Chapter 980: Rebirth

Xiong Feng felt an unprecedented despair.

But after the despair, he suddenly laughed with relief.

He let out a long breath, and his emotions completely stabilized.

He reflected on his life, feeling that gratitude far outweighed hatred.

Before hatching, there was an older sister who loved him; to save him, she did not hesitate to give up her own chance at life.

After lying dormant in the earth veins for many years, although hatching was originally difficult, he encountered the great fortune of the earth veins' spiritual qi reviving, receiving the blessings of the Earth Vein Dragon God and the Earth Deity Maiden, and thus succeeded in breaking his shell and being reborn.

Later, he also met Shan Shan, Ao Jing, and many members of the Feng Clan who had once helped him; without them, how could he have had the chance to enter the Spirit Mirror? How could he have obtained the Burial Dust Pearl?

And now, at the time of his second Nirvana, Shan Shan happened to be giving birth, and it was a pure-blooded little phoenix; the placenta was immediately made into a pill by A Cheng and sent over.

Although this Nirvana seemed likely to fail, Xiong Feng still felt that the heavens favored him; otherwise, what merit or ability did he have to receive so many benefactors' help?

Even if he ultimately failed and turned to ashes, he still felt his life was not in vain.

He merely failed to live up to Shan Shan's expectations.

Thinking this, Xiong Feng stopped struggling and no longer looked at his swollen, broken body; he closed his eyes, pressed his palms together, and silently prayed for blessings for Shan Shan and for her newborn children.

With Shan Shan present, the Feng Clan will surely grow strong, and the bloodline of the Ancient Feng Clan will thus be continued.

At that moment, a strong light suddenly pierced in.

Xiong Feng had his eyes closed, yet he still felt that piercing strong light; he couldn't help but lift his eyelids a little, squinting to see what was happening.

He originally thought that with such strong light, his eyes would not tolerate it and would need time to adjust.

But in fact, it was completely unnecessary.

Upon seeing the source of that strong light, his eyes gradually widened, filled with disbelief.

He saw his body swollen and shattered, including his internal organs, laid bare before him.

Seeing the Nirvana flames invade, they instantly engulfed his entire body, burning it to a crisp.

Xiong Feng personally watched his whole physical body being burned to ashes; he originally thought that once it was burned, his soul and spirit would also scatter.

But he did not expect that after his original body burned away, a silhouette remained in its place.

That silhouette resembled a soul, yet it was illogical; Xiong Feng did not know what it was.

But that was not the most important; the most important was that the strong light emanated from the center of that silhouette.

It was the Burial Dust Pearl!

After the Burial Dust Pearl was merged into Xiong Feng's body, he then painstakingly refined it for over a year, and it had long since become integrated into his body.

Xiong Feng thought it would also be consumed by the Nirvana fire domain, but he never expected it to suddenly burst forth with such strong light.

The Burial Dust Pearl kept rotating in the strong light, and the light's spreading range grew larger and larger…

When the strong light completely enveloped that wisp of Xiong Feng's soul body, he felt an extremely strong pulling force; then his mind went pure white, his entire brain as if thoroughly cleansed in an instant, unable to think, nothing existed.

He did not know how long had passed.

The whole world seemed to have been reset, and Xiong Feng felt it was a state closest to ashes and smoke dissipating.

Everything had become nothingness.

When Xiong Feng opened his eyes again, the entire space was dark, with a gurgling water sound in his ears, and his whole body felt as if soaked in water.

But where could water come from in the Nirvana fire domain?

And how could the light be so dim?

Xiong Feng thought he probably had not turned to ashes, but his soul and spirit did not know where they were trapped.

Xiong Feng tried to move a little.

But just that movement, his whole body stiffened.

Because he felt he had become very small; as he moved his hands and feet, the gurgling water sound became even more obvious.

Even more astonishing was that he… felt a tube…

That tube was warm, very flexible; one end connected to somewhere unknown, while the other end… actually connected to his navel!

He could even feel a continuous stream of nutrients flowing into his body through that tube!

Umbilical cord!

When those two words appeared in Xiong Feng's consciousness, he felt he had truly gone mad!

How could this be possible!

Where did he get an umbilical cord from!

The umbilical cord is the warm bed for an infant while still in the mother's body, their 'home' where they reside and grow, closely connected to the mother.

Where did he get a home?

No, the placenta!

The pill that A Cheng made, especially emphasized that it must use pure-blooded phoenix placenta as a medicinal guide; could it be… could it be…

Xiong Feng dared not think further; he felt he was probably really mad.

He actually felt that using pure-blooded phoenix placenta as a medicinal guide was precisely for this moment, to give him a chance at rebirth.

A rebirth from gestation in the mother's body to the fruit ripening and falling.

Xiong Feng couldn't help but lightly touch that umbilical cord.

As if some kind of magic, when his small hand grasped the umbilical cord, he couldn't help but want to play with it, unable to put it down.

The gurgling water sound continued to ring in his ears.

Gurgling.

Xiong Feng accidentally swallowed a mouthful; he instinctively wanted to spit it out, thinking the water would be fishy and foul, but he did not expect the taste to be surprisingly good, like that pill, refreshing to the heart and spleen, with a faint medicinal fragrance.

At this moment, Xiong Feng became even more certain that all this was related to the pill A Cheng made for him; otherwise, there would be no better explanation.

What surprised Xiong Feng even more was that after swallowing that mouthful of water, his body noticeably grew much larger, and his consciousness became much clearer, as if gradually emerging from a chaotic state to gaining spiritual awareness.

After realizing this, Xiong Feng no longer cared about much; he opened his mouth and started continuously swallowing the water obtainable just by opening his mouth, gulp after gulp, and his body kept growing.

Midway he also realized that the placenta used as a medicinal guide belonged to Shan Shan's child, and having used the placenta and being in this situation, does that count as him being Shan Shan's child?

Xiong Feng was troubled by this.

But soon he figured it out—Shan Shan's kindness to him is like that of reborn parents, right?

Of course, if he could make it out alive, he would certainly not acknowledge this.

He and Shan Shan are friends, are family, but… he cannot be Shan Shan's son.

A bit… awkward.

Shan Shan probably couldn't accept it either.

Before, he used to call himself as existing like Shan Shan's older brother.

Xiong Feng truly not being troubled by this also has a very important reason.

Because he has been growing.

From a tiny infant state, becoming a half-grown child, then becoming a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old youth's appearance… he has been growing, and the placenta has been growing with him.

The placenta grew thinner and thinner, light shone in from outside, Xiong Feng clearly saw that outside was the Nirvana Fire Domain he knew so well…