What I teach you is real stuff.

Lu Yuan looked at the walnut-sized, red-gold Ancestral Phoenix Pearl in his hand.

Looking at the system's description, even he couldn't help but exclaim that it was a great product.

Lu Yuan's vision has changed dramatically since then; he is no longer easily impressed by just any magical artifact.

Even so, the Ancestral Phoenix Pearl still gave Lu Yuan quite a surprise.

This thing's abilities are similar to the golden core of a human cultivator, but in essence, it is the inner core of the ancient ancestral phoenix.

So what is the biggest boost that this thing brings to Lu Yuan?

The power of this bead's origin can be used to enhance the power of all the scattered techniques of the Ancestral Phoenix Technique, basically reaching the power of the scattered techniques used by the ancient Ancestral Phoenix himself, which would be quite terrifying.

What's even more terrifying is that this bead contains the true essence of the ancient ancestral phoenix, which is capable of rebirth.

If Lu Yuan can fully refine the Ancestral Phoenix Pearl, there is a chance that a real Ancestral Phoenix will hatch from it.

Furthermore, the ancient ancestral phoenix that hatches can be used as Lu Yuan's second clone.

This is equivalent to Lu Yuan having a true avatar of the ancient ancestral phoenix in the future. As the ancestor of birds in ancient times, the ancestral beast that naturally controls the laws of air and fire, its strength is self-evident.

"This Ancestral Phoenix Pearl is truly a treasure. It's worth all the fragments I earned from so many system missions to synthesize this one pearl."

However, since the Ancestral Phoenix Pearl can hatch from an ancient ancestral phoenix, it's unknown whether it might hatch from something similar to the Ancestral Dragon Pearl or the Kui Niu Pearl. It would be even better if it could hatch from ancestral beasts like the ancient ancestral dragon or the ancient Kui Niu.

These ancient ancestral beasts have long been extinct, and even in the Upper Realm, only a portion of their bloodline has survived. However, even those descendants of the ancestral beasts whose bloodline has survived still hold a pivotal position in the Upper Realm.

If the descendants of the ancient ancestral beasts are this terrifying, then the true ancient ancestral beasts must be even more terrifying.

Who would complain about having too many clones of this level? Of course, the more the merrier.

However, it took Lu Yuan a lot of effort and system tasks to collect enough fragments for just one Ancestral Phoenix Pearl. Even if there were Ancestral Dragon Pearl and Kui Niu Pearl, it would still take a long time.

Besides, I haven't fully researched the Ancestral Phoenix Pearl yet, so thinking about these things now is not very meaningful.

Lu Yuan put aside his thoughts and put away the Ancestral Phoenix Pearl to refine it first.

……

The Northern Continent Alliance, another thousand years have quickly passed.

Many things happened during that time. Wang Yue and his wife reached the end of their lives. They were just ordinary people. Because of the pills from the Northern Continent Alliance, they eventually advanced to the Golden Core stage, but they still could not withstand the passage of time.

After living for thousands of years, their lifespan came to an end.

Actually, they could have used their connections with Lu Yuan to have him refine some more pills to prolong their lives, which would have been a simple matter of living for thousands or tens of thousands of years longer.

But Wang Yue and his wife didn't want to disturb Lu Yuan, and they felt they had lived enough in this life. They had lived for thousands of years, and there was no point in continuing to live like this. So they decided to just leave like that.

After learning about it, Lu Yuan attended the funeral of the two men, where he gained new insights into his state of mind.

While all living things pursue longevity, some creatures do not solely pursue life; sometimes, death is a perfect ending.

By this time, Wang Qingying was no longer the young girl in her early twenties she once was.

Over thousands of years, she has long since found her perfect Daoist partner, and she herself has become the ancestor of her family, which has continued for dozens of generations and is now very happy.

Choosing to settle and establish oneself in Chen Guoan back then may not have been a bad choice.

When Wang Qingying saw Lu Yuan again, she was filled with emotion.

Brother Lu was still so young back then, and his cultivation had become even stronger.

Wang Qingying's cultivation has stagnated at the Nascent Soul stage for many years. At this level, she is now considered middle-aged, and she will die of old age in a few thousand years.

This meeting with Lu Yuan might be the last. After all, a high-level cultivator like Lu Yuan can easily go into seclusion for thousands of years. By then, the world will have changed, and the person he met will no longer exist.

Lu Yuan couldn't bear to see his old friend's daughter leave behind some pills before she left.

He did not interfere with the choices made by Wang Yue and his wife, but he left Wang Qingying with a choice: taking one of the pills in the bottle could increase her lifespan by five thousand years.

Lu Yuan left her a bottle; as long as Wang Qingying wanted to live, she could simply take the pill. Obtaining lifespan was now too easy for a top-tier alchemist like Lu Yuan.

……

Another thousand years have passed.

A major event has occurred within the Northern Continent Alliance: King Golden Horn, a core member of the alliance, is about to ascend to immortality.

Both King Jinjiao and Wu Song had broken through to the peak of Mahayana for many years, but they had not chosen to ascend. After returning from the Sea of ​​Laws, they had been consolidating the laws they had comprehended, and recently they finally completed the consolidation.

With the Law of Gold as his foundation, the Golden Horn King felt it was time for him to ascend.

After all, just as the teacher said in the Sea of ​​Laws, once you comprehend the laws, you should be decisive when it's time to ascend, otherwise staying in the lower realm is a waste of time.

Lu Yuan did not ascend because his cultivation had not yet reached the peak of the Mahayana stage, so King Golden Horn and the others did not need to wait for him.

King Golden Horn felt the opportunity had arrived and decisively ascended to heaven.

He unleashed his full cultivation and broke through to the Celestial Immortal realm.

In the sky above the Azure Heaven World, the Celestial Tribulation suddenly appeared.

A massive barrage of celestial tribulation lightning crashed down, like thunder dragons blasting away at the Golden Horn King.

However, having already comprehended the Law of Metal and reached the peak of the ninth level of Mahayana, how could the Golden Horn King possibly fear these things now?

Although the so-called Celestial Tribulation is powerful, it only makes it troublesome for some cultivators who have barely broken through to the ninth level of Mahayana.

Top-tier masters like King Jinjiao, after accumulating their skills to the peak during the Mahayana stage, are not afraid of the Heavenly Immortal Tribulation at all. With the protection of the Law of Metal, they directly break through the Immortal Gate despite the Heavenly Immortal Tribulation.

At the edge of the sky, the gate to immortality was breached.

A beam of celestial light poured out from within the celestial gate, signaling the opening of the gate to ascension.

Within the Northern Continent Alliance, many elders and disciples witnessed the opening of the Immortal Gate, from which celestial light surged forth.

They all sat cross-legged, contemplating the immortal path.

I hope to gain some insights from this and help myself reach a higher level.

After all, that is the gate to the immortal realm. Even a mere wisp of its aura can bring considerable benefits to low-level cultivators in the lower realm.

Not only people from the Northern Continent Alliance, but also many cultivators from other continents of the Great Luo Continent traveled thousands of miles to study the immortal path.

After paying his respects to Lu Yuan once more, the Golden Horn King ascended to the Upper Realm.

Five hundred years after the Golden Horned King ascended to heaven, Wu Song also ascended to heaven.

Having thoroughly grasped the principles of war, Wu Song bid farewell to his teacher and ascended to the celestial realm following the Golden Horn King.

In just a few hundred years, the Northern Continent Alliance has had two peak Mahayana cultivators ascend to the Upper Realm.

Lu Yuan called Xiao Huang over and asked him about his situation.

In fact, given Xiao Huang's current situation, he has comprehended the Law of Thunder and his cultivation has reached the peak of the Mahayana stage. If he wants to ascend, he is fully qualified.

However, Xiao Huang said that he has no plans to ascend yet, mainly because the affairs of the Northern Continent Alliance have not yet been completed, and he would be uneasy if he left now.

Moreover, as Lu Yuan's eldest disciple, he also had an obligation to share his teacher's burdens. He could always wait and ascend to immortality with his teacher later.

Lu Yuan nodded in agreement with Xiao Huang's idea.

fair enough.

The Northern Continent Alliance was established by the master and his disciple together. It's impossible for them to simply abandon the Northern Continent Alliance in the lower realm after they ascended to heaven.

Therefore, it is still necessary to do a good job in handing it over to the next generation, and Lu Yuan had already found a successor before this.

It's fine if Xiao Huang doesn't have to ascend. With Xiao Huang's cultivation speed, it doesn't matter if he ascends a little later, he can make up for it quickly.

……

Three hundred years later, Lu Yuan sat cross-legged in the Great Luo Hall of the Northern Continent Alliance.

A golden-red bead floated above his head; it was the Ancestral Phoenix Bead.

It took nearly 2000 years for Lu Yuan to finally refine the Ancestral Phoenix Pearl.

He not only completely refined the inner core of the ancient ancestral phoenix, but also refined the ancestral phoenix pearl into the size of a dragon eye golden pill, which he could then store in his stomach at any time.

Furthermore, it extracted the true essence and flesh of the ancient ancestral phoenix from the ancestral phoenix pearl and nurtured a truly resurrected ancient ancestral phoenix cub.

Before Lu Yuan, a golden-red, transparent, egg-shaped embryo floated in the air, within which was a young ancestral phoenix with golden-red feathers all over its body.

This ancestral phoenix is ​​still in its juvenile stage and has not yet hatched.

However, Lu Yuan had already projected his consciousness into the body of this young ancestral phoenix, completely replacing the original consciousness of this ancestral phoenix and turning this young ancestral phoenix into his own clone.

Subsequently, under Lu Yuan's control, the young ancestral phoenix, which was in the embryonic stage, hatched from the phoenix egg.

With its golden-red fairy feathers fluttering, even a cub of the ancestral beast still appeared exceptionally handsome.

As an ancient ancestral beast, the Ancestral Phoenix is ​​a sacred creature that is blessed by the Great Dao. With a flap of its wings, it carries two Great Dao Laws that lead directly to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm: the Law of Void and the Law of Fire.

In addition, it was born with the power to control the origin of divine fire—the Ancestral Phoenix True Fire.

This ability is simply a gift from heaven.

However, even at birth, it had already surpassed most of the mythical beasts of later generations.

No wonder it could become the ancestor of the phoenix, which ruled over billions of birds in ancient times; it was too powerful.

Lu Yuan sighed, "If it weren't for the Great Dao's suppression and the extinction of the Ancestral Phoenix and Ancestral Dragon, the world would probably still be in the hands of these Ancestral Beasts. Their strength is just too great."

"However, the stronger the better. Now that I have this Ancestral Phoenix clone, I will be even stronger when I reach the Immortal Realm."

The lower realms are not the domain of the Ancestral Beasts; the Immortal Realm is the realm where they truly grow.

It could even be said that the ancestral beasts would become even more powerful after reaching the Immortal Realm, which made Lu Yuan even more eager to ascend to the Immortal Realm.

Having acquired the Ancestral Phoenix clone, Lu Yuan personally cared for it.

Furthermore, he also obtained the origin of the Ancestral Phoenix True Fire, one of the divine fires, from the Ancestral Phoenix clone. It was only natural that the clone would nourish the original body.

However, the only thing that gave Lu Yuan a headache was that this ancestral phoenix had an absurdly large appetite.

Even in its infancy, this thing still needs to consume hundreds of millions of spirit stones every day. If the Northern Continent Alliance weren't so wealthy, it would have been bankrupted by this thing.

No wonder it's rare to hear of top-tier beings in the immortal realm raising dragons and phoenixes. Anyone who can afford to raise these things must have considerable wealth.

Fortunately, Lu Yuan later discovered that the Ancestral Phoenix could also consume pills. He would occasionally refine a batch of Grade 9 pills specifically to feed his Ancestral Phoenix clone, which saved him a lot of spirit stones.

However, if word got out that he used a ninth-grade elixir to feed the ancestral phoenix, it would be terrifying enough.

……

"Alliance Leader, Prince Lotus has arrived."

On this day, Lu Yuan was taming the ancestral phoenix within the Northern Continent Alliance.

An elder from the Northern Continent Alliance sent a telepathic message that Prince Lotus had come to pay his respects.

Lu Yuan was taken aback: "This guy hasn't returned to the Immortal Realm yet?"

After resolving the issues with Prince Lotus and Deer Fire, Lu Yuan either secluded himself in the Sea of ​​Laws to comprehend the laws, or was busy with the primordial power of the Azure Heaven World Plane, or studying formations.

He paid little attention to this disciple of the Chan Sect who had descended to the lower realm.

Anyway, he doesn't pose any threat to the current Northern Continent Alliance, so let him be.

Lu Yuan thought that the Lotus Prince should have ascended to the Upper Realm long ago, but unexpectedly, this guy is still in the Azure Heaven Plane.

Lu Yuan said, "Let him in."

The Lotus Prince entered the inner hall and met with Lu Yuan.

He glanced at the ancestral phoenix clone on Lu Yuan's shoulder, and the Lotus Prince raised an eyebrow.

"Phoenix?"

Judging from its bloodline and aura, it doesn't seem to be an ordinary phoenix.

It seems even stronger than those pure-blooded phoenixes from the Upper Realm?
As expected of a legitimate disciple of the Chan Sect, the Lotus Prince, despite his previous dissolute lifestyle, still possessed the necessary insight and vision. He immediately recognized that the phoenix raised by Alliance Leader Lu was extraordinary. Although it was still in its infancy, it seemed to be much stronger than the top phoenixes in the Immortal Realm.

The Lotus Prince thought to himself, "As expected of Alliance Leader Lu, the Human Sect is truly formidable now..."

The Human Sect resides in the Upper Realm, giving many people a sense of mystery. Moreover, the Human Sect has been hiding in the shadows for many years and is quite different from the Chan Sect and the Jie Sect.

It has been countless years since the three religions have had any exchanges. Even the disciples of the Chan religion are very curious about the Ren religion.

The Lotus Prince also found the Human Sect mysterious. The only person currently connected to the Human Sect was Lu Yuan, and the more he looked at Lu Yuan, the more impressive he seemed.

He also felt that the Human Cult had become more mysterious and powerful, and even had a certain feeling.

The strength and foundation of the Renjiao sect are even greater than those of the Chanjiao sect.

……

Lu Yuan said, "Please sit down."

Although we had some conflicts at the beginning, so many years have passed, and we've become friends through our initial disagreements.

Lu Yuan asked the Lotus Prince to sit down and then asked him what brought him here.

The Lotus Prince said, "Senior Lu, I plan to ascend to the Upper Realm soon. I'd like to say goodbye before I leave."

Was he just here to say hello?
Lu Yuan said, "If you have something to say, just say it. I'm not an elder of your Chan Sect. Why are you asking me for permission to ascend?"

Lu Yuan immediately sensed that the man's words were implied and that he was hesitant to speak. He told the Lotus Prince to speak directly and not beat around the bush.

The Lotus Prince sat there with a complex expression on his face, seemingly deep in thought and struggling with something.

But after a while, he seemed to have made up his mind, his eyes became firm, and he took a deep breath and looked at Lu Yuan.

"Senior Lu has discerning eyes; I do indeed have a favor to ask." (End of Chapter)