Chapter 2241: Fragments of Immortal Artifacts and the Vermilion Phoenix's Thousand-Character Immortal Scripture

Amidst the trembling gazes of numerous supremes from the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm and the Fusang Holy Maiden, a youth in blue robes pressed his hand to his sword hilt, stepping step by step across the ground littered with ruins, bones, and the mutated living beings of the Vermilion Phoenix Crimson Flame Imperial Heaven.

The vital energies of the two true immortals converged, triggering a storm of heavenly Dao rules.

"Another life-or-death battle..."

The Fusang Holy Maiden's heart pounded.

In a true immortal's duel, the victor lives, the loser dies—there have always been only two choices, with no other.

Once the sword immortal is defeated, she too will die.

"Alas, the great army of the Dao Court is not here..."

The Fusang Holy Maiden felt unwilling in her heart.

The Dao Court's great army boasts numerous heaven's chosen, numerous strong ones, and even dozens of quasi-emperors; among them, the Ten Great Deep Space Fleets of the Immortal Gate, the Supreme Great Sun Sword Dao Soldiers, and the Seven Great Ancient Dao Soldiers of the clans—Slaughter Breaking Army, Greedy Wolf, etc. —all possess the power to threaten the true immortal and influence the battlefield.

In the scarred star domains of the Vermilion Phoenix, once this force appears, it can almost sweep all directions, imposing immense pressure on the Vermilion Phoenix scion.

Of course, she knows this is a fantasy.

Too far away.

Even if near at hand, nothing could interfere with the true immortal's sword duel.

She merely, out of concern for victory or defeat, life or death, instinctively seeks all usable power in her heart.

"The Zhu Que star domains shall be unified..."

The Supreme of Yang and the Supreme of Yin held their breath, watching this fork in the epic of fate.

Once the human sword immortal triumphs, he can again restore this human homeland; once defeated, all people shall die, and the hope of humanity can only be entrusted to the myriad-laws true immortal.

On the other side, in the Tushan Palace, a woman with an apple-shaped face silently prayed.

……

Jiang Ding stepped forward, approaching the Vermilion Phoenix scion face to face.

He gazed upon the living being before him with appreciative eyes.

She stood amidst the three thousand great Dao, united with the Great Fire Dao and as one; her head like a golden pheasant, her jaws like a swallow, her beak like a chicken, her wings like a great roc, her legs like a crane, her tail like a peacock, possessing the most splendid and eye-catching flame-like tail feathers, five clusters forming, colors variegated.

Her feathers contained the five proper colors.

The markings on her head symbolized "virtue," colored cyan; those on her wings symbolized "obedience," colored red; those on her back symbolized "righteousness," colored white; those on her abdomen symbolized "trust," colored black (dark); those on her chest symbolized "benevolence," colored yellow.

This is the symbol of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trust, holding an important position in the Wu Jin Kong Kong.

On her person exists a transcendent beauty; even if not humanoid, she still possesses the utmost beauty of the mortal world, making one unable to help but slightly hold their breath, unable to imagine how stunning she would be if she took human form.

In the history of Wu Jin Kong Kong, the phoenix immortal clan once left deep traces.

This is the embodiment of beauty and nobility; among humans, emperors and empresses are often equated with phoenixes, and the phoenix must be one of the heaven-opening immortal clans, born destined to be strong.

"Long time no see,"

"Vermilion Phoenix Scion."

Jiang Ding, with appreciative eyes, took in this old acquaintance one by one, then said: "Over a million years ago, we met by chance in the time fracture; to this day, thinking back, I still feel much nostalgia."

"I don't know how you are now, old friend—are you still well?"

In Wu Jin Kong Kong, the true immortal is an irreplaceable existence of an era; even if an enemy, respect should be given.

Let us reminisce, discuss the profound, debate the Dao.

Because, this is one of our kind, and moreover, our kind where meeting inevitably means one side dies; the time we spend together is truly too little, making it especially precious.

"Still well."

The Vermilion Phoenix Scion nodded slightly.

When two old acquaintances among true immortals meet, they converse, discuss the Dao, and the atmosphere is exceedingly harmonious.

"In your hand, fellow Daoist,"

"do you hold the fragments of immortal artifacts?"

The Vermilion Phoenix Scion asked lightly.

"Immortal artifact fragments?"

Jiang Ding expressed surprise.

This is knowledge he has never encountered before.

Look, this is the wonderful aspect of communication between wise lives—sharing knowledge, both benefit, both suffer no loss.

"Why must fellow Daoist conceal it?"

"The Azure Emperor's Eastern Extreme Star Ring Belt is extremely distant from here, immeasurably far, with no possibility of constructing a teleportation array, and even imperial supreme artifacts cannot achieve it."

The Vermilion Phoenix Scion softly sighed: "Only immortal artifact fragments can break through all this."

"Everything related to immortals is eternally immortal, unchanging with the flow of time—this is something no imperial supreme artifact can achieve."

"The human true immortal who rose from obscurity indeed holds a great opportunity; truly enviable."

At this moment, she admitted she regretted it.

Back then, in the time fracture, it was her greatest opportunity to slay this human true immortal.

If, upon first meeting in the time fracture, she had slain him without hesitation, success would have been certain—at most, she would have only been lightly wounded by the Myriad Laws True Immortal.

At that time, this person was merely a Seven Tribulations Dao Child, with combat power comparable to an Eight Tribulations Dao Child.

That opportunity was truly great.

Alas, that was past time; reversing such a long span of time, no one can achieve it.

"Does fellow Daoist feel a bit of regret?"

Jiang Ding seemed to see what she was thinking and asked.

"Mm."

The Vermilion Phoenix Scion nodded.

"No need to go that far."

"In your lifetime, how many Seven Tribulation and Eight Tribulation Daozi have you seen? Too many to count."

Jiang Ding comforted: "If every single one required you to endure great hardship to find, then kill, you wouldn't need to do anything in this life—you'd spend it all on the road, searching."

"After all, these Daozi are very scattered."

"But if you truly did so, wasting so much time, you would certainly die at the hands of another true immortal."

"This possibility never existed from the start; there's no need to regret or rely on luck."

He could not bear to see his friend sad, so he comforted, displaying great gentlemanly bearing.

"Indeed……that is so."

"Dao friend, saying this, I feel somewhat better in my heart."

The True Phoenix Child sighed.

She seemed to have lost interest in talking; at some unknown time, a dragon-shaped mark appeared in her feathers, carrying the vast aura of the Immortal Dynasty's fate, making her very familiar to behold.

Jiang Ding slightly narrowed his eyes.

This is, the Primordial Ancient Canon of the True Dragon Fate Immortal Dynasty.

Roar!

Roar roar!

In the next moment, accompanied by the sound of dragon chants and tiger roars, countless Immortal Dynasty fate surged forth all at once, forming azure-gold fate that flowed into this beautiful phoenix's body; the Five Virtues wings became even more profoundly noble, symbolizing since ancient times the most precious thing between heaven and earth.

The True Phoenix Child's aura thus underwent a sudden leap, breaking through to the next stage.

After a long while, this phoenix's aura gradually stabilized; in its phoenix eyes appeared some of the Immortal Dynasty's Nine Five Supreme aura, carrying a chilling killing intent.

"Not bad."

"Did you, without regard for consequences, fuse the Primordial Ancient Canon of the True Dragon Fate, driving your Immortal Scripture to reach the level of the Thousand Character Immortal Text?"

Jiang Ding understood, letting out a light laugh.

"Congratulations, Dao friend, you have finally, through demonic means, barely caught up to my current height."

"How delightful, how commendable."

Clang!

The Taiqing Flying Sword slowly unsheathed.

The terrifying aura of Dharma-destroying annihilation filled the cosmic starry sky, forming a tide-like killing intent that pressed upon the true immortal of the Phoenix Immortal Clan, making heaven, earth, sun, and moon lose their light, as the twilight of the Immortal Path's apocalypse descended upon Shen Zhou.