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Chapter 279 Nirvana and Rebirth
Having successfully transformed into a phoenix, Dui couldn't wait to experience the phoenix's power.

He gently flapped his wings and took off effortlessly, feeling no weight at all.

He even felt that he could easily lift hundreds or thousands of kilograms and fly.

Immediately, his feathers stood on end, the golden feathers became glowing and hot, his whole body released a scorching temperature, and his wings burst into flames of golden fire.

With a flap of its wings, golden flames suddenly slammed towards the ground.

The flames looked beautiful, but the temperature was extremely high, enough to easily melt steel.

More importantly, the flames are filled with light and a sacred aura, just like the fire of the sun. They are very suppressive of dark creatures, and the light they release can also threaten light-fearing creatures such as orcs and trolls.

As the red feathers emitted a red glow, Dui was engulfed in golden-red flames. He vanished into thin air, enveloped in flames, and reappeared in another part of the room a second later, accompanied by firelight.

This is Phoenix's teleportation ability, which combines the advantages of Apparition and Portkey. It not only ignores anti-Apparition restrictions but also is not afraid of distance, allowing it to go anywhere it wants.

Having experienced the Phoenix's power, Dui was preparing to revert to human form when he saw the fragments of the Flame Demon's Heart still lying on the ground, and instinctively felt a hunger to devour them.

Perhaps because his brain had shrunk after he transformed into a phoenix, he didn't hesitate much before swooping down and pecking at the fragments of the Flame Demon's Heart.

After consuming these fragments of the Heart of the Flame Demon, Dui felt a warm sensation all over his body, and the Nirvana Fire within him gradually intensified.

But the next second, something unexpected happened.

Flames inexplicably erupted from his body, became uncontrollable, and began to burn.

Dui was startled and tried to control the flames, but they kept bursting out of his body and growing stronger.

He was like a moving source of fire, ready to erupt at any moment and engulf everything around him.

In a panic, Dui hurriedly tried to teleport outside the castle, but at the moment of teleportation, he was affected by the flames that were erupting wildly from his body, and an accident occurred, and he was teleported directly into the mithril furnace.

The mithril furnace contained crystals of flaming fire, and the temperature inside was extremely high, like a small volcano, enough to melt mithril.

Now that Dui has appeared inside the mithril furnace, it's like an oil drum hitting a raging fire; it can no longer be contained and bursts into flames with a bang.

Dui felt a surge of intense heat erupt from within his body, and his body spontaneously combusted from the inside out.

The burning pain caused him to let out a mournful cry.

"Duir!" Alwen exclaimed in shock, his face turning deathly pale. He rushed toward the furnace to rescue Duir.

However, Gandalf stopped her in time and reassured her, "Arwen, don't panic! Duir's Felix potion is still working, you'll be fine!"

"Moreover, I have a feeling that this accident will be beneficial to him. Let's just wait and see how it goes."

Hearing Gandalf's words, Arwen managed to calm down and stared at the furnace with a worried expression.

Inside the furnace, Dui was like a vortex of fire, with the energy of the surrounding Flame Demon Fire crystals being continuously drawn into his body, accelerating his burning speed.

The Flame Demon's Fire Crystal is a pure fire element crystal, like fuel that makes Dui burn brighter and brighter.

Dui endured the burning pain, but was powerless to stop it.

Eventually, his consciousness became increasingly blurred, until he finally succumbed to complete darkness.

Gandalf and Arwen, who were waiting outside, sensed that the sounds inside the furnace were getting quieter and quieter until they finally fell completely silent.

Alvin, who had been worried for a long time, rushed to the furnace and opened the furnace lid without caring that the high temperature inside would burn him.

But when she opened the furnace lid, the scene inside surprised her.

Gandalf, who had followed, also looked surprised.

Inside the furnace, the fiery crystals had long since had their flame energy drained, turning into powder with no heat whatsoever.

The furnace, no longer as scorching as before, was now completely empty, devoid of any flames.

Only at the bottom of the furnace was there a small pile of ashes.

Gandalf and Arwen stared intently at the pile of ashes, sensing a life force within them that was rapidly reviving and growing stronger.

Finally, to their eager anticipation, a tiny bird's head emerged from the ashes.

He let out a tender, melodious chirp, his eyes darting around, and when he saw Gandalf and Arwen's large faces overhead, he showed a human-like look of astonishment.

It was a fledgling bird about the same size as a newly hatched chick, with sparse golden-red feathers on its body.

"Duir?" Alwen looked at the fledgling with some surprise and asked hesitantly.

The fledgling nodded and responded with a tender chirp.

Seeing this, Gandalf smiled and guessed, "I think Duir just went through a rebirth. Now he has truly completed his transformation and reached his most perfect state."

Alvin reached into the furnace and took the fledgling out. Looking at the adorably ugly phoenix chick in her palm, she asked with concern, "Duir, can you transform back into human form now?"

Duir nodded somewhat uncertainly, then gestured for Alvin to put him on the ground.

As soon as he landed on the ground, Dui recalled the magic circuits of the human body in his mind.

The magical circuits within the body rapidly changed and were reconstructed.

At the same time, Dui's body also rapidly deformed and began to swell and grow larger.

In the blink of an eye, Dui successfully returned to human form.

Before he could even feel happy, Dui was shocked to find himself transformed into a two- or three-year-old toddler!
When Alvin saw Dui's appearance, he was first taken aback, then couldn't help but smile, revealing an expression of suppressed amusement, and his eyes even had a hint of eagerness.

Gandalf, on the other hand, was all smiles, looking on with amusement.

"Ha, I didn't expect you to be so cute when you were little, Duir. But you've gotten so small now, will you still be able to attend next year's wedding? Or should I discuss with Lord Elrond whether we can hold your wedding with Alvin when you're all grown up?"

Dui was completely naked at the moment. Seeing Alvin and Gandalf's gaze, he blushed with embarrassment. He covered his private parts with one hand and quickly summoned a wand with the other, conjuring up a child's outfit that fit him perfectly.

Then she rolled her eyes at Gandalf, annoyed. "No need, thank you! If all else fails, I can make an aging potion to grow up. Besides, phoenixes grow very quickly; a year is enough for them to grow up, and then my body can return to adulthood."

Dui spoke with great force, but unfortunately, he was just a pink and tender child with a very childish voice, making him look like a child pretending to be an adult.

It immediately made Alvin's eyes light up, and she felt an urge to hold him in her arms and cherish him.

Dui looked at Alwen warily, sensing that Alwen had suddenly awakened some strange attribute.

"That's a real shame. I actually think you look quite cute as you are now," Gandalf teased with a chuckle.

"Thank you!" Dui said to Gandalf, that old rascal, with a hint of annoyance.

He then climbed back onto the furnace, waved his wand to extract the ashes, and put them into a bottle.

This is the ashes of a phoenix after its rebirth, an extremely rare and powerful healing resource in the magical world. It is not only a key ingredient in making resurrection potions, but also possesses extremely strong restorative power, capable of repairing precious magical items that have suffered severe damage.

After doing all this, Dui looked at the empty furnace and couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

Those Flame Demon Fire Crystals are extremely rare materials, and now they have all been absorbed and exhausted during Nirvana. It won't be so easy for him to use the furnace to smelt metals like mithril in the future.

However, it was thanks to these crystals of the Flame Demon's Fire that Dui was able to successfully complete his rebirth and truly possess the Phoenix Animagus without any hidden dangers.

So overall, it's definitely worth it.

After acquiring the Phoenix Animagus, Dui's survival skills underwent a dramatic transformation.

Even without the Philosopher's Stone and the elixir of immortality, he could still achieve a certain degree of immortality thanks to the Phoenix Animagus.

He can undergo a phoenix-like rebirth, choosing to spontaneously combust into a flame in his old age, and then be reborn from the ashes as a fledgling, starting a new cycle.

The only drawback is that one must constantly cycle through the process from infancy to old age, and the process of Nirvana is extremely painful, far more painful than being burned alive.

Ordinary people who are burned to death die quickly and no longer feel pain.

But the process of Nirvana is a very clear feeling of flames burning flesh and bones until the whole body is burned to ashes, and only then will the pain stop.

Therefore, each nirvana is nothing short of a painful torment.

This is the price for the phoenix's immortality.

But the benefits are also obvious. In addition to being able to be reborn in old age, one can also choose to be reborn when encountering serious injuries or even fatal injuries, thereby recovering from the injuries and becoming lively again.

Even when struck by a fatal curse, the phoenix survives, making it virtually impossible to kill.

Therefore, even if Dui suffers a fatal injury in the future, he does not need to worry about death and can choose to be reborn.

The only side effect is that it takes a while to grow up.

Of course, Dui couldn't think he could act recklessly just because he possessed the Phoenix's immortality.

Although the phoenix can be reborn from the ashes, it needs a long time to recover after each rebirth.

If a phoenix were to suffer repeated attacks from the Death Curse in a short period of time, even with its Nirvana Rebirth skill, it would be unable to withstand such torment.

The foundation of the phoenix's rebirth lies in the Nirvana Fire within its body. After one Nirvana, the Nirvana Fire becomes weak and needs to be slowly nurtured to recover to its peak before undergoing another Nirvana.

However, if one is forced to undergo repeated rebirths in a short period of time, the flame of rebirth will become increasingly weak.

When the flames of rebirth are completely exhausted and extinguished, that will be the time when the phoenix truly dies.

(End of this chapter)