descendants cultivated the Parasol Ancestor Tree, evolving into the Phoenix Lineage.

And Long Xi’s offspring, for generations, married with the Dragon and Phoenix clans.

They were supposed to be solid allies.

However, the Vermilion Bird Star Lord still responded with silence.

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Inside the Huge Stone Hall, the atmosphere had become tense and on edge.

As the number of Yin Queen Crystal Cores integrated by Si Huangquan exceeded fifty, the gaze of several Gods grew increasingly greedy and unrestrained.

If it weren’t for Chu Xisheng, always suppressing them with Sword Intent, they would have been almost unbridled.

"—My master resides in the Demon Realm Blood Domain, surrounded by enemies, with dangers lurking, unable to easily leave. He cannot personally come and meet, and requests Your Majesty’s forgiveness! However, my master ordered me to bring to Your Majesty the relic of the Yin Queen and a gift to congratulate Your Majesty’s ascension."

This was the envoy of the Strong Demon King, kneeling below the Imperial Platform.

West Mountain, Single-Horned, and Strong were the three most powerful demon kings among the Hundred Demons, with combat power not inferior to Shen Tu, Yu Lei, and having a long life expectancy.

The youngest among them has existed for over a hundred thousand years, enduring through the ages.

Each of them has their own territory among the three thousand worlds of the Demon Realm, holding certain power.

The most powerful West Mountain Ghost King even occupies an entire Small Thousand World.

The so-called ’West Mountain’ refers to the West Mountain near Wang’an City in the Mortal World. It’s not only the burial site of many ancient emperors and generals but also, after enduring wars, has bred many powerful Evil Spirits, with the West Mountain Ghost King being an outstanding one.

Although these three ghost kings serve under Tian Nai Luo’s banner, their status is akin to that of feudal lords in the Mortal World, possessing great independence and autonomy.

These feudal lords evidently do not truly respect Si Huangquan.

A similar situation is with Asura, Yaksha, and others, whose situation is even more excessive than the three ghost kings. They are merely nominal underlings of the Yin Dynasty, and simultaneously pledge allegiance to several forces in the Demon Domain, neither following orders nor commands.

They also merely sent envoys, not appearing themselves.

However, neither Si Huangquan nor Chu Xisheng seemed to mind much.

Although these individuals hadn’t arrived, they sent over all the Yin Queen Crystal Cores they held.

That sufficed.

Right after the Strong Demon King, the number of Yin Queen Crystal Cores integrated by Si Huangquan reached fifty-four.

At this point, aside from the seventeen pieces already in the hands of All Gods, of the seventy-two Crystal Cores, only one remained unclaimed.

That one should be held by ’Jingwei’, an extremely important piece.

Although Yin Hou Tian Nai Luo divided her own power into seventy-two portions, this so-called ’portions’ only refers to power.

The Heavenly Rules contained within these seventy-two Crystal Cores are different; some are more crucial, while others are not.

The few Gods in the hall clearly knew this too.

They all restrained themselves, sitting still in the hall; among them, the Southern Pole Star Lord sat tranquilly, eyes closed, waiting.

Si Huangquan, however, seized the time to absorb and integrate the remnant power of the Yin Queen.

Four hours later, the expressions of Youdu and Black Water began to darken.

If this drags on, Si Huangquan’s power will continue to increase until he completely controls the Yin Vein Wings.

Their patience ran out.

Rather than continue waiting, they thought it better to seize the Yin Vein Wings first.

The piece in Jingwei’s hands could be recollected later at leisure.

As long as they obtained the main body of the Yin Vein Wings, successfully melted it, they could easily forcibly ’absorb’ Jingwei’s Crystal Core piece.

As the cold and sharp intention gradually emerged in both of their eyes, a bright green light shot in through the hall from outside, landing in Si Huangquan’s hands.

—It was the final piece of the Yin Queen Crystal Core they had been waiting for!