Chapter 250: Leaving Chiwu (Please Subscribe)

Regarding the Phoenix Blood Wutong, a unique spiritual object, Du En observed it in a state of enlightenment and could no longer see a silent piece of wood heart in his hands, but rather a mass of inextinguishable crimson flame.

Sensing his deeper probing, this crimson flame suddenly exploded, flapping its wings, hysterical, wild, and ferocious, manifesting into the shape of a phoenix fire; it had only a distorted face, staring fixedly at him, spreading waves of resentful intrusion.

For a moment, Du En felt as if his entire body were on fire; in his state of enlightenment, everything was a sea of crimson.

"Screech!!!!!"

The fierce, sharp cry was like a sharp blade, piercing into his consciousness and will, bringing even greater pain.

However, Du En remained expressionless, having long since grown accustomed to it, and leaned in to look with a calm, unruffled heart.

As his cultivation improved, he could see more; within the phantom of the crimson phoenix flame, it seemed to be an egg?

"A Nirvana egg?"

Just as he thought this, the egg shattered directly, and a fierce phoenix claw reached out from within, carrying an undying, relentless lingering hatred, and grabbed at him violently.

Fortunately, Du En dodged quickly, otherwise he would have been caught.

"Are the mysteries of Nirvana intertwined with the lingering hatred of the phoenix? Is this the method She used before Her death to prevent others, especially those from the Immortal Sects, from peeking into the secrets of Nirvana?"

The "She" here, of course, refers to the divine bird, the Phoenix, from back then.

To prevent Her greatest secrets from being discovered by enemies after Her death, She connected and merged Her hatred, curses, and so on, with the principles of Nirvana—well, perhaps She also wanted to secretly sabotage the Supreme of Falling Feathers.

In any case, it is indeed possible to comprehend the divine ability of Nirvana through this thing, but once obtained, the phoenix's lingering hatred rooted within it will follow like bone-gnawing maggots!

"That would be very troublesome; I fear even Burying Death and Honoring Life could not eliminate it."

Because if he obtained a new divine ability, his peak state would be updated along with it, and then, like a bug in a system, even if he tried every way to remove the lingering hatred, as soon as he used Burying Death and Honoring Life once, it would return!

Unless it could be excised at the very beginning, it would be purely asking for trouble!

But if it were really that easy, the Falling Feather Immortal Sect would not have left the Phoenix Blood Wutong to grow here alone...

"Forget it, although this divine ability of Nirvana rebirth is not actually the same as my Burying Death and Honoring Life, there is a similarity and overlap in their superficial manifestations, so the benefits are not really obvious."

Du En quickly made a judgment and decision.

However, this did not mean he could not comprehend other things from it.

He stared once more at this inextinguishable and inexhaustible phoenix lingering hatred, unfolding other insights.

This was destined to be a long process; after all, Du En could only rely on his attainments in cultivation techniques and the various insights he had accumulated to chew through it bit by bit.

So, he stopped for the time being when evening arrived.

When he walked out of this temporary residence, three Golden Core stage cultivators were waiting outside, almost on the verge of tears.

They were the new City Lord and the new Superintendent.

The commotion caused by Du En breaking through to the mid-Golden Core stage was not small; the spiritual Qi in the inner city had stirred up obvious ripples, causing them, who were paying close attention, to feel a jolt in their hearts at the time and rush over to wait. Now, seeing that he was not hiding anything here, their legs were naturally trembling.

He could slaughter all the predecessors when he was at the early Golden Core stage; now that he had broken through to the mid-Golden Core stage, wouldn't killing a few second or third-rate characters like them be as easy as a palm flip, a matter of a single breath?

"Du, Traveler Du, congratulations on your breakthrough, congratulations on your progress, hahaha..."

Watching the forced smiles on the faces of these three, Du En spoke calmly: "I am leaving."

"Ah? What do you need, I will give it to you right away—uh, wait, you are finally leaving, ah ptooey! I meant to say, I wish you a smooth journey; we will deeply remember the significant contributions you have made to restoring order in this city!"

The new City Lord's emotions were quite volatile, finally appearing impassioned, his two small mustaches twitching as he spoke, but his stingy nature was hard to change, and he did not want to give any actual benefits.

Du En glanced at him, said no more nonsense, nodded, and continued his pace.

Under the respectful send-off of the three, he walked out of the city, attracting attention along the way.

After all, everyone inside and outside the city knew who was currently holding down the fort and maintaining stability here!

"Everyone, no need to see me off, farewell."

Leaving behind these words, Du En flew up and headed toward the east.

The three were overjoyed, feeling that the supreme authority over their heads had finally left, and they would not need to be so fearful in the future. Of course, they could not immediately be too reckless, lest they attract this Traveler Du, who could travel everywhere, back again.

Others felt pessimistic; after all, this past year or so had been a rare period of relaxation, and now, leaving only those three, who looked like thieves and were greedy by nature, here, one could only imagine how much worse things would become.

However, Du En was not their nanny; having finished what he needed to do, he naturally chose to leave.

As he departed the Wutong Mountain Range, he paused slightly and looked back at the entire mountain range.

The Red-Leaf Wutong were still lush, appearing even more crimson under the sunset, but a touch of green was inevitably emerging throughout, no longer dominated absolutely by the Red-Leaf Wutong.

It was very clear that the loss of the Phoenix Blood Wutong, and the severe damage to the spiritual-nurturing land that once used the phoenix's legacy as its foundation, meant that the influence of the phoenix's legacy here was beginning to dissipate.

Perhaps in a hundred or a thousand years, when the last Red-Leaf Wutong withered, the traces left by the divine bird, the Phoenix, in this world would vanish completely.

Du En withdrew his gaze, did not look back again, and headed straight for the next planned travel destination.

Lin'an City.

"Death is well-deserved."

After Ren Li returned to Yunyi City, he reported everything to his master in person. He did not lie behind closed doors and even attempted to take on the main responsibility, causing the Great Cultivator of Yunyi to remain silent for a while before uttering only this sentence.

The matter of the Cloud Eagle was thus decided, and afterwards, the Great Cultivator of Yunyi allocated supplies for dispelling yin and providing nourishment, sending them urgently to Chiwu City to fulfill Ren Li's guarantees with increased amounts.

Only at the same time, he grounded Ren Li and ordered him to go into seclusion to cultivate.

After all, this time, he had his own selfish motives when going to Chiwu, a fact the Great Cultivator of Yunyi actually knew, and in the end, he failed to accomplish the official business and even violated the rules by running into the mortal realm, so he needed to be given a small warning.

As for the disposal of those subordinates who followed him, it was very simple: they knew but did not report, causing the situation to worsen and eventually leading to fratricide, so they were all dispatched to the front lines to serve as high-level cannon fodder.

Time flowed by, until today.

The ashes scattered by that group of Foundation Establishment stage cultivators from Yunyi City were already incomplete, not even enough to make up one person's share.

The heat of the matter was slowly passing, so Ren Li also began to act sneakily these past few days, poking his head out from time to time to inquire about various situations from people he was on good terms with in the city.

Overall, everything in the south of Falling Feathers was stable, and nothing major had happened during this period.

And it was precisely in this tranquility that some people's hearts had begun to stir.

(End of chapter)