Chapter 516 — Demigod-Level Vermilion Bird Sword Princess

Chongchong's Azure Dragon Imperishable Body merely allowed itself to reincarnate and revive through the power of faith.

"In the pre-Qin era, the Vermilion Bird was believed to be able to guide the souls of the dead up to heaven. It is connected with souls—could it be that Crimson Eye's spirit-form happens to align with certain supplications?"

The third skill...

[Name]: Solar True Body

[Attribute]: Fire

[Rank]: Transcendent

[Description]: By burning the power of faith, one may transform oneself into a sun, scorching all things, illuminating the starry sky, and incinerating the stars.

But the skill that Shi Jin found most outrageous was still the third one. This was likely a Vermilion Bird faith skill that Crimson Eye had awakened by combining its own race with the power of faith.

It should count as a higher-tier faith skill of the Vermilion Bird's Divine Fire. The Vermilion Bird's Divine Fire was merely a fusion of ordinary flame and the power of faith, but the Solar True Body was a fusion of solar divine fire and the power of faith, its might far greater.

Tempered to its utmost, like the Dragon Star Cluster, it was a faith skill of star-destroying caliber, capable of directly devouring a planet and turning it into a sun.

At this very moment, Crimson Eye's attributes were quite perfect. Not only did its true body command a quasi-divine sword art, but its avatar also commanded three great faith skills. The union of the two sent its energy value climbing step by step to the 3.53 billion mark.

It had already surpassed Eleven, who had just broken through—though the present Eleven, after subsequent tempering, devouring the Meteor Ox, and consuming a heap of resources, had long since seen its baseline energy value grow even more outrageous. As of now, Crimson Eye had not fully caught up.

"Crimson Eye!" In the starry sky, Shi Jin gathered his spiritual power and called out loudly. Opposite him, Crimson Eye directly absorbed the Vermilion Bird avatar into its body, like a ninth-heaven goddess descending from the starry sky, leaning toward Qixi's side.

She broke into a smile.

Crimson Eye felt that it might well be able to defend its title as the team champion again and again!

Susu and Lin certainly could not beat her.

"Awoo!!!" Eleven and the others, sensing Crimson Eye's current state, were truly envious and amazed. They felt that the Crimson Eye of this moment, even without possessing Shi Jin, could already pose a powerful threat to them.

"Roar!!!" Seeing Crimson Eye in such a perfect state, Chongchong could not help wanting to break through as well. After its breakthrough, the Dragon of Fantasy would allow it to evolve once more. This time Crimson Eye had possessed a quasi-divine skill and evolved a faith skill, whereas Chongchong hoped to possess a faith skill and evolve a quasi-divine skill—only then would it not fall too far behind its teammates.

It wanted to cry itself to death. It had said it all along: those who evolved first were bound to fall behind the version.

How glorious it had been when it first evolved into the Azure Dragon, yet now Crimson Eye had evolved twice in a row—once a divine evolution, once a faith evolution—while it was still... still waiting in line.

"Mew." As the Sword Princess Crimson Eye flew over, it gradually transformed into a sword-spirit form, becoming a fiery red longsword that landed in Jue's hand.

Thereupon, the two entered a state of complete possession, their aura growing even more terrifying. Shi Jin was like a fire god stepping forth from the starry sky, gazing at the Phoenix Clan Chief who had followed them from beyond Blue Star.

Beneath the fiery red aura, Shi Ying Crimson Eye shone brilliantly like the sun.

"Clan Chief, can you take us to break the relic now?"

"This power should be enough, no?"

A demigod-level Crimson Eye possessing Shi Jin, who had consumed the World, Undying, and Eternal resources—at this moment, Shi Jin felt that in a "one-on-one" he could defeat this Phoenix Clan Chief whom the peak Empress had to exhaust her full strength to overcome.

Absolutely no problem.

"You..." The Phoenix Clan Chief's face was full of shock, sensing an immense oppression from Shi Jin and the others.

How could this be... Had they really become gods?!

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The Phoenix Clan, the Transcendent Relic.

The Phoenix Clan Chief and Shi Jin returned from the starry sky. Under the Phoenix Clan Chief's guidance, Shi Jin entered the crimson, meteor-like starry relic.

Seeing the relic, Shi Jin suddenly remembered that the demigod of the Phoenix Clan, though also unable to break the relic, had nonetheless relocated the entire relic back from the cosmos...

The relic was a dead thing. If there were no living things inside either, then even if he could not break it, perhaps he could likewise first move the relic back to the original spacetime and bide his time?

"This is the place." After leading Shi Jin into the Transcendent Relic, Shi Jin and the others felt as though they had entered a petrified world.

The entire world was ashen gray—petrified earth, petrified sky, nothing at all, save for a stone pillar standing at the center of the relic, upon which a spherical gemstone rested quietly.

It was like a glass bead, its transparent exterior inlaid with a green crescent-shaped pattern within.

Though they had not yet drawn near this glass bead, anyone could sense its powerful energy fluctuations surpassing the divine rank.

"What stands atop the stone pillar is that transcendent-grade resource. Its purpose remains unknown, and it cannot be taken."

"But the moment one draws near, the ruins space generates a powerful repulsive force—a repulsion that even demigods cannot withstand."

"Moreover, the Phoenix Clan once confirmed that only creatures bearing Phoenix bloodline can approach the stone pillar; anyone else triggers an even stronger repulsion." The Phoenix Clan Chief, shrunk to a few meters in size, turned to look at the World Tree envoy beside him in fused form.

Because of the possession, Shi Jin now shared the Phoenix bloodline with Crimson Eye.

"As for the method of having a death spirit phoenix possess a human to retrieve the resource—the Phoenix Clan did try that as well, but every attempt ended in failure."

"However, a demigod-level death spirit phoenix performing possession is a first. Though demigod-level death spirit phoenixes have been born in the clan's history, no human capable of enduring their possession power was ever found—much less one who had formed a contract with them."

"So..." The Phoenix Clan Chief sensed that this time, success might truly be possible.

The power radiating from Shi Jin and the others was absolutely enough to crush ordinary demigods.

Among demigods, it already ranked as a powerful one.

Yet facing Shi Jin in this state, it still had no confidence.

"Let me try." Shi Heng nodded, then, under the Phoenix Clan Chief's watchful gaze, approached the stone pillar.

The Phoenix Clan Chief's expression grew grave. Based on past experience, the entire ruins space should now begin repelling Shi Jin and the others.

According to the speculations of demigods through the ages, at minimum god-level power was required to withstand such spatial repulsion!

Yet the scene that followed left the Phoenix Clan Chief somewhat bewildered—Shi Jin and the others drew closer to the stone pillar step by step, and the so-called spatial repulsion never appeared.

This turn of events left the Phoenix Clan Chief dumbstruck. As Shi Jin drew nearer and nearer to the stone pillar, it began to wonder whether the ruins had malfunctioned!

"Impossible." It too tried stepping forward, but in the next instant, a spatial repulsion like divine might bore directly down upon this demigod, draining the color from its face.

BOOM!!

It retreated slightly.

The tremendous commotion made the red-haired Shi Huan ahead turn back. "Are you all right?"