Chapter 2238: then translation of title

"Vermilion Bird Venerable." Xiao Feng bowed and greeted.

The woman in red robes bore a noble air, showing no sign of having been tormented to the point of collapse by the Kunpeng; looking at Xiao Feng, she asked, "Why have you summoned me here?"

Xiao Feng didn't stand on ceremony with her, getting straight to the point: "It's like this—I, the junior, am studying a unique Law Secret Technique and need a bit of primordial creature's precious blood as a reference. I specially invited you senior over to ask for a portion of your precious blood. Of course, I will also offer treasures in return; I'm not just taking yours for free."

Obtaining precious blood doesn't necessarily require killing the opponent; when I previously faced the Azure Dragon, I didn't manage to kill it, merely shattering its skull with a Heaven-Shaking Arrow and seizing a clump of essence divine blood, after which I succeeded in my comprehension.

Hearing this, the Vermilion Bird Venerable frowned slightly, her subconscious feeling a bit resistant.

After all, primordial precious blood is extremely valuable; she hardly has any in her whole body, and giving some away would leave her weakened for a while.

However, this person before her is no ordinary individual but the strongest among human adventurers; although he is currently only at the Prime Deity realm, not even a God King, when all his treasures and abilities are combined, he is capable of slaying even invincible overlords like Emperor Jiang and the Lord of Stars.

Although the Vermilion Bird Venerable was confident, she also understood that her strength was slightly inferior to that of Emperor Jiang and the Lord of Stars, and she lacked a peak supreme treasure to counter them.

If she refused, Xiao Feng might resort to force, and then he wouldn't just want a bit of precious blood—he'd demand her life as well.

Thus the Vermilion Bird Venerable gave a slight nod: "For the sake of the Vermilion Flame Southern Bright Bird, I accept your exchange terms."

"Good, senior, you're refreshingly straightforward!"

Xiao Feng was in a good mood and immediately took out several ninth-tier materials.

These materials can all be refined into Venerable's holy artifacts; the Vermilion Bird Venerable excels at playing with fire, naturally also at forging, so they are quite meaningful to her.

Xiao Feng himself had hardly anyone nearby capable of forging Venerable's holy artifacts; only the Vermilion Flame Southern Bright Bird possessed that foundation, but its output was extremely limited, and his materials were too many to ever use up, so casually taking some out was enough to trade for the Vermilion Bird's precious blood.

The Vermilion Bird glanced at what he gave: "Emperor Jiang's bone, Qilin's tail, Qiongqi's fang... all fine things." She looked quite pleased.

Immediately, she parted her lips and expelled a clump of primordial precious blood from her heart, which flew toward Xiao Feng.

This blood resembled a blazing flame; its powerful scorching qi raised the surrounding temperature by several thousand degrees, the air became distorted, and everything around seemed about to ignite and melt.

Xiao Feng caught it with divine power and said, "Thank you, Vermilion Bird Venerable!"

"It's just a trade; no need for thanks—I'm leaving."

The Vermilion Bird replied indifferently, then stepped forward; a void door appeared and she vanished directly from the spot.

Xiao Feng watched the Vermilion Bird Venerable depart, looking at the Vermilion Bird's precious blood in his hand, feeling quite satisfied.

"Trading a bunch of useless stuff for something good—this blood's a profit!" he thought to himself.

Immediately, he flashed back to the palace of Rongjin City, and in front of the Vermilion Flame Southern Bright Bird, he directly swallowed that clump of Vermilion Bird's precious blood into his belly.

Analyzing the precious blood and comprehending the battle body requires some time.

Placed inside his body, this clump of blood allows his Divine Sense to analyze and study it at any moment, far stronger than keeping it outside.

Otherwise, the fresh Vermilion Bird blood is so scalding that bringing it home would likely burn the whole house down.

"Your Majesty the State Lord, this quickly—"

got it done?"

Seeing him return with a clump of fresh blood bearing the Vermilion Bird's aura and swallowing it into his belly, the Vermilion Flame Southern Bright Bird was greatly surprised.

This round trip took less than a minute—surely too fast!

Xiao Feng laughed: "The Vermilion Bird Venerable is easy to talk to; I mentioned her and she agreed right away."

"Perhaps she was afraid you'd kill her..."

The Vermilion Flame Southern Bright Bird muttered under her breath.

Xiao Feng burst out laughing: "In the myriad heavens, who isn't afraid of me these days? But hey, we're not exactly major villains; we won't just take others' things for nothing—it's all fair trade, very equitable."

Although there's a hint of coercion in the trade, the "price" he offered is still quite reasonable, not overly bullying.

"No major villain would admit to being a major villain..."

The Vermilion Flame Southern Bright Bird complained again; having become a totem divine beast, she now dares to speak up, no longer as fearful of Xiao Feng as before.

Xiao Feng wasn't angry about this either; he chatted casually with her for a few sentences, then returned to the Chaos Secret Realm, going back to his residence in the Little Heavenly Court.

Thereafter, the days were spent continuing to comprehend the battle body.

The Vermilion Bird Venerable once obtained 7% of the Primordial True King's Dao Ancestor origin; in terms of bloodline quality, she is second only to the Azure Dragon and the Kunpeng.

The Azure Dragon is a good-for-nothing, only level 2980, which can be said to be quite weak trash.

The Vermilion Bird Venerable is quite strong, at level 3100, also a Law Extreme Realm Venerable, stronger than the Qilin Divine Beast.

The precious blood she just extracted contains immense Vermilion Bird origin power, also harboring some of the Primordial True King's origin. When Xiao Feng comprehended it, he felt it was far more profound than what he had obtained before—even the Azure Dragon's precious blood, which possesses 8% of the Dao Ancestor origin, cannot be compared to it.

"Analyzing one structure—"

the analysis of a structure takes time; although he can maintain his comprehension state with multi-tasking, it's still expected to take about two months.

Moreover, he still needs to integrate the Vermilion Bird battle body into the Myriad Gods and Demons battle body; the more battle body types, the more troublesome, estimated to take about half a year to fully comprehend all of this.

Fortunately, he isn't in a rush and has plenty of time to study slowly.

Time passed day by day.

The chaotic spiritual qi in the Primordial Treasure Vase gradually diminished, while Xun Shuang's unborn child absorbed large amounts of chaotic spiritual qi and Zuzun Qi Yun, becoming ever more "powerful".

Xiao Feng can clearly sense that the child's vitality is extremely vigorous, its contained energy not inferior to that of a god-level lifeform, and it continues to advance toward the Prime Deity realm.

If this trend continues, it's likely even more extravagant than previously imagined; the child could be born with a God King–level mortal body, "lacking only the willpower to ascend, after which it could become a God King!"

After all, by the total amount of energy, converting hundreds of jing of qi luck into cultivation could at least reach level 1500, and 1001 strands of chaotic spiritual qi contain boundless profundities.

With such an extravagant foundation, giving birth to a child possessing a God King's mortal body doesn't seem too strange.

But upon serious reflection, this is actually a terrifying origin!

Even Xun Shuang, the most perfect sentient being in the virtual universe, was merely an ordinary person at birth, growing stronger only through later cultivation.

If their child truly possessed such talent, the entire universe might be thrown into turmoil because of it.

Perhaps this is exactly the "greater anomaly" that Chen Jie spoke of earlier!

Xiao Feng is still not strong enough to have the qualification to deduce the universe's development and changes.

"What kind of consequences will cosmic anomalies cause—"

whether there will be danger, he also completely does not understand.

Just as the fetus grew day by day, a hidden worry involuntarily arose in his heart.

He and Xun Shuang's son will likely, due to his excessively monstrous birth, suffer heaven's jealousy…