The Nanyang Sect, behind the wooden door of the Technique-Storing Pavilion.

Within the ring of white mist the young man sat cross-legged, blood at the corner of his mouth, the black shirt rolled up by golden flame, numinous light seeming to flicker beneath his skin.

The notices on the panel piled up by degrees.

【Year 137,000. It is said that of the phoenix-birds of heaven and earth, the male is the feng and the female the huang. You swallow this Crimson-Eyed Mysterious Phoenix-Queen's flesh and blood and visualize her divine soul; yin and yang join, water and milk mingle, and step by step you fill out the Heavenly Phoenix Undying True Body, so that the method is raised and its ceiling lifted further still】

【Return-to-Void (Rare) · Heavenly Phoenix Undying True Body: Great Accomplishment】

【Year 240,000. By the Mysterious Phoenix-Queen's flesh and blood you soon cultivate this Rare method to Perfection once more; but you are not content with a body that merely matches the ninth layer of Return-to-Void. The Phoenix-Queen's demon soul moves through you and roosts likewise in the wutong, and with the understanding of her whole life it begins to pull the entire Heavenly Phoenix Undying True Body down and build it again】

Strictly divided, the one at the Nanyang Sect earlier was the Crimson-Eyed Mysterious Phoenix, the male; this Blood Master of the Heaven-Sword Sect ought to be called the Crimson-Eyed Mysterious Phoenix-Queen, the female.

The two were brother and sister, and their bloodlines exceedingly close.

Now, under Shen Yi's refining, the blood essence of both demons melted into his body and worked some subtle change.

But that was not the most important thing.

Along with the change in his bloodline, there appeared of a sudden, in Shen Yi's mind, sword classics beyond counting.

In the panel's deductions it had always been this crowd of demon souls that took a proper technique and mangled it into demon fighting-art. But this time it seemed to run the other way: the spirit-body method that had come to be tangled up with phoenix demons suddenly began to move toward…