Hearing Lin Wu's words, the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle was stunned to say the least. She had a hunch that the reason for the Vermillion bird not appearing was something mysterious, but now hearing this confirmed it for her.

"How… how did the skull god suppress the Vermillion bird?" the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle questioned.

"Well, I don't know how it was exactly back then, but apparently the Vermillion bird had chosen a human to do something for it. The human had the bloodline of the Vermillion bird too, but her bloodline was far weaker than you, from what I can see.

Even weaker than when I first met you. At the end, to stop the skull god from destroying her sect, the woman sacrificed herself and temporarily awakened the Vermillion bird using her bloodline as the source.

While the vermilion bird did manage to appear for a while, it was merely an energy construct rather than the actual being. It destroyed the skull god and the entire area, but the skull god was shrewd and had multiple backup plans which prevented him from dying entirely.

Running out of energy, the Vermillion bird's construct faded away and what little was left of it was absorbed by a dagger which was also an immortal weapon. I don't know why that happened, but I reckon it was a way for it to preserve itself.

The immortal weapon dagger though, flew away at the end of the battle and I don't know where it went.

As for the skull god, he managed to survive and spent the coming years recovering his power. He also managed to discover the plans of the woman Hong Feng who was the woman with the bloodline and found the temples.

He stole the bloodline essence from within the temples so that he could resolve the curse he had placed on him by the Vermillion bird and also to prevent another successor with a vermilion bird's bloodline from appearing." Lin Wu explained.

Hearing all this, the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle felt infuriated.

~fwoosh~

Flames erupted from her nostrils as she breathed out harshly in anger. Her eyes lit up with fury as well, and a heavy atmosphere fell around the area.

"That Skull God! I'll eradicate all its kin and descendants!" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle declared.

Hearing this, Lin Wu was suddenly reminded of something.

"Oh no, what if the skull god has more backup plans to survive? He managed to do it back then and perhaps he can do it again!" Lin Wu said with concern.

"I'll kill him and eradicate all his traces!" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle said, flames flickering on her body.

Lin Wu thought over it and looked around the area.

"This entire marsh is made by the Skull god by corrupting it with his miasma. I think completely purging it with your flames might be a better option. But I don't know if it will work fully, since the last time the Vermillion bird did this the skull god managed to survive." Lin Wu spoke.

"Humph! A measly human can't compare to me anywhere. I have awakened over forty percent of the Vermillion bird's bloodline. I still have some parts left to assimilate and once I do that, my power will increase once more." The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle stated.

"My flames will be far stronger than that of that woman Hong Feng!" the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle declared in a staunch voice.

Hearing all this, Lin Wu knew that the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle felt challenged. She did not want to feel inferior to a human and even felt it insulting that a human had the same bloodline as her.

"Well then, I think you should begin the purge. I'll get away from here first though, even if I have a fragment of the vermilion bird's bloodline as well. I doubt I can withstand your flames." Lin Wu replied.

"Okay, I'll start once you get away." The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle stated.

"Mm…" Lin Wu nodded his head and went to the platform which they had used to arrive here along with the unconscious Shirong.

"System, take the platform to the sky." Lin Wu ordered.

~shua~

A humming sound was heard as the platform suddenly sparked to life. A wave of spirit Qi rose from it as the platform detached from the pillars it was resting on.

~whoosh~

It started to rise up into the air and soon sped up into the sky. Once it was at least a couple hundred meters away from the ground, it stopped.

"Huh? That's all?" Lin Wu said, finding the height to be far less than before.

~DING~

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ANSWER: The platform's functions are limited due to the power supply being limited and the formations being damaged.

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The system informed Lin Wu, who furrowed his brows upon seeing this. He checked the formations of the platform with his own spirit sense and indeed, found several of them to be damaged.

There were even some parts that had darkened for some reason and Lin Wu could feel a familiar vibe from those parts.

"Dammit! That skull god damaged this with his miasma too." Lin Wu cursed.

~Foo~

Lin Wu breathed out flames from his mouth that spread across the darkened parts of the platform. The dark parts were like fuel meeting flames as they were quickly ignited by the flames.

This was the new ability Lin Wu had obtained from the assimilation of the Vermillion bird's bloodline crystals. Even if it was relatively weak, it had still been strong enough to give him a qualitative change.

Lin Wu's flames currently were far from the level of the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle, but they were still enough to destroy the traces of the Skull god's corruption. The flames evenly spread around in a controlled manner and erased all the traces.

"Ugh, even with the traces gone, the damage can't just be reversed…" Lin Wu muttered to himself.