Chapter 564: Children are forever parents' soft spot

Another Nine Dragons Crowning Formation!

The first Nine Dragons Crowning Formation caused Liu Junyan to transform from a White Dragon into a Golden Dragon, using the Golden Dragon's fresh blood as a sacrifice to activate the Six-petal Lotus.

The Six-petal Lotus emitted Merit and Mana, then condensed into eight Golden Dragons that rushed toward Liu Junyan, forming the Nine Dragons Crowning Formation again.

This second 'Reciprocal Feeding' Nine Dragons Crowning Formation can make Liu Junyan even stronger.

This is abnormal!

There's no free lunch in this world, and no one would personally give Merit and Mana to an enemy.

Liu Junyan obviously shared the same thought; I saw him shift into human form, gripping that Ancient Bronze Sword tightly in his hand, held across his front, ready for battle.

But the next moment, his vertical pupils shrank sharply, his hand holding the Ancient Bronze Sword trembled, then he put the sword away and resumed his true form.

The eight Golden Dragons instantly entered his body.

Then, eight strands of golden true qi surged back and forth inside the Golden Dragon's body.

The Golden Dragon howled in pain, its body constantly rolling, yet it never left.

At this moment I finally understood why Liu Junyan didn't resist…… In the center of the pagoda body illuminated by Golden Light stood a person—Feng Xianqiu.

No, Feng Xianqiu had long been dead; the person now standing in the pagoda is a Three-legged Crow that successfully took advantage of the Nirvana Tribulation to assume human form.

His appearance is that of Feng Xianqiu, but his soul is Dìshì.

Dìshì held his hands before his chest, cradling the very egg I gave birth to.

Further down, seated cross-legged on the lowest level of the pagoda body was another person—A Cheng.

At this moment A Cheng was whole, with a head and a body.

He sat cross-legged there, as if seated in the heart of the Six-petal Lotus, his whole body shrouded in Golden Light, a golden root‑like mark between his eyebrows radiating brilliant golden light.

That mark closely resembles the root‑like pattern on the surface of the Cangwu Dark Seal.

He closed his eyes, his expression calm, showing no sign of coercion whatsoever.

At this moment I felt my nerves were somewhat scrambled.

Just moments ago at the edge of the Sacrificial Pit, the Copper Coin Person told me that A Cheng had not yet been exposed and the Little Guy was safe.

How in the blink of an eye did A Cheng seem to have reached an agreement with Dìshì, while the Little Guy ended up in Dìshì's hands?

Even A Cheng's head had returned to its original place.

At one instant a thought flashed through my mind: had A Cheng sold out the Little Guy to get his head back?

I refuse to believe that is true.

The A Cheng I know is not such a person!

In this entire formation, A Cheng, Liu Junyan, and the Little Guy are all drawn in—what about me?

I am like an outsider, watching helplessly as all this unfolds, not knowing what to do.

Above, the Golden Dragon's mournful howls echoed as eight strands of golden true qi gradually condensed within its body, finally forming a radiant golden pearl.

The Golden Dragon aimed its head at the high tower, opened its mouth, and its chest and abdomen continuously spasmed and squeezed, causing blood to drip steadily from its mouth.

This process was long and painful.

Meanwhile, down below, A Cheng was forming hand signs and murmuring incantations, obviously performing a ritual.

The golden pearl mixed with blood was spat from the Golden Dragon's mouth, fell into the pagoda, and descended slowly.

Dìshì reverently held the egg, welcoming the pearl that had condensed a great amount of Merit and Mana.

At the moment the golden pearl struck the egg, it shattered, and Golden Light mixed with traces of blood swiftly enveloped the egg and Dìshì, then was rapidly absorbed by them.

At Dìshì's brow, a flash of Golden Light appeared, first revealing a single Golden True Feather, quickly followed by a second.

When the second Golden True Feather appeared, a stream of Buddha Light poured down from above, the entire pagoda body began to rotate, the Buddha Light was swiftly drawn into the pagoda, then converged toward Dìshì and the egg.

Buddha Light shone everywhere.

Dìshì's form changed; his head became that of a Three-legged Crow.

On top of his black head, two Golden True Feathers stood upright, adding considerably to his appearance.

He lowered his head; drop by drop of blood fell from the tip of his long beak onto the eggshell, instantly absorbed by the egg.

Crackle!

When the eggshell showed its first crack, heavenly thunder fell.

My heart leapt up to my throat.

My Xingchen is about to break out of its shell.

This heavenly thunder was aimed at him, but the Golden Dragon's whole body blocked the top of the Divine Temple, bearing the thunder.

Liu Junyan gave up resistance because of the egg's appearance.

By transforming his own body's eight strands of true qi into a pearl and offering it with blood‑tears, he did it all for the egg.

And now he is again shouldering the heavenly thunder.

Children are forever parents' soft spot.

For him, we are willing to sacrifice everything.

Dìshì is precisely exploiting this.

He is too crafty, using my Nirvana Tribulation to complete the transformation of his true body.

Using the Nine Dragons Crowning Formation, he forced Liu Junyan to change from White Dragon to Golden Dragon, then used the Golden Dragon's blood‑tear sacrifice to grow his own second Golden True Feather and achieve the Dharma Body's Buddha incubation.

One arrow, multiple eagles.

And all of this serves only to bring forth his third Golden True Feather in the end.

Heavenly thunder fell one after another.

With each strike of heavenly thunder, the Golden Dragon's anguished howls could be heard, and the cracks on the eggshell grew ever more numerous.

Chanting mixed with shamanic incantations echoed from within the pagoda body.

The witchcraft spell was chanted from A Cheng's mouth, while the sound of sutra chanting came from inside the pagoda.

The inner side of the pagoda was inlaid with one relic after another of eminent monks; when the sutra chanting sounded, one after another apparition of eminent monks emerged from the relics, each sitting cross-legged on the pagoda's inner wall, devoutly chanting sutras, supporting the manifestation of the Dharma-body Buddha's descent.

The scene was extremely shocking.

Liu Junyan withstood another three heavenly thunders.

After the third heavenly thunder passed, the entire eggshell was covered in cracks, with rays of light streaming out from the fissures.

However, some of those lights were golden, some were blood-red, and some… were black.

The golden light is merit, the blood-colored light is blood light.

As for the black… it is evidently emanating from the evil bone.

For the three-legged crow to ascend and become the Solar Divine Bird, it must successfully transmute the evil bone.

Now the problem is, that evil bone, as the egg hatches, has fused into the fleshly body of the Dharma-body Buddha.

If the Dharma-body Buddha can successfully transmute the evil bone, then the one who should ascend ought to be the Dharma-body Buddha, not Dìshì.

So, Dìshì ultimately intends to… seize the Dharma-body Buddha's body?!

Upon realizing this, my whole body went stiff.

In my astonished gaze, Dìshì suddenly turned his head to look at me.

The black bird's head faced me, its pair of scarlet eyes seeming to be filled with deep meaning, as if saying: Feng Wu Jiu, it's your turn.

From being pressed down in the sacrificial pit until just now, I have still been wondering what my role in this whole process is.

Now I understand.

The final item of the phoenix's nirvana is the hundred birds weeping blood sacrifice.

Then, likewise, the transformation of the evil bone likely also requires the nirvana phoenix's weeping blood sacrifice…