After awakening, the female supporting character in the abused novel only wants to ascend to immorta

Chapter 411 Different Roads
Lin Zhao popped another pill into her mouth. After sensing the subtle changes in energy rising between heaven and earth, she suddenly laughed.

Ji Wantang lowered her eyes and said sarcastically, "You can still laugh now?"

Lin Zhao spread her phoenix wings and flew back to the same level as Ji Wantang: "I'm not laughing at myself, of course I can laugh."

Ji Wantang's eyebrows twitched, and the world fell completely silent. No matter how hard the cultivators tried to make a sound, no one else could hear their voices or movements, including the reactions of the two people in the air.

Lin Zhao stood with his hands behind his back: "You never intended to kill these people, so why put on this act?"

Ji Wantang slowly frowned, and crimson flames flickered on the white giant scythe: "Have you gone mad from fright?"

“They may not know your combat strength, but I do. Ji Wantang, if you really want to kill them, why wait for the formation to activate before stripping them of their spiritual energy? The reason you've cornered them here and set up such a large formation is undoubtedly related to the inheritance you've received.”

Despite having her motives exposed, Ji Wantang's expression remained unchanged. She looked at Lin Zhao, her eyes swirling with emotions, but none of them were positive.

Suspicion, murderous intent, and fear intertwined, ultimately transforming into a desire to eliminate the person before him.

“You’re right, I didn’t intend to kill them, but Lin Zhao, you still don’t understand me. My main purpose in forcing them into a group was to force you out of your shell and make you fight me with your full strength.”

The phantom of blood phoenix wings slowly appeared on the bone wings behind Ji Wantang. She mocked, and then countless white cold lights rose from behind her and struck Lin Zhao.

"I know you, this so-called righteous ancient phoenix with a soft heart, can't stand this kind of strange technique. Then show me your true killing intent in this battle. Are you looking down on me by holding back all this time?"

Lin Zhao was surprised that Ji Wantang would say such a thing. She remained silent for a long time before sincerely asking, while using the Mysterious Shadow Movement to dodge the attack, "What illusion made you think that I held back when I hit you?"

She's practically been beaten to death by Ji Wantang, and Ji Wantang still thinks she's holding back?!
She saw Ji Wantang as an evenly matched opponent, but did Ji Wantang see her as some kind of powerful deity?

Ji Wantang sneered, a flash of crimson light appearing in her pale white eyes: "Whether you have it or not, you know best in your heart. Stop trying to fob me off with these high-sounding words. I've sealed off this entire area. If you hold back even a sliver of strength, I'll show you whether I dare to kill these people."

What a lunatic.

Lin Zhao exhaled a breath of turbid air, and despite his injuries, summoned the Holy Dragon Emperor's Spear and the Heavenly Phoenix Bone Sword. His gaze slowly turned serious. In Ji Wantang's sight, Lin Zhao combined the two weapons together. The Dragon Phoenix Heavenly Decree Sword was born and immediately erected a barrier, directly reflecting the constantly pouring white cold light back.

The moment the Dragon-Phoenix Heavenly Decree Sword appeared, the white giant scythe in Ji Wantang's hand seemed to sense something terrifying, trembling and emitting a faint roar.

It seems that when a wild beast in the jungle encounters its natural enemy, it automatically adopts an attack posture, but this posture is not for attack, but only for defense and self-preservation.

Only at this moment did the bone wings behind Ji Wantang completely lose the pale red color of the blood phoenix wings. "So, this is what I found so mysterious about you."

She reached out and absorbed the rebounding white, cold light into her palm.

Lin Zhao could no longer laugh, because summoning the Dragon-Phoenix Heavenly Decree Sword to fight in her current physical condition would only accelerate the depletion of her life essence.

Unlike Ji Wantang, she did not possess pure, true divinity.

Although it is unknown where Ji Wantang’s divinity comes from, since the death of the Creator God, there should no longer be any gods in the cultivation world, let alone divinity.

However, Ji Wantang had it.

Ji Wantang's greyish-white eyes suddenly twitched, and then, right before Lin Zhao's eyes, both of her eyes transformed into double pupils. The double pupils of the Ancestral Spirit explained the origin of her divinity.

Her eyes were no longer her own, but the eyes of the ancestral spirit.

Ji Wantang met Lin Zhao's enlightened gaze and knew that she understood. She no longer concealed the source of her extraordinary abilities. "I gouged out my own eyes and replaced them with eyes that could give me divinity. In other words, Lin Zhao, the so-called ancestral spirit inheritance that I received was something I stole."

"Before the battle in your soul world, I never had the ability to gouge out my second eye. The battle with you gave me an insight, which enabled me to replace it with the ancestral spirit's second eye..."

Lin Zhao listened, his heart sinking.

Such methods and nature are truly befitting of Ji Wantang.

She also possesses the Ancestral Phoenix Spine, but the Ancestral Phoenix Spine itself is the Heavenly Phoenix Bone Sword, a weapon, not an integral part of herself. It is merely the inheritance and power she can utilize, and naturally, it cannot bestow the divinity of the Ancestral Phoenix upon Lin Zhao in the same way that the Ancestral Spirit Eye bestowed divinity upon Ji Wantang.

In other words, Ji Wantang's path is different from Lin Zhao's.

Lin Zhao is following the path of inheriting the power of the Ancestral Phoenix, but it is only inheritance, not replacement. Therefore, in the process, he can also study the power of the Ancestral Dragon.

So even if it succeeds in the end, the one who achieves it is still Lin Zhao herself.

However, Ji Wantang took the path of directly replacing the ancestral spirit with her own body.

She was taking what belonged to the ancestral spirit and making it her own, ultimately becoming the next ancestral spirit. She would achieve great things later, but by then Ji Wantang could no longer be called the complete Ji Wantang; she should be called the Ancestral Spirit Ji Wantang.

Once Lin Zhao understood this, she couldn't help but sigh, "Is this a special ability that the Blood Phoenix Luck gave you?"

Ji Wantang did not deny it.

Just as the Ancient Phoenix Luck granted Lin Zhao the talent of Nirvana, the Blood Phoenix Luck also granted Ji Wantang the ability of plunder.

As the name suggests, it means plunder, which involves turning the power of others into one's own.

Therefore, although she still relies on the Blood Phoenix's fortune, she is able to follow the path of the Ancestral Spirit.

However, at this point, the two destined phoenix maidens had already gone in completely different directions.

The malevolent aura emanating from the Dragon-Phoenix Heavenly Decree Sword urged Lin Zhao to launch an attack the moment it appeared.

The Death Scythe in Ji Wantang's hand had already cleaved Lin Zhao's body the moment Lin Zhao sighed.

However, the severed body simply vanished as streaks of light, without any blood splattering or flesh separating.

Ji Wantang's gaze darkened, which meant that the Lin Zhao in front of her was just a shadow.

When did Lin Zhao disappear?

Before Ji Wantang could think, an aura appeared behind her, and the Dragon Phoenix Heavenly Decree Sword transformed into a spear, slashing towards her hand that held the Death God's Scythe.