In the ruins of the Ninebless Phoenix Sect, Ninebless led Heifeng Jiansui down a hidden path filled with barriers and obstacles. Finally, they reached the spirit vein in the middle of the sect. In the middle of the spirit vein, there was a Blood Pool of dragon and phoenix blood. And in the midst of it was a large egg.

The large egg had fiery red runes engraved on it. Heifeng Jiansui could understand the meaning of the runes: Nirvana of Fiery Rebirth. This was a Fire Phoenix egg!

“Back when the Ninebless Phoenix Sect was still prosperous, the Matriarch of the sect found a Phoenix Egg in a Mystic Realm. She wanted to use this egg to form a clone so she expelled the Spirit Mark within the egg, a mass of spiritual energy that had yet to form a soul. But unexpectedly, the mass of spiritual energy, me, gained intelligence and roamed the island devouring remnant souls that had yet to dissipate after death. After I had managed to stabilize myself, I knew that my fate would be wandering this plain while the Matriarch possessed my body, but unexpectedly the sect was destroyed.

After that, I swallowed the remnant spiritual energy of the female disciples who had been raped and savagely murdered. Unexpectedly, I gained some remnant memories of the Elder controlling the grand formation’s arrays and thus took control of the formation array. I used the array to gather the blood essence from the corpses to power and then entrapped the invaders till reinforcements arrived. After that, I swallowed their dying remnant spiritual energy and blood essence as well, seized their entirety of the island by myself.

I used the array to hide the sect’s ruins and this egg, guide and breed the demon beasts on the island with blood essence of dragons and phoenixes, with the final goal being stirring up a great frenzy to slaughter all the beasts and gather their nurtured blood energy to allow myself to be reborn within the Phoenix egg.” Ninebless narrated the entirety of her scheme that hinged around the Phoenix Egg as Heifeng Jiansui nodded.

“So, why did you explain all this to me? Aren’t you worried that I may seize the egg for myself?” On hearing Heifeng Jiansui’s question, Ninebless sighed.

“The moment I saw the dominating suppression unleashed by simply revealing your bloodline, I realized that this egg is basically useless to you. Even using it to form a clone will be dissatisfactory for your taste…” Ninebless’s words hit the nail as Heifeng Jiansui nodded.

“So as of now, I have revealed everything I have been hiding to you.” Saying this, Ninebless ended her piece.

“To say the truth, I have been forging the formation pillars because I have nothing else to do and was simply humoring you. Since you have been so forthright with me, I will pour my sincerity in my work as well. Of course, that isn’t the same as putting my entire self into helping you. If you want that, obediently become my Magical Beast!” Heifeng Jiansui said without concealing his intent.

Hearing Heifeng Jiansui’s words, Ninebless nodded. “I promise to contract with you after I fuse my spirit with egg. I can even sign a Heaven’s Eye Contract to that.”

“We can initiate the Magical Beast contract now, as I have a Black Phoenix bloodline art that can bind spiritual beings as well as beasts. If you consent to it, I will seal both you and the egg. This will lay the foundations for your future fusion as well as make it easier for you two to receive my Black Phoenix blood to refine your bloodlines. You might even stand the chance of being reborn as a Black Phoenix!”

Hearing Heifeng Jiansui’s words, the spirit showed her acquaintance by nodding. In response, Heifeng Jiansui stepped onto the Blood Pond and called her to follow him. Finally, Heifeng Jiansui reached the egg in the middle of the Pool. Placing his left arm on Ninebless’s chest and his right arm on the Phoenix egg, Heifeng Jiansui’s fingers became warm and a thick red substance formed on them. It was unexpectedly essence blood!

The Black Phoenix Allbeast Art had three parts, Beast Suppressing, Beast Contracting and Beast Bloodbinding. Heifeng Jiansui was using the most difficult technique of the third part to bind Ninebless and egg together, the ‘Body and Spirit Binding as One’ Art.

The essence blood flowed like water, but Heifeng Jiansui wasn’t fatigued at all. He had recently broken through, so he wouldn’t turn white after losing some blood. Finally, the sealing was completed.

“This art is able to bind essence blood into a spirit! It can even act as a bride for binding with the Phoenix Egg! If we can complete it, the grand formation we are setting up will be obsolete!” Instead of regretting her lost freedom, Ninebless was amazed by the might of the formation.

“We will still have to use the formation. My essence blood isn’t unlimited, you know?” As Heifeng Jiansui said this, the spirit nodded.

“You said that you will pour all your efforts into helping me… What did you mean by that?” Ninebless gauged the restrictions of the contract imposed on her as she said that. While it wasn’t as extreme as forcing her to not have a single thought opposing her master, attacking or scheming against him was completely forbidden.

“If you want to fuse into the egg and form a physical body, simply using the formation will not bring about the best results. Even though you were the original spirit of the egg, you have absorbed many evil spirits and are no longer pure. If you fuse with it, you will probably require a century or so to complete the fusion.” Heifeng Jiansui’s words weren’t new to her. She had prepared herself for that. But since he was saying this…

“Do you have a way to remedy this?” Ninebless’s voice held some hope for a miracle.

“If I use the divination arts to calculate, it should be easy to find an auspicious day for your rebirth. If you carry out your fusion on the exact date, it shouldn’t be hard to increase your soul purity and accelerate the soul fusion.” Heifeng Jiansui had a confident expression on his face.

“Well then, all I can do is trust you... Master.” Ninebless’s words were quite soft as she called him that title for the first time.

“Don’t worry, as my subordinate how can I let you suffer losses? Now, let’s return to our forging. The 999 pillars aren’t going to complete themselves.” Saying this, Heifeng Jiansui left in the direction of the Spirit Pond where they had been forging together. Ninebless silently followed.

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“Young master, I finally mastered the Azure Dragon Spear you granted me!” Qinglan Weiwei had a joyous expression on her face as spoke. Heifeng Jiansui lightly patted the head that was taller than him before praising her a bit.

He told her to push out her palm before lightly stroking it. “Good job. You have trained the nine layers of your body to the absolute limit possible as a mortal and only a year has passed since I granted you that technique. Since you are going to breakthrough today, may I observe it?” Qinglan Weiwei obediently nodded.

“How about I let all the other maids watch as well? It will help build up experience for them.” Hearing this, Qinglan Weiwei pouted a bit, but nodded anyway.

“Do you need any pills or –––––” “Young master, your blessings are enough! I have been a step away from breakthrough for quite some time, so you don’t have to worry.” Saying this, Qinglan Weiwei waved off the offered pills and skipped off to the training room.

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In the training room, a large formation was drawn. On this formation, a girl who looked to be around 17 years or so was sitting wearing loose white clothes. Surrounding the formation, Heifeng Jiansui and his other maids’ eyes were glued on the transformation that would occur.

The breakthrough occurred in a single moment. The energy flowing from the formation silently entered the girl’s body and began transforming her.

The Boundary of Body Transformation had Nine Layers. The First Layer was Physique, separated into 3 Stages: Body Tempering, Innate Awakening and Blood-drop Refinement.

In a single instant, the energy from the formation was transformed into Water-Wood Nourishing Qi. This Qi merged with the innate Qi within her body, transforming into True Qi! The True Qi merged into and transformed her entire body step by step.

Usually, the cultivation of a Stage was divided into initial, mid, high and peak levels. Qinglan Weiwei immediately broke through to initial level, before the entering mid level, swiftly breaking into the high level and finally stopping at peak level!

The early cultivation stages were easy to breakthrough but even geniuses used 2 months or so to reach this stage. Thus, Qinglan Weiwei’s rapid breakthrough was abnormal. Of course, since she had a top-grade cultivation technique and a solid foundation, there were no hidden dangers, but still…

“Weiwei, now that you have reached peak Body Refinement, don’t carelessly breakthrough. Since your strength has rapidly risen, you must quickly gain perfect control over it. Cultivate your ancestral arts, now that you aren’t limited to their foundation stage. Battle demonic beasts and find out your limits... Now that you have broken through, you can lead the girls out to explore more of the island and gain fortuitous chances for their cultivation.” At Heifeng Jiansui’s advice, she nodded again.

“And I am going to forge Quasi-Earth equipment for you as well. After you train your secret techniques, come find me for that.” After thanking him, the event ended. And thus, Heifeng Jiansui finally gained a true cultivator as his subordinate.