As Lady Feng battled the many participants in the exam, Wan Kun was in fact studying her movements and attacks as best as he could. This was of course to better prepare for his upcoming fight with her. Even as a Nascent Soul Stage expert who could overturn an entire large realm when going all out he didn’t have much confidence to beat her.

“Master, do you think I can defeat her” He asked his master through though transmission. “Wan Kun my boy, that lady is at least above Minor Saint stage. Even at minimum she should be stronger then that Sacred Beast King Shi Wan who is also many times stronger then the Lava Demon. Face it boy your chances aren’t good” even Wan Kun’s master admitted he most likely couldn’t win.

Prior to coming to the Sacred Beast Kingdom, Wan Kun had saved his home country and sect from a monstrous Lava Demon who had the cultivation of a peak Exalted Realm expert. One had to understand that despite Exalted Realm being only one step below Sky Realm, the realm first tier superpowers were generally at, the sheer power difference was massive. According to Wan Kun’s master’s prediction, Lady Feng was likely a Great Saint, perhaps even a Loose Immortal.

“So Master, what can you tell me about her techniques?” Despite his power, Wan Kun lacked the ability to understand Lady Feng’s fire abilities. Wan Kun’s master though for a minute “Hm, I can’t be sure but I’d say her flames are most likely that of a Phoenix.” “What, flames of a Phoenix?” Hearing the information Wan Kun shocked.

Phoenixes was monstrous existences after all. They were said to be one of the top cultivation bloodlines and were famous even in the upper realms. Even the mortal realm have great respect and reverence to beings with this bloodline. In fact the Sacred Beast Sect’s backbone were experts with these high tier beast bloodlines.

“If she has Phoenix flames, then wouldn’t she the Phoenix God inheritor?” Wan Kun aged his master. “Probably, when the Phoenix God died along with the other mighty Beast Gods in the cataclysmic war of gods their bloodline should have ended then and there but even when I was young cultivators with beast bloodlines have popped up occasionally. The general theory is that before the Beast Gods fell they left behind many inheritances in secret locations” Wan Kun’s master too was surprised by Lady Feng possessing Phoenix fire. Phoenix fire was one of the strongest fires in all creation. Even in the upper realms in which Wan Kun’s master originated from, cultivators with Beast God Bloodlines only appeared a few times in history but in just this one small mortal world there have been several who he and Wan Kun had encountered had possessed these bloodlines.

“So any counters I can use?” Wan Kun asked one last time. “No, even if her cultivation is low which it isn’t, Phoenix Fire alone is enough to overpower you” Wan Kun’s master too didn’t have confidence to deal with Lady Feng.

“I guess we’ll just wing it” Wan Kun cut off his thought transmission and faced Lady Feng. He spoke in a loud confident voice “Senior, it seems I’ll have this final battle, please be careful”.

“That kid’s pretty arrogant despite being a Nascent Soul” Shi Wan like many others was not impressed with Wan Kun, and why would he be? Wan Kun’s test showed Yellow Grade Talent and her was unknown. “This boy is too arrogant, even if Lord Hei passed him he still doesn’t deserve to be here” Zi Yahui also wasn’t impressed with Wan Kun. In fact even Shi Xuegang who helped Wan Kun wasn’t too impressed, yes he helped him but that was more to do with him being a prince and expected to be righteous.

“Why’s that kid allowed up there” “If he can be selected I bet my 2 year old son can be selected as well” “Is that kid even qualified”

Jeers from the crowd reached up stage. “Enough” Lady Feng realised a huge burst of flames blanked the entire sky all the way pass the horizon “wether he deserved to be here or not? I’ll be the test of that”. Her show of power silenced everyone, not even Shi Wang would dare speak.

“Now Wan Kun, are you ready?” Lady Feng asked him. “Yes, but may I know how to address this senior?” Wan Kun couldn’t help but ask, an expert with Phoenix Fire should be well known. “Huh? Very well, this one is called FengHuang, you can call me anything you like” Lady Feng introduced herself.

“Okay then, Senior FengHuang, here I come” Wan Kun stomped the ground and flew into the air “Trample the Heavens”. Wan Kun’s sword exploded in power as he brought it down, FengHuang simply jumped back and dodged this attack ‘this move surpasses Shi Xuegang’s’.

“Again” Wan Kun then launched several more attacks her way. FengHuang swung out both her hands sending a wall of blazing fire towards the on coming attacks.

“BOOM” the attacks clashed head on sending a shockwave and lifted many among the crowd off their feat.

“What Power” many of them couldn’t believe this, a Nascent Soul did this? “This power, its on par with Exalted realm experts” Shi Wan lamented. This statement alone was nearly impossible for nearly everyone present to comprehend.

FengHuang jumped into the skies and fired of a flurry of fire balls, the many blasts resembled a meteor shower. With the speed of the fireballs, Wan Kun found it hard pressed to dodge. “Gah” getting hit several times badly damaged him but not too much that he couldn’t manage.

“Heal” employing his healing technique Wan Kun was able yo recover some stamina “Again, Tearing apart the skies”. Wan Kun fired off another be a from his sword, then he too charged forward. FengHuang simply waved her hand dissipating the attack. ‘What? Even the Lava Demon couldn’t do that’ Wan Kun flew to her left side and swung his sword.

“Clang” A sword also materialised in FengHuang’s left hand which she used to block and parry. With a second strike she sent Wan Kun flying several dozen metres back. “This FengHuang is really no joke” Wan Kun had been going all out since the beginning and yet FengHuang hadn’t even broken a sweat. “Don’t compare her to you or Lava Demon. She’s on a whole other level” Wan Kun’s master chastised him.

“Yah” Wan Kun charged back and met FengHuang in sword combat. “CLING” “CLANG “CLING” strike after strike Wan Kun was sent flying. ‘Damn its not working, how about this” Wan Kun rushed forwards once more this time cloaking his sword with large amounts of earth energy extending and enlarging it to a massive 500metres slap of stone. “Yah” Wan Kun Lifted this new sword with all his might and brought it down towards FengHuang.

“This kid just doesn’t learn does he” FengHuang was very much amused. She exchanged her sword hand and flew too meet Wan Kun “Claws of the Phoenix is sharpened by Primordial Fire”. “BOOM” FengHuang smashed apart Wan Kun’s stone sword with one attack, “Damn that was one of my best” Wan Kun was sent thousands of metres into the air by the resulting shockwave.

Chunks of rock plummeted back towards the earth. “Oh no” many of the crowds were terrified by this sight “run”. “Remain Calm” Shi Wan roared. He extended his hand upwards “Great Roar of the Lion King” Shi Wan employed one of his stronger divine art. The image of a male lion’s face appeared above Sacred Beast City “Roar” it sent a sound blast that immediately disintegrated all the rocks into microscopic pieced that blew away with the wind.

“Shit I have no choice but to use it” Wan Kun was now getting desperate, let it be known Wan Kun hates to lose. “Are you sure boy?” Wan Kun’s master knew what he was going to use “Do you want to reveal it just like that?”. “I have no Choice master, besides my fight with the Lava Demon was pretty public, the Sacred Beast Sect could probably find out very quickly” with his decision made, Wan kun extended his left hand and cried out “Five Elements, Great Buddha Palm”. A massive golden palm formed from pure energy exploded out of Wan Kun’s hand nearly 2000metres wide. This technique was Wan Kun’s trump card which he learned after finding an ancient Buddha Inheritance. The massive palm parted the clouds as it descended.

“This technique” FengHuang was shocked by Wan Kun’s use of this move. “No mistaking it, Its definitely the same move Gautama Buddha, Lord Tathagata used that year to trap Son Wukong” FengHuang recognised this technique, it was quite famous as the move deployed by the Gautama Buddha to stop the Monkey King’s rampage. It’s one of the top divine arts in all the Three Realms. “What dog shit luck must this kid have to not only find but also learn this kind of divine art” both Feng Huang and Hei Hainan couldn’t help but feel somewhat jealous, a divine art like this was extremely hard to come by after all.

“But, at this stage its still very crude, incomparable to when Lord Buddha used it” FengHuang prepared her own attack, the image of a fiery bird like figure appeared behind her. “You will burn, Blaze Eternally, The Immortal Phoenix” FengHuang’s Fire materialised into a massive birdlike avatar and grew to meet the Five Elements, Great Buddha Palm in size.

“BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM”

In the next instant, the sky lit ablaze.