After using a bone shrinking and face changing art, Heifeng Jiansui returned to the physique of a 13 year old as before. The current him seemed like a bit more striking, but it was nothing too alarming. Beside him there was Jiuxie.

“So how are you going to introduce me to your maids? I saw a beauty and sensing her bloodline, kidnapped her to join you! Or maybe I was an offering by a local sect to the Prince? Or perhaps…” Just as Jiuxie was randomly going through ideas from the erotic book collections, Heifeng Jiansui’s words stopped her.

“I am not going to introduce you to anyone. You are staying as a secret!”

“Ahh… I really wanted to bully those girls with my status, why don’t you let me join them…” Hearing his words, Jiuyang moaned resentfully.

“You are a person possessing the pure blood of a Black Phoenix, even the status of a ‘princess’ can be granted to you. Having a person of your bloodline be a mere maid is simply unthinkable...”

Hearing this, Jiuxie’s wild fantasies began again. “Master, if I become a princess, won’t we be siblings? Then, when we make love… won’t it be incest?! Ahaha, my birth as a Black Phoenix had the majority of my blood come from your veins… doesn’t that mean that we are like father and daughter?! Haha, when we come together so many taboos are set to be broken…!” Jiuxie stated laughing deliriously, forcing Heifeng Jiansui to smack her straight.

“Haha, a 500 year old spirit is the daughter of a 6 year old… That is certainly a ridiculous joke. For now, how about you stay in the sect ruins?” Heifeng Jiansui brought end to her ridiculous fantasies.

“Master, staying within those old ruins when I was a dead ghost was appropriate… Now I am a beauty brimming with youth and you want to abandon me there? So cruel, master, at least hide me in your room like a hidden concubine…” Seeing Jiuxie squirm and plead, Heifeng Jiansui decided that he might as well take her along.

Thus, the two of them sneaked back into the mobile manor.

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After turning a blind ear to Heifeng Jiuxie’s pleas of sleeping together in his bed, he handed her some stored food and stashed her in another room, Heifeng Jiansui came down for dinner. Already, the manor’s residents had grown used to their master’s tendency to randomly enter seclusion and miss eating food for a few days or so.

As soon as he came down to the dinner room, he was greeted by Qinglan Weiwei kneeling before him. “Forgive this dog servant for disobeying you! This one suddenly broke through in her cultivation today, and actually entered the Dantian layer of cultivation through misfortune! As I cultivated by circulating energy in my meridians, I suddenly entered the ‘Origin Pass’ in my energy circulations and broke through!”

“That is certainly good news, you don’t have to kneel before me! I said this earlier, but you don’t need to restrict your cultivation progress just for your breakthroughs to be seen by me! Stand for now… I have yet to grant you a reward for your hard work.” Hearing this, Qinglan Weiwei stood up with tears in her eyes.

“This unworthy servant thanks the lord for your benevolence…” Since Qinglan Weiwei didn’t plan to stop groveling, Heifeng Jiansui interrupted her. “Stop groveling. Have you prepared dinner?”

“Yes, young master. I-“

“Then let’ eat first and talk later.” Saying this, Heifeng Jiansui sat on the dinner table awaiting his food.

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As expected, after dinner came acupuncture in Qinglan Weiwei’s room.

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Qinglan Weiwei’s body was wrapped by only a single white sheet as the prince examined her breakthrough. As expected, she had gained a fortuitous chance during her meditation. Her body absorbed a strand of Life Qi, fusing it with the Azure True Qi formed by her cultivation art and smoothly allowing her to breakthrough.

“Hmm… Looks like there is a strand of Life Qi within your dantian. If it were anyone else, it would be hard for them to gather it, but your cultivation method allowed you. Despite being only a strand of qi, it is still something a Life Desolation boundary cultivator possesses, so its benefits aren’t small. It will accelerate your cultivation until you breakthrough to the Three Seas Transformation.” Qinglan Weiwei nodded as I said this.

“For now, cultivate diligently as usual. You can disregard my instruction of breaking through only under my supervision. Inform the other maids as well. In any case, there isn’t much time left for the battle for the title of the Crown Successor…” Saying this, Heifeng Jiansui fell into thought.

“Young master, please do not be worried about the battle against your sister! You can already forge Quasi-Earth Rank weapons, you are sure to win!” Hearing his chief maid’s words, Heifeng Jiansui smiled for a moment.

“Well then, I’ll be going now. Rest well. Also, I am going into another seclusion, so don’t be surprised if I don’t emerge out of my room for a month.” Heifeng Jiansui left to his room for the night with some excitement on his face.

Qinglan Weiwei saw that she managed to improve her master’s mood and felt somewhat proud of herself.

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‘The inheritance finally fused into my dantian!’ Of course, Heifeng Jiansui’s happiness was for an entirely different reason. Seeing the waves of Life Qi ripple from the dantian and swim by themselves within his body, Heifeng Jiansui felt somewhat nonplussed.

In the end, he had spent 4 years to set up a formation to harvest some Life Qi for Ninebless’ rebirth, but an amount surpassing all the energy he had managed to gather was being formed within his body!

After entering his room, Heifeng Jiansui set up all the needed formations and made himself comfortable before pouring his spiritual sense into his dantian. There was a small green ball at the bottom of his energy sea, radiating limitless Life Qi!

Pouring all his spiritual sense into the green ball, Heifeng Jiansui tried to activate the inheritance. Finally, after nearly all his spiritual sense was exhausted, the green ball shone and Hefeng Jiansui appeared in a new world!

The world was vast and green. Thousands of green trees, grasses and herb bushes were before him. As expected, this entire world was sealed within the treasure that was the green ball, and the remnant Life Qi produced from it was many times greater than what could be gathered from a small island of 999 sq. km.

“Hmph, I expected the one capable of inheriting my legacy to at least be an Earth Rank refiner, but you can only forge Quasi-Earth items… No matter, you have awakened my legacy and you shall surely reach the apex of the auxiliary arts…” The disdainful voice shook Heifeng Jiansui out of his reverie. The speaker was an old man who looked to be of a very advanced age wearing white ceremonial robes. He had wrinkles all over his body, his back was hunched and his fingers were gnarly.

Seeing the man, Heifeng Jiansui realized that he was a clone that was formed from gathering and sealing some parts of the soul into a puppet. This kind of puppet would waste away and die some hours or days after being awakened. Heifeng Jiansui estimated that this one would last for a week or so.

“Let me see your potential, then…” Saying this, the man swiftly walked over and pressed his fingers on Heifeng Jiansui’s palm. “No cultivation at all… Hmph, it seems more miraculous for you to reach Quasi-Earth Rank as a refiner. However, your meridians aren’t blocked at all and your nine layers of the physique have reached the limit as a mortal… Why haven’t you cultivated, then… Your bone age… 6 years, 4 months old?! How is this even… You are not even human?! A-A pure blooded Phoenix Cultivator!!? How is this even possible?!”

The disdainful voice quickly turned into one of utter shock.

“What a monstrous successor… So the reason behind your lack of cultivation is simply because you are strengthening your foundations… I truly didn’t think that my legacy would fall into the hands of a monster like you… I suppose my good deeds have reaped karma after my death, granting me the greatest successor for my legacy…” Saying this, the man had a contented smile as he looked all over Heifeng Jiansui.

“Oh, I forgot due to my excitement. What is your name, my fated successor who has grasped my legacy? I was once the greatest refiner in this era, Skytemper. Using my legacy, you are certainly fated to rise above even me in the Auxiliar Arts, and succeed me in fusing their essences to comprehend the Dao of Creation!” The old man had a excited expression as he announced this.