Chapter 386: The Phoenix Egg Breaks Its Shell

Look down from high above the earth!

A red crack stretched for hundreds of miles, like a giant dragon.

Within a hundred li around this Hell Abyss, vegetation flourished wildly, with not a trace of ice or snow.

He Pingsheng's vast spiritual sense crashed down.

Twenty thousand zhang—enough to cover over a hundred li.

After scanning this way, the entire situation of the Hell Abyss lay bare before him.

There were many cultivators here.

Most were at Foundation Establishment, but a few were Nascent Soul experts.

These people secluded themselves here to absorb the abundant fire-elemental laws.

In short, most came here to comprehend the Dao.

He Pingsheng landed where the flames were strongest.

There was no one around!

Perfect!

He pulled out a formation disc and began setting up the array.

Soon, a third-rank Spirit-Sealing Array and a third-rank Early-Warning Array were fully formed.

These two great arrays covered a hundred zhang in diameter.

The arrays floated like bubbles, inverted directly over the crimson magma.

He Pingsheng sat cross-legged in midair, then waved his hand and produced the crimson eggshell adorned with golden patterns—the Phoenix Egg.

He casually tossed it into the molten lava beneath.

The Phoenix Egg did not sink—it floated atop the molten rock.

Then, visibly, countless fire-elemental forces and laws began being frantically absorbed by the tiny life within the egg.

Forget the Phoenix Egg!

He Pingsheng instead pulled out a ring and examined it.

This was the spoils taken after slaying the Ruokai Ancestor, still unopened.

Now was a good time to check it out.

He waved his hand, erased the faint spiritual sense lingering on the ring, then plunged his own spiritual sense inside.

Sssss…

Seeing the contents of the ring, He Pingsheng was stunned.

Because he saw a great many spirit stones!

All of them were mid-grade.

Mid-grade spirit stones, the size of chicken eggs, piled in stacks of forty to fifty thousand.

That meant, if converted to low-grade spirit stones, they totaled four or five hundred million.

"Too much!" He Pingsheng exhaled deeply, murmuring: "Indeed, killing others and seizing their treasures is the fastest way to amass wealth!"

Set aside these mid-grade spirit stones for now.

He Pingsheng's spiritual sense swept over other items.

There were many.

Herbs, elixirs, alchemy materials, jade slips, and magic treasures.

He Pingsheng had no interest in herbs or elixirs—he tossed them aside for now, to be enhanced later and taken to the capital to replenish Ling Zhiwang's Trading Guild.

He first retrieved the magic treasures.

Three in total.

One ice-elemental flying sword: mid-grade magic treasure.

One ice-elemental shield: mid-grade magic treasure.

One fire-elemental halberd: low-grade magic treasure.

He had little use for these.

But after enhancement, they could be given to Qiao Huizhu.

After all, they were ice-elemental.

The fire-elemental one could go to Xiaohe.

Or to Old Cheng.

Hmm…

That'll do.

He Pingsheng waved his hand and tossed all three magic treasures into the Treasure Basin.

Then he turned to the jade slips.

He hoped to find the 【Ten Thousand Mountains Snowfall】 technique among them—admittedly, that technique was terrifying.

He picked up each of the dozen or so jade slips one by one.

When he pressed a blue jade slip to his forehead, his body trembled.

The slip recorded a spell.

Spell: Ice Arrow Technique!

This was the very spell Ruokai True Person first used to attack He Pingsheng.

When cast, it conjured a massive ice arrow.

Hmm…

Good!

Enhance!

After searching a while longer, He Pingsheng finally found the jade slip containing the 【Ten Thousand Mountains Snowfall】 technique.

After reading it, He Pingsheng was stunned.

When perfected, this technique could unleash a thousand snowflakes in a single thought.

It could suppress an entire spatial region!

It could even carry spatial laws to disrupt the spatial rules of the surrounding void.

And its rank? It reached Earth-Class Supreme.

Too powerful.

Enhance!

He Pingsheng tossed it into the Treasure Basin as well.

Now came the waiting.

On the first day, the fire-elemental halberd was enhanced.

After enhancement, it split into two blades.

First one!

Name: Flame Crescent Halberd!

Rank: Supreme Magic Treasure!

Second one!

Name: Sunset Melted Gold Blade!

Rank: Supreme Magic Treasure!

He Pingsheng reached out and gripped the Sunset Melted Gold Blade.

Boom…

The next instant, he unfurled it.

One word: Cool!

The hilt was as thick as a spear shaft, one zhang long.

The blade itself, boiling with fire, was only three chi long.

A slight swing sent flames raging wildly.

One feeling: Powerful!

If given to Xiaohe, would she even be able to wield it?

We'll see later.

On the second day, the ice shield was enhanced.

Both became supreme magic treasures: one named 【Divine Ice Shield】, the other 【Ice Dance】.

He Pingsheng stored them away.

One for Sister Qiao, one for himself.

On the third day, the ice-elemental flying sword was enhanced.

It split into two supreme magic treasures.

They looked too feminine—he didn't even bother reading their names, just stored them.

In the days that followed, the Ice Arrow Technique was enhanced into two versions!

Two nearly identical ones.

He Pingsheng took one to cultivate.

The technique is called 【Cold Ice Chain Arrow Art】, but it has been strengthened—now it can summon seven ice arrows flying in sequence.

It resembles the 【Seven Arrows Fall on Tian Shan】 of the Bingji Sect's Xiao family.

But it is significantly stronger than the Xiao family's Seven Arrows Fall on Tian Shan.

The divine art 【Ten Thousand Mountains Flying Snow】 has also been strengthened into two forms.

The first is called 【Heavenly Snow Lock Realm】, the second is called 【Nine Heavens Ice Dragon】.

He Pingsheng first stored all these away.

Next, he would continue strengthening the other materials.

Of course, the divine arts and spells must be cultivated.

……

Cultivation knows no years!

In the blink of an eye, three years passed.

He Pingsheng's cultivation base did not break through, but the phoenix egg floating amid the roaring magma and earth fire suddenly cracked with a sharp sound.

He Pingsheng, who had been meditating with closed eyes, snapped them open and looked down in excitement.

A fine crack had truly appeared on the red phoenix egg.

From the crack, streams of golden and red light continuously shot forth.

"Rise…" He Pingsheng, trembling with excitement, pulled the phoenix egg out of the magma.

Crack…

The moment it landed in his hands, another crisp sound came from the egg.

More light poured out from the fissure.

Within this light, a scorching heat rose, making the surrounding air searing hot.

At this moment, He Pingsheng was nearly certain—the phoenix inside was about to hatch.

This was a phoenix.

Just thinking of it filled him with excitement.

Through the crack, He Pingsheng's spiritual sense extended into the shell.

A bird, its entire body covered in beautiful, fiery red down resembling flickering flames, lay with closed eyes, straining to extend its claws and slowly push against its eggshell.

Flutter… flutter…

He Pingsheng could even feel the tiny creature's heartbeat.