After exchanging a move with Fu Ying, it was time for her twin Fu Li to make her move. After watching the single exchange with Heifeng Jiansui, she realized that the Master wanted to teach them of the power of faith in battle.

“Faith can only be refined by cultivators of the Dao of Heavenly Fate…” Thinking about his line from before, she decided that only one move was suitable for the battle.

The Five-Colored Tree forming the Immortal Dominion continued to spread plum and cherry blossoms. Fu Li formed a sword with her fingers, causing the cherry blossoms to gather around her.

“Cherry Blossom Starry Sky.” With a command, the countless cherry blossom flowers that fell downwards to cover the earth reversed direction and flew up to cover the sky.

Heifeng Jiansui wasn’t content watching her cast her spell and in accordance to his decision, the phantom of the Black Phoenix flew up, summoning black flames to burn all the flowers flying up to ashes. However, the flowers shone with a golden-yellow light and the flame left them untouched.

“Heh, you used the Law of Starry Sky to reverse the polarity of your Wood-natured Cherry Blossoms to Earth and cover the sky with them, huh? Smart girl!” After understanding the nature of Fu Li’s attack, Heifeng Jiansui decisively brought back the Black Phoenix phantom to his side. Due to insufficient cultivation, it was impossible for him to offensively battle in the first place.

“Cherry Blossom Mysterious Constellation!” The countless cherry blossoms began to emanate the aura of various Dao. Smokeflame, Mistwater, Annihilation, Rainwater… Most of them weren’t even Heavenly Dao, various Great Dao and even Minor Dao were gathered into a formation. The multicolored shimmering stars were different yet connected, coming together to form an enlightening scene, like a painting.

The countless negligible laws came together as one to form a greater whole. There was a starry sky formed from all the laws that Fu Li had gained insight into!

This wasn’t a technique that could go against the Plum Blossom Sword Rain in strength or profundity. As an Immortal King, Fu Li had gained insight into many Minor and Great Dao while pursuing the Supreme Dao. While most cultivators would leave them as they would useless for their realms, Fu Li had actually fused them together to create a technique! This technique was like a painting drawn on a whim, only created for the sake of beauty. Yet she was actually using it in battle today!

“Cherry Blossom… Square Starset.” And saying this, Fu Li brought down the starry sky to fall upon the small Black Phoenix. Like the Buddha’s Palm sealing off all avenues, it was inescapable. The phantom of the Black Phoenix faced the sealing of the Heavens!

“Protect me… Eh?” Heifeng Jiansui called upon the Black Phoenix phantom to guard him, when it suddenly tried to break free from his control and fly upwards! While its rebellion was quelled in a blink, seeing the Black Phoenix phantom formed by the Threelaw battle formation actually gain sentience and rebel was too surprising.

“The Black Phoenix bloodline I possess was refined by the bloodline memories of the Black Phoenix Ancestor, the last of which was facing tribulation and ascending to Heaven… Could it be that my little tricks of the Heavenly Fate lineage actually called upon the past of my bloodline and refined karma into destiny?” Thinking about this, Heifeng Jiansui decided that fate was a little too unpredictable.

“If this is fate, then might as well accede to it.” Saying this, Heifeng Jiansui immediately cancelled the two battle-clones of Ice and Fire, returning their essence energy to his body. The Black Phoenix phantom that had dulled in radiance crowed at him angrily.

“Calm down.” Saying this sentence to the Black Phoenix phantom, Heifeng Jiansui ignored it and called upon the bloodline techniques he had created for battle!

Black Phoenix Transcending Emperor! The three energies of essence, qi and spirit of his Black Phoenix bloodline reached their peak in strength and momentum, as a haze of black flames arose from his body! The three energies fused together into a whole that surpassed parts, as Heifeng Jiansui called upon his bloodline and battle spirit together and transformed into a Black Phoenix himself, a perfect 9 meter tall Emperor of Beasts!

Black Phoenix Allbeast Empire! The sharp might of an army of beasts appeared to surround him as the haze of black flames was complemented by a rain of black water! Shadowy beast shapes appeared around him, and the area of 99 meters around him turned into a domain of ice and fire!

Black Phoenix Threelaw Formation! The might of the two earlier techniques were amplified together, and Heifeng Jiansui’s dominating aura towered to the Heavens as black flames and rain rose and fell around him!

His Black Phoenix bloodline was at its peak stage now, yet the Cherry Blossom Starset still beared down upon him. And then, the Black Phoenix phantom hovering over him descended upon his figure, and his body was suddenly shared by two spirits, as the will of the Black Phoenix that had ascended out of the Chaosworld nine eras ago descended upon him!

There wasn’t any amazing comprehension of laws, nor was there even a thought. All there remained of the Black Phoenix Ancestor was a memory and a will. A memory, of going against Heaven and ascending! A will, of never bowing to the Heavens no matter what!

The Black Phoenix soared above, even ignoring the falling Starset! The myriad Dao that came together to create the Cherry Blossom Starset raged at this indifference and a furious whirlwind and smiting lightning came forth!

Fu Li who had used this technique couldn’t help her surprise at this. This technique was created just on a whim and refined for the sake of beauty. This was the first time she had seen the Cherry Blossom Starset form lightning, as this was the first time she used it in actual battle!

In truth, Fu Li never intended to reveal this as a trump card as it was merely the gathering of Minor and Great Dao in a formation headed by the Supreme Dao of Earth! It would be smashed into bits by one of her sister’s casual attacks!

Just then, the pat of her sister brought her out of her thoughts. “Sister, I never thought that you would hide such a technique from me.” Fu Ying’s voice had a slight trace of grievance, as the two twins would never hide a single thing from each other.

Fu Li gently flicked a strand of her hair back and spoke in a conceding tone, “I originally wished to surprise sister with this, but when Master wished to spar, I couldn’t hold back.”

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Far away from the conversation of the sisters, Heifeng Jiansui was in a similar position to them… a spectator. He enjoyed the booming of thunder and the smiting of lightning, and how the Black Phoenix body he was in was utterly impervious to it as it ascended heavenwards.

The beast roared out, and black flames bellowed from its mouth. Cold winds shadowed the freezing light that flashed from its claws. Ice and fire came together to smash apart the falling lightning and the wind hurricane.

The Starset formed lightning and wind to smite down upon the ascending bird, yet they were like rain upon a coat. Finally, the Starset fell upon the bird, like the Heavens in their entirety falling together to smite a lowly figure!

Facing this, the Black Phoenix was finally daunted. The lightning that had struck it crackled upon its body, paralyzing it. The Starset that was like the Square Heavens smashed down like a slap!

All life seemed to leave Heifeng Jiansui’s body and even the will of the Black Phoenix seemed to shake. At the critical moment, the aura of wind and lightning emitted from Heifeng Jiansui’s figure. All the wind and lightning qi that had struck his body was swallowed whole, and inside his body the gates closing the Second Dao of the Black Phoenix, the Wind-Thunder Dao were smashed open!

The wind and lightning formed by the Starset were gathered by the Black Phoenix. Ice, fire, wind and lightning… these four elements surrounded the Black Phoenix and with them, he finally gained strength to smash open the Square Heavens of Starset!

The beak and the two claws drew boundless amounts of the four elements upon it, and struck the falling Starset with ferocity! The intricate formation of countless Minor and Great Dao was smashed to pieces and even the Supreme Dao of Earth that formed it fell!

Fu Li only smiled at this spectacle. Unlike Fu Ying, this technique was made on a whim yet the might her master used to defeat it surpassed the strength he used to defeat Fu Li’s Plum Blossom Sword Rain. It was quite satisfactory.

Just then, the twins could feel the Immortal Dominion tremble! For a moment, they felt the draining of the Five Phase and Four Creation energies and even the Yin-Yang energy that was Five-Colored Tree’s cornerstone. Glancing at the culprit, the Black Phoenix had gathered the energies and used it for another breakthrough!

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Heifeng Jiansui felt a bit unreconciled. To begin with, the Black Phoenix Nine Daos were too hard to cultivate, requiring plentiful luck and talent to begin with!

To open the First Dao of Ice-Fire in his mortal body, he had to first cultivate the Phoenixflame Marrowforge Art to completion. And to cultivate it, he used horrific means such as using of pillars of the Black Phoenix Allbeast Art as needles! In the end, his final breakthrough to open the First Dao of Ice-Fire relied on destiny, as he rode upon Jiuxie’s birth as a full-blooded Phoenix to gather the energy needed for breakthrough!

And the moment he used one of the tricks of the Heavenly Fate lineage, the will of the Black Phoenix descended upon him and smashed through two Daos in a row! Wasn’t this ridiculous? If he wasn’t a Sword Immortal, his body would have been smashed up already!